Antenna system and portable radio device

• US 20060049994A1
• Filed: 08/10/2005
• Published: 03/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ide, Yoshiyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,221,325 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/362 for broadside radiating helical antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 11/08 Helical antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/29 Combinations of different interacting antenna units for giving a desired directional characteristic H01Q25/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/30 Combinations of separate antenna units operating in different wavebands and connected to a common feeder system

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to secure good communication quality in a small-housing portable radio in which an antenna system having two antenna elements for providing for multi-frequency-bands is built. A substrate on which a high-frequency circuit and an earth plate are mounted and an antenna system is built in the housing of a portable radio device. A shorter coil element of two coil elements is set so that the direction of the antenna current is vertical to one side of a substrate and the longer coil element is set so that the direction of the antenna current is parallel with the side. Therefore, it is possible to set two coil elements in a small space in a housing after setting the substrate while directions of the antenna currents of the coil elements are orthogonal to each other (while mutual interference between the elements is small). Therefore, it is possible to secure good communication quality even for a small-housing portable radio device.

Claims

1. An antenna system to be mounted on a portable radio device, comprising:

a first antenna element; and

a second antenna element longer than the first element;

wherein

the first antenna element is set so that the direction of the antenna current of the first antenna element is vertical to one side of a substrate of the portable radio device, and

the second antenna element is set so that the direction of the antenna current of the second antenna element is parallel with the one side.

2. The antenna system according to claim 1, wherein

the first antenna element and the second antenna element are joined at a joining portion and the joining portion is electrically connected with a feeding point.

3. The antenna system according to claim 1, wherein

the first antenna element and the second antenna element are coil elements.

4. The antenna system according to claim 1, wherein

the first antenna element and the second antenna element are meander elements.

5. The antenna system according to claim 1, wherein

either of the first antenna element and the second antenna element is a coil element and the other element is a meander element.

6. A portable radio device having an antenna system including a first antenna element and a second antenna element longer than the first antenna element in the housing of the portable radio device, wherein

the first antenna element is set so that the direction of the antenna current of the first antenna element becomes vertical to one side of a substrate to be mounted in the housing, and

the second antenna element is set so that the direction of the antenna current of the second antenna element becomes parallel with one side of the substrate.

7. The portable radio device according to claim 6, wherein

the first antenna element and the second antenna element are joined at a joining portion and the joining portion is electrically connected wit a feeding point.