公开(公告)号：US20250110531A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-03

申请号：US18477202

申请日：2023-09-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Trevor J Edmonds ,  Michael J Williams ,  Nikolaos Chiotellis ,  Joel D. Barrera ,  Marc Soriano Baliarda ,  Ayoub Yari Boroujeni ,  Jerzy S. Guterman ,  Mahmoud R. Amini ,  Kevin M. Robinson

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  H01Q13/10

Abstract: An electronic device such as a laptop computer may have an upper housing and a lower housing. The lower housing may have a clutch barrel. The upper housing may be coupled to the clutch barrel by a hinge. The lower housing may have an upper metal wall separated from the upper housing by a first gap and a lower metal wall separated from the upper housing by a second gap. The clutch barrel may include a conductor. An antenna may be formed from a radiating slot in the conductor. The radiating slot may have a tunnel extending from a first opening to a second opening in the conductor across a diameter of the conductor. The tunnel may be linear or non-linear. The tunnel may have a uniform or tapered width. The radiating slot may convey radio-frequency signals through both gaps regardless of the orientation of the upper housing.

公开(公告)号：US20250103109A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18476220

申请日：2023-09-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Michael J Williams ,  Nikolaos Chiotellis ,  Joel D Barrera ,  Jerzy S Guterman ,  Trevor J Edmonds ,  Marc Soriano Baliarda ,  Mahmoud R Amini ,  Soroush Kamrava

IPC: G06F1/16

Abstract: An electronic device such as a laptop computer may have an upper housing and a lower housing. The upper housing may be coupled to the lower housing by a hinge. The upper housing may be rotatable relative to the lower housing between an open position and a closed position. The lower housing may have an upper metal wall, a lower metal wall, and a metal sidewall that couples the lower metal wall to the upper metal wall. The lower metal housing may have a finger scoop in the metal sidewall. The finger scoop may have a surface that is oriented at a non-parallel and non-perpendicular angle to a lateral surface of the upper housing when the upper housing is in the closed position. The device may have an antenna with a radiating slot in the surface of the finger scoop.

公开(公告)号：US12119549B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-15

申请号：US17832465

申请日：2022-06-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Joel D Barrera ,  Nikolaos Chiotellis ,  Michael J Williams ,  Jerzy S Guterman ,  Trevor J Edmonds ,  Joshua P Song ,  Richard D Kosoglow

IPC: H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q13/18 ,  H04R1/02

CPC classification number: H01Q13/18 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H04R1/02

Abstract: An electronic device may have an upper housing and a lower housing separated by a slot. An antenna module may be mounted in the lower housing and may include a cavity. An antenna element may be disposed within the cavity. Grounded traces may be patterned onto walls of the module and may be coupled to conductive walls of the lower housing by conductive gaskets. The antenna element may have a high band arm displaced farther into the cavity than a low band arm by a shim. The antenna module may have an acoustic port aligned with a speaker port. The acoustic port may allow sound waves from a speaker to pass into the cavity from the speaker port. The cavity may be configured to optimize an audio response of the speaker while concurrently optimizing radio-frequency performance of the antenna element.