公开(公告)号：US20210210868A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US17212935

申请日：2021-03-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bilgehan Avser ,  Harish Rajagopalan ,  Simone Paulotto ,  Jennifer M. Edwards ,  Hao Xu ,  Rodney A. Gomez Angulo ,  Matthew A. Mow ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q21/06 ,  H01Q1/38 ,  H01Q5/357 ,  H01Q5/28

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a cover layer and a phased antenna array mounted against the cover layer. Each antenna in the array may include a first patch element that is directly fed using first and second feeds and a second patch element that is directly fed using third and fourth feeds. A slot element may be formed in the first patch element. The first patch element may radiate in a first frequency band through the cover layer. The slot element may radiate in a second frequency band that is higher than the first frequency band through the cover layer. The second patch element may indirectly feed the slot element. Locating the radiating elements for each frequency band in the same plane may allow the antenna to radiate through the cover layer in both frequency bands with satisfactory antenna efficiency.

公开(公告)号：US20210119338A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-22

申请号：US17111131

申请日：2020-12-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bilgehan Avser ,  Harish Rajagopalan ,  Simone Paulotto ,  Jennifer M. Edwards ,  Hao Xu ,  Rodney A. Gomez Angulo ,  Matthew D. Hill ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q21/00 ,  H01Q1/24

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array and a display cover layer. The phased antenna array may include a dielectric resonator antenna. The dielectric resonator antenna may include a dielectric resonating element embedded in a lower permittivity dielectric substrate. The substrate and the resonating element may be mounted to a flexible printed circuit. A slot may be formed in ground traces on the flexible printed circuit and aligned with the resonating element. The slot may excite resonant modes of the resonating element. The resonating element may convey corresponding radio-frequency signals through the cover layer. A dielectric matching layer may be interposed between the resonating element and the cover layer. If desired, the slot may radiate additional radio-frequency signals and the matching layer may have a tapered shape. Dielectric resonator antennas for covering different polarizations and frequencies may be interleaved across the array.

公开(公告)号：US10727580B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-28

申请号：US16036770

申请日：2018-07-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Harish Rajagopalan ,  Jennifer M. Edwards ,  Simone Paulotto ,  Bilgehan Avser ,  Hao Xu ,  Rodney A. Gomez Angulo ,  Travis A. Barbieri ,  Georgios Atmatzakis ,  Matthew A. Mow

IPC: H01Q21/00 ,  H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q9/04

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with antenna structures that convey radio-frequency signals greater than 10 GHz. The antenna structures may include overlapping first and second patches. The first patch may include a hole. A transmission line for the second patch may include a conductive via extending through the hole. The via may be coupled to a first end of a trace. A second end of the trace may be coupled to a feed terminal on the second patch over an additional via. The hole may be located within a central region of the first patch to allow the via to pass through the hole without electromagnetically coupling to the first patch. If desired, adjustable impedance matching circuits may be used to couple selected impedances to the antenna feeds that help ensure that the first and second patch antennas are sufficiently isolated from each other.

公开(公告)号：US10158384B1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-18

申请号：US15699869

申请日：2017-09-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Salih Yarga ,  Xu Gao ,  Georgios Atmatzakis ,  Xu Han ,  Bilgehan Avser ,  Hao Xu ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H04M1/00 ,  H04B1/04 ,  H01Q1/24

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. An antenna in the electronic device may have 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 also include an indirectly-fed antenna resonating element that is indirectly fed by a harmonic mode of the inverted-F antenna resonating element via near field electromagnetic coupling. The indirectly-fed antenna resonating element may be a slot. The antenna ground may define at least three edges of the slot and the slot may be aligned with a dielectric-filled gap in the peripheral conductive housing structures. An adjustable circuit may be coupled across the slot to tune the indirectly-fed antenna resonating element.