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公开(公告)号：US20200251820A1
公开(公告)日：2020-08-06
申请号：US16854774
申请日：2020-04-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Jayesh Nath , Mario Martinis , Mattia Pascolini , Zheyu Wang , Sameer Pandya
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display having conductive display structures. Printed circuits having corresponding ground traces may be coupled to the display for conveying data to and/or from the display. The conductive display structures may be separated from the metal sidewalls by a gap. A conductive interconnect may be coupled to the metal sidewalls and may extend across the gap to the conductive display structures. The conductive interconnect may be coupled to the ground traces on the printed circuits and/or may be shorted or capacitively coupled to the conductive display structures. When configured in this way, the metal sidewalls, the conductive display structures, and the conductive interconnect may define the edges of a slot antenna resonating element for a slot antenna.
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公开(公告)号：US12276943B2
公开(公告)日：2025-04-15
申请号：US18382608
申请日：2023-10-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Colin M. Ely , Sameer Pandya , Steven C. Roach
Abstract: An electronic device, such as a watch, has a crown assembly having a shaft and a user-rotatable crown. The user-rotatable crown may include a conductive cap that is mechanically and electrically coupled to the shaft and functions as an electrode. The conductive cap may be coupled to the shaft using solder or another conductive attachment mechanism. The shaft may electrically couple the conductive cap to a processing unit of the electronic device. One or more additional electrodes may be positioned on the exterior surface of the electronic device. The conductive cap is operable to be contacted by a finger of a user of the electronic device while another electrode is positioned against skin of the user. The processing unit of the electronic device is operable to determine a biological parameter, such as an electrocardiogram, of the user based on voltages at the electrodes.
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公开(公告)号：US20240365488A1
公开(公告)日：2024-10-31
申请号：US18771073
申请日：2024-07-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Dakota A Bass , Erik G de Jong , Sameer Pandya , Shang L Tsuei , Trent J Canales
CPC classification number: H05K5/0217 , G02B6/4253 , H05K5/0017
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a display panel with an array of pixels on a flexible substrate. A display cover layer may overlap the display panel. The flexible substrate may have a protruding portion that forms a tail. When the display is mounted in the housing, the tail may be bent back on itself to create a bend. The bend may be embedded in molded polymer. The device may have structures that help prevent the display cover layer from being compressed inwardly towards the rear of the housing such as frame structures embedded in the molded polymer and/or housing sidewall structures. Optical components and optical waveguides may be embedded within the molded polymer. Mating chamfers on the display cover layer and housing may help seat the display cover layer in the housing.
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公开(公告)号：US20240087527A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-14
申请号：US18511335
申请日：2023-11-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Sameer Pandya , Daniel J. Barrett , Erik G. de Jong , James P. Landry , David A. Doyle , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Jung Yun Seuh , Yi Qiao
IPC: G09G3/3233 , F21V8/00 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/137 , G04G17/04
CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 , G02B6/004 , G02B6/0051 , G02F1/133331 , G02F1/13737 , G04G17/045 , G02F1/133541
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a pixel array that produces images. A display cover layer may overlap the pixel array. The display cover layer may have a planar central area surrounded by a peripheral edge area with a curved cross-sectional profile. From an on-axis viewing angle, an image on the pixel array is fully viewable through the planar central area and the peripheral edge area. From an off-axis viewing angle, the image is partly viewable through the peripheral edge area and not through the central area. To avoid an undesired color cast in the partly viewable image seen through the peripheral edge area of the display cover layer, the display may be provided with color cast compensation structures such as a guest-host liquid crystal layer that exhibits an anisotropic colored light absorption characteristic, a diffuser layer, and/or other optical structures.
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公开(公告)号：US11803162B2
公开(公告)日：2023-10-31
申请号：US17033542
申请日：2020-09-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Sameer Pandya , Daniel J. Hiemstra , Zaki Moustafa
Abstract: Wearable electronic devices, such as watches, can provide a seal member to form a fluid barrier between an inner chamber therein and outer chambers, as well as an external environment. Components within the sealed inner chamber can be protected from elements from the external environment (e.g., water ingress, etc.). The components outside of the inner chamber can include sensor modules and the like. Such components can be operatively connected to components within the inner chamber, for example, by a flex circuit that extends across the seal member. The component can interact with a watchband when coupled to a watch housing of the watch.
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公开(公告)号：US11630537B2
公开(公告)日：2023-04-18
申请号：US17558103
申请日：2021-12-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Michael B. Wittenberg , Daniel J. Barrett , Erik G. de Jong , Lucy E. Browning , Marwan Rammah , Rasamy Phouthavong , Sameer Pandya
Abstract: An electronic device may have light-emitting devices. A light-emitting device may include light-emitting diodes, a display, or other components that emit visual output. One or more image transport layers may be included in the electronic device. An image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image and an output surface to which the image transport layer transports the image for viewing by a user. The image transport layers may have areas with compound curvature and other shapes. Deformed image transport layer structures such as deformed fibers in a coherent fiber bundle may be configured to hide gaps in displays and other structures. Displays may include light detectors that serve as a two-dimensional touch sensor. The touch sensor may detect touch input on an output surface of an image transport layer. Image transport layer material may be incorporated into buttons, elongated housings, wearable devices, and other equipment.
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公开(公告)号：US20220312607A1
公开(公告)日：2022-09-29
申请号：US17701516
申请日：2022-03-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Dakota A. Bass , Erik G. de Jong , Sameer Pandya , Shang L. Tsuei , Trent J. Canales
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a display panel with an array of pixels on a flexible substrate. A display cover layer may overlap the display panel. The flexible substrate may have a protruding portion that forms a tail. When the display is mounted in the housing, the tail may be bent back on itself to create a bend. The bend may be embedded in molded polymer. The device may have structures that help prevent the display cover layer from being compressed inwardly towards the rear of the housing such as frame structures embedded in the molded polymer and/or housing sidewall structures. Optical components and optical waveguides may be embedded within the molded polymer. Mating chamfers on the display cover layer and housing may help seat the display cover layer in the housing.
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公开(公告)号：US20220272849A1
公开(公告)日：2022-08-25
申请号：US17447561
申请日：2021-09-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Sameer Pandya , Dakota A. Bass , Daniel J. Barrett , Erik G. de Jong , Xuan Liu , Kiran S. Pillai , Mario Martinis
Abstract: A portable or wearable electronic device can include a device housing defining an internal volume, and an electronic component disposed in the internal volume. The electronic component can be an input component and can have a component housing. The electronic device can also include an antenna feed assembly disposed in the internal volume. The antenna feed assembly can include a conductive grounding component electrically connected to the component housing and the device housing, and an antenna feed component electrically connected to the grounding component and disposed adjacent to the component housing. The conductive grounding component can surround a first major surface and a second major surface of the component housing.
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公开(公告)号：US20220271419A1
公开(公告)日：2022-08-25
申请号：US17447555
申请日：2021-09-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erik G. de Jong , Junlin Mu , Sameer Pandya , Patrick J. Crowley , Antonio F. Herrera , James G. Horiuchi , Sherry Tang , Mario Martinis
IPC: H01Q1/27 , H01Q1/24 , H01R12/82 , H01R12/77 , H01M50/284 , H01M10/0525 , H01M10/42 , H01M50/247
Abstract: A portable or wearable electronic device can include a device housing defining an internal volume, and an electronic component disposed in the internal volume. The electronic component can be an input component and can have a component housing. The electronic device can also include an antenna feed assembly disposed in the internal volume. The antenna feed assembly can include a conductive grounding component electrically connected to the component housing and the device housing, and an antenna feed component electrically connected to the grounding component and disposed adjacent to the component housing. The conductive grounding component can surround a first major surface and a second major surface of the component housing.
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公开(公告)号：US11209783B2
公开(公告)日：2021-12-28
申请号：US16523815
申请日：2019-07-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Tyler S. Bushnell , Sameer Pandya , Steven P. Cardinali
Abstract: A watch can include a user input component that employs an optical sensor to receive input from a user. The input components provide an ability for a user to interact with the watch in a manner similar to how a user would interact with a crown that is rotatable and/or translatable. The user can provide motions and gestures near the input component that the input component can detect and interpret and user inputs to control an aspect of the watch. The motions and gestures provided by the user can be directly detected with optical systems of the input component, so that the number of moving parts are reduced and space within the watch is more efficiently utilized. While providing these benefits, the input component provides a user experience that simulates user interactions with a crown that is rotatable and/or translatable.
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