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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. 08, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 24, 2014
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jiang Zhu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Rodney A. Gomez Angulo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Qingxiang Li, Mountain View, CA (US);

Robert W. Schlub, Cupertino, CA (US);

Hongfei Hu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); H01Q 13/10 (2006.01); H01Q 1/22 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); H01Q 21/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 13/10 (2013.01); H01Q 1/2266 (2013.01); H01Q 1/243 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0421 (2013.01); H01Q 21/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device may be provided with hybrid planar inverted-F slot antennas and indirectly fed slot antennas. A hybrid antenna may be used to form a dual band wireless local area network antenna. An indirectly fed slot antenna may be use to form a cellular telephone antenna. Antenna slots may be formed in a metal electronic device housing wall. The housing wall may have a planar rear portion and sidewall portions that extend upwards from the planar rear portion. The slots may have one or more bends. A hybrid antenna may have a slot antenna portion and a planar inverted-F antenna portion. The planar inverted-F antenna portion may have a metal resonating element patch that is supported by a support structure. The support structure may be a plastic speaker box containing a speaker driver that is not overlapped by the metal resonating element patch.


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