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公开(公告)号：US20190267718A1
公开(公告)日：2019-08-29
申请号：US15906979
申请日：2018-02-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Harish Rajagopalan , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Simone Paulotto , Matthew A. Mow , Bilgehan Avser , Hao Xu , Jennifer M. Edwards , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a sidewall, a display module separated from the sidewall by a gap a display cover, a conductive bucket mounted to the display cover within the gap, and a phased antenna array mounted to the bucket for conveying millimeter wave signals through the display cover. The sidewall may form part of an antenna for conveying non-millimeter wave signals. The array may include resonating elements on a substrate. The resonating elements may be fed using feed terminals coupled to alternating sides of the resonating elements. Dielectric layers having a dielectric constant lower than that of the display cover may be provided on a surface of the display cover within the bucket. The array may operate with satisfactory efficiency despite the small amount of available space within the device, electromagnetic interference from the sidewall and the display module, and dielectric loading by the display cover.
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公开(公告)号：US20190173160A1
公开(公告)日：2019-06-06
申请号：US16272932
申请日：2019-02-11
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：US10297902B2
公开(公告)日：2019-05-21
申请号：US15704471
申请日：2017-09-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Nanbo Jin , Anand Lakshmanan , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Erica J. Tong , Hongfei Hu , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai
Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from peripheral conductive structures running along the edges of a device housing. Elongated conductive members may longitudinally divide openings between the peripheral conductive housing structures and the ground. The elongated conductive members may extend from an internal ground to outer ends of the elongated conductive members that are located adjacent to the gaps. Transmission lines may extend along the elongated conductive members to antenna feeds at the outer ends. The elongated conductive members may form open slots that serve as slot antenna resonating elements for the antenna.
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公开(公告)号：US20190081615A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-14
申请号：US15700580
申请日：2017-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jennifer M. Edwards , Yijun Zhou , Yiren Wang , Hao Xu , Ming-Ju Tsai , Victor C. Lee , Liang Han , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include an antenna with 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 include a first adjustable component coupled between the antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground on a first side of the antenna feed and a second adjustable component coupled between the antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground on a second side of the antenna feed. Control circuitry in the electronic device may adjust the first and second adjustable components between a first tuning mode, a second tuning mode, and a third tuning mode.
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公开(公告)号：US20190027838A1
公开(公告)日：2019-01-24
申请号：US15658141
申请日：2017-07-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Simone Paulotto , Basim H. Noori , Matthew A. Mow
CPC classification number: H01Q21/065 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/242 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q5/335 , H01Q5/385 , H01Q9/045 , H01Q21/0025 , H01Q21/08 , H01Q21/22 , H01Q21/24 , H01Q21/28
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with millimeter wave transceiver circuitry and an antenna having a ground and a resonating element. The resonating element may include first and second patches symmetrically distributed about an axis. The antenna may be fed using an antenna feed having a first feed terminal coupled to both the first and second patches and a second feed terminal coupled to the ground. The first feed terminal may be coupled to the first patch at a side closest to the second patch and may be coupled to the second patch at a side closest to the first patch. The first and second patches may be shorted to the ground if desired. Antenna currents on the first patch may be 180 degrees out of phase with antenna currents on the second patch. The antenna may be arranged in an array of antennas with different polarizations.
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46.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20190027809A1
公开(公告)日：2019-01-24
申请号：US15655251
申请日：2017-07-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James G. Judkins , Jing Zhu , Liang Han , Matthew A. Mow , Ming-Ju Tsai , Thomas E. Biedka , Victor C. Lee , Xu Han
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes one or more antennas and a transceiver. An integrated circuit may be coupled between the transceiver and the antenna and may include multiple tunable components such that tune the response of the antenna. The control signals may be generated by a tuning controller external to the integrated circuit. Shared control interface circuitry may be formed on the integrated circuit for interfacing between the tuning controller and each of the tunable components on the integrated circuit. The control interface circuitry may include a conductive path and decoupling circuitry that routes the control signals to corresponding control inputs on each of the tunable components. Sharing the control interface circuitry between each tunable component on the integrated circuit may minimize the space required on the integrated circuit for controlling the response of the antenna.
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公开(公告)号：US10056695B2
公开(公告)日：2018-08-21
申请号：US14811714
申请日：2015-07-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Hongfei Hu , Nanbo Jin , Matthew A. Mow , Liang Han , Ming-Ju Tsai , Erica J. Tong , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Mattia Pascolini , Benjamin Shane Bustle , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H01Q13/103 , H01Q1/245
Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from conductive housing structures running along the edges of a device. The antenna may have a pair of switchable return paths that bridge a slot between the antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. An adjustable component and a feed may be coupled in parallel across the slot. The adjustable component may switch a capacitor into use or out of use and the return paths may be selectively opened and closed to compensate for antenna loading due to the presence of external objects near the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号：US20180219637A1
公开(公告)日：2018-08-02
申请号：US15940758
申请日：2018-03-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include antennas. The antennas may include phased antenna arrays for handling millimeter wave signals. Antennas may be located in antenna signal paths. The antenna signal paths may include adjustable components such as adjustable filters, adjustable gain amplifiers, and adjustable phase shifters. Circuitry may be incorporated into an electronic device to facilitate wireless self-testing operations. Wireless self-testing may involve use of one antenna to transmit an over-the-air antenna test signal that is received by another antenna. The circuitry that facilitates the wireless self-testing operations may include couplers, adjustable switches for temporarily shorting antenna signal paths together, mixers for mixing down radio-frequency signals to allow digitization with analog-to-digital converters, and other circuitry for supporting self-testing operations.
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公开(公告)号：US20180152220A1
公开(公告)日：2018-05-31
申请号：US15871388
申请日：2018-01-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Robert W. Schlub , Mattia Pascolini , Robert J. Hill , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H04B1/40 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q7/005 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/0442 , H01Q9/145 , H01Q13/103
Abstract: An electronic device has wireless communications circuitry including an adjustable antenna system coupled to a radio-frequency transceiver. The adjustable antenna system may include one or more adjustable electrical components that are controlled by storage and processing circuitry in the electronic device. The adjustable electrical components may include switches and components that can be adjusted between numerous different states. The adjustable electrical components may be coupled between antenna system components such as transmission line elements, matching network elements, antenna elements and antenna feeds. By adjusting the adjustable electrical components, the storage and processing circuitry can tune the adjustable antenna system to ensure that the adjustable antenna system covers communications bands of interest.
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公开(公告)号：US09960801B2
公开(公告)日：2018-05-01
申请号：US15636498
申请日：2017-06-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Liang Han , Ming-Ju Tsai , Thomas E. Biedka , Victor Lee , James G. Judkins , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H04B1/40 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q9/0442 , H04B1/0458 , H04B1/18
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. An antenna may have an antenna feed that is coupled to a radio-frequency transceiver with a transmission line. An impedance matching circuit may be coupled to the antenna feed to match the impedance of the transmission line and the antenna. The impedance matching circuit and tunable circuitry in the antenna may be formed using integrated circuits. Each integrated circuit may include switching circuitry that is used in switching components such as inductors and capacitors into use. Sensors such as temperature sensors, current and voltage sensors, power sensors, and impedance sensors may be integrated into the integrated circuits. Each integrated circuit may store settings for the switching circuitry and may include communications and control circuitry for communicating with external circuits and processing sensor data.
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