Dielectric antenna

• US 6,946,994 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2002
• Issued: 09/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Company Limited (Taiyo Yuden Co)
• Original Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Company Limited (Taiyo Yuden Co)
• Inventors: Maekawa, Kazuya, Amano, Takashi, Kobayashi, Naoto, Yasuda, Hisahiro, Okado, Hironori, Imaizumi, Tatsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, HOANGANH T
• Application Number:
  US10/433,045
• Publication Number:
  US 20050078034A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,254 Days
• Field of Search: H01/Q00.1/38, H01/Q00.1/24, 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/846, 343/873, 343/895
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/242 specially adapted for hand-held use
• 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 1/40 Radiating elements coated with or embedded in protective material
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/30 Combinations of separate antenna units operating in different wavebands and connected to a common feeder system
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/40 Imbricated or interleaved structures; Combined or electromagnetically coupled arrangements, e.g. comprising two or more non-connected fed radiating elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0421 with a shorting wall or a shorting pin at one end of the element H01Q9/0414 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/42 with folded element, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of the operating wavelength

Abstract

The present invention relates mainly to a small dielectric antenna capable of obtaining a good VSWR characteristic even if it is placed in the vicinity of a grounding pattern when mounted on a circuit board. A dielectric antenna is formed in which a feed point of an antenna element 13 having a resonance frequency set to a first frequency in a first frequency band and a feed point of an antenna element 14 having a resonance frequency set to a second frequency are connected to an external feed terminal 12b, and an open stub 15 connected to the antenna element 14 in the vicinity of the feed point. The open stub 15 is provided to enable resonance at each of frequencies to be used while the lengths of the antenna elements 13 and 14 are shorter than ordinary lengths determined according to the wavelengths of the frequency to be used. Further, even in the case of placement in the vicinity of a grounding conductor pattern 3 at the time of mounting on a circuit board 1, the frequency bandwidth through which a good VSWR characteristic can be obtained in a used frequency band can be extended.

Claims

1. A dielectric antenna comprising:

a laminated member having (a) conductors on its surface and (b) at least one dielectric layer;

at least one external terminal on the external surface of the laminated member;

a first antenna element including conductors on said laminated member and having a resonance frequency at a first frequency in a first frequency band;

a second antenna element having an open stub connected thereto, said second antenna element including conductors on said laminated member and having a resonance frequency at a second frequency different from the first frequency in the first frequency band, said first antenna element and said second antenna element being disposed on different layers between which the dielectric layer is interposed, and said open stub overlapping part of the first antenna element between which the dielectric layer is interposed; and

at least one external terminal on the external surface of the laminated member, one of the terminals being connected to a feed point of said first antenna element and to a feed point of said second antenna element.

2. The dielectric antenna according to claim 1, wherein one end of said open stub is connected to one of the conductors of said second antenna element connected to said external feed terminal, and said open stub being formed along the lengthwise direction of the laminated member.

3. The dielectric antenna according to claim 1, wherein an end portion of at least one of said first antenna element and said second antenna element includes at least two branches.

4. The dielectric antenna according to claim 1, wherein an end portion of at least one of said first antenna element and said second antenna element is larger in width than the inner conductor adjacent to the end portion.

5. The dielectric antenna according to claim 1, further comprising a conductor having one end connected to said first antenna element at a predetermined position on the feed point side, and an external terminal for grounding connected to the other end of the conductor.

6. The dielectric antenna according to claim 1, wherein said first frequency is higher than said second frequency.

7. The dielectric antenna according to claim 1, wherein said first antenna element is folded and meanders in a lamination surface and has a length so it is resonant at said first frequency in said first frequency band, and the meander spacing of said first antenna element is such that the voltage standing wave ratio in a frequency in a second frequency band different from said first frequency band is lower than a predetermined value.

8. The dielectric antenna according to claim 7, wherein said second frequency band is higher than said first frequency band.

9. The dielectric antenna according to claim 1, further comprising a conductor having one end connected to said first antenna element at a predetermined position on the feed point side, and an external terminal for grounding connected to the other end of the conductor.

10. A dielectric antenna comprising:

a laminated member having (a) conductors on its surface and (b) at least one dielectric layer;

a first antenna element including conductors on said laminated member and having a resonance frequency at a first frequency in a first frequency band;

a second antenna element having an open stub connected thereto, said second antenna element including conductors on said laminated member and having a resonance frequency at a second frequency different from the first frequency in the first frequency band, said first antenna element and said second antenna element being disposed on different layers between which the dielectric layer is interposed, said first antenna element being folded so as to meander in a lamination surface, and said first antenna element and said open stub being located so that portions thereof are superposed at a plurality of positions between which the dielectric layer is interposed; and

at least one external terminal on the external surface of the laminated member, one of the external terminals being connected to a feed point of said first antenna element and to a feed point of said second antenna element.

11. The dielectric antenna according to claim 10, wherein the folded conductors are adjacent and parallel to each other.

12. The dielectric antenna according to claim 10, wherein one end of said open stub is connected to one of the conductors of said second antenna element connected to said external feed terminal, and said open stub being formed along the lengthwise direction of the laminated member.

13. The dielectric antenna according to claim 10, wherein the folded conductors are adjacent and parallel to each other.

14. The dielectric antenna according to claim 10, wherein an end portion of at least one of said first antenna element and said second antenna element includes at least two branches.

15. The dielectric antenna according to claim 10, wherein an end portion of at least one of said first antenna element and said second antenna element is larger in width than the inner conductor adjacent to the end portion.

16. The dielectric antenna according to claim 10, wherein said first frequency is higher than said second frequency.

17. The dielectric antenna according to claim 10, wherein said first antenna element is folded and meanders in a lamination surface and has a length so it is resonant at said first frequency in said first frequency band, and the meander spacing of said first antenna element is such that the voltage standing wave ratio in a frequency in a second frequency band different from said first frequency band is lower than a predetermined value.

18. The dielectric antenna according to claim 17, wherein said second frequency band is higher than said first frequency band.