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公开(公告)号：US11088452B2
公开(公告)日：2021-08-10
申请号：US16146705
申请日：2018-09-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bilgehan Avser , Jennifer M. Edwards , Simone Paulotto , Harish Rajagopalan , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array. Each antenna in the array may include a patch element having first, second, third, and fourth positive antenna feed terminals. The first and second terminals may convey first signals with a first polarization. The third and fourth terminals may convey second signals with a second polarization. Phase shifting components such as phase shifting transmission line segments or phase shifter circuits may ensure that the first signals at the first terminal are out of phase with respect to the first signals at the second terminal and may ensure that the second signals at the third terminal are out of phase with respect to the second signals at the fourth terminal. This may allow antenna current density for both polarizations to be symmetrically distributed about a normal axis of the patch element.
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公开(公告)号：US20210210868A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-08
申请号：US17212935
申请日：2021-03-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bilgehan Avser , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Jennifer M. Edwards , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a cover layer and a phased antenna array mounted against the cover layer. Each antenna in the array may include a first patch element that is directly fed using first and second feeds and a second patch element that is directly fed using third and fourth feeds. A slot element may be formed in the first patch element. The first patch element may radiate in a first frequency band through the cover layer. The slot element may radiate in a second frequency band that is higher than the first frequency band through the cover layer. The second patch element may indirectly feed the slot element. Locating the radiating elements for each frequency band in the same plane may allow the antenna to radiate through the cover layer in both frequency bands with satisfactory antenna efficiency.
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公开(公告)号：US10998616B2
公开(公告)日：2021-05-04
申请号：US16272932
申请日：2019-02-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Matthew A. Mow , Basim H. Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Xu Han , Victor C. Lee , Ming-Ju Tsai , Simone Paulotto
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.
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公开(公告)号：US20210119338A1
公开(公告)日：2021-04-22
申请号：US17111131
申请日：2020-12-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bilgehan Avser , Harish Rajagopalan , Simone Paulotto , Jennifer M. Edwards , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Matthew D. Hill , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array and a display cover layer. The phased antenna array may include a dielectric resonator antenna. The dielectric resonator antenna may include a dielectric resonating element embedded in a lower permittivity dielectric substrate. The substrate and the resonating element may be mounted to a flexible printed circuit. A slot may be formed in ground traces on the flexible printed circuit and aligned with the resonating element. The slot may excite resonant modes of the resonating element. The resonating element may convey corresponding radio-frequency signals through the cover layer. A dielectric matching layer may be interposed between the resonating element and the cover layer. If desired, the slot may radiate additional radio-frequency signals and the matching layer may have a tapered shape. Dielectric resonator antennas for covering different polarizations and frequencies may be interleaved across the array.
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公开(公告)号：US10957985B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-23
申请号：US16146488
申请日：2018-09-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Simone Paulotto , Qishan Yu , Harish Rajagopalan , Berke Cetinoneri
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array controlled by phase and magnitude controllers within an integrated circuit. The array may be formed on antenna layers and the integrated circuit may be mounted to transmission line layers of a dielectric substrate. A ground plane may separate the transmission line layers from the antenna layers. A connector may be mounted to the surface of the transmission line layers and may be coupled to the integrated circuit using conductive traces. A passive resonator may be formed in the antenna layers and may include conductive structures that resonate at one-quarter of the effective wavelength of operation of the array to form an open circuit impedance for surface currents generated on the ground plane by the array. This may serve to block the surface currents from scattering at an edge of the ground plane and leaking onto the integrated circuit.
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公开(公告)号：US20210033714A1
公开(公告)日：2021-02-04
申请号：US17074259
申请日：2020-10-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jayesh Nath , Simone Paulotto , Mario Martinis , Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima , Andrea Ruaro , Carlo Di Nallo , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may be provided with a phased antenna array for conveying first signals at a first frequency between 10 GHz and 300 GHz and a non-millimeter wave antenna for conveying second signals at a second frequency below 10 GHz. The device may include conductive housing sidewalls and a display. Conductive structures in the display and the conductive housing sidewalls may define a slot element in the non-millimeter wave antenna. The phased antenna array may be mounted within the slot element, aligned with a spatial filter in the display, or aligned with a dielectric window in the conductive housing sidewalls. Control circuitry may process signals transmitted by the phased antenna array and a reflected version of the transmitted signals that has been received by the phased antenna array to detect a range between the device and an external object.
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公开(公告)号：US10777895B2
公开(公告)日：2020-09-15
申请号：US15650689
申请日：2017-07-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Simone Paulotto , Basim H. Noori , Matthew A. Mow
Abstract: An electronic device may include a millimeter wave antenna having a ground plane, resonating element, feed, and parasitic element. The resonating element may include first, second, and third layer of traces that are shorted together. The second traces may be interposed between the first and third traces and the third traces may be interposed between the second traces and the parasitic. The third traces may have a width that is less than the widths of the second and third traces. The third traces and the parasitic may define a constrained volume having an associated cavity resonance that lies outside of a frequency band of interest. If desired, the resonating element may include a single layer of conductive traces having a grid of openings that disrupt impedance in a transverse direction, thereby mitigating the trapping of energy within the frequency band of interest between the resonating element and the parasitic.
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公开(公告)号：US10727580B2
公开(公告)日：2020-07-28
申请号：US16036770
申请日：2018-07-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Harish Rajagopalan , Jennifer M. Edwards , Simone Paulotto , Bilgehan Avser , Hao Xu , Rodney A. Gomez Angulo , Travis A. Barbieri , Georgios Atmatzakis , Matthew A. Mow
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with antenna structures that convey radio-frequency signals greater than 10 GHz. The antenna structures may include overlapping first and second patches. The first patch may include a hole. A transmission line for the second patch may include a conductive via extending through the hole. The via may be coupled to a first end of a trace. A second end of the trace may be coupled to a feed terminal on the second patch over an additional via. The hole may be located within a central region of the first patch to allow the via to pass through the hole without electromagnetically coupling to the first patch. If desired, adjustable impedance matching circuits may be used to couple selected impedances to the antenna feeds that help ensure that the first and second patch antennas are sufficiently isolated from each other.
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公开(公告)号：US10720979B1
公开(公告)日：2020-07-21
申请号：US16510556
申请日：2019-07-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Simone Paulotto , Jennifer M. Edwards
IPC: H04B7/06
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array, control circuitry, and a codebook. The control circuitry may control the phased antenna array to form a signal beam at a beam steering angle selected from a set of beam steering angles identified by the codebook. The set of beam steering angles may be evenly distributed along a two-dimensional or three-dimensional spiral path. The control circuitry may control the phased antenna array to sweep over the set of beam steering angles until external wireless equipment is found. Distributing the set of beam steering angles in this way may minimize the size of the codebook while allowing the phased antenna array to cover as much of its field of view as possible with satisfactory gain.
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公开(公告)号：US10720978B1
公开(公告)日：2020-07-21
申请号：US16573507
申请日：2019-09-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yakun Sun , Rohit U. Nabar , Jennifer M. Edwards , Simone Paulotto , Mithat C. Dogan , Harish Rajagopalan
IPC: H04B7/06 , H04B7/0426 , H04B7/0417 , H04B17/336 , H04B17/318
Abstract: Methods and systems include reducing or mitigating interference by sweeping multiple beams used to communicate between a wireless network base station and an electronic device. The multiple beams include beams having different sidelobe directions. The electronic device selects, using a processor of the electronic device, a beam from the multiple beams. Furthermore, selecting the beam includes selecting the beam having a lowest level of interference of the multiple beams due to a sidelobe direction of the beam. The electronic device then communicates with the wireless network base station using the selected beam.
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