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Peteris K Augenbergs

Dinesh C Mathew

Brett W Degner

Thomas W Wilson, Jr

Victor H Yin

Bryan W Posner

Chris A Ligtenberg

Keith J Hendren

John Z Zhong

Steve Porter Hotelling

Adam T Garelli

John M Brock

Jonah Alexander Harley

Lynn Richard Youngs

Kuo-Hua Sung

Patrick Kessler

Jun Qi

Dhaval Chandrakant Patel

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Frank Faqiu Liang

Amaury J Heresztyn

William M Price

Dillon J Thomasson

Derryk C Davis

Scott J McEuen

Wulfer De Bruijn

Akhil J Madhani

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Ron Alan Hopkinson

Charles A Schwalbach

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

William Francis Leggett

Kenneth Lawrence Staton

Gavin J Reid

Cina Hazegh

Jeffrey M Alves

Brandon S Smith

Gary S Thomason

Joss Nathan Giddings

Matthew C Waldon

Alexander Hitzinger

Thomas W Wilson

Tom Tate

Wayne Carl Westerman

Jeffrey Traer Bernstein

Stephen Robert McClure

Storrs Townsend Hoen

Omar Sze Leung

Jerzy S Guterman

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Laura M DeForest

Jesse T Dybenko

Jonathan L Hall

Nicole M Wells

Carl R Peterson

Garrett David Poe

Connor Raymond Duke

Brandon Scott Farmer

Paul James Keas

Kan Zhou

Marc J Piche

Jack Brown Rector, Iii

Brian P Demers

Rui Guan

Nicholaus Lubinski

Christopher D Laws

Curtis P Wiederhold

Sam Rhea Sarcia

Vinay Chawda

James E Wright

Robin A Auckland

Xingchen Fan

Giles D Wood

Samuel James Monoogian

Paul Briant

Thomas Wedlick

William J Schmidt

Joni Leighan Kay

Michael A Damlanakis

Iii Jack B Rector

An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.

Portable computer display structures

A motion system includes one or more batteries that output direct current electrical power to first and second inverters that generate first and second alternating current electrical power outputs. A first electric machine is configured to be operated by the first alternating current electrical power output. A second electric machine is configured to be operated by the second alternating current electrical power output.

Motion system

A vehicle includes a control system, a sensing system that senses an environment of the vehicle, and a propulsion system, a braking system, and a steering system that are operated by the control system to navigate the vehicle according to the sensing system and without direct human control. The propulsion system and the braking system are operated by the control system to cooperatively decelerate the vehicle. The braking system includes an inboard friction brake that is associated with one or more wheels of the vehicle and does not form unsprung mass of the vehicle.

Vehicle deceleration systems

Systems and methods for modular charging of vehicles are described. For example, a method may include connecting a vehicle to a charger using a charging plug interface that includes a first pair of conductors connected to alternating current terminals of an on-board alternating current-to-direct current converter of the vehicle and a second pair of conductors connected to terminals of a battery of the vehicle; and charging the battery of the vehicle via direct current flowing through the second pair of conductors concurrent with charging of the battery via alternating current flowing through the first pair of conductors to power the on-board alternating current to direct current converter.

Modular charging systems for vehicles

A thermal control system for use during electric battery charging includes a charging station thermally conditioning a fluid and sending the fluid to a charge inlet. The charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid and sends the fluid to one of a thermal loop or a heat exchanger. Another thermal control system includes a charging station thermally conditioning a fluid and sending the fluid to a charge inlet. The charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid and sends the fluid back to the charging station. In another thermal control system, a thermal loop supplies a fluid at a first temperature to a charge inlet. The charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid to a second temperature and returns the fluid to the thermal loop.

Thermal control systems for battery charging

A motion control system that includes a support motion control system and a body motion control system. The body motion control system includes passive motion control components and active motion control components.

Motion control system

One thermal control system for use during electric vehicle battery charging includes a charging station thermally conditioning a fluid and sending the fluid to a vehicle charge inlet. The vehicle charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid and sends the fluid to one of a vehicle thermal loop or a vehicle heat exchanger. Another thermal control system includes a charging station thermally conditioning a fluid and sending the fluid to a vehicle charge inlet. The vehicle charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid and sends the fluid back to the charging station. In another thermal control system, a vehicle thermal loop supplies a fluid at a first temperature to a vehicle charge inlet. The vehicle charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid to a second temperature and returns the fluid to the vehicle thermal loop.

Vehicle deceleration system

An electronic device display may have a color filter layer and a thin film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin film transistor layer. A layer of polarizer may be laminated onto the surface of the color filter layer. Laser trimming may ensure that the edges of the polarizer are even with the edges of the color filter layer. The thin film transistor layer may have an array of thin film transistors that control pixels of the liquid crystal material in the display. Driver circuitry may be used to control the array. The driver circuitry may be encapsulated in a planarized encapsulant on the thin film transistor layer or may be mounted to the underside of the color filter layer. Conductive structures may connect driver circuitry on the color filter layer to the thin film transistor layer.

Methods for fabricating display structures

A haptic electromagnetic actuator for track pad is provided. The actuator includes an array of electromagnets with alternating South and North poles on a first end, each magnet comprising a metal core and an electrical wire around the metal core. The array of magnets is coupled to a base plate on a second end opposite to the first end. The actuator also includes an attraction plate at a distance from the first end of the array of the magnets such that the attraction plate moves toward the magnets when an electrical current flows through the electrical wire around the metal core and moves away from the magnets when the current becomes zero. The array of magnets is configured to form a uniform gap from the attraction plate.

Haptic electromagnetic actuator

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for providing haptic output and audio output on computing devices using the same haptic device and methods for calibrating the same. To produce the haptic and audio output, the computing device receives a profile of a desired output waveform that is to be provided by the haptic device. Using the desired output waveform, an input waveform is generated. Once the input waveform that will produce the desired output waveform is generated, the input waveform may be calibrated to account for various structural components of the haptic device and may also be combined with an audio waveform. The input waveform is then provided to the haptic device.

Calibration of haptic devices

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Peteris K Augenbergs