Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enclosure with metal interior surface layer
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Application No.: US15581433Application Date: 2017-04-28
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Publication No.: US10327348B2Publication Date: 2019-06-18
- Inventor: James A. Wright , Guangtao Zhang , Raymund W. M. Kwok , Karl Ruben F. Larsson , Christopher S. Graham , Matthew D. Hill , Abhijeet Misra
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
- Main IPC: H05K5/04
- IPC: H05K5/04 ; H02J50/10 ; H01Q7/00 ; H05K5/03 ; G06F1/18 ; H04M1/02 ; H01Q1/38 ; H05K7/14

Abstract:
An enclosure is formed by coupling an outer cover to a back enclosure piece. The enclosure defines an interior volume for receiving components of an electronic device. The back enclosure piece is formed from a metal frame component and a non-metal outer cover. A metal layer overlaps the metal frame component and the outer cover within the interior volume. The metal layer has a thickness that provides support and shatter resistance to the non-metal outer cover. The metal layer can form an inductor of a wireless power transfer circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180103557A1 Enclosure with Metal Interior Surface Layer Public/Granted day:2018-04-12
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