18465014. Electronic Device Antennas with Narrow Border Display (Apple Inc.)

Electronic Device Antennas with Narrow Border Display

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Ming Chen of Cupertino CA (US)

Enrique Ayala Vazquez of Watsonville CA (US)

Joel Ravi of San Francisco CA (US)

Woonyong Bae of San Jose CA (US)

Laura M Burke of Los Gatos CA (US)

Yuancheng Xu of San Jose CA (US)

Bhaskara R Rupakula of San Jose CA (US)

Haozhan Tian of San Jose CA (US)

Salih Yarga of San Jose CA (US)

Erdinc Irci of Sunnyvale CA (US)

Tiejun Yu of Fremont CA (US)

Seyed Mohammad Amjadi of Santa Clara CA (US)

Ahmed Ali Abdelhaliem Nafe of Cupertino CA (US)

Hongfei Hu of Cupertino CA (US)

Carlo Di Nallo of Belmont CA (US)

Mattia Pascolini of San Francisco CA (US)

Electronic Device Antennas with Narrow Border Display

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18465014 titled 'Electronic Device Antennas with Narrow Border Display

Original Abstract Submitted

An electronic device may be provided with sidewalls and a conductive plate. A segment of the sidewalls may form a radiating arm of an antenna. A display may be mounted to the sidewalls. The display may include a conductive frame and a flexible printed circuit. The flexible circuit may have a bend. Conductive foam may short a conductive trace on the flexible circuit to the conductive frame near the bend. Low injection pressure overmolding (LIPO) may be molded over the flexible circuit, the foam, and the frame. A conductive spring may short the frame to the conductive plate. The spring may include a wider and/or thinner portion that optionally includes one or more notches for reducing its inductance. The conductive plate, the spring, the frame, the foam, and the conductive trace may form part of the antenna ground for the antenna.