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公开(公告)号：US11038284B2
公开(公告)日：2021-06-15
申请号：US15950677
申请日：2018-04-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jennifer M. Edwards , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Bilgehan Avser , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Siwen Yong , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a dielectric cover layer, a dielectric substrate, and a phased antenna array on the dielectric substrate for conveying millimeter wave signals through the dielectric cover layer. The array may include conductive traces mounted against the dielectric layer. The conductive traces may form patch elements or parasitic elements for the phased antenna array. The dielectric layer may have a dielectric constant and a thickness selected to form a quarter wave impedance transformer for the array at a wavelength of operation of the array. The substrate may include fences of conductive vias that laterally surround each of the antennas within the array. When configured in this way, signal attenuation, destructive interference, and surface wave generation associated with the presence of the dielectric layer over the phased antenna array may be minimized.
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公开(公告)号：US10886619B2
公开(公告)日：2021-01-05
申请号：US16289433
申请日：2019-02-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bilgehan Avser , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Jennifer M. Edwards , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Matthew D. Hill , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array and a display cover layer. The phased antenna array may include a dielectric resonator antenna. The dielectric resonator antenna may include a dielectric resonating element embedded in a lower permittivity dielectric substrate. The substrate and the resonating element may be mounted to a flexible printed circuit. A slot may be formed in ground traces on the flexible printed circuit and aligned with the resonating element. The slot may excite resonant modes of the resonating element. The resonating element may convey corresponding radio-frequency signals through the cover layer. A dielectric matching layer may be interposed between the resonating element and the cover layer. If desired, the slot may radiate additional radio-frequency signals and the matching layer may have a tapered shape. Dielectric resonator antennas for covering different polarizations and frequencies may be interleaved across the array.
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公开(公告)号：US10886617B2
公开(公告)日：2021-01-05
申请号：US16289459
申请日：2019-02-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bilgehan Avser , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Jennifer M. Edwards , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array and a display cover layer. The phased antenna array may include a probe-fed dielectric resonator antenna. The antenna may include a dielectric resonating element mounted to a flexible printed circuit. A feed probe may be formed from a patch of conductive traces on a sidewall of the resonating element. The feed probe may excite resonant modes of the resonating element. The resonating element may convey corresponding radio-frequency signals through the display cover layer. An additional feed probe may be mounted to an orthogonal sidewall of the resonating element for covering additional polarizations. Probe-fed dielectric resonator antennas for covering different polarizations and frequencies may be interleaved across the phased antenna array.
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公开(公告)号：US20200373672A1
公开(公告)日：2020-11-26
申请号：US16990821
申请日：2020-08-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Simone Paulotto , Basim H. Noori , Matthew A. Mow
Abstract: An electronic device may include a millimeter wave antenna having a ground plane, resonating element, feed, and parasitic element. The resonating element may include first, second, and third layer of traces that are shorted together. The second traces may be interposed between the first and third traces and the third traces may be interposed between the second traces and the parasitic. The third traces may have a width that is less than the widths of the second and third traces. The third traces and the parasitic may define a constrained volume having an associated cavity resonance that lies outside of a frequency band of interest. If desired, the resonating element may include a single layer of conductive traces having a grid of openings that disrupt impedance in a transverse direction, thereby mitigating the trapping of energy within the frequency band of interest between the resonating element and the parasitic.
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公开(公告)号：US20200280131A1
公开(公告)日：2020-09-03
申请号：US16289459
申请日：2019-02-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bilgehan Avser , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Jennifer M. Edwards , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array and a display cover layer. The phased antenna array may include a probe-fed dielectric resonator antenna. The antenna may include a dielectric resonating element mounted to a flexible printed circuit. A feed probe may be formed from a patch of conductive traces on a sidewall of the resonating element. The feed probe may excite resonant modes of the resonating element. The resonating element may convey corresponding radio-frequency signals through the display cover layer. An additional feed probe may be mounted to an orthogonal sidewall of the resonating element for covering additional polarizations. Probe-fed dielectric resonator antennas for covering different polarizations and frequencies may be interleaved across the phased antenna array.
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公开(公告)号：US10741906B2
公开(公告)日：2020-08-11
申请号：US16146556
申请日：2018-09-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Bilgehan Avser , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Jennifer M. Edwards
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided antennas and control circuitry. The antennas may be arranged in an array of unit cells. Each unit cell may include a first antenna that conveys signals in a first frequency band higher than 10 GHz and a second antenna that conveys radio-frequency signals in a second frequency band higher than the first frequency band. A first of the unit cells may be provided with a first set of antennas that transmits radio-frequency signals in a third frequency band higher than the second frequency band. A second of the antenna unit cells may be provided with a second set of antennas that receives the radio-frequency signals after being reflected off of external objects. The control circuitry may perform spatial ranging operations by processing the transmitted and received signals in the second frequency band.
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公开(公告)号：US10727570B2
公开(公告)日：2020-07-28
申请号：US15884245
申请日：2018-01-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Simone Paulotto , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H01Q1/24
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display and a phased array antenna that transmits radio-frequency signals at frequencies greater than 10 GHz. The display may include a conductive layer that is used to form pixel circuitry and/or touch sensor electrodes. A filter may be formed from conductive structures within the conductive layer. The conductive structures may include an array of conductive patches separated by slots or may include conductive paths that define an array of slots. The filter may include an additional array of conductive patches stacked under the array of conductive patches to allow the slots to be narrower than would be resolvable to the unaided human eye. The periodicity of the conductive structures and the slots in the filter may be selected to tune a cutoff frequency of the filter to be greater than frequencies handled by the phased antenna array.
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公开(公告)号：US10665959B2
公开(公告)日：2020-05-26
申请号：US15658141
申请日：2017-07-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Simone Paulotto , Basim H. Noori , Matthew A. Mow
IPC: H01Q21/06 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q5/335 , H01Q5/385 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q21/08 , H01Q9/04 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q21/24 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q21/00 , H01Q21/22
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with millimeter wave transceiver circuitry and an antenna having a ground and a resonating element. The resonating element may include first and second patches symmetrically distributed about an axis. The antenna may be fed using an antenna feed having a first feed terminal coupled to both the first and second patches and a second feed terminal coupled to the ground. The first feed terminal may be coupled to the first patch at a side closest to the second patch and may be coupled to the second patch at a side closest to the first patch. The first and second patches may be shorted to the ground if desired. Antenna currents on the first patch may be 180 degrees out of phase with antenna currents on the second patch. The antenna may be arranged in an array of antennas with different polarizations.
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公开(公告)号：US10608344B2
公开(公告)日：2020-03-31
申请号：US16002941
申请日：2018-06-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Simone Paulotto , Jennifer M. Edwards , Harish Rajagopalan , Bilgehan Avser
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as centimeter and millimeter wave transceiver circuitry (e.g., circuitry that transmits and receives antennas signals at frequencies greater than 10 GHz). The antennas may be arranged in a phased antenna array. The phased antenna array may be formed on a dielectric substrate and may include one or more indirectly-fed microstrip dipole antennas. Conductive traces forming dipole antenna resonating elements or parasitic resonating elements for the dipole antennas in the phased antenna array may be embedded within or formed on an upper surface of the dielectric substrate. The phased antenna array may include both dipole antennas and patch antennas. Dipole antennas may be interposed between adjacent patch antennas or formed next to patch antennas.
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公开(公告)号：US20200021025A1
公开(公告)日：2020-01-16
申请号：US16036780
申请日：2018-07-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Simone Paulotto , Harish Rajagopalan , Jennifer M. Edwards , Hao Xu
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry for conveying radio-frequency signals greater than 10 GHz. The wireless circuitry may include a phased antenna array that transmits a steerable signal beam and independent antennas that are separate from the array. The array may be coupled to a first transceiver and the independent antennas may be coupled to a second transceiver. Power amplifier stages may be coupled between the second transceiver and the independent antennas to boost the gain of the independent antennas. If desired, the array and the independent antennas may be coupled to ports of the same transceiver. In this arrangement, each independent antenna may include an antenna feed that is coupled to a respective pair of ports on the transceiver. This may serve to boost the gain of the independent antennas without power amplifier circuitry. The independent antennas may have smaller footprints than the phased antenna array.
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