Antenna

• US 6,600,459 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2001
• Issued: 07/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fec Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
• Original Assignee: Fec Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Hideki, Yokoshima, Takao, Chiba, Toshiyuki, Sugimura, Shiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Tan
• Application Number:
  US09/983,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20020067316A1
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/700.MS, 343/895, 343/873, 343/745, 343/749
• US Class Current: 343/895
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/22 by structural association with other equipment or articles
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/362 for broadside radiating helical antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/40 Radiating elements coated with or embedded in protective material
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/314 using frequency dependent circuits or components, e.g. trap circuits or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/357 using a single feed point
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/27 Spiral antennas

Abstract

An antenna of a compact size enables to raise the inductance value of the resonance section and produce high gain. The antenna is constructed by connecting resonance sections and in series, in which each antenna element has an inductance section and a capacitance section connected electrically in parallel, and each inductance section has a conductor shaped in a square shape to circle the respective coil axes, and the opening sections formed at respective ends of the coil sections are contained in respective planes that are oriented at an angle to the coil axes.

Claims

1. An antenna comprising a resonance section having an inductance section and a capacitance section connected electrically in parallel;

wherein

the inductance section has a coil section comprising a conductor formed in a spiral shape circling a coil axis or an angular shape circling the coil axis in a helical form,

at least one opening section of opening sections formed at both ends of the coil section is contained in a plane oriented at an angle to the coil axis, and

at least one turn of the coil section is substantially contained in a plane oriented at about said angle to the coil axis.

2. An antenna according to claim 1, wherein respective portions of the conductor that circle the coil axis are provided parallel to the opening section contained in the lane oriented at said an le to the coil axis.

3. An antenna according to claim 2, wherein the antenna has a plurality of resonance sections, and the resonance sections are connected electrically in series.

4. An antenna according to claim 3, wherein, in at least two adjacent resonance sections, coil axes of the respective coil sections are aligned on a straight line;

and planes that substantially contain the opening sections of adjacent coil sections are oriented at right angles to each other.

5. An antenna according to claim 2, wherein said angle is about 45°

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6. An antenna according to claim 1, wherein each of the coil section is contained in a plane parallel with said plane oriented at about said angle to the coil axis.

7. An antenna according to claim 1, wherein said angle is about 45°

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8. An antenna according to claim 1, wherein said opening portions and said at least one turn of the coil section are contained in planes parallel to said plane oriented at said angle to the coil axis, so that a length of the coil section is increased by an amount that is less than a spacing between two consecutive turns of the coil section, and an increase of said length of the coil section produced by an inclination of said opening portions to the coil axis is smaller than an increase of said length by adding one extra turn to the coil section.