Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic device with tunable hybrid antennas
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Application No.: US14710377Application Date: 2015-05-12
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Publication No.: US10218052B2Publication Date: 2019-02-26
- Inventor: Mattia Pascolini , Umar Azad , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Erdinc Irci , Qingxiang Li , Matthew A. Mow , Harish Rajagopalan , Miroslav Samardzija , Ming-Ju Tsai
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent G. Victor Treyz; Tianyi He
- Main IPC: H01Q1/24
- IPC: H01Q1/24 ; H01Q9/04 ; H01Q13/10 ; H01Q21/30 ; H01Q5/328

Abstract:
An electronic device may have hybrid antennas that include slot antenna resonating elements formed from slots in a ground plane and planar inverted-F antenna resonating elements. The planar inverted-F antenna resonating elements may each have a planar metal member that overlaps one of the slots. The slot of each slot antenna resonating element may divide the ground plane into first and second portions. A return path and feed may be coupled in parallel between the planar metal member and the first portion of the ground plane. Tunable components such as tunable inductors may be used to tune the hybrid antennas. A tunable inductor may bridge the slot in hybrid antenna, may be coupled between the planar metal member of the planar inverted-F antenna resonating element and the ground plane, or multiple tunable inductors may bridge the slot on opposing sides of the planar inverted-F antenna resonating element.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160336643A1 Electronic Device With Tunable Hybrid Antennas Public/Granted day:2016-11-17
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