Dell Products Inc.

Changsoo Kim

Suresh K Ramasamy

Geroncio Ong Tan

Timothy Carlyle Shaw

Ching Wei Chang

Sumana Pallampati

Allen Brian McKittrick

Deeder M Aurongzeb

Mark Andrew Schwager

Anthony J Sanchez

Nicholas G DiLoreto

Salvador D Jimenez, Iii

Kai-Yuan Cheng

Pomin Shih

Qinghong He

Manoj Kumar Jain

Yu-Feng Huang

Christopher T Barnard

Youngsoo Cho

Jay Matthew Zill

Zhong-Chao Lee

Ching Cheng Hsu

Ju Sang Kim

Shruti Srivastava

Lisa Asiedu

Ching-Wei Chang

Chin-Ming Chang

A thermal module antenna system for a portable information handling system. The thermal module antenna system includes a thermal component, the thermal module performing an information handing system thermal operation; and, an antenna component thermally coupled to the thermal module, the antenna component, the antenna component performing an antenna operation and a thermal dissipation operation.

Portable information handling system thermal module antenna system

Embodiments of systems and methods for a kickstand with a Radio Frequency (RF) window are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a plurality of components and a housing configured to hold the plurality of components, where the housing includes a kickstand having an RF window coupled to a plate.

Kickstand with radio frequency (RF) window

An apparatus for performing a current trapper function. The apparatus includes: a short impedance structure; a first open impedance structure, the first open impedance structure being coupled between the short impedance structure and ground; and, a second open impedance structure, the second open impedance structure being coupled between the short impedance structure and ground, the short impedance structure being coupled between the first open impedance structure and the second open impedance structure. In certain embodiments, the apparatus is included within a multi radio docking station.

Information handling system docking station including a current trapper for intra-band, multi-radio isolation

An information handling system may include a processor, a memory, a power management unit, an antenna controller to provide instructions to a radio to cause a flexible sheet antenna to transceive wirelessly with a network, where the flexible sheet antenna has an antenna structure formed on a flexible sheet circuit, and an antenna holder around which the flexible sheet antenna is wrapped, wherein the flexible sheet antenna and antenna holder are placed within an edge cavity portion of a display chassis sharing the edge cavity with one or more interfacing hook structures used to couple a first chassis cover portion of the display chassis to a second chassis cover portion of the display chassis.

System and method for an embedded flexible sheet antenna for narrow border display

An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data at an antenna may include a processor; a memory; a power management unit; a bottom metal chassis of a base housing containing components of the information handling system; a vent formed into the bottom metal chassis; a slot formed between the vent and a terminal edge of the bottom metal chassis; and an antenna located within the bottom metal chassis and behind the vent to, upon execution of the processor, create radiating radio frequency (RF) bands along an edge of the vent.

System and method for operating a partitioned antenna at a vent formed in a bottom metal chassis

An information handling system operating a converged 5G antenna module includes a processor; a memory; a power management unit; the processor executing a wireless interface adapter configure to concurrently operate a converged 5G antenna module at a new radio frequency range 1 (NRFR1) frequency and a NRFR2 frequency; a first radio subsystem including a first front end operatively coupled to a mmWave antenna of the converged 5G antenna module to communicate via an NRFR2 wireless communication signal; and a second radio subsystem including a second antenna front end operatively coupled to a cooling element structure of the converged 5G antenna module to receive an NRFR1 wireless communication signal via the cooling element structure of the converged 5G antenna module.

Method and apparatus for a converged 5G FR1 and FR2 antenna

An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data at an antenna may include a processor; a memory; a power management unit; a display housing containing components of the information handling system, the display housing including metal sidewalls formed along edges of a back metal chassis of the display housing and generally perpendicular to the back metal chassis; an antenna formed into a first sidewall of the display housing and nested into the first sidewall with a molded plastic keep-out structure to, upon execution of the processor, create radiating radio frequency (RF) bands from the antenna; the antenna operatively coupled to a feed excitation trace to transmit an excitation current to the antenna from a wireless interface adapter; and the plastic molded keep-out structure integrated along the sidewall to secure the antenna to the first sidewall.

System and method for operating an aperture-coupled tunable ring antenna system with a detachable metal keyboard and integrated dual opposite outlet thermal vent

An antenna system for a portable information handling system. The antenna system includes an antenna radiating element and an antenna carrier assembly, the antenna radiating element being mounted to the antenna carrier assembly, the antenna carrier assembly comprising a first radiating slot and a second radiating slot, the first radiating slot providing a radiation path through a C-Cover of a base chassis of the portable information handling system in a lid open state of operation, the second radiating slot providing a radiation path through a D-cover of a base chassis of the portable information handling system in a lid closed state of operation.

Portable information handling system antenna system

An information handling system (IHS) includes an antenna system. The antenna system includes an antenna; a radiating element, the radiating element being capacitively coupled with the antenna; and, a tuner module electrically coupled to the antenna and the radiating element, the tuner module tuning the antenna and the radiating element.

Distributed, tunable radiating element

An information handling system EMI shield system couples to a circuit board to enclose an electronic device in a Faraday cage and includes a surface painted with a graphene paint to aid in dissipation of excess thermal energy from the electronic device. The EMI shield system has a frame that couples to the circuit board and interfaces with ground to define a boundary around an electronic device connector and has a shield that couples as a separate piece over the frame to enclose the electronic device. Graphene paint applied to some or all of the shield encourages rejection of excess thermal energy from within shield.

Information handling system thermal and EMI enclosures

An information handling system supports multi-radio and multi-antenna wireless communication by routing coaxial cables between the radios and antennas through a cable clip of a conductive material coupled to system ground and interfaced with the coaxial cable ground sheath through an opening formed in the coaxial cable outer casing. A current source of the radio frequency applies a current in phase with the radio signal to the coaxial cable outer casing to suppress crosstalk with coaxial cables of different frequencies.

Information handling system coaxial cable grounding

An antenna front-end module, a method, and an information handling system are provided. An antenna front-end module comprises a circuit board. The circuit board comprises an antenna tuning circuit adapted to tune a feed impedance of an antenna, the antenna electrically connected to the circuit board, and an antenna proximity sensing circuit adapted to obtain proximity sensing information indicative of proximity of a part of a human body to the antenna. A method comprises obtaining, at an antenna proximity sensing circuit on a circuit board, proximity sensing information indicative of proximity of a part of a human body to an antenna, the antenna electrically connected to the circuit board, and, in response to the obtaining, providing, to an antenna tuning circuit on the circuit board, a tuning parameter value to adapt antenna tuning for the proximity of the part of the human body to the antenna.

Proximity sensing using an antenna front end module

In one embodiment, a method for maintaining a coupling gap between a coupling element and a radiating element using an antenna carrier includes: applying, by one or more springs disposed on an inner surface of the antenna carrier, a first lateral force on the antenna carrier; causing, by the first lateral force, the antenna carrier to translate outwardly toward an edge of a mounting surface, the antenna carrier slidably coupled to the mounting surface; receiving, by one or more standoffs disposed on an outer surface of the antenna carrier, a second lateral force from an inside surface of a device cover; causing, by the second lateral force, the antenna carrier to translate inwardly away from the edge of the mounting surface; and causing, by the first lateral force and the second lateral force, the standoffs to maintain the coupling gap between the coupling element and the radiating element.

Maintaining a coupling gap using an antenna carrier in an information handling system

An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data may include a base chassis including a processor, a memory, and a wireless adapter; a metal C-cover of the base chassis to house a speaker grill, the speaker grill covering a speaker to emit audio waves; the speaker grill formed within the C-cover, the speaker grill including a slot formed around a portion of a perimeter of the speaker grill that physically separates the portion of the speaker grill as a peninsula in the C-cover; a millimeter wave antenna element coupled to a back side of the speaker grill; and a sub-6 GHz antenna element to transmit via the slot formed around the perimeter of the speaker grill; wherein the speaker grill has a mesh pattern of grill openings sized to be transparent to millimeter wave frequencies emitted by the millimeter wave antenna element.

System and method for a shared millimeter wave antenna system co-located at a speaker grill

An information handling system (IHS) includes a sensor for sensing a physical configuration of the IHS, the physical configuration dependent upon a position of a hinge of a housing of the IIS. A first proximity sensor probe may sense whether a first biological entity element is proximate to a first antenna of the IHS, and a second proximity sensor probe may sense whether a second biological entity element is proximate to a second antenna of the IHS. The IHS may reconfigure use of at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna in response to the sensing of at least one of the first proximity sensor probe and the second proximity sensor probe.

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Cedar Park, TX, United States of America

Changsoo Kim