Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic device with passive antenna retuning circuitry
- Patent Title (中): 具有无源天线重调电路的电子设备
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Application No.: US14500819Application Date: 2014-09-29
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Publication No.: US09537219B2Publication Date: 2017-01-03
- Inventor: Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Mattia Pascolini , Hongfei Hu , Erdinc Irci , Yuehui Ouyang , Jennifer M. Edwards , Jayesh Nath , Salih Yarga , Yijun Zhou , Hao Xu
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent G. Victor Treyz; Michael H. Lyons
- Main IPC: H01Q9/04
- IPC: H01Q9/04 ; H01Q1/24 ; H01Q9/42 ; H01Q5/328 ; H01Q5/335

Abstract:
An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna may have an inverted-F antenna resonating element, an antenna ground, and other resonating element structures. A tip of the antenna resonating element and the antenna ground may be separated by a peripheral housing gap filled with plastic. The antenna may be sensitive to capacitance changes induced by the presence of a user's hand overlapping the gap or other portions of the antenna. A hand capacitance sensing electrode may be mounted in the plastic of the gap or elsewhere in the vicinity of the antenna. A transmission line may couple the hand capacitance sensing electrode to the antenna to retune the antenna in the event that the user's hand overlaps the antenna.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160093955A1 Electronic Device With Passive Antenna Retuning Circuitry Public/Granted day:2016-03-31
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