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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel W. Jarvis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Benjamin J. Pope, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jason S. Sloey, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan C. Denby, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Ian A. Spraggs, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shayan Malek, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
This application relates to securing and positioning internal components within a housing of a portable computing device. In one embodiment a cowling is utilized to retain a number of board-to-board connectors within communication slots on a printed circuit board (PCB). In another embodiment a number of insert molded retaining members are utilized to prevent outward deformation of sidewalls of the portable computing device during a drop event. In another embodiment, a C-shaped washer having diametrically opposed protrusions is utilized to adjust an alignment of an internal component.