Electronic device with passive antenna retuning circuitry
    71.
    发明授权
    Electronic device with passive antenna retuning circuitry 有权
    具有无源天线重调电路的电子设备

    公开(公告)号:US09537219B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-03

    申请号:US14500819

    申请日:2014-09-29

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H01Q9/0442 H01Q1/243 H01Q5/328 H01Q5/335 H01Q9/42

    Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna may have an inverted-F antenna resonating element, an antenna ground, and other resonating element structures. A tip of the antenna resonating element and the antenna ground may be separated by a peripheral housing gap filled with plastic. The antenna may be sensitive to capacitance changes induced by the presence of a user's hand overlapping the gap or other portions of the antenna. A hand capacitance sensing electrode may be mounted in the plastic of the gap or elsewhere in the vicinity of the antenna. A transmission line may couple the hand capacitance sensing electrode to the antenna to retune the antenna in the event that the user's hand overlaps the antenna.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以具有带天线的无线电路。 天线可以具有倒F天线谐振元件,天线接地和其它谐振元件结构。 天线谐振元件的尖端和天线接地可以由填充有塑料的外围壳体间隙分开。 天线可能对由与天线的间隙或其他部分重叠的用户手的存在引起的电容变化敏感。 手电容感测电极可以安装在间隙的塑料或天线附近的别处。 在用户的手与天线重叠的情况下,传输线可以将手电容感测电极耦合到天线以重新调谐天线。

    Electronic Device With Configurable Symmetric Antennas
    72.
    发明申请
    Electronic Device With Configurable Symmetric Antennas 有权
    具有可配置对称天线的电子设备

    公开(公告)号:US20160322699A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-03

    申请号:US14701323

    申请日:2015-04-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    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 that are separated from a round by an elongated opening. The electronic device may have a central longitudinal axis that divides the antenna resonating element arm and other antenna structures into symmetrical halves that exhibit mirror symmetry with respect to the central longitudinal axis. The antenna structures may include symmetrical slot antenna resonating elements on opposing sides of the central longitudinal axis. Electrical components such as switches and antenna tuning inductors may be coupled to the antenna structures in a configuration that is symmetrical with respect to the central longitudinal axis. The electrical components may be used to place the antenna structures in an unflipped configuration or in a symmetrical flipped configuration.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以具有带天线的无线电路。 用于天线的天线谐振元件臂可以由沿着器件外壳的边缘延伸的周边导电结构形成,该外围导电结构通过细长的开口与圆分离。 电子设备可以具有中心纵向轴线,其将天线谐振元件臂和其它天线结构分成相对于中心纵向轴线呈现镜像对称性的对称半部。 天线结构可以包括在中心纵向轴线的相对侧上的对称缝隙天线谐振元件。 诸如开关和天线调谐电感器的电气部件可以以相对于中心纵向轴线对称的配置耦合到天线结构。 电气部件可以用于将天线结构放置在未开启的配置或对称的翻转配置中。

    Electronic Device With Over-The-Air Wireless Self-Testing Capabilities
    73.
    发明申请
    Electronic Device With Over-The-Air Wireless Self-Testing Capabilities 有权
    具有空中无线自测功能的电子设备

    公开(公告)号:US20160308626A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-10-20

    申请号:US15097873

    申请日:2016-04-13

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04B17/14 H04B17/19

    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.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有无线电路。 无线电路可以包括天线。 天线可以包括用于处理毫米波信号的相控天线阵列。 天线可以位于天线信号路径中。 天线信号路径可以包括诸如可调节滤波器,可调增益放大器和可调移相器等可调部件。 电路可以并入到电子设备中以便于无线自检操作。 无线自检可能涉及使用一个天线来发射由另一个天线接收的空中天线测试信号。 促进无线自检操作的电路可以包括耦合器,用于将天线信号路径暂时短路的可调开关,用于混合射频信号以允许与模数转换器进行数字化的混频器以及用于支持自适应的其它电路, 测试操作。

    Antenna with tunable high band parasitic element
    76.
    发明授权
    Antenna with tunable high band parasitic element 有权
    具有可调谐高频带寄生元件的天线

    公开(公告)号:US09337537B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-05-10

    申请号:US13890013

    申请日:2013-05-08

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H01Q5/30 H01Q1/243 H01Q5/321 H01Q5/378 H01Q9/0421

    Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antennas. An antenna may be formed from an antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The antenna resonating element may have a shorter portion that resonates at higher communications band frequencies and a longer portion that resonates at lower communications band frequencies. The resonating element may be formed from a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure that is separated from the antenna ground by an opening. A parasitic monopole antenna resonating element or parasitic loop antenna resonating element may be located in the opening. Antenna tuning in the higher communications band may be implemented using an adjustable inductor in the parasitic element. Antenna tuning in the lower communications band may be implemented using an adjustable inductor that couples the antenna resonating element to the antenna ground.

    Abstract translation: 可以提供包括射频收发器电路和天线的电子设备。 天线可以由天线谐振元件和天线接地形成。 天线谐振元件可以具有在较高通信频带频率下谐振的较短部分和在较低通信频带频率下谐振的较长部分。 谐振元件可以由外部导电电子器件外壳结构形成,该外壳由天线与开口隔开。 寄生单极天线谐振元件或寄生环形天线谐振元件可以位于开口中。 可以使用寄生元件中的可调电感器来实现较高通信频带中的天线调谐。 可以使用将天线谐振元件耦合到天线地的可调节电感器来实现较低通信频带中的天线调谐。

    Electronic device with shared antenna structures and balun
    77.
    发明授权
    Electronic device with shared antenna structures and balun 有权
    具有共享天线结构和平衡 - 不平衡变换器的电子设备

    公开(公告)号:US09325080B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-04-26

    申请号:US14195130

    申请日:2014-03-03

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    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.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有共享天线结构,其可以用于形成诸如环形天线的近场通信天线和诸如倒F天线的非近场通信天线。 天线结构可以包括导电结构,例如印刷电路或其它电介质基板上的金属迹线,内部金属外壳结构或其它导电电子器件外壳结构。 主谐振元件臂可以通过开口与天线接地分开。 非近场通信天线返回路径和天线馈送路径可以跨越开口。 平衡 - 不平衡转换器可以具有第一和第二电磁耦合电感器。 第二电感器可以具有耦合在近场通信收发器中的差分信号端子上的端子。 第一电感器可以形成近场通信环形天线的一部分。

    Electronic Device Antenna With Reduced Lossy Mode
    78.
    发明申请
    Electronic Device Antenna With Reduced Lossy Mode 有权
    减少有损模式的电子天线

    公开(公告)号:US20160064801A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-03

    申请号:US14476490

    申请日:2014-09-03

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    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。

    Electronic device antenna with multiple feeds for covering three communications bands
    79.
    发明授权
    Electronic device antenna with multiple feeds for covering three communications bands 有权
    具有多个馈线的电子设备天线,用于覆盖三个通信频带

    公开(公告)号:US09276319B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-01

    申请号:US13889987

    申请日:2013-05-08

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antennas. An antenna may be formed from an antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The antenna resonating element may have a shorter portion that resonates at higher communications band frequencies and a longer portion that resonates at lower communications band frequencies. An extended portion of the antenna ground may form an inverted-F antenna resonating element portion of the antenna resonating element. The antenna resonating element may be formed from a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure that is separated from the antenna ground by an opening. A first antenna feed may be coupled between the peripheral conductive electronic device housing structures and the antenna ground across the opening. A second antenna feed may be coupled to the inverted-F antenna resonating element portion of the antenna resonating element.

    Abstract translation: 可以提供包括射频收发器电路和天线的电子设备。 天线可以由天线谐振元件和天线接地形成。 天线谐振元件可以具有在较高通信频带频率下谐振的较短部分和在较低通信频带频率下谐振的较长部分。 天线接地的延伸部分可以形成天线谐振元件的倒F天线谐振元件部分。 天线谐振元件可以由外部导电电子器件外壳结构形成,该外壳导电电子器件壳体结构通过开口与天线接地分开。 第一天线馈电可以耦合在外围导电电子器件外壳结构和穿过开口的天线接地之间。 第二天线馈送可以耦合到天线谐振元件的倒F天线谐振元件部分。

    Electronic Device With Peripheral Display Antenna
    80.
    发明申请
    Electronic Device With Peripheral Display Antenna 有权
    具有外围显示天线的电子设备

    公开(公告)号:US20160056526A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-02-25

    申请号:US14468217

    申请日:2014-08-25

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 H01Q1/273 H01Q9/42

    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with electrical components mounted in a housing. The electronic device may include wireless transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. A display may be mounted in the housing. The display may have a transparent layer such as display cover layer. The display cover layer may have an inner surface with a recess. The recess may be a groove that runs along a peripheral edge of the display cover layer. An antenna structure such as an inverted-F antenna resonating element may be formed from a metal trace on a plastic support structure. The metal trace and support structure may be mounted in the groove with adhesive. The housing may be a metal housing that forms an antenna ground. Springs may be used in forming an antenna feed and an antenna return path that couples the antenna resonating element to ground.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有安装在壳体中的电气部件。 电子设备可以包括无线收发器电路和天线结构。 显示器可以安装在外壳中。 显示器可以具有诸如显示器盖层的透明层。 显示器覆盖层可以具有带有凹部的内表面。 凹部可以是沿着显示器覆盖层的周边边缘延伸的凹槽。 诸如倒F天线谐振元件的天线结构可以由塑料支撑结构上的金属迹线形成。 金属迹线和支撑结构可以用粘合剂安装在凹槽中。 外壳可以是形成天线接地的金属外壳。 弹簧可以用于形成将天线谐振元件耦合到地的天线馈电和天线返回路径。

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