Near field communication antenna

• US 10,236,581 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2015
• Issued: 03/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Moon, Byeongtaek, Lee, Youngki, Jang, Yohan, Roh, Hyounghwan, Song, Iljong
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hoang V
• Assistant Examiner(s): Salih, Awat M
• Application Number:
  US14/805,984
• Publication Number:
  US 20160028159A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,336 Days
• 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: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling

Abstract

An antenna of a near field wireless communication device is provided. The antenna may include: a source coil pattern formed on one surface of a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) and formed with a first conductive line between a first antenna port and a second antenna port; a resonance coil pattern formed with a second conductive line, which electrically separates from the source coil pattern; and a capacitor pattern electrically connected to the second conductive line, wherein one terminal of the capacitor pattern is connected to a first terminal of the second conductive line and the other terminal of the capacitor pattern is connected to a second terminal of the second conductive line through a third conductive line formed on the other surface of the FPCB.

Claims

1. An antenna of a near field wireless communication device, the antenna comprising:

a source coil pattern formed on a first surface of a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) and formed with a first conductive line between a first antenna port and a second antenna port;

a resonance coil pattern formed with a second conductive line, which is galvanically separated from the source coil pattern; and

a capacitor pattern including a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the capacitor pattern is connected to a first terminal of the second conductive line, and the second terminal of the capacitor pattern is connected to a second terminal of the second conductive line through a third conductive line formed on a second surface of the FPCB,

wherein the resonance coil pattern is formed with a helical coil having a plurality of turns, and the capacitor pattern rotates along at least a portion of the helical coil of the resonance coil pattern.

2. The antenna of claim 1, wherein the capacitor pattern comprises:

an upper capacitor pattern formed on the first surface of the FPCB and connected to the second conductive line; and

a lower capacitor pattern formed on the second surface of the FPCB and electrically connected to the third conductive line.

3. The antenna of claim 2, wherein the upper capacitor pattern and the lower capacitor pattern are symmetrical with respect to the FPCB.

4. The antenna of claim 2, wherein a same type of the lower capacitor pattern is formed on the second surface of the FPCB below a lower surface of the upper capacitor pattern, and a conductive line is not provided on the second surface of the FPCB at a position below a lower surface of the resonance coil pattern.

5. The antenna of claim 2, wherein the capacitor pattern is formed with a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor.

6. The antenna of claim 2, wherein the upper capacitor pattern and the lower capacitor pattern are formed on the first surface and the second surface of the FPCB to have a plain type.

7. The antenna of claim 1, wherein the source coil pattern rotates a plurality of helical turns.

8. The antenna of claim 7, wherein at least a portion of the first conductive line rotates between the plurality of turns of the resonance coil pattern.

9. The antenna of claim 1, wherein the capacitor pattern comprises:

a first capacitor pattern formed on the first surface of the FPCB and connected to the second conductive line; and

a second capacitor pattern formed on the second surface of the FPCB and electrically connected to the third conductive line through a via.

10. The antenna of claim 9, wherein the first capacitor pattern is a pattern formed by an extended portion of the second conductive line.

11. The antenna of claim 9, wherein the capacitor pattern is formed with an edge coupled capacitor.

12. The antenna of claim 9, wherein the first capacitor pattern and the second capacitor pattern are formed to have an engaged comb-pattern type.

13. The antenna of claim 1, wherein a chip capacitor is connected between the first antenna port and the second antenna port in parallel with the source coil pattern.

14. The antenna of claim 1, wherein the capacitor pattern comprises an upper capacitor pattern and a lower capacitor pattern that are respectively disposed on the first surface and the second surface of the FPCB, and

wherein the upper capacitor pattern and the lower capacitor pattern respectively include a first portion that extends in a first direction and a second portion that extends in a second direction different from the first direction.