Planar radiating surface antenna and portable telephone comprising same

• US 20030146873A1
• Filed: 01/31/2003
• Published: 08/07/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sagem SA (Safran SA)
• Original Assignee: Sagem SA (Safran SA)
• Inventors: Blancho, Francois
• Application Number:
  US10/343,530
• Publication Number:
  US 20030146873A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/700MS
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/245 with means for shaping the antenna pattern, e.g. in order to protect user against rf exposure
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/321 within a radiating element or between connected radiating elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0421 with a shorting wall or a shorting pin at one end of the element H01Q9/0414 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0442 with particular tuning means
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/14 Length of element or elements adjustable telescopic elements H01Q1/10

Abstract

The invention concerns a transmission/reception antenna comprising a ground plane and at least a planar radiating surface extending plumb over said ground plane and parallel thereto. The invention is characterised in that the radiation section(s) are linked to means defining at least an adaptation circuit which, in transmission as well as in reception is resonant on simultaneously at least two frequency bands.

Claims

1. A transmission/reception antenna comprising a ground plane and at least one planar radiation surface which extends plumb with said ground plane and parallel thereto, characterized in that the radiation section or sections are linked to means defining at least one matching circuit which, both in transmission and in reception, is simultaneously resonant on at least two frequency bands.

2. The antenna as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the means defining a matching circuit are arranged in parallel with capacitive or inductive means themselves arranged in series with means able to be switched selectively between an on state and an off state, these capacitive or inductive means shifting the resonance bands of the antenna, as a function of the on or off state of the means able to be switched.

3. The antenna as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises at least two radiation surfaces linked by means forming at least one matching circuit.

4. The antenna as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that the two radiation surfaces are in one and the same plane.

5. The antenna as claimed in one of claim 3 or 4, characterized in that it is linked to the ground plane and to RF feed/reception electronics by two points on either side of a radiating section.

6. The antenna as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that the means forming a matching circuit are split on either side of the radiating sections.

7. The antenna as claimed in one of claim 5 or 6, characterized in that the RF signals feed and reception electronics are linked to the radiating section by a capacitor.

8. The antenna as claimed in claim 2 taken alone or in combination with one of claims 3 to 6, characterized in that the means able to be switched selectively between an on state and an off state comprise at least one PIN diode.

9. A portable telephone, characterized in that it comprises an antenna as claimed in one of the preceding claims.

10. A portable telephone comprising a casing in the bottom of which is disposed a ground plane and loudspeaker electronics, characterized in that said ground plane is extended by a screening member which exhibits an indentation toward the loudspeaker and which constitutes the ground plane of an antenna as claimed in one of claims 1 to 8 whose radiating section or sections are disposed in the casing alongside the shield member away from the loudspeaker.