US 11,689,834 B2
Portable electronic device
Carli E. Oster, San Francisco, CA (US); Colden N. Eldridge, San Francisco, CA (US); Russell K. Williams, Sunnyvale, CA (US); David Garrido Lopez, San Jose, CA (US); Forhad Hasnat, Cupertino, CA (US); Alexander P. Niemeyer, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Brandon Z. Frank, San Francisco, CA (US); Melody L. Kuna, San Jose, CA (US); Matthew J. Wilander, Chester, MA (US); Jordi A. Garcia Selva, San Jose, CA (US); Stuart M. Nevill, Los Gatos, CA (US); and Carlo Catalano, Capitola, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/20,631.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/004,191, filed on Apr. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0314685 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/02 (2006.01); H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); H04R 1/02 (2006.01); H01Q 1/38 (2006.01); H01Q 1/44 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01); H04R 1/28 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); G06V 40/13 (2022.01)
CPC H04R 1/02 (2013.01) [G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06V 40/1306 (2022.01); G06V 40/1318 (2022.01); G06V 40/1329 (2022.01); H01Q 1/243 (2013.01); H01Q 1/38 (2013.01); H01Q 1/44 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0407 (2013.01); H04R 1/2803 (2013.01); H05K 5/0217 (2013.01); H05K 2201/10151 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a housing comprising a first housing segment defining a recess, and a second housing segment;
antenna circuitry electrically connected to an electrical ground through a conductive path; and
an insert disposed in the recess, the insert electrically coupling the conductive path to the first housing segment.