Apple Inc.

Yi Gu

John Z Zhong

Victor H Yin

Wei Lin

Sunggu Kang

Po-Jui Chen

Nathan K Gupta

Pey-Jiun Ko

Chun-Hao Tung

Dhaval Chandrakant Patel

Mookyung Son

Christopher L Boitnott

Steven M Scardato

Eugene C Cheung

Wookyung Bae

Xiaofan Niu

Xiaoqi Zhou

Se Hyun Ahn

Yindar Chuo

Rasmi R Das

Robert W Rumford

Steve L Terry

An electronic device with a force sensing device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises a user input surface defining an exterior surface of the electronic device, a first capacitive sensing element, and a second capacitive sensing element capacitively coupled to the first capacitive sensing element. The electronic device also comprises a first spacing layer between the first and second capacitive sensing elements, and a second spacing layer between the first and second capacitive sensing elements. The first and second spacing layers have different compositions. The electronic device also comprises sensing circuitry coupled to the first and second capacitive sensing elements configured to determine an amount of applied force on the user input surface. The first spacing layer is configured to collapse if the applied force is below a force threshold, and the second spacing layer is configured to collapse if the applied force is above the force threshold.

Force sensing architectures

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Palto Alto, CA, United States of America

Yi Gu