Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Yongjoo Shin

Jiwoo Lee

Jinwan An

Yongwoon Kim

Juyeong Lee

Nayoung Chu

Sohyeon Kim

Jaebong Chun

Kyung-Hee Lee

Ji-Hyun Park

Inyoung Lee

Jihyun Park

Gwanghui Lee

Yongseob Yun

Donguk Choi

Yongju Yu

Minhwa Hong

Yuri Sin

A wearable device is provided. The wearable device includes a housing, an input member disposed on a lateral surface of the housing and including an outer lateral surface including a conductive portion and a non-conductive portion, a metal member disposed inside the housing and in contact with the conductive portion of the outer lateral surface, a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed on the metal member, a patch antenna including a conductive patch disposed on a surface of the PCB facing the input member at a location corresponding to the non-conductive portion, a wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the PCB and the patch antenna, and a processor connected to the metal member. The wireless communication circuit transmits a signal by feeding power to the patch antenna, and the processor acquires user biometric information through the metal member and the conductive portion of the input member.

Wearable device including antenna

Various embodiments relate to an electronic device that supports millimeter wave communication. The electronic device may include: a housing; an antenna structure including at least one antenna comprising a portion of the housing or positioned in the housing, and including an annular conductive structure comprising a conductive material, the annular conductive structure having a first surface facing an outside of the housing, a second surface facing a direction opposite the first surface, an internal space defined by the first surface and the second surface, and a plurality of slots having a repeating pattern and formed through the first surface to the internal space; a conductive member comprising a conductive material disposed in the internal space; a wireless communication circuit electrically connected with the conductive member and configured to form a directional beam using the antenna structure; and a ground electrically connected to the annular conductive structure.

Electronic device and antenna structure thereof

An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a housing, extended to be long, including a first end part having an opening of a first diameter and a second end part having an opening of a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter; a first internal structure which includes a third end part located between the first end part and the second end part and a fourth end part located between the third end part and the second end part, and which is arranged in a first space of the housing between the first end part and the second end part; a pen tip part which includes a dielectric tip extending outwardly from the inside of the housing through the first end part, and which is mounted on the third end part of the first internal structure; a printed circuit board mounted on the first internal structure between the third end part and the fourth end part; a second internal structure which includes a fifth end part engaged with the fourth end part and a sixth end part exposed to the outside of the housing, and which is arranged in a second space of the housing between the second end part and the first space; and a pressure structure partially exposed to the outside of the housing and engaged with the second internal structure through the sixth end part. Other additional embodiments are possible.

Digital pen including stepped structure and electronic device including same

One or more embodiments disclosed herein relate to an electronic device antenna structure, and may provide an electronic device that includes a pen housing including a first end part, a second end part, and inner space; a printed circuit board (PCB) located in the inner space; and an antenna structure. The antenna structure may include a first conductive part located between the pen housing and the first surface of the PCB; a second conductive part electrically connected to the first conductive; and a third conductive part electrically connected to the first conductive part. At least one part of the PCB may be arranged between the second conductive part and the third conductive part when the first surface of the PCB is viewed from an upper surface thereof. Additional other embodiments can be provided.

Electronic device including antenna structure

An electronic device and method are provided for displaying information in the electronic device. The electronic device includes a display; and a processor configured to display an application (App) bar including at least one object through a first area of the display, display an execution screen through a second area of the display, and change at least one of the displayed App bar and the displayed execution screen, in response to a first user input received through the first area.

Apparatus and method for providing information via portion of display

According to various example embodiments, an electronic device including: a housing; a conductive member formed as a part of the housing or disposed in the housing as at least a part of the housing; a communication circuit electrically connected to a first region of the conductive member; a ground electrically connected to a second region of the conductive member spaced from the first region of the conductive member; a tunable circuit interposed in an electric connection path electrically connected with the ground in a third region of the conductive member, the third region being located between the first region and the second region of the conductive member; and at least one processor configured to generate a control signal based on a current mode of the electronic device and to provide the control signal to the tunable circuit.

Antenna and electronic device including the same

Growing community of inventors

Suwon-si, South Korea

Yongjoo Shin