US 12,407,084 B2
Wideband antenna structures in corner of electronic device
Seyed Mohammad Amjadi, Santa Clara, CA (US); Yuan Tao, Santa Clara, CA (US); Hao Xu, Cupertino, CA (US); Yiren Wang, Cupertino, CA (US); Xue Yang, Shenzhen (CN); Mattia Pascolini, San Francisco, CA (US); Hongfei Hu, Cupertino, CA (US); Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Watsonville, CA (US); Ming-Ju Tsai, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Ana Papio Toda, San Jose, CA (US); Yuancheng Xu, San Jose, CA (US); Jingni Zhong, Santa Clara, CA (US); Nikolaj P Kammersgaard, Copenhagen (DK); Sidharath Jain, Redwood City, CA (US); Haozhan Tian, San Jose, CA (US); Ming Chen, Cupertino, CA (US); and Linqiang Zou, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/458,689.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/404,111, filed on Sep. 6, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0079757 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/22 (2006.01); H01Q 1/48 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 1/22 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/48 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0421 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0442 (2013.01); H01Q 9/045 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
peripheral conductive housing structures having a dielectric-filled gap that divides the peripheral conductive housing structures into a first segment and a second segment;
a ground layer separated from the first and second segments by a slot;
a flexible printed circuit that extends along the first segment, the flexible printed circuit having a first tail coupled to the first segment and having a second tail that extends across the dielectric-filled gap and that is coupled to the second segment;
a first conductive trace on the first tail and coupled to the first segment; and
a second conductive trace on the second tail, the second conductive trace being coupled to the first conductive trace and the second segment, and the first and second conductive traces being configured to convey a radio-frequency antenna current.