公开(公告)号：GB2471753A

公开(公告)日：2011-01-12

申请号：GB201011050

申请日：2010-07-01

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： CHIANG BING ,  KOUGH DOUGLAS B ,  VAZUQEZ ENRIQUE AYALA ,  SPRINGER GREGORY A ,  XU HAO ,  SCHLUB ROBERT W ,  JIANG YI ,  ANGULO RODNEY ANDRES GOMEZ ,  CABALLERO RUBEN ,  CAMACHO EDUARDO LOPEZ ,  PASCOLINI MATTIA ,  GUTERMAN JERZY

IPC: H01Q13/18 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q5/00 ,  H01Q5/10

Abstract: A cavity-backed antenna 26, or an electronic device, comprises a cavity-backed resonant antenna element 70 where the cavity 72 is formed from a dielectric support structure 112 covered with a layer of conductive material 74, 76. The dielectric material may be a moulded plastic support structure 112 covered by a conductive metal such as copper or aluminium via any suitable deposition technique. The resonant antenna element 70 may take any form including one or more open and/or closed slot arrangements in a conductive plate, planar inverted-F antenna arrangements, patch antennas or various monopole and/or dipole printed antenna arrangements. The antenna may be arranged to operate in one or more different frequency bands. The cavity backed antenna 26 may be used in a housing associated with an electronic device such as a computer or a mobile phone. An antenna window may be provided in the said housing where the window may be formed by a region of dielectric material or from antenna window slots formed in a conductive member such as a conductive wall of the electronic device housing.

公开(公告)号：AU2008205147B2

公开(公告)日：2010-12-16

申请号：AU2008205147

申请日：2008-01-03

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： CABALLERO RUBEN ,  SCHLUB ROBERT W ,  HILL ROBERT J ,  ZAVALA JUAN

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q5/00 ,  H01Q5/10 ,  H01Q5/371 ,  H01Q5/40 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q21/29 ,  H01Q21/30

Abstract: Handheld electronic devices are provided that contain wireless communications circuitry having at least one antenna. The antenna may have a planar ground element and a planar resonating element. The planar ground element may have a rectangular shape that matches a rectangular housing shape for a handheld electronic device. A dielectric-filled slot may be formed in one end of the planar ground element. The planar resonating element may be located above the slot. The antenna may be a hybrid antenna that contains both a slot antenna structure formed from the slot and a planar inverted-F structure formed from the planar resonating element and the planar ground element. The antenna may be fed using a single transmission line or two transmission lines. With two transmission lines, one transmission line may be associated with the slot antenna structure and one transmission line may be associated with the planar inverted-F antenna structure.

公开(公告)号：GB2463179A

公开(公告)日：2010-03-10

申请号：GB0920735

申请日：2008-03-05

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： HILL ROBERT J ,  SCHLUB ROBERT W ,  CABALLERO RUBEN

IPC: H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q5/00 ,  H01Q5/10 ,  H01Q5/371 ,  H01Q5/40 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H01Q21/30 ,  H01Q23/00

Abstract: A handheld electronic device may be provided that contains wireless communications circuitry. The handheld electronic device may have a housing and a display. The display may be attached to the housing using a conductive bezel. The handheld electronic device may have one or more antennas for supporting wireless communications. A ground plane in the handheld electronic device may serve as ground for one or more of the antennas. The ground plane and bezel may define a opening. A rectangtular slot antenna or other suitable slot antenna may be formed from or within the opening. One or more antenna resonating elements may be formed above the slot. An electrical switch that bridges the slot may be used to modify the perimeter of the slot so as to huge the communications bands of the handheld electronic device.

公开(公告)号：AU2015101429A4

公开(公告)日：2015-11-12

申请号：AU2015101429

申请日：2015-10-01

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： RAJAGOPALAN HARISH ,  HUANG HUAN-CHU ,  SUN KE ,  LI QINGXIANG ,  SCHLUB ROBERT W ,  ANGULO RODNEY A GOMEZ ,  AZAD UMAR

IPC: H01Q13/10

Abstract: Abstract of the Disclosure An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include cavity antennas. A cavity antenna may be formed from a metal antenna cavity and resonating element structures. The metal antenna cavity may be formed from metal traces on a dielectric carrier. The resonating element structures may include directly fed and indirectly fed slot antenna resonating elements and monopole antenna resonating elements. The metal antenna cavity may exhibit a resonance that is tuned using a transmission line tuning stub. Filters and duplexer circuits may be used in routing signals at different frequency bands among the antenna resonating elements. STORAGE AND PROCESSING CIRCUITRY 3 INPUT-OUTPUT CIRCUITRY 44 INPUT-OUTPUT DEVICES (E.G., SENSORS, DISPLAYS, 32 SPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, BUTTONS, ETC.) WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS 90 34 GPS RECEIVER CIRCUITS 42 LOCAL WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER CIRCUITS (E.G., WIFI AND BLUETOOTH) 36 REMOTE WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER CIRCUITS (E.G., CELLULAR 38 TELEPHONE TRANSCEIVER CIRCUITRY)

公开(公告)号：AU2015101172A4

公开(公告)日：2015-10-08

申请号：AU2015101172

申请日：2015-08-26

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： HAN LIANG ,  TSAI MING-JU ,  MOW MATTHEW A ,  ZHOU YIJUN ,  PASCOLINI MATTIA ,  YARGA SALIH ,  VAZQUEZ ENRIQUE AYALA ,  HU HONGFEI ,  HAN XU ,  SCHLUB ROBERT W

IPC: H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q23/00

Abstract: Abstract of the Disclosure An electronic device may be provided with an antenna. The antenna may have an antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The antenna resonating element may be formed from peripheral conductive housing structures. An audio jack or other connector may be mounted in an opening in the peripheral conductive housing structures. The audio jack may overlap the antenna ground. Contacts in the audio jack may be coupled to an interference mitigation circuit. The interference mitigation circuit may include capacitors coupled to the ground and inductors coupled between the contacts and the capacitors. Radio frequency signal blocking inductors may be coupled between the interference mitigation circuit and respective ports in an audio circuit. fa fb f(MHz)

公开(公告)号：AU2014202603B2

公开(公告)日：2015-07-09

申请号：AU2014202603

申请日：2014-05-13

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： AMM DAVID T ,  SCHLUB ROBERT W ,  LEUNG OMAR S ,  KING BRIAN M ,  LI QINGXIANG ,  AYALA VAZQUEZ ENRIQUE ,  GOMEZ ANGULO RODNEY ANDRES ,  JIANG YI ,  CABELLERO RUBEN

IPC: H01Q1/38

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing in which an antenna is mounted. An antenna window may be mounted in the housing to allow radio-frequency signals to be transmitted from the antenna and to allow the antenna to receive radio-frequency signals. Near-field radiation limits may be satisfied by reducing transmit power when an external object is detected in the vicinity of the dielectric antenna window and the antenna. A capacitive proximity sensor may be used in detecting external objects in the vicinity of the antenna. The proximity sensor may have conductive layers separated by a dielectric. A capacitance-to-digital converter may be coupled to the proximity sensor by inductors. The capacitive proximity sensor may be interposed between an antenna resonating element and the antenna window.

公开(公告)号：AU2010290076B2

公开(公告)日：2014-08-14

申请号：AU2010290076

申请日：2010-06-22

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： AYALA VAZQUEZ ENRIQUE ,  SCHLUB ROBERT W ,  JIANG YI ,  GOMEZ ANGULO RODNEY ANDRES ,  CABALLERO RUBEN ,  LI QINGXIANG

IPC: H01Q1/40

Abstract: An electronic device may have a cavity antenna. The cavity antenna may have a logo-shaped dielectric window. An antenna resonating element for the cavity antenna may be formed from conductive traces on a printed circuit board. An antenna resonating element may be formed from the traces. The antenna resonating element may be mounted on an antenna support structure. A conductive cavity structure for the cavity antenna may have a planar lip that is mounted flush with an interior surface of a conductive housing wall. The cavity structure may have more than one depth. Shallower planar portions of the cavity structure may lie in a plane. The antenna resonating element may be located between the plane of the shallow cavity walls and an external surface of the conductive housing wall.

公开(公告)号：AU2014202603A1

公开(公告)日：2014-06-26

申请号：AU2014202603

申请日：2014-05-13

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： AMM DAVID T ,  SCHLUB ROBERT W ,  LEUNG OMAR S ,  KING BRIAN M ,  LI QINGXIANG ,  AYALA VAZQUEZ ENRIQUE ,  GOMEZ ANGULO RODNEY ANDRES ,  JIANG YI ,  CABELLERO RUBEN

IPC: H01Q1/38

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing in which an antenna is mounted. An antenna window may be mounted in the housing to allow radio-frequency signals to be transmitted from the antenna and to allow the antenna to receive radio-frequency signals. Near-field radiation limits may be satisfied by reducing transmit power when an external object is detected in the vicinity of the dielectric antenna window and the antenna. A capacitive proximity sensor may be used in detecting external objects in the vicinity of the antenna. The proximity sensor may have conductive layers separated by a dielectric. A capacitance-to-digital converter may be coupled to the proximity sensor by inductors. The capacitive proximity sensor may be interposed between an antenna resonating element and the antenna window.

公开(公告)号：AU2010273847B2

公开(公告)日：2014-06-12

申请号：AU2010273847

申请日：2010-06-22

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： SCHLUB ROBERT W ,  AMM DAVID T ,  LEUNG OMAR S ,  KING BRIAN M ,  LI QINGXIANG ,  AYALA VAZQUEZ ENRIQUE ,  GOMEZ ANGULO RODNEY ANDRES ,  JIANG YI ,  CABALLERO RUBEN

IPC: H01Q1/38

Abstract: Antennas are provided for electronic devices such as portable computers. An electronic device may have a housing in which an antenna is mounted. The housing may be formed of conductive materials. A dielectric antenna window may be mounted in the housing to allow radio- frequency signals to be transmitted from the antenna and to allow the antenna to receive radio-frequency signals. Near-field radiation limits may be satisfied by reducing transmit power when an external object is detected in the vicinity of the dielectric antenna window and the antenna. A proximity sensor may be used in detecting external objects. A parasitic antenna resonating element may be interposed between the antenna resonating element and the dielectric antenna window to minimize near-field radiation hotspots. The parasitic antenna resonating element may be formed using a capacitor electrode for the proximity sensor. A ferrite layer may be interposed between the parasitic element and the antenna window.

公开(公告)号：AU2012200977A1

公开(公告)日：2012-09-27

申请号：AU2012200977

申请日：2012-02-20

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： JIN NANBO ,  PASCOLINI MATTIA ,  MOW MATT A ,  SCHLUB ROBERT W ,  CABALLERO RUBEN

IPC: H01Q21/00 ,  H01Q5/10

Abstract: Abstract of the Disclosure Electronic devices are provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. A parallel 5 fed loop antenna may be formed from portions of a conductive bezel and a ground plane. The antenna may operate in multiple communications bands. The bezel may surround a peripheral portion of a display that is mounted to the front of an electronic device. The bezel may 10 contain a gap. Antenna feed terminals for the antenna may be located on opposing sides of the gap. A variable capacitor may bridge the gap. An inductive element may bridge the gap and the antenna feed terminals. A switchable inductor may be coupled in parallel with the 15 inductive element. Tunable matching circuitry may be coupled between one of the antenna feed terminals and a conductor in a coaxial cable connecting the transceiver circuitry to the antenna.