US 12,262,161 B2
Electronic device port
Jiahui Liang, San Francisco, CA (US); Andrew L. Doyle, San Francisco, CA (US); Yingyi Wang, Jiangsu (CN); and Yu Song, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/809,556.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/267,374, filed on Jan. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0247336 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/02 (2006.01); H04R 1/08 (2006.01); H05K 5/02 (2006.01)
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)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a housing defining an aperture;
a membrane extending across the aperture; and
a non-metallic woven support mesh disposed parallel to the membrane and extending across the aperture;
wherein:
the support mesh defines a plurality of perforations; and
a micro-texture feature disposed on a surface of the support mesh facing the membrane, the micro-texture feature disposed between adjacent perforations of the plurality of perforations and within the aperture.