PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH BROADCAST ANTENNA

• US 20090312069A1
• Filed: 11/10/2008
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Arima Communication Company Limited (Arima Communications Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Arima Communication Company Limited (Arima Communications Corporation)
• Inventors: Peng, Huang-Tse, Lai, Kuo-Jen, Hsiao, E-Den
• Application Number:
  US12/267,795
• Publication Number:
  US 20090312069A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/572
• 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 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
• 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: H04M 1/0262 for a battery compartment

Abstract

The present invention is related to a portable electronic device with broadcast antenna at least including a main body having a battery accommodating space; a cover having a battery area corresponding to the battery accommodating space of the main body, wherein the shape and size of the cover are adapted to cover the battery accommodating space and the cover is separablely assembled with the corresponding outer edge of the battery accommodating space of the main body; and a broadcast antenna, disposed on the inner surface of the cover other than the battery area for unidirectionally receiving broadcasting signals in a first frequency band.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device with broadcast antenna, comprising:

a main body having a battery accommodating space;

a cover having a battery area corresponding to the battery accommodating space of the main body, wherein the shape and size of the cover are adapted to cover the battery accommodating space and the cover is separablely assembled with the corresponding outer edge of the battery accommodating space of the main body; and

a broadcast antenna disposed on the inner surface of the cover other than the battery area for unidirectionally receiving broadcasting signals in a first frequency band.

2. The portable electronic device according to claim 1 wherein the broadcasting signals are Frequency Modulation broadcasting signals, Amplitude Modulation broadcasting signals, analog television broadcasting signals or digital television broadcasting signals.

3. The portable electronic device according to claim 1 wherein the first frequency band includes frequency bands of Frequency Modulation broadcast, Amplitude Modulation broadcast, analog television or digital television broadcast.

4. The portable electronic device according to claim 1 wherein the main body further includes a communication antenna disposed in the main body for bidirectionally transmitting and receiving communication signals in a second frequency band.

5. The portable electronic device according to claim 4 wherein the second frequency band includes frequency bands of GSM 900 (Global System for Mobile Communications 900), GSM 850 (Global System for Mobile Communications 850), DCS (Digital Communication System), PCS (Personal Communications Service), and WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access).

6. The portable electronic device according to claim 4 wherein the cover further includes a communication antenna area located at a position corresponding to the communication antenna, and the broadcast antenna is disposed on the cover other than the communication antenna area and the battery area.

7. The portable electronic device according to claim 4 wherein the first frequency band has a lower frequency than that of the second frequency band.

8. The portable electronic device according to claim 1 wherein the broadcast antenna and the battery area have a first transverse interval and a first longitudinal interval.

9. The portable electronic device according to claim 8 wherein the first transverse interval has a width of 3.5 mm, and the first longitudinal interval have a width of 2 mm.

10. The portable electronic device according to claim 1 wherein the broadcast antenna further includes a feeding point and the main body further includes a broadcast antenna connecting terminal located at a position corresponding thereto, and the broadcast antenna connecting terminal is contacted with the feeding point in a selectable and separable manner.

11. The portable electronic device according to claim 1 wherein the broadcast antenna is disposed around the battery area for forming a ring shape or disposed at the outside of at least one side of the battery area in a manner of transversely or longitudinally traveling back and forth.

12. The portable electronic device according to claim 11 wherein the broadcast antenna further includes a first transverse section, a second transverse section, a third transverse section, a fourth transverse section, a fifth transverse section, a first longitudinal section, a second longitudinal section, a third longitudinal section and a fourth longitudinal section.

13. The portable electronic device according to claim 12 wherein the connecting sequence of the broadcast antenna is the first transverse section, the first longitudinal section, the second transverse section, the second longitudinal section, the third transverse section, the third longitudinal section, the fourth transverse section, the fourth longitudinal section, and the fifth transverse section.

14. The portable electronic device according to claim 12 wherein a section interval is respectively located among the ring-shaped antenna formed by the first transverse section, the second transverse section, the third transverse section, the fourth transverse section, the fifth transverse section, the first longitudinal section, the second longitudinal section, the third longitudinal section and the fourth longitudinal section for separation.

15. The portable electronic device according to claim 12 wherein the broadcast antenna further includes a first connecting section, a second connecting section, a third connecting section, a fourth connecting section, a fifth connecting section, a sixth connecting section, and a seven connecting section.

16. The portable electronic device according to claim 15 wherein the connecting sequence of the broadcast antenna is the first transverse section, the first connecting section, the second transverse section, the second connecting section, the third transverse section, the third connecting section, the fourth transverse section, the fourth connecting section, the fifth transverse section, the first longitudinal section, the fifth connecting section, the second longitudinal section, the sixth connecting section, the third longitudinal section, the seven connecting section, and the fourth longitudinal section.

17. The portable electronic device according to claim 16 wherein the first transverse section, the second transverse section, the third transverse section, the fourth transverse section, the fifth transverse section, the first connecting section, the second connecting section, the third connecting section, and the fourth connecting section of the broadcast antenna are located at the outside of one side of the battery area on the cover, and the first longitudinal section, the second longitudinal section, the third longitudinal section, the fourth longitudinal section, the fifth connecting section, the sixth connecting section, and the seven connecting section of the broadcast antenna are located at the outside of another side of the battery area on the cover.

18. The portable electronic device according to claim 12 wherein the first transverse section and the second transverse section of the broadcast antenna respectively have a length of 45 mm, and the first longitudinal section and the second longitudinal section of the broadcast antenna respectively have a length of 62 mm.