US 12,093,359 B2
Electronic device having a sealed biometric input system
Timothy D. Koch, San Jose, CA (US); Dylan L. Magida, San Francisco, CA (US); Michael B. Wittenberg, San Francisco, CA (US); Henry H. Yang, Los Gatos, CA (US); Alvin T. Chang, San Francisco, CA (US); Steven C. Roach, San Francisco, CA (US); and Jared P. Ostdiek, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/471,031.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/209,769, filed on Jun. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/083,610, filed on Sep. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0100833 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. H04M 1/72 (2021.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06V 40/13 (2022.01); H04B 1/3827 (2015.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01); H04B 1/38 (2015.01)
CPC G06F 21/32 (2013.01) [G06F 1/1626 (2013.01); G06F 1/1656 (2013.01); G06V 40/13 (2022.01); H04B 1/3827 (2013.01); H04B 2001/3894 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable electronic device, comprising:
a housing member defining a side surface of the portable electronic device, a portion of the housing member defining a side wall of a hole extending through the housing member;
a button member positioned along the side surface and defining:
a chassis portion; and
a hollow post extending into the hole defined through the housing member;
a first waterproof seal defined between the hollow post and the side wall of the hole;
a biometric sensing component coupled to the chassis portion;
a flexible circuit element extending through the hollow post and conductively coupling the biometric sensing component to a component within the portable electronic device; and
a second waterproof seal defined within the hollow post.