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.

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.

公开(公告)号：US10290941B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-14

申请号：US15008130

申请日：2016-01-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Erdinc Irci ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Zheyu Wang ,  Eduardo Da Costa Bras Lima ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Mario Martinis ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q5/10 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q5/321

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display in a housing with a metal wall. An antenna may have an antenna ground formed from the wall and an antenna resonating element. Transceiver circuitry may be coupled to an antenna feed that extends between the antenna resonating element and the antenna ground. A return path may extend between the antenna resonating element and the antenna ground in parallel with the feed. The antenna resonating element may have segments that are coupled by a frequency dependent filter. At a first frequency, the filter may have a low impedance so that the antenna resonating element has a first effectively length. At a second frequency that is greater than the first frequency, the filter may have a high impedance so that the antenna resonating element has a second effective length that is shorter than the first effective length.

公开(公告)号：US20180069588A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-08

申请号：US15257521

申请日：2016-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yi Jiang ,  Jiangfeng Wu ,  Lijun Zhang ,  Siwen Yong ,  Jiaxiao Niu ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Zheyu Wang ,  Mario Martinis ,  Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima ,  Steven P. Cardinali ,  Rex Tyler Ehman ,  James G. Horiuchi ,  Trevor J. Ness ,  Scott D. Morrison ,  Siddharth Nangia ,  Mushtaq A. Sarwar

IPC: H04B1/40 ,  H05K5/00 ,  H05K5/04 ,  H03K17/96

CPC classification number: H04B1/40 ,  G06F1/1626 ,  G06F1/163 ,  G06F1/1637 ,  G06F1/1658 ,  G06F1/1698 ,  H01Q9/30 ,  H04B1/3888 ,  H04M1/0202

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display cover layer mounted to a metal housing. Electrical component layers such as a display layer, touch sensor layer, and near-field communications antenna layer may be mounted under the display cover layer. An antenna feed may have a positive feed terminal coupled to the electrical component layers and a ground feed terminal coupled to the metal housing. The electrical component layers may serve as an antenna resonating element for an antenna. The antenna may cover cellular telephone bands and may receive satellite navigation system signals. A system-in-package device may be mounted to the metal housing. A flexible printed circuit may extend between the electrical component layers and the system-in-package device. A mounting bracket for the system-in-package device may be provided with electrical isolation to enhance antenna performance in bands such as a satellite navigation system band.

公开(公告)号：US20180048057A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-15

申请号：US15234907

申请日：2016-08-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Rex T. Ehman ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  James G. Horiuchi ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Jason C. Sauers ,  Makiko K. Brzezinski ,  Siwen Yong ,  Lijun Zhang ,  Yi Jiang ,  Zheyu Wang ,  Mario Martinis ,  Eduardo Da Costa Bras Lima ,  Xu Han ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Trevor J. Ness

IPC: H01Q1/27 ,  H04B5/00 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/24

CPC classification number: H01Q1/273 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H01Q9/0421 ,  H01Q9/14 ,  H04B5/00 ,  H04B5/0012 ,  H04B5/0031

Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal portions such as metal sidewalls. The housing may form an antenna ground for an antenna. An antenna resonating element for the antenna may be formed from a stack of capacitively coupled component layers such as a display layer, touch sensor layer, and near-field communications antenna layer at a front face of the device. An additional antenna may be formed from a peripheral resonating element that runs along a peripheral edge of the device and the antenna ground. A rear face antenna may be formed using a wireless power receiving coil as a radio-frequency antenna resonating element or may be formed from metal antenna traces on a plastic support for light-based components.

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

IPC: H01Q21/06 ,  H01Q21/00

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.

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.

公开(公告)号：US20210273671A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-02

申请号：US17326214

申请日：2021-05-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： James G. Horiuchi ,  Tyler S. Bushnell ,  Brad G. Boozer ,  Mario Martinis ,  YoungHoon Kim

IPC: H04B1/3827 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  G06F3/044 ,  H01Q1/27

Abstract: An electronic device housing may be formed from housing members. A first housing member may form a display cover layer that overlaps pixels. During operation, the pixels may display an image that is viewable through the display cover layer. The second housing member may have a rear wall portion and a sidewall. A band may be coupled to the sidewall or other portion of the second housing member. The first and second housing members may be attached together using a housing member attachment structure. The housing member attachment structure may have layers of adhesive and printed circuit structures. The printed circuit structures may include metal traces that form an antenna and that form capacitive force sensor electrodes on opposing sides of a compressible member.

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

IPC: G04R60/10 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q1/38 ,  H01Q1/27 ,  H01Q5/307 ,  H01Q5/25 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  G04G17/08

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.

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

IPC: H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q1/44 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q13/16 ,  H01Q1/27 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q9/04

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.