Patents by Inventor Ali N. Ergun
Ali N. Ergun has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
-
Publication number: 20240107249Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a structure with a substrate, an electronic device, and a molding compound layer. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, where the substrate includes a first opening. The electronic device is disposed on the first surface of the substrate and includes a second opening aligned with the first opening of the substrate. Further, the molding compound layer is disposed on the second surface of the substrate and includes a third opening aligned with the second opening of the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kyusang KIM, Ali N. Ergun, Anthony D. Minervini, Bilal Mohamed Ibrahim Kani, Kishore N. Renjan
-
Publication number: 20240080970Abstract: Various embodiments of a flexible circuit package with a high-modulus molding compound layer are disclosed. A flexible circuit package includes a substrate with first and second regions. The first region is configured to bend. The flexible circuit package further includes a conductive line disposed on the second region, an electronic component disposed on the conductive line, and a molding compound layer disposed on the second region and surrounding the electronic component. A modulus of the molding compound layer is greater than a modulus of the substrate and the molding compound layer is configured to prevent the second region from bending.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Leilei ZHANG, Abhay Maheshwari, Ali N. Ergun, Arun Chawan
-
Patent number: 11831061Abstract: An electronic device may include one or more radios and one or more antennas. Radio-frequency transmission lines may couple a radio to a corresponding antenna. To more efficiently form a radio-frequency transmission line, the radio-frequency transmission line may be formed from interconnected conductive traces distributed between a plurality of printed circuits. By integrating transmission line structures onto printed circuits that also serve other functions, the device can require less space to implement a radio-frequency transmission line. While one or more of these printed circuits may individually be unsuitable to implement a radio-frequency transmission line with a particular impedance, the composite impedance of these transmission line structures across the printed circuits, when properly configured, may provide a radio-frequency transmission line with the particular impedance.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alireza Pourghorban Saghati, Mohammed W. Mokhtar, Ali N. Ergun, Oren S. Levy, Arman Samimi-Dehkordi, Sean T. McIntosh
-
Publication number: 20230379609Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide for a microphone in the front volume of a speaker. The speaker and the microphone may be provided in a single speaker assembly. The microphone may be implemented as an error microphone or a feedback microphone. The microphone may be mounted to a speaker frame of the speaker, with a sound-sensitive element of the microphone in the front volume of the speaker on a first side of the speaker frame, and with conductive contacts for the microphone disposed on an opposing second side of the speaker frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Scott C. GRINKER, Ali N. ERGUN, Anthony D. MINERVINI, Claudio NOTARANGELO, Matthew A. DONARSKI
-
Patent number: 11765838Abstract: Electronic modules and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, an electronic module includes a molded system-in-package, and a flexible circuit mounted on a side surface of a molding compound layer such that the flexible circuit is in electrical contact with a lateral interconnect exposed along the side surface of the molding compound layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bilal Mohamed Ibrahim Kani, Ali N. Ergun, Kishore N. Renjan, Kyusang Kim, Manoj Vadeentavida, Benjamin J. Grena, David M. Kindlon, Lan H. Hoang
-
Patent number: 11689842Abstract: A personal audio device (e.g., headphones, earphones) can have an earpiece (e.g., an ear cup or earbud) with a removable cushioning member (e.g., headphone cushions or ear tips for earbuds). The cushioning member can include an identification tag that encodes identification data for the cushioning member. When the cushioning member is attached to the earpiece, the identification tag is brought into proximity with a tag sensor in the earpiece and the earpiece can read the identification tag to determine identification data for the cushioning member. The identification data can be used to modify a behavior of the earpiece and/or of a host device communicably coupled to the earpiece.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Kathleen A. Bergeron, Ali N. Ergun, Dustin A. Hatfield, Ethan L. Huwe, Todd P. Marco, Jason Joseph LeBlanc, Robert D. Zupke, Michael B. Minerbi, Prathamesh R. Bhagwat, Daniel R. Bloom
-
Publication number: 20230078536Abstract: System-in-package modules that can provide a high level of functionality, are space efficient, and are readily manufactured. In an example, a high-functionality system-in-package module can include both a wireless circuit and an antenna. In an example, a space-efficient system-in-package module can include different vertical interconnect paths that can be used to connect the wireless circuit to the antenna. In an example, instead of being shaped as a traditional rectangular cuboid, a space-efficient system-in-package module can have a shape that more closely matches contours of an enclosure for an electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ali N. Ergun, Bilal Mohamed Ibrahim Kani, Chang Liu, Ethan L. Huwe, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Jerzy S. Guterman, Jue Wang, Kishore N. Renjan, Kyusang Kim, Lan H. Hoang, Mandar S. Painaik, Manoj Vadeentavida, Sarah B. Gysbers, Takayoshi Katahira, Zhiqi Wang
-
Publication number: 20230055647Abstract: Electronic modules and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, an electronic module includes a molded system-in-package, and a flexible circuit mounted on a side surface of a molding compound layer such that the flexible circuit is in electrical contact with a lateral interconnect exposed along the side surface of the molding compound layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Bilal Mohamed Ibrahim Kani, Ali N. Ergun, Kishore N. Renjan, Kyusang Kim, Manoj Vadeentavida, Benjamin J. Grena, David M. Kindlon, Lan H. Hoang
-
Publication number: 20230056922Abstract: Electronic modules and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, an electronic module includes a molded system-in-package, and a flexible circuit mounted on a side surface of a molding compound layer such that the flexible circuit is in electrical contact with a lateral interconnect exposed along the side surface of the molding compound layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Bilal Mohamed Ibrahim Kani, Ali N. Ergun, Kishore N. Renjan, Kyusang Kim, Manoj Vadeentavida, Benjamin J. Grena, David M. Kindlon, Lan H. Hoang
-
Publication number: 20230028370Abstract: An electronic device may include one or more radios and one or more antennas. Radio-frequency transmission lines may couple a radio to a corresponding antenna. To more efficiently form a radio-frequency transmission line, the radio-frequency transmission line may be formed from interconnected conductive traces distributed between a plurality of printed circuits. By integrating transmission line structures onto printed circuits that also serve other functions, the device can require less space to implement a radio-frequency transmission line. While one or more of these printed circuits may individually be unsuitable to implement a radio-frequency transmission line with a particular impedance, the composite impedance of these transmission line structures across the printed circuits, when properly configured, may provide a radio-frequency transmission line with the particular impedance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2021Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Alireza Pourghorban Saghati, Mohammed W. Mokhtar, Ali N. Ergun, Oren S. Levy, Arman Samimi-Dehkordi, Sean T. McIntosh
-
Publication number: 20230022471Abstract: An electronic device may include one or more radios and one or more antennas. Radio-frequency transmission lines may couple a radio to a corresponding antenna. To more efficiently form a radio-frequency transmission line, the radio-frequency transmission line may be formed from interconnected conductive traces distributed between a plurality of printed circuits. By integrating transmission line structures onto printed circuits that also serve other functions, the device can require less space to implement a radio-frequency transmission line. While one or more of these printed circuits may individually be unsuitable to implement a radio-frequency transmission line with a particular impedance, the composite impedance of these transmission line structures across the printed circuits, when properly configured, may provide a radio-frequency transmission line with the particular impedance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Alireza Pourghorban Saghati, Mohammed W. Mokhtar, Ali N. Ergun, Oren S. Levy, Arman Samimi-Dehkordi, Sean T. McIntosh
-
Publication number: 20220116697Abstract: A personal audio device (e.g., headphones, earphones) can have an earpiece (e.g., an ear cup or earbud) with a removable cushioning member (e.g., headphone cushions or ear tips for earbuds). The cushioning member can include an identification tag that encodes identification data for the cushioning member. When the cushioning member is attached to the earpiece, the identification tag is brought into proximity with a tag sensor in the earpiece and the earpiece can read the identification tag to determine identification data for the cushioning member. The identification data can be used to modify a behavior of the earpiece and/or of a host device communicably coupled to the earpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Kathleen A. Bergeron, Ali N. Ergun, Dustin A. Hatfield, Ethan L. Huwe, Todd P. Marco, Jason Joseph LeBlanc, Robert D. Zupke, Michael B. Minerbi, Prathamesh R. Bhagwat, Daniel R. Bloom
-
Patent number: 11240585Abstract: A personal audio device (e.g., headphones, earphones) can have an earpiece (e.g., an ear cup or earbud) with a removable cushioning member (e.g., headphone cushions or ear tips for earbuds). The cushioning member can include an identification tag that encodes identification data for the cushioning member. When the cushioning member is attached to the earpiece, the identification tag is brought into proximity with a tag sensor in the earpiece and the earpiece can read the identification tag to determine identification data for the cushioning member. The identification data can be used to modify a behavior of the earpiece and/or of a host device communicably coupled to the earpiece.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Kathleen A. Bergeron, Ali N. Ergun, Dustin A. Hatfield, Ethan L. Huwe, Todd P. Marco, Jason Joseph LeBlanc, Robert D. Zupke, Michael B. Minerbi, Prathamesh R. Bhagwat, Daniel R. Bloom
-
Patent number: 11115746Abstract: A charging case for a pair of earbuds that comprises: a body having one or more cavities configured to receive the pair of earbuds; a lid attached to the body and operable between a closed position where the lid is aligned over the one or more cavities covering the pair earbuds and an open position that allows a user to remove the pair of earbuds from the body; one or more sensors that generates sensor data; a controller coupled to receive the sensor data from the sensor and operable to detect when the charging case is in freefall and/or suffers an impact event based, at least in part, on the sensor data and generate a trigger signal in response to detecting the impact event; and an earbud protection mechanism responsive to the trigger signal and operable to retain the pair of earbuds within the charging case.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Scott D. Morrison, Kirill Kalinichev, Ali N. Ergun
-
Publication number: 20210084402Abstract: A personal audio device (e.g., headphones, earphones) can have an earpiece (e.g., an ear cup or earbud) with a removable cushioning member (e.g., headphone cushions or ear tips for earbuds). The cushioning member can include an identification tag that encodes identification data for the cushioning member. When the cushioning member is attached to the earpiece, the identification tag is brought into proximity with a tag sensor in the earpiece and the earpiece can read the identification tag to determine identification data for the cushioning member. The identification data can be used to modify a behavior of the earpiece and/or of a host device communicably coupled to the earpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, Kathleen A. Bergeron, Ali N. Ergun, Dustin A. Hatfield, Ethan L. Huwe, Todd P. Marco, Jason Joseph LeBlanc, Robert D. Zupke, Michael B. Minerbi, Prathamesh R. Bhagwat, Daniel R. Bloom