Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Bo-Woong Seo

Min-Soo Kim

Ji-Woo Lee

Jin-Wan An

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including at least one receiving hole exposed to an outside, a magnet disposed inside the housing and adjacent to the at least one receiving hole, an input module configured to be insertable into the at least one receiving hole and including a ferrite core configured to block or redirect part of a magnetic field generated from the magnet, a sensor unit disposed inside the housing and configured to sense the magnetic field generated from the magnet, and a controller configured to sense whether the input module is inserted into the at least one receiving hole by a signal according to a strength of the magnetic field sensed by the sensor unit.

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Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Bo-Woong Seo