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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2017
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Nikolas T. Vitt, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David M. Pelletier, Cupertino, CA (US);
Miodrag Pejin, Campbell, CA (US);
Christopher Wilk, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Mark A. Murphy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brad G. Boozer, Saratoga, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
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.