Apple Inc.

Sherry Lee

Benjamin J Pope

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Matthew D Hill

Arun R Varma

Mattia Pascolini

Tang Yew Tan

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Christopher S Graham

Enrique Ayala Vazquez

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Hongfei Hu

Shayan Malek

Nanbo Jin

John J Baker

Erdinc Irci

Salih Yarga

Gregory N Stephens

Christopher T Cheng

Karl Ruben F Larsson

Douglas G Fournier

Eric N Nyland

Erica J Tong

Ihtesham H Chowdhury

Aaron Albert Oro

Michael W Firka

David A Hurrell

Christopher J Durning

Isabel Yang

Devon A Monaco

Grant S Haug

Kurtis J Mundell

Nicholas W Ruhter

Bryan D Keen

James W Bilanski

Salome Bavetta

David A Karol

Griffin L Schmitt

Sean M Gordoni

Abhishek Choudhury

Daniel J Morizio

Denis J Lin

Yaodong Wang

Robert Hrabchak

Obinna Onyemepu

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 includes a housing defining an internal volume and a circuit board assembly within the internal volume. The circuit board assembly includes a first circuit board, a wall structure soldered to the first circuit board, and a second circuit board soldered to the wall structure and supported above the first circuit board by the wall structure. The second circuit board defines an exterior top surface of the circuit board assembly. A processor is coupled to the first circuit board and positioned within an internal volume defined between the first circuit board and the second circuit board and at least partially surrounded by the wall structure. A memory module is coupled to the exterior top surface of the circuit board assembly.

Embodiments describe a portable electronic device that includes a housing having an interface surface and an inductor coil disposed within the housing and comprising a conductive wire wound in a plurality of turns about a center point and in increasing radii such that the inductor coil is substantially planar. The portable electronic device further includes charging circuitry coupled to the inductor coil and configured to operate the inductor coil to wirelessly receive power and wirelessly transmit power, control circuitry coupled to the charging circuitry and configured to instruct the charging circuitry to operate the inductor coil to wirelessly receive power and to wirelessly transmit power, and a device detection coil coupled to the control circuitry and configured to detect the presence of an external device on the charging surface, the device detection coil is configured to operate at a different frequency from the inductor coil.

Wireless charging systems for electronic devices

Battery for an electronic device

A consumer electronic product includes a switchable inductor array coupled to the RF antenna, the switchable inductor array comprising inductive elements and a switch circuit coupled to the inductor array to select at least one of the inductive elements and couple the selected inductive element with the RF antenna. The product can further include an assembly having a mesh that is strengthened by a stiffener. A multi-layer adhesive have a conductive layer that can be used to shield the RF antenna and adhesive layers that can provide adhesion between the stiffener and the housing of the product. The assembly can be covered by a cowling that is made of metal to provide further shielding. To reduce potential coupling between the RF antenna and the cowling, the cowling can have a portion that is formed of plastic to distance its metal portion from the antenna.

Switched antenna assembly

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