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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Richard H. Koch, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Lee, Fremont, CA (US);
Laura M. Burke, San Jose, CA (US);
Ekaterina Pease, Sausalito, CA (US);
Nicholas Merz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel Jarvis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ian A. Spraggs, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lee E. Hooton, Massapequa, NY (US);
Kodiak D. Burke, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David A. Pakula, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marwan Rammah, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable electronic device may include a housing member, a rear cover coupled to the housing member, and a top module coupled to the housing member and including a front cover defining an exterior surface and an interior surface opposite to the exterior surface, a display stack attached to the interior surface of the front cover and comprising a flexible circuit element extending from a side of the display stack, a frame member attached to the interior surface of the front cover and extending at least partially around a periphery of the display stack, and an encapsulating structure positioned between the frame member and the display stack and at least partially encapsulating a portion of a peripheral side of the display stack and the flexible circuit element. The encapsulating structure may cover at least a portion of a bottom side of the display stack.