Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Beom-Mun Kim

Hyun-Suk Choi

Choel-Hwi Kwon

Seung-Hun Kim

Jaehyung Seo

Jicheng Zheng

Jiseob Hyun

Yongmin Shin

An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include a housing including a front plate, a back plate disposed to the opposite side of the front plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the front plate and the back plate, wherein at least a part of the back plate is constructed of a conductive material, and the side member includes an opening, a touch screen display disposed between the front plate and the back plate, a female connector disposed inside the opening, constructed to house a meal connector an external male connector, and including a plurality of pins, a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) disposed inside the space and including a ground plane, a circuit electrically coupled to the ground plane and/or mounted thereon to cut off leak current from the PCB, a first conductive path constructed between the circuit and a first point of at least part of the back plate, and a second conductive path constructed between at least one of the pins and a second point of at least part of the back plate. In addition, various other embodiments are also possible.

Electronic device having conductive exterior member and method for detecting leak current regarding same

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Busan, South Korea

Beom-Mun Kim