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公开(公告)号：US09094056B2
公开(公告)日：2015-07-28
申请号：US14043636
申请日：2013-10-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Mattia Pascolini , Dean F. Darnell
CPC classification number: H04W24/00 , H04B5/0025 , H04B5/0043 , H04B17/11 , H04B17/21 , H04B17/318 , H04B17/373
Abstract: A test station may include a test host, testing devices, and a test enclosure. A device under test (DUT) having a near-field communications (NFC) antenna may be placed in the test enclosure during production testing. The testing devices may have test antennas that may convey NFC test signals to the DUT in the test enclosure. Distances between test antennas and the DUT may be monitored by measuring path loss from the test antennas throughout testing. The testing station may also include a test unit and an RF test antenna. The test unit may use the RF test antenna to convey RF test signals to the DUT in the test enclosure. The DUT is marked as a passing DUT if gathered test data is satisfactory for each testing device in the test station and distance measurements between the test antennas and the DUT throughout testing are consistent with calibration measurements.
Abstract translation: 测试台可以包括测试主机，测试设备和测试机箱。 在生产测试期间，可以将具有近场通信（NFC）天线的被测设备（DUT）放置在测试外壳中。 测试设备可以具有测试天线，其可以在测试机箱中传送NFC测试信号到DUT。 通过在测试中测量来自测试天线的路径损耗，可以监测测试天线与DUT之间的距离。 测试台还可以包括测试单元和RF测试天线。 测试单元可以使用RF测试天线将RF测试信号传送到测试机箱中的DUT。 如果收集的测试数据对于测试站中的每个测试设备是满意的，DUT被标记为通过的DUT，并且测试中的测试天线和DUT之间的距离测量与校准测量一致。
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12.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20140333495A1
公开(公告)日：2014-11-13
申请号：US13889987
申请日：2013-05-08
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Hongfei Hu , Mattia Pascolini , Matthew A. Mow , Ming-Ju Tsai , Robert W. Schlub , Dean F. Darnell , Yuehui Ouyang , Nanbo Jin , Liang Han , David Pratt
CPC classification number: H01Q9/06 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q5/328 , H01Q5/35 , H01Q5/371 , H01Q9/0442 , H01Q9/27 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q13/10
Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antennas. An antenna may be formed from an antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The antenna resonating element may have a shorter portion that resonates at higher communications band frequencies and a longer portion that resonates at lower communications band frequencies. An extended portion of the antenna ground may form an inverted-F antenna resonating element portion of the antenna resonating element. The antenna resonating element may be formed from a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure that is separated from the antenna ground by an opening. A first antenna feed may be coupled between the peripheral conductive electronic device housing structures and the antenna ground across the opening. A second antenna feed may be coupled to the inverted-F antenna resonating element portion of the antenna resonating element.
Abstract translation: 可以提供包括射频收发器电路和天线的电子设备。 天线可以由天线谐振元件和天线接地形成。 天线谐振元件可以具有在较高通信频带频率下谐振的较短部分和在较低通信频带频率下谐振的较长部分。 天线接地的延伸部分可以形成天线谐振元件的倒F天线谐振元件部分。 天线谐振元件可以由外部导电电子器件外壳结构形成，该外壳导电电子器件壳体结构通过开口与天线接地分开。 第一天线馈电可以耦合在外围导电电子器件外壳结构和穿过开口的天线接地之间。 第二天线馈送可以耦合到天线谐振元件的倒F天线谐振元件部分。
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公开(公告)号：US11356131B2
公开(公告)日：2022-06-07
申请号：US17211710
申请日：2021-03-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
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：US10263340B2
公开(公告)日：2019-04-16
申请号：US15848833
申请日：2017-12-20
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
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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公开(公告)号：US20190020365A1
公开(公告)日：2019-01-17
申请号：US16138881
申请日：2018-09-21
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：US20170309991A1
公开(公告)日：2017-10-26
申请号：US15138684
申请日：2016-04-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Basim Noori , Ming-Ju Tsai , Boon Wai Shiu , Matthew A. Mow , Yuehui Ouyang , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/2258 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/241 , H01Q1/242 , H01Q1/42 , H01Q5/49 , H01Q15/14 , H01Q19/30 , 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 phased antenna arrays each of which includes multiple antenna elements. Phased antenna arrays may be formed from printed circuit board Yagi antennas or other antennas. A millimeter wave transceiver may use the antennas to transmit and receive wireless signals. The antennas may be mounted at the corners of an electronic device housing or elsewhere in an electronic device. An electronic device housing may be formed from metal and may have an opening filled with dielectric. The antennas may be aligned with portions of the dielectric. Printed circuit board antennas may have reflectors, radiators, and directors. The reflectors, radiators, and directors may be arranged to align radiation patterns for the antennas with the plastic-filled slots or other dielectric regions in the metal housing.
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17.发明授权公开(公告)号：US09793616B2
公开(公告)日：2017-10-17
申请号：US13681138
申请日：2012-11-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Robert W. Schlub , Nanbo Jin , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H01Q21/30 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q5/20 , H01Q5/314 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q21/28
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 include conductive housing structures such as a peripheral conductive housing member. The antenna structures may be based on an inverted-F antenna resonating element or other types of antenna resonating element. An electronic device may have near field communications circuitry and non-near-field communications circuitry such as cellular telephone, satellite navigation system, or wireless local area network transceiver circuitry. Antenna structures may be configured to handle signals associated with the non-near-field communications circuitry. The antenna structures may also have portions that form a near field communications loop antenna for handling signals associated with the near field communications circuitry.
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公开(公告)号：US09680205B2
公开(公告)日：2017-06-13
申请号：US14468217
申请日：2014-08-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Qingxiang Li , Robert W. Schlub , Erik G. de Jong , Yuehui Ouyang , Siwen Yong , Miroslav Samardzija , Yiren Wang , Jiang Zhu
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with electrical components mounted in a housing. The electronic device may include wireless transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. A display may be mounted in the housing. The display may have a transparent layer such as display cover layer. The display cover layer may have an inner surface with a recess. The recess may be a groove that runs along a peripheral edge of the display cover layer. An antenna structure such as an inverted-F antenna resonating element may be formed from a metal trace on a plastic support structure. The metal trace and support structure may be mounted in the groove with adhesive. The housing may be a metal housing that forms an antenna ground. Springs may be used in forming an antenna feed and an antenna return path that couples the antenna resonating element to ground.
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公开(公告)号：US09673916B2
公开(公告)日：2017-06-06
申请号：US15097873
申请日：2016-04-13
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：US20170110787A1
公开(公告)日：2017-04-20
申请号：US14883495
申请日：2015-10-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero , Basim Noori
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. Non-millimeter-wave antennas such as cellular telephone antennas may have conductive structures separated by a dielectric gap. In a device with a metal housing, a plastic-filled slot may form the dielectric gap. The conductive structures may be slot antenna structures, inverted-F antenna structures such as an inverted-F antenna resonating element and a ground, or other antenna structures. The plastic-filled slot may serve as a millimeter wave antenna window. A millimeter wave antenna array may be mounted in alignment with the millimeter wave antenna window to transmit and receive signals through the window. Millimeter wave antenna windows may also be formed from air-filled openings in a metal housing such as audio port openings.
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