Loop antenna

• US 6,028,559 A
• Filed: 04/06/1998
• Issued: 02/22/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Satoh, Kenichi, Mochizuki, Nobutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAN, THO GIA
• Application Number:
  US09/055,313
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• Field of Search: 343/741, 343/742, 343/744, 343/788, 343/855, 343/860, 343/866, 343/867
• US Class Current: 343/744
• 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 1/38 formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface H01Q15/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 11/12 Resonant antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop

Abstract

A first loop antenna apparatus is disclosed which includes an open loop antenna portion and an inductor having a predetermined inductance and first and second ends connected to first and second intermediate points of the open loop antenna portion. The inductance of the first loop antenna apparatus is decreased because the inductor is connected in parallel, so that an opening area (antenna gain) is increased at the same resonant condition. A second loop antenna apparatus is also disclosed which includes an open loop antenna portion, a first inductor having a predetermined inductance, one end of the first inductor being connected to first intermediate point of the open loop antenna portion, a second inductor having the predetermined inductance, one end of the second inductor being connected to a second intermediate point of the open loop antenna portion, and a capacitor having a predetermined capacitance, connected the other ends of the first and second inductors. Similarly, the inductance of the second loop antenna apparatus is decreased because the inductors and the capacitor is connected in parallel, so that an opening area (antenna gain) is increased at the same resonant condition.

Claims

1. An antenna apparatus comprising:

an open loop antenna portion; and

inductor means having a predetermined inductance and first and second ends connected to first and second intermediate points of said open loop antenna portion, a first portion of said open loop antenna portion between said first and second intermediate points and said inductor means forming a loop and second and third portions of said open loop antenna portion other than said first portion and said inductor means forming an open loop, one and the other end of said open loop antenna portion having feeding points, wherein said first and second ends are directly and physically connected to said first and second intermediate points of said open loop antenna portion.

2. The antenna apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a longitudinal dimension of said second portion is λ

/8-3λ

/8, wherein λ

is a wavelength provided by oscillation of said antenna apparatus.

3. The antenna apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein a longitudinal dimension of said second portion is 3λ

/16-5λ

/16.

4. The antenna apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein a longitudinal dimension of said second portion is substantially λ

/4.

5. An antenna apparatus comprising:

an open loop antenna portion; and

first inductor means having a predetermined inductance, one end of said first inductor means being connected to a first intermediate point of said open loop antenna portion;

second inductor means having said predetermined inductance, one end of said second inductor means being connected to a second intermediate point of said open loop antenna portion; and

capacitive means having a predetermined capacitance, connected to the other ends of said first and second inductor means, a first portion of said open loop antenna portion between said first and second intermediate points, said first and second inductor means, and said capacitive means forming a loop and second and third portions of said open loop antenna portion other than said first portion, said first and second inductor means, and said capacitive means forming an open loop, one and the other end of said open loop antenna portion having feeding points, wherein said one end of said first inductor means is directly connected to said first intermediate point of said open loop antenna portion, said one end of said second inductor means is directly connected to said second intermediate point of said open loop antenna portion, and said capacitive means is directly and physically connected to the other ends of said first and second inductor means.

6. The antenna apparatus as, claimed in claim 5, further comprising a substrate, wherein said open loop antenna portion is on said substrate, said first and second inductor means comprise printed circuit patterns on said substrate, said printed circuit patterns each having one end connected to said open loop antenna portion at said first and second intermediate points, and said capacitive means is provided by the other end of each of said printed circuit patterns and a space therebetween.