Patents by Inventor Daniel T. McDonald
Daniel T. McDonald 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).
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Patent number: 12193183Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing sidewall defining an opening and a display component, such as a display cover, disposed in the opening to form a gap between the housing sidewall and the display component. In at least one example, the cavity is defined by the sidewall and the display cover with the cavity in fluid communication with an external environment through the gap. In at least one example, an epoxy component at least partially defines the cavity and can be in direct contact with the housing sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Michael R. Parker, Daniel T. McDonald, Devon K. Copeland, Tyler S. Atura Bushnell, Christopher M. Werner, Michael A. Fisher, Natalie Y. Homsi, Alexandros J. Petrakis, Trent J. Canales
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Publication number: 20240266107Abstract: Electronic devices according to embodiments of the present technology may include a battery. The devices may include a nanocrystalline foil. The devices may include a wireless charging coil seated on the nanocrystalline foil. The devices may also include an integrated circuit configured to operate the wireless charging coil in a wireless charging transmission mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher M. Pinciuc, Daniel T. McDonald, Tao Pan
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Patent number: 11887775Abstract: Electronic devices according to embodiments of the present technology may include a battery. The devices may include a nanocrystalline foil. The devices may include a wireless charging coil seated on the nanocrystalline foil. The devices may also include an integrated circuit configured to operate the wireless charging coil in a wireless charging transmission mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christopher M. Pinciuc, Daniel T. McDonald, Tao Pan
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Publication number: 20230232560Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing sidewall defining an opening and a display component, such as a display cover, disposed in the opening to form a gap between the housing sidewall and the display component. In at least one example, the cavity is defined by the sidewall and the display cover with the cavity in fluid communication with an external environment through the gap. In at least one example, an epoxy component at least partially defines the cavity and can be in direct contact with the housing sidewall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Michael R. Parker, Daniel T. McDonald, Devon K. Copeland, Tyler S. Atura Bushnell, Christopher M. Werner, Michael A. Fisher, Natalie Y. Homsi, Alexandros J. Petrakis, Trent J. Canales
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Patent number: 11647324Abstract: An audio speaker having an adsorptive insert in a speaker back volume, is disclosed. More particularly, an embodiment includes an adsorptive insert having a rigid open-pore body formed by bonded adsorptive particles. The rigid open-pore body includes interconnected macropores that transport air from the speaker back volume to adsorptive micropores in the bonded adsorptive particles during sound generation. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Wilk, Ruchir M. Dave, Scott P. Porter, Daniel T. McDonald
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Publication number: 20230075207Abstract: Electronic devices according to embodiments of the present technology may include a battery. The devices may include a nanocrystalline foil. The devices may include a wireless charging coil seated on the nanocrystalline foil. The devices may also include an integrated circuit configured to operate the wireless charging coil in a wireless charging transmission mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christopher M. Pinciuc, Daniel T. McDonald, Tao Pan
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Patent number: 11515083Abstract: Electronic devices according to embodiments of the present technology may include a battery. The devices may include a nanocrystalline foil. The devices may include a wireless charging coil seated on the nanocrystalline foil. The devices may also include an integrated circuit configured to operate the wireless charging coil in a wireless charging transmission mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher M. Pinciuc, Daniel T. McDonald, Tao Pan
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Publication number: 20210195317Abstract: An audio speaker having an adsorptive insert in a speaker back volume, is disclosed. More particularly, an embodiment includes an adsorptive insert having a rigid open-pore body formed by bonded adsorptive particles. The rigid open-pore body includes interconnected macropores that transport air from the speaker back volume to adsorptive micropores in the bonded adsorptive particles during sound generation. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Christopher Wilk, Ruchir M. Dave, Scott P. Porter, Daniel T. McDonald
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Patent number: 11032930Abstract: This application relates to a method for forming an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes a metal substrate having a first b* value. The method includes forming an anodized layer that overlays and is formed from the metal substrate, wherein the anodized layer has a second b* value that is no greater than 0.3 of the first b* value and no less than 0.3 less than the first *b value.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: James A. Curran, Todd S. Mintz, Daniel T. McDonald
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Patent number: 11028468Abstract: A component for an electronic device can include a metal alloy formed by a metal injection molding process. The metal alloy can have a composition of about 32 wt % to about 38 wt % cobalt and about 62 wt % to about 68 wt % iron.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: John C. DiFonzo, Abhijeet Misra, Charles J. Kuehmann, Daniel T. McDonald
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Patent number: 10941503Abstract: The embodiments described herein relate to forming anodized films that have a white appearance. In some embodiments, an anodized film having pores with light diffusing pore walls created by varying the current density during an anodizing process is described. In some embodiments, an anodized film having light diffusing micro-cracks created by a laser cracking procedure is described. In some embodiments, a sputtered layer of light diffusing aluminum is provided below an anodized film. In some embodiments, light diffusing particles are infused within openings of an anodized layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Lucy E. Browning, Stephen B. Lynch, Christopher D. Prest, Peter N. Russell-Clarke, Masashige Tatebe, Michael S. Nashner, Daniel T. McDonald, Brian S. Tryon, Jody R. Akana
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Patent number: 10920333Abstract: The embodiments described herein relate to treatments for anodic layers. The methods described can be used to impart a white appearance for an anodized substrate. The anodized substrate can include a metal substrate and a porous anodic layer derived from the metal substrate. The porous anodic layer can include pores defined by pore walls and fissures formed within the pore walls. The fissures can act as a light scattering medium to diffusely reflect visible light. In some embodiments, the method can include forming fissures within the pore walls of the porous anodic layer. In some embodiments, exposing the porous anodic layer to an etching solution can form fissures. The method further includes removing a top portion of the porous anodic layer while retaining a portion of the porous anodic layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: James A. Curran, Daniel T. McDonald, Sean R. Novak
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Patent number: 10917713Abstract: An audio speaker having an adsorptive insert in a speaker back volume, is disclosed. More particularly, an embodiment includes an adsorptive insert having a rigid open-pore body formed by bonded adsorptive particles. The rigid open-pore body includes interconnected macropores that transport air from the speaker back volume to adsorptive micropores in the bonded adsorptive particles during sound generation. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christopher Wilk, Ruchir M. Dave, Scott P. Porter, Daniel T. McDonald
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Publication number: 20200383223Abstract: This application relates to a method for forming an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes a metal substrate having a first b* value. The method includes forming an anodized layer that overlays and is formed from the metal substrate, wherein the anodized layer has a second b* value that is no greater than 0.3 of the first b* value and no less than 0.3 less than the first *b value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: James A. CURRAN, Todd S. MINTZ, Daniel T. MCDONALD
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Publication number: 20200105465Abstract: Electronic devices according to embodiments of the present technology may include a battery. The devices may include a nanocrystalline foil. The devices may include a wireless charging coil seated on the nanocrystalline foil. The devices may also include an integrated circuit configured to operate the wireless charging coil in a wireless charging transmission mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher M. Pinciuc, Daniel T. McDonald, Tao Pan
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Publication number: 20200107098Abstract: A component for an electronic device can include a metal alloy formed by a metal injection molding process. The metal alloy can have a composition of about 32 wt % to about 38 wt % cobalt and about 62 wt % to about 68 wt % iron.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: John C. DiFonzo, Abhijeet Misra, Charles J. Kuehmann, Daniel T. McDonald
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Patent number: 10587074Abstract: An electronic receptacle connector includes a hybrid contact assembly that includes a contact plate that has multiple fingers, a contact positioned at a distal end of each finger and a conductor that runs along each finger and electrically couples each contact to an interconnect region positioned outside of the housing. The fingers are made from a first material and the contacts are made from a second material such that each of the first and the second materials can be independently optimized.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Appple Inc.Inventors: Hani Esmaeili, Daniel T. McDonald, Aaron A. Oro, Eric S. Jol
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Patent number: 10472709Abstract: An electroformed binary copper alloy comprising copper and X, where X is selected from the group consisting of Cr, Fe, W, Mo, B, Co, Ag, and P, having a yield strength of at least 600 MPa and an electrical conductivity of at least 20% IACS is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel T. McDonald, James A. Wright, Wai Man Raymund Kwok
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Patent number: 10461452Abstract: Techniques for forming a metal oxide from a metal substrate are disclosed. In some embodiments, the metal oxide can have an optical path difference between about 300 nm to about 1000 nm. The variations in optical path difference can impart the metal oxide to correspond to a range of pre-defined colors. In some embodiments, the optical path difference can impart the metal oxide to have an oxide color that is substantially similar to a color of a housing of a portable electronic device. In some embodiments, the metal oxide can be electrically conductive and the metal oxide can be utilized as an electrical contact of an electronic device to transmit and receive power and data from another electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: James A. Curran, Daniel T. McDonald
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Patent number: 10434602Abstract: The embodiments described herein relate to forming white appearing metal oxide films by forming cracks within the metal oxide films. In some embodiments, the methods involve directing a laser beam at a metal oxide film causing portions of the metal oxide film to melt, cool, contract, and crack. The cracks have irregular surfaces that can diffusely reflect visible light incident a top surface of the metal oxide film, thereby imparting a white appearance to the metal oxide film. In some embodiments, the cracks are formed beneath a top surface of a metal oxide film, thereby leaving a continuous and uninterrupted metal oxide film top surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel T. McDonald, Michael S. Nashner, Peter N. Russell-Clarke, Masashige Tatebe