Patent ID: 11902729
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a housing having an exterior surface and an aperture; and
an acoustically porous cover at least partially covering the exterior surface of the housing, wherein the acoustically porous cover conceals the aperture of the housing, wherein:
the exterior surface of the housing includes a sealing area surrounding but not including the aperture,
the acoustically porous cover is affixed to the exterior surface of the housing at the sealing area via an adhesive, and
the adhesive covers the sealing area and permeates a portion of an entire thickness of the acoustically porous cover above the sealing area forming a controlled sound path through the portion of the entire thickness of the acoustically porous cover surrounded by the adhesive and into the aperture.