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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2019
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Scott W. Slabaugh, Gilroy, CA (US);
Tatsuya Sano, San Jose, CA (US);
Jen-Chun Hsu, Taipei, TW;
Osamu Yabe, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zaki Moustafa, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Motohide Hatanaka, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Hsiang Hung Chen, New Taipei, TW;
Eiryo Shiraishi, Tokyo-to, JP;
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A44C 5/00 (2006.01); G04B 37/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A44C 5/0069 (2013.01); G04B 37/1486 (2013.01);
Abstract
A band for securing an electronic device to a user may include a monolithic band body having proximal and distal ends for coupling to a body of the electronic device. The monolithic band body may include an elastic material that is elastically stretchable between (1) a fitted mode where the electronic device is secured to a limb of the user, and (2) a stretched mode for fitting over the limb of the user.