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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2018
Fitbit, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Aditya Vivekanand Nadkarni, San Bruno, CA (US);
Allen Yu-Li Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, San Francisco, CA (US);
Reza Yazdani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dennis Alejandro Grijalva, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Edison Tam King Miguel, Newark, CA (US);
Vaibhav Kiran Mistry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yonghua Wei, San Diego, CA (US);
Fitbit, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms for providing inductance-based user interface elements are provided. Some implementations of such inductance-based devices may feature very small gaps between the housing and the inductive coil, as well as various features to aid in improving sensor sensitivity and reducing the possibility of false button-push events.