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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：US20240080976A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-07
申请号：US18458747
申请日：2023-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Peter A. Dvorak , Eric W. Bates , Ana Papio Toda , Yiren Wang , Hao Xu , Yuan Tao , Han Wang , Jack R Lanzi , Ronald Lam
CPC classification number: H05K1/11 , H05K1/028 , H05K1/181 , H05K5/0217 , H05K7/1427 , H04R1/02 , H05K2201/0141 , H05K2201/10098 , H05K2201/10128
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) printed circuit having conductive trace and a hole. A conductive flange may be soldered to the conductive trace and may extend into the hole. The end of the conductive flange may laterally surround a central opening within the hole. A conductive contact may be inserted into the central opening. Solder may be deposited over the conductive flange and in the central opening. The solder may couple the conductive contact to the conductive flange and thus the conductive trace. This may ensure a robust mechanical and electrical connection between the conductive contact and the conductive trace on the printed circuit despite the printed circuit being formed from LCP, which may not support copper-plated through vias for coupling to the conductive contact.
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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：US20240079785A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-07
申请号：US18458811
申请日：2023-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yiren Wang , Yuan Tao , Hao Xu , Yuancheng Xu , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Nikolaj P. Kammersgaard , Eric W. Bates , Peter A. Dvorak , Victor C. Lee , Han Wang
IPC: H01Q9/04
CPC classification number: H01Q9/0421 , H01Q1/243
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element formed from a segment of peripheral conductive housing structures. A speaker may be aligned with first openings in the segment. A vent may be aligned with second openings in the segment. A connector may protrude through the segment. A trace combiner for the antenna may be patterned onto the speaker and may be coupled to the segment. Tuners for the antenna may be disposed on first and second flexible printed circuits that extend along opposing sides of the connector. The tuners may be controlled through the speaker. The second flexible printed circuit may extend along the vent. The vent may have a vent cowling with a cut-out region next to the tuner on the second flexible printed circuit.
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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：US11228345B1
公开(公告)日：2022-01-18
申请号：US17028877
申请日：2020-09-22
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: A device with near-field communications (NFC) capabilities is provided. A housing may include first and second segments and a support plate separated from the segments by a slot. A first inductor may be coupled between the first segment and the plate. A second inductor may be coupled between the second segment and the plate. A transceiver may have a first signal terminal coupled to the first segment over a first path and a second signal terminal coupled to the second segment over a second path. The transceiver may convey differential signals in an NFC band over a loop path for an NFC antenna that includes the first conductive path, the first segment, the first inductor, a portion of the plate between the first and second inductors, the second inductor, the second segment, and the second conductive path. This may optimize wireless performance and volume for the NFC antenna.
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公开(公告)号：US20240079786A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-07
申请号：US18458699
申请日：2023-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Han Wang , Aobo Li , Victor C Lee , Yuancheng Xu , Ahmed Ali Abdelhaliem Nafe , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Yiren Wang , Yuan Tao , Christopher Q Ma , Zhiheng Zhou , Sherry Cao , Dale T Morgan , Timothy L Stickles , Hao Xu , Hongfei Hu , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H01Q9/0442 , H01P3/08 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q9/0421
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with peripheral conductive housing structures, a first antenna, and a second antenna. A gap may divide the housing structures into a first segment forming an arm of the first antenna and a second segment forming an arm of the second antenna. A first feed terminal may be coupled to the first segment and a second feed terminal may be coupled to the second segment. Switchable components may be coupled in parallel between the first and second feed terminals across the gap. The switchable components may be adjusted to tune the frequency response of the first and/or second antenna. The switchable components may have a first state in which only the first feed terminal feeds the first antenna and may have a second state in which both the first and second feed terminals feed the first antenna.
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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：US20240079777A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-07
申请号：US18458671
申请日：2023-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yiren Wang , Yuan Tao , Hao Xu , Hongfei Hu , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Ming-Ju Tsai , Sidharath Jain , Haozhan Tian , Yuancheng Xu , Harlan S Dannenberg , Eric W Bates , Peter A Dvorak , Nicole E Cazares , Obinna O Onyemepu , Victor C Lee , Han Wang
CPC classification number: H01Q5/328 , H01Q9/0442 , H01Q9/045
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element formed from a segment of peripheral conductive housing structures. A speaker may be aligned with first openings in the segment. A vent may be aligned with second openings in the segment. A connector may protrude through the segment. A trace combiner for the antenna may be patterned onto the speaker and may be coupled to the segment. Tuners for the antenna may be disposed on first and second flexible printed circuits that extend along opposing sides of the connector. The tuners may be controlled through the speaker. The second flexible printed circuit may extend along the vent. The vent may have a vent cowling with a cut-out region next to the tuner on the second flexible printed circuit.
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公开(公告)号：US20230420840A1
公开(公告)日：2023-12-28
申请号：US17849501
申请日：2022-06-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Yuancheng Xu , Hongfei Hu , Hao Xu , Yiren Wang , Han Wang , Sidharath Jain , Nikolaj Peter Iversen Kammersgaard , Haozhan Tian , Yuan Tao , Carlo Di Nallo , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with peripheral conductive housing structures having first and second segments. The device may include an antenna having a resonating arm formed from the first segment, an antenna ground, and a tuning element. The tuning element may have first, second, and third terminals. The first terminal may be coupled to the second segment. The antenna may have a switchable loop path that includes a first path from the second terminal to the first segment, a second path from first segment to a first point on the antenna ground, a portion of the antenna ground from the first point to a second point, and a third path from the second point to the third terminal. The tuning element may selectively activate the switchable loop path to boost performance of the antenna in a frequency band between 3300 MHz and 5000 MHz when needed.
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