Double-action antenna

• US 5,734,351 A
• Filed: 05/29/1996
• Issued: 03/31/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pulse Finland Oy (Yageo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pulse Finland Oy (Yageo Corporation)
• Inventors: Annamaa, Petteri, Raatikainen, Seppo, Ojantakanen, Seppo, Haapamaki, Tero
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Hoanganh T.
• Application Number:
  US08/654,687
• Time in Patent Office: 671 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/895, 343/900, 343/901, 343/906
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/244 extendable from a housing along a given path

Abstract

The invention relates to a double-action, two-piece antenna structure whose first antenna part, preferably a helix antenna (1), is fixedly connected to the antenna port of a radio communications set, and the second antenna port, preferably a rod antenna (2), is movable with respect to the first antenna part. In an active position, the second antenna part (2) is coupled to the first antenna part (1), forming a serial connection whose electrical length is as great as or greater than the electrical length of the first antenna part alone.

Claims

1. An antenna structure for a radio communications set wherein said set has an antenna port for coupling to said antenna structure, the antenna structure comprising;

a first antenna part having a first end and a second end, said first antenna part being wound into a multiple turn coil, and the first end of said first antenna part being coupled to said antenna port; and

a second antenna part being movable with respect to the first antenna part, said second antenna part being connected to said first antenna part at a point which is between said first and second ends and is more than one turn of the coil from either end, said second antenna part forms with at least that part of said first antenna part which is between said point and said first end, a serial connection which connects to said antenna port.

2. An antenna structure according to claim 1 wherein the electrical length of said series connected second antenna part and said at least part of said first antenna part is as great as the electrical length of said first antenna part.

3. An antenna structure according to claim 1 wherein the electrical length of said series connected second antenna part and said at least part of said first antenna part is greater than the electrical length of said first antenna part.

4. An antenna structure according to any of claims 1 to 3 wherein said first antenna part is a cylindrical coil conductor and comprises a coupling thread part in a middle part thereof, whose diameter is smaller than the rest of the cylindrical coil conductor, said coupling thread part connecting said second antenna part is connected to said cylindrical coil conductor to form said serial connection.

5. An antenna structure according to claim 4, wherein the middle part of said cylindrical coil conductor comprises a conducting connecting part through which said second antenna part is connected to said cylindrical coil conductor to form said serial connection.

6. An antenna structure according to any of claims 1-3, wherein said first antenna part is a conical coil conductor forming a helix antenna whose diameter decreases when moving further off the point connected to said antenna port.

7. An antenna structure according to any of claims 1-3 wherein the ascending angle of the turns of said wound conductor decreases when moving further from the point connected to said antenna port.

8. An antenna structure according to any of claims 1-3 wherein the ascending angle of turns of said wound conductor is constant and the diameter increases when moving further from the point connected to said antenna port.

9. An antenna structure according to claim 4 wherein the ascending angle of the turns of said cylindrical coil conductor increases when moving further from the point connected to said antenna port.

10. An antenna structure according to any of claims 1-3 wherein said second antenna part is a straight conductor forming a rod antenna.

11. An antenna structure according to claim 10 wherein said straight conductor is connected galvanically to said first antenna part to form said serial connection.

12. An antenna structure according to claim 10 wherein said straight conductor is connected through an electromagnetic field to said first antenna part to form said serial connection.