Electronic Device With Peripheral Display Antenna
    31.
    发明申请
    Electronic Device With Peripheral Display Antenna 有权
    具有外围显示天线的电子设备

    公开(公告)号:US20160056526A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-02-25

    申请号:US14468217

    申请日:2014-08-25

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H01Q1/24 H01Q9/42

    CPC分类号: H01Q1/243 H01Q1/273 H01Q9/42

    摘要: An electronic device may be provided with electrical components mounted in a housing. The electronic device may include wireless transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. A display may be mounted in the housing. The display may have a transparent layer such as display cover layer. The display cover layer may have an inner surface with a recess. The recess may be a groove that runs along a peripheral edge of the display cover layer. An antenna structure such as an inverted-F antenna resonating element may be formed from a metal trace on a plastic support structure. The metal trace and support structure may be mounted in the groove with adhesive. The housing may be a metal housing that forms an antenna ground. Springs may be used in forming an antenna feed and an antenna return path that couples the antenna resonating element to ground.

    摘要翻译: 电子设备可以设置有安装在壳体中的电气部件。 电子设备可以包括无线收发器电路和天线结构。 显示器可以安装在外壳中。 显示器可以具有诸如显示器盖层的透明层。 显示器覆盖层可以具有带有凹部的内表面。 凹部可以是沿着显示器覆盖层的周边边缘延伸的凹槽。 诸如倒F天线谐振元件的天线结构可以由塑料支撑结构上的金属迹线形成。 金属迹线和支撑结构可以用粘合剂安装在凹槽中。 外壳可以是形成天线接地的金属外壳。 弹簧可以用于形成将天线谐振元件耦合到地的天线馈电和天线返回路径。

    Radio-frequency modules having high-permittivity antenna layers

    公开(公告)号:US11923621B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-05

    申请号:US17338463

    申请日:2021-06-03

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H01Q5/35 H01Q3/34

    CPC分类号: H01Q5/35 H01Q3/34

    摘要: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array on an antenna module. The array may include low band antennas and high band antennas that radiate at frequencies greater than 10 GHz. The module may include antenna layers, transmission line layers, and ground traces that separate the antenna layers from the transmission line layers. The low band antennas and the high band antennas may have radiators patterned onto the antenna layers. The radiators may be fed by transmission lines on the transmission line layers. The antenna layers may have a dielectric permittivity that is greater than the dielectric permittivity of the transmission line layers. This may serve to reduce the lateral footprint of the low band and high band antennas, which allows the antennas to be interleaved along a common linear axis in the phased antenna array, thereby minimizing the lateral footprint of the antenna module.

    Electronic Devices With Frame Antennas
    35.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230305302A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-28

    申请号:US18171067

    申请日:2023-02-17

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: A head-mounted device such as a pair of glasses may have display systems. The display systems may present images to eye boxes for viewing by a user. The glasses may have clear lenses through which real-world objects may be viewed from the eye boxes. The glasses may have a metal frame that surrounds the lenses and may have temples that are coupled to the frame using hinges. Radio-frequency transceiver circuitry such as cellular telephone transceiver circuitry may be coupled to one or more antennas in the head-mounted device. The antennas may have antenna resonating elements formed by placing dielectric-filled gaps in the metal frame to divide the frame into segments. Antenna resonating elements formed from segments of the metal frame may be coupled to the radio-frequency transceiver circuitry using transmission lines.

    Electronic Devices Having Antennas that Radiate Through Three-Dimensionally Curved Cover Layers

    公开(公告)号:US20220384941A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-01

    申请号:US17865241

    申请日:2022-07-14

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H01Q1/42 H01Q1/38 H01Q1/24

    摘要: An electronic device may have a cover layer and an antenna. A dielectric adapter may have a first surface coupled to the antenna and a second surface pressed against the cover layer. The cover layer may have a three-dimensional curvature. The second surface may have a curvature that matches the curvature of the cover layer. Biasing structures may exert a biasing force that presses the antenna against the dielectric adapter and that presses the dielectric adapter against the cover layer. The biasing force may be oriented in a direction normal to the cover layer at each point across dielectric adapter. This may serve to ensure that a uniform and reliable impedance transition is provided between the antenna and free space through the cover layer over time, thereby maximizing the efficiency of the antenna.

    Electronic devices having antennas that radiate through three-dimensionally curved cover layers

    公开(公告)号:US11417951B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-16

    申请号:US17008862

    申请日:2020-09-01

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H01Q1/42 H01Q1/38 H01Q1/22

    摘要: An electronic device may have a cover layer and an antenna. A dielectric adapter may have a first surface coupled to the antenna and a second surface pressed against the cover layer. The cover layer may have a three-dimensional curvature. The second surface may have a curvature that matches the curvature of the cover layer. Biasing structures may exert a biasing force that presses the antenna against the dielectric adapter and that presses the dielectric adapter against the cover layer. The biasing force may be oriented in a direction normal to the cover layer at each point across dielectric adapter. This may serve to ensure that a uniform and reliable impedance transition is provided between the antenna and free space through the cover layer over time, thereby maximizing the efficiency of the antenna.

    Electronic devices having multilayer millimeter wave antennas

    公开(公告)号:US11349204B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US17028864

    申请日:2020-09-22

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: An electronic device may have a phased antenna array. An antenna in the array may include a rectangular patch element with diagonal axes. The antenna may have first and second antenna feeds coupled to the patch element along the diagonal axes. The antenna may be rotated at a forty-five degree angle relative to other antennas in the array. The antenna may have one or two layers of parasitic elements overlapping the patch element. For example, the antenna may have a layer of coplanar parasitic patches separated by a gap. The antenna may also have an additional parasitic patch that is located farther from the patch element than the layer of coplanar parasitic patches. The additional parasitic patch may overlap the patch element and the gap in the coplanar parasitic patches. The antenna may exhibit a relatively small footprint and minimal mutual coupling with other antennas in the array.

    Integrated millimeter wave antenna modules

    公开(公告)号:US11335992B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-17

    申请号:US16990879

    申请日:2020-08-11

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna module and a phased antenna array on the module. The module may include a logic board, an antenna board surface-mounted to the logic board, and a radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) mounted surface-mounted to the logic board. The phased antenna array may include antennas embedded in the antenna board. The antennas may radiate at centimeter and/or millimeter wave frequencies. The logic board may form a radio-frequency interface between the RFIC and the antennas. Transmission lines in the logic board and the antenna board may include impedance matching segments that help to match the impedance of the RFIC to the impedance of the antennas. The module may efficiently utilize space within the device without sacrificing radio-frequency performance.