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| 20110111719 | MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE WITH MULTI-LAYER FLEX ANTENNA AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a circuit board carried by the portable housing, a wireless communications circuit carried by the circuit board, and an antenna carrier frame carried by the circuit board and having a plurality of surfaces. The device may also include a flex antenna assembly carried on at least some of the plurality of surfaces of the antenna carrier frame and comprising a plurality of flexible dielectric layers, and a plurality of conductive layers between adjacent flexible dielectric layers. Moreover, the conductive layers may be electrically coupled to the communications circuit. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110111720 | MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE WITH MULTI FEED POINT ANTENNA AND AUDIO TRANSDUCER AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a circuit board carried by the portable housing, a wireless communications circuit carried by the circuit board, and an audio circuit carried by the circuit board. The mobile wireless communications device may further include an antenna assembly including an antenna carrier frame coupled to the circuit board and defining a cavity therein, and an antenna element carried on the antenna carrier frame and having a plurality of spaced apart signal feed points coupled to the wireless communications circuit. In addition, an audio transducer may be carried within the cavity of the antenna carrier frame and coupled to the audio circuit. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110111814 | MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED ANTENNA AND AUDIO TRANSDUCER ASSEMBLY AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a circuit board carried by the portable housing, a wireless communications circuit carried by the circuit board, and an audio circuit carried by the circuit board. The device may further include an antenna assembly including an antenna carrier frame coupled to the circuit board and defining a cavity therein, and at least one antenna element carried on the carrier frame and coupled to the wireless communications circuit. The device may also include an audio output transducer carried within the cavity of the antenna carrier frame and coupled to the audio circuit. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110132641 | FLEXIBLE CABLE AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A flexible cable for carrying RF signals and method of manufacturing same. The cable includes an elongate base substrate including a dielectric layer with an upper metal layer deposited on one side and a lower metal layer deposited on its other side. It further includes two parallel spaced-apart series of vias formed along the length of the base substrate, each via electrically interconnecting the upper metal layer and the lower metal layer, whereby a rectangular cross-sectional waveguide is provided between the upper metal layer, the lower metal layer and the two series of vias. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110136551 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH RF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PARTS - A mobile communication device with a base portion and a parallel slider portion connected through a slide assembly. A transceiver is housed in one of the base portion and the slider portion, and an RF antenna is housed in the other of the base portion and the slider portion. A coiled cable has one end connected to the RF antenna and having its other end connected to the transceiver for communicating RF-level signals between the antenna and transceiver. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110136554 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH RF-CAPABLE FLEX CABLE - A mobile communication device with a base portion and a parallel slider portion connected through a slide assembly. A transceiver is housed in one of the base portion and the slider portion, and an RF antenna is housed in the other of the base portion and the slider portion. An RF-capable flex cable has one end connected to the RF antenna and has its other end connected to the transceiver for communicating RF-level signals between the antenna and transceiver. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110275421 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH AN INTEGRATED BATTERY/ANTENNA AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a cellular transceiver carried by the portable housing, and a battery carried by the portable housing and comprising a pair of electrodes and an electrolyte therebetween. The mobile wireless communications device may further include a wireless communications circuit carried by the portable housing and configured to wirelessly communicate via at least one of the electrodes. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120019418 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CONTINUOUS RING AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing that may include an electrically conductive continuous ring defining a perimeter of the portable housing. The electrically conductive continuous ring may be configured to function as an antenna. The mobile wireless communications device may further include a printed circuit board (PCB) carried by the portable housing and may include an electrically conductive layer defining a ground plane. The mobile wireless communications device may further include wireless transceiver circuitry carried by the PCB and coupled to the antenna. The mobile wireless communications device may also include an electrically conductive shorting member coupled between the electrically conductive continuous ring and the ground plane. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021701 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH SHUNT COMPONENT AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing including at least one electrically conductive housing portion configured to function as an antenna. The mobile wireless communications device may also include a printed circuit board (PCB) carried by the portable housing, and wireless transceiver circuitry carried by the PCB and including at least one circuit element carried by the PCB. The mobile wireless communications device may also include at least one current shunt component coupled between the at least one electrically conductive housing portion and the at least one circuit element. | 01-26-2012 |
