ANTENNA UNIT AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREWITH

• US 20100156735A1
• Filed: 12/16/2009
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: NARUSE, Takumi, KIYOSUE, Kuniaki, FUKUSHIMA, Fumio, NAKAMURA, Kouichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,188,933 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/788
• 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 unit includes an antenna formed on a magnetic sheet. A transmission circuit includes an inductor, a matching capacitor, and the antenna connected in series, and a reception circuit includes the antenna, the matching capacitor, a resistor, and a capacitor connected in series. The antenna is formed as one turn, and the size of the antenna and the resistor involves a predetermined relationship.

Claims

1. An antenna unit, comprising:

a coil section formed on a magnetic sheet;

a transmission circuit in which an inductor, a first capacitor, and the coil section are connected in series; and

a reception circuit in which the coil section, the first capacitor, a resistance part, and a second capacitor are connected in series;

wherein the coil section is formed as one turn and the size of the coil and the resistance part involves the following relationship;

R=(S×

μ

e×

H×

Q×

2π

f)²/W

where S;

Product of dimensions of length and width of the coil section, R;

Resistance value of the resistance part, W;

Drive power at the IC chip receiving time, H;

Magnetic field strength in the coil section, Q;

Antenna performance, μ

e;

Effective magnetic permeability of the magnetic sheet, and f;

Frequency at the transmitting-receiving time.

2. The antenna unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the magnetic sheet is composed of at least a plurality of fixed piece magnetic substances.

3. The antenna unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coil section is shaped as a plate.

4. The antenna unit as claimed in claim 2, wherein a reinforcement member of a plurality of fixed pieces is provided on the opposite face of the coil section to the magnetic sheet and the reinforcement member is harder than the magnetic substances.

5. The antenna unit as claimed in claim 4, wherein the magnetic sheet of the fixed piece magnetic substances and the fixed piece reinforcement member are the same in size.

6. The antenna unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the magnetic sheet is placed along the outer shape of the coil section.

7. A mobile terminal in which the antenna unit as claimed in claim 1 is installed internally.

8. An antenna unit, comprising:

a first coil composed of one turn formed on a magnetic sheet;

a second coil composed of one turn formed on the same plane as the first coil on the magnetic sheet;

a first connection terminal connected to one end part of the first coil;

a second connection terminal connected to one end part of the second coil;

a third connection terminal connected to an opposite end part of the second coil and selectively connected to an opposite end part of the first coil; and

a fourth connection terminal selectively connected to the opposite end part of the first coil.

9. The antenna unit as claimed in claim 8, wherein the first coil to be used in a reader/writer mode is placed outside from the second coil to be used in a tag mode.

10. The antenna unit as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

a switch section for switching so as to connect the opposite end part of the first coil to the fourth connection terminal in the reader/writer mode and connect the opposite end part of the first coil to the third connection terminal in the tag mode.

11. An antenna unit, comprising:

a coil section formed on a magnetic sheet;

a transmission circuit in which an inductor, a first capacitor, and the coil section are connected in series; and

a reception circuit in which the coil section, the first capacitor, a resistance part, and a second capacitor are connected in series;

wherein the magnetic sheet is composed of at least a plurality of fixed piece magnetic substances and the resistance part involves the following relationship;

R=(S×

μ

e×

H×

Q×

2π

f)²/W

where S;

Product of dimensions of length and width of the coil section, R;

Resistance value of the resistance part, W;

Drive power at the IC chip receiving time, H;

Magnetic field strength in the coil section, Q;

Antenna performance, μ

e;

Effective magnetic permeability of the magnetic sheet, and

f;

Frequency at the transmitting-receiving time.