ANTENNA DEVICE AND METHOD OF SETTING RESONANT FREQUENCY OF ANTENNA DEVICE
First Claim
1. An antenna device comprising:
- a coil conductor having a loop shape or a spiral shape in which a winding center portion defines a coil opening; and
a conductor layer that is arranged on a side closer to an antenna on a communication partner side than a location of the coil conductor;
whereinthe conductor layer includes a conductor opening and a slit, the slit connecting the conductor opening and an outer edge of the conductor layer; and
when the coil conductor is viewed in plan view, the coil conductor and conductor layer are superposed one on top of the other.
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Abstract
In antenna device, a coil conductor of an antenna coil module and a conductor layer at least partially overlap. A current flows in the conductor layer and blocks a magnetic field generated by a current flowing in the coil conductor. A current, which flows around the periphery of an opening of the conductor layer, flows along the periphery of a slit and around the periphery of the conductor layer due to a cut-edge effect. Since magnetic flux does not pass through the conductor layer, magnetic flux attempts to bypass the conductor layer along a path in which the conductor opening of the conductor layer is on the inside and the outer edge of the conductor layer is on the outside. Accordingly, the magnetic flux generates relatively large loops linking the inside and the outside of a coil conductor of an antenna on a reader/writer side.
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10 Claims
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1. An antenna device comprising:
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a coil conductor having a loop shape or a spiral shape in which a winding center portion defines a coil opening; and a conductor layer that is arranged on a side closer to an antenna on a communication partner side than a location of the coil conductor;
whereinthe conductor layer includes a conductor opening and a slit, the slit connecting the conductor opening and an outer edge of the conductor layer; and when the coil conductor is viewed in plan view, the coil conductor and conductor layer are superposed one on top of the other. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of setting a resonant frequency of an antenna device, the antenna device being configured by mounting, inside a casing of an electronic appliance, an antenna coil module that is formed by stacking a substrate on which a loop-shaped or spiral-shaped coil conductor, in which a winding center portion defines a coil opening, has been formed, on a magnetic sheet, the method comprising the steps of:
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arranging a conductor layer in the casing on a side that is closer to an antenna of a communication partner side than a location of the coil conductor; and providing a conductor opening and a slit in the conductor layer, the slit connecting the conductor opening and an outer edge of the conductor layer;
whereinwhen the substrate is viewed in plan view, the coil conductor and the conductor layer are superposed one on top of the other; and the resonant frequency is set to be lower than a central frequency of a to-be-used frequency band when the conductor layer is not present and is set to be equal or substantially equal to the central frequency of the to-be-used frequency band when the antenna coil module has been mounted inside the casing of the electronic appliance.
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