Electronic device with millimeter wave antennas

An electronic device, millimeter wave technology, applied in antennas, antenna arrays, antenna components, etc.

Active Publication Date: 2018-01-02
APPLE INC
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[0022] electronic equipment such as figure 1 The electronic device 10 may contain wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antenna may include a phased antenna array for handling millimeter wave communications. Millimeter wave communications, sometimes also referred to as extremely high frequency (EHF) communications, involve signals at 60 GHz or other frequencies between about 10 GHz and 400 GHz. If desired, device 10 may also include wireless communication circuitry for processing satellite navigation system signals, cellular telephone signals, local wireless local area network signals, near field communication, light-based wireless communication, or other wireless communication.

[0023] Electronic device 10 may be a computing device such as a laptop computer, a computer monitor including an embedded computer, a tablet computer, a cell phone, a media player, or other handheld or portable electronic device, a smaller device such as a...

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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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[0001] This patent application claims priority to patent application 15 / 097,868, filed April 13, 2016, and provisional patent application 62 / 149,430, filed April 17, 2015, which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety . Background technique [0002] The present invention relates generally to electronic devices, and more particularly to electronic devices having wireless communication circuitry. [0003] The electronic device typically includes wireless communication circuitry. For example, cellular telephones, computers, and other devices often contain antennas and wireless transceivers to support wireless communications. [0004] It may be desirable to support wireless communications in the millimeter wave communications band. Millimeter wave communications, also sometimes referred to as extremely high frequency (EHF) communications, involve communications at frequencies around 10GHz-400GHz. Operation at these frequencies may support high bandwidth, but can ...

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IPC IPC(8): H01Q21/00H01Q21/28H01Q21/06H01Q1/24H01Q1/22H04B1/03H04B1/04H04B1/10
CPCH01Q21/0025H01Q21/065H01Q1/243H01Q1/2266H01Q1/22H04B1/03H04B1/04H04B1/1081H04B2001/0408H01Q21/28H01Q21/062H01Q1/2283H01Q25/005
Inventor 欧阳月辉蒋奕M·A·莫B·H·努里M·帕斯科里尼R·卡巴雷罗
Owner APPLE INC
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