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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 24, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

John J. Baker, Campbell, CA (US);

Michael B. Howes, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael S. Nashner, San Jose, CA (US);

Yoji Hamada, Wakayama-ken, JP;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 1/02 (2006.01); D04H 13/00 (2006.01); D04H 1/00 (2006.01); B32B 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D04H 13/00 (2013.01); D04H 1/00 (2013.01); Y10T 428/13 (2015.01); Y10T 428/24992 (2015.01);
Abstract

Embodiments described herein may take the form of a textile product having one or more regions of reduced density. These reduced density volumes may form one or more features in the product. For example, the reduced density volumes may have better acoustic transmission properties, optical transmission properties, flexibility, and the like. Sound transmission may be enhanced not only in terms of clarity, but also overall range. That is, certain audio frequencies that the textile may normally block when in an unaltered state may pass through a textile having reduced density or reduced density regions.


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