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公开(公告)号：US11901641B2
公开(公告)日：2024-02-13
申请号：US17694486
申请日：2022-03-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Xu Han , Hongfei Hu , Ming Chen , Jingni Zhong , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Mohsen Salehi , Carlo Di Nallo , Ming-Ju Tsai , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas formed from respective first and second segments of a housing. The first antenna may have a first feed coupled to the first segment by a first switch and coupled to the first segment by a first conductive trace. The second antenna may have a second feed coupled to the second segment by a second switch and coupled to the second segment by a second conductive trace. The first segment may be separated from the second segment by a single gap, a data connector may pass through the second segment, and the antennas may selectively cover a low band. Alternatively, the first segment may be separated from the second segment by a third segment and two gaps, the data connector may pass through the third segment, and the first and second antennas may concurrently cover the low band.
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公开(公告)号：US20200014095A1
公开(公告)日：2020-01-09
申请号：US16572370
申请日：2019-09-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Basim H. Noori , Ming-Ju Tsai , Xu Han , Victor C. Lee , Mattia Pascolini
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.
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公开(公告)号：US10476136B2
公开(公告)日：2019-11-12
申请号：US15655015
申请日：2017-07-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Basim H. Noori , Khan M. Salam , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Simone Paulotto , Travis A. Barbieri , Victor C. Lee , Xu Han
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/48 , H04M1/03 , H04R1/02 , H01Q13/10 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q25/00 , H01Q9/04 , H04M1/02
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry, a conductive housing, and a display. The display may have an active area that displays image data and an inactive area that does not display image data. The active area may completely surround the inactive area at a front face of the device. A speaker port may be aligned with the inactive area and may emit sound through the inactive area. The wireless circuitry may include first and second antenna arrays. The first array may be configured to transmit and receive wireless signals at frequencies between 10 GHz and 300 GHz through the inactive area of the display. The second array may be configured to transmit and receive wireless signals at frequencies between 10 GHz and 300 GHz through a slot in a rear wall of the conductive housing. Control circuitry may perform beam steering using the first and second arrays.
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公开(公告)号：US10181640B2
公开(公告)日：2019-01-15
申请号：US15234907
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: H01Q1/12 , H01Q1/27 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q1/50 , H04B5/00 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/04 , 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：US20180219276A1
公开(公告)日：2018-08-02
申请号：US15940772
申请日：2018-03-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Xu Han , Liang Han , Matthew A. Mow , Ming-Ju Tsai
Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from conductive housing structures running along the edges of the device. The antenna may have first and second antenna feeds and multiple adjustable components that bridge a slot between the antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. Control circuitry may control the adjustable components and selectively activate one of the first and second feeds at a given time to place the antenna in first, second, or third operating modes. The control circuitry may determine which operating mode to use based on information indicative of the operating environment of the device. By switching between the operating modes, the control circuitry may shift current hot spots across the length of the resonating element arm to ensure satisfactory performance of the antenna in a variety of operating conditions.
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公开(公告)号：US20180083344A1
公开(公告)日：2018-03-22
申请号：US15429597
申请日：2017-02-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Xu Han , Liang Han , Matthew A. Mow , Ming-Ju Tsai
Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from conductive housing structures running along the edges of the device. The antenna may have first and second antenna feeds and multiple adjustable components that bridge a slot between the antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. Control circuitry may control the adjustable components and selectively activate one of the first and second feeds at a given time to place the antenna in first, second, or third operating modes. The control circuitry may determine which operating mode to use based on information indicative of the operating environment of the device. By switching between the operating modes, the control circuitry may shift current hot spots across the length of the resonating element arm to ensure satisfactory performance of the antenna in a variety of operating conditions.
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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：US20190173160A1
公开(公告)日：2019-06-06
申请号：US16272932
申请日：2019-02-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Basim H. Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Xu Han , Victor C. Lee , Ming-Ju Tsai , Simone Paulotto
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include millimeter wave antenna arrays formed from arrays of patch antennas, dipole antennas or other millimeter wave antennas on millimeter wave antenna array substrates. Circuitry such as upconverter and downconverter circuitry may be mounted on the substrates. The upconverter and downconverter may be coupled to wireless communications circuitry such as a baseband processor circuit using an intermediate frequency signal path. The electronic device may have opposing front and rear faces. A display may cover the front face. A rear housing wall may cover the rear face. A metal midplate may be interposed between the display and rear housing wall. Millimeter wave antenna arrays may transmit and receive antenna signals through the rear housing wall.
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公开(公告)号：US20190081385A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-14
申请号：US15699879
申请日：2017-09-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bilgehan Avser , Georgios Atmatzakis , Hao Xu , Mattia Pascolini , Salih Yarga , Xu Gao , Xu Han , Yijun Zhou
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. The antennas may include antenna structures at opposing first and second ends of the electronic device. The antenna structures at a given end of the device may include antenna structures that are shared between multiple antennas. The electronic device may include a first antenna with an inverted-F antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. A return path may bridge the gap. The electronic device may also include a second antenna that includes the antenna ground and an additional antenna resonating element. The antenna resonating element of the second antenna may be parasitically coupled to the return path of the inverted-F antenna at given frequencies.
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10.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20190027809A1
公开(公告)日：2019-01-24
申请号：US15655251
申请日：2017-07-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James G. Judkins , Jing Zhu , Liang Han , Matthew A. Mow , Ming-Ju Tsai , Thomas E. Biedka , Victor C. Lee , Xu Han
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes one or more antennas and a transceiver. An integrated circuit may be coupled between the transceiver and the antenna and may include multiple tunable components such that tune the response of the antenna. The control signals may be generated by a tuning controller external to the integrated circuit. Shared control interface circuitry may be formed on the integrated circuit for interfacing between the tuning controller and each of the tunable components on the integrated circuit. The control interface circuitry may include a conductive path and decoupling circuitry that routes the control signals to corresponding control inputs on each of the tunable components. Sharing the control interface circuitry between each tunable component on the integrated circuit may minimize the space required on the integrated circuit for controlling the response of the antenna.
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