Multilayered helical antenna for mobile telecommunication units

• US 6,163,307 A
• Filed: 09/22/1999
• Issued: 12/19/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Original Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Kim, Jong Kyu, Park, In Shig, Seo, Ho Seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Tan
• Assistant Examiner(s): VO, TUYET THI
• Application Number:
  US09/401,468
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 315/895, 315/702, 315/900, 315/901, 315/774
• US Class Current: 343/895
• 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 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 11/08 Helical antennas

Abstract

A multilayered helical antenna for mobile communication units includes a first dielectric sheet, a plurality of second dielectric sheets, a plurality of second and third dielectric sheets. All of the second dielectric sheets, except one, have a starting hole and an ending hole, with the exception having the starting hole only. Each of the second dielectric sheet is provided with a partially opened circular metallic pattern. Each of the third dielectric sheets has a via hole. Each of the dielectric sheets has a through-hole at a center thereof in order to allow a whip antenna to be slid upward and downward along a center axis of a helical antenna which is formed by stacking the dielectric sheets in a predetermined order. The via holes are filled with the same conducting material as the partially opened circular metallic patterns to thereby vertically connect the partially opened circular metallic patterns on the second dielectric sheets through the corresponding starting holes and ending holes, thereby forming a spiral capable of transmitting and receiving horizontal and vertical polarizations.

Claims

1. A multilayered helical antenna for use in mobile communication units comprising:

a first dielectric sheet provided with a through-hole at a center thereof;

a plurality of second dielectric sheets, all of the second dielectric sheets, except one, being provided with a starting hole and an ending hole, the exception is the first one of second dielectric sheets having only one starting hole, each being provided with a partially opened circular metallic pattern and a through-hole at a center thereof, wherein the partially opened circular metallic pattern extends from the starting hole to the ending hole in the respective second dielectric sheet except for the dielectric sheet having the starting hole only where the partially opened circular metallic pattern extends from the starting hole to a free end; and

a plurality of third dielectric sheets, each being provided with a via hole and a through-hole at a center thereof, wherein the dielectric sheets are stacked in a predetermined order, the order being that the first dielectric sheet is placed at top of the stack followed by the second dielectric sheet with the starting hole only followed by the third dielectric sheet followed by the second dielectric sheet followed by the third dielectric sheet and so on, with the third dielectric sheet being placed at bottom of the stack, the via holes being filled with a conducting material to thereby vertically connect the partially opened circular metallic patterns on the second dielectric sheets through the corresponding starting holes and ending holes, forming a spiral inside the stack of dielectric sheets, thereby forming a helical antenna, and the through-holes therein being used to allow a whip antenna to be slid upward and downward along a center axis of the helical antenna to thereby form said multilayered helical antenna.

2. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein each of the dielectric sheets has a substantially disc shape and is made of a dielectric material having a predetermined dielectric constant.

3. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein each of the dielectric sheets is formed in a predetermined thickness or each thereof is formed by a plurality of dielectric sheets to obtain the predetermined thickness.

4. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein each of the starting hole and the ending hole have a diameter of about 0.4 mm.

5. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein the partially opened circular metallic patterns are formed in the same rotating direction.

6. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein the arc angle between the starting hole and the free end is substantially equal or smaller than that between the starting hole and the ending hole being equal to each other.

7. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein a pattern thickness, an inner diameter, an outer diameter and a pattern width of each the partially opened circular metallic patterns are changed depending on a frequency band used and, in case of a personal communication system utilizing the frequency band of 1.8 GHz, are approximately 0.4 mm, 4.5 to 5 mm, 5 to 5.5 mm and approximately 0.4 to 0.45 mm, respectively.

8. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein the partially opened circular metallic patterns maintain circles in the horizontal direction to thereby form a conventional helical antenna structure, while the conducting materials in the via holes form a conventional monopole antenna structure in the vertical direction, thereby providing the multilayered antenna with an omnidirectional antenna characteristic capable of transmitting and receiving horizontal and vertical polarizations.

9. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein the total length of the spiral is λ

/4 at a desired operating center frequency, wherein λ

is a wavelength of a radio frequency signal.

10. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein the partially opened circular metallic patterns are made of a conducting material.

11. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein the spiral has two and a half turns of the partially opened circular patterns for use at 1.8 GHz and four turns of the partially opened circular patterns for use at 1.2 GHz.

12. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein each of the partially opened circular metallic patterns is as close to a substantially circle of 360°

in order to transmit and receive horizontal polarizations.

13. The multilayered helical antenna of claim 1, wherein each of the partially opened circular metallic patterns has an opening of 5 to 15°

.