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公开(公告)号:US10938111B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-02
申请号:US16269203
申请日:2019-02-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: James M. Cuseo , David C. Parell , Jerzy S. Guterman , Joel D. Barrera
Abstract: An electronic device may have metal structures such as metal electronic device housing structures and other conductive structures. The conductive structures may have a slot or other opening. An antenna may be formed from the conductive structures. Control circuitry in the electronic device may receive input from input-output devices and may use the input-output devices to provide a user with output. The control circuitry may be coupled to a radio-frequency transceiver that is used to transmit and receive wireless communications. The radio-frequency transceiver may be coupled to the antenna using a transmission line. The transmission line may have a radio-frequency connector that is coupled to a radio-frequency connector on an antenna feed bolt. The antenna feed bolt may have a shaft that spans the opening in the conductive structures and may be coupled to antenna feed terminals on opposing sides of the opening. The antenna may have a tuning bolt.
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公开(公告)号:US10849557B2
公开(公告)日:2020-12-01
申请号:US16140419
申请日:2018-09-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Steven J. Keating , Daniel D. Sunshine , Benjamin J. Grena , Daniel A. Podhajny , Jerzy S. Guterman , Jessica J. Lu , David M. Kindlon
IPC: A61B5/00 , A61B5/0205 , A61B5/021 , A61B5/024 , A61B5/0408 , A61B5/08 , D03D1/00 , D03D7/00 , D03D15/08 , H04B1/3827 , H04W4/80 , A61B5/01 , A61B5/113 , D02G3/44
Abstract: A fabric-based item may be provide with a stretchable band. The stretchable band may be formed from a ring-shaped strip of stretchable fabric having an opening configured to fit around a body part of a user. Circuitry may be coupled to strands of material in the stretchable band. The circuitry may include sensor circuitry for making measurements on the body part such as electrocardiogram measurements, blood pressure measurements, and respiration rate measurements. Wireless communications circuitry in the fabric-based item may be used to communicate wirelessly with external electronic equipment. A wireless power transmitting device may transmit wireless power. A coil formed from conductive strands in the fabric-based item may be used by wireless power receiving circuitry in the fabric-based item to receive the wireless power. The coil may have one or more turns that run around the ring-shaped strip of stretchable fabric.
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公开(公告)号:US10567861B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-18
申请号:US16125178
申请日:2018-09-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Zachary C. Rich , Kurt R. Stiehl , Arun D. Chawan , Michael B. Howes , Jonathan S. Aase , Esge B. Andersen , Yacine Azmi , Jahan C. Minoo , David J. Shaw , Aarti Kumar , Augustin Prats , Robert D. Watson , Baptiste P. Paquier , Axel D. Berny , Benjamin W. Cook , Jerzy S. Guterman , Benjamin Adair Cousins
IPC: H04R1/10
Abstract: A housing has a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry inside the housing includes a wireless communications interface to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号:US20190356051A1
公开(公告)日:2019-11-21
申请号:US15980511
申请日:2018-05-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Joel D. Barrera , Jerzy S. Guterman
Abstract: An electronic device may have an upper housing with a display and a lower housing with a keyboard. The upper housing may rotate between open and closed positions. The lower housing may include a first conductive wall separated from the upper housing by an upper slot and a second conductive wall separated from the upper housing by a lower slot. An antenna resonating element may be mounted within the lower housing and may convey signals in low and high frequency bands through the lower slot when the upper housing closed. The resonating element may be grounded to the second conductive wall and may be separated from a conductive cavity wall by at least one-sixteenth of a wavelength in the low frequency band. A parasitic element may be used to redirect signals in the low frequency band towards and through the upper slot when the upper housing open.
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公开(公告)号:US20180248811A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-30
申请号:US15445853
申请日:2017-02-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Carlo Di Nallo , Mattia Pascolini , Jerzy S. Guterman
IPC: H04L12/875 , H04W72/04 , H04L1/18 , H04L5/00 , H04B7/0404
CPC classification number: H04L47/564 , H04B7/0404 , H04L1/1816 , H04L5/0055 , H04L5/006 , H04L5/0087 , H04W4/80 , H04W72/0446 , H04W84/12 , H04W84/18
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20170212554A1
公开(公告)日:2017-07-27
申请号:US15008139
申请日:2016-01-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jerzy S. Guterman , Joel D. Barrera , Kevin M. Robinson , Daniel D. Hershey
CPC classification number: G06F1/1616 , G06F1/1637 , G06F1/1681 , G06F1/1698 , G06F1/203 , H01Q1/02 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/2291 , H01Q9/0407 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q13/10 , H01Q21/28
Abstract: An electronic device may have a metal housing. The metal housing may have an upper housing in which a component such as a display is mounted and a lower housing in which a component such as a keyboard is mounted. Hinges may be used to mount the upper housing to the lower housing for rotation about a rotational axis. A slot-shaped opening may separate the upper and lower housing. Flexible printed circuits with ground traces may bisect the slot-shaped opening to form three electrically isolated slots each of which is aligned with a respective cavity antenna. The antennas may have antenna grounds formed from portions of the metal housing and other conductive structures. Resonating elements for the antennas may be supported by an elongated ventilation port structure along the rear edge of the lower housing.
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公开(公告)号:US09531071B2
公开(公告)日:2016-12-27
申请号:US14992213
申请日:2016-01-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jerzy S. Guterman , Hao Xu , Douglas Blake Kough , Eduardo Lopez Camacho , Mattia Pascolini , Robert W. Schlub , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H01Q5/357 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q5/378
Abstract: Electronic devices may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. The antenna structures may include antenna resonating elements such as dual-band antenna resonating elements that resonate in first and second communications bands. The antenna structures may also contain parasitic antenna elements such as elements that are operative in only the first or second communications band and elements that are operative in both the first and second communications bands. The antenna resonating elements and parasitic elements may be mounted on a common dielectric carrier. The dielectric carrier may be mounted within a slot or other opening in a conductive element. The conductive element may be formed from conductive housing structures in an electronic device such as a portable computer. The portable computer may have a clutch barrel with a dielectric cover. The dielectric cover may overlap and cover the slot and the dielectric carrier.
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公开(公告)号:US20250105490A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-27
申请号:US18476035
申请日:2023-09-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Nikolaos Chiotellis , Michael J. Williams , Joel D. Barrera , Marc Soriano Baliarda , Ayoub Yari Boroujeni , Trevor J. Edmonds , Jerzy S. Guterman
Abstract: An electronic device such as a laptop computer may have an upper housing and a lower housing. The lower housing may have a clutch barrel coupled to the upper housing by a hinge. The upper housing may be rotatable relative to the lower housing between an open position and a closed position. The upper housing may have a curved metal surface facing the clutch barrel. The device may have an antenna with a radiating arm on a curved interior surface of a substrate in the clutch barrel. The radiating arm may extend parallel to the curved metal surface. The radiating arm may remain separated from the curved metal surface across its lateral area as the upper housing is rotated from the open position to the closed position. This may ensure that the antenna is provided with a uniform capacitive load from the upper housing at all upper housing positions.
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公开(公告)号:US20240259721A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-01
申请号:US18584069
申请日:2024-02-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Zachary C. Rich , Kurt R. Stiehl , Arun D. Chawan , Michael B. Howes , Jonathan S. Aase , Esge B. Andersen , Yacine Azmi , Jahan C. Minoo , David J. Shaw , Aarti Kumar , Augustin Prats , Robert D. Watson , Baptiste P. Paquier , Axel D. Berny , Benjamin W. Cook , Jerzy S. Guterman , Benjamin Adair Cousins
IPC: H04R1/10
CPC classification number: H04R1/1016 , H04R1/1025 , H04R1/1075 , H04R1/105 , H04R2201/107 , H04R2420/07
Abstract: A housing has a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry inside the housing includes a wireless communications interface to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号:US11937037B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-19
申请号:US17827493
申请日:2022-05-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Zachary C. Rich , Kurt R. Stiehl , Arun D. Chawan , Michael B. Howes , Jonathan S. Aase , Esge B. Andersen , Yacine Azmi , Jahan C. Minoo , David J. Shaw , Aarti Kumar , Augustin Prats , Robert D. Watson , Baptiste P. Paquier , Axel D. Berny , Benjamin W. Cook , Jerzy S. Guterman , Benjamin Adair Cousins
IPC: H04R1/10
CPC classification number: H04R1/1016 , H04R1/1025 , H04R1/1075 , H04R1/105 , H04R2201/107 , H04R2420/07
Abstract: A housing has a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry inside the housing includes a wireless communications interface to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
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