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公开(公告)号：US20220271419A1
公开(公告)日：2022-08-25
申请号：US17447555
申请日：2021-09-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erik G. de Jong , Junlin Mu , Sameer Pandya , Patrick J. Crowley , Antonio F. Herrera , James G. Horiuchi , Sherry Tang , Mario Martinis
IPC: H01Q1/27 , H01Q1/24 , H01R12/82 , H01R12/77 , H01M50/284 , H01M10/0525 , H01M10/42 , H01M50/247
Abstract: A portable or wearable electronic device can include a device housing defining an internal volume, and an electronic component disposed in the internal volume. The electronic component can be an input component and can have a component housing. The electronic device can also include an antenna feed assembly disposed in the internal volume. The antenna feed assembly can include a conductive grounding component electrically connected to the component housing and the device housing, and an antenna feed component electrically connected to the grounding component and disposed adjacent to the component housing. The conductive grounding component can surround a first major surface and a second major surface of the component housing.
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公开(公告)号：US11108139B2
公开(公告)日：2021-08-31
申请号：US16562355
申请日：2019-09-05
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Andrea Ruaro , Dimitrios Papantonis , Jayesh Nath , Jiaxiao Niu , Mario Martinis , Mattia Pascolini , Michael R. Parker , Rex T. Ehman
Abstract: An electronic device may include a rear housing wall, antenna resonating element, coil, sensor board, and antenna grounding ring structures. The coil may receive wireless charging signals through the grounding ring structures and the rear housing wall. The grounding ring structures may include concentric ring-shaped traces. The ring-shaped traces may be separated by at least one gap. The ring-shaped traces and the gaps may configure the grounding ring structures to short antenna currents at relatively high frequencies from the antenna resonating element to a ground trace on the sensor board while blocking currents at relatively low frequencies. This may allow the ground trace to form part of an antenna without substantially impairing wireless charging efficiency of the coil.
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公开(公告)号：US10950932B1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-16
申请号：US16584159
申请日：2019-09-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrea Ruaro , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Mario Martinis , Dimitrios Papantonis , Jayesh Nath , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with metal sidewalls. One of the metal sidewalls may have an opening. The electronic device may have a speaker module that has a speaker housing member. Conductive structures on the speaker housing member may have an opening that forms a slot element. The opening of the metal sidewall may be aligned with slot element. The slot element and an interior cavity of the speaker housing member may form a cavity-backed slot antenna. An antenna feed structure may be disposed at the opening of the speaker housing member. An antenna feed may be directly coupled to the antenna feed structure. The antenna feed structure may indirectly feed the slot antenna resonating element by capacitive coupling. A sealing member may be disposed at the opening of the metal sidewall.
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公开(公告)号：US10895634B2
公开(公告)日：2021-01-19
申请号：US15901564
申请日：2018-02-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jayesh Nath , Simone Paulotto , Mario Martinis , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may be provided with a phased antenna array for conveying first signals at a first frequency between 10 GHz and 300 GHz and a non-millimeter wave antenna for conveying second signals at a second frequency below 10 GHz. The device may include conductive housing sidewalls and a display. Conductive structures in the display and the conductive housing sidewalls may define a slot element in the non-millimeter wave antenna. The phased antenna array may be mounted within the slot element, aligned with a spatial filter in the display, or aligned with a dielectric window in the conductive housing sidewalls. Control circuitry may process signals transmitted by the phased antenna array and a reflected version of the transmitted signals that has been received by the phased antenna array to detect a range between the device and an external object.
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公开(公告)号：US10734714B2
公开(公告)日：2020-08-04
申请号：US15991498
申请日：2018-05-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrea Ruaro , Mario Martinis , Jiaxiao Niu , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Dimitrios Papantonis , Jayesh Nath , Zheyu Wang , Carlo Di Nallo , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display having conductive display structures. The display structures may be separated from the sidewalls by a slot for an antenna that runs around the display module. A conductive interconnect may be coupled between the sidewalls and the display structures. A feed and tuning element may be coupled between the display structures and the sidewalls. A first length of the slot from the interconnect to the tuning element may radiate in a satellite band and a cellular band. A second length of the slot from the interconnect to the feed may radiate in a 2.4 GHz band. Harmonics of the second length may radiate in bands at and above 5.0 GHz. If desired, the tuning element may be omitted, and the antenna may be coupled to separate low band and high band matching circuits.
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公开(公告)号：US20200044316A1
公开(公告)日：2020-02-06
申请号：US16584106
申请日：2019-09-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrea Ruaro , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Mario Martinis , Dimitrios Papantonis , Jayesh Nath , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display having conductive display structures. The display structures may be separated from the sidewalls by a slot for an antenna that runs around the display module. A conductive interconnect may be coupled between the sidewalls and the display structures. A feed and tuning element may be coupled between the display structures and the sidewalls. A first length of the slot from the interconnect to the tuning element may radiate in a satellite band and a cellular band. A second length of the slot from the interconnect to the feed may radiate in a 2.4 GHz band. Harmonics of the second length may radiate in bands at and above 5.0 GHz. If desired clip and blade structures may form conductive paths for coupling antenna elements.
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公开(公告)号：US10367252B2
公开(公告)日：2019-07-30
申请号：US15234918
申请日：2016-08-11
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
IPC: H01Q1/48 , H01Q1/27 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/50 , H01Q9/04 , H04B5/00 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/14
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：US20190074586A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-07
申请号：US15698481
申请日：2017-09-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Jayesh Nath , Mario Martinis , Mattia Pascolini , Zheyu Wang , Sameer Pandya
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display having conductive display structures. Printed circuits having corresponding ground traces may be coupled to the display for conveying data to and/or from the display. The conductive display structures may be separated from the metal sidewalls by a gap. A conductive interconnect may be coupled to the metal sidewalls and may extend across the gap to the conductive display structures. The conductive interconnect may be coupled to the ground traces on the printed circuits and/or may be shorted or capacitively coupled to the conductive display structures. When configured in this way, the metal sidewalls, the conductive display structures, and the conductive interconnect may define the edges of a slot antenna resonating element for a slot antenna.
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公开(公告)号：US20180017995A1
公开(公告)日：2018-01-18
申请号：US15212029
申请日：2016-07-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Brian M. Gable , Carlo Di Nallo , Colin M. Ely , Craig A. Horton , Erik G. de Jong , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Henry B. Wettersten , Hoishun Li , Jason C. Sauers , Jayesh Nath , Mario Martinis , Mattia Pascolini , Michael P. Coleman , Rex T. Ehman , Zheyu Wang
CPC classification number: G06F1/1656 , B29L2031/3481 , G06F1/163 , G06F1/1637 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q21/28 , H04B1/3888 , H04M1/0202 , H04M1/0249 , H04M1/18 , H05K5/0013 , H05K5/04
Abstract: A housing for an electronic device is disclosed. The housing includes a first conductive component defining a first interface surface, a second conductive component defining a second interface surface facing the first interface surface, and a joint structure between the first and second interface surfaces. The joint structure includes a molded element forming a portion of an exterior surface of the housing, and a sealing member forming a watertight seal between the first and second conductive components. Methods of forming the electronic device housing are also disclosed.
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