Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic devices with hybrid antennas
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Application No.: US14260800Application Date: 2014-04-24
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Publication No.: US09728858B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Jiang Zhu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Qingxiang Li , Robert W. Schlub , Hongfei Hu
- 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; Tianyi He
- Main IPC: H01Q1/24
- IPC: H01Q1/24 ; H01Q13/10 ; H01Q1/22 ; H01Q9/04 ; H01Q21/28

Abstract:
An electronic device may be provided with hybrid planar inverted-F slot antennas and indirectly fed slot antennas. A hybrid antenna may be used to form a dual band wireless local area network antenna. An indirectly fed slot antenna may be use to form a cellular telephone antenna. Antenna slots may be formed in a metal electronic device housing wall. The housing wall may have a planar rear portion and sidewall portions that extend upwards from the planar rear portion. The slots may have one or more bends. A hybrid antenna may have a slot antenna portion and a planar inverted-F antenna portion. The planar inverted-F antenna portion may have a metal resonating element patch that is supported by a support structure. The support structure may be a plastic speaker box containing a speaker driver that is not overlapped by the metal resonating element patch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150311594A1 Electronic Devices With Hybrid Antennas Public/Granted day:2015-10-29
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