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公开(公告)号：US20210265745A1
公开(公告)日：2021-08-26
申请号：US17314740
申请日：2021-05-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jennifer M. Edwards , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Bilgehan Avser , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Siwen Yong , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a dielectric cover layer, a dielectric substrate, and a phased antenna array on the dielectric substrate for conveying millimeter wave signals through the dielectric cover layer. The array may include conductive traces mounted against the dielectric layer. The conductive traces may form patch elements or parasitic elements for the phased antenna array. The dielectric layer may have a dielectric constant and a thickness selected to form a quarter wave impedance transformer for the array at a wavelength of operation of the array. The substrate may include fences of conductive vias that laterally surround each of the antennas within the array. When configured in this way, signal attenuation, destructive interference, and surface wave generation associated with the presence of the dielectric layer over the phased antenna array may be minimized.
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公开(公告)号：US20210211894A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-08
申请号：US17208282
申请日：2021-03-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yakun Sun , Mingguang Xu , Mithat C. Dogan , Ehsan Haghani , Rohit U. Nabar , Matthew A. Mow
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include a phased antenna array. Sensors and other circuitry in the electronic device may generate sensor data such as accelerometer data, gyroscope data, magnetometer data, location data, and spatial ranging data. The wireless circuitry may establish and maintain one or more wireless links with external devices based on the sensor data as the device moves over time. For example, the wireless circuitry may perform physical layer beam adjustments, inter-radio access technology handovers, intra-radio access technology handovers, and/or dual connectivity adjustments based on the sensor data. This may allow the device to maintain one or more wireless links without having to sweep the signal beam of the phased antenna array over its entire field of view each time the device has moved.
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公开(公告)号：US20210044012A1
公开(公告)日：2021-02-11
申请号：US17079284
申请日：2020-10-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Hongfei Hu , Mattia Pascolini , Nanbo Jin , Matthew A. Mow , Erdinc Irci , Erica J. Tong , Han Wang
Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing and four antennas at respective corners of the housing. Cellular telephone transceiver circuitry may concurrently convey signals at one or more of the same frequencies over one or more of the four antennas using a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scheme. In order to isolate adjacent antennas, dielectric-filled openings may be formed in conductive walls of the housing to divide the walls into segments that are used to form resonating element arms for the antennas. If desired, first and second antennas may include resonating element arms formed from a wall without any gaps. The first and second antennas may include adjacent return paths. A magnetic field associated with currents for the first antenna may cancel out with a magnetic field associated with currents for the second antenna at the adjacent return paths, thereby serving to electromagnetically isolate the first and second antennas.
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公开(公告)号：US10693516B2
公开(公告)日：2020-06-23
申请号：US16017847
申请日：2018-06-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Liang Han , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero , Thomas E. Biedka , Yuancheng Xu , Iyappan Ramachandran
IPC: H04B1/3827 , H04M1/03 , H04M1/02 , G06K9/20 , H04M1/725 , G06K9/62 , G06T7/521 , H04W52/28 , G06T7/55
Abstract: An electronic device may include control circuitry, sensors, and wireless circuitry having antennas. The sensors may generate sensor data that is used by the control circuitry to identify an operating environment for the device. The sensor data may include a grip map generated by a touch-sensitive display, infrared facial recognition image signals or other image signals, an angle of arrival of sound received by a set of microphones, impedance data from an impedance sensor, and any other desired sensor data. The control circuitry may use the sensor data, radio-frequency spatial ranging data, information about whether audio is being played over an ear speaker, and/or information about communications protocols in use to identify the operating environment. The control circuitry may adjust antenna settings for the wireless circuitry based on the identified operating environment to ensure that the antennas operate with satisfactory antenna efficiency regardless of operating conditions.
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公开(公告)号：US10658762B2
公开(公告)日：2020-05-19
申请号：US15650638
申请日：2017-07-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Simone Paulotto , Basim H. Noori , Matthew A. Mow
IPC: H01Q1/38 , H01Q21/06 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q9/04 , H01Q5/42 , H01Q5/40 , H01Q5/392 , H01Q21/24
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes a phased antenna array. The array may include first, second, and third rings of antennas on a dielectric substrate that cover respective first, second, and third communications bands greater than 10 GHz. The second ring of antennas may surround the first ring of antennas. The third ring of antennas may be formed over the second ring of antennas. Parasitic elements may be formed over the first ring of antennas to broaden the bandwidth of the first ring of antennas. Beam steering circuitry may be coupled to the rings of antennas. Control circuitry may control the beam steering circuitry to steer a beam of wireless signals in one or more of the first, second, and third communications bands. The array may exhibit relatively uniform antenna gain regardless of the direction in which the beam is steered.
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公开(公告)号：US20200021019A1
公开(公告)日：2020-01-16
申请号：US16036770
申请日：2018-07-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Harish Rajagopalan , Jennifer M. Edwards , Simone Paulotto , Bilgehan Avser , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Travis A. Barbieri , Georgios Atmatzakis , Matthew A. Mow
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with antenna structures that convey radio-frequency signals greater than 10 GHz. The antenna structures may include overlapping first and second patches. The first patch may include a hole. A transmission line for the second patch may include a conductive via extending through the hole. The via may be coupled to a first end of a trace. A second end of the trace may be coupled to a feed terminal on the second patch over an additional via. The hole may be located within a central region of the first patch to allow the via to pass through the hole without electromagnetically coupling to the first patch. If desired, adjustable impedance matching circuits may be used to couple selected impedances to the antenna feeds that help ensure that the first and second patch antennas are sufficiently isolated from each other.
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公开(公告)号：US20190319367A1
公开(公告)日：2019-10-17
申请号：US15950677
申请日：2018-04-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jennifer M. Edwards , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Bilgehan Avser , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Siwen Yong , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a dielectric cover layer, a dielectric substrate, and a phased antenna array on the dielectric substrate for conveying millimeter wave signals through the dielectric cover layer. The array may include conductive traces mounted against the dielectric layer. The conductive traces may form patch elements or parasitic elements for the phased antenna array. The dielectric layer may have a dielectric constant and a thickness selected to form a quarter wave impedance transformer for the array at a wavelength of operation of the array. The substrate may include fences of conductive vias that laterally surround each of the antennas within the array. When configured in this way, signal attenuation, destructive interference, and surface wave generation associated with the presence of the dielectric layer over the phased antenna array may be minimized.
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158.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20190312347A1
公开(公告)日：2019-10-10
申请号：US15950072
申请日：2018-04-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jennifer M. Edwards , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Bilgehan Avser , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Siwen Yong , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a dielectric cover layer and a conductive layer on the dielectric cover layer. The conductive layer may define an opening. A dielectric spacer may be mounted to the cover layer within the opening. A substrate may be mounted to the spacer. Vertical conductive structures may extend from the conductive layer to the substrate and may laterally surround the spacer. A phased antenna array may be formed on the substrate and aligned with the opening. The cover layer may have a dielectric constant and thickness that are selected to form a quarter wave impedance transformer for the array at a wavelength of operation of the array. The spacer and the conductive structures may exhibit a cavity resonance at the wavelength. The array and the conductive structures may radiate radio-frequency signals at millimeter wave frequencies through the dielectric cover layer.
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公开(公告)号：US10418687B2
公开(公告)日：2019-09-17
申请号：US15217805
申请日：2016-07-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Basim H. Noori , Ming-Ju Tsai , Xu Han , Victor C. Lee , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q3/24 , H01Q9/06 , H04B10/90 , H01Q19/30 , H01Q21/06 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q1/52
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 printed circuits. A flexible printed circuit may have an area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted. Protruding portions may extend from the area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted and may be separated from the area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted by bends. Antenna resonating elements such as patch antenna resonating elements and dipole resonating elements may be formed on the protruding portions and may be used to transmit and receive millimeter wave antenna signals through dielectric-filled openings in a metal electronic device housing or a dielectric layer such as a display cover layer formed from glass or other dielectric.
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公开(公告)号：US10381715B2
公开(公告)日：2019-08-13
申请号：US15602972
申请日：2017-05-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Liang Han , Thomas E. Biedka , Matthew A. Mow , Iyappan Ramachandran , Mattia Pascolini , Xu Han , Hao Xu , Jennifer M. Edwards , Salih Yarga , Yijun Zhou
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H04W4/02 , H04B1/401 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q5/328 , H04B1/04 , H04B1/18 , H01Q5/35 , H04W88/06
Abstract: An electronic device may include an antenna having a resonating element, an antenna ground, and a feed. First and second tunable components may be coupled to the resonating element. Adjustable matching circuitry may be coupled to the feed. Control circuitry may use the first tunable component to tune a midband antenna resonance when sensor circuitry identifies that the device is being held in a right hand and may use the second tunable component to tune the midband resonance when the sensor circuitry identifies that the device is being held in a left hand. For tuning a low band resonance, the control circuitry may place the antenna in different tuning states by sequentially adjusting a selected one of the matching circuitry and the tunable components, potentially reverting to a previous tuning state at each step in the sequence. This may ensure that antenna efficiency is satisfactory regardless of antenna loading conditions.
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