Apple Inc.

Griffin L Schmitt

Matthew D Hill

Benjamin J Pope

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

John J Baker

Benjamin Shane Bustle

Zhipeng Zhang

Kevin M Froese

Michael W Firka

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Daniel William Jarvis

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Marwan Rammah

Nicholas George Merz

Benjamin J Kallman

Tyler B Cater

Gregory N Stephens

Douglas G Fournier

Yaocheng Zhang

Paul U Leutheuser

Eric W Bates

David A Hurrell

Trent J Canales

Matthew P Rao

Jun Sik Ham

Isabel Yang

Hugh J Jay

Jaden A Barney

Xiao Ying Zhao

Christopher R Xydis

Donald J Parr

Arun R Varma

Luman Zhang

Sherry Lee

Kodiak D Burke

Jason M Gillier

Michael K Mondry

Matthew W Miller

Allegra Shum

Jiachen Xu

Yi Xu

Nan Li

Robert Hrabchak

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 portable electronic device may include a touch-sensitive display, a housing at least partially enclosing the touch-sensitive display, the housing defining an audio port along a side of the housing, the audio port defining a partially enclosed volume, and an acoustic module positioned within the housing and including an audio enclosure defining a first passage and a second passage, a microphone operably coupled to the partially enclosed volume of the audio port by the first passage, a pressure sensor operably coupled to the partially enclosed volume of the audio port by the second passage, and an acoustic mesh positioned between an end of the second passage and the audio port.

Acoustic module for handheld electronic device

A portable electronic device includes a housing member defining a first portion of an exterior front surface of the portable electronic device, a first portion of an exterior rear surface of the portable electronic device, at least a portion of an exterior side surface of the portable electronic device, a recess along an interior side of the housing member, and a ledge feature along the interior side of the housing member. The device also includes a top module coupled to the housing member and including a front cover defining a second portion of the exterior front surface of the portable electronic device, a display stack attached to the front cover, and a frame member extending at least partially around a periphery of the display stack and set apart from a surface of the recess by a gap.

A shield assembly can enclose an electronic component in a chamber of a mobile communication device. The shield assembly can include a chassis having a slot and a conductive rail adjacent to the slot. A covering can be mounted over the electronic component and coupled to the chassis via a spring contact disposed in the slot. The covering can include a shield element configured to cover a chamber enclosing the electronic component. The covering can further include a first tab connected to the shield element, and a second tab connected to the shield element and spaced apart from the first tab by a gap. A spring contact can be disposed in the gap and electrically connected to the shield element via at least one of the first tab and the second tab.

Shield assembly for an electronic component

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Griffin L Schmitt