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Gareth L Rose

Daniel William Jarvis

Ian A Spraggs

David A Pakula

Simon Christopher Helmore

Marwan Rammah

Nicholas George Merz

Michael D Quinones

Melissa A Wah

Jonathan M Lee

Jacob Barton

Mattia Pascolini

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Harish Rajagopalan

Hao Xu

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Benjamin Shane Bustle

Salih Yarga

Joshua G Nickel

Rasamy Phouthavong

Richard H Koch

Robert F Meyer

Stoyan P Hristov

David J Dunsmoor

Jason P Shannon

Jon F Housour

Owen D Hale

Jesse P Harris

Bhaskara R Rupakula

Jason M Gillier

Laura M Burke

Javier Gomez Tagle

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Xuyang Zhang

Baris Ozgen

Jiechen Wu

Soroush Akbarzadeh

Ekaterina Pease

Thomas W Yang

Matthew R McGuire

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Samuel J Pliska

Cameron Bauer

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Brandon R Collins-Smoot

Zachary S Scott

Samruddhi A Deshpande

Benjamin Morse

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Nawaf Al-Baghly

Anthony B Sinclair

Sunitha Seshadri

Matthew R Mcguire

A portable electronic device may include a housing having a wall defining an opening in the housing and at least a portion of four side surfaces of the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device may further include a display at least partially within the housing, a front cover positioned in the opening in the housing and over the display, the front cover defining a front surface, a peripheral side surface extending from the front surface and at least partially surrounded by the wall of the housing, and a notch that, together with a portion of the wall of the housing, defines an acoustic port of the portable electronic device. The electronic device may further include an acoustic port cover positioned at least partially in the acoustic port and a speaker at least partially within the housing and configured to direct sound through the acoustic port cover.

Handheld electronic device

A portable electronic device includes a housing, a sensor array including a first camera module having a first field of view, a second camera module having a second field of view different from the first field of view, and a light source, and a rear cover formed from a glass material and defining a raised sensor array region positioned over the sensor array. The raised sensor array region defines a first hole extending through the rear cover and positioned proximate a first corner region of the raised sensor array region, and a second hole extending through the rear cover and positioned proximate a second corner region diagonal from the first corner region. The first camera module includes a first camera housing defining a recess at a corner of the first camera housing, and the second camera module includes a second camera housing extending into the recess.

A radio frequency system package may include waveguides and loading blocks. The loading blocks may include dielectric material having a high dielectric constant between 13 and 20. Additionally, the loading blocks may be made of mold, epoxy, or the like material, and the loading blocks may fit into a region cut out of the waveguides. Moreover, the loading blocks may lower the cut-off frequency for wireless communication otherwise provided by the waveguides without the loading blocks (e.g., 28 GHz). In particular, the loading blocks may facilitate communication in low mmWave frequencies, such as 24 GHz.

Loading blocks for antennas in system packaging

An electronic device may have peripheral conductive housing structures divided into first and second segments. First and second antennas may be formed from the segments and may be fed using a flexible printed circuit structure. The structure may include a first substrate attached to the first segment, a second substrate soldered to the first substrate and attached to the second segment, and a third substrate soldered to the second substrate. Third and fourth antennas may be formed on the first substrate whereas fifth and sixth antennas are be formed on the second substrate. The second substrate may be folded and may have a lateral area oriented perpendicular to the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth antennas. Modularly forming the structure in this way may maximize the flexibility with which the structure can accommodate other components, thereby minimizing the space consumption associated with mounting and feeding the antennas without sacrificing wireless performance.

Flexible printed circuit structures for electronic device antennas

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