SLOT ANTENNA

• US 20100207835A1
• Filed: 04/17/2008
• Published: 08/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Taura, Toru
• Application Number:
  US12/600,222
• Publication Number:
  US 20100207835A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/770
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 13/10 Resonant slot antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 13/103 with variable reactance for tuning the antenna tuning resonant circuits H03J
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0407 Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna dipole H01Q9/285; monopole H01Q9/40
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0414 in a stacked or folded configuration

Abstract

To make an antenna wideband under thin state. The slot antenna includes an antenna element having an aperture type slot, a reflector disposed by opposing to the antenna element, a feeding device which is electrically and physically connected to the antenna element and the reflector, a short-circuiting device which electrically short-circuits the antenna element and the reflector, and a reducing device which reduces the reactance component of the antenna. Since the reducing device for reducing the reactance component of the antenna is provided, the reactance component of the antenna can be reduced even if the antenna is formed thin and the antenna can be made wideband regardless of its thinness.

Claims

1. A slot antenna, comprising:

an antenna element having an aperture type slot;

a reflector disposed by being opposed to the antenna element;

a feeding device which is electrically and physically connected to the antenna element and the reflector;

a short-circuiting device which electrically short-circuits the antenna element and the reflector; and

a reducing device which reduces a reactance component of the antenna.

2. The slot antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reducing device is directly provided to the slot.

3. The slot antenna as claimed in claim 2, wherein the reducing device is formed as a structure in which an opening area of the slot is expanded near the feeding device.

4. The slot antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reducing device reduces a parasitic capacitance between the feeding device and the reflector.

5. The slot antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reducing device is formed as a structure in which an end of the antenna element where an opening end of the slot is formed is shifted with respect to an end of the reflector.

6. The slot antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein the short-circuiting device is placed between the antenna element and the reflector, and electrically short-circuits the antenna element and the reflector near a closed end of the slot.

7. A slot antenna, comprising:

an antenna element having an aperture type slot;

a reflector disposed by being opposed to the antenna element;

a feeding device which is electrically and physically connected to the antenna element and the reflector;

short-circuiting means for electrically short-circuiting the antenna element and the reflector; and

reducing means for reducing a reactance component of the antenna.