Dual-band omnidirectional antenna for wireless local area network

• US 6,859,176 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2003
• Issued: 02/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Institute of Information Technology Assessment, Sunwoo Communication Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Institute of Information Technology Assessment, Sunwoo Communication Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Jong-In
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Wilson
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dinh, Trinh Vo
• Application Number:
  US10/391,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20040183727A1
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: H01/Q00.1/38, H01/Q00.9/28, 343/700.MS, 343/793, 343/795, 343/797, 343/729, 343/783, 343/893, 343/859, 343/730
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2258 used with computer equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/24 with receiving set
• 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 21/08 the units being spaced along or adjacent to a rectilinear path waveguide fed H01Q21/0037
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/371 Branching current paths
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/065 Microstrip dipole antennas patch antenna H01Q9/0407

Abstract

The present invention relates to a dual-band omnidirectional antenna for wireless LANs. The antenna has a planar dielectric substrate, and first and second conductive patterns. The planar dielectric substrate has two parallel surfaces. The first conductive pattern is arranged on one surface of the substrate, and is provided with a first feeder line arranged on a longitudinal central line of the substrate and a plurality of radiating elements connected to the first feeder line and designed such that some of them operate in a high frequency band (4.9 to 5.85 GHz frequency band), and others thereof operate in a low frequency band (2.4 to 2.5 GHz frequency band). The second conductive pattern is arranged on the other surface of the substrate, and provided with a second feeder line arranged on a longitudinal central line of the substrate and a plurality of radiating elements connected to the second feeder line arid up-down symmetrically arranged with respect to the radiating elements on the first conductive pattern.

Claims

1. A dual-band omnidirectional antenna for wireless Local Area Networks (LANs), comprising:

a planar dielectric substrate with first and second surfaces parallel with each other;

a first conductive pattern arranged on a first surface of the substrate, and provided with a first feeder line arranged on a longitudinal central line of the substrate and a plurality of radiating elements which are formed to be bent, which have one ends connected to the first feeder line, and which are designed such that some of the radiating elements operate in a high frequency band, and others thereof operate in a low frequency band; and

a second conductive pattern arranged on the second surface of the substrate, and provided with a second feeder line arranged on a longitudinal central line of the substrate and a plurality of radiating elements connected to the second feeder line and up-down symmetrically arranged with respect to the radiating elements on the first conductive pattern,

wherein a coaxial transmission cable having an external conductor and a core is provided to the antenna in a relation in which the external conductor comes into contact with a ground part on the first feeder line, and the core comes into contact with the second feeder line.

2. The dual-band omnidirectional antenna for wireless LANs according to claim 1, further comprising a feeding hole passing though the ground part on the first feeder line, the substrate and the second feeder line in order,

wherein the coaxial transmission cable is provided in a relation in which the core passes through the feeding hole to come into contact with the second feeder line, and the external conductor comes into contact with the ground part.

3. The dual-band omnidirectional antenna for wireless LANs according to claim 1, wherein the first and second feeder lines are shorted by a conductive pin used to connect end portions of the first and second feeder lines with each other.

4. The dual-band omnidirectional antenna for wireless LANs according to claim 1, wherein the high frequency band is a 4.9 to 5.85 GHz frequency band, and the low frequency band is a 2.4 to 2.5 GHz frequency band.

5. The dual-band omnidirectional antenna for wireless LANs according to claim 1, wherein all radiating elements on the first and second conductive patterns have the same width, and the radiating elements operating in the low frequency band are formed to be longer than those operating in the high frequency band.

6. The dual-band omnidirectional antenna for wireless LANs according to claim 1, wherein the radiating elements operating in the same frequency band are arranged to form left-right symmetrical pairs around the first and second feeder lines.

7. The dual-band omnidirectional antenna for wireless LANs according to claim 6, wherein radiating element pairs operating in the high frequency band are arranged on each of the first and second feeder lines in an array structure longitudinally repeated at regular intervals, and a radiating element pair operating in the low frequency band is arranged outside one of the radiating element pairs arranged in the array structure at the same height.

8. The dual-band omnidirectional antenna for wireless LANs according to claim 7, wherein the first and second feeder lines each have one or more stubs arranged thereon.