公开(公告)号：US20190097314A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-28

申请号：US15716363

申请日：2017-09-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Harish Rajagopalan ,  Pietro Romano ,  Umar Azad ,  David Garrido Lopez ,  Lu Zhang ,  Rodney A. Gomez Angulo ,  Mario Martinis ,  Carlo Di Nallo ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q5/30 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q5/50

CPC classification number: H01Q1/521 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q5/30 ,  H01Q5/35 ,  H01Q5/50 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H04M1/026 ,  H04M1/0266

Abstract: An electronic device may have peripheral conductive structures and a conductive layer that define edges of a slot element for a slot antenna. The slot element may be configured to cover wireless communications in a 1575 MHz satellite navigation band and 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz wireless local area network bands. A tuning circuit may be coupled across the slot approximately half way across the length of the slot. The antenna tuning circuit may include an inductor coupled in series with a notch filter (in scenarios where the slot is long enough to cover the 1575 MHz satellite navigation band in its fundamental mode) or may include a capacitor coupled in series with a notch or low pass filter. The fundamental mode and one or more harmonic modes of the slot element may cover the satellite navigation and wireless local area network bands.

公开(公告)号：US20190081394A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-14

申请号：US15701250

申请日：2017-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jennifer M. Edwards ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Yiren Wang ,  Hao Xu ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/44 ,  H05K5/00 ,  H05K5/02 ,  H01Q23/00

CPC classification number: H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/44 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q23/00 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H04M1/0266 ,  H05K5/0017 ,  H05K5/0247

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. An antenna in the electronic device may have an inverted-F antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. The antenna ground for the antenna may include a conductive frame for the display. The conductive frame may have a first portion that is separated from the antenna resonating element arm by a first distance and a second portion that is that is separated from the antenna resonating element arm by a second distance that is less than the first distance. The second portion may be configured to form a distributed impedance matching capacitance with the antenna resonating element arm.

公开(公告)号：US20190081386A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-14

申请号：US15700636

申请日：2017-09-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jennifer M. Edwards ,  Yijun Zhou ,  Yiren Wang ,  Hao Xu ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q5/10 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H01Q1/38

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. The antenna structures at a first end of the electronic device may include an inverted-F antenna resonating element for a first antenna formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. The inverted-F antenna resonating element arm may have a first end adjacent a first dielectric-filled gap and an opposing second end adjacent a second dielectric-filled gap. A second antenna may include an additional antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground. A second end of the additional antenna resonating element arm may be interposed between the first dielectric-filled gap and a first end of the additional antenna resonating element arm. This type of arrangement may ensure the first and second antennas are isolated.

公开(公告)号：US10193597B1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-29

申请号：US15900407

申请日：2018-02-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： David Garrido Lopez ,  Umar Azad ,  Harish Rajagopalan ,  Georgios Atmatzakis ,  Rodney A. Gomez Angulo ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H04B5/00 ,  H04B1/00 ,  H04B1/38 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04W88/02

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a conductive wall. A gap in the wall may divide the wall into first and second segments. A ground may be separated from the wall by first, second, and third slots that form radiating elements for first, second, and third non-near-field communications antennas. First and second conductive structures may be coupled between the wall and the ground. A near-field communications antenna may include a first feed terminal coupled to the first segment and a second feed terminal coupled to the second segment. The antenna may convey signals over a conductive loop path that includes portions of the first and second segments, the antenna ground, and the first and second conductive structures. A differential or single-ended signal transmission line may be coupled to the terminals. Phase shifters may configure the signals to be out of phase at the feed terminals.

公开(公告)号：US10181640B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-15

申请号：US15234907

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: H01Q1/12 ,  H01Q1/27 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H04B5/00 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  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.

公开(公告)号：US10153554B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-11

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

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：US10129165B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-13

申请号：US15445853

申请日：2017-02-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Carlo Di Nallo ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Jerzy S. Guterman

IPC: G01R31/08 ,  H04L12/875 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04B7/0404 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W4/80

Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas and a Bluetooth transceiver. Control circuitry may perform Bluetooth antenna diversity operations by coupling the Bluetooth transceiver to a selected one of the first and second antennas at a given time. The Bluetooth transceiver may transmit a first Bluetooth data packet and may determine whether a scheduled response packet associated with the first packet has been received over the first antenna during a predetermined time period. In response to determining that the Bluetooth transceiver has failed to receive the scheduled response packet during the first predetermined time period, the Bluetooth transceiver may re-transmit the first packet using the second antenna. This may serve to reduce the error rate of the transmitted Bluetooth data over time relative to scenarios where a single antenna is used, without requiring resource-intensive sensor circuitry to actively monitor the performance of the antennas.

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

IPC: H04B7/0408 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  G01S3/32 ,  H01Q3/00 ,  H01Q5/30 ,  G01S3/42

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.

公开(公告)号：US10103424B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-16

申请号：US15138684

申请日：2016-04-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Basim Noori ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Boon Wai Shiu ,  Matthew A. Mow ,  Yuehui Ouyang ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Ruben Caballero

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q5/49 ,  H01Q15/14 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q19/30

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include phased antenna arrays each of which includes multiple antenna elements. Phased antenna arrays may be formed from printed circuit board Yagi antennas or other antennas. A millimeter wave transceiver may use the antennas to transmit and receive wireless signals. The antennas may be mounted at the corners of an electronic device housing or elsewhere in an electronic device. An electronic device housing may be formed from metal and may have an opening filled with dielectric. The antennas may be aligned with portions of the dielectric. Printed circuit board antennas may have reflectors, radiators, and directors. The reflectors, radiators, and directors may be arranged to align radiation patterns for the antennas with the plastic-filled slots or other dielectric regions in the metal housing.

公开(公告)号：US09966653B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-08

申请号：US14839619

申请日：2015-08-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Erin A. McAuliffe ,  James W. Jervis ,  Andrea Ruaro ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Jerzy S. Guterman

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q5/371 ,  H01Q1/06 ,  H01Q1/38 ,  H01Q9/04

CPC classification number: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/06 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/38 ,  H01Q5/371 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q9/42

Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. The electronic device may have a dielectric housing. A printed circuit board with electrical components may be mounted in the dielectric housing. Heat spreader structures may be used to dissipate heat from the electrical components. The heat spreader structures be configured to form antenna cavities. The antennas in the electronic device may be formed from the antenna cavities and may have antenna resonating elements formed on the printed circuit. An electrical component such as a light-emitting diode may be mounted in one of the antenna cavities. Each antenna element may be an inverted-F antenna resonating element with short and long arms. The short arm of each antenna resonating element may be formed from edge plated metal traces on an edge of the printed circuit.