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公开(公告)号：US20180323834A1
公开(公告)日：2018-11-08
申请号：US15584889
申请日：2017-05-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Siwen Yong , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H04B7/0408 , G01S3/32 , G01S3/42 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q3/28 , H01Q3/36 , H01Q21/205 , H04B7/0617 , H04B7/0695
Abstract: An electronic device may communicate with an external device and may include one or more phased antenna arrays that transmit and receive a beam of millimeter wave signals. Beam steering circuitry may be coupled to the phased antenna array and may be adjusted to steer a direction of the beam. Control circuitry may control the beam steering circuitry to sweep the beam of millimeter wave signals over multiple beam directions. The control circuitry may gather wireless performance data and may compare the wireless performance metric data at each beam direction in the sweep prior to gathering wireless performance metric data at other beam directions in the sweep. The first beam direction in the sweep may be selected based on an initial position of the external device and/or based on sensor data gathered by the control circuitry.
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公开(公告)号：US20140313087A1
公开(公告)日：2014-10-23
申请号：US13864968
申请日：2013-04-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Siwen Yong , Gordon Coutts , Lijun Zhang , Qingxiang Li , Robert W. Schlub
IPC: H01Q3/22
Abstract: An electronic device may have an antenna for providing coverage in wireless communications bands of interest such as a low frequency communications band and a high frequency communications band. The antenna may have an antenna ground and an antenna resonating element. The antenna resonating element may have a high band arm that contributes to a first high band resonance in the high band and may have a low band arm that exhibits a low band resonance in the low band. A passive filter that is coupled between first and second portions of the antenna resonating element may be configured to exhibit a short circuit impedance associated with a bypass path that allows the antenna resonating element to contribute to a second high band resonance in the high band. A tunable inductor coupled to the antenna resonating element may be used to tune the low band resonance.
Abstract translation: 电子设备可以具有用于在诸如低频通信频带和高频通信频带之类的感兴趣的无线通信频带中提供覆盖的天线。 天线可以具有天线接地和天线谐振元件。 天线谐振元件可以具有有助于高频带中的第一高频带谐振的高频带臂，并且可以具有在低频带中表现出低频带谐振的低频带臂。 耦合在天线谐振元件的第一和第二部分之间的无源滤波器可以被配置为呈现与允许天线谐振元件对高频段中的第二高频带谐振有贡献的旁路路径相关联的短路阻抗。 耦合到天线谐振元件的可调谐电感器可用于调谐低频带谐振。
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公开(公告)号：US20250079687A1
公开(公告)日：2025-03-06
申请号：US18293027
申请日：2023-06-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jiangfeng Wu , Mei-Li Chi , Killian J Poore , Jason C Sauers , Siwen Yong , Yi Jiang , Jing Zhu , Lu Zhang , Junying Liu
Abstract: An electronic device may have first and second rear-facing displays, a front-facing display, a cover at a front side overlapping the front-facing display, and an antenna that radiates through the cover. The cover may have a three-dimensional curvature. The device may have an inner chassis and an outer chassis. The antenna may include a radiating element and a ground trace on a flexible printed circuit. To maximize wireless performance of the antenna, the ground trace may be electrically coupled to as much conductive material in the vicinity of the antenna as possible. For example, the ground trace may be grounded to conductive structures in the front-facing display via a conductive cavity for the antenna, may be grounded directly to the outer chassis using conductive screws, and/or may be grounded directly to the inner chassis using conductive screws.
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公开(公告)号：US12218424B2
公开(公告)日：2025-02-04
申请号：US17832421
申请日：2022-06-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bhaskara R. Rupakula , Harish Rajagopalan , Hao Xu , Jennifer M. Edwards , Bilgehan Avser , Siwen Yong
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a conductive sidewall. An aperture may be formed in the sidewall. The sidewall may have a cavity that extends from the aperture towards the interior of the device. The cavity may be filled with an injection-molded plastic substrate. A dielectric block having a dielectric constant greater than that of the injection-molded plastic substrate and the antenna layers may be embedded in the injection-molded plastic substrate. The dielectric block may at least partially overlap an antenna. The antenna may convey radio-frequency signals at a frequency greater than 10 GHz through the cavity, the dielectric block, the injection-molded plastic substrate, and the aperture. The dielectric block may increase the effective dielectric constant of the cavity, allowing the antenna to cover relatively low frequencies without increasing the size of the aperture.
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公开(公告)号：US20240405451A1
公开(公告)日：2024-12-05
申请号：US18424602
申请日：2024-01-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Killian J. Poore , Jiangfeng Wu , Mei-Li Chi , Jason C. Sauers , Siwen Yong , Yi Jiang
Abstract: An electronic device may have first and second rear-facing displays, a front-facing display, a cover at a front side overlapping the front-facing display, and an antenna that radiates through the cover. The antenna may be formed from traces on a flexible printed circuit. The antenna may be provided with a conductive shield on a dielectric carrier. The flexible printed circuit may be mounted to the carrier opposite the shield. A biasing member may be mounted to the carrier and may press the flexible printed circuit against the cover. To minimize weight of the device, the shield may be formed from conductive traces patterned onto the carrier. The carrier may include first and second substrates formed from respective shots of co-molded plastic. The second substrate may include plateable grade plastic and the conductive traces may be patterned onto plateable outer surfaces of the second substrate opposite the first substrate.
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公开(公告)号：US20240072417A1
公开(公告)日：2024-02-29
申请号：US18502979
申请日：2023-11-06
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
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q3/2605 , H01Q3/2658 , H01Q9/0414 , H01Q21/061 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/22
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：US11811133B2
公开(公告)日：2023-11-07
申请号：US17314740
申请日：2021-05-07
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
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q3/2605 , H01Q3/2658 , H01Q21/061 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/22
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：US11700035B2
公开(公告)日：2023-07-11
申请号：US16920297
申请日：2020-07-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Harish Rajagopalan , Bilgehan Avser , David Garrido Lopez , Forhad Hasnat , Mattia Pascolini , Mikal Askarian Amiri , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Thomas W. Yang , Jiechen Wu , Eric N. Nyland , Simone Paulotto , Jennifer M. Edwards , Matthew D. Hill , Ihtesham H. Chowdhury , David A. Hurrell , Siwen Yong , Jiangfeng Wu , Daniel C. Wagman , Soroush Akbarzadeh , Robert Scritzky , Subramanian Ramalingam
CPC classification number: H04B3/52 , G01R31/2822 , H01Q1/2283 , H01Q13/24 , H04B3/54
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna module having a substrate. A phased antenna array of dielectric resonator antennas and a radio-frequency integrated circuit for the array may be mounted to one or more surfaces of the substrate. The dielectric resonator antennas may include dielectric columns excited by feed probes. The feed probes may be printed onto sidewalls of the dielectric columns or may be pressed against the sidewalls by biasing structures. A plastic substrate may be molded over each dielectric column and each of the feed probes in the array. The feed probes may cover multiple polarizations. The array may include elements for covering multiple frequency bands. The dielectric columns may be aligned a longitudinal axis and may be rotated at a non-zero and non-perpendicular angle with respect to the longitudinal axis.
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公开(公告)号：US20220158692A1
公开(公告)日：2022-05-19
申请号：US17589731
申请日：2022-01-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Mattia Pascolini , Jiangfeng Wu , Siwen Yong , Lijun Zhang
IPC: H04B7/0426 , H04B7/155 , H04B10/114 , G06V40/10
Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises a base station and one or more relay docks and transmits directional wave signals between components using high frequency waves, such as millimeter waves. A beam forming decision engine utilizes position information collected from one or more position or motion sensors of a user device to determine a direction in which to form a directional wave signal being transmitted between components of the wireless communication system.
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公开(公告)号：US20220109464A1
公开(公告)日：2022-04-07
申请号：US17223888
申请日：2021-04-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bilgehan Avser , Harish Rajagopalan , Jennifer M. Edwards , Simone Paulotto , Siwen Yong
Abstract: An electronic device may include a transmission line path having a signal conductor embedded in a substrate. A contact pad may be patterned on a surface of the substrate. A radio-frequency component may be mounted to the contact pad using solder. Multi-layer impedance matching structures may couple the signal conductor to the contact pad. The matching structures may include a set of via pads and a set of conductive vias coupled in series between the signal conductor and the contact pad. The area of the via pads may vary across the set of via pads and/or the aspect ratio of the conductive vias may vary across the set of conductive vias. The matching structures may perform impedance matching between the signal conductor and the radio-frequency component at frequencies greater than 10 GHz while occupying a minimal amount of space in the device.
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