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公开(公告)号：US20230291125A1
公开(公告)日：2023-09-14
申请号：US17832427
申请日：2022-06-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Xu Han , Hongfei Hu , Ming Chen , Jingni Zhong , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Mohsen Salehi , Carlo Di Nallo , Ming-Ju Tsai , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas formed from respective first and second segments of a housing. The first antenna may have a first feed coupled to the first segment by a first switch and coupled to the first segment by a first conductive trace. The second antenna may have a second feed coupled to the second segment by a second switch and coupled to the second segment by a second conductive trace. The first segment may be separated from the second segment by a single gap, a data connector may pass through the second segment, and the antennas may selectively cover a low band. Alternatively, the first segment may be separated from the second segment by a third segment and two gaps, the data connector may pass through the third segment, and the first and second antennas may concurrently cover the low band.
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公开(公告)号：US20240079781A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-07
申请号：US18458893
申请日：2023-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Han Wang , Jingni Zhong , Alden T. Rush , Ming Chen , Yiren Wang , Yuan Tao , Hao Xu , Hongfei Hu , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna resonating element on a first substrate that is mounted to a second substrate. A signal conductor may be coupled to a feed terminal on the antenna resonating element. The signal conductor may include impedance matching structures for the antenna. The impedance matching structures may include an open transmission line stub, a grounded transmission line stub, and a phase shifting segment. The impedance matching structures may configure the antenna to exhibit a wide bandwidth in an ultra-wideband (UWB) frequency band. If desired, the signal conductor may have a phase-shifting segment configured to match a non-50 Ohm impedance of a radio-frequency front end coupled to the signal conductor.
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公开(公告)号：US11664601B2
公开(公告)日：2023-05-30
申请号：US17032843
申请日：2020-09-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erdinc Irci , Bilgehan Avser , Han Wang , Harish Rajagopalan , Hongfei Hu , Jingni Zhong , Ming Chen , Nanbo Jin , Yijun Zhou
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna module. A phased antenna array of dielectric resonator antennas may be disposed within the antenna module. The dielectric resonator antennas may include dielectric columns excited by feed probes. A flexible printed circuit may include transmission lines coupled to the feed probes. The flexible printed circuit may have a first end coupled to the antenna module and extending towards peripheral conductive housing structures forming an additional antenna and a second end coupled to transceiver circuitry. Ground traces on the flexible printed circuit may be shorted to ground structures at the first and second ends to improve the antenna efficiency of the additional antenna. The flexible printed circuit may include an elongated slot with overlapping conductive structures and laterally surrounded by a fence of conductive vias to improve the flexibility of the flexible printed circuit while providing satisfactory antenna performance.
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公开(公告)号：US11322840B2
公开(公告)日：2022-05-03
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：US20220102867A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-31
申请号：US17032843
申请日：2020-09-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erdinc Irci , Bilgehan Avser , Han Wang , Harish Rajagopalan , Hongfei Hu , Jingni Zhong , Ming Chen , Nanbo Jin , Yijun Zhou
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna module. A phased antenna array of dielectric resonator antennas may be disposed within the antenna module. The dielectric resonator antennas may include dielectric columns excited by feed probes. A flexible printed circuit may include transmission lines coupled to the feed probes. The flexible printed circuit may have a first end coupled to the antenna module and extending towards peripheral conductive housing structures forming an additional antenna and a second end coupled to transceiver circuitry. Ground traces on the flexible printed circuit may be shorted to ground structures at the first and second ends to improve the antenna efficiency of the additional antenna. The flexible printed circuit may include an elongated slot with overlapping conductive structures and laterally surrounded by a fence of conductive vias to improve the flexibility of the flexible printed circuit while providing satisfactory antenna performance.
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公开(公告)号：US20210066786A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-04
申请号：US16556026
申请日：2019-08-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Salih Yarga , Jingni Zhong , Bilgehan Avser , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element. The resonating element may have first and second arms extending from opposing sides of a feed. The first arm may have a fundamental mode that radiates in a first communications band such as a 5.0 GHz wireless local area network band. The second arm may have a fundamental mode that radiates in a second communications band such as one or more cellular ultra-high bands. The second resonating element arm may have a harmonic mode that radiates in first and second ultra-wideband (UWB) communications bands. The antenna may include a tunable component that is adjustable between first and second states. The second arm may radiate in the first UWB communications band while the tunable component is in the first state and in the second UWB communications band while the tunable component is in the second state.
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公开(公告)号：US20250087890A1
公开(公告)日：2025-03-13
申请号：US18464999
申请日：2023-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ahmed Ali Abdelhaliem Nafe , Ali Pourghorban Saghati , Ana Papio Toda , Carlo Di Nallo , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Erdinc Irci , Hao Xu , Hongfei Hu , Jingni Zhong , Mattia Pascolini , Ming Chen , Mohsen Salehi , Nikolaj P Kammersgaard , Orbay Tuncay , Salih Yarga , Seyed Mohammad Amjadi , Tiejun Yu , Yiren Wang , Yuan Tao
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and a housing having peripheral conductive housing structures. The wireless circuitry may include first and second antennas. The first antenna may have a resonating element arm formed from a first segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures. The second antenna may have a resonating element arm formed from a second segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures separated from the first segment by a gap. Switchable short paths may be coupled between the second segment and ground on opposing sides of an antenna feed for the second antenna and/or may be coupled between the first and second segments and ground on opposing sides of the gap. Additionally or alternatively, a switch may be coupled between the first and second segments across the gap and a tuning component may couple the second segment to the ground structures.
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公开(公告)号：US20240079790A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-07
申请号：US18458726
申请日：2023-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Peter A Dvorak , Eric W Bates , McKinley McQuaide , Ronald Lam , Ana Papio Toda , Yiren Wang , Hao Xu , Han Wang , Yuan Tao , Jack R Lanzi , Jingni Zhong
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with peripheral conductive housing structures having a segment that forms a resonating element for an antenna. A speaker may be mounted to a mid-chassis of the electronic device. A printed circuit may be mounted to the speaker and may have a ground trace for the antenna. A conductive spring may extend through the printed circuit and the speaker to couple the ground trace to the mid-chassis. A conductive contact pad may be welded to an aluminum layer such as an aluminum layer used to form the mid-chassis. A conductive spring such as the conductive spring coupled to the ground traces may press against the contact pad. The contact pad may include gold or nickel-plated stainless steel. The contact pad may provide a strong electrical connection between the conductive spring and the aluminum layer.
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公开(公告)号：US20240079779A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-07
申请号：US18458779
申请日：2023-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuan Tao , Yiren Wang , Ana Papio Toda , Jingni Zhong , Han Wang , Hao Xu , Hongfei Hu , Mattia Pascolini , Eric W. Bates , Peter A. Dvorak , Allegra Shum
CPC classification number: H01Q5/328 , H01Q9/0442
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a sensor module and an antenna having an antenna arm, ground structures, and a tuner. The tuner may be mounted to a printed circuit overlapping the sensor module. A spring may be mounted to the printed circuit and may couple the tuner to a conductive chassis of the sensor module. The sensor module may include optical sensors that gather sensor data through a display and may form ground paths from the tuner to the ground structures. Conductive interconnect structures such as springs may exert biasing forces in different directions to couple the ground paths to different layers of the ground structures. This may serve to couple the antenna to the ground structures as close as possible to the tuner, thereby maximizing antenna performance, despite the presence of the sensor module.
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公开(公告)号：US11303022B2
公开(公告)日：2022-04-12
申请号：US16553045
申请日：2019-08-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bilgehan Avser , Xu Han , Salih Yarga , Jingni Zhong , Hao Xu , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a housing and an antenna having a resonating element. The resonating element may have first and second arms extending from opposing sides of a feed. The first arm and a portion of the housing may radiate in a cellular ultra-high band. The first arm may have a fundamental mode that radiates in a first ultra-wideband (UWB) communications band at 6.5 GHz. The second arm may have a fundamental mode that radiates in a 5.0 GHz wireless local area network band. The first and second arms may have a harmonic mode that radiates in a second UWB communications band at 8.0 GHz. The antenna may convey radio-frequency signals in each of these communications bands without the need for adjusting components in the antenna to switch between the UWB communications bands.
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