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公开(公告)号：US20170201821A1
公开(公告)日：2017-07-13
申请号：US14993548
申请日：2016-01-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erin A. McAuliffe , Carlo Di Nallo , Huan-Chu Huang , Joel D. Barrera , Mattia Pascolini , Jerzy S. Guterman , Arun Chawan , Benjamin Cousins , Lee M. Panecki
CPC classification number: H04R1/1066 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/273 , H01Q9/42 , H04R1/1016
Abstract: An accessory such as a wireless earbud may have an antenna for transmitting and receiving wireless signals. A housing for the earbud may have a main body portion and an extended portion that forms a stalk protruding from the main body portion. The earbud may have a speaker aligned with a speaker port in the main body portion. The antenna may have an elongated shape and may extend along the stalk. The stalk may have a plastic housing wall portion. The antenna may be formed from first and second metal traces on opposing sides of a printed circuit substrate. The first metal trace may form an antenna resonating element arm and may lie between the substrate and the plastic housing wall portion. The second metal trace may be a ground trace. A feed for the antenna may be located at a juncture between the main body portion and the stalk.
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公开(公告)号：US20250015511A1
公开(公告)日：2025-01-09
申请号：US18890412
申请日：2024-09-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Aaron J Cooper , Amin Tayebi , Ana Papio Toda , Carlo Di Nallo
Abstract: An electronic device may have an antenna module with a triplet of antennas on a substrate. The triplet may include a first antenna with a radiating element formed from a patch on the substrate and second and third antennas having radiating elements formed from patches on that extend across a smaller lateral area than the patch in the first antenna. The patches in the second and third antennas may have extended electrical lengths formed from parasitic patches embedded within the substrate that are coupled to opposing edges of the patches by fences of conductive vias. The antenna module may include phased antenna arrays for conveying centimeter/millimeter wave signals. Signal conductors for the antennas may be distributed across multiple metallization layers of the substrate.
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公开(公告)号：US12062858B2
公开(公告)日：2024-08-13
申请号：US17849501
申请日：2022-06-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Yuancheng Xu , Hongfei Hu , Hao Xu , Yiren Wang , Han Wang , Sidharath Jain , Nikolaj Peter Iversen Kammersgaard , Haozhan Tian , Yuan Tao , Carlo Di Nallo , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with peripheral conductive housing structures having first and second segments. The device may include an antenna having a resonating arm formed from the first segment, an antenna ground, and a tuning element. The tuning element may have first, second, and third terminals. The first terminal may be coupled to the second segment. The antenna may have a switchable loop path that includes a first path from the second terminal to the first segment, a second path from first segment to a first point on the antenna ground, a portion of the antenna ground from the first point to a second point, and a third path from the second point to the third terminal. The tuning element may selectively activate the switchable loop path to boost performance of the antenna in a frequency band between 3300 MHz and 5000 MHz when needed.
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公开(公告)号：US11990687B2
公开(公告)日：2024-05-21
申请号：US17867504
申请日：2022-07-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Alden T Rush , Soroush Akbarzadeh , Hongfei Hu , Han Wang , Javier Gomez Tagle , Ming Chen , Carlo Di Nallo , Mattia Pascolini , Erdinc Irci , Ali Pourghorban Saghati
Abstract: An electronic device may include an antenna disposed on a substrate. The antenna may include a ring of conductive traces, a fed arm, and an unfed arm. The fed arm and the unfed arm may extend from opposing segments of the ring. The ring may be coupled to ground by fences of conductive vias extending through the substrate. The first arm may have a first radiating edge. The second arm may have a second radiating edge. The first radiating edge may be separated from the second radiating edge by a gap. The first arm may indirectly feed the second arm via near-field electromagnetic coupling across the gap. The first and second arms may collectively radiate in an ultra-wideband (UWB) frequency band.
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公开(公告)号：US20240097324A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-21
申请号：US17947006
申请日：2022-09-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuancheng Xu , Thomas E Biedka , Jingni Zhong , Hongfei Hu , Simran Singh , Allen S Kwon , Carlo Di Nallo , Jayesh Nath , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a first antenna fed by a first path and a second antenna fed by a second path. A first coupler may be disposed on the first path, a second coupler may be disposed on the second path, and a feedback path may couple the couplers to a receiver. A low-pass filter may be disposed on the second path. The first antenna may transmit signals in a low band. Some of the signals may couple onto the second antenna. The second coupler may pass the coupled signals to the receiver. Control circuitry may generate a scattering parameter value characterizing the coupling of the signals from the first antenna onto the second antenna. The scattering parameter value may be used to determine when to switch the first antenna out of use and the second antenna into use for covering the low band.
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公开(公告)号：US11762075B2
公开(公告)日：2023-09-19
申请号：US17074259
申请日：2020-10-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jayesh Nath , Simone Paulotto , Mario Martinis , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: G01S13/08 , G01S7/006 , G01S7/04 , G01S13/10 , H01Q21/22 , G01S19/13 , G01S2013/0245 , G01S2013/0254
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may be provided with a phased antenna array for conveying first signals at a first frequency between 10 GHz and 300 GHz and a non-millimeter wave antenna for conveying second signals at a second frequency below 10 GHz. The device may include conductive housing sidewalls and a display. Conductive structures in the display and the conductive housing sidewalls may define a slot element in the non-millimeter wave antenna. The phased antenna array may be mounted within the slot element, aligned with a spatial filter in the display, or aligned with a dielectric window in the conductive housing sidewalls. Control circuitry may process signals transmitted by the phased antenna array and a reflected version of the transmitted signals that has been received by the phased antenna array to detect a range between the device and an external object.
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公开(公告)号：US20230291124A1
公开(公告)日：2023-09-14
申请号：US17694486
申请日：2022-03-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Xu Han , Hongfei Hu , Ming Chen , Jingni Zhong , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Mohsen Salehi , Carlo Di Nallo , Ming-Ju Tsai , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas formed from respective first and second segments of a housing. The first antenna may have a first feed coupled to the first segment by a first switch and coupled to the first segment by a first conductive trace. The second antenna may have a second feed coupled to the second segment by a second switch and coupled to the second segment by a second conductive trace. The first segment may be separated from the second segment by a single gap, a data connector may pass through the second segment, and the antennas may selectively cover a low band. Alternatively, the first segment may be separated from the second segment by a third segment and two gaps, the data connector may pass through the third segment, and the first and second antennas may concurrently cover the low band.
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公开(公告)号：US20230084310A1
公开(公告)日：2023-03-16
申请号：US17730039
申请日：2022-04-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Aaron J Cooper , Amin Tayebi , Ana Papio Toda , Carlo Di Nallo
Abstract: An electronic device may have an antenna module with a triplet of antennas on a substrate. The triplet may include a first antenna with a radiating element formed from a patch on the substrate and second and third antennas having radiating elements formed from patches on that extend across a smaller lateral area than the patch in the first antenna. The patches in the second and third antennas may have extended electrical lengths formed from parasitic patches embedded within the substrate that are coupled to opposing edges of the patches by fences of conductive vias. The antenna module may include phased antenna arrays for conveying centimeter/millimeter wave signals. Signal conductors for the antennas may be distributed across multiple metallization layers of the substrate.
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公开(公告)号：US10957969B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-23
申请号：US15874805
申请日：2018-01-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Sameer Pandya , Mario Martinis , Baris Ozgen , Tyler S. Bushnell , Sherry Tang , Henry H. Yang , Christopher M. Werner , Jayesh Nath , Carlo Di Nallo , Andrea Ruaro
Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices with antennas. The antenna may be a display-integrated antenna. An antenna feed for the antenna may be located in a recess in a sidewall of a housing of the device. The antenna feed may be coupled to transceiver circuitry on a logic board of the device by a pair of flex circuits. A first one of the pair of flex circuits may form a portion of an antenna feed assembly. A second one of the pair of flex circuits may be an impedance-matching flex having an end that is soldered to the main logic board. The antenna may be coupled to a conductive portion of the housing of the device.
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公开(公告)号：US20210033714A1
公开(公告)日：2021-02-04
申请号：US17074259
申请日：2020-10-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jayesh Nath , Simone Paulotto , Mario Martinis , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may be provided with a phased antenna array for conveying first signals at a first frequency between 10 GHz and 300 GHz and a non-millimeter wave antenna for conveying second signals at a second frequency below 10 GHz. The device may include conductive housing sidewalls and a display. Conductive structures in the display and the conductive housing sidewalls may define a slot element in the non-millimeter wave antenna. The phased antenna array may be mounted within the slot element, aligned with a spatial filter in the display, or aligned with a dielectric window in the conductive housing sidewalls. Control circuitry may process signals transmitted by the phased antenna array and a reflected version of the transmitted signals that has been received by the phased antenna array to detect a range between the device and an external object.
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