Stopping Means Patents (Class 234/30)
  • Patent number: 9454177
    Abstract: An electronic device has an electronic device housing containing electrical components such as integrated circuits and other components. The electronic device housing may be provided with an interconnect stack that has layers of dielectric and metal traces forming signal paths. Electrical components may be mounted on printed circuits. Coupling structures such as screws or other fasteners, washers, standoffs, nuts, springs, and spring-loaded pins may be used in forming signal paths that couple the signal paths of the interconnect stack to components such as buttons, batteries, printed circuits with integrated circuits, displays, and other circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Lor, Siddharth Nangia