Apple Inc.

Cisco Technology, Inc.

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David Phillip Tarkington

Bartley K Andre

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Mikael M Silvanto

Houtan R Farahani

Ari P Miller

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Christopher J Stringer

Martha Evans Hankey

Daniele De Iuliis

Jody R Akana

Daniel J Coster

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Matthew William Blum

Stephen Vincent Jayanathan

Edward T Sweet

Derryk C Davis

Christine A Laliberte

Eric Andrew Knopf

Michelle Rae Goldberg

Joshua R Funamura

Torence Lu

Shawn Emory Bender

Stephen A Scearce

Peter N Jeziorek

William Jeffrey Lewis

Ming Chi Chen

Robert Arthur Loose

Phong Hoang Ho

Lwin O Tint

James Everett Grishaw

Helen Shtargot

Rene Duzac

Kimberly Rae Turner

Shin Nishibori

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Adam T Garelli

Jerzy S Guterman

Robert Sean Murphy

Simon S Lee

Anthony Nguyen

Tingjun Xu

Eric Lee Benson

James R Krogdahl

Jonathan M Haylock

Erik A Zweigle

Lauren M Farrell

Terri LaBelle Cruse

Dattatri N Mattur

Brian P Graves

Kwonil D Fleischman

Peter N Jezoirek

An electronic device can include a housing that at least partially defines an exterior surface and an internal volume of the electronic device, and a display assembly at least partially disposed in the internal volume. The display assembly can include a transparent cover that at least partially defines the exterior surface of the electronic device, a backlight unit disposed between the cover and the housing, a frame coupling the cover to the backlight unit, a portion of the frame at least partially defining an aperture, and an electronic component disposed in the internal volume and extending through the aperture.

Electronic device display assembly

An electronic device can include a housing at least partially defining an exterior surface and an internal volume of the electronic device, and an engagement feature affixed to the housing, the engagement feature including a shaft having a first diameter and a top portion having a second, larger diameter. A display component can be disposed in the internal volume and can define a retention feature including a first orifice having a diameter at least as large as the second diameter and a second orifice having a diameter less than the second diameter and at least as large as the first diameter, the first orifice intersecting the second orifice. The shaft can be disposed in the second orifice, and a securing component can be disposed between the display component and the housing.

Electronic device including a display assembly

Component of an electronic device

Battery

Examples of computing devices including a processor, memory, and a display device housed within the same enclosure are described. In examples, the display device, which may include a cover glass, may be attached to the enclosure using a multilayer adhesive member, the multilayer adhesive including a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer disposed on opposite sides of a foam layer. The first and/or second adhesive layers may include two or more layers of a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA), which may be separated using one or more adhesive carrier films. In examples, the first and/or second adhesive layers may include a low tack (e.g. removable) PSA for adhering to surfaces of the display and enclosure and for facilitation removal and re-workability of the adhesive joint.

Removable adhesive joint for computing device

Electronic devices may be provided with conductive structures such as displays and conductive housing walls. Conductive gaskets may be used to form electrical paths between opposing conductive structures in an electronic device. During device assembly, a conductive gasket may be compressed between opposing conductive structures. The conductive gasket may be formed from a conductive gasket wall structure. The conductive gasket wall structure may surround and at least partly enclose an air-filled cavity. Conductive gasket wall structures may be formed from conductive fabric, dielectric sheets coated with metal, or other conductive wall materials. The interior of a conductive gasket may be hollow and completely devoid of supporting structures or may contain internal structures for biasing the conductive gasket wall outwards. Planar gaskets and gaskets with other cross sections may be provided.

Conductive gaskets with internal cavities

Electronic devices may be provided with conductive structures such as displays and conductive housing walls. Conductive gaskets may be used to form electrical paths between opposing conductive structures in an electronic device. The conductive gaskets may be formed from conductive sheets of material such as conductive fabric sheets. The conductive fabric or other conductive sheets may form conductive gasket wall structures that extend around air-filled cavities in the conductive gaskets. A conductive gasket may have an elongated shape such as a tubular shape that is characterized by a longitudinal axis. The longitudinal axis may follow a straight path or a curved path. To facilitate bending of a hollow conductive gasket to follow a curved path, the wall structures of the gasket may be provided with openings. Cables may be held in place using flaps of gasket wall material and may run through interior portions of a hollow gasket.

Hollow conductive gaskets with curves and openings

Electronic device

An aesthetically pleasing small form factor desktop computer is described. The small form factor desktop computer can be formed of a single piece seamless housing that in the described embodiment is machined from a single billet of aluminum. In some embodiments, the housing includes a fastening system for securing and electrically grounding internal components to the housing. Fewer components and less time and effort can be required for assembly of the small form factor desktop computer and the absence of seams in the single piece housing can provide good protection against environmental contamination of internal components as well as EM shielding.

Devices and methods for attaching components to computer housings

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

David Phillip Tarkington