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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
May. 14, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Shravan Bharadwaj, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device may have a housing with first and second portions that move relative to each other. The housing may have a hinge that is configured to bend about a hinge axis. Control circuitry in the electronic device may adjust an electrically adjustable device to control resistance of the hinge to bending about the hinge axis. The electrically adjustable device may be an electroactive polymer that that adjusts pressure between two sliding layers of material, may be a magnetorheological device, may be an adjustable component formed from a shape memory material, or may be another electrically adjustable device. One or more sensors in the electronic device may gather sensor data such as touch input, force input, input related to movement of the housing, housing position information, and/or other data. During operation, the control circuitry can adjust the resistance of the hinge to bending based on the sensor data.