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公开(公告)号：US10418687B2
公开(公告)日：2019-09-17
申请号：US15217805
申请日：2016-07-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Basim H. Noori , Ming-Ju Tsai , Xu Han , Victor C. Lee , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q3/24 , H01Q9/06 , H04B10/90 , H01Q19/30 , H01Q21/06 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q1/52
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 printed circuits. A flexible printed circuit may have an area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted. Protruding portions may extend from the area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted and may be separated from the area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted by bends. Antenna resonating elements such as patch antenna resonating elements and dipole resonating elements may be formed on the protruding portions and may be used to transmit and receive millimeter wave antenna signals through dielectric-filled openings in a metal electronic device housing or a dielectric layer such as a display cover layer formed from glass or other dielectric.
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公开(公告)号：US20190269027A1
公开(公告)日：2019-08-29
申请号：US16412078
申请日：2019-05-14
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
Abstract: This is directed to connecting two or more elements using an intermediate element constructed from a material that changes between states. An electronic device can include one or more components constructed by connecting several elements. To provide a connection having a reduced or small size or cross-section and construct a component having high tolerances, a material can be provided in a first state in which it flows between the elements before changing to a second state in which it adheres to the elements and provides a structurally sound connection. For example, a plastic can be molded between the elements. As another example, a composite material can be brazed between the elements. In some cases, internal surfaces of the elements can include one or more features for enhancing a bond between the elements and the material providing the interface between the elements.
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公开(公告)号：US10381715B2
公开(公告)日：2019-08-13
申请号：US15602972
申请日：2017-05-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Liang Han , Thomas E. Biedka , Matthew A. Mow , Iyappan Ramachandran , Mattia Pascolini , Xu Han , Hao Xu , Jennifer M. Edwards , Salih Yarga , Yijun Zhou
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H04W4/02 , H04B1/401 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q5/328 , H04B1/04 , H04B1/18 , H01Q5/35 , H04W88/06
Abstract: An electronic device may include an antenna having a resonating element, an antenna ground, and a feed. First and second tunable components may be coupled to the resonating element. Adjustable matching circuitry may be coupled to the feed. Control circuitry may use the first tunable component to tune a midband antenna resonance when sensor circuitry identifies that the device is being held in a right hand and may use the second tunable component to tune the midband resonance when the sensor circuitry identifies that the device is being held in a left hand. For tuning a low band resonance, the control circuitry may place the antenna in different tuning states by sequentially adjusting a selected one of the matching circuitry and the tunable components, potentially reverting to a previous tuning state at each step in the sequence. This may ensure that antenna efficiency is satisfactory regardless of antenna loading conditions.
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公开(公告)号：US10367570B2
公开(公告)日：2019-07-30
申请号：US15701233
申请日：2017-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yijun Zhou , Yiren Wang , Jennifer M. Edwards , Hao Xu , Ming-Ju Tsai , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H04B7/12 , H04B1/00 , H05K1/02 , H04B7/02 , H05K1/16 , H05K1/18 , H04B1/04 , H04B1/18
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with antenna structures and control circuitry. The antenna structures may include an antenna resonating element arm, an antenna ground, and an antenna feed coupled between the antenna resonating element arm and the antenna ground. The electronic device may include a tunable component configured to tune a frequency response of the antenna structures. The electronic device may also include a substrate, a radio-frequency transceiver on the substrate, control circuitry configured to generate control signals, a flexible printed circuit, and a connector. The connector may mechanically secure the flexible printed circuit to the substrate and may be electrically coupled to the transceiver and the control circuitry. The flexible printed circuit may include a radio-frequency transmission line coupled between the antenna feed and the connector and a control signal path coupled between the tunable component and the connector.
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公开(公告)号：US10263340B2
公开(公告)日：2019-04-16
申请号：US15848833
申请日：2017-12-20
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
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：US10263332B2
公开(公告)日：2019-04-16
申请号：US15707721
申请日：2017-09-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Siwen Yong , Yi Jiang , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H01Q3/34 , H01Q9/04 , H01Q21/06 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q1/42 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q21/00
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless communications circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include centimeter and millimeter wave transceiver circuitry and a phased antenna array. A dielectric cover may be formed over the phased antenna array. The phased antenna array may transmit and receive antenna signals through the dielectric cover. The dielectric cover may have first and second opposing surfaces. The second surface may face the phased antenna array and may have a curvature. The antenna elements of the phased antenna array may be formed on a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate may have one or more thinned regions between antenna elements of the phased antenna array to promote bending. The dielectric substrate may have a smaller thickness in the thinned region than in the regions under the antenna elements. The dielectric substrate may be totally removed in the thinned region.
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公开(公告)号：US10256872B2
公开(公告)日：2019-04-09
申请号：US15584889
申请日：2017-05-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Siwen Yong , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Mattia Pascolini
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：US20190089053A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-21
申请号：US15710361
申请日：2017-09-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Siwen Yong , Yi Jiang , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H01Q3/34
CPC classification number: H01Q3/34 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q1/42 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q21/065
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless communications circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include centimeter and millimeter wave transceiver circuitry and a phased antenna array. A dielectric cover may be formed over the phased antenna array. The phased antenna array may transmit and receive antenna signals through the dielectric cover. The dielectric cover may have a surface that faces the phased antenna array and may have a curvature. The antenna elements of the phased antenna array may be formed on a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate may have one or more thinned regions between antenna elements of the phased antenna array to reduce surface wave interference between adjacent antennas. The dielectric substrate may have a smaller thickness in the thinned region than in the regions under the antenna elements. The dielectric substrate may be totally removed in the thinned region.
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公开(公告)号：US20190089052A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-21
申请号：US15707721
申请日：2017-09-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Siwen Yong , Yi Jiang , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Mattia Pascolini
IPC: H01Q3/34 , H01Q9/04 , H01Q21/06 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q21/00 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q1/42 , H01Q1/24
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless communications circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include centimeter and millimeter wave transceiver circuitry and a phased antenna array. A dielectric cover may be formed over the phased antenna array. The phased antenna array may transmit and receive antenna signals through the dielectric cover. The dielectric cover may have first and second opposing surfaces. The second surface may face the phased antenna array and may have a curvature. The antenna elements of the phased antenna array may be formed on a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate may have one or more thinned regions between antenna elements of the phased antenna array to promote bending. The dielectric substrate may have a smaller thickness in the thinned region than in the regions under the antenna elements. The dielectric substrate may be totally removed in the thinned region.
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公开(公告)号：US20190081410A1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-14
申请号：US15700618
申请日：2017-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yijun Zhou , Yiren Wang , Jennifer M. Edwards , Hao Xu , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: Antenna structures at a given end of an electronic device may include antenna structures that are shared between multiple antennas. The device may include an antenna with 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. A short circuit path may bridge the gap. The short circuit path may be a split return path coupled between a first point on the inverted-F antenna resonating element arm and second and third points on the antenna ground. The electronic device may include an additional antenna that includes the antenna ground and metal traces that form an antenna resonating element arm. The antenna resonating element arm of the additional antenna may be parasitically coupled to the inverted-F antenna resonating element and a portion of the split return path.
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