Dell Products Inc.

Sumana Pallampati

Suresh K Ramasamy

Changsoo Kim

Ching Wei Chang

Anthony J Sanchez

Mark Andrew Schwager

Manoj Kumar Jain

Nicholas G DiLoreto

Kai-Yuan Cheng

Yu-Feng Huang

Jay Matthew Zill

Zhong-Chao Lee

Ching Cheng Hsu

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 (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 antenna assembly for a portable information handling system. The antenna assembly includes an antenna bounding component, the antenna bounding component being electrically and physically connected to a top cover portion of the portable information handling system; and, an antenna, the antenna being mounted to the antenna bounding portion, radio frequency (RF) radiation radiating via an RF radiation path, the RF radiation path being provided by a radiation slot, the radiation slot being located within a bottom cover portion of the portable information handling system.

Antenna integration in a portable information handling system

An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data at an antenna may include a base housing metal chassis containing components of the information handling system including a thermal vent, an audio vent, and an antenna vent, the antenna vent being co-located with the thermal vent and audio vent; and the co-located antenna vent including: partitions defining a width of an aperture formed at the co-located antenna vent to accommodate a target frequency range; a monopole antenna system formed within the co-located antenna vent including a parasitic coupling element; and a grounding wall defined along an edge of the co-located antenna vent.

System and method for operating an antenna within an antenna vent being co-located with an audio or thermal vent

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 a handle and a handle lug to secure the handle to the display housing; a wireless adapter and an antenna to transmit data wirelessly via a WLAN antenna; and handle lug parasitic coupling device operatively coupled to the handle lug to parasitically couple the WLAN antenna to a handle lug parasitic coupling device and handle lug to create a multi-band WLAN antenna.

System and method for using a handle lug structural element as an electromagnetic interference grounding element and an antenna radiator

An information handling system (IHS) includes an antenna system. The antenna system includes a smart antenna and a smart antenna control system, the smart antenna control system controlling configuration of a configurable aspect of the smart antenna based upon information regarding the configurable aspect of the smart antenna.

Smart antenna controller system

An information handling system (IHS) includes a multiple antenna system. The multiple antenna system includes a first antenna; a second antenna; and an antenna control system, the antenna control system comprising a first phase shift network, a second phase shift network and a smart antenna controller, the smart antenna controller controlling activation of the first phase shift network and the second phase shift network.

Modular smart antenna controller system

An information handling system (IHS) includes a multiple antenna system. The multiple antenna system includes a first antenna system, the first antenna system comprising a first antenna and a first reflector network; a second antenna system, the second antenna comprising a second antenna and a second reflector network, at least one of the first reflector network and the second reflector network comprising a configurable pattern reflector; and, an antenna control system, the antenna control system controlling configuration of the configurable pattern reflector.

Pattern reflector network for a dual slot antenna

An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data at an antenna includes a base metal chassis containing components of the information handling system, the base housing metal chassis including a C-cover and D-cover housing the components; a display chassis including an A-cover operatively coupled to the base metal chassis via a hinge; a vent cavity at an edge of the D-cover; a metal exhaust grill formed within the base metal chassis; an antenna element co-located within the vent cavity; and a ground current path forming an electric field trap via the metal exhaust grill to the D-cover of the base metal chassis in the thermal exhaust vent cavity to limit currents from resonating metal structures external to the vent cavity of the information handling system; and an antenna aperture to direct resonance with the antenna element out of the vent cavity.

System and method for a hinge cavity electric field trap using heat exhaust vent grill

An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data at an antenna may include a base housing chassis containing components of the information handling system including a processor and memory and including a C-cover and a metal D-cover; a display chassis assembly having a display screen and including an A-cover; a hinge mechanically coupling the display chassis assembly to the base housing chassis; a hinge gap integrated along a hinge between an edge of the A-cover and an edge of the metal D-cover; an antenna to emit a radio frequency signal to a contained hinge gap resonant cavity formed within the hinge gap; and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) having a ground line operatively coupling the base housing chassis to the display chassis assembly to form a ground path across the hinge gap to shunt excitation currents along the hinge gap and to determine a size of the contained hinge gap resonant cavity between the A-cover and D-cover to accommodate an operating frequency of the radio frequency signal or harmonics of the operating frequency.

System and method for operation of a hinge cavity antenna

An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data at an antenna may include a base housing metal chassis containing components of the information handling system, the base housing metal chassis including a C-cover and D-cover housing the components; and an antenna cavity formed within the C-Cover and D-cover including: a first aperture formed through a portion of the D-cover; a second aperture formed through a portion of the C-cover; and a grounding wall formed within the antenna cavity to operatively couple currents associated with the antenna such that the currents travel from the first aperture to the send aperture causing emitted electromagnetic radiation to be emitted towards the second aperture.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Sumana Pallampati