Antenna apparatus and mobile communication apparatus using the same

• US 6,288,680 B1
• Filed: 03/18/1998
• Issued: 09/11/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Kanba, Seiji, Oida, Toshifumi, Tsuru, Teruhisa, Mandai, Harufumi
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, SIMON
• Assistant Examiner(s): Arguyen, Simm
• Application Number:
  US09/040,686
• Time in Patent Office: 1,273 Days
• Field of Search: 343/752, 343/702, 343/700.MS, 455/575, 455/562, 455/90, 455/128, 455/129, 455/269
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• 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

An antenna apparatus 10 includes a chip antenna 14 provided with a conductor 11, a power-supply electrode 12 to which one end of the conductor 11 is connected, and a terminal electrode 13 to which the other end of the conductor is connected; and a mounting substrate 18 provided with a line-shaped radiative conductor 15 formed by printing an electrically conductive material on a surface, a line-shaped conductive pattern 16, and a substantially rectangular ground electrode 17. The chip antenna 14 is mounted on the mounting substrate 18. The power-supply electrode 12 of the chip antenna 14 is connected through the conductive pattern 16 on the mounting substrate 18 to a power-supply source V. The terminal electrode 13 of the chip antenna 14 is connected to one end of the radiative conductor 15 on the mounting substrate 18.

Claims

1. An antenna apparatus comprising a chip antenna and a mounting substrate on which said chip antenna is mounted, said chip antenna including a base member made from ceramic, a conductor formed on said base member, and a power-supply electrode to which one end of said conductor is connected and a terminal electrode to which the other end of said conductor is connected, both formed on a surface of said base member, and said mounting substrate including a radiative conductor and a ground electrode, wherein the terminal electrode of said chip antenna is connected to one end of the radiative conductor of said mounting substrate, said radiative conductor being disposed so as to be asymmetrically connected with respect to the conductor of the chip antenna near one end of the radiative conductor to the conductor of the chip antenna as viewed in a direction perpendicular to a plane in which the mounting substrate is disposed.

2. An antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a circuit board on which a ground electrode is formed at the side corresponding to that of said mounting substrate at which said chip antenna is mounted is disposed such that said mounting substrate is substantially parallel to said circuit board, and the ground electrode of said mounting substrate is connected to the ground electrode of said circuit board.

3. An antenna apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein said base member is formed of a laminated member including a plurality of layers;

each of said layers has a main surface;

said base member has a lamination direction substantially perpendicular to said main surface; and

said conductor is formed in a spiral shape and has a spiral axis substantially perpendicular to the lamination direction of said base member.

4. A portable radio gear comprising:

an antenna apparatus according to claim 3;

a transmitting circuit connected to said antenna apparatus;

a receiving circuit connected to said antenna apparatus; and

a casing for covering said antenna apparatus, said transmitting circuit, and said receiving circuit.

5. An antenna apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said conductor has a meander shape.

6. A portable radio gear comprising:

an antenna apparatus according to claim 5;

a transmitting circuit connected to said antenna apparatus;

a receiving circuit connected to said antenna apparatus; and

a casing for covering said antenna apparatus, said transmitting circuit, and said receiving circuit.

7. A portable radio gear comprising:

an antenna apparatus according to claim 2;

a transmitting circuit connected to said antenna apparatus;

a receiving circuit connected to said antenna apparatus; and

a casing for covering said antenna apparatus, said transmitting circuit, and said receiving circuit.

8. An antenna apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said base member is formed of a laminated member including a plurality of layers;

each of said layers has a main surface;

said base member has a lamination direction substantially perpendicular to said main surface; and

said conductor is formed in a spiral shape and has a spiral axis substantially perpendicular to the lamination direction of said base member.

9. A portable radio gear comprising:

an antenna apparatus according to claim 8;

a transmitting circuit connected to said antenna apparatus;

a receiving circuit connected to said antenna apparatus; and

a casing for covering said antenna apparatus, said transmitting circuit, and said receiving circuit.

10. An antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said conductor has a meander shape.

11. A portable radio gear comprising:

an antenna apparatus according to claim 6;

a transmitting circuit connected to said antenna apparatus;

a receiving circuit connected to said antenna apparatus; and

a casing for covering said antenna apparatus, said transmitting circuit, and said receiving circuit.

12. A portable radio gear comprising:

an antenna apparatus according to claim 1;

a transmitting circuit connected to said antenna apparatus;

a receiving circuit connected to said antenna apparatus; and

a casing for covering said antenna apparatus, said transmitting circuit, and said receiving circuit.

13. The antenna apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the radiative conductor has a first length and the conductor of the chip antenna has a second length and wherein an effective length of the antenna apparatus is a total of the first length and the second length.