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公开(公告)号：US09997828B2
公开(公告)日：2018-06-12
申请号：US15071795
申请日：2016-03-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Dean F. Darnell , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Erica J. Tong , Hongfei Hu , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ming-Ju Tsai , Nanbo Jin , Robert W. Schlub
IPC: H01Q1/24 , H01Q3/24 , H01Q21/30 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q5/35 , H01Q5/371 , H01Q7/00 , H04B5/00
CPC classification number: H01Q3/247 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q5/35 , H01Q5/371 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q21/30 , H04B5/0081
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with shared antenna structures that can be used to form both a near-field-communications antenna such as a loop antenna and a non-near-field communications antenna such as an inverted-F antenna. The antenna structures may include conductive structures such as metal traces on printed circuits or other dielectric substrates, internal metal housing structures, or other conductive electronic device housing structures. A main resonating element arm may be separated from an antenna ground by an opening. A non-near-field communications antenna return path and antenna feed path may span the opening. A balun may have first and second electromagnetically coupled inductors. The second inductor may have terminals coupled across differential signal terminals in a near-field communications transceiver. The first inductor may form part of the near-field communications loop antenna.
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公开(公告)号：US20180103312A1
公开(公告)日：2018-04-12
申请号：US15839632
申请日：2017-12-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erin A. McAuliffe , Carlo Di Nallo , Huan-Chu Huang , Joel D. Barrera , Mattia Pascolini , Jerzy S. Guterman , Arun Chawan , Benjamin Cousins , Lee M. Panecki
CPC classification number: H04R1/1066 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/273 , H01Q9/42 , H04R1/1016
Abstract: An accessory such as a wireless earbud may have an antenna for transmitting and receiving wireless signals. A housing for the earbud may have a main body portion and an extended portion that forms a stalk protruding from the main body portion. The earbud may have a speaker aligned with a speaker port in the main body portion. The antenna may have an elongated shape and may extend along the stalk. The stalk may have a plastic housing wall portion. The antenna may be formed from first and second metal traces on opposing sides of a printed circuit substrate. The first metal trace may form an antenna resonating element arm and may lie between the substrate and the plastic housing wall portion. The second metal trace may be a ground trace. A feed for the antenna may be located at a juncture between the main body portion and the stalk.
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公开(公告)号：US09930725B2
公开(公告)日：2018-03-27
申请号：US14967772
申请日：2015-12-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Thomas E. Biedka , Liang Han , Ming-Ju Tsai , Victor Lee , James G. Judkins
CPC classification number: H04W88/06 , H04B1/0053 , H04B1/3827 , H04B17/102 , H04B17/104 , H04L25/0264 , H04W84/042 , H04W84/12
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. An application processor may generate wireless data that is to be transmitted using the wireless circuitry and may process wireless data that has been received using the wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple baseband processors, multiple associated radios, and front-end module and antenna circuitry. Sensors may be used to provide the application processor with sensor data. During operation, the application processor and the baseband processors may be used to transmit and receive wireless communications traffic. A multiradio controller integrated circuit that does not transmit or receive the wireless communications traffic may be used in controlling the wireless circuitry based on impedance measurements, sensor data, and other information.
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公开(公告)号：US20180069588A1
公开(公告)日：2018-03-08
申请号：US15257521
申请日：2016-09-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Jiangfeng Wu , Lijun Zhang , Siwen Yong , Jiaxiao Niu , Mattia Pascolini , Jayesh Nath , Carlo Di Nallo , Zheyu Wang , Mario Martinis , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Steven P. Cardinali , Rex Tyler Ehman , James G. Horiuchi , Trevor J. Ness , Scott D. Morrison , Siddharth Nangia , Mushtaq A. Sarwar
CPC classification number: H04B1/40 , G06F1/1626 , G06F1/163 , G06F1/1637 , G06F1/1658 , G06F1/1698 , H01Q9/30 , H04B1/3888 , H04M1/0202
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display cover layer mounted to a metal housing. Electrical component layers such as a display layer, touch sensor layer, and near-field communications antenna layer may be mounted under the display cover layer. An antenna feed may have a positive feed terminal coupled to the electrical component layers and a ground feed terminal coupled to the metal housing. The electrical component layers may serve as an antenna resonating element for an antenna. The antenna may cover cellular telephone bands and may receive satellite navigation system signals. A system-in-package device may be mounted to the metal housing. A flexible printed circuit may extend between the electrical component layers and the system-in-package device. A mounting bracket for the system-in-package device may be provided with electrical isolation to enhance antenna performance in bands such as a satellite navigation system band.
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公开(公告)号：US20180048057A1
公开(公告)日：2018-02-15
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
CPC classification number: H01Q1/273 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q1/50 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/14 , H04B5/00 , H04B5/0012 , 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.
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公开(公告)号：US20170264001A1
公开(公告)日：2017-09-14
申请号：US15066419
申请日：2016-03-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Umar Azad , Harish Rajagopalan , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Pietro Romano , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H01Q1/24 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/48 , H01Q5/328 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/0442 , H01Q13/10 , H01Q21/28
Abstract: An electronic device may have hybrid antennas that include slot antenna resonating elements formed from slots in a ground plane and planar inverted-F antenna resonating elements. The planar inverted-F antenna resonating elements may each have a planar metal member that overlaps one of the slots. A return path and feed may be coupled in parallel between the planar metal member and the ground plane. Adjustable circuits such as tunable inductors may be used to tune the hybrid antennas. Adjustable circuits may bridge the slots in hybrid antennas and may be included in return paths that are coupled between the planar metal members of the planar inverted-F antenna resonating elements and the ground plane. A slot may be selectively divided to from two slots using switching circuitry.
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公开(公告)号：US09654164B2
公开(公告)日：2017-05-16
申请号：US14685904
申请日：2015-04-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Erdinc Irci , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Hongfei Hu , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
IPC: H04M1/00 , H04B1/3888 , H01Q1/24 , H04M1/02 , H04M1/04
CPC classification number: H04B1/3888 , H01Q1/243 , H04M1/0262 , H04M1/04
Abstract: A removable case may receive an electronic device. A male connector in the case may mate with a female connector in the device. A battery in the case may supply power to the device through the male connector. The electronic device may have an antenna formed from peripheral conductive housing structures and an antenna ground. The antenna may include a slot antenna resonating element. The case may have supplemental antenna structures such as a metal patch that overlaps an end of the slot antenna resonating element to retune the slot antenna resonating element to a desired operating frequency after being detuned by dielectric loading from the case. The supplemental antenna structures may overlap antennas of other types and may include tunable circuitry that is adjusted based on information received from the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号：US09634709B2
公开(公告)日：2017-04-25
申请号：US14477596
申请日：2014-09-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Hongfei Hu , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Hao Xu , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero , Erdinc Irci
IPC: H04M1/00 , H04B1/3888 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q9/42 , H04M1/725
CPC classification number: H04B1/3888 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q9/42 , H04M1/72527
Abstract: A removable case may receive an electronic device. A male connector in the case may mate with a female connector in the device. A battery in the case may supply power to the device through the male connector. The electronic device may have an antenna formed from peripheral conductive housing structures and an antenna ground. The case may have a supplemental antenna that restores antenna performance when the device is received within the case. The supplemental antenna may be formed from a monopole antenna resonating element coupled to the antenna ground through the power pin. The monopole element may have a portion that runs parallel to the peripheral conductive housing structures. During operation of the antenna in the electronic device, the supplemental antenna in the case may be indirectly fed by near-field coupling between the supplemental antenna and the antenna of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号：US09621230B2
公开(公告)日：2017-04-11
申请号：US14195247
申请日：2014-03-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Joseph Hakim , Dean F. Darnell , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H04B5/0081 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q5/35 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/42 , H04B5/02 , H04W88/06
Abstract: An electronic device may have multiple near-field communications antennas. Multiplexer circuitry may have a transceiver port that is coupled to a near-field communications transceiver, and multiple antenna ports coupled to respective near-field communications antennas. Non-near-field communications antennas may be used by non-near-field communications circuitry. The electronic device may have a housing with opposing first and second ends and a display. One of the near-field communications antennas and one of the non-near-field communications antenna may be formed from shared antenna structures at the first end. Another of the near-field communications antennas and another of the non-near-field communications antennas may be formed from shared antenna structures at the second end. An additional near field communications antenna may be overlapped by the display.
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公开(公告)号：US20170033460A1
公开(公告)日：2017-02-02
申请号：US14811714
申请日：2015-07-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Hongfei Hu , Nanbo Jin , Matthew A. Mow , Liang Han , Ming-Ju Tsai , Erica J. Tong , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Mattia Pascolini , Benjamin Shane Bustle , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H01Q13/103 , H01Q1/245
Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from conductive housing structures running along the edges of a device. The antenna may have a pair of switchable return paths that bridge a slot between the antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. An adjustable component and a feed may be coupled in parallel across the slot. The adjustable component may switch a capacitor into use or out of use and the return paths may be selectively opened and closed to compensate for antenna loading due to the presence of external objects near the electronic device.
Abstract translation: 电子设备可以具有带天线的无线电路。 用于天线的天线谐振元件臂可以由沿设备边缘延伸的导电外壳结构形成。 天线可以具有桥接天线谐振元件和天线接地之间的槽的一对可切换的返回路径。 可调组件和进料可以跨过槽并联。 可调组件可以将电容器切换到使用或不使用，并且返回路径可以被选择性地打开和关闭，以补偿由于电子设备附近的外部物体的存在而导致的天线负载。
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