Multiple-body-configuration multimedia and smartphone multifunction wireless devices

• US 10,644,380 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2017
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fractus SA
• Original Assignee: Fractus SA
• Inventors: Puente Baliarda, Carles, Mumbru, Josep, Ilaro, Jordi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Dung
• Application Number:
  US15/856,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20180151945A1
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• 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 5/371 Branching current paths
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/40 Imbricated or interleaved structures; Combined or electromagnetically coupled arrangements, e.g. comprising two or more non-connected fed radiating elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0407 Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna dipole H01Q9/285; monopole H01Q9/40
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0421 with a shorting wall or a shorting pin at one end of the element H01Q9/0414 takes precedence

Abstract

A multifunction wireless device having at least one of multimedia functionality and smartphone functionality, the multifunction wireless device including an upper body and a lower body, the upper body and the lower body being adapted to move relative to each other in at least one of a clamshell, a slide, and a twist manner. The multifunction wireless device further includes an antenna system disposed within at least one of the upper body and the lower body and having a shape with a level of complexity of an antenna contour defined by complexity factors F₂₁ having a value of at least 1.05 and not greater than 1.80 and F₃₂ having a value of at least 1.10 and not greater than 1.90.

Claims

1. A wireless device comprising:

an antenna system comprising a ground plane layer and at least four antennas within the wireless device, the antenna system comprising;

a first antenna configured to support at least three frequency bands contained within a first and second frequency regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, the second frequency region being higher in frequency than the first frequency region, the first antenna being proximate to a first short side of a ground plane rectangle defined by the ground plane layer, the first antenna defining a first antenna contour comprising the perimeter of the first antenna being placed in a first antenna box, the first antenna box being a minimum-sized parallelepiped that completely encloses the volume of the first antenna and wherein each one of the faces of the minimum-sized parallelepiped is tangent to at least one point of the volume of the first antenna, and wherein the first antenna contour has a level of complexity defined by complexity factor F₂₁ having a value of at least 1.20 and complexity factor F₃₂ having a value of at least 1.35;

a second antenna configured to support at least two frequency bands contained within the second frequency region, the second antenna being proximate to the first short side of the ground plane rectangle;

a third antenna configured to support at least two frequency bands contained within the first and second frequency regions, wherein the third antenna defines a second antenna contour comprising a perimeter of the third antenna placed in a second antenna box, an orthogonal projection of the second antenna box along a normal to a face with a largest area of the second antenna box defining an antenna rectangle, an aspect ratio of the antenna rectangle being defined as a ratio between the width and the height of the antenna rectangle, and wherein the aspect ratio has a value of at least 2; and

a fourth antenna configured to support at least two frequency bands contained within the second frequency region, and wherein the fourth antenna is proximate to a second short side being opposite to the first short side of the ground plane rectangle.

2. The wireless device of claim 1, wherein the third antenna is proximate to the second short side of the ground plane rectangle.

3. The wireless device of claim 2, wherein the perimeter of the second antenna contour comprises at least 20 segments.

4. The wireless device of claim 3, wherein the perimeter of the second antenna defines a third antenna contour having a level of complexity defined by complexity factor F₂₁ having a value of at least 1.15.

5. The wireless device of claim 4, wherein the third antenna contour has a level of complexity defined by complexity factor F₃₂ having a value lower than 1.50.

6. The wireless device of claim 2, wherein a complexity factor F₃₂ of the fourth antenna has a value of at least 1.35.

7. The wireless device of claim 2, wherein the first antenna is configured to transmit and receive signals from a 4G communication standard.

8. The wireless device of claim 7, wherein the fourth antenna is configured to receive signals from a 4G communication standard.

9. The wireless device of claim 8, wherein the fourth antenna is proximate to a corner of the ground plane rectangle.

10. A wireless device comprising:

an antenna system comprising a ground plane layer and at least four antennas within the wireless device, the antenna system comprising;

a first antenna having a conductive plate configured to support radiation modes in at least two frequency bands contained within a first and a second frequency regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, the second frequency region being higher in frequency than the first frequency region, the first antenna being proximate to a first short side of a ground plane rectangle defined by the ground plane layer, the first antenna defining a first antenna contour comprising the perimeter of the first antenna placed in a first antenna box, an orthogonal projection of the first antenna box along a normal to a face with a largest area of the first antenna box defining a first antenna rectangle, an aspect ratio of the first antenna rectangle being defined as a ratio between the width and the height of the first antenna rectangle, and wherein the aspect ratio has a value of at least 2;

a second antenna having a conductive plate configured to support radiation modes in at least two frequency bands contained within the second frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum, wherein the second antenna is proximate to the first short side of the ground plane rectangle;

a third antenna placed in a second antenna box, the third antenna having a conductive plate configured to support radiation modes in at least three frequency bands contained within the first and second frequency regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and wherein the perimeter of the third antenna defines a second antenna contour having a level of complexity defined by complexity factor F₂₁ having a value of at least 1.20 and complexity factor F₃₂ having a value of at least 1.35; and

a fourth antenna having a conductive plate configured to support radiation modes in at least two frequency bands contained within the second frequency region, the fourth antenna being proximate to a second short side being opposite to the first short side of the ground plane rectangle.

11. The wireless device of claim 10, wherein the first antenna is configured to transmit and receive signals from a 4G communication standard.

12. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the first antenna contour comprises at least 20 segments.

13. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the second antenna is placed in a third antenna box, an orthogonal projection of the third antenna box along a normal to a face with a largest area of the third antenna box defining a second antenna rectangle, the aspect ratio of the second antenna rectangle being defined as the ratio between the width and the height of the second antenna rectangle, and wherein the aspect ratio has a value of at least 2.

14. The wireless device of claim 13, wherein the perimeter of the second antenna defines a fourth antenna contour, and wherein the length of the fourth antenna contour being greater than two times a diagonal of the second antenna rectangle.

15. The wireless device of claim 14, wherein the second antenna is proximate to a first corner of the ground plane rectangle.

16. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the third antenna is proximate to the second short side of the ground plane rectangle.

17. The wireless device of claim 16, wherein the perimeter of the fourth antenna defines a third antenna contour having a level of complexity defined by complexity factor F₃₂ complexity factor having a value less than 1.75.

18. The wireless device of claim 17, wherein the complexity factor F₂₁ having a value higher than 1.15.

19. The wireless device of claim 18, wherein the complexity factor F₃₂ having a value higher than 1.35.

20. The wireless device of claim 16, wherein the fourth antenna is configured to provide wireless connectivity.