Apple Inc.

William A Tashman

John C Difonzo

Michelle Rae Goldberg

Zhang Jia

Matthew William Blum

James Joseph Dudley

Corey N Axelowitz

Fabio T Campos

Katherine Spriggs

Stefano Tizianel

Noemi Novello

James Y Yap

Chee How Chong

Jonathan E Borkowski

The described embodiments relate generally to methods and apparatus for securely and efficiently joining components together. In some embodiments, a flexible printed circuit board and a rigid printed circuit board can be electrically coupled together by soldering electrical contacts distributed on the flexible printed circuit board to electrical contacts distributed on the rigid printed circuit board. The electrical contacts can be arranged and sized as desired to provide a desired amount of data and power transfer bandwidth.

SMT connection of rigid and flexible printed circuit boards

An electronic device display may have an active area with an array of pixels and an inactive area. A light-transmitting window may be formed in the inactive area. A light-sensing component such as an ambient light sensor may be mounted within the housing in alignment with the window. Opaque masking material may be provided on one or more layers of the display in the inactive area and may have an opening for the window. Backlight structures in the display may generate backlight illumination for pixels in the active area. Stray portions of the backlight illumination may be blocked using a stray light absorption layer on one of the layers of the display such as a layer other than the layer on which the opaque masking material is formed. The stray light absorption layer may have an opening aligned with the window.

Electronic device optical sensing system with stray light suppression

Method, system, and apparatus for optimizing kinematics of a magnetic latch having a magnetic element is disclosed.

Method and apparatus for producing accurate kinematics in a computing device

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William A Tashman