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公开(公告)号：US20170170545A1
公开(公告)日：2017-06-15
申请号：US14966446
申请日：2015-12-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Francesco Merli , Yi Jiang , Boon W. Shiu , Carlo Di Nallo , Javier Gomez Tagle , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H01Q1/2291 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q1/44 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/0457 , H01Q9/42 , H04R1/02
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include an antenna. The electronic device may have a housing in which control circuitry and radio-frequency transceiver circuitry is mounted. The transceiver circuitry may be used to transmit and receive radio-frequency signals with the antenna. The housing may have a housing wall with a locally thinned portion aligned with the antenna. The antenna may have a sheet metal layer attached to a plastic cavity with a layer of adhesive. Recesses in a printed circuit may receive prongs formed from a sheet metal layer. The plastic carrier may have cavities separated by ribs. The sheet metal layer may form a planar inverted-F antenna resonating element, a ground plane, a return path between the resonating element and ground plane, and a feed path that extends along one of the ribs and into an opening in the printed circuit.
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公开(公告)号：US20170117754A1
公开(公告)日：2017-04-27
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
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.
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公开(公告)号：US20160308563A1
公开(公告)日：2016-10-20
申请号：US15097868
申请日：2016-04-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
CPC classification number: H04B1/04 , H01Q1/2266 , H01Q1/243 , H01Q21/0025 , 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.
Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有无线电路。 无线电路可以包括一个或多个天线。 天线可以包括各自包括多个天线元件的相控天线阵列。 相位天线阵列可以沿着用于电子设备的壳体的边缘安装在电介质窗口（例如壳体中的电介质标志窗口）的后面，与壳体的角落处的电介质壳体部分或电子设备中的其它地方对准。 相控天线阵列可以包括由接地层分开的电介质层上的贴片天线元件阵列。 基带处理器可以在中频频率信号路径上将无线信号分配到相控天线阵列。 在相控天线阵列处的收发器电路可以包括耦合到中频信号路径的上变频器和下变频器。
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公开(公告)号：US20150363013A1
公开(公告)日：2015-12-17
申请号：US14307257
申请日：2014-06-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Gordon Coutts , Qingxiang Li , Robert W. Schlub , Yi Jiang
IPC: G06F3/0354 , H01Q1/22
CPC classification number: G06F3/03545 , H01Q1/2258 , H01Q1/44 , H01Q9/42
Abstract: A computer stylus may have an elongated body with a metal tube that serves as an antenna ground for an antenna. An antenna resonating element for the antenna may be formed from metal traces that wrap around a longitudinal axis for the elongated body. The antenna may be an inverted-F antenna. A ground antenna feed terminal for the inverted-F antenna may be coupled to the metal tube with a sheet metal member, conductive fabric, and solder. A clip may run along a side of the elongated body at a location that does not overlap the metal traces of the antenna resonating element. The antenna may be fed at a location on an opposing side of the elongated body from the clip. Antenna signals from the inverted-F antenna may be reflected towards the tip by metal structures at the end of the elongated body opposing the tip.
Abstract translation: 计算机触控笔可以具有细长体，其具有用作天线的天线接地的金属管。 用于天线的天线谐振元件可由围绕细长主体的纵向轴线缠绕的金属迹线形成。 天线可以是倒F天线。 用于倒F型天线的接地天线馈电端子可以用金属片，导电织物和焊料耦合到金属管。 夹子可以在不与天线谐振元件的金属迹线重叠的位置沿着细长主体的侧面延伸。 天线可以在细长主体的与夹子相对的一侧的位置处进给。 来自倒F天线的天线信号可以在与尖端相对的细长体的端部处的金属结构向尖端反射。
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公开(公告)号：US20250079687A1
公开(公告)日：2025-03-06
申请号：US18293027
申请日：2023-06-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jiangfeng Wu , Mei-Li Chi , Killian J Poore , Jason C Sauers , Siwen Yong , Yi Jiang , Jing Zhu , Lu Zhang , Junying Liu
Abstract: An electronic device may have first and second rear-facing displays, a front-facing display, a cover at a front side overlapping the front-facing display, and an antenna that radiates through the cover. The cover may have a three-dimensional curvature. The device may have an inner chassis and an outer chassis. The antenna may include a radiating element and a ground trace on a flexible printed circuit. To maximize wireless performance of the antenna, the ground trace may be electrically coupled to as much conductive material in the vicinity of the antenna as possible. For example, the ground trace may be grounded to conductive structures in the front-facing display via a conductive cavity for the antenna, may be grounded directly to the outer chassis using conductive screws, and/or may be grounded directly to the inner chassis using conductive screws.
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公开(公告)号：US20240405451A1
公开(公告)日：2024-12-05
申请号：US18424602
申请日：2024-01-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Killian J. Poore , Jiangfeng Wu , Mei-Li Chi , Jason C. Sauers , Siwen Yong , Yi Jiang
Abstract: An electronic device may have first and second rear-facing displays, a front-facing display, a cover at a front side overlapping the front-facing display, and an antenna that radiates through the cover. The antenna may be formed from traces on a flexible printed circuit. The antenna may be provided with a conductive shield on a dielectric carrier. The flexible printed circuit may be mounted to the carrier opposite the shield. A biasing member may be mounted to the carrier and may press the flexible printed circuit against the cover. To minimize weight of the device, the shield may be formed from conductive traces patterned onto the carrier. The carrier may include first and second substrates formed from respective shots of co-molded plastic. The second substrate may include plateable grade plastic and the conductive traces may be patterned onto plateable outer surfaces of the second substrate opposite the first substrate.
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公开(公告)号：US20240186686A1
公开(公告)日：2024-06-06
申请号：US18440106
申请日：2024-02-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Boon W Shiu , Jason C Sauers , Jia-Woei Chen , Killian J Poore , Lijun Zhang
CPC classification number: H01Q1/273 , G06F1/163 , G06F1/1698 , H01Q1/38 , H05K1/0237 , H05K1/028 , H05K1/0313 , H05K2201/10098 , H05K2201/10128
Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing that is configured to be worn on a head of a user. While the head-mounted device is being worn, optical modules in the head-mounted device may provide images to eye boxes located rearward of the head-mounted device. A forward-facing display on a front portion of the head-mounted device may be covered with a transparent housing portion forming a display cover layer. An antenna may be mounted in the device. A curved portion of the display cover layer or other dielectric housing layer may overlap the antenna. The antenna and/or other components may be formed by contouring a flexible printed circuit into a shape characterized by a surface with compound curvature. The contoured flexible printed circuit may have polymer layers and a metal trace between the polymer layers. A neutral stress plane may be aligned with the metal trace.
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公开(公告)号：US11356131B2
公开(公告)日：2022-06-07
申请号：US17211710
申请日：2021-03-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
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.
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公开(公告)号：US20220158692A1
公开(公告)日：2022-05-19
申请号：US17589731
申请日：2022-01-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Jiang , Mattia Pascolini , Jiangfeng Wu , Siwen Yong , Lijun Zhang
IPC: H04B7/0426 , H04B7/155 , H04B10/114 , G06V40/10
Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises a base station and one or more relay docks and transmits directional wave signals between components using high frequency waves, such as millimeter waves. A beam forming decision engine utilizes position information collected from one or more position or motion sensors of a user device to determine a direction in which to form a directional wave signal being transmitted between components of the wireless communication system.
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公开(公告)号：US20220094078A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-24
申请号：US17031780
申请日：2020-09-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Kexin Ma , Siwen Yong , Jiangfeng Wu , Simon G. Begashaw , Madhusudan Chaudhary , Lijun Zhang , Yi Jiang , Hao Xu , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second phased antenna arrays that convey radio-frequency signals at frequencies greater than 10 GHz. The second array may have fewer antennas than the first array. Control circuitry may control the first and second arrays in a diversity mode and in a simultaneous array mode. In the diversity mode, the first array may form a first signal beam while the second array is inactive. When the first array is blocked by an object or otherwise exhibits unsatisfactory performance, the second array may form a second signal beam while the first array is inactive. In the simultaneous mode, the first and second arrays may form a combined array that produces a third signal beam. The combined array may maximize gain. Hierarchical beam searching operations may be performed. The arrays may be distributed across one or more modules.
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