公开(公告)号：US10931013B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-23

申请号：US16277808

申请日：2019-02-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Aaron J. Cooper ,  Amin Tayebi ,  Carlo di Nallo ,  Zheyu Wang

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q5/25 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H01Q1/08

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with antennas for receiving signals in first and second ultra-wideband communications bands. The antennas may include a resonating element formed from conductive traces on a dielectric substrate. The substrate may be mounted to an underlying flexible printed circuit. A fence of conductive vias may extend from the resonating element, through the substrate and the flexible printed circuit, to a ground plane on the flexible printed circuit. The fence may form a return path for the antenna. A shielding ring may be formed on the substrate. Additional fences of vias may couple the shielding ring to the ground plane. If desired, the resonating element may include a patch that is not shorted to the ground plane. The fences of vias, the conductive traces, and the ground plane may form a continuous antenna cavity for the resonating element.

公开(公告)号：US10658749B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-19

申请号：US15698481

申请日：2017-09-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Andrea Ruaro ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Mario Martinis ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Zheyu Wang ,  Sameer Pandya

IPC: H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q1/27 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q13/16 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/44

Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display having conductive display structures. Printed circuits having corresponding ground traces may be coupled to the display for conveying data to and/or from the display. The conductive display structures may be separated from the metal sidewalls by a gap. A conductive interconnect may be coupled to the metal sidewalls and may extend across the gap to the conductive display structures. The conductive interconnect may be coupled to the ground traces on the printed circuits and/or may be shorted or capacitively coupled to the conductive display structures. When configured in this way, the metal sidewalls, the conductive display structures, and the conductive interconnect may define the edges of a slot antenna resonating element for a slot antenna.

公开(公告)号：US20180248634A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-30

申请号：US15442463

申请日：2017-02-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mattia Pascolini ,  Eduardo Jorge da Costa Bras Lima ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Andrea Ruaro ,  Mario Martinis ,  Zheyu Wang ,  Jayesh Nath

IPC: H04B17/318 ,  H01Q1/27 ,  H04B1/3827

Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may include a housing with a dielectric rear wall. Wireless circuitry in the device may include an antenna formed on or over the rear wall. Matching circuitry may match the impedance of the antenna to the rest of the wireless circuitry. Processing circuitry may gather receive signal strength information and/or phase and magnitude information from radio-frequency signals received through the rear wall. The processing circuitry may track the position of the device and accumulate user statistics over time. The processing circuitry may determine whether changes in loading of the antenna through the dielectric rear housing wall have occurred based on the receive signal strength information, user statistics, and/or phase and magnitude information. If a change is detected, the processing circuitry may adjust the matching circuitry to mitigate any potential antenna detuning as a result of the change.

公开(公告)号：US20180090826A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15654915

申请日：2017-07-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima ,  Andrea Ruaro ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Mario Martinis ,  Zheyu Wang ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q1/27 ,  H04B1/3827 ,  H01Q1/38 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/52

CPC classification number: H01Q1/273 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/38 ,  H01Q1/521 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q9/0421 ,  H04B1/385 ,  H04M2201/38

Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a dielectric rear wall. The metal sidewalls may form an antenna ground for an antenna. The antenna may include an antenna resonating element formed from conductive traces patterned directly onto an interior surface of the dielectric rear wall. The conductive traces may define a slot at the dielectric rear wall. A coil and a sensor may be mounted to the dielectric rear wall within the slot. Radio-frequency transceiver circuitry may be coupled to the conductive traces and the antenna ground and may transmit and receive radio-frequency signals through the dielectric rear wall using the antenna. Wireless power receiver circuitry may use the coil to receive wireless power signals through the dielectric rear wall. The sensor may emit and/or receive light through a transparent window in the dielectric rear wall.

公开(公告)号：US20180062264A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-01

申请号：US15253374

申请日：2016-08-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mario Martinis ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Yi Jiang ,  Jiangfeng Wu ,  Lijun Zhang ,  Siwen Yong ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Zheyu Wang ,  Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima

IPC: H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/50

CPC classification number: H01Q9/0421 ,  H01Q1/2291 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/273 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q5/328 ,  H01Q9/42

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing and other structures that form an antenna ground for an antenna. An antenna resonating element arm for the antenna may extend along the periphery of the housing. The resonating element arm may have opposing first and second ends. A return path may couple the resonating element arm to the antenna ground at the first end. An antenna feed may be coupled between the resonating element arm and the antenna ground in parallel with the return path. Electrical components such as first and second capacitors may be coupled between the antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground. A first of the capacitors may be coupled between the antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground at a location between the first and second ends. A second of the capacitors may be coupled between the second end and the antenna ground.

公开(公告)号：US20210351494A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-11

申请号：US17383275

申请日：2021-07-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Aaron J. Cooper ,  Amin Tayebi ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Zheyu Wang

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q5/25 ,  H01Q21/06 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q1/52 ,  G01S3/48 ,  G01S3/04 ,  H01Q3/26

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes first, second, and third antennas used to determine the position and orientation of the electronic device relative to external equipment. The antennas may include patch elements on respective substrates mounted to a flexible printed circuit. Each substrate may include fences of conductive vias that are coupled to ground and that laterally surround the corresponding patch element. Control circuitry may identify phase differences between the first and second antennas and between the second and third antennas and may identify an angle of arrival of received ultra-wideband signals using the phase differences. The control circuitry may compare the phase differences to a set of predetermined surfaces of phase differences to identify environmental loading conditions for the antenna. The control circuitry may correct the angle of arrival using offsets identified based on the environmental loading conditions.

公开(公告)号：US20210135361A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-06

申请号：US17147117

申请日：2021-01-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Aaron J. Cooper ,  Amin Tayebi ,  Carlo di Nallo ,  Zheyu Wang

IPC: H01Q5/25 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/08

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with antennas for receiving signals in first and second ultra-wideband communications bands. The antennas may include a resonating element formed from conductive traces on a dielectric substrate. The substrate may be mounted to an underlying flexible printed circuit. A fence of conductive vias may extend from the resonating element, through the substrate and the flexible printed circuit, to a ground plane on the flexible printed circuit. The fence may form a return path for the antenna. A shielding ring may be formed on the substrate. Additional fences of vias may couple the shielding ring to the ground plane. If desired, the resonating element may include a patch that is not shorted to the ground plane. The fences of vias, the conductive traces, and the ground plane may form a continuous antenna cavity for the resonating element.

公开(公告)号：US10734714B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-04

申请号：US15991498

申请日：2018-05-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Andrea Ruaro ,  Mario Martinis ,  Jiaxiao Niu ,  Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima ,  Dimitrios Papantonis ,  Jayesh Nath ,  Zheyu Wang ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q1/27 ,  G04G21/04 ,  H01Q5/357 ,  H01Q21/30 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/38

Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display having conductive display structures. The display structures may be separated from the sidewalls by a slot for an antenna that runs around the display module. A conductive interconnect may be coupled between the sidewalls and the display structures. A feed and tuning element may be coupled between the display structures and the sidewalls. A first length of the slot from the interconnect to the tuning element may radiate in a satellite band and a cellular band. A second length of the slot from the interconnect to the feed may radiate in a 2.4 GHz band. Harmonics of the second length may radiate in bands at and above 5.0 GHz. If desired, the tuning element may be omitted, and the antenna may be coupled to separate low band and high band matching circuits.

公开(公告)号：US20200021011A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-16

申请号：US16035325

申请日：2018-07-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Aaron J. Cooper ,  Amin Tayebi ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Zheyu Wang

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/38 ,  H01Q21/00 ,  H01Q3/36 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q21/06 ,  H01Q5/25

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes first, second, and third antennas used to determine the position and orientation of the electronic device relative to external equipment. The antennas may include patch elements on respective substrates mounted to a flexible printed circuit. Each substrate may include fences of conductive vias that are coupled to ground and that laterally surround the corresponding patch element. Control circuitry may identify phase differences between the first and second antennas and between the second and third antennas and may identify an angle of arrival of received ultra-wideband signals using the phase differences. The control circuitry may compare the phase differences to a set of predetermined surfaces of phase differences to identify environmental loading conditions for the antenna. The control circuitry may correct the angle of arrival using offsets identified based on the environmental loading conditions.

公开(公告)号：US10367252B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-30

申请号：US15234918

申请日：2016-08-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/27 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H04B5/00 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H01Q9/14

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.