WIRELESS UNIT ANTENNA APPARATUS AND MOBILE WIRELESS UNIT

• US 20090102726A1
• Filed: 09/06/2006
• Published: 04/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Imano, Daigo, Kikuchi, Hironori
• Granted Patent: US 7,852,272 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/242 specially adapted for hand-held use
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/48 Earthing means; Earth screens; Counterpoises
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/521 reducing the coupling between adjacent antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/28 Combinations of substantially independent non-interacting antenna units or systems multiple beam H01Q25/00
• 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 9/30 with feed to end of elongated active element, e.g. unipole H01Q9/44 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention provides an antenna apparatus for a wireless unit, the antenna apparatus exhibiting a reduced specific absorption rate (SAR) without an additional component for reducing the SAR, which is the amount of energy of an electromagnetic wave absorbed by a human body. The antenna apparatus comprises a board 114 serving as a ground plate of an antenna, a first antenna element 102 transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic wave in a first frequency band and provided on the board 114 through the first feeder 107, and a second antenna element 110 transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic wave in a second frequency band and provided on the board 114 through the first feeder 111, wherein the total of an electrical length between the first and second feeders 107 and 111, an electrical length of the first antenna element 102, and an electrical length of the second antenna element 110 is larger than a half wavelength of the first frequency band and equal to or smaller than one wavelength of the first frequency band.

Claims

1. An antenna apparatus for a wireless unit, which transmits and receives an electromagnetic wave in each of frequency bands, and comprises:

a ground plate;

a first antenna element for transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic wave in a first frequency band;

a first feeder provided on said ground plate and feeding said first antenna element;

a second antenna element for transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic wave in a second frequency band; and

a second feeder provided separately from said first feeder on said ground plate and feeding said second antenna element, wherein

said first antenna element is designed to extend from said first feeder to the outside of said ground plate,

said second antenna element is designed to extend from said second feeder,

the total of an electrical length of said first antenna element, an electrical length of said second antenna element, and an electrical length between said first and second feeders is larger than a half wavelength of said first frequency band and equal to or smaller than one wavelength of said first frequency band.

2. An antenna apparatus for a wireless unit as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said first and second antenna elements are in spaced relationship with each other, and the same in direction as each other.

3. An antenna apparatus for a wireless unit as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said first and second antenna elements are substantially in parallel relationship to each other or are substantially in spaced relationship with each other.

4. An antenna apparatus for a wireless unit as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said second antenna element extends from a point located in symmetrical relationship to a point from which said first antenna element extends with respect to the center of a diagonal line of said ground plate.

5. An antenna apparatus for a wireless unit as set forth in claim 4, wherein

said first and second feeders are located in symmetrical relationship to each other with respect to the center of said diagonal line of said ground plate.

6. An antenna apparatus for a wireless unit as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said first and second antenna elements are substantially in perpendicular relationship with each other.

7. An antenna apparatus for a wireless unit as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said second antenna element has the shape of straight line.

8. An antenna apparatus for a wireless unit as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said second antenna element has the shape of inverted-F.

9. An antenna apparatus for a wireless unit as set forth in any one of claims 1 to 8, which further comprises a matching circuit for matching with said second antenna element in a desired frequency band.

10. An antenna apparatus for a wireless unit as set forth in any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein said first feeder is provided at an end portion of said ground plate, and said second feeder is provided at another end portion of said ground plate.

11. A mobile wireless unit comprising said antenna apparatus for a wireless unit as set forth in any one of claims 1 to 10.