Antenna device and manufacturing method for the same

• US 10,305,188 B2
• Filed: 08/09/2017
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumida Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sumida Corporation
• Inventors: Inoue, Yoshinori, Douchi, Isao, Tanaka, Kei, Fujimaki, Takanari, Miura, Yoshinori, Kawasaki, Hiroshi, Kuriki, Hiromitsu, Rokuka, Takanobu, Miyazaki, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Howard
• Application Number:
  US15/672,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20180159224A1
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2208 associated with components used in interrogation type services, i.e. in systems for information exchange between an interrogator/reader and a tag/transponder, e.g. in Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] systems methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns G06K7/00; record carrier for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/005 with variable reactance for tuning the antenna
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/08 Ferrite rod or like elongated core

Abstract

An antenna device includes: a plurality of cores arranged in series; a coil; and a capacitor connected to the coil, in which a first core, which is selected from the plurality of cores, and a second core, which is selected from the plurality of cores and is arranged on any one end portion side of the first core, are arranged apart from each other, and in which at least one end surface, which is selected from an end surface of the first core on a side on which the second core is arranged and an end surface of the second core on a side on which the first core is arranged, is located on an inner peripheral side of the coil.

Claims

1. An antenna device, comprising:

a plurality of rod-like cores arranged in series in an axial direction, the plurality of rod-like cores including first and second rod-like cores that are arranged directly adjacent to each other via a gap;

a first coil formed by winding a conductive wire around part of the plurality of rod-like cores; and

a capacitor electrically connected to the first coil,

wherein a first end surface of the first rod-like core directly faces a second end surface of the second rod-like core via the gap, and at least one of the first end surface and the second end surface is located on an inner peripheral side of the first coil, and

a length of the first coil in the axial direction is shorter than each of the first and second rod-like cores in the axial direction.

2. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein the first and second end surfaces are located on the inner peripheral side of the first coil.

3. The antenna device according to claim 2,

wherein the gap between the first and second rod-like cores in the axial direction is in a range of 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm.

4. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein the first coil is arranged in a non-symmetrical manner with respect to the gap between the first and second rod-like cores.

5. The antenna device according to claim 4,

wherein the gap between the first and second rod-like cores in the axial direction is in a range of 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm.

6. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein the capacitor is selected from a plurality of capacitors, and an individual capacitance variation of the plurality of capacitors is ±

1% or more.

7. The antenna device according to claim 6,

wherein the gap between the first and second rod-like cores in the axial direction is in a range of 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm.

8. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein the gap between the first and second rod-like cores in the axial direction is in a range of 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm.

9. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein a number of the windings of the conductive wire is selected from three pre-selected different numbers.

10. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein a variation in resonance frequency of individual antenna devices of a plurality of the antenna devices is equal to or less than ±

2%.

11. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein the first coil is disposed in the vicinity of the gap.

12. The antenna device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second coil formed by winding the conductive wire around part of the first rod-like core; and

a third coil formed by winding the conductive wire around part of the second rod-like core,

wherein the second coil is disposed in the vicinity of a center of the first rod-like core in the axial direction, and the third coil is disposed in the vicinity of a center of the second rod-like core in the axial direction.

13. The antenna device according to claim 12,

wherein the first coil completely overlaps the gap when viewed in a second direction perpendicular to the axial direction, and

the length of the first coil in the axial direction is shorter than each of the second and third coils in the axial direction.

14. The antenna device according to claim 13,

wherein lengths of the second and third coils in the axial direction are equal to or less than half of the first and second rod-like cores, respectively.

15. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein the other end surface of the first rod-like core that is opposite to the first end surface is provided without a flange, and the other end surface of the second rod-like core that is opposite to the second end surface is provided without a flange.

16. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein the length of the first coil in the axial direction is equal to or less than a half of each of the first and second rod-like cores in the axial direction.

17. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein each of lengths of the first and second rod-like cores in the axial direction is in a range of about 70 to 350 times of the length of the first coil in the axial direction.

18. The antenna device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a bobbin that houses the plurality of rod-like cores, a first part of the bobbin is cut at the other end surface of the second rod-like core that is opposite to the second end surface;

a case that houses the bobbin and the first coil; and

a first terminal that is disposed directly adjacent to the first part of the bobbin, wherein the first coil is electrically connected to the capacitor via the first terminal.

19. A manufacturing method for an antenna device, comprising:

classifying a plurality of capacitors of the same type used for manufacture of an antenna device into one of two ranks and three ranks in accordance with capacitances of the plurality of capacitors;

arranging a plurality of rod-like cores in series in an axial direction, the plurality of rod-like cores including first and second rod-like cores that are arranged directly adjacent to each other via a gap;

forming a first coil by winding a conductive wire around part of the plurality of rod-like cores, a number of the windings being set according to the classified capacitor that is electrically connected to the first coil,

wherein a first end surface of the first rod-like core directly faces a second end surface of the second rod-like core via the cap, and at least one of the first end surface and the second end surface is located on an inner peripheral side of the first coil and

a length of the first coil in the axial direction is shorter than each of the first, and second rod-like cores in the axial direction.

20. A manufacturing method for an antenna device, comprising:

arranging a plurality of rod-like cores in series in an axial direction, the plurality of rod-like cores having first and second rod-like cores that are arranged directly adjacent to each other via a gap; and

forming a first coil by winding a conductive wire around part of the plurality of rod-like cores, a number of the windings of the conductive wire being always set to a constant value regardless of a capacitance of a capacitor that is electrically connected to the first coil,

wherein a first end surface of the first rod-like core directly faces a second end surface of the second rod-like core via the gap, and at least one of the first end surface and the second end surface is located on an inner peripheral side of the first coil, and

a length of the first coil in the axial direction is shorter than each of the first and second rod-like cores in the axial direction.