Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic device antennas
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Application No.: US16226414Application Date: 2018-12-19
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Publication No.: US11196148B2Publication Date: 2021-12-07
- 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
- 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: H01Q1/27
- IPC: H01Q1/27 ; H01Q7/00 ; H04B5/00 ; H01Q9/14 ; H01Q1/24 ; H01Q1/50 ; H01Q1/48 ; H01Q9/04

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190123431A1 Electronic Device Antennas Public/Granted day:2019-04-25
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