# US 12,119,538 B2 · Display panel assembly, multi-function assembly, transceiver assembly, and wireless communication apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,119,538 B2 - Document ID: US12119538B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/650,559 - Filed: 2024-04-30 - Published: 2024-08-22 - Granted: 2024-10-15 - Earliest claimed: 2023-06-13 - Assignees: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Huan-Chu Huang; Jie Wu; Shuang Cui - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12119538B2 ## CPC - H01Q 1/22: by structural association with other equipment or articles - H01Q 1/1271: {for mounting on windscreens} - H01Q 3/46: Active lenses or reflecting arrays - H01Q 15/0006: {Devices acting selectively as reflecting surface, as diffracting or as refracting device, e.g. frequency filtering or angular spatial filtering devices (H01Q15/12, H01Q15/22, H01Q15/24 take precedence)} - H01Q 15/0013: {said selective devices working as frequency-selective reflecting surfaces, e.g. FSS, dichroic plates, surfaces being partly transmissive and reflective} - H01Q 21/06: Arrays of individually energised antenna units similarly polarised and spaced apart - H04B 7/04013: {Intelligent reflective surfaces} - H01Q 9/0407: {Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna (dipole H01Q9/285; monopole H01Q9/40)} - H01Q: ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS (radiators or antennas for microwave heating H05B6/72) - H04B: TRANSMISSION ## Abstract A display panel assembly, a multi-function assembly, a transceiver assembly, and a wireless communication apparatus. The display panel assembly includes: a base plate; an antenna assembly arranged on the base plate and including one or more antenna units for receiving and transmitting wireless signals; and a metasurface assembly arranged on the base plate and including a plurality of metasurface units for enhancing performance of the wireless signals received and transmitted by the antenna units, in which the antenna assembly and the metasurface assembly each include a transparent structural layer. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display panel assembly, comprising: a base plate; an antenna assembly arranged on the base plate and comprising one or more antenna units for receiving and transmitting wireless signals; a metasurface assembly arranged on the base plate and comprising a plurality of metasurface units, the metasurface assembly and the antenna units being arranged in a same layer or in different layers, and the metasurface units being for enhancing performance of the wireless signals received and transmitted by the antenna units; and an intelligent reflecting surface comprising a reflecting assembly and a conductive layer, wherein the conductive layer is arranged at a side of the reflecting assembly facing the base plate and for blocking and reflecting wireless signals, the reflecting assembly comprises a plurality of reflecting units for reflecting wireless signals; wherein the antenna assembly and the metasurface assembly each comprise a transparent structural layer, at least one of the reflecting units is reused as at least one of the metasurface units, and/or at least one of the reflecting unit is reused as at least one of the antenna units; wherein when the reflecting unit is reused as the metasurface unit, the reflecting unit is able to be used as the intelligent reflecting surface to reflect wireless signals emitted from outside toward the display panel assembly, and the reflecting unit is also able to enhance the wireless signals received and transmitted by the antenna units; and when the reflecting unit is reused as the antenna unit, the reflecting unit is able to be used as the intelligent reflecting surface to reflect wireless signals emitted from outside toward the display panel assembly, and the reflecting unit is also able to receive and transmit wireless signals. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display panel assembly according to claim 1, wherein the transparent structural layer is a mesh layer comprising a plurality of grid strips and a plurality of light-transmitting portions enclosed by the grid strips, or the transparent structural layer is a light-transmitting conductive layer. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The display panel assembly according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of light-transmitting portions is enclosed by the grid strips, and the display panel assembly further comprises: a pixel defining layer comprising one or more pixel defining portions and one or more pixel openings defined by the pixel defining portions, wherein the transparent structural layer is located at a side of the pixel defining layer away from the base plate, and at least a portion of an orthographic projection of the grid strip on the base plate is within an orthographic projection of the pixel defining portion on the base plate. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The display panel assembly according to claim 2, further comprising a conductive functional structure, wherein at least one of the antenna units and the metasurface units are arranged in the same layer as the conductive functional structure. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The display panel assembly according to claim 1, wherein the display panel assembly further comprises a common electrode layer, and the common electrode layer is reused as the conductive layer. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The display panel assembly according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the reflecting units and at least one of the metasurface units are reused as a first multi-function unit, and an orthographic projection of at least one first multi-function unit on the base plate at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the antenna unit on the base plate. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The display panel assembly according to claim 6, wherein the first multi-function unit is located at a side of the antenna unit away from the base plate. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The display panel assembly according to claim 6, wherein the orthographic projection of the first multi-function unit on the base plate at least partially overlaps the orthographic projection of the antenna unit on the base plate. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The display panel assembly according to claim 6, wherein the metasurface assembly further comprises one or more auxiliary metasurface units located at at least one side of a periphery of the first multi-function unit. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The display panel assembly according to claim 9, wherein an orthographic projection of the auxiliary metasurface unit on the base plate at least partially overlaps the orthographic projection of the antenna unit on the base plate. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The display panel assembly according to claim 9, wherein the auxiliary metasurface units and the first multi-function units are arranged in a same layer. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The display panel assembly according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the reflecting units and at least one of the antenna units are reused as a second multi-function unit, an orthographic projection of the second multi-function unit on the base plate at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the metasurface unit on the base plate, or the metasurface units are located at a periphery of the second multi-function unit. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The display panel assembly according to claim 12, wherein the orthographic projection of the second multi-function unit on the base plate at least partially overlaps the orthographic projection of the metasurface unit on the base plate; and a plurality of second multi-function units and a plurality of the metasurface units are arranged in one-to-one correspondence, or a plurality of the metasurface units are arranged corresponding to a same one of the second multi-function units. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The display panel assembly according to claim 12, wherein at least a portion of the metasurface units are located at a side of the second multi-function units away from the base plate, or at least a portion of the metasurface units are located at a side of the second multi-function units facing the base plate, or at least a portion of the metasurface units are located at a periphery of the second multi-function unit, and the metasurface units are arranged at the periphery of each of second multi-function units. ### Claim 15 (depends on 12) The display panel assembly according to claim 12, wherein two or more metasurface units are arranged at intervals at the periphery of each of the second multi-function units. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The display panel assembly according to claim 15, wherein the two or more metasurface units arranged at the periphery of each of the second multi-function units are of a same arrangement. ### Claim 17 (depends on 12) The display panel assembly according to claim 12, wherein the antenna unit comprises a millimeter wave antenna unit and a non-millimeter wave antenna unit, and the second multi-function unit is reused as the millimeter wave antenna unit or a portion of the non-millimeter wave antenna unit. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The display panel assembly according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the reflecting units are reused as one of the metasurface unit and the antenna unit to form a multi-function unit, the display panel assembly comprises a plurality of multi-function units and further comprises two or more functional layers, the multi-function units are arranged in the functional layers, and areas of orthographic projections of at least two of the multi-function units located in different functional layers on the base plate are different. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The display panel assembly according to claim 18, wherein the reflecting units comprise one or more first reflecting units and one or more second reflecting units, the first reflecting units are reused as the antenna units to form the multi-function units, and the second reflecting units are arranged in the functional layers. ### Claim 20 A multi-function assembly, comprising: an antenna assembly comprising one or more antenna units for receiving and transmitting wireless signals; an intelligent reflecting surface comprising a reflecting assembly and a conductive layer, wherein the conductive layer is arranged at a side of the reflecting assembly and for blocking and reflecting wireless signals, and the reflecting assembly comprises a plurality of reflecting units for reflecting wireless signals; and a metasurface assembly, the metasurface assembly and the antenna units being arranged in a same layer or in different layers, and the metasurface assembly comprising a plurality of metasurface units for enhancing performance of the wireless signals received and transmitted by the antenna units, wherein at least one of the reflecting units is reused as one of the metasurface unit and the antenna unit, when the reflecting unit is reused as the metasurface unit, the reflecting unit is able to be used as the intelligent reflecting surface to reflect wireless signals emitted from outside toward a display panel assembly, and the reflecting unit is also configured to: enhance the wireless signals received and transmitted by the antenna units, and, when the reflecting unit is reused as the antenna unit, reflect wireless signals emitted from outside toward the display panel assembly, and receive and transmit wireless signals.