Helical antenna for portable radio communication equipment

• US 5,359,340 A
• Filed: 09/30/1992
• Issued: 10/25/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yokota, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Wimer, Michael C.
• Application Number:
  US07/953,374
• Time in Patent Office: 755 Days
• Field of Search: 343/895, 343/749, 343/702, 343/791, 343/792, 343/803, 343/806
• US Class Current: 343/792
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/242 specially adapted for hand-held use
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/362 for broadside radiating helical antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 11/08 Helical antennas

Abstract

A small size helical antenna for radio communication equipment such as a portable transmitter/receiver, a pocket telephone, or a mobile telephone of small power type. The helical antenna is comprised of first and second parallel conductors wound in a coil shape. The second conductor is folded in parallel to the remaining part of the second conductor at some length in accordance with the transmitting/receiving frequency from the top end. The folded part and the upper part of the first conductor form a radiator of the dipole antenna structure and the parallel part of the first and the second conductors form a parallel feeder. The third conductor having the same length as the folded part may be provided on the lower part of the second conductor. According to the above-described structure, no return current flows from the helical antenna to the casing of the radio communication equipment on which the helical antenna is connected, thereby the directivity becomes maximum in a horizontal plane and an effect caused by holding the casing by a human hand is decreased.

Claims

1. A small size helical antenna for radio communication equipment including at least one of a portable transmitter/receiver, a pocket telephone, and a small power type mobile telephone, said helical antenna comprising:

a first conductor being continuously wound helically from a top end to a bottom end, said first conductor connected to a casing of said equipment; and

a second conductor being helically wound together in parallel with said helically wound first conductor with a predetermined space between facing surfaces thereof;

wherein said second conductor having a same length as said first conductor, a predetermined length from a top end of said second conductor is folded in parallel to a remaining portion of said second conductor to form a folded part with said predetermined space between facing surfaces thereof, an unfolded part thereof is helically wound in parallel together with said first conductor with a bottom end of said second conductor aligned with said bottom end of said first conductor to form a parallel feeder, and said folded part of said second conductor and a predetermined length from said top end of said first conductor comprise a radiator.

2. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 1, wherein said first and second conductors are both flat band plates.

3. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 2, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

4. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 2, wherein said predetermined spaces between said first and second conductors, and said second conductor and said folded part are fully filled with an insulating material.

5. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 4, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

6. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 2, wherein said predetermined spaces between said first and second conductors, and said second conductor and said folded part are

7. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 6, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

8. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 2, wherein the facing surfaces of said first and second conductors, and said second conductor and said folded part include a plurality of protrusions at same positions to extend toward each other and each farthest extending point of the protrusion is insulated by an insulating material to prevent contact of said conductors.

9. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 8, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

10. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 1, wherein said first and second conductors are both shaped like a filament.

11. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 10, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

12. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 10, wherein said predetermined spaces between said first and second conductors, and said second conductor and said folded part are fully filled with an insulating material.

13. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 12, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

14. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 10, wherein said predetermined spaces between said first and second conductors, and said second conductor and said folded part are partly filled with an insulating material to prevent the contact of said conductors.

15. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 14, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

16. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 10, wherein the facing surfaces of said first and second conductors, and said second conductor and said folded part include a plurality of protrusions at same positions to extend toward each other and each furthest extending point of the protrusion is insulated by an insulating material to prevent contact of said conductors.

17. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 16, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

18. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a third conductor having a same length as said folded part and being wound in parallel with said helically wound second conductor with said predetermined space therebetween and with a free end facing with the free end of said folded part with some space therebetween and the other end being electrically connected to said second conductor.

19. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 18, wherein said first an second conductors are both flat band plates.

20. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 19, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

21. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 19, wherein said predetermined spaces between said first and second conductors, said second conductor and said folded part, and said second conductor and said third conductor are fully filled with an insulating material.

22. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 21, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

23. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 19, wherein said predetermined spaces between said first and second conductors, said second conductor and said folded part, and said second conductor and said third conductor are partly filled with an insulating material to prevent the contact of said conductors.

24. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 23, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

25. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 19, wherein the facing surfaces of said first and second conductors, said second conductor and said folded part, and said second conductor and said third conductor include a plurality of protrusions at same positions to extend toward each other and each furthest extending point of the protrusion is insulated by an insulating material to prevent contact of said conductors.

26. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 25, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

27. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 18, wherein said first and second conductors are both shaped like a filament.

28. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 27, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

29. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 27, wherein said predetermined spaces between said first and second conductors, said second conductor and said folded part, and said second conductor and said folded part, and said second conductor and said third conductor are fully filled with an insulating material.

30. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 29, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

31. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 27, wherein said predetermined spaces between said first and second conductors, said second conductor and said folded part, and said second conductor and said third conductor are partly filled with an insulating material to prevent the contact of said conductors.

32. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 31, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.

33. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 27, wherein the facing surfaces of said first and second conductors, said second conductor and said folded part, and said second conductor and said third conductor including a plurality of protrusions at same positions to extend toward each other and each furthest extending point of the protrusion is insulated by an insulating material to prevent contact of said conductors.

34. A helical antenna as set forth in claim 33, wherein said helical antenna is entirely covered with a rubber protector.