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公开(公告)号：US11990687B2
公开(公告)日：2024-05-21
申请号：US17867504
申请日：2022-07-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Alden T Rush , Soroush Akbarzadeh , Hongfei Hu , Han Wang , Javier Gomez Tagle , Ming Chen , Carlo Di Nallo , Mattia Pascolini , Erdinc Irci , Ali Pourghorban Saghati
Abstract: An electronic device may include an antenna disposed on a substrate. The antenna may include a ring of conductive traces, a fed arm, and an unfed arm. The fed arm and the unfed arm may extend from opposing segments of the ring. The ring may be coupled to ground by fences of conductive vias extending through the substrate. The first arm may have a first radiating edge. The second arm may have a second radiating edge. The first radiating edge may be separated from the second radiating edge by a gap. The first arm may indirectly feed the second arm via near-field electromagnetic coupling across the gap. The first and second arms may collectively radiate in an ultra-wideband (UWB) frequency band.
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公开(公告)号：US20230291124A1
公开(公告)日：2023-09-14
申请号：US17694486
申请日：2022-03-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Xu Han , Hongfei Hu , Ming Chen , Jingni Zhong , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Mohsen Salehi , Carlo Di Nallo , Ming-Ju Tsai , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas formed from respective first and second segments of a housing. The first antenna may have a first feed coupled to the first segment by a first switch and coupled to the first segment by a first conductive trace. The second antenna may have a second feed coupled to the second segment by a second switch and coupled to the second segment by a second conductive trace. The first segment may be separated from the second segment by a single gap, a data connector may pass through the second segment, and the antennas may selectively cover a low band. Alternatively, the first segment may be separated from the second segment by a third segment and two gaps, the data connector may pass through the third segment, and the first and second antennas may concurrently cover the low band.
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公开(公告)号：US20230170927A1
公开(公告)日：2023-06-01
申请号：US18158441
申请日：2023-01-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Liang Han , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Thomas E. Biedka , Hongfei Hu , Erdinc Irci , Nanbo Jin , James G. Judkins , Victor C. Lee , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Yiren Wang , Yuancheng Xu , Yijun Zhou
Abstract: A radio frequency device has a multifunctional tuner that stores measurements of reflection coefficient parameter in a register. The radio frequency device also has a transceiver that has a transmitter. The transceiver may detect a transmitter signal from the transmitter to an antenna in an initial tuning state and then determine whether the transmitter signal is stable. In response to the transmitter signal being stable, the transceiver may measuring the reflection coefficient parameters at the multifunctional tuner. Furthermore, the radio frequency device has a baseband controller that has a memory to store instructions and a processor to execute the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to determine an antenna impedance based on the reflection coefficient parameters, and in response to determining that the antenna impedance is greater than or less than a threshold antenna impedance, iteratively tune the antenna using the multifunctional tuner.
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公开(公告)号：US11309628B2
公开(公告)日：2022-04-19
申请号：US17079284
申请日：2020-10-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Hongfei Hu , Mattia Pascolini , Nanbo Jin , Matthew A. Mow , Erdinc Irci , Erica J. Tong , Han Wang
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/52 , H04B7/0404 , H01Q1/44 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q1/42 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q21/06 , H01Q5/35 , H01Q5/321 , H04B1/40
Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing and four antennas at respective corners of the housing. Cellular telephone transceiver circuitry may concurrently convey signals at one or more of the same frequencies over one or more of the four antennas using a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scheme. In order to isolate adjacent antennas, dielectric-filled openings may be formed in conductive walls of the housing to divide the walls into segments that are used to form resonating element arms for the antennas. If desired, first and second antennas may include resonating element arms formed from a wall without any gaps. The first and second antennas may include adjacent return paths. A magnetic field associated with currents for the first antenna may cancel out with a magnetic field associated with currents for the second antenna at the adjacent return paths, thereby serving to electromagnetically isolate the first and second antennas.
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公开(公告)号：US20220094059A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-24
申请号：US17025987
申请日：2020-09-18
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: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and a housing with upper and lower ends. The lower end may include first and second open slot antennas that are directly fed by respective feeds and that radiate in a cellular ultra-high band. The lower end may also include first and second inverted-F antennas. The upper end may include third and fourth inverted-F antennas. The first inverted-F antenna may have a first feed that conveys currents below 2700 MHz and a second feed that conveys antenna currents in the cellular ultra-high band, a wireless local area network band, and/or ultra-wideband frequency bands. If desired, the upper end may include a third open slot antenna that is directly fed by a corresponding antenna feed and that radiates in the cellular ultra-high band and/or in the ultra-wideband frequency bands.
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公开(公告)号：US20210218430A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-15
申请号：US16898069
申请日：2020-06-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Liang Han , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Thomas E. Biedka , Hongfei Hu , Erdinc Irci , Nanbo Jin , James G. Judkins , Victor C. Lee , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Yiren Wang , Yuancheng Xu , Yijun Zhou
Abstract: A radio frequency device has a multifunctional tuner that stores measurements of reflection coefficient parameter in a register. The radio frequency device also has a transceiver that has a transmitter. The transceiver may detect a transmitter signal from the transmitter to an antenna in an initial tuning state and then determine whether the transmitter signal is stable. In response to the transmitter signal being stable, the transceiver may measuring the reflection coefficient parameters at the multifunctional tuner. Furthermore, the radio frequency device has a baseband controller that has a memory to store instructions and a processor to execute the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to determine an antenna impedance based on the reflection coefficient parameters, and in response to determining that the antenna impedance is greater than or less than a threshold antenna impedance, iteratively tune the antenna using the multifunctional tuner.
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公开(公告)号：US10862216B1
公开(公告)日：2020-12-08
申请号：US16457515
申请日：2019-06-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Erdinc Irci , Georgios Atmatzakis , Hongfei Hu
Abstract: An electronic device may include ground structures and peripheral conductive housing structures defining opposing edges of a slot element. A monopole element may overlap the slot element. The monopole element may be directly fed radio-frequency signals by an antenna feed coupled to the monopole element. The monopole element may radiate the radio-frequency signals in a first frequency band while indirectly feeding the radio-frequency signals to the slot element via near-field electromagnetic coupling. The slot element may radiate the radio-frequency signals in a second frequency band that is lower than the first frequency band. The monopole element and the slot element may collectively form a multi-band antenna that exhibits a relatively wide bandwidth.
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公开(公告)号：US10461429B2
公开(公告)日：2019-10-29
申请号：US15461248
申请日：2017-03-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christopher J. Durning , Hongfei Hu , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Christopher T. Cheng , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Nanbo Jin , Erica J. Tong , Mattia Pascolini , Denis J. Lin , Salome Bavetta , Sherry Lee
Abstract: A consumer electronic product includes a switchable inductor array coupled to the RF antenna, the switchable inductor array comprising inductive elements and a switch circuit coupled to the inductor array to select at least one of the inductive elements and couple the selected inductive element with the RF antenna. The product can further include an assembly having a mesh that is strengthened by a stiffener. A multi-layer adhesive have a conductive layer that can be used to shield the RF antenna and adhesive layers that can provide adhesion between the stiffener and the housing of the product. The assembly can be covered by a cowling that is made of metal to provide further shielding. To reduce potential coupling between the RF antenna and the cowling, the cowling can have a portion that is formed of plastic to distance its metal portion from the antenna.
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39.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20190165836A1
公开(公告)日：2019-05-30
申请号：US16265462
申请日：2019-02-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erdinc Irci , Han Wang , Georgios Atmatzakis , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Erica J. Tong , Xu Gao , Hongfei Hu , Nanbo Jin , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H04B5/02 , H04B5/00 , H04B7/0413
Abstract: An electronic device may include a peripheral conductive wall. A gap in the wall may divide the wall into first and second segments. The device may include a first antenna having a first resonating element arm formed from the first segment and a second antenna having a second resonating element arm formed from the second segment. A non-near-field communications transceiver may perform multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) operations using the first and second antennas. The gap may provide satisfactory isolation between the first and second antennas while the first and second antennas perform MIMO operations. Near-field communications circuitry may convey near-field communications signals over a conductive loop path that includes portions of the first and second segments and the antenna ground. The volume of the conductive loop path may extend across substantially all of a width of the electronic device.
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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
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.
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