US 11,670,833 B2
Window antennas
Harold Hughes, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); Stephen Clark Brown, San Mateo, CA (US); and Dhairya Shrivastava, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to View, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US)
Filed by View, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/949,978.
Application 16/949,978 is a continuation of application No. 16/849,540, filed on Apr. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,462,814.
Application 16/849,540 is a continuation of application No. 15/529,677, granted, now 10,673,121, issued on Jun. 2, 2020, previously published as PCT/US2015/062387, filed on Nov. 24, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/084,502, filed on Nov. 25, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0119318 A1, Apr. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/12 (2006.01); H01Q 1/38 (2006.01); H01Q 1/44 (2006.01); E06B 7/28 (2006.01); G02F 1/163 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); G02F 1/153 (2006.01); H01Q 9/40 (2006.01); E06B 3/67 (2006.01); H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); E06B 9/24 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 1/1271 (2013.01) [E06B 3/6722 (2013.01); E06B 7/28 (2013.01); G02F 1/1533 (2013.01); G02F 1/163 (2013.01); H01Q 1/12 (2013.01); H01Q 1/246 (2013.01); H01Q 1/38 (2013.01); H01Q 1/44 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0407 (2013.01); H01Q 9/40 (2013.01); E06B 2009/2464 (2013.01)] 42 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A building, comprising:
a plurality of windows each having two or more lites, each of the two or more lites having regions that are at least partially transparent to optical wavelengths, wherein a first lite and a second lite of each window are spaced apart from one another by a spacer to form a sealed interior volume; and
an antenna structure disposed on a component of each of the plurality of windows, wherein the antenna structure is configured to receive and transmit cellular communications signals, and wherein the antenna structure is disposed in or on one of: the spacer, a surface of the first lite, a surface of the second lite, or an internal component disposed within the sealed interior volume of a given window.