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公开(公告)号:US10305172B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-28
申请号:US15952115
申请日:2018-04-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Basim H. Noori , Boon W. Shiu , Kevin M. Marks , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Ruben Caballero , Yuehui Ouyang , Khan Salam
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antennas may be formed from metal traces on a printed circuit. The printed circuit may be a stacked printed circuit including multiple stacked substrates. Metal traces may form an array of patch antennas, Yagi antennas, and other antennas. Antenna signals associated with the antennas may pass through an inactive area in a display and through a dielectric-filled slot in a metal housing for the electronic device. Waveguide structures may be used to guide antenna signals within interior portions of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US10270174B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-23
申请号:US15659503
申请日:2017-07-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Simone Paulotto , Basim H. Noori , Matthew A. Mow
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antenna may include an antenna ground and a resonating element. The resonating element may include a cross-shaped patch having arms extending along different longitudinal axes, conductive landing pads interposed between the cross-shaped patch and the antenna ground, and vertical conductive legs extending between each of the arms and corresponding landing pads. The antenna may be fed using a first antenna feed coupled between a first of the landing pads and the antenna ground and a second antenna feed coupled between a second of the landing pads and the antenna ground. The landing pads, antenna ground, and cross-shaped patch may be formed from conductive traces on different layers of a dielectric substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20190027802A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-24
申请号:US15655727
申请日:2017-07-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Basim H. Noori , Matthew A. Mow , Simone Paulotto , Khan M. Salam
CPC classification number: H01P3/081 , H01P3/006 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q3/30 , H01Q5/378 , H01Q9/0414 , H01Q9/0435 , H01Q15/0086 , H01Q19/005 , H01Q21/0037 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/28
Abstract: An electronic device may include a millimeter wave transceiver, a first antenna having a first resonating element at a first side of a substrate, and a second antenna having a second resonating element at a second side of the substrate. A first coplanar waveguide may convey millimeter wave signals between the transceiver and the first resonating element and a second coplanar waveguide may convey millimeter wave signals between the transceiver and the second resonating element. The first coplanar waveguide may be coupled to the first resonating element through the second coplanar waveguide. The second coplanar waveguide may be coupled to the second resonating element through the first coplanar waveguide. Ground conductors in the coplanar waveguides may form antenna ground planes for the first and second antennas while serving to maximize electromagnetic decoupling between the coplanar waveguides and thus isolation between the ports of the transceiver.
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公开(公告)号:US20190020114A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-17
申请号:US15650689
申请日:2017-07-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Simone Paulotto , Basim H. Noori , Matthew A. Mow
Abstract: An electronic device may include a millimeter wave antenna having a ground plane, resonating element, feed, and parasitic element. The resonating element may include first, second, and third layer of traces that are shorted together. The second traces may be interposed between the first and third traces and the third traces may be interposed between the second traces and the parasitic. The third traces may have a width that is less than the widths of the second and third traces. The third traces and the parasitic may define a constrained volume having an associated cavity resonance that lies outside of a frequency band of interest. If desired, the resonating element may include a single layer of conductive traces having a grid of openings that disrupt impedance in a transverse direction, thereby mitigating the trapping of energy within the frequency band of interest between the resonating element and the parasitic.
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公开(公告)号:US10171125B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-01
申请号:US15871388
申请日:2018-01-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Matthew A. Mow , Robert W. Schlub , Mattia Pascolini , Robert J. Hill , Ruben Caballero
Abstract: An electronic device has wireless communications circuitry including an adjustable antenna system coupled to a radio-frequency transceiver. The adjustable antenna system may include one or more adjustable electrical components that are controlled by storage and processing circuitry in the electronic device. The adjustable electrical components may include switches and components that can be adjusted between numerous different states. The adjustable electrical components may be coupled between antenna system components such as transmission line elements, matching network elements, antenna elements and antenna feeds. By adjusting the adjustable electrical components, the storage and processing circuitry can tune the adjustable antenna system to ensure that the adjustable antenna system covers communications bands of interest.
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公开(公告)号:US10084490B2
公开(公告)日:2018-09-25
申请号:US15499745
申请日:2017-04-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H04B1/04 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q21/0025 , H01Q21/062 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/28 , H04B1/03 , H04B1/1081 , H04B2001/0408
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20180233808A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-16
申请号:US15952115
申请日:2018-04-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Basim H. Noori , Boon W. Shiu , Kevin M. Marks , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Ruben Caballero , Yuehui Ouyang , Khan Salam
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/2258 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/241 , H01Q1/242 , H01Q13/06 , H01Q19/10 , H01Q19/30 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/28
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antennas may be formed from metal traces on a printed circuit. The printed circuit may be a stacked printed circuit including multiple stacked substrates. Metal traces may form an array of patch antennas, Yagi antennas, and other antennas. Antenna signals associated with the antennas may pass through an inactive area in a display and through a dielectric-filled slot in a metal housing for the electronic device. Waveguide structures may be used to guide antenna signals within interior portions of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US09972892B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-15
申请号:US15138689
申请日:2016-04-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Basim H. Noori , Boon W. Shiu , Kevin M. Marks , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Ruben Caballero , Yuehui Ouyang , Khan Salam
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/2258 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/241 , H01Q1/242 , H01Q13/06 , H01Q19/10 , H01Q19/30 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/28
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antennas may be formed from metal traces on a printed circuit. The printed circuit may be a stacked printed circuit including multiple stacked substrates. Metal traces may form an array of patch antennas, Yagi antennas, and other antennas. Antenna signals associated with the antennas may pass through an inactive area in a display and through a dielectric-filled slot in a metal housing for the electronic device. Waveguide structures may be used to guide antenna signals within interior portions of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US20180090816A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-29
申请号:US15275183
申请日:2016-09-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Matthew A. Mow , Basim H. Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Xu Han , Victor C. Lee , Ming-Ju Tsai , Simone Paulotto
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/2283 , H01Q1/242 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q21/062 , H01Q21/065 , 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 millimeter wave antenna arrays formed from arrays of patch antennas, dipole antennas or other millimeter wave antennas on millimeter wave antenna array substrates. Circuitry such as upconverter and downconverter circuitry may be mounted on the substrates. The upconverter and downconverter may be coupled to wireless communications circuitry such as a baseband processor circuit using an intermediate frequency signal path. The electronic device may have opposing front and rear faces. A display may cover the front face. A rear housing wall may cover the rear face. A metal midplate may be interposed between the display and rear housing wall. Millimeter wave antenna arrays may transmit and receive antenna signals through the rear housing wall.
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公开(公告)号:US09882282B2
公开(公告)日:2018-01-30
申请号:US14921895
申请日:2015-10-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Basim H. Noori , Khan M. Salam , Liang Han , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero , Thomas E. Biedka , Yi Jiang , Yuehui Ouyang
CPC classification number: H01Q9/0407 , H01Q5/35 , H04W4/80
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more dual-frequency dual-polarization patch antennas. Each patch antenna may have a patch antenna resonating element that lies in a plane and a ground that lies in a different parallel plane. The patch antenna resonating element may have a first feed located along a first central axis and a second feed located along a second central axis that is perpendicular to the first central axis. The patch antenna resonating element may be rectangular, may be oval, or may have other shapes. A shorting pin may be located at an intersecting point between the first and second axes. The patch antennas may be used in beam steering arrays. The patch antennas may be used for wireless power transfer at microwave frequencies or other frequencies and may be used to support millimeter wave communications.
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