公开(公告)号：US20220094059A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-24

申请号：US17025987

申请日：2020-09-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yiren Wang ,  Daisong Zhang ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Han Wang ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Jingni Zhong ,  Liang Han ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Ming Chen ,  Nanbo Jin ,  Tiejun Yu ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Yuan Tao ,  Yuancheng Xu

IPC: H01Q5/25 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q5/28 ,  H01Q9/42

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and a housing with upper and lower ends. The lower end may include first and second open slot antennas that are directly fed by respective feeds and that radiate in a cellular ultra-high band. The lower end may also include first and second inverted-F antennas. The upper end may include third and fourth inverted-F antennas. The first inverted-F antenna may have a first feed that conveys currents below 2700 MHz and a second feed that conveys antenna currents in the cellular ultra-high band, a wireless local area network band, and/or ultra-wideband frequency bands. If desired, the upper end may include a third open slot antenna that is directly fed by a corresponding antenna feed and that radiates in the cellular ultra-high band and/or in the ultra-wideband frequency bands.

公开(公告)号：US20250087890A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-13

申请号：US18464999

申请日：2023-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ahmed Ali Abdelhaliem Nafe ,  Ali Pourghorban Saghati ,  Ana Papio Toda ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Hao Xu ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Jingni Zhong ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Ming Chen ,  Mohsen Salehi ,  Nikolaj P Kammersgaard ,  Orbay Tuncay ,  Salih Yarga ,  Seyed Mohammad Amjadi ,  Tiejun Yu ,  Yiren Wang ,  Yuan Tao

IPC: H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q3/24

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and a housing having peripheral conductive housing structures. The wireless circuitry may include first and second antennas. The first antenna may have a resonating element arm formed from a first segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures. The second antenna may have a resonating element arm formed from a second segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures separated from the first segment by a gap. Switchable short paths may be coupled between the second segment and ground on opposing sides of an antenna feed for the second antenna and/or may be coupled between the first and second segments and ground on opposing sides of the gap. Additionally or alternatively, a switch may be coupled between the first and second segments across the gap and a tuning component may couple the second segment to the ground structures.

公开(公告)号：US11228345B1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-18

申请号：US17028877

申请日：2020-09-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yiren Wang ,  Daisong Zhang ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Han Wang ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Jingni Zhong ,  Liang Han ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Ming Chen ,  Nanbo Jin ,  Tiejun Yu ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Yuan Tao ,  Yuancheng Xu

IPC: H04B5/00 ,  H04B5/02 ,  H04B1/00 ,  H04B1/38 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04B1/40

Abstract: A device with near-field communications (NFC) capabilities is provided. A housing may include first and second segments and a support plate separated from the segments by a slot. A first inductor may be coupled between the first segment and the plate. A second inductor may be coupled between the second segment and the plate. A transceiver may have a first signal terminal coupled to the first segment over a first path and a second signal terminal coupled to the second segment over a second path. The transceiver may convey differential signals in an NFC band over a loop path for an NFC antenna that includes the first conductive path, the first segment, the first inductor, a portion of the plate between the first and second inductors, the second inductor, the second segment, and the second conductive path. This may optimize wireless performance and volume for the NFC antenna.

公开(公告)号：US11322840B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-03

申请号：US17025987

申请日：2020-09-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yiren Wang ,  Daisong Zhang ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Han Wang ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Jingni Zhong ,  Liang Han ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Ming Chen ,  Nanbo Jin ,  Tiejun Yu ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Yuan Tao ,  Yuancheng Xu

IPC: H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q5/25 ,  H01Q5/28 ,  H01Q1/24

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and a housing with upper and lower ends. The lower end may include first and second open slot antennas that are directly fed by respective feeds and that radiate in a cellular ultra-high band. The lower end may also include first and second inverted-F antennas. The upper end may include third and fourth inverted-F antennas. The first inverted-F antenna may have a first feed that conveys currents below 2700 MHz and a second feed that conveys antenna currents in the cellular ultra-high band, a wireless local area network band, and/or ultra-wideband frequency bands. If desired, the upper end may include a third open slot antenna that is directly fed by a corresponding antenna feed and that radiates in the cellular ultra-high band and/or in the ultra-wideband frequency bands.

公开(公告)号：US20250087869A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-13

申请号：US18465014

申请日：2023-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ming Chen ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Joel Ravi ,  Woonyong Bae ,  Laura M Burke ,  Yuancheng Xu ,  Bhaskara R Rupakula ,  Haozhan Tian ,  Salih Yarga ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Tiejun Yu ,  Seyed Mohammad Amjadi ,  Ahmed Ali Abdelhaliem Nafe ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H05K5/02

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with sidewalls and a conductive plate. A segment of the sidewalls may form a radiating arm of an antenna. A display may be mounted to the sidewalls. The display may include a conductive frame and a flexible printed circuit. The flexible circuit may have a bend. Conductive foam may short a conductive trace on the flexible circuit to the conductive frame near the bend. Low injection pressure overmolding (LIPO) may be molded over the flexible circuit, the foam, and the frame. A conductive spring may short the frame to the conductive plate. The spring may include a wider and/or thinner portion that optionally includes one or more notches for reducing its inductance. The conductive plate, the spring, the frame, the foam, and the conductive trace may form part of the antenna ground for the antenna.

公开(公告)号：US12107335B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-01

申请号：US17728737

申请日：2022-04-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Aobo Li ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Haozhan Tian ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Liang Han ,  Ming Chen ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Salih Yarga ,  Tiejun Yu ,  Victor C Lee ,  Xu Han

IPC: H01Q21/06 ,  H04B1/00 ,  H04M1/02

CPC classification number: H01Q21/064 ,  H01Q21/06 ,  H04B1/00 ,  H04B1/0064 ,  H04M1/0266

Abstract: An electronic device may have peripheral conductive housing structures, a display frame, a support plate, a logic board, and an antenna. The antenna may have a resonating element that includes a first slot between the logic board and a segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures, a second slot between the display frame and the segment, and optionally a third slot between the support plate and the segment. The slots may be at least partially overlapping, may have respective lengths, may be located at respective distances from a cover layer for the display, and may collectively receive radio-frequency signals in a frequency band such as the L5 GPS band. Switching circuitry and filter circuitry may be coupled to the antenna feed and/or to the antenna feed (s) of one or more adjacent antennas in the electronic device to help to isolate the antennas from each other.

公开(公告)号：US20230083466A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-16

申请号：US17728737

申请日：2022-04-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Aobo Li ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Haozhan Tian ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Liang Han ,  Ming Chen ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Salih Yarga ,  Tiejun Yu ,  Victor C Lee ,  Xu Han

IPC: H01Q21/06 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H04B1/00

Abstract: An electronic device may have peripheral conductive housing structures, a display frame, a support plate, a logic board, and an antenna. The antenna may have a resonating element that includes a first slot between the logic board and a segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures, a second slot between the display frame and the segment, and optionally a third slot between the between the support plate and the segment. The slots may be at least partially overlapping, may have respective lengths, may be located at respective distances from a cover layer for the display, and may collectively receive radio-frequency signals in a frequency band such as the L5 GPS band. Switching circuitry and filter circuitry may be coupled to the antenna feed and/or to the antenna feed(s) of one or more adjacent antennas in the electronic device to help to isolate the antennas from each other.