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公开(公告)号:US20180233808A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-16
申请号:US15952115
申请日:2018-04-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Basim H. Noori , Boon W. Shiu , Kevin M. Marks , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Ruben Caballero , Yuehui Ouyang , Khan Salam
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/2258 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/241 , H01Q1/242 , H01Q13/06 , H01Q19/10 , H01Q19/30 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/28
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antennas may be formed from metal traces on a printed circuit. The printed circuit may be a stacked printed circuit including multiple stacked substrates. Metal traces may form an array of patch antennas, Yagi antennas, and other antennas. Antenna signals associated with the antennas may pass through an inactive area in a display and through a dielectric-filled slot in a metal housing for the electronic device. Waveguide structures may be used to guide antenna signals within interior portions of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US20180146435A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-24
申请号:US15874678
申请日:2018-01-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Mohit Narang , Peter M. Agboh , Qiyang Wu , Ruben Caballero , Vusthla Sunil Reddy , Xi Yang
CPC classification number: H04W52/20 , H04L43/0847 , H04L43/16 , H04W4/80 , H04W52/245 , H04W52/246 , H04W52/367
Abstract: A host device is configured to increase the power output by an internal amplifier of its wireless chipset in response to requests from a remote device. Once the internal amplifier has reached its maximum power, further requests for power increases from the remove device do not similarly lead to automatic power increases being delivered by a external amplifier of the host device. Rather, the host device determines the strength of the link between it and the remote device. If the signal strength is too low, it is an indication that the signal power output by the remote device may not be sufficient to maintain the link and that any further increases in signal power by the host device will have little or no effect on the link. However, if the signal strength from the remote device is sufficient, the host device determines an error rate between it and the remote device. If the error rate is sufficiently low to maintain the link, then the host device will not further increase its signal output power. However, if the error rate is too high, the host device will turn on and/or increase power from its external amplifier to boost the power of its output signal and, thus, improve the error rate between it and the remote device.
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公开(公告)号:US09972892B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-15
申请号:US15138689
申请日:2016-04-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Basim H. Noori , Boon W. Shiu , Kevin M. Marks , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Ruben Caballero , Yuehui Ouyang , Khan Salam
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/2258 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/241 , H01Q1/242 , H01Q13/06 , H01Q19/10 , H01Q19/30 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/28
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antennas may be formed from metal traces on a printed circuit. The printed circuit may be a stacked printed circuit including multiple stacked substrates. Metal traces may form an array of patch antennas, Yagi antennas, and other antennas. Antenna signals associated with the antennas may pass through an inactive area in a display and through a dielectric-filled slot in a metal housing for the electronic device. Waveguide structures may be used to guide antenna signals within interior portions of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US09913223B2
公开(公告)日:2018-03-06
申请号:US14746133
申请日:2015-06-22
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor: Mohit Narang , Peter M. Agboh , Qiyang Wu , Ruben Caballero , Vusthla Sunil Reddy , Xi Yang
CPC classification number: H04W52/20 , H04L43/0847 , H04L43/16 , H04W4/80 , H04W52/245 , H04W52/246 , H04W52/367
Abstract: A host device is configured to increase the power output by an internal amplifier of its wireless chipset in response to requests from a remote device coupled via a data link. Once the internal amplifier has reached its maximum power, the host device may determine the strength of the data link between it and the remote device. If the strength is low, it is an indication that further increases in signal power by the host device may have little effect on the link. If the signal strength from the remote device is sufficient, the host device determines an error rate. If the error rate is sufficiently low, the host device will not increase its signal output power. However, if the error rate is too high, the host device may increase power from its external amplifier to improve the error rate of the data link.
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公开(公告)号:US09882282B2
公开(公告)日:2018-01-30
申请号:US14921895
申请日:2015-10-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Basim H. Noori , Khan M. Salam , Liang Han , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero , Thomas E. Biedka , Yi Jiang , Yuehui Ouyang
CPC classification number: H01Q9/0407 , H01Q5/35 , H04W4/80
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more dual-frequency dual-polarization patch antennas. Each patch antenna may have a patch antenna resonating element that lies in a plane and a ground that lies in a different parallel plane. The patch antenna resonating element may have a first feed located along a first central axis and a second feed located along a second central axis that is perpendicular to the first central axis. The patch antenna resonating element may be rectangular, may be oval, or may have other shapes. A shorting pin may be located at an intersecting point between the first and second axes. The patch antennas may be used in beam steering arrays. The patch antennas may be used for wireless power transfer at microwave frequencies or other frequencies and may be used to support millimeter wave communications.
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公开(公告)号:US09882269B2
公开(公告)日:2018-01-30
申请号:US15141693
申请日:2016-04-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Robert J. Hill , Robert W. Schlub , Ruben Caballero
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/52 , H01Q9/04 , H01Q13/10 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q21/30 , H01Q23/00 , H01Q5/371 , H01Q5/40 , H01Q1/48
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q1/52 , H01Q1/521 , H01Q5/371 , H01Q5/40 , H01Q9/0407 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q13/10 , H01Q13/103 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q21/30 , H01Q23/00
Abstract: A handheld electronic device may be provided that contains wireless communications circuitry. The handheld electronic device may have a housing and a display. The display may be attached to the housing using a conductive bezel. The handheld electronic device may have one or more antennas for supporting wireless communications. A ground plane in the handheld electronic device may serve as ground for one or more of the antennas. The ground plane and bezel may define an opening. A rectangular slot antenna or other suitable slot antenna may be formed from or within the opening. One or more antenna resonating elements may be formed above the slot. An electrical switch that bridges the slot may be used to modify the perimeter of the slot so as to tune the communications bands of the handheld electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US09806401B2
公开(公告)日:2017-10-31
申请号:US14608048
申请日:2015-01-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Ruben Caballero , Mattia Pascolini , Mohit Narang , Matt A. Mow , Robert W. Schlub
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q21/28 , H04B1/401 , H04B7/0602 , H04B7/0689 , H04M1/0202
Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and first and second antennas. An electronic device may include a housing. The first antenna may be located at an upper end of the housing and the second antenna may be located at a lower end of the housing. A peripheral conductive member may run around the edges of the housing and may be used in forming the first and second antennas. The radio-frequency transceiver circuitry may have a transmit-receive port and a receive port. Switching circuitry may connect the first antenna to the transmit-receive port and the second antenna to the receiver port or may connect the first antenna to the receive port and the second antenna to the transmit-receive port.
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公开(公告)号:US20170309992A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-26
申请号:US15138689
申请日:2016-04-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Basim H. Noori , Boon W. Shiu , Kevin M. Marks , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Ruben Caballero , Yuehui Ouyang , Khan Salam
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/2258 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/241 , H01Q1/242 , H01Q13/06 , H01Q19/10 , H01Q19/30 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/28
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antennas may be formed from metal traces on a printed circuit. The printed circuit may be a stacked printed circuit including multiple stacked substrates. Metal traces may form an array of patch antennas, Yagi antennas, and other antennas. Antenna signals associated with the antennas may pass through an inactive area in a display and through a dielectric-filled slot in a metal housing for the electronic device. Waveguide structures may be used to guide antenna signals within interior portions of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US20170302306A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-19
申请号:US15499745
申请日:2017-04-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H04B1/04 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q21/0025 , H01Q21/065 , H01Q21/28 , H04B1/03 , H04B1/1081 , H04B2001/0408
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 mounted along edges of a housing for the electronic device, behind a dielectric window such as a dielectric logo window in the housing, in alignment with dielectric housing portions at corners of the housing, or elsewhere in the electronic device. A phased antenna array may include arrays of patch antenna elements on dielectric layers separated by a ground layer. A baseband processor may distribute wireless signals to the phased antenna arrays at intermediate frequencies over intermediate frequency signal paths. Transceiver circuits at the phased antenna arrays may include upconverters and downconverters coupled to the intermediate frequency signal paths.
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公开(公告)号:US20170230124A1
公开(公告)日:2017-08-10
申请号:US15495732
申请日:2017-04-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include antennas. The antennas may include phased antenna arrays for handling millimeter wave signals. Antennas may be located in antenna signal paths. The antenna signal paths may include adjustable components such as adjustable filters, adjustable gain amplifiers, and adjustable phase shifters. Circuitry may be incorporated into an electronic device to facilitate wireless self-testing operations. Wireless self-testing may involve use of one antenna to transmit an over-the-air antenna test signal that is received by another antenna. The circuitry that facilitates the wireless self-testing operations may include couplers, adjustable switches for temporarily shorting antenna signal paths together, mixers for mixing down radio-frequency signals to allow digitization with analog-to-digital converters, and other circuitry for supporting self-testing operations.
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