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公开(公告)号：US20190081393A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-14
申请号：US15701246
申请日：2017-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yijun Zhou , Jennifer M. Edwards , Yiren Wang , Hao Xu , Ming-Ju Tsai , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. An antenna may have an antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. The antenna ground for the antenna may include a first conductive structure that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a first distance and a second conductive structure that is electrically connected to the first conductive structure and separated from the antenna resonating element by a second distance that is less than the first distance. A distributed impedance matching capacitor for the antenna may be formed from the second conductive structure and the antenna resonating element arm. The second conductive structure may be a conductive frame for an electronic component such as a sensor.
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公开(公告)号：US10224602B2
公开(公告)日：2019-03-05
申请号：US14693274
申请日：2015-04-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Umar Azad , Harish Rajagopalan , Mattia Pascolini , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo
Abstract: An electronic device housing may have a rear housing wall that forms a metal ground plane. A slot may be formed in the metal ground plane. The slot may have one or more open ends along an edge of the ground plane. A near-field communications loop antenna may overlap the slot. The near-field communications loop antenna may have one or more turns. A current path through the metal ground plane may form one of the turns in the near-field communications loop antenna. The slot may form portions of non-near-field-communications antennas in addition to the near-field communications loop antenna. The slot in the non-near-field-communications antennas may be fed using an indirect antenna feed structure. Components such as a capacitor and inductor may help allow non-near-field communications antenna and the near-field communications antenna to be formed from common portions of the metal ground plane.
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公开(公告)号：US10218052B2
公开(公告)日：2019-02-26
申请号：US14710377
申请日：2015-05-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mattia Pascolini , Umar Azad , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Erdinc Irci , Qingxiang Li , Matthew A. Mow , Harish Rajagopalan , Miroslav Samardzija , Ming-Ju Tsai
Abstract: An electronic device may have hybrid antennas that include slot antenna resonating elements formed from slots in a ground plane and planar inverted-F antenna resonating elements. The planar inverted-F antenna resonating elements may each have a planar metal member that overlaps one of the slots. The slot of each slot antenna resonating element may divide the ground plane into first and second portions. A return path and feed may be coupled in parallel between the planar metal member and the first portion of the ground plane. Tunable components such as tunable inductors may be used to tune the hybrid antennas. A tunable inductor may bridge the slot in hybrid antenna, may be coupled between the planar metal member of the planar inverted-F antenna resonating element and the ground plane, or multiple tunable inductors may bridge the slot on opposing sides of the planar inverted-F antenna resonating element.
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公开(公告)号：US10205224B2
公开(公告)日：2019-02-12
申请号：US15275183
申请日：2016-09-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Basim H. Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Xu Han , Victor C. Lee , Ming-Ju Tsai , Simone Paulotto
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include millimeter wave antenna arrays formed from arrays of patch antennas, dipole antennas or other millimeter wave antennas on millimeter wave antenna array substrates. Circuitry such as upconverter and downconverter circuitry may be mounted on the substrates. The upconverter and downconverter may be coupled to wireless communications circuitry such as a baseband processor circuit using an intermediate frequency signal path. The electronic device may have opposing front and rear faces. A display may cover the front face. A rear housing wall may cover the rear face. A metal midplate may be interposed between the display and rear housing wall. Millimeter wave antenna arrays may transmit and receive antenna signals through the rear housing wall.
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公开(公告)号：US20190027808A1
公开(公告)日：2019-01-24
申请号：US15655015
申请日：2017-07-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Basim H. Noori , Khan M. Salam , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Simone Paulotto , Travis A. Barbieri , Victor C. Lee , Xu Han
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry, a conductive housing, and a display. The display may have an active area that displays image data and an inactive area that does not display image data. The active area may completely surround the inactive area at a front face of the device. A speaker port may be aligned with the inactive area and may emit sound through the inactive area. The wireless circuitry may include first and second antenna arrays. The first array may be configured to transmit and receive wireless signals at frequencies between 10 GHz and 300 GHz through the inactive area of the display. The second array may be configured to transmit and receive wireless signals at frequencies between 10 GHz and 300 GHz through a slot in a rear wall of the conductive housing. Control circuitry may perform beam steering using the first and second arrays.
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Patent Agency Ranking
公开(公告)号：US20190013570A1
公开(公告)日：2019-01-10
申请号：US16030726
申请日：2018-07-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ruben Caballero , Mattia Pascolini , Mohit Narang , Matt A. Mow , Robert W. Schlub
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q21/28 , H04B1/401 , H04B7/0602 , H04B7/0689 , H04M1/0202
Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and first and second antennas. An electronic device may include a housing. The first antenna may be located at an upper end of the housing and the second antenna may be located at a lower end of the housing. A peripheral conductive member may run around the edges of the housing and may be used in forming the first and second antennas. The radio-frequency transceiver circuitry may have a transmit-receive port and a receive port. Switching circuitry may connect the first antenna to the transmit-receive port and the second antenna to the receiver port or may connect the first antenna to the receive port and the second antenna to the transmit-receive port.
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公开(公告)号：US10158384B1
公开(公告)日：2018-12-18
申请号：US15699869
申请日：2017-09-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Salih Yarga , Xu Gao , Georgios Atmatzakis , Xu Han , Bilgehan Avser , Hao Xu , Yijun Zhou , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. An antenna in the electronic device may have an inverted-F antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. The antenna may also include an indirectly-fed antenna resonating element that is indirectly fed by a harmonic mode of the inverted-F antenna resonating element via near field electromagnetic coupling. The indirectly-fed antenna resonating element may be a slot. The antenna ground may define at least three edges of the slot and the slot may be aligned with a dielectric-filled gap in the peripheral conductive housing structures. An adjustable circuit may be coupled across the slot to tune the indirectly-fed antenna resonating element.
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公开(公告)号：US20180351244A1
公开(公告)日：2018-12-06
申请号：US15655702
申请日：2017-07-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erin A. McAuliffe , Joel D. Barrera , Jerzy S. Guterman , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H01Q1/44 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q5/371 , H01Q5/385 , H01Q9/06 , H01Q13/106 , H04B1/40
Abstract: An electronic device may have a speaker mounted in a housing. The housing may have a top face and a longitudinal axis that passes through the top face. A printed circuit may lie parallel to the top face. Input-output circuitry such as a touch sensor and other components may be mounted on the top face overlapping the printed circuit. First and second antennas may be formed on the printed circuit. A speaker may be mounted in the housing facing along the longitudinal axis. A metal layer on a movable portion of the speaker may be patterned to form a slot antenna isolation element or other antenna isolation element. The antenna isolation element may be configured to exhibit a resonance at a frequency of operation of the first and second antennas and may therefore enhance isolation between the first and second antennas.
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公开(公告)号：US10141631B2
公开(公告)日：2018-11-27
申请号：US14966446
申请日：2015-12-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Francesco Merli , Yi Jiang , Boon W. Shiu , Carlo Di Nallo , Javier Gomez Tagle , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include an antenna. The electronic device may have a housing in which control circuitry and radio-frequency transceiver circuitry is mounted. The transceiver circuitry may be used to transmit and receive radio-frequency signals with the antenna. The housing may have a housing wall with a locally thinned portion aligned with the antenna. The antenna may have a sheet metal layer attached to a plastic cavity with a layer of adhesive. Recesses in a printed circuit may receive prongs formed from a sheet metal layer. The plastic carrier may have cavities separated by ribs. The sheet metal layer may form a planar inverted-F antenna resonating element, a ground plane, a return path between the resonating element and ground plane, and a feed path that extends along one of the ribs and into an opening in the printed circuit.
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公开(公告)号：US10122071B2
公开(公告)日：2018-11-06
申请号：US15374745
申请日：2016-12-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mattia Pascolini , Nanbo Jin
IPC: H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/24 , G06K9/00 , H01Q13/10 , G06F21/32 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q3/24 , H01Q9/04 , H04N5/225 , H04M1/02
Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry and components such as sensors. The electronic device may have a metal housing having first and second planar rear wall portions separated by a gap. Conductive structures may bridge the gap to electrically couple the first and second rear wall portions. The wireless circuitry may include a hybrid slot inverted-F antenna. The antenna may have an inverted-F antenna resonating element formed from peripheral housing structures that are separated from the second rear wall portion by an opening. The opening may form a C-shaped slot antenna resonating element for the antenna. The sensors may include a fingerprint sensor. The fingerprint sensor may be coupled to a button member in a button. The fingerprint sensor and other portions of the button may overlap the second planar rear wall portion to minimize interference with antenna operation.
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