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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Juergen Sauer, Munich, DE;
Andrey Gavryushin, Germering, DE;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects are disclosed of an apparatus comprising an assemblage of beads. The assemblage includes a plurality of beads formed from a zeolite and a polymeric binder. At least one bead in the plurality of beads has a shape including a base shape having a continuous exterior formed of a first dome portion and a second dome portion, the first and second dome portions being joined together to form a spheroid with a polar axis, a polar dimension along the polar axis, and a transverse dimension normal to the polar axis, and an indentation formed in one of the first and second domed portions, the indentation having a depth and extending toward a center of the base shape along and in the direction of the polar axis and a width in the direction normal to the polar axis.