Apple Inc.

Carli E Oster

Melody L Kuna

Florence W Ow

Alex Chun Lap Yeung

Carlo Catalano

Mikael M Silvanto

Markus Peter Diebel

Lee B Hamstra

Ross M Errett

Devin M Williams

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Molly J Anderson

Clement Tissandier

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Kristina A Babiarz

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Martha Evans Hankey

Sung-Ho Tan

Alex Chung Lap Yeung

Thomas O Henry

Kellen M Asercion

Justin R Heckman

Ryan J Mihelich

Joel N Ruscher

Taylor Harrison Gilbert

M Evans Hankey

Dale R Setlak

Rico Zörkendörfer

Andrew W Joyce

David Garrido Lopez

Forhad Hasnat

Stuart M Nevill

Lucas R Compton

Andrew Deng

Ran Xu

Alexander P Niemeyer

Chi Zhang

Jordi Antoni Garcia Selva

Stephanie Y Su

Brittany Judoprasetijo

Russell K Williams

Colden N Eldridge

Brandon Z Frank

Matthew J Wilander

Haowei Wang

Housing module for an electronic device

An electronic device may include a display, a housing member at least partially surrounding the display and including a first segment defining a first portion of an exterior surface of the electronic device, a second segment defining a second portion of the exterior surface of the electronic device and configured to function as an antenna, and a bridge segment structurally and conductively coupling the first segment to the second segment. The electronic device may also include a molded element positioned between the first segment and the second segment and defining a third portion of the exterior surface of the electronic device.

Electronic device housing with integrated antenna

A portable electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The display and the housing can define an internal volume and a speaker assembly can be positioned in the internal volume. The speaker assembly can include a speaker enclosure sealed to the housing within the internal volume, the speaker enclosure and the housing defining a speaker volume, and a speaker module in fluid communication with the speaker volume, the speaker module including a diaphragm positioned at an aperture defined by the speaker volume, the diaphragm defining multiple ridges.

Portable electronic device

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device may include an enclosure and a transparent cover. The electronic device may include a display assembly. The electronic device may further include an inductive charging unit designed to inductively charge a stylus, or other object suitable for use with the display assembly. The electronic device may further include audio modules, at least some of which are designed to cause resonation of the enclosure to produce acoustical energy in the form of audible sound. Some audio modules produce acoustical energy in relatively low frequencies, while other audio modules produce acoustical energy in relatively high frequencies. The electronic device may further include a vision system designed for facial recognition. The display assembly may include a metal chassis as well as antennae for wireless communication. In order to prevent antennae interference, the metal chassis can be electrically grounded to the enclosure.

Battery for an electronic device

Display for an electronic device

An electronic device may be provided with a display and conductive sidewalls. The display may include conductive display structures and a cover layer. The cover layer may be mounted to the sidewalls. The sidewalls may define antenna apertures for antennas in the device. Grounding structures may be coupled between the conductive display structures and the sidewalls at locations that at least partially overlap the antenna apertures. The grounding structures may include conductive tape having an adhesive surface. The conductive tape may have a first end at which the adhesive surface is coupled to the conductive display structures. The conductive tape may have a second end that is folded around a layer of heat-activated film and that is coupled to both the display cover layer and the conductive sidewalls. Conductive tape overlapping each antenna aperture may be concurrently assembled into the electronic device as the display is mounted to the sidewalls.

Display grounding structures

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