Apple Inc.

Tyco Electronics Corporation

David A Hurrell

Ihtesham H Chowdhury

Benjamin J Pope

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Matthew D Hill

Eric N Nyland

Scott A Myers

Kevin M Froese

Michael W Firka

Salome Bavetta

Jeremy D Bataillou

Daniel C Wagman

Jennifer M Edwards

Tyler B Cater

Yaocheng Zhang

Eric W Bates

Matthew P Rao

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Jody R Akana

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Mikael M Silvanto

Molly J Anderson

Markus Peter Diebel

Clement Tissandier

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Mattia Pascolini

Tang Yew Tan

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Harish Rajagopalan

Siwen Yong

Simone Paulotto

Jiangfeng Wu

Bilgehan Avser

Edward S Huo

Rasamy Phouthavong

Martin J Auclair

Douglas G Fournier

Robert Scritzky

Paul U Leutheuser

Hani Esmaeili

Timothy S Lui

Xiao Ying Zhao

Christopher R Xydis

Kurtis J Mundell

Arun R Varma

Jiechen Wu

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Jonathan Gomez Garcia

Sung-Ho Tan

Rico Zörkendörfer

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Christopher R Wilk

Ashutosh Yugesh Shukla

Rodney Andres Gomez Angulo

Yang Liu

Scott P Porter

Ruchir M Dave

John J Baker

Benjamin J Kallman

Gregory N Stephens

Inho Myong

James A Bertin

Blake M Coughenour

Angelo M Alaimo

David Garrido Lopez

Anthony P Grazian

Trent J Canales

David MacNeil

Isabel Yang

Hugh J Jay

Forhad Hasnat

Sherry Lee

Subramanian Ramalingam

Mikal Askarian Amiri

Griffin L Schmitt

Teemu P Sipila

Benjamin M Russo

Thomas W Yang

Soroush Akbarzadeh

Mu-Hua Cheng

Thomas A Briere

Joseph F Maldonado

Steve Chap Tran

Thomas Pieper Oliver

John M Kuster

Robert Hrabchak

Obinna Onyemepu

Nicholas D Rath

Elisabeth Lang

A portable electronic device may include an enclosure including a front cover defining a front exterior surface of the portable electronic device and a rear cover defining a rear exterior surface of the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device may further include a rear-facing camera and a rear-facing flash including a light emitting component defining a plurality of illuminable regions. The light emitting component may be configured to illuminate a first subset of the plurality of illuminable regions to illuminate a first field of view and illuminate a second subset of the plurality of illuminable regions, the second subset different from the first subset, to illuminate a second field of view different from the first field of view.

Handheld electronic device with rear-facing flash

Display for an electronic device

An electronic device may be provided with an antenna module having a substrate. A phased antenna array of dielectric resonator antennas and a radio-frequency integrated circuit for the array may be mounted to one or more surfaces of the substrate. The dielectric resonator antennas may include dielectric columns excited by feed probes. The feed probes may be printed onto sidewalls of the dielectric columns or may be pressed against the sidewalls by biasing structures. A plastic substrate may be molded over each dielectric column and each of the feed probes in the array. The feed probes may cover multiple polarizations. The array may include elements for covering multiple frequency bands. The dielectric columns may be aligned a longitudinal axis and may be rotated at a non-zero and non-perpendicular angle with respect to the longitudinal axis.

Dielectric resonator antenna modules

A mobile phone may include an enclosure defining an internal volume, the enclosure including a front cover formed from a transparent material and defining a front exterior surface, a rear cover formed from a glass material and defining a rear exterior surface, and a housing component defining a side exterior surface. The mobile phone may include a circuit board assembly within the internal volume. The circuit board assembly may include a circuit board, a circuit component coupled to an exterior surface of the circuit board, and a cowling coupled to the circuit board and covering the circuit component, the cowling having a thickness less than about 0.5 mm and including a base structure formed from an aluminum alloy having a thickness less than about 0.4 mm and a thermally conductive structure positioned over the base structure and configured to dissipate heat.

Handheld electronic device

A mobile phone includes a housing structure, the housing structure defining a side surface of the mobile phone, a front cover coupled to the housing structure and defining a front surface of the mobile phone, a rear cover coupled to the housing structure and defining a rear surface of the mobile phone, a display positioned below the front cover, a first directional antenna defining a first radiation pattern extending through the front surface of the mobile phone, a second directional antenna defining a second radiation pattern extending through the rear surface of the mobile phone, and a third directional antenna defining a third radiation pattern extending through the side surface of the mobile phone.

This disclosure describes a speaker assembly suitable for use in a portable electronic device utilizing water resistant ports. The speaker assembly can have an open back that subjects a back volume of the speaker to pressure differentials within a device housing of the portable electronic device. The speaker assembly can utilize a speaker surround having a varying thickness. The varying thickness speaker surround allows the speaker to maintain an acceptable frequency response profile while limiting the travel of the diaphragm it is coupled with. The disclosure also describes how electrically conductive pathways can be integrated within a housing of the speaker assembly.

High performance low profile top speaker

An electronic device having several modifications designed to prevent liquid ingress into an opening (or openings) of the electronic device is disclosed. For example, the electronic device includes a SIM tray having a sealing element designed to provide a seal at an opening that receives the SIM tray. The sealing element may include a first section and a second section extending from the first section, with the first section designed to bend with respect to (and in some cases collapse onto) the second section. The electronic device may further include an audio module fitted with a sealing element. The sealing element may include extensions extending away from a main body of the sealing element, with some extension designed to engage the audio module, and other extensions designed to engage an audio module interface. The sealing element provides a seal against liquid ingress into the audio module.

Electronic device with liquid-resistant SIM tray and audio module

An electronic device having openings covered by a vent assembly is disclosed. The vent assembly may include multiple adhesive layers surrounding an air-permeable, liquid resistant membrane that allow air to flow into and/or out of the electronic device, while also preventing liquid ingress into the electronic device. The membrane may be supported by several structural elements. For example, the vent assembly includes an adhesive layer secured with the membrane, with the adhesive layer including a web region having multiple ribs that engage the membrane. Also, the vent assembly includes a mesh material that includes a porous region that receives a portion of the adhesive layer. Also, an additional vent assembly may cover an additional opening of the electronic device and provide protection for an operational component in the electronic device. The additional vent assembly may allow air into the additional opening for the operational component.

Venting features of a portable electronic device

An electronic device having liquid-resistant modifications that prevent liquid ingress into an opening (or openings) in an enclosure of the electronic device is disclosed. For example, the electronic device may include a coating formed from a liquid-resistant material that is applied internally to the enclosure. The electronic device may further include a frame that carries a protective transparent layer designed to cover a display assembly. In order to secure the frame with the enclosure, the electronic device may include an adhesive assembly disposed over an outer perimeter of the coating. The adhesive assembly may include several adhesive parts initially separate from one another. However, with the adhesive parts between the frame and the enclosure, the adhesive parts can be compressed by the frame and the enclosure, causing the adhesive parts to expand and engage each other. As a result, the coating and the adhesive parts provide a seal against liquid.

Liquid-resistant coating on an electronic device

A bushing is provided for a wire. The bushing includes a polymeric body that extends a length from an end to an opposite end. The body includes a pre-coiled shape wherein the body includes at least one coil defined between the ends. The body is biased to the pre-coiled shape and is flexible such that the body is configured to be at least partially unwound from the pre-coiled shape, against the bias, for wrapping the body around the wire. The body is resiliently unwindable from the pre-coiled shape such that the body is configured to at least partially return to the pre-coiled shape as the body is wrapped around the wire.

Wire bushing

A cable entry seal is provided for passing a cable through an opening within a structure. The cable entry seal includes a body extending a length. A passageway extends through the length of the body. The passageway is configured to receive the cable therethrough. The body includes a flange and a seal fitting extending outwardly from the flange along the length of the body. The seal fitting includes an exterior sealing surface. The cable entry seal includes a seal conduit having a sealing end surrounding and sealingly engaged with the exterior sealing surface of the seal fitting. The seal conduit is configured to surround the cable when the cable is received through the passageway of the body. The cable entry seal includes a lock ring connected to the body. The lock ring surrounds and sealingly engages with the sealing end of the seal conduit such that the sealing end is held between the exterior sealing surface of the seal fitting and the lock ring.

Cable entry seal for passing a cable through a structure

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

David A Hurrell