HYBRID ANTENNAS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES
First Claim
1. An antenna in a portable electronic device having first and second housing portions, comprising:
- conductive structures in the first housing portion that define an antenna slot having at least one gap; and
a conductive bridging structure mounted to the second housing portion that bridges the gap when the first and second housing portions are connected to form the portable electronic device.
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Abstract
A portable electronic device is provided that has a hybrid antenna. The hybrid antenna may include a slot antenna structure and an inverted-F antenna structure. The slot antenna portion of the hybrid antenna may be used to provide antenna coverage in a first communications band and the inverted-F antenna portion of the hybrid antenna may be used to provide antenna coverage in a second communications band. The second communications band need not be harmonically related to the first communications band. The electronic device may be formed from two portions. One portion may contain conductive structures that define the shape of the antenna slot. One or more dielectric-filled gaps in the slot may be bridged using conductive structures on another portion of the electronic device. A conductive trim member may be inserted into an antenna slot to trim the resonant frequency of the slot antenna portion of the hybrid antenna.
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40 Claims
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1. An antenna in a portable electronic device having first and second housing portions, comprising:
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conductive structures in the first housing portion that define an antenna slot having at least one gap; and a conductive bridging structure mounted to the second housing portion that bridges the gap when the first and second housing portions are connected to form the portable electronic device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An antenna comprising,
at least one conductive structure defining an antenna slot; - and
at least one conductive resonant frequency trim member that is mounted to the conductive structure within the slot to trim the antenna. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. A portable electronic device, comprising:
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a first assembly containing conductive structures that define an antenna slot, wherein the antenna slot has an inner perimeter with at least one gap; and a second assembly that includes a conductive bridging structure that bridges the gap when the first and second assemblies are connected to each other to form the portable electronic device. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A hybrid antenna in a portable electronic device, comprising:
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conductive structures in the portable electronic device that define an antenna slot for the hybrid antenna, wherein the antenna slot has a longitudinal axis; an inverted-F antenna structure having a first conductive portion that extends from a first terminal to a second terminal and that bridges the slot and having a second conductive portion that is electrically connected to the first conductive portion and that at least partly runs parallel to the longitudinal axis of the antenna slot; and a flex circuit transmission line having a positive signal conductor and a ground signal conductor, wherein the positive signal conductor is connected to the first terminal and wherein the ground signal conductor is connected to the conductive structures adjacent to the slot. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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Specification