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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Morris Yuanhsiang Hsu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chirag Saurabh Bhavsar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
In Chul Hyun, San Jose, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Approaches are described for managing effects such as interference, crosstalk, and other types of noise in an electronic environment using a physical and/or electronic switch to improve antenna performance. For example, in the situation where the connector is connected to the device and no data and/or power is being transferred through the connector, the switch is caused to be open. In this situation, because the connector will be an electrically floating metal instead of a grounded metal due to the open switch, at least a portion of the radiated and/or received antenna signals will not couple to the connector. In the situation where the connector is connected to the device and is being used to transfer data and/or power, the switch is caused to be closed, which will result in the connector being grounded. In such a situation, at least a portion of the noise generated by the connector due to transferring data and/or power will be grounded instead of being coupled to the antenna.