Multiband antenna

• US 6,963,308 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2004
• Issued: 11/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pulse Finland Oy (Yageo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Filtronic LK Oy
• Inventors: Korva, Heikki
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cao, Huedung X.
• Application Number:
  US10/754,040
• Publication Number:
  US 20040140935A1
• Time in Patent Office: 671 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/700.MS, 343/770, 343/767, 343/845
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• 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 19/005 Patch antenna using one or more coplanar parasitic elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/371 Branching current paths
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/378 Combination of fed elements with parasitic elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0414 in a stacked or folded configuration
• 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 9/0442 with particular tuning means
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0457 electromagnetically coupled to the feed line

Abstract

An internal multiband antenna and a radio device intended particularly for small-sized radio devices. The antenna has a relatively wide surface radiator (330), which is electromagnetically connected to the antenna port of the radio device via a separate feed element (320). At least two useful resonances are generated with the aid of the feed element, and at least one inherent resonance of the radiator is also utilized. The radiator has a hole (350), by which one useful additional resonance is generated. An oscillation is excited in the hole by placing the feed element close to its edge and by suitably choosing the locations of the feed point (F) and the shorting point (S) of the feed element. The frequency of the hole resonance is finely tuned by varying the capacitance between the hole'"'"'s edge and the ground plane at a suitable place (331). An operating band of the antenna can be widened by means of said additional resonance. If a mobile station has a rear display it is possible at the same time to use its hole as a radiator.

Claims

1. A multiband antenna for a radio device, the antenna having at least a first and a second operating band and comprising a ground plane, a radiating element, a feed element, a feed conductor and a shorting conductor, wherein

the radiating element is galvanically insulated from the other conductive parts of the radio device, and the feed conductor and the shorting conductor are connected to the feed element,

a connection point of the shorting conductor divides the feed element into a first part and a second part,

the first part of the feed element together with the radiating element and the ground plane are arranged to resonate in a range of the antenna'"'"'s first operating band, and the second part of the feed element together with the radiating element and the ground plane are arranged to resonate in a range of the antenna'"'"'s second operating band, and

the radiating element has a hole, which is arranged to resonate at a third frequency.

2. A multiband antenna according to claim 1, in order to arrange a resonance of said hole, at least that portion of the feed element, to which the feed conductor and shorting conductor are connected, is located close to an edge of the hole.

3. A multiband antenna according to claim 1, comprising a first tuning element, which changes the capacitance between the radiating element and the ground plane, to set frequency of an oscillation to be excited in said hole, or said third frequency.

4. A multiband antenna according to claim 3, the first tuning element being an extension of the radiating element, which extension is directed from a position close to the edge of the hole towards the ground plane.

5. A multiband antenna according to claim 1, said third frequency being located in a range of the antenna'"'"'s second operating band to widen this band.

6. A multiband antenna according to claim 1, the radiating element together with the ground plane further being arranged to resonate at a fourth frequency.

7. A multiband antenna according to claim 6, comprising a second tuning element changing the capacitance between the radiating element and the ground plane to set said fourth frequency.

8. A multiband antenna according to claim 7, the second tuning element being a conductor strip connected to the ground plane by a ground conductor.

9. A multiband antenna according to claim 6, said fourth frequency being located in a range of the antenna'"'"'s second operating band to widen this band.

10. A multiband antenna according to claim 1, the radiating element being a part of a cover of the radio device.

11. A multiband antenna according to claim 1, the feed element being a conductor strip on a surface of a dielectric layer, which is located against the radiating element.

12. A radio device provided with a multiband antenna having at least a first and a second operating band comprising a ground plane, a radiating element, a feed element, a feed conductor and a shorting conductor, wherein

the radiating element is galvanically insulated from the other conductive parts of the radio device, and the feed conductor and the shorting conductor are connected to the feed element,

a connection point of the shorting conductor divides the feed element into a first part and a second part,

the first part of the feed element together with the radiating element and the ground plane are arranged to resonate in a range of the antenna'"'"'s first operating band, and the second part of the feed element together with the radiating element and the ground plane are arranged to resonate in a range of the antenna'"'"'s second operating band, and

the radiating element has a hole, which is arranged to resonate at a range of an operating band.

13. A radio device according to claim 12 comprising a first display and a second display, the radiating element being a part of a cover of the radio device, and said hole at the same time being a hole made in said part of the cover for the second display.

14. A radio device according to claim 13, being of the foldable type which has a first and second fold parts, and said part of the cover being a rear cover of the second fold part.