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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Erik A. Uttermann, Cupertino, CA (US);
John Raff, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Melody L. Kuna, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jason S. Keats, Castro Valley, CA (US);
G. Kyle Lobisser, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
John R. Kamorowski, Campbell, CA (US);
Oliver C. Ross, San Francisco, CA (US);
Guangtao Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Santhana Krishnan Balaji, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jiang Ai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Scritzky, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stephen R. McClure, Belmont, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable electronic device, having a single piece housing to carry operational components having a front opening, an integral bottom and sidewalls that cooperate to form a cavity in cooperation with the front opening. The operational components can include a display to present visual content disposed within the front opening and having an outermost protective layer, a main logic board that extends along a central portion of the cavity having a size and shape that bisects the cavity into a first portion and a second portion each having substantially the same size and shape, a power storage system supported at the bottom wall and comprising a first power storage unit located in the first portion and second power storage unit located in the second portion, each being coupled to the main logic board, and self-contained audio components positioned at each corner of the single piece housing.