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公开(公告)号：US11381892B1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-05
申请号：US16017835
申请日：2018-06-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Timothy W. Scales , Kodiak D. Burke , Linda D. Benavente-Notaro , Nicholas R. Trincia , Benjamin A. Stevenson , Clayton McCoy , Donald L. Olmstead , Hao Zhu , William H. Chui , Jack Pickup
Abstract: An enclosure may be provided with a housing. The housing may have an opening that separates and joins along a seam. A magnetic closure may have a pair of mating flexible magnetic members such as flexible rings or strips that run along the seam. Magnetic-field shunts may be provided in the flexible magnetic members. Multiple magnetic elements may be formed along the length of each magnetic member to form a multipole permanent magnet. Magnetic attraction may be varied along the lengths of the magnetic members and may be varied as a function of the separation between opposing magnet members. A magnetic clasp may be provided on the housing. The magnetic clasp may have attracting magnets to help close the opening in the housing. Protruding clasp portions may be formed from flexible material and may have embedded magnets configured to repel each other to facilitate use of the clasp.
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公开(公告)号：US10814589B1
公开(公告)日：2020-10-27
申请号：US16005532
申请日：2018-06-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Timothy W. Scales , Whitney D. Mattson , Benjamin A. Stevenson , Linda D. Benavente-Notaro , Nicholas R. Trincia , William H. Chui , Hao Zhu
IPC: H05K1/02 , B32B9/04 , F21V15/01 , B32B1/02 , B32B9/02 , B32B27/10 , B32B27/20 , H05K1/03 , H05K1/18 , B32B9/06 , B32B29/00 , F21V23/04 , F21Y115/10
Abstract: An item may be formed from layers of material such as leatherboard layers. A leatherboard layer may include fibrous natural material such as leather or paper embedded in polymer. Portions of the leatherboard layer can be locally modified by incorporation of filler material with desired properties. The filler material may include magnetic particles, conductive particles, or other material. By incorporating the filler material in localized portions of the leatherboard layer, integral electrodes or magnets may be formed. The leatherboard layer may also include embedded circuitry. Items such as enclosures and other items may be formed from the leatherboard layer. The leatherboard layer in an item may include locally modified regions such as magnet regions that are configured to form a closure or other structures that interact with each other.
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公开(公告)号：US10074469B2
公开(公告)日：2018-09-11
申请号：US15174833
申请日：2016-06-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Timothy W. Scales , Hao Zhu , Samuel G. Smith
CPC classification number: H01F7/021 , H01F13/003 , H01F41/0253
Abstract: An oblique angle polarized magnet includes a rectangular magnetized permanent magnet having a grain direction, an attraction surface, and a magnetic primary field line that is orthogonal to the grain direction but non-orthogonal to the attraction surface. The oblique angle polarized magnet may be used in a magnetically positioned apparatus, such as a tablet computing device cover operable as a stand for the tablet computing device. The magnetically positioned apparatus may be configured to assume a position where first and second magnets are oriented in a non-parallel orientation such that the first and second surfaces of the magnets oriented at an acute angle with respect to each other. The magnets may facilitate the position.
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公开(公告)号：US20150044527A1
公开(公告)日：2015-02-12
申请号：US14455591
申请日：2014-08-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bernd J. Neudecker , Brian C. Menzel , Gregory A. Springer , Shawn W. Snyder , Timothy W. Scales , Victor William Santini
CPC classification number: H01M10/4257 , H01M2/06 , H01M2/08 , H01M2/204 , H01M4/13 , H01M10/0436 , H01M10/0445 , H01M10/482 , H01M2010/4271
Abstract: A battery cell core is hermetically sealed inside a casing, with conductive paths formed in the casing that individually connect cell subsets of the core to a battery management circuit for detecting individual failing cell subsets and for changing the battery output voltage by forming series/parallel connections between the cell subsets. In one version, the casing has a metal can with an opening of the can being sealed by a non-conductive cap that is sealed and bonded along its periphery to the can walls. In one aspect, the cap has edge metallization along its periphery where it is sealed to the can walls. In another aspect, the conductive paths are formed in the non-conductive cap. Various other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Abstract translation: 电池单元芯密封在壳体内，其中形成在壳体中的导电路径将芯的单元子集分别连接到电池管理电路，用于检测各个故障单元子集，并通过形成串联/并联连接来改变电池输出电压 在细胞子集之间。 在一个版本中，壳体具有金属罐，罐的开口被非导电盖密封，该导电盖沿其周边被密封和粘合到罐壁。 在一个方面，盖沿其周边具有边缘金属化，其中它被密封到罐壁。 另一方面，导电路径形成在非导电盖中。 还描述和要求保护各种其它实施例。
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公开(公告)号：US20170352459A1
公开(公告)日：2017-12-07
申请号：US15174833
申请日：2016-06-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Timothy W. Scales , Hao Zhu , Samuel G. Smith
CPC classification number: H01F7/021 , H01F13/003 , H01F41/0253
Abstract: An oblique angle polarized magnet includes a rectangular magnetized permanent magnet having a grain direction, an attraction surface, and a magnetic primary field line that is orthogonal to the grain direction but non-orthogonal to the attraction surface. The oblique angle polarized magnet may be used in a magnetically positioned apparatus, such as a tablet computing device cover operable as a stand for the tablet computing device. The magnetically positioned apparatus may be configured to assume a position where first and second magnets are oriented in a non-parallel orientation such that the first and second surfaces of the magnets oriented at an acute angle with respect to each other. The magnets may facilitate the position.
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6.发明授权公开(公告)号：US09733669B1
公开(公告)日：2017-08-15
申请号：US15043471
申请日：2016-02-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Timothy W. Scales , William M. Peters , Edward W. Wong , Zhiqiang Jin , James A. Stryker , Yoonhoo Jo , David F. Mallard , Colin M. Wang
IPC: G06F1/16
CPC classification number: G06F1/1633 , G06F1/1626 , G06F2200/1634
Abstract: A case for a portable electronic device, the portable electronic device having a housing that carries a first magnetic element capable of forming a first magnetic circuit through the housing with a magnetic element external to the portable electronic device capable of securing together the housing and the external magnetic element. The case can include a body having a bottom wall and side walls that combine to define a recessed region suitable for retaining the portable electronic device and a second magnetic element located at a position corresponding to the external magnetic element such that when the portable electronic device is carried in the recessed region, the second magnetic element forms a second magnetic circuit through the body with the external magnetic element that is capable of securing together the case and the external magnetic element.
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