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公开(公告)号：US20180248811A1
公开(公告)日：2018-08-30
申请号：US15445853
申请日：2017-02-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Carlo Di Nallo , Mattia Pascolini , Jerzy S. Guterman
IPC: H04L12/875 , H04W72/04 , H04L1/18 , H04L5/00 , H04B7/0404
CPC classification number: H04L47/564 , H04B7/0404 , H04L1/1816 , H04L5/0055 , H04L5/006 , H04L5/0087 , H04W4/80 , H04W72/0446 , H04W84/12 , H04W84/18
Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas and a Bluetooth transceiver. Control circuitry may perform Bluetooth antenna diversity operations by coupling the Bluetooth transceiver to a selected one of the first and second antennas at a given time. The Bluetooth transceiver may transmit a first Bluetooth data packet and may determine whether a scheduled response packet associated with the first packet has been received over the first antenna during a predetermined time period. In response to determining that the Bluetooth transceiver has failed to receive the scheduled response packet during the first predetermined time period, the Bluetooth transceiver may re-transmit the first packet using the second antenna. This may serve to reduce the error rate of the transmitted Bluetooth data over time relative to scenarios where a single antenna is used, without requiring resource-intensive sensor circuitry to actively monitor the performance of the antennas.
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公开(公告)号：US10056695B2
公开(公告)日：2018-08-21
申请号：US14811714
申请日：2015-07-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Hongfei Hu , Nanbo Jin , Matthew A. Mow , Liang Han , Ming-Ju Tsai , Erica J. Tong , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Mattia Pascolini , Benjamin Shane Bustle , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H01Q13/103 , H01Q1/245
Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from conductive housing structures running along the edges of a device. The antenna may have a pair of switchable return paths that bridge a slot between the antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. An adjustable component and a feed may be coupled in parallel across the slot. The adjustable component may switch a capacitor into use or out of use and the return paths may be selectively opened and closed to compensate for antenna loading due to the presence of external objects near the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号：US20180219637A1
公开(公告)日：2018-08-02
申请号：US15940758
申请日：2018-03-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include antennas. The antennas may include phased antenna arrays for handling millimeter wave signals. Antennas may be located in antenna signal paths. The antenna signal paths may include adjustable components such as adjustable filters, adjustable gain amplifiers, and adjustable phase shifters. Circuitry may be incorporated into an electronic device to facilitate wireless self-testing operations. Wireless self-testing may involve use of one antenna to transmit an over-the-air antenna test signal that is received by another antenna. The circuitry that facilitates the wireless self-testing operations may include couplers, adjustable switches for temporarily shorting antenna signal paths together, mixers for mixing down radio-frequency signals to allow digitization with analog-to-digital converters, and other circuitry for supporting self-testing operations.
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公开(公告)号：US10020563B2
公开(公告)日：2018-07-10
申请号：US15795810
申请日：2017-10-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ruben Caballero , Mattia Pascolini , Mohit Narang , Matt A. Mow , Robert W. Schlub
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H01Q21/00 , H04M1/02 , H01Q9/04 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q7/00 , H04B1/401 , H04B7/06
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q21/28 , H04B1/401 , H04B7/0602 , H04B7/0689 , H04M1/0202
Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and first and second antennas. An electronic device may include a housing. The first antenna may be located at an upper end of the housing and the second antenna may be located at a lower end of the housing. A peripheral conductive member may run around the edges of the housing and may be used in forming the first and second antennas. The radio-frequency transceiver circuitry may have a transmit-receive port and a receive port. Switching circuitry may connect the first antenna to the transmit-receive port and the second antenna to the receiver port or may connect the first antenna to the receive port and the second antenna to the transmit-receive port.
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公开(公告)号：US20180152220A1
公开(公告)日：2018-05-31
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
CPC classification number: H04B1/40 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q7/005 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/0442 , H01Q9/145 , H01Q13/103
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：US09960801B2
公开(公告)日：2018-05-01
申请号：US15636498
申请日：2017-06-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Liang Han , Ming-Ju Tsai , Thomas E. Biedka , Victor Lee , James G. Judkins , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H04B1/40 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q9/0442 , H04B1/0458 , H04B1/18
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. An antenna may have an antenna feed that is coupled to a radio-frequency transceiver with a transmission line. An impedance matching circuit may be coupled to the antenna feed to match the impedance of the transmission line and the antenna. The impedance matching circuit and tunable circuitry in the antenna may be formed using integrated circuits. Each integrated circuit may include switching circuitry that is used in switching components such as inductors and capacitors into use. Sensors such as temperature sensors, current and voltage sensors, power sensors, and impedance sensors may be integrated into the integrated circuits. Each integrated circuit may store settings for the switching circuitry and may include communications and control circuitry for communicating with external circuits and processing sensor data.
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公开(公告)号：US20180115053A1
公开(公告)日：2018-04-26
申请号：US15837873
申请日：2017-12-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Hongfei Hu , Benjamin hane Bustle , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Nanbo Jin , Miguel Christophy , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Erica Tong , Anand Lakshmanan , Mattia Pascolini , Tyler Cater , Christopher T. Cheng
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q5/357 , H01Q13/103
Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from peripheral conductive structures running along the edges of a device housing. The peripheral conductive structures may form housing sidewalls. A slot may be machined into a metal housing that separates the housing sidewalls from a planar rear housing portion that forms a ground for an antenna. The slot may be filled with plastic filler. A parasitic antenna resonating element arm that supports an antenna resonance at high band frequencies may be embedded within the plastic filler. The parasitic antenna resonating element may be formed from a portion of the planar rear housing portion.
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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：US20180090825A1
公开(公告)日：2018-03-29
申请号：US15710474
申请日：2017-09-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Jiangfeng Wu , Siwen Yong , Lijun Zhang , Mattia Pascolini , Martin Melcher , James Wilson
CPC classification number: H01Q1/245 , C03C17/06 , C03C2217/25 , C03C2218/33 , G06F1/1656 , G06F1/1698 , G06F1/181 , H01Q1/42 , H01Q15/0013 , H01Q21/0006 , H04B1/3833 , H04M1/0283 , H04M1/72
Abstract: Methods and devices useful in radio frequency (RF) signal transmission are provided. By way of example, a wireless electronic device may include a transceiver, and an enclosure in which the transceiver is disposed. The enclosure may include an RF transparent layer and an RF opaque coating disposed on the RF transparent layer, where the RF opaque coating includes a pattern formed therein to enable RF signals to pass therethrough.
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公开(公告)号：US20180069317A1
公开(公告)日：2018-03-08
申请号：US15806986
申请日：2017-11-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Hongfei Hu , Nanbo Jin , Matthew A. Mow , Liang Han , Ming-Ju Tsai , Erica J. Tong , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Mattia Pascolini , Benjamin Shane Bustle , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H01Q13/103 , H01Q1/245
Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from conductive housing structures running along the edges of a device. The antenna may have a pair of switchable return paths that bridge a slot between the antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. An adjustable component and a feed may be coupled in parallel across the slot. The adjustable component may switch a capacitor into use or out of use and the return paths may be selectively opened and closed to compensate for antenna loading due to the presence of external objects near the electronic device.
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