公开(公告)号：US20180048052A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-15

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

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H04B1/3888 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H01Q1/48

CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q13/103 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H04B1/3888

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.

公开(公告)号：US20180026341A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-25

申请号：US15217805

申请日：2016-07-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Matthew A. Mow ,  Basim H. Noori ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Xu Han ,  Victor C. Lee ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q3/24 ,  H01Q9/06 ,  H04B10/90 ,  H01Q1/22

CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/2291 ,  H01Q1/526 ,  H01Q3/24 ,  H01Q9/065 ,  H01Q19/30 ,  H01Q21/065 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H04B10/90

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antennas may be formed from metal traces on printed circuits. A flexible printed circuit may have an area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted. Protruding portions may extend from the area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted and may be separated from the area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted by bends. Antenna resonating elements such as patch antenna resonating elements and dipole resonating elements may be formed on the protruding portions and may be used to transmit and receive millimeter wave antenna signals through dielectric-filled openings in a metal electronic device housing or a dielectric layer such as a display cover layer formed from glass or other dielectric.

公开(公告)号：US09768491B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-19

申请号：US14691304

申请日：2015-04-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Nanbo Jin ,  Anand Lakshmanan ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Erica J. Tong ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Matthew A. Mow ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Ming-Ju Tsai

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H04B1/3888 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q21/28

CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q13/103 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H04B1/3888

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.

公开(公告)号：US09647332B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-09

申请号：US14476453

申请日：2014-09-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Liang Han ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Matthew A. Mow ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Salih Yarga ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Xu Han ,  Robert W. Schlub

IPC: H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q21/28

CPC classification number: H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q21/28

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna. The antenna may have an antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The antenna resonating element may be formed from peripheral conductive housing structures. An audio jack or other connector may be mounted in an opening in the peripheral conductive housing structures. The audio jack may overlap the antenna ground. Contacts in the audio jack may be coupled to an interference mitigation circuit. The interference mitigation circuit may include capacitors coupled to the ground and inductors coupled between the contacts and the capacitors. Radio-frequency signal blocking inductors may be coupled between the interference mitigation circuit and respective ports in an audio circuit.

公开(公告)号：US09531061B2

公开(公告)日：2016-12-27

申请号：US14476490

申请日：2014-09-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Liang Han ,  Matthew A. Mow ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Salih Yarga ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Yuehui Ouyang ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Robert W. Schlub

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q5/328

CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q5/328 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q13/10

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna. The antenna may have an antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. An adjustable inductor may be coupled between the antenna resonating element and the antenna ground. An antenna feed may have a positive feed terminal coupled to the antenna resonating element and a ground antenna feed coupled to the antenna ground. The adjustable inductor may have first and second inductors coupled to respective first and second ports of a switch. The switch may have a third port coupled to the antenna ground. A capacitor may have a first terminal coupled to ground and a second terminal coupled to the first inductor at the first port of the switch. An inductor may be coupled between the antenna resonating element and antenna ground at a location between the adjustable inductor and the antenna feed.

Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有天线。 天线可以具有天线谐振元件和天线接地。 可调电感器可以耦合在天线谐振元件和天线接地之间。 天线馈电可以具有耦合到天线谐振元件的正馈线端子和耦合到天线地的接地天线馈线。 可调电感器可以具有耦合到开关的相应第一和第二端口的第一和第二电感器。 开关可以具有耦合到天线接地的第三端口。 电容器可以具有耦合到地的第一端子和在开关的第一端口处耦合到第一电感器的第二端子。 电感器可以在天线谐振元件和天线接地之间的可调电感器和天线馈电之间的位置耦合。

公开(公告)号：US20160197401A1

公开(公告)日：2016-07-07

申请号：US15071795

申请日：2016-03-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang ,  Dean F. Darnell ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Erica J. Tong ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Matthew A. Mow ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Nanbo Jin ,  Robert W. Schlub

IPC: H01Q3/24 ,  H01Q7/00

CPC classification number: H01Q3/247 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q5/35 ,  H01Q5/371 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q21/30 ,  H04B5/0081

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with shared antenna structures that can be used to form both a near-field-communications antenna such as a loop antenna and a non-near-field communications antenna such as an inverted-F antenna. The antenna structures may include conductive structures such as metal traces on printed circuits or other dielectric substrates, internal metal housing structures, or other conductive electronic device housing structures. A main resonating element arm may be separated from an antenna ground by an opening. A non-near-field communications antenna return path and antenna feed path may span the opening. A balun may have first and second electromagnetically coupled inductors. The second inductor may have terminals coupled across differential signal terminals in a near-field communications transceiver. The first inductor may form part of the near-field communications loop antenna.

公开(公告)号：US20160064812A1

公开(公告)日：2016-03-03

申请号：US14476453

申请日：2014-09-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Liang Han ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Matthew A. Mow ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Salih Yarga ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Xu Han ,  Robert W. Schlub

IPC: H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q1/22

CPC classification number: H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q21/28

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna. The antenna may have an antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The antenna resonating element may be formed from peripheral conductive housing structures. An audio jack or other connector may be mounted in an opening in the peripheral conductive housing structures. The audio jack may overlap the antenna ground. Contacts in the audio jack may be coupled to an interference mitigation circuit. The interference mitigation circuit may include capacitors coupled to the ground and inductors coupled between the contacts and the capacitors. Radio-frequency signal blocking inductors may be coupled between the interference mitigation circuit and respective ports in an audio circuit.

Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有天线。 天线可以具有天线谐振元件和天线接地。 天线谐振元件可以由外围导电壳体结构形成。 音频插孔或其他连接器可以安装在外围导电外壳结构中的开口中。 音频插孔可能与天线接地重叠。 音频插孔中的触点可以耦合到干扰抑制电路。 干扰减轻电路可以包括耦合到接地的电容器和耦合在触点和电容器之间的电感器。 射频信号阻塞电感器可以耦合在干扰减轻电路和音频电路中的相应端口之间。

公开(公告)号：US09236659B2

公开(公告)日：2016-01-12

申请号：US14096417

申请日：2013-12-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Yuehui Ouyang ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Matthew A. Mow ,  Robert W. Schlub ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Salih Yarga ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Liang Han ,  Thomas E. Biedka ,  Nicholas S. Reimnitz

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q9/14 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q5/357

CPC classification number: H01Q13/103 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q5/357 ,  H01Q9/145 ,  H01Q9/42

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a housing. The housing may have a periphery that is surrounded by peripheral conductive structures such as a segmented peripheral metal member. A segment of the peripheral metal member may be separated from a ground by a slot. An antenna feed may have a positive antenna terminal coupled to the peripheral metal member and a ground terminal coupled to the ground and may feed both an inverted-F antenna structure that is formed from the peripheral metal member and the ground and a slot antenna structure that is formed from the slot. Control circuitry may tune the antenna by controlling adjustable components that are coupled to the peripheral metal member. The adjustable components may include adjustable inductors and adjustable capacitors.

Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有壳体。 壳体可以具有被诸如分段的外围金属构件的外围导电结构包围的周边。 外围金属构件的一段可以通过狭槽与地面分离。 天线馈电可以具有耦合到外围金属构件的正天线端子和耦合到地面的接地端子，并且可以馈送由外围金属构件和地面形成的倒F形天线结构和缝隙天线结构， 由槽形成。 控制电路可以通过控制耦合到外围金属构件的可调组件来调谐天线。 可调部件可以包括可调电感器和可调电容器。

公开(公告)号：US09166634B2

公开(公告)日：2015-10-20

申请号：US13888110

申请日：2013-05-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dean F. Darnell ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Yuehui Ouyang ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Robert W. Schlub ,  Peter Bevelacqua ,  Hao Xu ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Nanbo Jin ,  David Pratt ,  Matthew A. Mow ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Liang Han ,  Thomas E. Biedka

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04B1/04 ,  H04B1/18

CPC classification number: H04B1/0458 ,  H04B1/18

Abstract: Electronic devices may include antenna structures. The antenna structures may form an antenna having first and second feeds at different locations. A first transceiver may be coupled to the first feed using a first circuit. A second transceiver may be coupled to the second feed using a second circuit. The first and second feeds may be isolated from each other using the first and second circuits. The second circuit may have a notch filter that isolates the second feed from the first feed at operating frequencies associated with the first transceiver. The first circuit may include an adjustable component such as an adjustable capacitor. The adjustable component may be placed in different states depending on the mode of operation of the second transceiver to ensure that the first feed is isolated from the second feed.

Abstract translation: 电子设备可以包括天线结构。 天线结构可以形成在不同位置具有第一和第二馈送的天线。 第一收发器可以使用第一电路耦合到第一馈送。 第二收发器可以使用第二电路耦合到第二馈送。 第一和第二馈送可以使用第一和第二电路彼此隔离。 第二电路可以具有陷波滤波器，其在与第一收发器相关联的工作频率下将第二馈送与第一馈送隔离。 第一电路可以包括诸如可调电容器的可调节部件。 取决于第二收发器的操作模式，可调整部件可以被置于不同的状态，以确保第一进给与第二进给隔离。

公开(公告)号：US09164159B2

公开(公告)日：2015-10-20

申请号：US13715648

申请日：2012-12-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jayesh Nath ,  Liang Han ,  Matthew A. Mow ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Joshua G. Nickel ,  Hao Xu ,  Peter Bevelacqua ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Robert W. Schlub ,  Ruben Caballero

IPC: G01R35/00 ,  G01R31/319 ,  G01R31/28

CPC classification number: G01R35/007 ,  G01R31/2822 ,  G01R31/2879 ,  G01R31/3191

Abstract: A manufacturing system for assembling wireless electronic devices is provided. The manufacturing system may include test stations for testing the radio-frequency performance of components that are to be assembled within the electronic devices. A reference test station may be calibrated using calibration coupons having known radio-frequency characteristics. The calibration coupons may include transmission line structures. The reference test station may measure verification standards to establish baseline measurement data. The verification standards may include circuitry having electrical components with given impedance values. Many verification coupons may be measured to enable testing for a wide range of impedance values. Test stations in the manufacturing system may subsequently measure the verification standards to generate test measurement data. The test measurement data may be compared to the baseline measurement data to characterize the performance of the test stations to ensure consistent test measurements across the test stations.

Abstract translation: 提供了一种用于组装无线电子设备的制造系统。 制造系统可以包括用于测试要在电子设备内组装的组件的射频性能的测试站。 可以使用具有已知射频特性的校准试样来校准参考测试台。 校准试样可以包括传输线结构。 参考测试站可以测量验证标准以建立基线测量数据。 验证标准可以包括具有给定阻抗值的电气部件的电路。 可以测量许多验证券，以测试宽范围的阻抗值。 制造系统中的测试台随后可以测量验证标准以产生测试测量数据。 可以将测试测量数据与基线测量数据进行比较，以表征测试站的性能，以确保跨越测试站的一致的测试测量。