Motorola Mobility LLC

Nigil George Valikodath

George Standish

Joseph Vincent Nasti

Daryl Carvis Cromer

Amit Kumar Agrawal

Scott DeBates

Douglas Alfred Lautner

Thomas E Gitzinger

Bill Ryan

Hong Zhao

Nathaniel Mitchell

An electronic device includes a flexible display. A device housing provides a translation surface for the flexible display. A rotor positioned within a curvilinear section of the flexible display rotates with translation of the flexible display across the translation surface. The rotor can be a rechargeable electrochemical cell, can be a rechargeable electrochemical cell situated within a sheath, or can be positioned within a housing defining an outer surface of the rotor to save space within the electronic device.

Sliding electronic devices with translating flexible displays and electrochemical cell rollers

An apparatus for autonomous form factor control of a foldable mobile device includes a processor that determines a current form factor of the foldable mobile device and senses a forward motion or a backward motion of a subject within a field of view of a camera of the device. In response to forward motion of a user, the processor raises a pointing elevation angle of the camera to maintaining the user within the field of view by autonomously controlling the hinge angle between the first device housing and the second device housing of the foldable mobile device and in response to backward motion the processor lowers the pointing elevation angle by autonomously using shape memory actuators to control the hinge angle in the direction determined based on the form factor.

Autonomous form factor control of a foldable mobile device

An electronic device includes a device housing. A monorail having a monorail body defining a first end and a second end separated from the first end along a major axis of the monorail body is mechanically coupled to a minor face of the device housing by a bridge member. A first electrical connector is positioned at the first end of the monorail body, while a second electrical connector positioned at the second end of the monorail body. The first electrical connector and the second electrical connector are of the same type. An attachment having a housing defining a monorail receiver with an aperture at a first end and a bounding wall at a second end includes an electrical connector situated within the monorail receiver at the bounding wall. The attachment can be coupled in two configurations to the monorail.

Electronic device with reversible railed attachment connector system

An electronic device includes a device housing and at least two grip sensors disposed along the device housing. One or more processors are operable with the at least two grip sensors. At least one electronic latch is operable with the one or more processors. The one or more processors transition the at least one electronic latch from a latched state to an unlatched state when the at least two grip sensors detect a grip applied to the at least two grip sensors.

Electronic device with grip-sensor latching system and corresponding methods

Systems and methods for user exhalation and environmental air analysis are implemented in an integrated or dockable analysis architecture including an opening adjacent a device microphone to admit an exhalation of a user while the user is speaking. In an embodiment, the opening leads to a passageway having at least one gas sensor therein, located such that a user exhalation entering the opening will impinge on the at least one gas sensor. A processor is linked to the gas sensor, and is configured to receive sensor signals from the gas sensor and generate biological information for the user.

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Nigil George Valikodath