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公开(公告)号:US20220094061A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-24
申请号:US17031627
申请日:2020-09-24
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Siwen Yong , Jiangfeng Wu , Yi Jiang , Simon G. Begashaw , Mattia Pascolini
摘要: An electronic device may include a phased antenna array. The array may include co-located first and second antennas formed on a dielectric substrate. The first antenna may include a first patch element and multi-layer parasitic structures. The multi-layer parasitic structures may include a first set of co-planar parasitic elements. The first set of parasitic elements may overlap the first patch element and may be separated by a gap. The multi-layer parasitic structures may include an additional parasitic element that overlaps the gap. The second antenna may include a second patch element that is co-planar with the additional parasitic patch. The second patch element may at least partially overlap one of the parasitic elements in the first set. The first and second patch antennas may collectively cover first and second frequency bands while occupying a minimal amount of space on the dielectric substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US11177566B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-16
申请号:US15898164
申请日:2018-02-15
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Siwen Yong , Yi Jiang , Mattia Pascolini
摘要: An electronic device may be provided with a dielectric cover and a phased antenna array for conveying millimeter wave signals. A conductive pocket may be mounted to the cover. The pocket may include a conductive rear wall and conductive sidewalls that extend from a periphery of the rear wall to the cover. The array may be mounted to the rear wall and may convey signals through the cover. The sidewalls may extend from the cover at non-zero angles with respect to the normal axis of the cover. The shape of the pocket and the cover may be selected so that the pocket is non-resonant at frequencies handled by the array, to mitigate destructive interference within the pocket, to block surface waves from propagating along the cover, and to tweak the radiation pattern of the array to exhibit a desired shape and directionality.
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公开(公告)号:US11038284B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-15
申请号:US15950677
申请日:2018-04-11
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Jennifer M. Edwards , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Bilgehan Avser , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Siwen Yong , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
摘要: An electronic device may be provided with a dielectric cover layer, a dielectric substrate, and a phased antenna array on the dielectric substrate for conveying millimeter wave signals through the dielectric cover layer. The array may include conductive traces mounted against the dielectric layer. The conductive traces may form patch elements or parasitic elements for the phased antenna array. The dielectric layer may have a dielectric constant and a thickness selected to form a quarter wave impedance transformer for the array at a wavelength of operation of the array. The substrate may include fences of conductive vias that laterally surround each of the antennas within the array. When configured in this way, signal attenuation, destructive interference, and surface wave generation associated with the presence of the dielectric layer over the phased antenna array may be minimized.
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公开(公告)号:US10756788B1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-25
申请号:US16136144
申请日:2018-09-19
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Yi Jiang , Mattia Pascolini , Jiangfeng Wu , Siwen Yong , Lijun Zhang
IPC分类号: H04L5/12 , H04B7/0426 , H04B7/155 , G06K9/00 , H04B10/114
摘要: A wireless communication system comprises a base station and one or more relay docks and transmits directional wave signals between components using high frequency waves, such as millimeter waves. A beam forming decision engine utilizes position information collected from one or more position or motion sensors of a user device to determine a direction in which to form a directional wave signal being transmitted between components of the wireless communication system.
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公开(公告)号:US20190123431A1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-25
申请号:US16226414
申请日:2018-12-19
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: 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
摘要: 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.
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公开(公告)号:US20180342789A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-29
申请号:US15602956
申请日:2017-05-23
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Yi Jiang , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Siwen Yong , Mattia Pascolini
摘要: An electronic device may include a substrate and a conductive layer on the substrate. The conductive layer may be patterned to form a first region and a second region that surrounds and defines the shape of the first region. The first region may be formed from a continuous portion of the conductive layer. The second region may include a grid of openings that divides the conductive layer into an array of patches. The first region may form an antenna resonating element for an antenna. The second region may block antenna currents from the antenna resonating element and may be transparent to radio-frequency electromagnetic waves. The openings may have a width that is too narrow to be discerned by the human eye. This may configure the first and second regions to appear as a single continuous conductive layer despite the fact that an antenna resonating element is formed therein.
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公开(公告)号:US10008764B2
公开(公告)日:2018-06-26
申请号:US15264500
申请日:2016-09-13
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Yi Jiang , Siwen Yong , Gordon Coutts , Lijun Zhang , Qingxiang Li , Robert W. Schlub
摘要: An electronic device may have an antenna for providing coverage in wireless communications bands of interest such as a low frequency communications band and a high frequency communications band. The antenna may have an antenna ground and an antenna resonating element. The antenna resonating element may have a high band arm that contributes to a first high band resonance in the high band and may have a low band arm that exhibits a low band resonance in the low band. A passive filter that is coupled between first and second portions of the antenna resonating element may be configured to exhibit a short circuit impedance associated with a bypass path that allows the antenna resonating element to contribute to a second high band resonance in the high band. A tunable inductor coupled to the antenna resonating element may be used to tune the low band resonance.
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公开(公告)号:US20180048058A1
公开(公告)日:2018-02-15
申请号:US15234918
申请日:2016-08-11
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: 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
CPC分类号: H01Q1/273 , H01Q1/2291 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q1/50 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/14 , H04B5/0031
摘要: 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.
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公开(公告)号:US09496608B2
公开(公告)日:2016-11-15
申请号:US13864968
申请日:2013-04-17
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Yi Jiang , Siwen Yong , Gordon Coutts , Lijun Zhang , Qingxiang Li , Robert W. Schlub
摘要: An electronic device may have an antenna for providing coverage in wireless communications bands of interest such as a low frequency communications band and a high frequency communications band. The antenna may have an antenna ground and an antenna resonating element. The antenna resonating element may have a high band arm that contributes to a first high band resonance in the high band and may have a low band arm that exhibits a low band resonance in the low band. A passive filter that is coupled between first and second portions of the antenna resonating element may be configured to exhibit a short circuit impedance associated with a bypass path that allows the antenna resonating element to contribute to a second high band resonance in the high band.
摘要翻译: 电子设备可以具有用于在诸如低频通信频带和高频通信频带之类的感兴趣的无线通信频带中提供覆盖的天线。 天线可以具有天线接地和天线谐振元件。 天线谐振元件可以具有有助于高频带中的第一高频带谐振的高频带臂,并且可以具有在低频带中表现出低频带谐振的低频带臂。 耦合在天线谐振元件的第一和第二部分之间的无源滤波器可以被配置为呈现与允许天线谐振元件对高频段中的第二高频带谐振有贡献的旁路路径相关联的短路阻抗。
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公开(公告)号:US09356661B2
公开(公告)日:2016-05-31
申请号:US14259861
申请日:2014-04-23
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Miroslav Samardzija , Yiren Wang , Yuehui Ouyang , Joseph Hakim , Qingxiang Li , Robert W. Schlub , Ruben Caballero , Siwen Yong , Erik G. de Jong
IPC分类号: H04B5/00 , H04B5/02 , G04R60/10 , G04G21/04 , H01Q1/27 , H01Q7/00 , G06F1/16 , H01L27/32 , H01Q1/52 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q9/42
CPC分类号: H01Q1/22 , G04G21/04 , G04R60/10 , G06F1/163 , H01L27/323 , H01Q1/273 , H01Q1/52 , H01Q1/526 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q21/28 , H04B5/0025 , H04B5/0031 , H04B5/0081 , H04B5/02 , H05K1/0278 , H05K5/0017 , H05K5/03
摘要: An electronic device may have a display. A display cover layer and a transparent inner display member may overlap a display pixel layer. The display pixel layer may have an array of display pixels for displaying images for a user. A touch sensor layer may be interposed between the display pixel layer and the transparent display member. A ferromagnetic shielding layer may be mounted below the display pixel layer. A flexible printed circuit containing coils of metal signal lines that form a near-field communications loop antenna may be interposed between the ferromagnetic shielding layer and the display pixel layer. A non-near-field antenna such as an inverted-F antenna may have a resonating element mounted on an inner surface of the display cover layer. The resonating element may be interposed between the transparent display member and the display cover layer.
摘要翻译: 电子设备可以具有显示器。 显示覆盖层和透明内显示构件可以与显示像素层重叠。 显示像素层可以具有用于为用户显示图像的显示像素阵列。 可以在显示像素层和透明显示构件之间插入触摸传感器层。 铁磁屏蔽层可以安装在显示像素层下方。 包含形成近场通信环形天线的金属信号线的线圈的柔性印刷电路可以插入在铁磁屏蔽层和显示像素层之间。 诸如倒F天线的非近场天线可以具有安装在显示器覆盖层的内表面上的谐振元件。 谐振元件可以插入在透明显示构件和显示器覆盖层之间。
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