Radio communication terminal

• US 6,292,148 B1
• Filed: 09/27/2000
• Issued: 09/18/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuura, Iwao, Kamiya, Tadahisa, Yagita, Hideki
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HOANG V
• Application Number:
  US09/671,390
• Time in Patent Office: 356 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/900, 343/841, 343/846, 343/848, 455/90
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/244 extendable from a housing along a given path
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/362 for broadside radiating helical antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/32 Vertical arrangement of element H01Q9/40 takes precedence

Abstract

When the antenna is extended, the length of the ½λ whip antenna 102 operates as an antenna thus causing only a negligible quantity of high-frequency currents to flow into the ground for the first circuit board 106. When the antenna is housed, the entire length of a ¼λ helical antenna 101 and a metalized ¼λ radial of the first enclosure 103 operates as an antenna thus causing only a negligible quantity of high-frequency currents to flow into the ground for the first circuit board 106. Because the length of the antenna is ½λ both when the antenna is extended and housed, only a negligible quantity of high-frequency currents to flow into the high-frequency circuit via the ground for the first circuit board 106.

Claims

1. Radio communications apparatus comprising:

a first enclosure including an antenna portion, a high-frequency circuit and a first conductive member formed on an internal surface of said first enclosure; and

a second enclosure including a communication control circuit, an interface portion, and a second conductive member formed on an internal surface of said second enclosure; and

a hinge portion which couples said first enclosure and said second enclosure to be able to hold into small size unit,

wherein in case of said antenna portion being housed, said internal surface of said first enclosure is used part of said first enclosure as an antenna ground while the high-frequency ground for said first and second enclosures is separated at the central hinge in order to prevent high-frequency currents flowing through the ground for the antenna from flowing into said second enclosure, whereby reducing a noise originating from the control circuit of the information processing apparatus or from the communication control circuit of the main unit as a coupling quantity entering said antenna or the ground for the antenna, and that said radio communications apparatus is connected to said information processing apparatus via the interface thus confining a noise originating inside said second enclosure via a shielded structure of said internal surface of said second enclosure.

2. Radio communications apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a battery is mounted on the first enclosure.

3. Radio communications apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the power supply for the information processing apparatus is used to recharge said battery.

4. Radio communication terminal apparatus according to any of claims 1 through 3, wherein the length of the antenna attached to said first enclosure is a length that is within the maximum longitudinal length of said first enclosure when said antenna is housed.

5. Radio communication terminal apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said apparatus portion comprises a extendable rod antenna having a length of ½

λ

of the service frequency when said antenna is extended.

6. Radio communication terminal apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said hinge portion comprises a mechanism whereby said antenna can be rotated 360 degrees when said antenna is extended.

7. Radio communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first and second conductive member is made of a metal or resin with metal-plated or metal-deposition.