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公开(公告)号：US11303015B2
公开(公告)日：2022-04-12
申请号：US16712196
申请日：2019-12-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jennifer M. Edwards , Yijun Zhou , Yiren Wang , Hao Xu , Ming-Ju Tsai , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. An antenna in the electronic device may have an inverted-F antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. The antenna ground for the antenna may include a conductive frame for the display. The conductive frame may have a first portion that is separated from the antenna resonating element arm by a first distance and a second portion that is separated from the antenna resonating element arm by a second distance that is less than the first distance. The second portion may be configured to form a distributed impedance matching capacitance with the antenna resonating element arm.
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公开(公告)号：US20220094059A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-24
申请号：US17025987
申请日：2020-09-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yiren Wang , Daisong Zhang , Erdinc Irci , Han Wang , Hongfei Hu , Jingni Zhong , Liang Han , Mattia Pascolini , Ming Chen , Nanbo Jin , Tiejun Yu , Yijun Zhou , Yuan Tao , Yuancheng Xu
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and a housing with upper and lower ends. The lower end may include first and second open slot antennas that are directly fed by respective feeds and that radiate in a cellular ultra-high band. The lower end may also include first and second inverted-F antennas. The upper end may include third and fourth inverted-F antennas. The first inverted-F antenna may have a first feed that conveys currents below 2700 MHz and a second feed that conveys antenna currents in the cellular ultra-high band, a wireless local area network band, and/or ultra-wideband frequency bands. If desired, the upper end may include a third open slot antenna that is directly fed by a corresponding antenna feed and that radiates in the cellular ultra-high band and/or in the ultra-wideband frequency bands.
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公开(公告)号：US20210218430A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-15
申请号：US16898069
申请日：2020-06-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Liang Han , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Thomas E. Biedka , Hongfei Hu , Erdinc Irci , Nanbo Jin , James G. Judkins , Victor C. Lee , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Yiren Wang , Yuancheng Xu , Yijun Zhou
Abstract: A radio frequency device has a multifunctional tuner that stores measurements of reflection coefficient parameter in a register. The radio frequency device also has a transceiver that has a transmitter. The transceiver may detect a transmitter signal from the transmitter to an antenna in an initial tuning state and then determine whether the transmitter signal is stable. In response to the transmitter signal being stable, the transceiver may measuring the reflection coefficient parameters at the multifunctional tuner. Furthermore, the radio frequency device has a baseband controller that has a memory to store instructions and a processor to execute the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to determine an antenna impedance based on the reflection coefficient parameters, and in response to determining that the antenna impedance is greater than or less than a threshold antenna impedance, iteratively tune the antenna using the multifunctional tuner.
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公开(公告)号：US10355339B2
公开(公告)日：2019-07-16
申请号：US15085095
申请日：2016-03-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Nanbo Jin , Yuehui Ouyang , Yijun Zhou , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Anand Lakshmanan , Robert W. Schlub , Mattia Pascolini , Matthew A. Mow
Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. The antenna structures may form a dual arm inverted-F antenna. The antenna may have a resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing member and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. A short circuit path may bridge the gap. An antenna feed may be coupled across the gap in parallel with the short circuit path. Low band tuning may be provided using an adjustable inductor that bridges the gap. The antenna may have a slot-based parasitic antenna resonating element with a slot formed between portions of the peripheral conductive electronic device housing member and the antenna ground. An adjustable capacitor may bridge the slot to provide high band tuning.
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公开(公告)号：US10312571B2
公开(公告)日：2019-06-04
申请号：US15700636
申请日：2017-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jennifer M. Edwards , Yijun Zhou , Yiren Wang , Hao Xu , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. The antenna structures at a first end of the electronic device may include an inverted-F antenna resonating element for a first antenna formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. The inverted-F antenna resonating element arm may have a first end adjacent a first dielectric-filled gap and an opposing second end adjacent a second dielectric-filled gap. A second antenna may include an additional antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground. A second end of the additional antenna resonating element arm may be interposed between the first dielectric-filled gap and a first end of the additional antenna resonating element arm. This type of arrangement may ensure the first and second antennas are isolated.
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公开(公告)号：US20190081694A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-14
申请号：US15701233
申请日：2017-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yijun Zhou , Yiren Wang , Jennifer M. Edwards , Hao Xu , Ming-Ju Tsai , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H04B7/12 , H04B1/0053 , H04B1/0458 , H04B1/18 , H04B7/02 , H05K1/0213 , H05K1/0215 , H05K1/028 , H05K1/165 , H05K1/189 , H05K2201/053 , H05K2201/09609
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with antenna structures and control circuitry. The antenna structures may include an antenna resonating element arm, an antenna ground, and an antenna feed coupled between the antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground. The electronic device may include a tunable component configured to tune a frequency response of the antenna structures. The electronic device may also include a substrate, a radio-frequency transceiver on the substrate, control circuitry configured to generate control signals, a flexible printed circuit, and a connector. The connector may mechanically secure the flexible printed circuit to the substrate and may be electrically coupled to the transceiver and the control circuitry. The flexible printed circuit may include a radio-frequency transmission line coupled between the antenna feed and the connector and a control signal path coupled between the tunable component and the connector.
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公开(公告)号：US20190081393A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-14
申请号：US15701246
申请日：2017-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yijun Zhou , Jennifer M. Edwards , Yiren Wang , Hao Xu , Ming-Ju Tsai , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. An antenna may have an antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. The antenna ground for the antenna may include a first conductive structure that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a first distance and a second conductive structure that is electrically connected to the first conductive structure and separated from the antenna resonating element by a second distance that is less than the first distance. A distributed impedance matching capacitor for the antenna may be formed from the second conductive structure and the antenna resonating element arm. The second conductive structure may be a conductive frame for an electronic component such as a sensor.
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公开(公告)号：US10158384B1
公开(公告)日：2018-12-18
申请号：US15699869
申请日：2017-09-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Salih Yarga , Xu Gao , Georgios Atmatzakis , Xu Han , Bilgehan Avser , Hao Xu , Yijun Zhou , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. An antenna in the electronic device may have an inverted-F antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. The antenna may also include an indirectly-fed antenna resonating element that is indirectly fed by a harmonic mode of the inverted-F antenna resonating element via near field electromagnetic coupling. The indirectly-fed antenna resonating element may be a slot. The antenna ground may define at least three edges of the slot and the slot may be aligned with a dielectric-filled gap in the peripheral conductive housing structures. An adjustable circuit may be coupled across the slot to tune the indirectly-fed antenna resonating element.
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公开(公告)号：US09559433B2
公开(公告)日：2017-01-31
申请号：US13846481
申请日：2013-03-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yijun Zhou , Nanbo Jin , Yuehui Ouyang , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Anand Lakshmanan , Robert W. Schlub , Mattia Pascolini , Matthew A. Mow
Abstract: Electronic devices may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. The antenna structures may form a dual arm inverted-F antenna and a monopole antenna sharing a common antenna ground. The antenna structures may have three ports. A first antenna port may be coupled to an inverted-F antenna resonating element at a first location and a second antenna port may be coupled to the inverted-F antenna resonating element at a second location. A third antenna port may be coupled to the monopole antenna. Tunable circuitry can be used to tune the antenna structures. An adjustable capacitor may be coupled to the first port to tune the inverted-F antenna. An additional adjustable capacitor may be coupled to the third port to tune the monopole antenna. Transceiver circuitry for supporting wireless local area network communications, satellite navigation system communications, and cellular communications may be coupled to the first, second, and third antenna ports.
Abstract translation: 电子设备可以包括射频收发器电路和天线结构。 天线结构可以形成双臂倒F天线和共享共同天线接地的单极天线。 天线结构可以具有三个端口。 第一天线端口可以在第一位置处耦合到倒F天线谐振元件，并且第二天线端口可以在第二位置处耦合到倒F天线谐振元件。 第三天线端口可以耦合到单极天线。 可调电路可用于调谐天线结构。 可调电容器可以耦合到第一端口以调谐倒F天线。 附加可调电容器可以耦合到第三端口以调谐单极天线。 支持无线局域网通信，卫星导航系统通信和蜂窝通信的收发器电路可以耦合到第一，第二和第三天线端口。
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公开(公告)号：US20160093955A1
公开(公告)日：2016-03-31
申请号：US14500819
申请日：2014-09-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Mattia Pascolini , Hongfei Hu , Erdinc Irci , Yuehui Ouyang , Jennifer M. Edwards , Jayesh Nath , Salih Yarga , Yijun Zhou , Hao Xu
CPC classification number: H01Q9/0442 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q5/328 , H01Q5/335 , H01Q9/42
Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna may have an inverted-F antenna resonating element, an antenna ground, and other resonating element structures. A tip of the antenna resonating element and the antenna ground may be separated by a peripheral housing gap filled with plastic. The antenna may be sensitive to capacitance changes induced by the presence of a user's hand overlapping the gap or other portions of the antenna. A hand capacitance sensing electrode may be mounted in the plastic of the gap or elsewhere in the vicinity of the antenna. A transmission line may couple the hand capacitance sensing electrode to the antenna to retune the antenna in the event that the user's hand overlaps the antenna.
Abstract translation: 电子设备可以具有带天线的无线电路。 天线可以具有倒F天线谐振元件，天线接地和其它谐振元件结构。 天线谐振元件的尖端和天线接地可以由填充有塑料的外围壳体间隙分开。 天线可能对由与天线的间隙或其他部分重叠的用户手的存在引起的电容变化敏感。 手电容感测电极可以安装在间隙的塑料或天线附近的别处。 在用户的手与天线重叠的情况下，传输线可以将手电容感测电极耦合到天线以重新调谐天线。
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