Antenna device and electronic apparatus

• US 10,224,632 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2017
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Tenno, Nobuyuki, Ikeda, Naoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Jeanglaude, Jean B
• Application Number:
  US15/666,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20170331190A1
• Time in Patent Office: 580 Days
• Field of Search: 4553431, 455230, 343867
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/24 with receiving set
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/36 Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; Particular materials used therewithH01Q1/08, H01Q1/14 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/38 formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface H01Q15/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/06 with core of ferromagnetic material H01Q7/02 takes precedence

Abstract

An insulating substrate including a principal surface and coil antennas disposed on the substrate and each including a coil conductor. The coil conductor includes a winding axis in a direction parallel or substantially parallel to the principal surface of the substrate. An auxiliary loop conductor that is connected to the coil conductors of the coil antennas and generates a magnetic flux that is in phase with those of the coil antennas as seen from the direction of the winding axis of the coil conductor is provided in and on the substrate.

Claims

1. An antenna device comprising:

an insulating substrate including a principal surface; and

a coil antenna disposed on the substrate and including a coil conductor;

wherein

the coil conductor includes a winding axis in a direction parallel or substantially parallel to the principal surface of the substrate;

the coil conductor is wound by one full turn or more when seen from the direction of the winding axis of the coil conductor; and

an auxiliary loop conductor that is connected to the coil conductor and generates a magnetic flux that is in phase with that of the coil antenna as seen from a direction of the winding axis of the coil conductor is provided in or on the substrate.

2. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein

the coil antenna includes a first coil antenna and a second coil antenna;

each of the first coil antenna and the second coil antenna includes a winding axis in the direction parallel or substantially parallel to the principal surface of the substrate, the winding axes of the first coil antenna and the second coil antenna are parallel or substantially parallel to each other, and the first coil antenna and the second coil antenna are connected to each other so as to generate magnetic fields that are in phase with each other in the parallel direction; and

the auxiliary loop conductor is disposed in a range from the first coil antenna to the second coil antenna as seen from the direction of the winding axis of the coil conductor.

3. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein

a surface of the substrate on which the coil antenna is disposed is a surface opposite to a surface facing a first conductive member;

and

the auxiliary loop conductor extends between the coil antenna and the first conductive member as seen from the direction of the winding axis of the coil conductor.

4. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein a second conductive member is provided on the substrate and in at least a portion of a region surrounded by the auxiliary loop conductor in a plan view of the substrate.

5. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein

the coil antenna includes a terminal electrode conducted to the coil conductor and extending from the coil conductor along the coil conductor as seen from the direction of the winding axis of the coil conductor;

the substrate includes a pad electrode to which the terminal electrode is connected, and a wiring conductor extended from the pad electrode; and

an extending direction from the coil conductor to the terminal electrode and an extending direction from the pad electrode to the wiring conductor are the same.

6. The antenna device according to claim 5, wherein a connection position of the wiring conductor to the pad electrode is spaced away from a first end that is a connection position of the terminal electrode to the coil conductor, in a direction toward a second end of the terminal electrode as seen from the direction of the winding axis of the coil conductor.

7. The antenna device according to claim 1, further comprising a radio frequency integrated circuit connected to the coil antenna.

8. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the coil antenna includes a first coil antenna and a second coil antenna, and the magnetic flux generated in the auxiliary loop conductor is in phase with magnetic fluxes generated in the first coil antenna and the second coil antenna.

9. The antenna device according to claim 8, wherein each of the first coil antenna and the second coil antenna includes coil conductors wound in a helical shape and mounting electrodes.

10. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary loop conductor includes a plurality of conductor patterns including a first group of conductor patterns that overlap each other and a second group of conductor patterns that do not overlap each other in a plan view.

11. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary loop conductor includes a plurality of conductor patterns including at least one conductor pattern on an upper surface of the substrate and at least one conductor patterns on a lower surface of the substrate.

12. The antenna device according to claim 11, wherein the substrate includes at least one interlayer connection conductor that connects the at least one conductor pattern on the upper surface of the substrate and the at least one conductor patterns on the lower surface of the substrate.

13. The antenna device according to claim 11, wherein the coil antenna includes a first coil antenna and a second coil antenna connected in parallel to the at least one conductor pattern on the upper surface of the substrate and the at least one conductor patterns on the lower surface of the substrate.

14. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the coil antenna is the only coil antenna in the antenna device.

15. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary loop conductor includes a plurality of conductor patterns and a plurality of interlayer connection conductors.

16. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the coil antenna includes coil conductors that define a right-turning helical coil.

17. An electronic apparatus comprising:

the antenna device according to claim 1; and

a power supply circuit connected to the antenna device.

18. The electronic apparatus according to claim 17, further comprising a camera module, a radio frequency integrated circuit and a capacitor mounted on the substrate.

19. The electronic apparatus according to claim 17, further comprising an LC resonant circuit.

20. The electronic apparatus according to claim 17, further comprising UHF band antennas mounted on the substrate.