Electronic Devices Having Co-Located Millimeter Wave Antennas

    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.

    IPC分类号: H01Q5/385 H01Q9/04 H01Q1/24

    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.

    Electronic devices having shielded antenna arrays

    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.

    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.

    Antennas in Patterned Conductive Layers
    26.
    发明申请

    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.

    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.

    Tunable multiband antenna with passive and active circuitry
    29.
    发明授权
    Tunable multiband antenna with passive and active circuitry 有权
    可调谐多频带天线,具有无源和有源电路

    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.

    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。