ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

• US 20120238326A1
• Filed: 03/06/2012
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: MORI, Masatomo, TAKITA, Hiroyuki, SUZUKI, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US13/413,539
• Publication Number:
  US 20120238326A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/30 Combinations of separate antenna units operating in different wavebands and connected to a common feeder system
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/371 Branching current paths
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/42 with folded element, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of the operating wavelength
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0233 Including a rotatable display body part
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts

Abstract

An electronic apparatus includes a housing, a circuit board housed in the housing and an antenna including a proximal end portion connected to the circuit board and extending beyond an edge of the circuit board. The housing includes a recess depressed in a direction away from the edge of the circuit board, the recess being formed in a part of the housing facing the edge of the circuit board. The antenna is housed in the recess.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a housing;

a circuit board housed in the housing; and

an antenna including a proximal end portion connected to the circuit board and extending beyond an edge of the circuit board,

wherein the housing includes a recess depressed in a direction away from the edge of the circuit board, the recess being formed in a part of the housing facing the edge of the circuit board, and

wherein the antenna is housed in the recess.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a pressing member which presses the antenna member housed in the recess toward the recess.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the antenna member is bonded to the surface of the recess.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuit board is housed in the housing in a watertight manner.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the housing comprises a fixed-side rear case and a fixed-side front case, the circuit board being housed between the fixed-side rear case and the fixed-size front case, and wherein the housing further comprises a waterproof gasket which seals the circuit board within the fixed-side rear case and fixed-side front case in a watertight manner.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the proximal end portion of the antenna is connected to a spring terminal of the circuit board, and wherein a distal end portion of the antenna extending beyond the edge of the circuit board is housed in the recess.

7. A cellular phone comprising:

a housing including a display panel and an operating portion;

a circuit board housed in the housing for controlling the display panel and the operating portion, the circuit board being housed in the housing in a watertight manner; and

an antenna including a proximal end portion connected to the circuit board and extending beyond an edge of the circuit board,

wherein the housing includes a recess depressed in a direction away from the edge of the circuit board, the recess being formed in a part of the housing facing the edge of the circuit board, and

wherein the antenna is housed in the recess.

8. The cellular phone according to claim 7, further comprising a pressing member which presses the antenna member housed in the recess toward the recess.

9. The cellular phone according to claim 7, wherein the antenna member is bonded to the surface of the recess.

10. The cellular phone according to claim 7, wherein the housing comprises a fixed-side rear case and a fixed-side front case, the circuit board being housed between the fixed-side rear case and the fixed-side front case, and wherein the housing further comprises a waterproof gasket which seals the circuit board within the fixed-side rear case and fixed-side front case in a watertight manner.

11. The cellular phone according to claim 7, wherein the proximal end portion of the antenna is connected to a spring terminal of the circuit board, and wherein a distal end portion of the antenna extending beyond the edge of the circuit board is housed in the recess.