Apple Inc.

Laura M Burke

David A Pakula

Daniel William Jarvis

Ian A Spraggs

Marwan Rammah

Nicholas George Merz

Richard H Koch

Jonathan M Lee

Ekaterina Pease

Lee E Hooton

Mattia Pascolini

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Enrique Ayala Vazquez

Hongfei Hu

Simon Christopher Helmore

Carlo Di Nallo

Erdinc Irci

Benjamin Shane Bustle

Salih Yarga

Michael D Quinones

Rasamy Phouthavong

Ming Chen

Melissa A Wah

Stoyan P Hristov

David J Dunsmoor

Christopher S Tomasetta

Yuancheng Xu

Jason B Neevel

Jared P Ostdiek

Kodiak D Burke

Jason M Gillier

Haozhan Tian

Tiejun Yu

Jesse P Harris

Bhaskara R Rupakula

Gareth L Rose

Jacob Barton

Baris Ozgen

Ethan R Stobbe

Cameron Bauer

Samuel J Pliska

Macey E Dade

Matthew R McGuire

Seyed Mohammad Amjadi

Brandon R Collins-Smoot

Anthony B Sinclair

Nawaf Al-Baghly

Mitchell T Hoertz

Zachary S Scott

Samruddhi A Deshpande

Ahmed Ali Abdelhaliem Nafe

Woonyong Bae

Joel Ravi

An electronic device may be provided with sidewalls and a conductive plate. A segment of the sidewalls may form a radiating arm of an antenna. A display may be mounted to the sidewalls. The display may include a conductive frame and a flexible printed circuit. The flexible circuit may have a bend. Conductive foam may short a conductive trace on the flexible circuit to the conductive frame near the bend. Low injection pressure overmolding (LIPO) may be molded over the flexible circuit, the foam, and the frame. A conductive spring may short the frame to the conductive plate. The spring may include a wider and/or thinner portion that optionally includes one or more notches for reducing its inductance. The conductive plate, the spring, the frame, the foam, and the conductive trace may form part of the antenna ground for the antenna.

Electronic device antennas with narrow border display

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 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.

A portable electronic device includes a housing, a front cover defining a front side of the portable electronic device, a display stack below the front cover and comprising a plurality of display layers configured to produce a graphical output in a display region of the display stack, the graphical output visible through the front cover, and a light sensor module positioned at least partially within the housing and coupled to the display stack in the display region. The light sensor module may be configured to receive ambient light passing through the front cover and through the plurality of display layers and, while a blanking interval is positioned over the light sensor module, produce an output corresponding to the received ambient light, the portable electronic device configured to determine an ambient light value based at least in part on the output from the light sensor module.

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Laura M Burke