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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
James A. Wright, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Guangtao Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Raymund W. M. Kwok, Kowloon, HK;
Karl Ruben F. Larsson, Los Altos, CA (US);
Christopher S. Graham, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew D. Hill, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abhijeet Misra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An enclosure is formed by coupling an outer cover to a back enclosure piece. The enclosure defines an interior volume for receiving components of an electronic device. The back enclosure piece is formed from a metal frame component and a non-metal outer cover. A metal layer overlaps the metal frame component and the outer cover within the interior volume. The metal layer has a thickness that provides support and shatter resistance to the non-metal outer cover. The metal layer can form an inductor of a wireless power transfer circuit.