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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
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.
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公开(公告)号：US20250087869A1
公开(公告)日：2025-03-13
申请号：US18465014
申请日：2023-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ming Chen , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Joel Ravi , Woonyong Bae , Laura M Burke , Yuancheng Xu , Bhaskara R Rupakula , Haozhan Tian , Salih Yarga , Erdinc Irci , Tiejun Yu , Seyed Mohammad Amjadi , Ahmed Ali Abdelhaliem Nafe , Hongfei Hu , Carlo Di Nallo , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with sidewalls and a conductive plate. A segment of the sidewalls may form a radiating arm of an antenna. A display may be mounted to the sidewalls. The display may include a conductive frame and a flexible printed circuit. The flexible circuit may have a bend. Conductive foam may short a conductive trace on the flexible circuit to the conductive frame near the bend. Low injection pressure overmolding (LIPO) may be molded over the flexible circuit, the foam, and the frame. A conductive spring may short the frame to the conductive plate. The spring may include a wider and/or thinner portion that optionally includes one or more notches for reducing its inductance. The conductive plate, the spring, the frame, the foam, and the conductive trace may form part of the antenna ground for the antenna.
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公开(公告)号：US20250087868A1
公开(公告)日：2025-03-13
申请号：US18464969
申请日：2023-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Alden T Rush , Salih Yarga , Joel Ravi , Woonyong Bae , Laura M Burke , Bhaskara R Rupakula , Haozhan Tian , Erdinc Irci , Hongfei Hu , Carlo Di Nallo
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a housing having sidewalls, a dielectric cover, and a conductive plate. A display may be mounted to the sidewalls opposite the dielectric cover. A logic board may be interposed between the display and the plate. The device may include a phased antenna array on a first module and an ultra-wideband (UWB) on a second module. The first and second modules may be surface-mounted to the main body of a flexible printed circuit between the plate and the dielectric cover. The UWB antenna and the array may convey radio-frequency signals through the dielectric cover. The flexible printed circuit may have a tail that carries the transmission lines for the UWB antenna and the array. The tail may be folded through a hole in the mid-chassis and coupled to a radio-frequency connector on the logic board.
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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
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.
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公开(公告)号：US20230291125A1
公开(公告)日：2023-09-14
申请号：US17832427
申请日：2022-06-03
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：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
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.
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公开(公告)号：US11340329B2
公开(公告)日：2022-05-24
申请号：US16563658
申请日：2019-09-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Simone Paulotto , Carlo Di Nallo
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with control circuitry and wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include a phased antenna array and a radio-frequency integrated circuit having transmit and receive ports. The array may include a first set of stacked patch antennas coupled to the transmit ports and a second set of stacked patch antennas coupled to the receive ports. The integrated circuit may transmit ranging signals at millimeter wave frequencies using the transmit ports and the first set of antennas. The integrated circuit may receive a reflected version of the transmitted ranging signals that has been reflected off of an external object using the receive ports and the second set of antennas. The control circuitry may identify a distance between the electronic device and the external object based on the transmitted and received signals.
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公开(公告)号：US11196148B2
公开(公告)日：2021-12-07
申请号：US16226414
申请日：2018-12-19
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
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.
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公开(公告)号：US10957978B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-23
申请号：US16456856
申请日：2019-06-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Aaron J. Cooper , Amin Tayebi , Carlo Di Nallo , Vinh T. Le
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna for receiving signals in first and second ultra-wideband communications bands. The antenna may include a first arm that radiates in the first band and a second arm that radiates in the second band. The antenna may be fed by a stripline. A microstrip may couple the stripline to the first and second arms and may be configured to match the impedance of the stripline to the impedance of the first and second arms in the first and second bands, respectively. Sets of antennas tuned to different frequencies may be fed by the same transmission line and may collectively exhibit a relatively wide bandwidth. A conductive shielding layer or other conductive components may be layered over the antennas to mitigate cross-polarization interference at the antennas.
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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
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.
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