Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Javier R De Luis

Alireza Mahanfar

Mark William Casebolt

Nil Apaydin

Paul O'Brien

Benjamin J Shewan

Vinod L Hingorani

Gregory Kim Justice

Sidharath Jain

Ben Shewan

Gregorio Tellez

Stanley Ng

Benjamin Shewan

An apparatus is provided with a conductive bezel section and a conductive ground plane section forming a perimeter and being positioned opposite the conductive bezel section. The conductive ground plane section is separated from the conductive bezel section by a perimeter gap at the perimeter. A structural tank circuit is integrated with and connecting the conductive bezel section and the conductive ground plane section across the perimeter gap. Another implementation may include a structural capacitor or a structural inductor integrated with and connecting the conductive bezel section and the conductive ground plane section across the perimeter gap.

Structural tank integrated into an electronic device case

Multiband antenna decoupling networks and systems including multiband antenna decoupling networks are provided herein. A multiband decoupling network is connected to two or more closely spaced antennas. The multiband decoupling network includes lumped components and is reconfigurable to decouple the two or more antennas at a plurality of distinct communication frequency bands. The multiband decoupling network may include tunable lumped components and be reconfigurable through tuning the tunable lumped components. A pi network may be used for the multiband decoupling network. At least one separate impedance-matching network may also be used to match the input impedance of the multiband decoupling network to the output impedance of transmission lines leading to the multiband decoupling network.

Reconfigurable multiband antenna decoupling networks

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Javier R De Luis