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Kodiak D Burke

Benjamin J Pope

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Benjamin J Kallman

Benjamin Shane Bustle

Michael K Mondry

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

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

Sung-Ho Tan

John J Baker

Tyler B Cater

Rasamy Phouthavong

David A Pakula

Daniel William Jarvis

Matthew D Hill

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Ian A Spraggs

Lee E Hooton

Marwan Rammah

Nicholas George Merz

Hao Zhu

Richard Hung Dinh

Richard H Koch

Zhipeng Zhang

Yaocheng Zhang

Kevin M Froese

Paul U Leutheuser

Michael W Firka

Nicholas R Trincia

Eric W Bates

Trent J Canales

Benjamin A Stevenson

Matthew P Rao

Jun Sik Ham

Christopher J Durning

Clayton J McCoy

Linda D Benavente-Notaro

Jonathan M Lee

Xiao Ying Zhao

Hugh J Jay

Christopher R Xydis

Donald L Olmstead

Donald J Parr

Luman Zhang

Timothy Wallen Scales

Laura M Burke

Griffin L Schmitt

Ekaterina Pease

Jack Pickup

Matthew W Miller

Allegra Shum

William H Chui

A portable electronic device may include a housing member, a rear cover coupled to the housing member, and a top module coupled to the housing member and including a front cover defining an exterior surface and an interior surface opposite to the exterior surface, a display stack attached to the interior surface of the front cover and comprising a flexible circuit element extending from a side of the display stack, a frame member attached to the interior surface of the front cover and extending at least partially around a periphery of the display stack, and an encapsulating structure positioned between the frame member and the display stack and at least partially encapsulating a portion of a peripheral side of the display stack and the flexible circuit element. The encapsulating structure may cover at least a portion of a bottom side of the display stack.

Handheld electronic device

An electronic device including a housing defining an aperture, a display component positioned in the aperture, and a filler material at least partially surrounding a periphery of the display component. The filler material can contact the display component and a portion of the housing defining the aperture.

Mobile display encapsulation to improve robustness and water resistance

Display for an 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.

An enclosure may be provided with a housing. The housing may have an opening that separates and joins along a seam. A magnetic closure may have a pair of mating flexible magnetic members such as flexible rings or strips that run along the seam. Magnetic-field shunts may be provided in the flexible magnetic members. Multiple magnetic elements may be formed along the length of each magnetic member to form a multipole permanent magnet. Magnetic attraction may be varied along the lengths of the magnetic members and may be varied as a function of the separation between opposing magnet members. A magnetic clasp may be provided on the housing. The magnetic clasp may have attracting magnets to help close the opening in the housing. Protruding clasp portions may be formed from flexible material and may have embedded magnets configured to repel each other to facilitate use of the clasp.

Enclosures with flexible magnetic closures and clasps

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Kodiak D Burke