公开(公告)号：US10084490B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-25

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

IPC: H04M1/00 ,  H04B1/04 ,  H04B1/03 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H01Q21/06 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/22

CPC classification number: H04B1/04 ,  H01Q1/2266 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q21/0025 ,  H01Q21/062 ,  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.

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

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q21/06 ,  H01Q19/10 ,  H01Q19/30

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.

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

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q21/06 ,  H01Q19/10 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q19/30

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.

公开(公告)号：US20180090817A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15275192

申请日：2016-09-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Harish Rajagopalan ,  Pietro Romano ,  Rodney A. Gomez Angulo ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q1/48

CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/2291 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q5/378 ,  H01Q5/385 ,  H01Q7/005 ,  H01Q9/42

Abstract: An electronic device may include a metal housing and a distributed loop antenna. The antenna may include a dielectric carrier. The antenna may include a distributed loop antenna resonating element that extends around the carrier and a loop antenna feed element on the carrier. Portions of the feed element and loop antenna resonating element may be formed from the housing. The feed element may be directly fed and may indirectly feed the distributed loop antenna resonating element via near field electromagnetic coupling. The loop antenna resonating element may include a conductive sheet on the carrier. The conductive sheet and the housing may form a conductive loop path of the loop antenna resonating element. A capacitance may be interposed in the conductive loop path and may be formed by a gap between the conductive sheet and the housing. A speaker driver may be placed within a cavity in the carrier.

公开(公告)号：US20180090816A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15275183

申请日：2016-09-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Matthew A. Mow ,  Basim H. Noori ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Xu Han ,  Victor C. Lee ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Simone Paulotto

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q21/06

CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/2283 ,  H01Q1/242 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q9/0421 ,  H01Q21/062 ,  H01Q21/065 ,  H01Q21/28

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include millimeter wave antenna arrays formed from arrays of patch antennas, dipole antennas or other millimeter wave antennas on millimeter wave antenna array substrates. Circuitry such as upconverter and downconverter circuitry may be mounted on the substrates. The upconverter and downconverter may be coupled to wireless communications circuitry such as a baseband processor circuit using an intermediate frequency signal path. The electronic device may have opposing front and rear faces. A display may cover the front face. A rear housing wall may cover the rear face. A metal midplate may be interposed between the display and rear housing wall. Millimeter wave antenna arrays may transmit and receive antenna signals through the rear housing wall.

公开(公告)号：US20180048058A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-15

申请号：US15234918

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: H01Q1/27 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H04B5/00 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/50

CPC classification number: H01Q1/273 ,  H01Q1/2291 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q1/48 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H01Q9/0421 ,  H01Q9/14 ,  H04B5/0031

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：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

IPC: H01Q9/04 ,  H04W4/00

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.

公开(公告)号：US09843091B2

公开(公告)日：2017-12-12

申请号：US14701323

申请日：2015-04-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Matthew A. Mow ,  Xu Han ,  James G. Judkins ,  Liang Han ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Ming-Ju Tsai ,  Nanbo Jin ,  Thomas E. Biedka ,  Victor C. Lee ,  Yuehui Ouyang

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q5/321 ,  H01Q5/328 ,  H01Q5/335

CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q5/321 ,  H01Q5/328 ,  H01Q5/335 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q13/10 ,  H01Q13/103

Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from peripheral conductive structures running along the edges of a device housing that are separated from a round by an elongated opening. The electronic device may have a central longitudinal axis that divides the antenna resonating element arm and other antenna structures into symmetrical halves that exhibit mirror symmetry with respect to the central longitudinal axis. The antenna structures may include symmetrical slot antenna resonating elements on opposing sides of the central longitudinal axis. Electrical components such as switches and antenna tuning inductors may be coupled to the antenna structures in a configuration that is symmetrical with respect to the central longitudinal axis. The electrical components may be used to place the antenna structures in an unflipped configuration or in a symmetrical flipped configuration.

公开(公告)号：US09829926B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-28

申请号：US14566222

申请日：2014-12-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Scott A. Myers ,  Mattia Pascolini ,  Richard Hung Minh Dinh ,  Trent Weber ,  Robert Schlub ,  Josh Nickel ,  Robert Hill ,  Nanbo Jin ,  Tang Yew Tan

IPC: H05K5/00 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H05K5/03 ,  H05K5/02 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/24

CPC classification number: G06F1/1656 ,  G06F1/1626 ,  G06F1/1658 ,  G06F1/1684 ,  G06F1/1698 ,  H01Q1/2258 ,  H01Q1/241 ,  H04M1/0249 ,  H04M1/026 ,  H04M1/0274 ,  H05K5/02 ,  H05K5/0208 ,  H05K5/03 ,  Y10T29/49002 ,  Y10T29/49169

Abstract: An electronic device may include a ring-shaped housing member defining an interior volume. The ring-shaped housing member may be configured to receive electronic device components. The ring-shaped housing member may include a first element comprising an angled region, and a second element comprising an angled region. A first intermediate element may be placed between the first and second elements, where the intermediate element is secured to internal surfaces of each of the first and second elements such that the first and second elements do not overlap. The first intermediate element may fasten the first and second elements to one another, and electrically isolate the first and second elements from one another.

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

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H04B1/401 ,  H04M1/02 ,  H04B7/06

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.