Patent ID: 11923600
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. An electronic device comprising:
an enclosure having an exterior wall defining an elongated hole;
a non-conductive hardware button positioned within the elongated hole in the enclosure; and
a multi-function module aligned with the non-conductive hardware button, the multi-function module comprising:
an elongated antenna substrate;
a plurality of mechanical switches mounted to the elongated antenna substrate and distributed along a longitudinal length of the elongated antenna substrate, at least one mechanical switch of the plurality of mechanical switches being implemented as a radiating element for a mmWave patch antenna, the at least one mechanical switch connected to a plurality of radio frequency feedlines including:
a least one of a first vertically-polarized feedline or a first horizontally-polarized feedline usable for low-band frequency transmission and reception; and
at least one of a second vertically-polarized feedline or a second horizontally-polarized feedline usable for high-band frequency transmission and reception; and

one or more integrated circuit components mounted to the elongated antenna substrate and configured to use the at least one mechanical switch as the radiating element for the mmWave patch antenna to provide mmWave communication.