Abstract: Attachment systems for attaching a wearable electronic device to a user including a sizing band and a retaining band are disclosed. The sizing band includes at least one sizing eyelet and a band-insertable end. The retaining band includes at least a post for insertion into the sizing eyelet of the sizing band and a concealment aperture configured to receive the band-insertable end of the sizing band. On a bottom surface of the retaining band can be a recessed guide bed configured to guide the band-insertable end along the bottom surface of the retaining band. A wearable electronic device can couple to both the sizing band and the retaining band by accepting an end portion of each band into receiving channels extending into opposite sidewalls of the housing.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 15, 2020
Date of Patent:
November 22, 2022
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Osamu Yabe, Derek C. Krass, Scott W. Slabaugh, Michael Brickner, Julian Hoenig, Wayne Cowan, Rico Zörkendörfer, Christopher J. Stringer, Ian Davison
Inventors:
Junyong Park, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Eric John Fairbanks, Brian Dennis Paschke, Cédric Eric Jean-Edouard Bernard, Jonah Avram Becker, Gregoire Ludovic Vincent Vandenbussche
Inventors:
Junyong Park, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Eric John Fairbanks, Brian Dennis Paschke, Cedric Eric Jean-Edouard Bernard, Jonah Avram Becker, Gregoire Ludovic Vincent Vandenbussche
Inventors:
Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer