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公开(公告)号：US20220094061A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-24
申请号：US17031627
申请日：2020-09-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Siwen Yong , Jiangfeng Wu , Yi Jiang , Simon G. Begashaw , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: 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.
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公开(公告)号：US11177566B2
公开(公告)日：2021-11-16
申请号：US15898164
申请日：2018-02-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Siwen Yong , Yi Jiang , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: 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.
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公开(公告)号：US20200326790A1
公开(公告)日：2020-10-15
申请号：US16913948
申请日：2020-06-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bing Jiang , Blake R. Marshall , Indranil S. Sen , Liquan Tan , Reza Nasiri Mahalati , Yi Jiang , Mohit Narang
IPC: G06F3/0354 , H02J50/05 , H04B5/00 , G06F3/041
Abstract: A wireless power transmission system may include a wireless power transmitting device such as a tablet computer and a wireless power receiving device such as a computer stylus. A wireless power transmitting capacitor electrode may be formed in the tablet computer. A wireless power receiving capacitor electrode may be formed in the computer stylus. The transmitting capacitor electrode may be driven by a drive signal having a frequency of 900 MHz or greater to produce wireless power. The wireless power may be transmitted from the transmitting capacitor electrode to the receiving capacitor electrode on the stylus via near field capacitive coupling. The transmitting and receiving capacitor electrodes may each include conductive traces on dielectric substrates. The conductive traces may follow meandering paths to maximize the possible capacitive coupling efficiency between the capacitor electrodes and thus the end-to-end charging efficiency of the wireless power transmission system.
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公开(公告)号：US10756788B1
公开(公告)日：2020-08-25
申请号：US16136144
申请日：2018-09-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Mattia Pascolini , Jiangfeng Wu , Siwen Yong , Lijun Zhang
IPC: H04L5/12 , H04B7/0426 , H04B7/155 , G06K9/00 , H04B10/114
Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises a base station and one or more relay docks and transmits directional wave signals between components using high frequency waves, such as millimeter waves. A beam forming decision engine utilizes position information collected from one or more position or motion sensors of a user device to determine a direction in which to form a directional wave signal being transmitted between components of the wireless communication system.
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公开(公告)号：US20190214708A1
公开(公告)日：2019-07-11
申请号：US16357165
申请日：2019-03-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero , Basim Noori
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. Non-millimeter-wave antennas such as cellular telephone antennas may have conductive structures separated by a dielectric gap. In a device with a metal housing, a plastic-filled slot may form the dielectric gap. The conductive structures may be slot antenna structures, inverted-F antenna structures such as an inverted-F antenna resonating element and a ground, or other antenna structures. The plastic-filled slot may serve as a millimeter wave antenna window. A millimeter wave antenna array may be mounted in alignment with the millimeter wave antenna window to transmit and receive signals through the window. Millimeter wave antenna windows may also be formed from air-filled openings in a metal housing such as audio port openings.
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公开(公告)号：US20190123431A1
公开(公告)日：2019-04-25
申请号：US16226414
申请日：2018-12-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Rex T. Ehman , Jayesh Nath , Carlo Di Nallo , James G. Horiuchi , Erik G. de Jong , Jason C. Sauers , Makiko K. Brzezinski , Siwen Yong , Lijun Zhang , Yi Jiang , Zheyu Wang , Mario Martinis , Eduardo Da costa Bras Lima , Xu Han , Mattia Pascolini , Trevor J. Ness
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal portions such as metal sidewalls. The housing may form an antenna ground for an antenna. An antenna resonating element for the antenna may be formed from a stack of capacitively coupled component layers such as a display layer, touch sensor layer, and near-field communications antenna layer at a front face of the device. An additional antenna may be formed from a peripheral resonating element that runs along a peripheral edge of the device and the antenna ground. A rear face antenna may be formed using a wireless power receiving coil as a radio-frequency antenna resonating element or may be formed from metal antenna traces on a plastic support for light-based components.
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公开(公告)号：US20180342789A1
公开(公告)日：2018-11-29
申请号：US15602956
申请日：2017-05-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Siwen Yong , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: 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.
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公开(公告)号：US20180314349A1
公开(公告)日：2018-11-01
申请号：US15909769
申请日：2018-03-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bing Jiang , Blake R. Marshall , Indranil S. Sen , Liquan Tan , Reza Nasiri Mahalati , Yi Jiang , Mohit Narang
IPC: G06F3/0354 , G06F3/041 , H04B5/00 , H02J50/05
Abstract: A wireless power transmission system may include a wireless power transmitting device such as a tablet computer and a wireless power receiving device such as a computer stylus. A wireless power transmitting capacitor electrode may be formed in the tablet computer. A wireless power receiving capacitor electrode may be formed in the computer stylus. The transmitting capacitor electrode may be driven by a drive signal having a frequency of 900 MHz or greater to produce wireless power. The wireless power may be transmitted from the transmitting capacitor electrode to the receiving capacitor electrode on the stylus via near field capacitive coupling. The transmitting and receiving capacitor electrodes may each include conductive traces on dielectric substrates. The conductive traces may follow meandering paths to maximize the possible capacitive coupling efficiency between the capacitor electrodes and thus the end-to-end charging efficiency of the wireless power transmission system.
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公开(公告)号：US10084490B2
公开(公告)日：2018-09-25
申请号：US15499745
申请日：2017-04-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H04B1/04 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q21/0025 , H01Q21/062 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/28 , H04B1/03 , H04B1/1081 , H04B2001/0408
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include phased antenna arrays each of which includes multiple antenna elements. Phased antenna arrays may be mounted along edges of a housing for the electronic device, behind a dielectric window such as a dielectric logo window in the housing, in alignment with dielectric housing portions at corners of the housing, or elsewhere in the electronic device. A phased antenna array may include arrays of patch antenna elements on dielectric layers separated by a ground layer. A baseband processor may distribute wireless signals to the phased antenna arrays at intermediate frequencies over intermediate frequency signal paths. Transceiver circuits at the phased antenna arrays may include upconverters and downconverters coupled to the intermediate frequency signal paths.
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公开(公告)号：US10008764B2
公开(公告)日：2018-06-26
申请号：US15264500
申请日：2016-09-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Siwen Yong , Gordon Coutts , Lijun Zhang , Qingxiang Li , Robert W. Schlub
Abstract: 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. A tunable inductor coupled to the antenna resonating element may be used to tune the low band resonance.
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