Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic device with housing slots for antennas
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Application No.: US16252311Application Date: 2019-01-18
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Publication No.: US10965008B2Publication Date: 2021-03-30
- Inventor: Umar Azad , Harish Rajagopalan , Mattia Pascolini , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo
- 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 Tianyi He
- Main IPC: H01Q1/24
- IPC: H01Q1/24 ; H01Q13/10 ; H01Q1/48 ; H01Q7/00 ; H01Q9/42

Abstract:
An electronic device housing may have a rear housing wall that forms a metal ground plane. A slot may be formed in the metal ground plane. The slot may have one or more open ends along an edge of the ground plane. A near-field communications loop antenna may overlap the slot. The near-field communications loop antenna may have one or more turns. A current path through the metal ground plane may form one of the turns in the near-field communications loop antenna. The slot may form portions of non-near-field-communications antennas in addition to the near-field communications loop antenna. The slot in the non-near-field-communications antennas may be fed using an indirect antenna feed structure. Components such as a capacitor and inductor may help allow non-near-field communications antenna and the near-field communications antenna to be formed from common portions of the metal ground plane.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190173158A1 Electronic Device With Housing Slots for Antennas Public/Granted day:2019-06-06
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