Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Antenna arrays having surface wave interference mitigation structures
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Application No.: US15710361Application Date: 2017-09-20
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Publication No.: US10553945B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Siwen Yong , Yi Jiang , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Mattia Pascolini
- 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 Joseph F. Guihan
- Main IPC: H01Q3/34
- IPC: H01Q3/34 ; H01Q21/06 ; H01Q1/24 ; H01Q3/26 ; H01Q1/38 ; H01Q1/22 ; H01Q1/42

Abstract:
An electronic device may be provided with wireless communications circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include centimeter and millimeter wave transceiver circuitry and a phased antenna array. A dielectric cover may be formed over the phased antenna array. The phased antenna array may transmit and receive antenna signals through the dielectric cover. The dielectric cover may have a surface that faces the phased antenna array and may have a curvature. The antenna elements of the phased antenna array may be formed on a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate may have one or more thinned regions between antenna elements of the phased antenna array to reduce surface wave interference between adjacent antennas. The dielectric substrate may have a smaller thickness in the thinned region than in the regions under the antenna elements. The dielectric substrate may be totally removed in the thinned region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190089053A1 Antenna Arrays Having Surface Wave Interference Mitigation Structures Public/Granted day:2019-03-21
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