Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic devices having antenna diversity capabilities
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Application No.: US15903733Application Date: 2018-02-23
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Publication No.: US10355344B1Publication Date: 2019-07-16
- Inventor: Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Dimitrios Papantonis , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Jayesh Nath , Jiaxiao Niu , Mario Martinis , Mattia Pascolini , Zheyu Wang
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent Michael H. Lyons
- Main IPC: H04B7/02
- IPC: H04B7/02 ; H04L1/02 ; H01Q1/27 ; H01Q13/10 ; H04B1/40 ; H04B1/3827 ; H04B17/318 ; H01Q1/22 ; H01Q1/24 ; H04B5/00

Abstract:
An electronic device such as a wristwatch may be provided with a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver, satellite receiver, and cellular transceiver. A first antenna may include a radiating slot between a conductive housing wall and a display module. A second antenna may include conductive structures that radiate through a rear face of the device. The WLAN transceiver and the satellite receiver may be coupled to the first antenna. A switch may be coupled between the cellular transceiver and the first and second antennas. Control circuitry may adjust the switch to route signals between the cellular transceiver and a selected one of the first and second antennas based on wireless performance metric data so that the antenna exhibiting superior wireless performance at cellular telephone frequencies is used for cellular telephone communications regardless of environmental conditions.
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