Zebra Technologies Corporation

Zebra Technologies Corporaiton

Nicolas F Casazzone

Charles Burton Swope

Michele B Feinstein

Sripathi Yarasi

The disclosure is an antenna device, comprising a substrate layer and a patch antenna assembly on the substrate layer, configured to contain at least one patch antenna element. Each patch antenna element has a feed insertion cutout and a base cutout, where a feed line extending from a feed point on the substrate layer couples to the antenna element in the feed insertion cutout. Each patch antenna element corresponds to a respective parasitic patch element, positioned above the patch antenna element, and a respective capacitive loading element, positioned on the feed line and proximate to the patch antenna element, to improve the performance of the antenna device. Each parasitic pat antenna is larger than its respective patch antenna element. The antenna device may also include a mounting structure to position each parasitic patch element over each patch antenna element.

Patch antenna assembly with parasitic patch and capacitive loading elements

A mobile computing device includes: a display; a device housing supporting the display and having a wall defining an exterior surface; a communications controller supported within a device interior enclosed between the display and the device housing; a cleat affixed to the exterior surface of the wall and configured to couple an accessory to the device housing, the cleat including a conductive antenna element; and a feed connector having an exterior end electrically coupled with the conductive antenna element of the cleat, an interior end electrically coupled with the communications controller, and a body traversing the wall to join the exterior and interior ends.

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Dix Hills, NY, United States of America

Nicolas F Casazzone