US 12,126,085 B2
Electronic devices having compact ultra-wideband antenna modules
Aaron J Cooper, San Jose, CA (US); Amin Tayebi, San Jose, CA (US); Ana Papio Toda, San Jose, CA (US); and Carlo Di Nallo, Belmont, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/730,039.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/243,548, filed on Sep. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0084310 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); H01Q 19/00 (2006.01); H01Q 21/06 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 19/005 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/241 (2013.01); H01Q 21/065 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a dielectric substrate having first, second, and third layers, the second layer being interposed between the first layer and the third layer;
ground traces on the first layer;
a first patch element on the third layer;
a positive antenna feed terminal on the first patch element;
second and third patch elements on the second layer;
a first set of conductive vias that couples the first patch element to the second patch element through the third layer; and
a second set of conductive vias that couples the first patch element to the third patch element through the third layer, wherein the first, second, and third patch elements form a first antenna with a length, the length configuring the first antenna to radiate in an ultra-wideband communications band.