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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Pavan O. Gupta, Belmont, CA (US);
Andrew W. Joyce, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Benedict Drevniok, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mo Li, Campbell, CA (US);
David S. Graff, San Jose, CA (US);
Albert Lin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Julian K. Shutzberg, Atlanta, GA (US);
Hojjat Seyed Mousavi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A device includes a housing defining part of an interior volume and an opening to the interior volume; a cover mounted to the housing to cover the opening and further define the interior volume; a display mounted within the interior volume and viewable through the cover; and a system in package (SiP) mounted within the interior volume. The SiP includes a self-capacitance sense pad adjacent a first surface of the SiP; a set of solder structures attached to a second surface of the SiP, the second surface opposite the first surface; and an IC coupled to the self-capacitance sense pad and configured to output, at one or more solder structures in the set of solder structures, a digital value related to a measured capacitance of the self-capacitance sense pad. The SiP is mounted within the interior volume with the first surface positioned closer to the cover than the second surface.