Apple Inc.

Melody L Kuna

Carli E Oster

Florence W Ow

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Alex Chun Lap Yeung

Carlo Catalano

Mikael M Silvanto

Markus Peter Diebel

Lee B Hamstra

Devin M Williams

Ross M Errett

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Molly J Anderson

Clement Tissandier

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Kristina A Babiarz

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Martha Evans Hankey

Sung-Ho Tan

Samuel Gilkison Smith

Siddhartha Hegde

Daniel J Coster

Sean S Corbin

Robert Sean Murphy

Benjamin A Cousins

Joel N Ruscher

Taylor Harrison Gilbert

Benjamin Adair Cousins

Alex Chung Lap Yeung

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Hao Zhu

Ryan J Mihelich

Oliver Ross

Guangtao Zhang

Thomas O Henry

Kellen M Asercion

Justin R Heckman

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

John Raff

Stephen Robert McClure

Kurt R Stiehl

Yang Zhou

James Alexander Stryker

Sean Murphy

Kirk M Mayer

Ming Yu

G Kyle Lobisser

Thomas R Matzinger

Christopher T Lebedeff

Travis C Pedley

Jaime G Chavez Ruiz Garza

Jason S Keats

Christopher J Stringer

M Evans Hankey

Brett W Degner

Dale R Setlak

Rico Zörkendörfer

John M Brock

David H Narajowski

Thomas W Wilson, Jr

Jiang Ai

Andrew W Joyce

Robert Scritzky

Kevin M Kenney

Santhana Krishnan Balaji

David Garrido Lopez

Pablo Seoane Vieites

Forhad Hasnat

Sunita Venkatesh

Stuart M Nevill

Nicholas A Renda

Lindsay D Corbet

Andrew Deng

Ran Xu

Erik A Utterman

David R Cramer

Alexander P Niemeyer

Wang Chung Alston Cheung

Robert J Durand

Jordi Antoni Garcia Selva

Russell K Williams

Colden N Eldridge

Brandon Z Frank

Matthew J Wilander

Kellen M Atom

Chen Wang

Stephanie L Ternullo

Suvrat Lele

Housing module for an electronic device

An electronic device may include a display, a housing member at least partially surrounding the display and including a first segment defining a first portion of an exterior surface of the electronic device, a second segment defining a second portion of the exterior surface of the electronic device and configured to function as an antenna, and a bridge segment structurally and conductively coupling the first segment to the second segment. The electronic device may also include a molded element positioned between the first segment and the second segment and defining a third portion of the exterior surface of the electronic device.

Electronic device housing with integrated antenna

An electronic device includes a display, and a housing at least partially surrounding the display and comprising a first housing member defining a first portion of an exterior surface of the electronic device and a second housing member defining a second portion of the exterior surface of the electronic device and configured to function as an antenna. The electronic device also includes a joining structure positioned between the first housing member and the second housing member including a reinforcement plate and a molded element at least partially encapsulating the reinforcement plate and engaged with the first housing member and the second housing member, thereby retaining the first housing member to the second housing member.

A portable electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The display and the housing can define an internal volume and a speaker assembly can be positioned in the internal volume. The speaker assembly can include a speaker enclosure sealed to the housing within the internal volume, the speaker enclosure and the housing defining a speaker volume, and a speaker module in fluid communication with the speaker volume, the speaker module including a diaphragm positioned at an aperture defined by the speaker volume, the diaphragm defining multiple ridges.

Portable electronic device

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device may include an enclosure and a transparent cover. The electronic device may include a display assembly. The electronic device may further include an inductive charging unit designed to inductively charge a stylus, or other object suitable for use with the display assembly. The electronic device may further include audio modules, at least some of which are designed to cause resonation of the enclosure to produce acoustical energy in the form of audible sound. Some audio modules produce acoustical energy in relatively low frequencies, while other audio modules produce acoustical energy in relatively high frequencies. The electronic device may further include a vision system designed for facial recognition. The display assembly may include a metal chassis as well as antennae for wireless communication. In order to prevent antennae interference, the metal chassis can be electrically grounded to the enclosure.

Battery for an electronic device

Display for an electronic device

An electronic device such as a cover for a portable device or other electronic equipment may have circuitry mounted in a housing. The housing may be formed from layers of material such as fabric and polymer layers. The circuitry of the electronic device may include components mounted on a printed circuit. The components may include movable components such as keys in a keyboard. A fabric layer may overlap the keys. Border regions of the fabric layer that surround each key may be characterized by a stiffness. To ensure that the keys or other movable components in the device exhibit satisfactory stiffness levels, the keys can be tested and selected border regions or other fabric layer portions may be laser ablated or otherwise processed to locally reduce fabric layer stiffness.

Laser processing of fabric for electronic devices

Electronic devices and accessory devices for electronic devices are described. In some instances, an accessory device includes a keyboard and a cover rotatable with respect to the keyboard. In some instances, an accessory device includes a back panel and a foldable cover rotatable with respect to the back panel. These accessory devices may include several magnetic elements designed to magnetically couple with, and retain, an electronic device without any additional mechanical or other interlocking devices. In this regard, the magnetic elements in the accessory devices provide an external magnetic field sufficiently strong enough to retain the electronic device, and can counter gravitational forces and/or the weight of the electronic device. However, some accessory devices include additional magnetic elements that provide an external magnetic field that repels magnetic elements in the electronic device. Also, the magnetic elements may also be used to hold different sections of the accessory device together.

Accessory device for an electronic device

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Melody L Kuna