Antenna unit and radio receiver device

• US 6,215,456 B1
• Filed: 08/03/1999
• Issued: 04/10/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1998
• 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: Nakanishi, Hideo
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Tan
• Application Number:
  US09/366,083
• Time in Patent Office: 616 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/895, 343/741, 343/742, 343/866, 343/867, 235/375, 235/492
• US Class Current: 343/895
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2225 used in active tags, i.e. provided with its own power source or in passive tags, i.e. deriving power from RF signal
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/362 for broadside radiating helical 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

In the antenna unit employed in a radio paging receiver, a helical antenna 1 which is positioned along one side of a circuit substrate 4 on which a receiver circuit 3 is mounted and has a main polarization direction formed by a single body of the helical antenna 1 in the Z-axis direction, and a dipole antenna which has a main polarization direction formed by the helical antenna 1 and the circuit substrate 4 on the Y-axis direction are constructed. The non-directional direction characteristic which has a high antenna gain in all directions in the free space by compensating null points in the directivity mutually with use of the antennas whose main polarization directions are intersected substantially orthogonally.

Claims

1. An antenna unit comprising:

a circuit substrate on which a receiver circuit is mounted; and

a helical antenna connected to the circuit substrate and arranged substantially along one side of the circuit substrate;

wherein impedance of the antenna unit is adjusted at a desired frequency by changing an angle of the helical antenna relative to the circuit substrate.

3. An antenna unit according to claim 1, wherein the impedance of the antenna unit is set inductively at the desired frequency.

2. An antenna unit comprising:

a circuit substrate on which a receiver circuit is mounted; and

a helical antenna connected to the circuit substrate and arranged substantially along one side of the circuit substrate;

wherein impedance of the antenna unit (can be) is set at a desired frequency by arranging the helical antenna such that an angle of the helical antenna relative to the circuit substrate is set to a predetermined value.

4. An antenna unit comprising:

a circuit substrate on which a receiver circuit is mounted; and

a helical antenna connected to the circuit substrate and arranged substantially along one side of the circuit substrate;

wherein a first antenna consisting of a single body of the helical antenna and a second antenna consisting of the helical antenna and the circuit substrate are arranged such that main polarization directions of the first antenna and the second antenna are intersected substantially orthogonally.

5. An antenna unit comprising:

a circuit substrate on which a receiver circuit is mounted; and

a helical antenna connected to the circuit substrate and arranged substantially along one side of the circuit substrate, the helical antenna having an impedance that is adjustable;

wherein an amplifier provided at an input stage of the receiver circuit is directly connected to the helical antenna.

6. An antenna unit comprising:

metal plate material; and

a helical antenna connected to the metal plate material and arranged substantially along one side of the metal plate material;

wherein the antenna unit is provided separately from a main body of a radio receiver device in which a receiver circuit is provided, and then the antenna unit is connected to an outer side of the main body of the radio receiver device via a cable and wherein impedance of the antenna unit is adjusted at a desired frequency by changing an angle of the helical antenna relative to the metal plate material.

7. An antenna unit comprising

metal plate material;

and

a helical antenna connected to the metal plate material and arranged substantially along one side of the metal plate material;

wherein the antenna unit is provided separately from a main body of a radio receiver device in which a receiver circuit is provided, and then the antenna unit is connected to an outer side of the main body of the radio receiver device via a cable and wherein the impedance of an antenna side which is detected from a top end of the cable connected to the antenna unit is adjustable inductively at the desired frequency.

8. A radio receiver device using an antenna unit comprising:

an antenna unit including metal plate material, and a helical antenna connected to the metal plate material and arranged substantially along one side of the metal plate material, the helical antenna having an impedance that is adjustable;

wherein the antenna unit is provided separately from a main body of the radio receiver device in which a receiver circuit is provided and then the antenna unit is connected at a distance to an outer side of the main body of the radio receiver device via a cable, and

an amplifier provided at an input stage of the receiver circuit is directly connected to the helical antenna.

9. A radio receiver device using an antenna unit comprising:

an antenna unit including a circuit substrate on which a receiver circuit is mounted, and a helical antenna connected to the circuit substrate and arranged substantially along one side of the circuit substrate;

wherein the antenna unit is provided separately from a main body of the radio receiver device and then the antenna unit is connected at a distance to an outer side of the main body of the radio receiver device via a cable.