MAGNETIC SHEET, ANTENNA MODULE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MAGNETIC SHEET MANUFACTURING METHOD

• US 20120062435A1
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kato, Yoshihiro, Fukuda, Shinichi, Kabasawa, Kenichi, Ikeda, Yoshito, Matsunami, Keisuke
• Application Number:
  US13/321,615
• Publication Number:
  US 20120062435A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/787
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 1/344 Ferrites, e.g. having a cubic spinel structure (X2+O)(Y23+O3), e.g. magnetite Fe3O4
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/06 with core of ferromagnetic material H01Q7/02 takes precedence

Abstract

A magnetic sheet for use with an antenna module is provided. The magnetic sheet may have a magnetically permeable layer having a plurality of randomly shaped pieces such that the magnetic sheet is configured to affect a resonance frequency of the antenna module. At least one of the randomly shaped pieces of the magnetic sheet does not have a rectangular or triangular shape.

Claims

1. A magnetic sheet for use with an antenna module, the magnetic sheet comprising:

a magnetically permeable layer, which has a thickness in a first direction, having a plurality of randomly shaped pieces on a first surface being perpendicular to the first direction such that the magnetic sheet is configured to affect a resonance frequency of the antenna module, at least one of the randomly shaped pieces not having a rectangular or triangular shape.

2. The magnetic sheet of claim 1, in which at least some of the plurality of pieces have no interior angle equal to ninety degrees.

3. The magnetic sheet of claim 1, further comprising a first protective layer disposed on a the first surface of the magnetically permeable layer, the first protective layer supporting the plurality of pieces so as to maintain each of the plurality of pieces at its respective position in the magnetically permeable layer.

4. The magnetic sheet of claim 3, further comprising a second protective layer disposed on a second surface of the magnetically permeable layer, the second surface being opposite the first surface, the second protective layer further supporting the plurality of pieces so as to maintain each of the plurality of pieces at its respective position in the magnetically permeable layer.

5. The magnetic sheet of claim 4, in which the first protective layer is composed of material different than that of the second protective layer.

6. The magnetic sheet of claim 1, in which the magnetically permeable layer is composed of a ferrite material.

7. The magnetic sheet of claim 1, in which the thickness of the magnetically permeable layer is between approximately 10 μ

m and approximately 5 mm.

8. The magnetic sheet of claim 7, in which each of the plurality of pieces includes a plurality of sides, in which a longest one of the sides is approximately equal to or less than ten times the thickness of the magnetically permeable layer.

9. The magnetic sheet of claim 8, in which the longest one of the sides is approximately less than or equal to 1 mm and the thickness of the magnetically permeable layer is approximately less than or equal to 0.1 mm.

10. A method for making a magnetic sheet having a thickness in a first direction for use with an antenna module, the method comprising:

dividing a magnetically permeable layer into a plurality of randomly shaped pieces on a first surface being perpendicular to the first direction such that the magnetic sheet is configured to affect a resonance frequency of the antenna module, at least one of the randomly shaped pieces not having a rectangular or triangular shape.

11. The method of claim 10, in which at least some of the plurality of pieces have no interior angle equal to ninety degrees.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising disposing a first protective layer on the first surface, the first protective layer supporting the plurality of pieces so as to maintain each of the plurality of pieces at its respective position in the magnetically permeable layer.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising disposing a second protective layer on a second surface of the magnetically permeable layer, the second surface being opposite the first surface, the second protective layer supporting the plurality of pieces so as to maintain each of the plurality of pieces at its respective position in the magnetically permeable layer.

14. The method of claim 10, in which the magnetically permeable layer is divided by rotating a roller device upon the first surface.

15. A method for making a magnetic sheet for use with an antenna module, the method comprising:

disposing a protective layer on at least one of a top surface or a bottom surface of a magnetically permeable layer so as to form the magnetic sheet; and

rotating a roller device in a first direction and a second direction upon an outer surface of the magnetic sheet so as to divide the magnetically permeable layer into a plurality of randomly shaped pieces such that the magnetic sheet is configured to affect a resonance frequency of the antenna module, at least one of the randomly shaped pieces not having a rectangular or triangular shape , the outer surface being adjacent to one of the top surface or bottom surface of the magnetically permeable layer, the roller device having a predetermined radius.

16. The method of claim 15, in which at least some of the plurality of pieces have no interior angle that is equal to ninety degrees.

17. The method of claim 15, in which the predetermined radius of the roller device is related to a size of each of the plurality of pieces such that as the radius decreases the size of each of the plurality of pieces decreases.

18. A magnetic sheet comprising:

a magnetically permeable layer;

a first protective layer;

a second protective layer;

in which the first protective layer is disposed on a first surface of the magnetically permeable layer and the second protective layer is disposed on a second surface of the magnetically permeable layer, the second surface being opposite the first surface,

in which the magnetically permeable layer has a plurality of randomly shaped pieces on the first surface, at least one of the randomly shaped pieces not having a rectangular or triangular shape, and

in which the magnetic sheet is configured to be usable with an antenna module and during operation the magnetically permeable layer affects a desired resonance frequency of the antenna module.

19. The magnetic sheet of claim 18, in which each of the plurality of pieces includes a plurality of sides such that a longest one of the plurality of sides is approximately equal to or less than ten times a thickness of the magnetically permeable layer, the thickness of the magnetically permeable layer being between approximately 10 μ

m and approximately 5 mm.

20. The magnetic sheet of claim 19, in which the longest one of the plurality of sides is approximately less than or equal to 1 mm and the thickness of the magnetically permeable layer is approximately less than or equal to 0.1 mm.