FLEXIBLE CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE WITH TEMPORARY SUPPORTS AND EQUALIZED LATERAL EXPANSION
    3.
    发明申请
    FLEXIBLE CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE WITH TEMPORARY SUPPORTS AND EQUALIZED LATERAL EXPANSION 审中-公开
    具有临时支撑和均匀横向扩展的柔性电路基板

    公开(公告)号:WO2018044574A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-08

    申请号:PCT/US2017/047198

    申请日:2017-08-16

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: An item may have a flexible support structure and may include a flexible component. The flexible component may have electrical components mounted on component mounting regions in a flexible circuit substrate. The component mounting regions may be interconnected by serpentine interconnect paths or other flexible interconnect paths. The flexible circuit substrate and component mounting regions may extend along a longitudinal axis of the flexible component or may form a two-dimensional array. Two-dimensional mesh-shaped flexible circuit substrates may be used in forming displays. The mesh-shaped flexible circuit substrates may be auxetic substrates that widen when stretched (e.g., structures with a negative Poisson's ratio that become thicker perpendicular to applied force when stretched) and that therefore reduce image distortion. Temporary tethers may help hold flexible circuit substrates together until intentionally broken following assembly of a flexible component into the flexible support structure.

    Abstract translation: 项目可能有一个灵活的支持结构,可能包括一个灵活的组件。 柔性部件可以具有安装在柔性电路基板中的部件安装区域上的电气部件。 部件安装区域可以通过蛇形互连路径或其他柔性互连路径互连。 柔性电路基板和部件安装区域可以沿着柔性部件的纵向轴线延伸,或者可以形成二维阵列。 二维网状柔性电路基板可用于形成显示器。 网状柔性电路基板可以是拉伸时拉宽的拉胀基板(例如,具有负泊松比的结构,当与拉伸时垂直于施加的力变得更厚时),并因此减少图像失真。 临时系绳可以帮助将柔性电路基板保持在一起,直到在将柔性部件组装到柔性支撑结构中之后有意破坏。

    FABRIC ITEMS HAVING AREAS WITH DIFFERENT PROPERTIES

    公开(公告)号:WO2018231658A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-20

    申请号:PCT/US2018/036770

    申请日:2018-06-08

    Applicant: APPLE INC,

    Abstract: A fabric-based item may include fabric formed from intertwined strands of material. The strands of material may include extruded strands. Strand extrusion equipment may have electrically adjustable sources such as one or more sources of different polymers, dyes, particles, wire, and other elements to be incorporated into an extruded strand. The properties of the strands such as strand stiffness, strand diameter, conductivity, magnetic permeability, opacity, color, thermal conductivity, sand strength, may be varied along their lengths. Fabric formed from the strands may have different areas with different properties. Markers may be formed from particles at particular locations along the lengths of the strands, may be optical marker structures formed from circumferential rings of ink or other visible material on the strands, or may be other markers that can be sensed using electrical sensing, magnetic sensing, optical sensing, or other types of sensing when forming fabric from the strands.

    FABRIC-BASED DEVICES WITH FORCE SENSING
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2018231657A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-20

    申请号:PCT/US2018/036766

    申请日:2018-06-08

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: A fabric-based item such as a fabric glove may include force sensing circuitry. The force sensing circuitry may include force sensor elements formed from electrodes on a compressible substrate such as an elastomeric polymer substrate. The fabric may include intertwined strands of material including conductive strands. Signals from the force sensing circuitry may be conveyed to control circuitry in the item using the conductive strands. Wireless circuitry in the fabric -based item may be used to convey force sensor information to external equipment. The compressible substrate may have opposing upper and lower surfaces. Electrodes for the force sensor elements may be formed on the upper and lower surfaces. Stiff eners may overlap the electrodes to help decouple adjacent force sensor elements from each other. Integrated circuits can be attached to respective force sensing elements using adhesive.

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