Apple Inc.

Seagate Technology Incorporated

Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Hgst Netherlands, B.v.

Tesla, Inc.

Other

Headway Technologies, Incorporated

Appple Inc.

Zheng Gao

James Mac Freitag

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Alex Joseph Lehmann

Min Chul Kim

Mahmoud R Amini

Dimitar Velikov Dimitrov

Yuankai Zheng

Susumu Okamura

Bartley K Andre

Sining Mao

Qiliang Xu

Haiwen Xi

George Tziviskos

Joshua R Funamura

Song Sheng Xue

Ron Alan Hopkinson

Dinesh C Mathew

Keith J Hendren

Wenzhong Zhu

Robert Y Cao

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Xiaobin Wang

Michelle Rae Goldberg

Xiaohua Lou

Chang Zhang

Mikael M Silvanto

John Raff

Chris A Ligtenberg

Wei Tian

Craig C Leong

John C Difonzo

Brett W Degner

Quang Le

Joshua D Banko

William Francis Leggett

Simon R Lancaster-Larocque

Laura M DeForest

Bryan W Posner

Charles A Schwalbach

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Asif Hussain

Gavin J Reid

Yong Lu

Houtan R Farahani

Gregory Allen Springer

Insik Jin

Alexander Goncharov

John C DiFonzo

Jae Hwang Lee

Kaizhong Gao

Yiran Chen

Shaoping Li

Daniel D Sunshine

Brian Rodrick York

Chando Park

William P Cornelius

George V Anastas

Olle Gunnar Heinonen

Kevin M Robinson

Kuok San Ho

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Eric Walter Singleton

Hongyue Liu

Nurul Amin

Aidan N Zimmerman

Dexin Wang

Ryan P Brooks

Eric Andrew Knopf

Kochan Ju

Cherngye Hwang

Stefan Maat

Erik James Shahoian

Liubo Hong

Ching Hwa Tsang

Xiaoyong Liu

Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden

Christian Kaiser

Patrick Joseph Ryan

Thao Anh Nguyen

Ying Hong

Muhammad Asif Bashir

Ivan S Maric

Ray Ling Chang

Brenton A Baugh

Paul E Anderson

Hardayal Singh Gill

Michael Allen Seigler

Kunliang Zhang

David John Seagle

Benjamin M Rappoport

Tsann Lin

Aron Pentek

Richard Hsiao

Michael D McBroom

Hui-Chuan Wang

Alexander Michael Zeltser

Zhitao Diao

Taras Grigorievich Pokhil

Sharat Batra

Embodiments are directed to a low profile key for a keyboard having an overmolded support structure. In one aspect, an embodiment includes a key cap having an illuminable symbol. A support structure having a pair of overmolded wings may pivotally couple to the key cap. A switch housing may surround the support structure and connect each of the first and second wings. A tactile dome may be at least partially positioned within the switch housing and configured to bias the key cap upward. A sensing membrane may be positioned along an underside surface of the tactile dome and configured to trigger a switch event in response to a collapsing of the tactile dome caused by a depression of the key cap. A feature plate may be positioned below the sensing membrane. A light guide panel may define at least one light extraction feature that may be configured to propagate light toward the key cap and cause illumination of the illuminable symbol.

Low-travel illuminated key mechanism

Disclosed herein is an input device having adjustable input mechanisms. The input mechanisms of the input device may be dynamically adjusted based on one or more input characteristics associated with a user. Accordingly, the input device may be customized to fit a user's input preferences.

Input device having adjustable input mechanisms

The present embodiments relate to a tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) element. The TMR element can include a free layer comprising a metallic alloy that is doped using a dopant element. In some instances, the metallic alloy comprises a cobalt-iron (CoFe) alloy. The present embodiments relate to doping a small amount of an element (e.g., hafnium (Hf), tantalum (Ta), Yttrium (Y)) in a high flux CoFe layer of a tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) element. The small amount of dopant can suppress a long-range order in the CoFe film. The amorphous state of a CoFe alloy can be induced by the dopant and result in a magnetically soft layer. A resistance of the TMR element can be modified based on an application of an external magnetic field to the free layer and the pin layer.

Tunneling magnetoresistance device with magnetically soft high moment free layer

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

A device may include a display portion that includes a display housing and a display at least partially within the display housing. The device may also include a base portion pivotally coupled to the display portion and including a bottom case, a top case coupled to the bottom case and defining an array of raised key regions, and a sensing system below the top case and configured to detect an input applied to a raised key region of the array of raised key regions.

Computer with keyboard

A keyboard may be provided that has keys overlapped by a touch sensor. The keyboard may have key sensor circuitry for monitoring switching in the keys for key press input. The keyboard may also have touch sensor circuitry such as capacitive touch sensor circuitry that monitors capacitive electrodes in the touch sensor for touch sensor input such as multitouch gesture input. The keyboard may include an outer layer of fabric that overlaps the keys. The fabric may have openings that are arranged to form alphanumeric characters. Light sources may emit light that passes through the openings and illuminates the alphanumeric characters. The touch sensor may have signal lines that are not visible through the openings. The signal lines may be transparent, may be covered by a diffuser, or may circumvent the openings so that they do not overlap.

Keyboard with touch sensor and illumination

A cable assembly includes a first cable and a second cable that is arranged co-axial to the first cable. Proximal ends of the first and second cables are provided with a connector assembly. The connector assembly from each proximal end is adapted to connect with one another, or a pair of receptacle ports located within a PCB, the PCB being disposed alongside the co-axially arranged first and second cables.

Connector assembly with a detection system

A spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device includes a substrate, a buffer layer formed over the substrate, and a bismuth antimony (BiSb) layer formed over the buffer layer, the BiSb layer having a (012) orientation. In certain embodiments, the SOT MTJ device is part of a microwave assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) write head. In certain embodiments, the SOT MTJ device is part of a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device.

BiSb topological insulator with novel buffer layer that promotes a BiSb (012) orientation

Certain embodiments are directed to a spin torque oscillator (STO) device in a microwave assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) device. The magnetic recording head includes a seed layer, a spin polarization layer over the seed layer, a spacer layer over the spin polarization layer, and a field generation layer is over the spacer layer. In one embodiment, the seed layer comprises a tantalum alloy layer. In another embodiment, the seed layer comprises a template layer and a damping reduction layer over the template layer. In yet another embodiment, the seed layer comprises a texture reset layer, a template layer on the texture reset layer, and a damping reduction layer on the template layer.

Seed layer for spin torque oscillator in microwave assisted magnetic recording device

Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a magnetic recording head of a spintronic device, such as a write head of a data storage device, for example a magnetic media drive. In one example, a magnetic recording head includes a main pole, a trailing shield, and a spin torque layer (STL) between the main pole and the trailing shield. The magnetic recording head includes a first layer structure on the main pole, and the first layer structure includes a negative polarization layer. The magnetic recording head also includes a second layer structure disposed on the negative polarization layer and between the negative polarization layer and the STL. The negative polarization layer is an FeCr layer. The second layer structure includes a Cr layer disposed on the FeCr layer, and a Cu layer disposed on the Cr layer and between the Cr layer and the STL.

Magnetic recording devices having negative polarization layer to enhance spin-transfer torque

A magnetic recording write head and system has a spin-torque oscillator (STO) located between the write head's write pole and trailing shield. The STO's ferromagnetic free layer is located near the write pole with a multilayer seed layer between the write pole and the free layer. The STO's nonmagnetic spacer layer is between the free layer and the STO's ferromagnetic polarizer. The polarizer may be the trailing shield of the write head, one or more separate polarizer layers, or combinations thereof. The STO electrical circuitry causes electron flow from the write pole to the trailing shield. The multilayer seed layer removes the spin polarization of electrons from the write pole, which enables electrons reflected from the polarizer layer to become spin polarized, which creates the spin transfer torque on the magnetization of the free layer. The multilayer seed layer includes a Mn or a Mn-alloy layer.

Spin-torque oscillator with multilayer seed layer between the write pole and the free layer in a magnetic recording write head

An input device for an electronic device includes an enclosure and a top member defining an input surface having multiple differentiated input regions. The input device further includes a first force sensing system associated with a first area of the top member and including a first group of the differentiated input regions, and a second force sensing system associated with a second area of the top member and including a second group of the differentiated input regions. The input device further includes a touch sensing system configured to determine which input region from the first group of the differentiated input regions corresponds to the first force input and to determine which input region from the second group of the differentiated input regions corresponds to the second force input.

Keyless keyboard with force sensing and haptic feedback

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