Antenna apparatus and communication apparatus using the antenna apparatus

• US 6,172,646 B1
• Filed: 10/04/1999
• Issued: 01/09/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Okada, Ken, Yuasa, Atsuyuki, Kurita, Junichi, Kawahata, Kazunari, Nagumo, Shoji
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): VANNUCCI, JAMES
• Application Number:
  US09/416,111
• Time in Patent Office: 463 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/700.MS, 343/725, 455/575, 455/90
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/244 extendable from a housing along a given path
• 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 21/29 Combinations of different interacting antenna units for giving a desired directional characteristic H01Q25/00 takes precedence

Abstract

An antenna apparatus has improved gain, and its characteristics are barely affected by changes in the external environment in which it used, such as when it is placed close to a ground conductor. A surface-mount antenna and a monopole antenna are fed by a single feeding point, and the direction of an open end of the surface-mount antenna, taking a ground end of a radiation electrode as a reference, runs opposite to the direction of the open end of the monopole antenna, taking the feeding terminal as a reference.

Claims

1. An antenna apparatus comprising:

a strip-shaped radiation electrode having one open end and one grounded end;

a surface-mount antenna comprising a feeding electrode isolated from said radiation electrode; and

a monopole antenna disposed in the vicinity of said surface-mount antenna;

the radiation electrode, the surface-mount antenna, and the monopole antenna being provided on a surface of a base comprising an insulator;

said surface-mount antenna and said monopole antenna being fed from a single feeding point, and being arranged so that an image current of current flowing to said surface-mount antenna flows to said monopole antenna, and an image current of current flowing to said monopole antenna flows to said surface-mount antenna.

3. The antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the electrical length of said monopole antenna is between one-eighth and one-quarter of the wavelength of the frequency used.

5. A communication apparatus including the antenna apparatus according to claim 1.

7. A communication apparatus including the antenna apparatus according to claim 3.

2. An antenna apparatus comprising:

a strip-shaped radiation electrode having one open end and one grounded end;

a surface-mount antenna comprising a feeding electrode isolated from said radiation electrode; and

a monopole antenna disposed in the vicinity of said surface-mount antenna;

the radiation electrode, the surface-mount antenna, and the monopole antenna being provided on a surface of a base comprising an insulator;

said surface-mount antenna and said monopole antenna each having an open end and being fed from a single feeding point, and a direction of said open end of said surface-mount antenna, taking the grounded end of the radiation electrode as a reference, being opposite to the direction of the open end of the monopole antenna, taking the feeding point as a reference.

4. The antenna apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the electrical length of said monopole antenna is between one-eighth and one-quarter of the wavelength of the frequency used.

6. A communication apparatus including the antenna apparatus according to claim 2.

8. A communication apparatus including the antenna apparatus according to claim 4.