Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic device with millimeter wave antennas
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Application No.: US15097868Application Date: 2016-04-13
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Publication No.: US09667290B2Publication Date: 2017-05-30
- Inventor: Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
- 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: H04M1/00
- IPC: H04M1/00 ; H04B1/10 ; H01Q1/22 ; H01Q1/24 ; H01Q21/00 ; H01Q21/06 ; H01Q21/28

Abstract:
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include phased antenna arrays each of which includes multiple antenna elements. Phased antenna arrays may be mounted along edges of a housing for the electronic device, behind a dielectric window such as a dielectric logo window in the housing, in alignment with dielectric housing portions at corners of the housing, or elsewhere in the electronic device. A phased antenna array may include arrays of patch antenna elements on dielectric layers separated by a ground layer. A baseband processor may distribute wireless signals to the phased antenna arrays at intermediate frequencies over intermediate frequency signal paths. Transceiver circuits at the phased antenna arrays may include upconverters and downconverters coupled to the intermediate frequency signal paths.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160308563A1 Electronic Device With Millimeter Wave Antennas Public/Granted day:2016-10-20
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