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公开(公告)号：US10153554B2
公开(公告)日：2018-12-11
申请号：US15253374
申请日：2016-08-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mario Martinis , Carlo Di Nallo , Jayesh Nath , Yi Jiang , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Siwen Yong , Mattia Pascolini , Zheyu Wang , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima
Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing and other structures that form an antenna ground for an antenna. An antenna resonating element arm for the antenna may extend along the periphery of the housing. The resonating element arm may have opposing first and second ends. A return path may couple the resonating element arm to the antenna ground at the first end. An antenna feed may be coupled between the resonating element arm and the antenna ground in parallel with the return path. Electrical components such as first and second capacitors may be coupled between the antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground. A first of the capacitors may be coupled between the antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground at a location between the first and second ends. A second of the capacitors may be coupled between the second end and the antenna ground.
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公开(公告)号：US10129165B2
公开(公告)日：2018-11-13
申请号：US15445853
申请日：2017-02-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Carlo Di Nallo , Mattia Pascolini , Jerzy S. Guterman
IPC: G01R31/08 , H04L12/875 , H04W72/04 , H04L1/18 , H04L5/00 , H04B7/0404 , H04W84/12 , H04W4/80
Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas and a Bluetooth transceiver. Control circuitry may perform Bluetooth antenna diversity operations by coupling the Bluetooth transceiver to a selected one of the first and second antennas at a given time. The Bluetooth transceiver may transmit a first Bluetooth data packet and may determine whether a scheduled response packet associated with the first packet has been received over the first antenna during a predetermined time period. In response to determining that the Bluetooth transceiver has failed to receive the scheduled response packet during the first predetermined time period, the Bluetooth transceiver may re-transmit the first packet using the second antenna. This may serve to reduce the error rate of the transmitted Bluetooth data over time relative to scenarios where a single antenna is used, without requiring resource-intensive sensor circuitry to actively monitor the performance of the antennas.
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公开(公告)号：US20180323834A1
公开(公告)日：2018-11-08
申请号：US15584889
申请日：2017-05-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Siwen Yong , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H04B7/0408 , G01S3/32 , G01S3/42 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q3/28 , H01Q3/36 , H01Q21/205 , H04B7/0617 , H04B7/0695
Abstract: An electronic device may communicate with an external device and may include one or more phased antenna arrays that transmit and receive a beam of millimeter wave signals. Beam steering circuitry may be coupled to the phased antenna array and may be adjusted to steer a direction of the beam. Control circuitry may control the beam steering circuitry to sweep the beam of millimeter wave signals over multiple beam directions. The control circuitry may gather wireless performance data and may compare the wireless performance metric data at each beam direction in the sweep prior to gathering wireless performance metric data at other beam directions in the sweep. The first beam direction in the sweep may be selected based on an initial position of the external device and/or based on sensor data gathered by the control circuitry.
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公开(公告)号：US10103424B2
公开(公告)日：2018-10-16
申请号：US15138684
申请日：2016-04-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Basim Noori , Ming-Ju Tsai , Boon Wai Shiu , Matthew A. Mow , Yuehui Ouyang , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
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 formed from printed circuit board Yagi antennas or other antennas. A millimeter wave transceiver may use the antennas to transmit and receive wireless signals. The antennas may be mounted at the corners of an electronic device housing or elsewhere in an electronic device. An electronic device housing may be formed from metal and may have an opening filled with dielectric. The antennas may be aligned with portions of the dielectric. Printed circuit board antennas may have reflectors, radiators, and directors. The reflectors, radiators, and directors may be arranged to align radiation patterns for the antennas with the plastic-filled slots or other dielectric regions in the metal housing.
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公开(公告)号：US09966653B2
公开(公告)日：2018-05-08
申请号：US14839619
申请日：2015-08-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erin A. McAuliffe , James W. Jervis , Andrea Ruaro , Mattia Pascolini , Jerzy S. Guterman
CPC classification number: H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/06 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q5/371 , H01Q9/04 , H01Q9/42
Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. The electronic device may have a dielectric housing. A printed circuit board with electrical components may be mounted in the dielectric housing. Heat spreader structures may be used to dissipate heat from the electrical components. The heat spreader structures be configured to form antenna cavities. The antennas in the electronic device may be formed from the antenna cavities and may have antenna resonating elements formed on the printed circuit. An electrical component such as a light-emitting diode may be mounted in one of the antenna cavities. Each antenna element may be an inverted-F antenna resonating element with short and long arms. The short arm of each antenna resonating element may be formed from edge plated metal traces on an edge of the printed circuit.
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公开(公告)号：US09960864B2
公开(公告)日：2018-05-01
申请号：US15495732
申请日：2017-04-24
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：US20180115071A1
公开(公告)日：2018-04-26
申请号：US15848833
申请日：2017-12-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Basim H. Noori , Khan M. Salam , Liang Han , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero , Thomas E. Biedka , Yi Jiang , Yuehui Ouyang
CPC classification number: H01Q9/0407 , H01Q5/35 , H04W4/80
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more dual-frequency dual-polarization patch antennas. Each patch antenna may have a patch antenna resonating element that lies in a plane and a ground that lies in a different parallel plane. The patch antenna resonating element may have a first feed located along a first central axis and a second feed located along a second central axis that is perpendicular to the first central axis. The patch antenna resonating element may be rectangular, may be oval, or may have other shapes. A shorting pin may be located at an intersecting point between the first and second axes. The patch antennas may be used in beam steering arrays. The patch antennas may be used for wireless power transfer at microwave frequencies or other frequencies and may be used to support millimeter wave communications.
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公开(公告)号：US20180053990A1
公开(公告)日：2018-02-22
申请号：US15795810
申请日：2017-10-27
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：US09866945B2
公开(公告)日：2018-01-09
申请号：US14993548
申请日：2016-01-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erin A. McAuliffe , Carlo Di Nallo , Huan-Chu Huang , Joel D. Barrera , Mattia Pascolini , Jerzy S. Guterman , Arun Chawan , Benjamin Cousins , Lee M. Panecki
CPC classification number: H04R1/1066 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/273 , H01Q9/42 , H04R1/1016
Abstract: An accessory such as a wireless earbud may have an antenna for transmitting and receiving wireless signals. A housing for the earbud may have a main body portion and an extended portion that forms a stalk protruding from the main body portion. The earbud may have a speaker aligned with a speaker port in the main body portion. The antenna may have an elongated shape and may extend along the stalk. The stalk may have a plastic housing wall portion. The antenna may be formed from first and second metal traces on opposing sides of a printed circuit substrate. The first metal trace may form an antenna resonating element arm and may lie between the substrate and the plastic housing wall portion. The second metal trace may be a ground trace. A feed for the antenna may be located at a juncture between the main body portion and the stalk.
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公开(公告)号：US20170302326A1
公开(公告)日：2017-10-19
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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