WIDE BANDWIDTH ANTENNA

• US 20120319911A1
• Filed: 12/20/2011
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Unictron Technologies Corp.
• Original Assignee: Unictron Technologies Corp.
• Inventors: CHOU, CHIH-SHEN
• Application Number:
  US13/331,218
• Publication Number:
  US 20120319911A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/787
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/36 Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; Particular materials used therewithH01Q1/08, H01Q1/14 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/42 with folded element, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of the operating wavelength

Abstract

A wide bandwidth antenna, wherein, at least an antenna module is provided on a substrate, said antenna module includes a plurality of antenna elements having spiral geometric patterns, that are connected one by one in series. Each antenna element is formed by an electrically conductive trace winding from outside said spiral geometric pattern to inside, then it winds back from inside to outside. A first antenna element in the antenna module is connected to a signal input terminal, and that is connected electrically to a signal transmission line.

Claims

1. A wide bandwidth antenna, which is connected to at least one signal line for transmitting and receiving wireless signals, comprising:

at least a substrate made of a dielectric material;

at least a signal input terminal provided on said substrate for the establishment of electrical connection with said signal line for signal input and output; and

at least an antenna module, disposed on said substrate, comprises a plurality of antenna elements with spiral geometric patterns, wherein said geometric pattern of the first said antenna element is formed by an electrically conductive spiral trace winds from the starting point at the outside of said geometric pattern toward inside, and then winds back again from inside toward outside, and

continuing from an end point of said geometric pattern of said first antenna element, the electrically conductive spiral trace of the second said antenna element winds from the outside of the geometric pattern toward inside, and then winds back from inside toward outside to form a second antenna element, continuing these procedures until the needed number of said antenna elements is established, and

said starting point of the spiral geometric pattern of said first antenna element is connected to said signal input terminal.

2. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein the length of said spiral trace, the width of the trace, the spacing between the traces, the number of loops of spiral and the geometric shape of the spiral determine a resonant frequency and a bandwidth of said antenna element and said antenna module.

3. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first antenna element in said antenna module defines the highest resonance frequency of said wide bandwidth antenna, and the lowest resonance frequency is formed jointly by all said antenna elements of said antenna module, and said wide bandwidth antenna can transmit/receive wireless signals ranging from said highest resonance frequency to said lowest resonance frequency.

4. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein total number of said antenna elements and length of said antenna module determine said bandwidth of said wide bandwidth antenna, said bandwidth of said wide bandwidth antenna increases when total number of said antenna elements is increased or length of said antenna module is increased or both are increased.

5. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said geometric patterns of said antenna element is of a round spiral shape, a square spiral shape, a triangle spiral shape, a polygon spiral shape, or an irregular spiral shape.

6. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said antenna module disposed on said dielectric substrate is formed by connecting same geometric pattern of spirals or various geometric patterns of spirals.

7. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said resonant frequency of said antenna element is decreased and said bandwidth at said resonant frequency of said antenna element is increased by adding a side branch to said geometric pattern of said antenna element.

8. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 7, wherein the geometric pattern of said side branch is of a round spiral shape, a square spiral shape, a triangle spiral shape, a polygon spiral shape, a irregular spiral shape, a serpentine shape, or a trace segment with various shapes.

9. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said antenna elements of said antenna module are of different sizes, and are connected one by one in series.

10. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least a zigzag, a serpentine, or a trace segment of other shape is added between connected antenna elements.

11. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said substrate is of a multilayer substrate, wherein said antenna elements are distributively disposed on various layers of said multilayer substrate, and are connected one by one through a plurality of through holes on said substrate to form electrical connections and produce said resonance frequency and bandwidth as required.

12. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least two said antenna modules are established parallelly on said substrate, and the starting points of the first said antenna elements of each said antenna modules are connected together and then connected to said signal input terminal.

13. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said antenna element comprises at least two sub-antenna elements disposed in parallel on said substrate, and the starting points of each said sub-antenna element are connected together, and the end points of each said sub-antenna element are connected together, and said antenna elements are then connected one by one in series, and the starting point of the first said antenna element is connected to said signal input terminal.

14. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said substrate is of a multilayer substrate, wherein said antenna module is disposed on the internal layers of said multilayer substrate.

15. The wide bandwidth antenna as claimed in claim 1, wherein said substrate is made of a dielectric material which is plastic, glass, ceramic, magnetic material, or a composite of abovementioned materials.