Terminal apparatus

• US 20060009263A1
• Filed: 09/29/2003
• Published: 01/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tokuda, Katsuhiko, Kashima, Yukiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,392,073 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/562.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2266 disposed inside the computer
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2275 associated to expansion card or bus, e.g. in PCMCIA, PC cards, Wireless USB
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/29 Combinations of different interacting antenna units for giving a desired directional characteristic H01Q25/00 takes precedence

Abstract

A terminal equipment is used by mounting thereon a wireless module including a communication device having a transmission and reception antenna for connection to a wireless network and includes a first antenna unit which is connected to the transmission and reception antenna physically or spatially and a second antenna unit which is connected to the first antenna unit and transmits and receives radio signals directly to and from the wireless network such that not only communication quality is upgraded but a radio signal reach distance between the terminal equipment and the wireless network is extended.

Claims

1. A terminal equipment which is used by mounting thereon a wireless module including a communication means having a transmission and reception antenna for connection to a wireless network, the terminal equipment comprising:

a first antenna unit which is connected to the transmission and reception antenna physically or spatially; and

a second antenna unit which is connected to the first antenna unit and transmits and receives radio signals directly to and from the wireless network.

2. The terminal equipment as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a high-frequency amplifier circuit which has a gain of 1 or more and is inserted between the first and second antenna units.

3. The terminal equipment as claimed in claim 1, which is formed with a slot for receiving the wireless module such that the transmission and reception antenna is projected out of the slot;

the terminal equipment further comprising;

a cover for accommodating the transmission and reception antenna of the wireless module fitted into the slot, the first antenna unit and the second antenna unit.

4. The terminal equipment as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

a housing which has a front panel such that the cover is attached to the front panel of the housing.