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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Vincent Keane Seid, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Phillip Michael Hobson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Erik L. Wang, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kenneth A. Jenks, Capitola, CA (US);
Robert J. Hill, Salinas, CA (US);
Robert W. Schlub, Cupertino, CA (US);
Richard H. Dinh, San Jose, CA (US);
Tang Yew Tan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adam D. Mittleman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bartley K. Andre, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daniel J. Coster, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniele De Iullis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard P. Howarth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan P. Ive, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven P. Jobs, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Duncan Robert Kerr, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shin Nishibori, Kailua, HI (US);
Matthew Dean Rohrbach, San Francisco, CA (US);
Douglas B. Satzger, San Francisco, CA (US);
Calvin Q. Seid, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher J. Stringer, Woodside, CA (US);
Eugene Antony Whang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rico Zorkendorfer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A handheld electronic device may be provided that contains a conductive housing and other conductive elements. The conductive elements may form an antenna ground plane. One or more antennas for the handheld electronic device may be formed from the ground plane and one or more associated antenna resonating elements. Transceiver circuitry may be connected to the resonating elements by transmission lines such as coaxial cables. Ferrules may be crimped to the coaxial cables. A bracket with extending members may be crimped over the ferrules to ground the coaxial cables to the housing and other conductive elements in the ground plane. The ground plane may contain an antenna slot. A dock connector and flex circuit may overlap the slot in a way that does not affect the resonant frequency of the slot. Electrical components may be isolated from the antenna using isolation elements such as inductors and resistors.