公开(公告)号：US20250112354A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-03

申请号：US18477872

申请日：2023-09-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seyed Mohammad Amjadi ,  Yiren Wang ,  Sidharath Jain ,  Victor C Lee ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Alden T Rush ,  Yuan Tao ,  Hao Xu ,  Carlo Di Nallo

IPC: H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/42 ,  H01Q13/10

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with peripheral conductive housing structures and a rear housing wall. The electronic device may have a display mounted to the peripheral conductive housing structures opposite the rear housing wall. The rear housing wall may have a dielectric cover layer and a conductive support plate that extends along the dielectric cover layer. The electronic device may have an antenna that radiates through the dielectric cover layer. The antenna may have a slot antenna resonating element that includes a first slot between the support plate and the peripheral structures and may include a second slot extending from the first slot into the support plate. A conductive interconnect may couple the support plate to the peripheral conductive housing structures at an end of the first slot. The antenna may be fed at a feed protrusion that extends into the second slot.

公开(公告)号：US20240079786A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-07

申请号：US18458699

申请日：2023-08-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Han Wang ,  Aobo Li ,  Victor C Lee ,  Yuancheng Xu ,  Ahmed Ali Abdelhaliem Nafe ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Yiren Wang ,  Yuan Tao ,  Christopher Q Ma ,  Zhiheng Zhou ,  Sherry Cao ,  Dale T Morgan ,  Timothy L Stickles ,  Hao Xu ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q9/04 ,  H01P3/08 ,  H01Q1/24

CPC classification number: H01Q9/0442 ,  H01P3/08 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q9/0421

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with peripheral conductive housing structures, a first antenna, and a second antenna. A gap may divide the housing structures into a first segment forming an arm of the first antenna and a second segment forming an arm of the second antenna. A first feed terminal may be coupled to the first segment and a second feed terminal may be coupled to the second segment. Switchable components may be coupled in parallel between the first and second feed terminals across the gap. The switchable components may be adjusted to tune the frequency response of the first and/or second antenna. The switchable components may have a first state in which only the first feed terminal feeds the first antenna and may have a second state in which both the first and second feed terminals feed the first antenna.

公开(公告)号：US20240079777A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-07

申请号：US18458671

申请日：2023-08-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yiren Wang ,  Yuan Tao ,  Hao Xu ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Sidharath Jain ,  Haozhan Tian ,  Yuancheng Xu ,  Harlan S Dannenberg ,  Eric W Bates ,  Peter A Dvorak ,  Nicole E Cazares ,  Obinna O Onyemepu ,  Victor C Lee ,  Han Wang

IPC: H01Q5/328 ,  H01Q9/04

CPC classification number: H01Q5/328 ,  H01Q9/0442 ,  H01Q9/045

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element formed from a segment of peripheral conductive housing structures. A speaker may be aligned with first openings in the segment. A vent may be aligned with second openings in the segment. A connector may protrude through the segment. A trace combiner for the antenna may be patterned onto the speaker and may be coupled to the segment. Tuners for the antenna may be disposed on first and second flexible printed circuits that extend along opposing sides of the connector. The tuners may be controlled through the speaker. The second flexible printed circuit may extend along the vent. The vent may have a vent cowling with a cut-out region next to the tuner on the second flexible printed circuit.

公开(公告)号：US20250112371A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-03

申请号：US18477868

申请日：2023-09-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Behnam Ghassemiparvin ,  Jingni Zhong ,  Ming Chen ,  Bhaskara R Rupakula ,  Yiren Wang ,  Han Wang ,  Yuan Tao ,  Victor C Lee ,  Salih Yarga ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Jennifer M Edwards ,  Hao Xu ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q19/00

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna module having a substrate. An antenna may be disposed on the substrate. The antenna may have a directly fed patch and parasitic patches. The antenna may be fed by a feed via. The parasitic patches may include a first layer of parasitic patches separated by a gap overlapping the directly fed patch. The parasitic patches may include an additional parasitic patch formed in a second layer. The additional parasitic patch may overlap the gap. A floating ground via may couple a center of the additional parasitic patch and a center of the directly fed patch to a landing pad in a ground layer. The landing pad may short the via to the ground layer at the radiating frequency of the antenna. The landing pad may be electrically floating at DC frequencies.

公开(公告)号：US12107335B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-01

申请号：US17728737

申请日：2022-04-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Aobo Li ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Haozhan Tian ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Liang Han ,  Ming Chen ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Salih Yarga ,  Tiejun Yu ,  Victor C Lee ,  Xu Han

IPC: H01Q21/06 ,  H04B1/00 ,  H04M1/02

CPC classification number: H01Q21/064 ,  H01Q21/06 ,  H04B1/00 ,  H04B1/0064 ,  H04M1/0266

Abstract: An electronic device may have peripheral conductive housing structures, a display frame, a support plate, a logic board, and an antenna. The antenna may have a resonating element that includes a first slot between the logic board and a segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures, a second slot between the display frame and the segment, and optionally a third slot between the support plate and the segment. The slots may be at least partially overlapping, may have respective lengths, may be located at respective distances from a cover layer for the display, and may collectively receive radio-frequency signals in a frequency band such as the L5 GPS band. Switching circuitry and filter circuitry may be coupled to the antenna feed and/or to the antenna feed (s) of one or more adjacent antennas in the electronic device to help to isolate the antennas from each other.

公开(公告)号：US20230083466A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-16

申请号：US17728737

申请日：2022-04-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Aobo Li ,  Erdinc Irci ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Enrique Ayala Vazquez ,  Haozhan Tian ,  Hongfei Hu ,  Liang Han ,  Ming Chen ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Salih Yarga ,  Tiejun Yu ,  Victor C Lee ,  Xu Han

IPC: H01Q21/06 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H04B1/00

Abstract: An electronic device may have peripheral conductive housing structures, a display frame, a support plate, a logic board, and an antenna. The antenna may have a resonating element that includes a first slot between the logic board and a segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures, a second slot between the display frame and the segment, and optionally a third slot between the between the support plate and the segment. The slots may be at least partially overlapping, may have respective lengths, may be located at respective distances from a cover layer for the display, and may collectively receive radio-frequency signals in a frequency band such as the L5 GPS band. Switching circuitry and filter circuitry may be coupled to the antenna feed and/or to the antenna feed(s) of one or more adjacent antennas in the electronic device to help to isolate the antennas from each other.