Apple Inc.

Gm Cruise Holdings LLC

Robert Y Cao

Dinesh C Mathew

Mikael M Silvanto

Bryan W Posner

Simon R Lancaster-Larocque

Robert J Lockwood

Bartley K Andre

Victor H Yin

Keith J Hendren

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Alex Joseph Lehmann

Craig C Leong

Zheng Gao

Jun Qi

Bradford J Zercoe

Adam T Garelli

Kevin M Robinson

Bruce E Berg

Houtan R Farahani

Molly J Anderson

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Michael K McCord

Brett W Degner

Ron Alan Hopkinson

Asif Hussain

Chang Zhang

Genie Kim

Qiliang Xu

Ari P Miller

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Christopher J Stringer

Daniele De Iuliis

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Markus Peter Diebel

Clement Tissandier

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Joe Sung-Ho Tan

Kevin Scott Fetterman

Zoran Stefanoski

Kevin M Keeler

James M Cuseo

Eric Lee Benson

Sabrina K Paseman

Karan Bir

Jacob Seth Kononiuk

Yi-Chen Kuo

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Martha Evans Hankey

John Raff

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Rong Liu

Matthew Theobald

Ryan P Brooks

ByoungSuk Kim

Eric Andrew Knopf

Simon Regis Louis Lancaster-Larocque

William A Counts

Brandon S Smith

Christopher L Boitnott

Erik A Zweigle

Antonio Clarke

Simon J Trivett

Francesco Ferretti

Mahesh Krishnamurthi

Wey-Jiun Lin

Gavin J Reid

Denis H Endisch

Richard G Huizar

Thai Quoc La

Brian Schlotterbeck

M Evans Hankey

Christopher D Prest

Cheng Kai Chen

Hoon Sik Kim

Rico Zörkendörfer

Zhibing Ge

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Christopher D Jones

Jiaying Wu

Yuan Chen

Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang

Xiaokai Li

Paul V Johnson

Tatsuya Sano

Jason N Gomez

Roger Lo

Chia Hsuan Tai

Terry C Lam

Scott J Krahn

Shih-Wei Chang

A force input/haptic output interface for an electronic device can include a force input sensor and a haptic actuator. In one example, the force input sensor and the haptic actuator are accommodated on a frame positioned below an input surface. In many examples, the frame includes relieved portions that redirect and/or concentrate compression or tension in the haptic actuator into the frame.

Enclosure with locally-flexible regions

A display may include a color filter layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may be formed in the display to accommodate a camera. The camera window may be formed by creating a notch in the thin-film transistor layer that extends inwardly from the edge of the thin-film transistor layer. The notch may be formed by scribing the thin-film transistor layer around the notch location and breaking away a portion of the thin-film transistor layer. A camera window may also be formed by grinding a hole in the display. The hole may penetrate partway into the thin-film transistor layer, may penetrate through the transistor layer but not into the color filter layer, or may pass through the thin-film transistor layer and partly into the color filter layer.

Displays with camera window openings

A button assembly for an electronic device is disclosed. The button assembly integrates a biometric sensor below a top surface of the button. The button assembly is positioned relative to a secondary display of an electronic device. The secondary display can be positioned relative to a keyboard, such as above a top row of keys of the keyboard.

Input devices incorporating biometric sensors

An electronic device includes an enclosure formed of a plurality of layers cooperating to define an interior volume. The enclosure includes a first layer formed of a first material and defining a user input surface of the enclosure and a first portion of a side surface of the enclosure. The enclosure also includes a second layer, formed of a second material different from the first material, positioned below the first layer and defining a second portion of the side surface of the enclosure. The enclosure also includes a third layer, formed of a third material different from the first and second materials, positioned below the second layer and defining a bottom surface of the enclosure and a third portion of the side surface of the enclosure.

Multi-part device enclosure

A foldable display device may have housing portions coupled by a hinge. The hinge may have a series of interconnected links. The links may be formed from interdigitated fingers in a friction clutch. The fingers or other portions of the links may be provided with crescent-shaped slots that receive pins. During folding of the device, the pins may slide along the crescent-shaped slots, thereby ensuring that adjacent links rotate relative to each other about a rotation axis that lies outside of the hinge and within a flexible display panel. Links may also be formed from link members with curved mating bearing surfaces that slide relative to each other as adjacent links are rotated relative to each other. A housing rotation synchronization mechanism may be formed using a set of gears that extends between the first and second housing portions.

Hinges for folding display devices

Electronic device

A portable computer includes a display portion comprising a display and a base portion pivotally coupled to the display portion. The base portion may include a bottom case and a top case, formed from a dielectric material, coupled to the bottom case. The top case may include a top member defining a top surface of the base portion and a sidewall integrally formed with the top member and defining a side surface of the base portion. The portable computer may also include a sensing system including a first sensing system configured to determine a location of a touch input applied to the top surface of the base portion and a second sensing system configured to determine a force of the touch input.

Device having integrated interface system

Various technologies described herein pertain to a sensor for an autonomous vehicle that includes one or more heat dissipation features. A sensor includes a top cover and a bottom cover, where the top cover and the bottom cover form at least a portion of a casing of the sensor. The sensor includes a coldplate, a first printed circuit board, and a second printed circuit board. A top side of the first printed circuit board is coupled to the top cover and a bottom side of the first printed circuit board is coupled to a top side of the coldplate. A top side of the second printed circuit board is coupled to a bottom side of the coldplate and a bottom side of the second printed circuit board is coupled to the bottom cover. Various features described herein enhance heat transfer from components on the first and second printed circuit boards.

Heat dissipation features of autonomous vehicle sensor

An example automated driving system computer can include a board, one or more processors coupled to the board, a first layer of a first thermal interface material applied on the one or more processors, a heat spreader having a first side and a second side, the first side in contact with the first layer of the first thermal interface material, a second layer of a second thermal interface material applied on the second side of the heat spreader, and a cold plate in contact with the second layer of the second thermal interface material.

Floating heat spreader for processing assembly

Cable assemblies for providing electrical communication between hinged sections of an electronic device are described. The cable assemblies can include a cover that covers one or more cables that run through a hinge region of the electronic device. The cable and cover can be drawn over a mandrel of the hinge region. The cover and the portions of the mandrel can be visible to a user at the hinge region of the electronic device. The cover can be sufficiently rigid to guide a path of the cable and protect the cable from bending beyond a prescribed angle during rotation of the electronic device at the hinge region. The cover can also be sufficiently rigid to prevent ceasing or folding of the cover and the cable during rotation of the electronic device at the hinge region.

Mandrel flex circuit routing

An example sensor bracket assembly can include one or more cold plates forming a core bracket structure, wherein the core bracket structure and the one or more cold plates provide structural support for the sensor bracket assembly; a housing enclosing the core bracket structure; one or more sensor mounts for mounting one or more sensors on the sensor bracket assembly; and one or more attachment portions for attaching the sensor bracket assembly to a body of a vehicle.

Structural mount with integrated cooling for autonomous vehicle sensors

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Robert Y Cao