Distributed loop speaker enclosure antenna

An electronic device, comprising:

• a metal housing having a plurality of speaker openings;
• a speaker enclosure that extends along a longitudinal axis, wherein the longitudinal axis has first and second opposing sides;
• and
• antenna structures having a loop antenna resonating element that surrounds the speaker enclosure, wherein the loop antenna resonating element has a first portion on the first side of the longitudinal axis and a second portion on the second side of the longitudinal axis, and wherein the speaker enclosure has openings aligned with the plurality of speaker openings in the metal housing and the loop antenna resonating element has a plurality of openings aligned with the plurality of speaker openings in the metal housing.

Apparatus, comprising:

• an elongated hollow plastic speaker enclosure that extends along a first longitudinal axis;
• a speaker driver within the hollow speaker enclosure;
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• metal structures on the hollow plastic speaker enclosure, wherein the metal structures are configured to form a distributed loop antenna having first and second loop antenna resonating elements, the first loop antenna resonating element indirectly feeds the second loop antenna resonating element using near-field electromagnetic coupling, the second loop antenna resonating element extends around the first longitudinal axis, and the first loop antenna resonating element extends around a second longitudinal axis that is substantially perpendicular to the first longitudinal axis.