Dual band antenna for a handset

• US 6,271,794 B1
• Filed: 12/21/1999
• Issued: 08/07/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Geeraert, Francis
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Tan
• Application Number:
  US09/469,133
• Time in Patent Office: 595 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/841, 343/846, 343/848, 343/767, 343/770, 455/89, 455/90
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2031/3456 Antennas, e.g. radomes
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in 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 13/10 Resonant slot antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/357 using a single feed point
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/364 Creating multiple current paths
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/371 Branching current paths
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0407 Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna dipole H01Q9/285; monopole H01Q9/40
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0442 with particular tuning means

Abstract

An antenna device has a first metallic layer acting as resonator plane and defining at least two radiating elements separated by a first slit, and a second metallic layer arranged substantially in parallel with the first metallic layer and acting as ground plane for the antenna device. Feeding means are connected to said first and the second metallic layer for feeding an RF signal to the antenna device, said feeding means includes a feeding point in the first metallic layer. The first metallic layer is provided with a second slit extending from said first slit with the feeding point placed on a metallized tongue between the first and the second slit, whereby surface currents have to pass around the tips of the slits towards the radiating elements.

Claims

1. An antenna device having:

a first metallic layer acting as a resonator plane and defining at least two radiating elements separated by a first slit;

a second metallic layer arranged substantially in parallel with the first metallic layer and acting as a ground plane for the antenna device;

feeding means connected to said first and the second metallic layer for feeding an RF signal to the antenna device, said feeding means includes a feeding point in the first metallic layer; and

wherein

said first metallic layer is provided with a second slit extending from said first slit, the first and second slits forming a substantially branch shape, with the feeding point placed on a metallised tongue between the first and second slit, whereby surface currents have to pass around the tips of the slits towards the radiating elements.

2. An antenna device according to claim 1, wherein a capacitive coupling is provided between one of said two radiating elements and said second metallic layer.

3. An antenna device according to claim 2, wherein the capacitive coupling is provided adjacent to a neck of a metallic pattern of a resonator plane of the antenna device, wherein an end of the second slit and a cut adjacent to the capacitive coupling defines the neck of the metallic pattern.

4. An antenna device according to claim 2, wherein the capacitive coupling is provided as a metallic coating extending perpendicular to said first and second metallic layers, and is terminated a short distance from one of said first and second metallic layers compared to the distance between said first and second metallic layers.

5. An antenna device according to claim 2, wherein the capacitive coupling between said first and said second metallic layers by locally reducing the distance between said first metallic layer and said second metallic layer, and by providing a metallic coating extending perpendicular to said first and second metallic layers, and is terminating this coating in a short distance from one of said first and second metallic layers compared to the distance between said first and second metallic layers.

6. An antenna device according to claim 5, wherein dielectric body is releasable interconnection with a separate metal body acting as the second metallic layer of the device, and wherein the metal body is provided with a stepwise raised part to establish the capacitive coupling.

7. An antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the first metallic layer acting as the resonator plane is coated onto a dielectric body.

8. An antenna device according to claim 7, wherein the dielectric body is provided by an injection moulding process including two shots.

9. An antenna device according to claim 8, wherein the material used in one of the two injection moulding shots is a resin repelling metal in a subsequent coating process, and wherein the material used in the second shot is a resin to which metal in the subsequent coating process adheres.

10. An antenna device according to claim 7, wherein the dielectric body is provided with coupling means for establishing a releasable interconnection with a separate metal body acting as the second metallic layer of the device.

11. An antenna device according to claim 7, wherein the feeding means includes a bore through the dielectric body as a connection via connecting the first metallic layer to a connection pad on the rear side of the dielectric body.

12. A hand portable phone having an internal antenna including:

an antenna device having;

a dielectric body;

a metallic layer provided on said dielectric body and acting as a resonator plane and defining at least two radiating elements separated by a first slit;

wherein said metallic layer is provided with a second slit extending from said first slit with a feeding point placed on a metallized tongue between the first and the second slit, whereby surface currents have to pass around the tips of the slits towards the radiating elements;

a metallic shield part covering at least a part of a printed circuit board of the phone and arranged substantially in parallel with the metallic layer on the dielectric body and acting as a ground plane for the antenna device; and

a feeding means provided on the printed circuit board and connected to said metallic shield part and the metallic layer provided on said dielectric body for feeding an RF signal to the antenna device.

13. A hand portable phone according to claim 12, wherein the dielectric body is provided with coupling means for establishing a releasable interconnection with metallic shield part.

14. A hand portable phone according to claim 12, wherein the feeding means includes a bore through the dielectric body as a connection via connecting the metallic layer to a connection pad on the rear side of the dielectric body.