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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jennifer M. Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bhaskara R. Rupakula, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Harish Rajagopalan, San Jose, CA (US);
Bilgehan Avser, San Bruno, CA (US);
Simone Paulotto, Redwood City, CA (US);
Mattia Pascolini, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device may be provided with a sidewall and an antenna module pressed against an interior surface of the sidewall. The module may include a phased antenna array. The sidewall may have apertures aligned with respective antenna in the array. The antennas may convey radio-frequency signals in first and second frequency bands greater than 10 GHz and with vertical and horizontal polarizations. Each aperture may include a corresponding cavity with non-linear cavity walls. The antennas may excite resonant cavity modes of the cavities that cause the cavities to radiate the radio-frequency signals as waveguide radiators. At the same time, the apertures may form a smooth impedance transition between the antennas and free space for the radio-frequency signals of both the horizontal and vertical polarizations.