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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Trevor J Edmonds, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael J Williams, Campbell, CA (US);
Nikolaos Chiotellis, San Jose, CA (US);
Joel D Barrera, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Marc Soriano Baliarda, San Jose, CA (US);
Ayoub Yari Boroujeni, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jerzy S Guterman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mahmoud R Amini, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kevin M Robinson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device such as a laptop computer may have an upper housing and a lower housing. The lower housing may have a clutch barrel. The upper housing may be coupled to the clutch barrel by a hinge. The lower housing may have an upper metal wall separated from the upper housing by a first gap and a lower metal wall separated from the upper housing by a second gap. The clutch barrel may include a conductor. An antenna may be formed from a radiating slot in the conductor. The radiating slot may have a tunnel extending from a first opening to a second opening in the conductor across a diameter of the conductor. The tunnel may be linear or non-linear. The tunnel may have a uniform or tapered width. The radiating slot may convey radio-frequency signals through both gaps regardless of the orientation of the upper housing.