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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016

Filed:

May. 27, 2014
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Jay William Kruse, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Joseph Christopher Modro, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Ming Zheng, Cupertino, CA (US);

Jerry Weiming Kuo, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); H01Q 1/48 (2006.01); H01Q 1/52 (2006.01); H01Q 1/50 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/48 (2013.01); H01Q 1/242 (2013.01); H01Q 1/245 (2013.01); H01Q 1/50 (2013.01); H01Q 1/52 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0407 (2013.01);
Abstract

Antenna structures and methods of operating the same of an electronic device are described. One apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) including a surface-current dispersing circuit and an antenna structure coupled to the RF feed at a feeding point and coupled to a ground plane at a grounding point. The antenna structure comprises an even multiple of quarter-wavelength elements with a first element coupled to the feeding point and a second element coupled to the grounding point and the grounding point is located at a specified distance from the feeding point. Surface currents, generated as a result of the RF signals being applied to the RF feed at the feeding point, create a first hot spot of an even multiple of hot spots of magnetic field at the feeding point. The surface-current dispersing circuit and the ground point disperse a portion of the surface currents at the feeding point towards the grounding point to create other hot spots of the even multiple of hot spots. The even multiple of hot spots are areas of the antenna structure on which surface-current density is higher than other areas surrounding the areas of the even multiple of hot spots.


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