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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Mikal Askarian Amiri, Tempe, AZ (US);
Carlo di Nallo, Belmont, CA (US);
David Garrido Lopez, Campbell, CA (US);
Harish Rajagopalan, San Jose, CA (US);
Nikolaj P. Kammersgaard, København, DK;
Rodney A. Gomez Angulo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Umar Azad, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device may be provided with control circuitry and doublets of first and second antennas that are used to determine the position and orientation of the device relative to external wireless equipment. The control circuitry may determine the relative position and orientation of the external equipment by measuring the angle of arrival of radio-frequency signals from the external equipment. Each doublet may include first and second cavity-backed slot antennas. The first and second antennas may each include a first slot element that is directly fed and a second slot element that is parasitically fed by the first slot element. The first slot element may radiate in an ultra-wideband communications band at 8.0 GHz and the second slot element may radiate in an ultra-wideband communications band at 6.5 GHz. The doublet may be aligned with a dielectric window in a conductive sidewall for the device.