Apple Inc.

Sidharath Jain

Mattia Pascolini

Enrique Ayala Vazquez

Hao Xu

Hongfei Hu

Carlo Di Nallo

Yiren Wang

Han Wang

Yuancheng Xu

Yuan Tao

Haozhan Tian

Nikolaj Peter Iversen Kammersgaard

An electronic device may be provided with peripheral conductive housing structures having first and second segments. The device may include an antenna having a resonating arm formed from the first segment, an antenna ground, and a tuning element. The tuning element may have first, second, and third terminals. The first terminal may be coupled to the second segment. The antenna may have a switchable loop path that includes a first path from the second terminal to the first segment, a second path from first segment to a first point on the antenna ground, a portion of the antenna ground from the first point to a second point, and a third path from the second point to the third terminal. The tuning element may selectively activate the switchable loop path to boost performance of the antenna in a frequency band between 3300 MHz and 5000 MHz when needed.

Electronic device with switchable antenna loop path

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Sidharath Jain