Antenna arrangement

• US 6,144,346 A
• Filed: 03/18/1999
• Issued: 11/07/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co KG
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Boy, Dierk
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): VANNUCCI, JAMES
• Application Number:
  US09/269,054
• Time in Patent Office: 600 Days
• Field of Search: 343/741, 343/742, 343/743, 343/744, 343/745, 343/866, 343/895
• US Class Current: 343/866
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/005 with variable reactance for tuning the antenna
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/18 Input circuits, e.g. for coupling to an antenna or a transmission line coupling networks between antennas or lines and receivers independent of the nature of the receiver H03H

Abstract

An antenna arrangement which is used for transmitting and receiving radio signals includes a capacitively tunable loop, from which received radio signals can be coupled symmetrically into a receiver stage, and which has a feed-in point, at which a signal to be radiated by the loop can be split into two signals moving in opposite directions to each other and with the same potential. Outcoupling of the received signals from the loop into the receiver stage can take place inductively via a coupling loop, or capactively via outcoupling capacitors, which are connected with the loop.

Claims

1. An antenna arrangement for transmitting and receiving radio signals, comprising a receiver stage and a capacitatively tunable loop having an axis of symmetry and including two halves arranged symmetrically relative to said axis, and a feed-in point positioned on said axis of symmetry wherein radio signals received from the tunable loop can be coupled into the receiver stage in two signal flows symmetrical to each other relative to said axis of symmetry and wherein a signal to be radiated by the tunable loop is splittable at said feed-in point into two signals flowing in two opposite directions relative to the axis of symmetry such that same potential is formed in each half of the tunable loop.

2. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 1, wherein said receiver stage has two inputs arranged symmetrically to each other.

3. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 1, wherein said capacitatively tunable loop is a loop which is applied as a strip conductor on printed circuit material.

4. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 1, wherein said capacitatively tunable loop is a loop composed of a copper strip.

5. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising means for galvanically separating a signal to be supplied to said feed-in point from a transmitter device.

6. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 5, wherein said means for transmitting said galvanically separated signal is formed by an audio-frequency transformer.

7. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising means for transmitting a signal to said feed-in point and including an extension conductor for adjusting a mechanical length of the antenna arrangement to a desired transmission wavelength.

8. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 7, wherein said extension conductor is an extension tube.

9. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 1, wherein said capacitatively tunable loop is formed as rectangular loop, said feed-in point being arranged on one side of said loop;

and further comprising a tuning capacitor arranged on an opposite side, said feed-in point and said tuning capacitor being both respectively centered.

10. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising outcoupling capacitors which are connected with said capacitatively tunable loop so that outcoupling of the received signals from said capacitatively tunable loop into said receiver stage takes place capacitatively via said outcoupling capacitors.

11. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 10;

and further comprising a tuning capacitor, said out coupling capacitors being arranged symmetrically in respect to an axis of said capacitatively tunable loop extending through said tuning capacitor and said feed-in point.

12. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising a coupling loop formed so that outcoupling of the received signals from said capacitatively tunable loop into said receiver stage takes place inductively via said coupling loop.

13. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 12;

and further comprising a tuning capacitor, said coupling loop being arranged symmetrically in respect to an axis of said capacitatively tunable loop extending through said tuning capacitor and said feed-in point.

14. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 12;

and further comprising a transformation network switched between said receiver stage and said coupling loop for balancing an input of said receiving stage.

15. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 14, wherein said transformation network is a network using audio-frequency transformers.

16. An antenna arrangement as defined in claim 14, wherein said transformation network is a network using phase shifters.

17. A pager comprising a paging part and an antenna arrangement, said antenna arrangement including a receiver stage, and a capacitatively tunable loop having an axis of symmetry and including two halves arranged symmetrically relative to said axis, and a feed-in point positioned on said axis of symmetry wherein radio signals received from the tunable loop can be coupled into the receiver stage in two signal flows symmetrical to each other relative to said axis of symmetry and wherein a signal to be radiated by the tunable loop is splittable at said feed-in point into two signals flowing in two opposite directions relative to the axis of symmetry such that same potential is formed in each half of the tunable loop.