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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Mikael M. Silvanto, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simon J. Trivett, Waterloo, CA;
Matthew S. Theobald, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dinesh C. Mathew, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Y. Cao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ari P. Miller, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin M. Robinson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Houtan R. Farahani, Cupertino, CA (US);
Francesco Ferretti, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
John Raff, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Robert J. Lockwood, San Carlos, CA (US);
Genie Kim, Sejong, KR;
Karan Bir, Bangalore, IN;
Keith J. Hendren, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gurshan Deol, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Antonio Clarke, Cupertino, CA (US);
Prabhu Sathyamurthy, Austin, TX (US);
William A. Counts, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device includes an enclosure formed of a plurality of layers cooperating to define an interior volume. The enclosure includes a first layer formed of a first material and defining a user input surface of the enclosure and a first portion of a side surface of the enclosure. The enclosure also includes a second layer, formed of a second material different from the first material, positioned below the first layer and defining a second portion of the side surface of the enclosure. The enclosure also includes a third layer, formed of a third material different from the first and second materials, positioned below the second layer and defining a bottom surface of the enclosure and a third portion of the side surface of the enclosure.