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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Toria F. Yan, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan M. David, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Fernandez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tingqing Liao, Shenzhen, CN;
Yunhe Huang, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Bingda Liu, Shenzhen, CN;
Hao Zhu, San Jose, CA (US);
Lauren D. Gerardi, Redwood City, CA (US);
Benjamin A. Shaffer, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert V. Tang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard P. Howarth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicolas Lylyk, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Thomas Richard Routh, Pemberton, CA;
Alex Warburton, Squamish, CA;
Uwe Michael Homm, Squamish, CA;
James Russell Griffin, Squamish, CA;
Michael Scott Pritchett, Pemberton, CA;
Kathryn Lorraine Pritchett, Pemberton, CA;
Sion Gwynn, Whistler, CA;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing containing rear-facing displays that display images for a user when the head-mounted housing is worn by the user. The head-mounted device housing may have housing structures such as elongated housing members with protruding posts. A headband may be removably coupled to the head-mounted device housing. The headband may have a strap with openings configured to receive the posts. Releasable latches may be provided to allow selective engagement and disengagement between the headband and the housing. The latches may contain movable latch members that are biased using magnetic biasing mechanisms, spring-based biasing mechanisms, or other biasing mechanisms. To release each latch, a tab, button, toggle lever, slider, or other release mechanisms may be actuated by a user. This moves the movable latch member from a closed latch position to an open latch position that releases the headband from the housing.