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公开(公告)号：US10484112B2
公开(公告)日：2019-11-19
申请号：US15442463
申请日：2017-02-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mattia Pascolini , Eduardo Jorge da Costa Bras Lima , Carlo Di Nallo , Andrea Ruaro , Mario Martinis , Zheyu Wang , Jayesh Nath
IPC: H04B17/318 , H01Q1/27 , H04B1/3827
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may include a housing with a dielectric rear wall. Wireless circuitry in the device may include an antenna formed on or over the rear wall. Matching circuitry may match the impedance of the antenna to the rest of the wireless circuitry. Processing circuitry may gather receive signal strength information and/or phase and magnitude information from radio-frequency signals received through the rear wall. The processing circuitry may track the position of the device and accumulate user statistics over time. The processing circuitry may determine whether changes in loading of the antenna through the dielectric rear housing wall have occurred based on the receive signal strength information, user statistics, and/or phase and magnitude information. If a change is detected, the processing circuitry may adjust the matching circuitry to mitigate any potential antenna detuning as a result of the change.
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公开(公告)号：US10355344B1
公开(公告)日：2019-07-16
申请号：US15903733
申请日：2018-02-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Dimitrios Papantonis , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Jayesh Nath , Jiaxiao Niu , Mario Martinis , Mattia Pascolini , Zheyu Wang
IPC: H04B7/02 , H04L1/02 , H01Q1/27 , H01Q13/10 , H04B1/40 , H04B1/3827 , H04B17/318 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/24 , H04B5/00
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may be provided with a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver, satellite receiver, and cellular transceiver. A first antenna may include a radiating slot between a conductive housing wall and a display module. A second antenna may include conductive structures that radiate through a rear face of the device. The WLAN transceiver and the satellite receiver may be coupled to the first antenna. A switch may be coupled between the cellular transceiver and the first and second antennas. Control circuitry may adjust the switch to route signals between the cellular transceiver and a selected one of the first and second antennas based on wireless performance metric data so that the antenna exhibiting superior wireless performance at cellular telephone frequencies is used for cellular telephone communications regardless of environmental conditions.
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公开(公告)号：US20230420868A1
公开(公告)日：2023-12-28
申请号：US18324827
申请日：2023-05-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Dimitrios Papantonis , Yuko N Kanagy , Jiaxiao Niu , Mario Martinis , Andrea Ruaro , Jayesh Nath , Mattia Pascolini , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima
CPC classification number: H01Q21/064 , H01Q21/0043
Abstract: An electronic device may have conductive sidewalls, a conductive turret, and a conductive bridge. The turret may be separated from the sidewalls by a slot. A display may be mounted to the turret and may include conductive display structures and a conductive ring that couples the display to the turret. An antenna in the device may have a radiating element formed from the conductive display structures, the ring, and the turret. The conductive bridge may form a short path across the slot to the sidewalls. The slot may define radiating edges of the radiating element. Integrating the antenna into the device in this way may maximize the bandwidth of the antenna by extending the antenna area to include the entire lateral area of the electronic device. This may also serve to maximize the active area of the display.
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公开(公告)号：US11853016B2
公开(公告)日：2023-12-26
申请号：US16584472
申请日：2019-09-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrea Ruaro , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Mario Martinis , Dimitrios Papantonis , Jayesh Nath , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/27 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/10 , H01Q5/25 , H01Q5/307 , G04R60/10 , H01Q13/10 , G04G17/08
CPC classification number: G04R60/10 , G04G17/08 , H01Q1/2291 , H01Q1/273 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q5/25 , H01Q5/307 , H01Q13/10
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch device may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display module having conductive display structures. The conductive display structures may be separated from the sidewalls by a slot element for a first antenna that runs around the display module. A feed element for the first antenna may be coupled between the display structures and the sidewalls. An antenna resonating element for a second antenna may be disposed within the slot element. A printed circuit may include additional antenna elements for the second antenna. The antenna resonating element may extend away from the feed element for the first antenna to provide improved isolation between the two antennas. The first antenna may be operable to provide coverage for frequencies that are lower than frequencies for which the second antenna may be operable to provide coverage.
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公开(公告)号：US11527824B2
公开(公告)日：2022-12-13
申请号：US17360595
申请日：2021-06-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Yuko N. Kanagy , Jiaxiao Niu , Andrea Ruaro , Jayesh Nath
Abstract: An electronic device may include a rear housing wall, antenna resonating element, sensor board, and grounding ring. The grounding ring may couple antenna currents from the resonating element onto a ground trace on the sensor board. A switchable inductor may couple the grounding ring to the ground traces. The switchable inductor may be used to tune a frequency response of the antenna in a cellular low band. Additionally or alternatively, an inductor may couple the resonating element to the ground traces or other portions of an antenna ground. This inductor may serve to extend the effective length of the antenna resonating element in the cellular low band to compensate for dielectric loading by the rear housing wall, such as in examples where the rear housing wall is formed from zirconia.
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公开(公告)号：US11128032B2
公开(公告)日：2021-09-21
申请号：US16537220
申请日：2019-08-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Dimitrios Papantonis , Jayesh Nath , Jiaxiao Niu , Johan Avendal , Mattia Pascolini , Max O. Landaeus , Ryan C. Perkins
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a housing, a logic board, and wireless circuitry on the logic board. The wireless circuitry may include first and second antennas formed from conductive traces on a surface of the logic board. The first and second antennas may include resonating element arms at opposing sides of the logic board. The first antenna may have a fundamental mode that radiates in a Bluetooth® communications band at 2.4 GHz. The second antenna may radiate in a first ultra-wideband communications band such as a 6.5 GHz ultra-wideband communications band. If desired, the second antenna may also radiate in a second ultra-wideband communications band such as an 8.0 GHz ultra-wideband communications band. In another suitable arrangement, a harmonic mode of the first antenna may radiate in the second ultra-wideband communications band.
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公开(公告)号：US20210096515A1
公开(公告)日：2021-04-01
申请号：US16584472
申请日：2019-09-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrea Ruaro , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Mario Martinis , Dimitrios Papantonis , Jayesh Nath , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch device may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display module having conductive display structures. The conductive display structures may be separated from the sidewalls by a slot element for a first antenna that runs around the display module. A feed element for the first antenna may be coupled between the display structures and the sidewalls. An antenna resonating element for a second antenna may be disposed within the slot element. A printed circuit may include additional antenna elements for the second antenna. The antenna resonating element may extend away from the feed element for the first antenna to provide improved isolation between the two antennas. The first antenna may be operable to provide coverage for frequencies that are lower than frequencies for which the second antenna may be operable to provide coverage.
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公开(公告)号：US20210043999A1
公开(公告)日：2021-02-11
申请号：US16537220
申请日：2019-08-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Dimitrios Papantonis , Jayesh Nath , Jiaxiao Niu , Johan Avendal , Mattia Pascolini , Max O. Landaeus , Ryan C. Perkins
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a housing, a logic board, and wireless circuitry on the logic board. The wireless circuitry may include first and second antennas formed from conductive traces on a surface of the logic board. The first and second antennas may include resonating element arms at opposing sides of the logic board. The first antenna may have a fundamental mode that radiates in a Bluetooth® communications band at 2.4 GHz. The second antenna may radiate in a first ultra-wideband communications band such as a 6.5 GHz ultra-wideband communications band. If desired, the second antenna may also radiate in a second ultra-wideband communications band such as an 8.0 GHz ultra-wideband communications band. In another suitable arrangement, a harmonic mode of the first antenna may radiate in the second ultra-wideband communications band.
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公开(公告)号：US20200251820A1
公开(公告)日：2020-08-06
申请号：US16854774
申请日：2020-04-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Jayesh Nath , Mario Martinis , Mattia Pascolini , Zheyu Wang , Sameer Pandya
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display having conductive display structures. Printed circuits having corresponding ground traces may be coupled to the display for conveying data to and/or from the display. The conductive display structures may be separated from the metal sidewalls by a gap. A conductive interconnect may be coupled to the metal sidewalls and may extend across the gap to the conductive display structures. The conductive interconnect may be coupled to the ground traces on the printed circuits and/or may be shorted or capacitively coupled to the conductive display structures. When configured in this way, the metal sidewalls, the conductive display structures, and the conductive interconnect may define the edges of a slot antenna resonating element for a slot antenna.
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公开(公告)号：US20190372205A1
公开(公告)日：2019-12-05
申请号：US15991498
申请日：2018-05-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrea Ruaro , Mario Martinis , Jiaxiao Niu , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Dimitrios Papantonis , Jayesh Nath , Zheyu Wang , Carlo Di Nallo , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display having conductive display structures. The display structures may be separated from the sidewalls by a slot for an antenna that runs around the display module. A conductive interconnect may be coupled between the sidewalls and the display structures. A feed and tuning element may be coupled between the display structures and the sidewalls. A first length of the slot from the interconnect to the tuning element may radiate in a satellite band and a cellular band. A second length of the slot from the interconnect to the feed may radiate in a 2.4 GHz band. Harmonics of the second length may radiate in bands at and above 5.0 GHz. If desired, the tuning element may be omitted, and the antenna may be coupled to separate low band and high band matching circuits.
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