Earphone antenna connecting device and portable wireless device

• US 20070032130A1
• Filed: 06/30/2005
• Published: 02/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoshino, Yoshitaka
• Application Number:
  US10/570,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20070032130A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/578
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/273 Adaptation for carrying or wearing by persons or animals
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/46 Electric supply lines or communication lines
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/16 with feed intermediate between the extremities of the antenna, e.g. centre-fed dipole H01Q9/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1033 Cables or cables storage, e.g. cable reels cord reels per se H02G11/02; arrangements for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of conductors or cables B65H75/34; extensible conductors or cables, e.g. self-coiling cords H01B7/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0218 by printed shielding conductors, ground planes or power plane H05K1/0236 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/0715 provided by an outer layer of PCB
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09318 Core having one signal plane and one power plane
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/3447 Lead-in-hole components H05K3/3415 takes precedence

Abstract

In a liquid crystal TV receiver, when the pins (11 to 20) of the 10-pin connector plug (115) are soldered to the pins of the pin-plug connector (110) used for connection of the coaxial cable (60) used to transmit low-frequency and RF signals to a body (120) of the TV receiver, the conversion board is provided between the pins of the 10-pin connector plug (115) and pins of the pin-plug connector (110) and the rear-side pattern of the conversion board except for the pin insertion hole (10) in which the pin (20) to which the antenna signal line (9) is to be connected is to be inserted is formed as the grounding pattern to surround at least three sides of the pin insertion holes (134A, 135A and 132A) in which the audio signal pins (14 and 15) through which low-frequency signals such as audio signals are passed and the microphone pin (12) are to be inserted, respectively. Thus, the RF characteristic and suppression of audio noises are considerably improved.

Claims

1. An earphone antenna connecting device for connecting an earphone antenna including high- and low-frequency signal transmission lines to a portable radio set via a pin-plug connector, the device comprising:

a conversion board formed from a double-sided printed circuit board having formed therein pin insertion holes in which pins of the pin-plug connector are to be inserted,

the conversion board having formed on one side thereof a connecting pattern having connecting lands formed around the pin insertion holes, respectively, and connecting lands to which the transmission lines are to be connected, and on the other side a grounding pattern not including a portion of the conversion board where there are formed the pin insertion holes for the pins to which the antenna signal lines are to be connected, and which is formed to surround at least three sides of each of the pin insertion holes in which signal pins through which the low-frequency signal is to pass are to be inserted.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein there is connected to the portable radio set body via the pin-plug connector the earphone antenna which is a sleeve antenna formed from a coaxial wire as high- and low-frequency signal transmission lines formed from an audio signal wire and antenna signal wire, which are core conductors, and an antenna/sound grounding wire as a shielding wire, and an earphone cable connected to one end of the coaxial wire via a means for separating the high- and low-frequency signals from each other,

the pin-plug connector being connected to the other end of the coaxial wire.

3. A portable radio set to which an earphone antenna including a high- and low-frequency signal transmission lines to a portable radio set via an earphone antenna connecting device using a pin-plug connector, the earphone antenna connecting device comprising:

a conversion board formed from a double-sided printed circuit board having formed therein pin insertion holes in which pins of the pin-plug connector are to be inserted,

the conversion board having formed on one side thereof a connecting pattern having connecting lands formed around the pin insertion holes, respectively, and connecting lands to which the transmission lines are to be connected, and on the other side a grounding pattern not including a portion of the conversion board where there are formed the pin insertion holes for the pins to which the antenna signal lines are to be connected, and which is formed to surround at least three sides of each of the pin insertion holes in which signal pins through which the low-frequency signal is to pass are to be inserted.

4. The portable radio set according to claim 3, wherein the earphone antenna is a sleeve antenna formed from a coaxial wire as a transmission line for the high- and low-frequency signals, formed from an audio and antenna signal wires as core conductors and an antenna/sound grounding wire as a shielding wire, and an earphone cable connected to one end of the coaxial wire via a means for separating the high- and low-frequency signals from each other,

the earphone antenna connecting device has the pin-plug connector thereof connected to the other end of the coaxial wire.