Antenna device, antenna noncontact data transmitter and receiver, communicator sheet, communicator loop, and antenna sheet

• US 20070097003A1
• Filed: 10/30/2006
• Published: 05/03/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Seki, Tomonori, Horiguchi, Natsuko, Mori, Toshinari, Sasaki, Sho
• Application Number:
  US11/589,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20070097003A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/742
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/38 formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface H01Q15/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop

Abstract

An antenna device and non-contact transmitter/receiver device constituting at least the same includes a first conductor unit; a second conductor unit that is electrically connected to the first conductor unit; and a third conductor unit that is electrically connected to the first conductor unit and the second conductor unit. The first conductor is placed along a first virtual plane, the second conductor unit is placed along a second virtual plane, and the third conductor is placed along a third virtual plane. In this antenna, the plane that includes the first conductor unit, the plane that includes the second conductor unit, and the plane that includes the third conductor unit are perpendicular to one another.

Claims

1. An antenna device comprising:

a holding material; and

first through third conductor units that are provided on the holding material,

wherein;

the holding material has first through third planes that share one corner and are perpendicular to one another;

the first conductor unit is placed along the first plane;

the second conductor unit is placed along the second plane; and

the third conductor unit is placed along the third plane.

2. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the first through third conductor units are connected to one another and form a loop-like shape.

3. The antenna device according to claim 2, wherein

an area surrounded by a projection view formed by projecting the first through third conductor units in a normal direction of the first plane, an area surrounded by a projection view formed by projecting the first through third conductor units in a normal direction of the second plane, and an area surrounded by a projection view formed by projecting the first through third conductor units in a normal direction of the third plane are the same.

4. The antenna device according to claim 2, wherein the holding material has a cubic shape.

5. The antenna device according to claim 2, wherein

the first conductor unit is arranged parallel to two sides of the first plane, the two sides not including the corner;

the second conductor unit is arranged parallel to two sides of the second plane, the two sides not including the corner; and

the third conductor unit is arranged parallel to two sides of the third plane, the two sides not including the corner.

6. The antenna device according to claim 2, wherein

the holding material includes a first holding wall that has a first square plane, a second holding wall that has a second square plane, and a third holding wall that has a third square plane.

7. An antenna device comprising:

a first conductor unit;

a second conductor unit that is electrically connected to the first conductor unit;

a third conductor unit that is electrically connected to the first conductor unit and the second conductor unit;

a first holding material that holds at least part of the first conductor unit;

a second holding material that holds at least part of the second conductor unit; and

a third holding material that holds at least part of the third conductor unit,

wherein a plane that includes the first conductor unit, a plane that includes the second conductor unit, and a plane that includes the third conductor unit are perpendicular to one another.

8. The antenna device according to claim 7, wherein the first through third holding members are connected to one another, and form a loop-like shape.

9. An antenna comprising:

a first conductor unit;

a second conductor unit that is electrically connected to the first conductor unit;

a third conductor unit that is electrically connected to the first conductor unit and the second conductor unit;

wherein;

first through third planes being three virtual planes that share one point and are perpendicular to one another,

the first through third conductor units are connected to one another;

the first conductor unit is placed along the first plane;

the second conductor unit is placed along the second plane; and

the third conductor unit is placed along the third plane.

10. A noncontact data transmitter and receiver comprising:

an antenna; and

an IC chip that is connected to the antenna, wherein;

the antenna comprises;

a first conductor unit;

a second conductor unit that is electrically connected to the first conductor unit; and

a third conductor unit that is electrically connected to the first conductor unit and the second conductor unit;

wherein;

first through third planes being three virtual planes that share one point and are perpendicular to one another,

the first through third conductor units being connected to one another,

the first conductor unit being placed along the first plane,

the second conductor unit being placed along the second plane,

the third conductor unit is placed along the third plane;

the IC chip performs an operation in accordance with a control signal received by the antenna, using electromotive force generated by radio waves including the control signal; and

radio waves for transmitting information recorded on the IC chip are generated from the antenna.

11. An antenna sheet comprising:

first through third partial sheets;

a first conductor unit that is provided on the first partial sheet;

a second conductor unit that is provided on the second partial sheet; and

a third conductor unit that is provided on the third partial sheet;

wherein;

folding is performed at an boundary between each two of the first through third partial sheets, so as to arrange the first through third partial sheets in a L-like shape and to form first through third planes that share one point and are perpendicular to one another;

the first conductor unit and the second conductor unit are connected to each other; and

the second conductor unit and the third conductor unit are connected to each other.

12. The antenna sheet according to claim 11, wherein the first conductor unit and the third conductor unit are connected to each other via a connecting unit formed with a conductor.

13. The antenna sheet according to claim 11, wherein:

a connecting sheet connected to at least one of the partial sheets is provided;

a conductor unit connected to at least one of the first conductor unit and the third conductor unit is provided on the connecting sheet; and

the folding enables connection between the first conductor unit and the third conductor unit with the conductor unit provided on the connecting sheet.

14. The antenna sheet according to claim 11, wherein the first through third partial sheets are three connected square sheets sharing the one point, and each of the conductors is arranged parallel to two sides that do not include the one point.