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公开(公告)号：US10965008B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-30
申请号：US16252311
申请日：2019-01-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Umar Azad , Harish Rajagopalan , Mattia Pascolini , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo
Abstract: An electronic device housing may have a rear housing wall that forms a metal ground plane. A slot may be formed in the metal ground plane. The slot may have one or more open ends along an edge of the ground plane. A near-field communications loop antenna may overlap the slot. The near-field communications loop antenna may have one or more turns. A current path through the metal ground plane may form one of the turns in the near-field communications loop antenna. The slot may form portions of non-near-field-communications antennas in addition to the near-field communications loop antenna. The slot in the non-near-field-communications antennas may be fed using an indirect antenna feed structure. Components such as a capacitor and inductor may help allow non-near-field communications antenna and the near-field communications antenna to be formed from common portions of the metal ground plane.
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公开(公告)号：US10854953B2
公开(公告)日：2020-12-01
申请号：US15717821
申请日：2017-09-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Pietro Romano , Umar Azad , Harish Rajagopalan , David Garrido Lopez , Lu Zhang , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may include a peripheral conductive housing sidewall with an integral ledge extending towards the device interior. A display cover layer may be supported by the integral ledge. A slot antenna may be formed from a slot in the integral ledge. The integral ledge may be mounted to a surface of a substrate and coupled to a conductive rear housing wall by a conductive layer extending over an additional surface of the substrate. The sidewall may include a vertical portion extending from the ledge to the rear wall. The slot antenna may be fed via near-field coupling using a conductive patch that is located within the slot at the surface of the substrate. The conductive layer, rear housing wall, and vertical portion may form a cavity for the slot antenna. The conductive layer may isolate the slot from interference with a battery, display circuitry, or other components.
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公开(公告)号：US10141626B2
公开(公告)日：2018-11-27
申请号：US14339366
申请日：2014-07-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Liquan Tan , Paul X. Wang , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Ryan P. Brooks , Umar Azad , Wing Kong Low
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes a radio-frequency transceiver circuit and an antenna. The antenna may be a patch antenna formed from a patch antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The patch antenna resonating element may be formed from a metal patch on a printed circuit board. The antenna ground may be formed from a metal housing having a planar rear wall that lies in a plane parallel to the metal patch. The radio-frequency transceiver circuit may be coupled to the metal patch through traces on the printed circuit and may be coupled to rear wall of the housing through a screw and a screw boss in the housing. Buttons and other electrical components may be mounted on the printed circuit board and may be coupled to control circuitry on the printed circuit board through the metal patch.
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公开(公告)号：US20160104944A1
公开(公告)日：2016-04-14
申请号：US14510724
申请日：2014-10-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Harish Rajagopalan , Huan-Chu Huang , Ke Sun , Qingxiang Li , Robert W. Schlub , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Umar Azad
CPC classification number: H01Q21/005 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q5/378 , H01Q9/045 , H01Q9/36 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q13/18 , H01Q21/30
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include cavity antennas. A cavity antenna may be formed from a metal antenna cavity and resonating element structures. The metal antenna cavity may be formed from metal traces on a dielectric carrier. The resonating element structures may include directly fed and indirectly fed slot antenna resonating elements and monopole antenna resonating elements. The metal antenna cavity may exhibit a resonance that is tuned using a transmission line tuning stub. Filters and duplexer circuits may be used in routing signals at different frequency bands among the antenna resonating elements.
Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有无线电路。 无线电路可以包括空腔天线。 空腔天线可以由金属天线腔和谐振元件结构形成。 金属天线腔可以由电介质载体上的金属迹线形成。 谐振元件结构可以包括直接馈送和间接馈送的缝隙天线谐振元件和单极天线谐振元件。 金属天线腔可以表现出使用传输线调谐短截线调谐的谐振。 滤波器和双工器电路可用于在天线谐振元件之间的不同频带的路由信号中。
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公开(公告)号：US20160028148A1
公开(公告)日：2016-01-28
申请号：US14339366
申请日：2014-07-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Liquan Tan , Paul X. Wang , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Ryan P. Brooks , Umar Azad , Wing Kong Low
CPC classification number: H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/44 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q9/0407
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes a radio-frequency transceiver circuit and an antenna. The antenna may be a patch antenna formed from a patch antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The patch antenna resonating element may be formed from a metal patch on a printed circuit board. The antenna ground may be formed from a metal housing having a planar rear wall that lies in a plane parallel to the metal patch. The radio-frequency transceiver circuit may be coupled to the metal patch through traces on the printed circuit and may be coupled to rear wall of the housing through a screw and a screw boss in the housing. Buttons and other electrical components may be mounted on the printed circuit board and may he coupled to control circuitry on the printed circuit board through the metal patch.
Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有包括射频收发器电路和天线的无线电路。 天线可以是由贴片天线谐振元件和天线接地形成的贴片天线。 贴片天线谐振元件可以由印刷电路板上的金属贴片形成。 天线接地可以由具有平面后壁的金属壳体形成，该平面后壁位于平行于金属贴片的平面中。 射频收发器电路可以通过印刷电路上的迹线耦合到金属贴片，并且可以通过壳体中的螺钉和螺钉凸起连接到壳体的后壁。 按钮和其他电气部件可以安装在印刷电路板上，并且可以通过金属贴片耦合到印刷电路板上的控制电路。
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公开(公告)号：US20200259258A1
公开(公告)日：2020-08-13
申请号：US16271617
申请日：2019-02-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mikal Askarian Amiri , Carlo di Nallo , David Garrido Lopez , Harish Rajagopalan , Nikolaj P. Kammersgaard , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Umar Azad
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with control circuitry and doublets of first and second antennas that are used to determine the position and orientation of the device relative to external wireless equipment. The control circuitry may determine the relative position and orientation of the external equipment by measuring the angle of arrival of radio-frequency signals from the external equipment. Each doublet may include first and second cavity-backed slot antennas. The first and second antennas may each include a first slot element that is directly fed and a second slot element that is parasitically fed by the first slot element. The first slot element may radiate in an ultra-wideband communications band at 8.0 GHz and the second slot element may radiate in an ultra-wideband communications band at 6.5 GHz. The doublet may be aligned with a dielectric window in a conductive sidewall for the device.
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公开(公告)号：US10290946B2
公开(公告)日：2019-05-14
申请号：US15274328
申请日：2016-09-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Pietro Romano , Harish Rajagopalan , Umar Azad , Lu Zhang , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H01Q5/30 , H01Q13/10 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q9/28 , H01Q9/04 , H01Q13/16 , H01Q13/18 , H01Q5/328 , H01Q5/385
Abstract: An electronic device may have a hybrid antenna that includes a slot resonating element formed from a slot in a ground plane and a planar resonating element formed over the slot. A parasitic element may be disposed over the planar element. A switch may couple the parasitic element to the ground. A tunable circuit may couple the planar element to the ground. The switch and tunable circuit may be placed in different tuning states. In a first state, the tunable circuit and switch form open circuits. In a second state, the tunable circuit may an open circuit and the switch is closed. In a third state, the tunable circuit forms a return path and the switch forms an open circuit. This may allow the antenna to operate with satisfactory efficiency in low, mid, and high bands despite volume constraints imposed on the antenna.
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公开(公告)号：US20180090847A1
公开(公告)日：2018-03-29
申请号：US15274328
申请日：2016-09-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Pietro Romano , Harish Rajagopalan , Umar Azad , Lu Zhang , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H01Q13/10 , H01Q1/241 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q5/328 , H01Q5/385 , H01Q9/0414 , H01Q9/285 , H01Q13/16 , H01Q13/18
Abstract: An electronic device may have a hybrid antenna that includes a slot resonating element formed from a slot in a ground plane and a planar resonating element formed over the slot. A parasitic element may be disposed over the planar element. A switch may couple the parasitic element to the ground. A tunable circuit may couple the planar element to the ground. The switch and tunable circuit may be placed in different tuning states. In a first state, the tunable circuit and switch form open circuits. In a second state, the tunable circuit may an open circuit and the switch is closed. In a third state, the tunable circuit forms a return path and the switch forms an open circuit. This may allow the antenna to operate with satisfactory efficiency in low, mid, and high bands despite volume constraints imposed on the antenna.
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公开(公告)号：US10686252B2
公开(公告)日：2020-06-16
申请号：US14306024
申请日：2014-06-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Siwen Yong , Qingxiang Li , Yi Jiang , Robert W. Schlub , Umar Azad , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Enrique Ayala Vazquez
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes a radio-frequency transceiver circuit and an antenna. The antenna may be a patch antenna formed from a patch antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The patch antenna resonating element may be formed from a metal patch on a printed circuit board. The antenna ground may be formed from a metal housing having a planar rear wall that lies in a plane parallel to the metal patch. The radio-frequency transceiver circuit may be coupled to the metal patch through traces on the printed circuit and may be coupled to rear wall of the housing through a screw and a screw boss in the housing. Buttons and other electrical components may be mounted on the printed circuit board and may be coupled to control circuitry on the printed circuit board through the metal patch.
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公开(公告)号：US10164679B1
公开(公告)日：2018-12-25
申请号：US15717367
申请日：2017-09-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Harish Rajagopalan , Umar Azad , Pietro Romano , David Garrido Lopez , Lu Zhang , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H04B1/44 , H04M1/02 , H04B1/3827 , H04B7/0413
Abstract: An electronic device may have conductive housing structures and first, second, third, and fourth slot antennas having respective first, second, third, and fourth slot elements in the conductive housing structures. The third slot element may be interposed between the first and second slot elements and the second slot element may be interposed between the third and fourth slot elements. Switching circuitry may be coupled between a transceiver and the slot elements. Control circuitry may control the switching circuitry to activate a selected pair of the slot antennas based on an orientation of the device or other data. The active pair of antennas may convey radio-frequency signals at the same frequencies using a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communications scheme. In this way, the device may perform wireless communications at relatively high data throughputs regardless of how the device is being held by a user.
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