Apple Inc.

Mark A Murphy

Brad G Boozer

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Molly J Anderson

Christopher Matthew Werner

Christopher R Wilk

Maegan K Spencer

Ryan C Perkins

Nikolas T Vitt

David M Pelletier

James G Horiuchi

Sherry Tang

Amin M Younes

Eugene H Fox

Baris Ozgen

Miodrag Pejin

This application relates to a portable electronic device including a first sensing module and a second sensing module that are both in communication with a processor. The portable electronic device can include access ports that are formed in the housing, where the first and second sensing modules are capable of receiving an external stimulus by way of the access ports. A plate is positioned in the housing between a wall of the housing and the sensing modules. The plate and the wall define non-linear flow paths between the access ports to the first and second sensing modules. The non-linear flow paths can transmit the external stimulus to cause at least one of the first or second sensing modules to provide a detection signal to the processor that causes a display unit to present a notification that corresponds to the external stimulus.

Internal architecture of a portable electronic device having ports that are offset from electronic modules

An electronic device includes a housing having an opening comprising an audio port and a speaker assembly carried by the device housing. The speaker assembly includes a water ejection system having a diaphragm coupled to a magnetic driver and a mesh that covers the audio port where the diaphragm and the mesh together define an acoustic volume. When a water ejection signal is received at the magnetic driver, the magnetic driver is caused to move the diaphragm in a manner that ejects water contained within the acoustic volume out of the acoustic volume and through the mesh.

Speaker module architecture

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Mark A Murphy