US 11,962,101 B2
Electronic devices with dielectric resonator antennas having non-planar sidewalls
Panagiotis Theofanopoulos, Cupertino, CA (US); Subramanian Ramalingam, Cupertino, CA (US); Harish Rajagopalan, San Jose, CA (US); Bilgehan Avser, Pacifica, CA (US); David Garrido Lopez, Alviso, CA (US); Forhad Hasnat, Milpitas, CA (US); Mikal Askarian Amiri, San Jose, CA (US); and Rodney A Gomez Angulo, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/733,764.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/247,738, filed on Sep. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0090668 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 9/0485 (2013.01) [H04B 1/0053 (2013.01); H04M 1/0266 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a housing;
a dielectric cover layer on the housing;
a printed circuit; and
a dielectric column having a first surface mounted to the printed circuit, a second surface opposite the first surface and facing the dielectric cover layer, and a non-planar sidewall that extends from the first surface to the second surface, the dielectric column being configured to radiate at a frequency greater than 10 GHz through the dielectric cover layer.