US 11,700,035 B2
Dielectric resonator antenna modules
Harish Rajagopalan, San Jose, CA (US); Bilgehan Avser, Mountain View, CA (US); David Garrido Lopez, Campbell, CA (US); Forhad Hasnat, Cupertino, CA (US); Mattia Pascolini, San Francisco, CA (US); Mikal Askarian Amiri, Tempe, AZ (US); Rodney A. Gomez Angulo, Santa Clara, CA (US); Thomas W. Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Jiechen Wu, Santa Clara, CA (US); Eric N. Nyland, Santa Clara, CA (US); Simone Paulotto, Redwood City, CA (US); Jennifer M. Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US); Matthew D. Hill, Santa Clara, CA (US); Ihtesham H. Chowdhury, Los Altos, CA (US); David A. Hurrell, San Mateo, CA (US); Siwen Yong, San Francisco, CA (US); Jiangfeng Wu, San Jose, CA (US); Daniel C. Wagman, Scotts Valley, CA (US); Soroush Akbarzadeh, San Jose, CA (US); Robert Scritzky, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Subramanian Ramalingam, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/920,297.
Prior Publication US 2022/0006486 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); H04B 3/52 (2006.01); G01R 31/28 (2006.01); H01Q 1/22 (2006.01); H01Q 13/24 (2006.01); H04B 3/54 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 3/52 (2013.01) [G01R 31/2822 (2013.01); H01Q 1/2283 (2013.01); H01Q 13/24 (2013.01); H04B 3/54 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a substrate;
a phased antenna array having dielectric resonator antennas mounted to a surface of the substrate, wherein one of the dielectric resonator antennas comprises:
a dielectric resonating element,
a feed probe configured to excite a resonant mode of the dielectric resonating element, and
a biasing structure that presses the feed probe against the dielectric resonating element, the biasing structure being molded over the feed probe and at least some of the dielectric resonating element.