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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2007
Erik L. Wang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Tang Yew Tan, Redwood, CA (US);
Adam Duckworth Mittleman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Hung Minh Dinh, San Jose, CA (US);
Philip Michael Hobson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew Lewis Johnston, Redwood City, CA (US);
Erik L. Wang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Tang Yew Tan, Redwood, CA (US);
Adam Duckworth Mittleman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Hung Minh Dinh, San Jose, CA (US);
Philip Michael Hobson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew Lewis Johnston, Redwood City, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Electronic devices are provided with housings that can have smoother profiles and with switch assembly input components with knobs that can move along tracks in directions at least partially offset from the directions of anticipated resistive forces. The housings can include switch assembly input components with knobs that may move along linear tracks and switch assembly input components with knobs that may move along curved tracks.