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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2022
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jiahui Liang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew L. Doyle, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yingyi Wang, Jiangsu, CN;
Yu Song, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/02 (2006.01); H04R 1/08 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/023 (2013.01); H04R 1/086 (2013.01); H05K 5/0214 (2022.08); H05K 5/0215 (2022.08); H04R 2499/11 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture, a membrane extending across the aperture, and a non-metallic woven support mesh disposed parallel to the flexible membrane and extending across the aperture. In at least one example, the membrane is acoustically transparent and the membrane is air permeable and water impermeable. In addition, the support mesh can be less flexible than the membrane such that the support mesh structurally supports the membrane.