ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING ANTENNAE ARRANGEMENT

• US 20140045442A1
• Filed: 04/13/2012
• Published: 02/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gemalto SA (Thales SA)
• Original Assignee: Gemalto SA (Thales SA)
• Inventors: Caruana, Jean-Paul, Capomaggio, Grgory, Buton, Christophe
• Application Number:
  US14/111,927
• Publication Number:
  US 20140045442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/78
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2275 associated to expansion card or bus, e.g. in PCMCIA, PC cards, Wireless USB
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2283 mounted in or on the surface of a semiconductor substrate as a chip-type antenna or integrated with other components into an IC package
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/40 Circuits

Abstract

A method for minimizing an interfering current induced in an antenna receiving an electromagnetic field, where the field is generated by a transmitting antenna located near the receiving antenna. The receiving antenna is arranged relative to the transmitting antenna such that the induced current is at least partially cancelled out in the receiving antenna. The invention also relates to an antenna arrangement and to a device comprising the same.

Claims

1. Method for minimizing an interfering current induced in an antenna receiving an electromagnetic field, said field being generated by a transmitting antenna located near said receiving antenna, wherein the receiving antenna is arranged relative to the transmitting antenna such that said current induced by the transmitting antenna is at least partially cancelled out in the receiving antenna by an opposite induced current also generated by the transmitting antenna.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein said antennas are arranged partially opposite one another on two substantially parallel horizontal planes.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein the antennas overlap, such that approximately half of the coupling surface of the receiving antenna substantially covers the coupling surface of the transmitting antenna.

4. Method according to claim 1, that wherein the receiving antenna overlaps the transmitting antenna such that the current induced in the receiving antenna generated by a flux produced inside the transmitting antenna is substantially equal to the opposite current induced in the receiving antenna generated by a flux in the opposite direction produced outside of the transmitting antenna and received by a portion of the receiving antenna located outside of the transmitting antenna.

10. Radiofrequency communication device implementing the method according to claim 1.

11. Communication device according to claim 10, wherein communication is activated and contactless, and the device includes a means for receiving and transmitting an electromagnetic field carrying data, said transmission being synchronised with said reception, further including a first antenna for receiving data and a second antenna for transmitting data, which correspond to the transmitting and receiving antenna, respectively.

12. Communication device according to claim 11, wherein the device is installed in or forms an object having the form factor of an integrated circuit card, a Micro SD card or a watch.

5. Arrangement of antennas transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic field, said antennas being arranged near one another, wherein the receiving antenna is arranged relative to the transmitting antenna such that a current induced by the transmitting antenna is substantially cancelled out in the receiving antenna by an opposite induced current also generated by the transmitting antenna.

6. Antenna arrangement according to claim 5, wherein said antennas are arranged partially opposite one another on two substantially parallel horizontal planes.

7. Antenna arrangement according to claim 5, wherein one of the antennas overlaps approximately half of the coupling surface of the other antenna.

8. Antenna arrangement according to claim 5, wherein the antennas are arranged such that the electromagnetic flux of the transmitting antenna passes through a first portion of the coupling surface of the transmitting antenna in a first direction and an opposite flux passes through a second portion of the coupling surface of the receiving antenna in a direction opposite to the first direction.

9. Antenna arrangement according to any claim 5, wherein the antennas are arranged on the same surface of a medium or on opposite surfaces.

13. Radiofrequency communication device including an antenna arrangement according to claim 5.