Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hybrid antennas for electronic devices
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Application No.: US13343420Application Date: 2012-01-04
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Publication No.: US08410986B2Publication Date: 2013-04-02
- Inventor: Robert J. Hill , Scott A. Myers , Robert W. Schlub , Dean Floyd Darnell , Zhijun Zhang
- Applicant: Robert J. Hill , Scott A. Myers , Robert W. Schlub , Dean Floyd Darnell , Zhijun Zhang
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group
- Agent G. Victor Treyz; Chih-Yun Wu
- Main IPC: H01Q1/24
- IPC: H01Q1/24

Abstract:
A portable electronic device is provided that has a hybrid antenna. The hybrid antenna may include a slot antenna structure and an inverted-F antenna structure. The slot antenna portion of the hybrid antenna may be used to provide antenna coverage in a first communications band and the inverted-F antenna portion of the hybrid antenna may be used to provide antenna coverage in a second communications band. The second communications band need not be harmonically related to the first communications band. The electronic device may be formed from two portions. One portion may contain conductive structures that define the shape of the antenna slot. One or more dielectric-filled gaps in the slot may be bridged using conductive structures on another portion of the electronic device. A conductive trim member may be inserted into an antenna slot to trim the resonant frequency of the slot antenna portion of the hybrid antenna.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120098720A1 Hybrid Antennas for Electronic Devices Public/Granted day:2012-04-26
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