Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic device with slot antenna and proximity sensor
- Patent Title (中): 具有插槽天线和接近传感器的电子设备
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Application No.: US14221133Application Date: 2014-03-20
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Publication No.: US09559425B2Publication Date: 2017-01-31
- Inventor: Jiang Zhu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Qingxiang Li
- 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 G. Victor Treyz; Michael H. Lyons
- Main IPC: H01Q13/10
- IPC: H01Q13/10 ; G01V3/00 ; H01Q1/22 ; H01Q1/24 ; G06F1/16

Abstract:
An electronic device may be provided with slot antennas. A slot antenna may be formed from metal structures that have a dielectric gap defining an antenna slot. The metal structures may include multiple metal layers that overlap a plastic antenna window and that serve as capacitive electrodes in a capacitive proximity sensor. The metal structures may also include a metal electronic device housing. The metal electronic device housing and the metal layers may be formed on opposing sides of the antenna slot. The metal layers may have a notch that locally widens the antenna slot at an open end of the antenna slot. One of the metal layers may be shorted to the metal electronic device housing at an opposing closed end of the antenna slot. The antenna slot may be indirectly fed using a near-field-coupled antenna feed structure such as a metal patch that overlaps the antenna slot.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150270619A1 Electronic Device With Slot Antenna and Proximity Sensor Public/Granted day:2015-09-24
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