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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2017
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Harish Rajagopalan, San Jose, CA (US);
Umar Azad, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pietro Romano, Foster City, CA (US);
David Garrido Lopez, Campbell, CA (US);
Lu Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Rodney A. Gomez Angulo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mattia Pascolini, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device may have conductive housing structures and first, second, third, and fourth slot antennas having respective first, second, third, and fourth slot elements in the conductive housing structures. The third slot element may be interposed between the first and second slot elements and the second slot element may be interposed between the third and fourth slot elements. Switching circuitry may be coupled between a transceiver and the slot elements. Control circuitry may control the switching circuitry to activate a selected pair of the slot antennas based on an orientation of the device or other data. The active pair of antennas may convey radio-frequency signals at the same frequencies using a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communications scheme. In this way, the device may perform wireless communications at relatively high data throughputs regardless of how the device is being held by a user.