Antenna device capable of adjusting frequency

• US 6,972,720 B2
• Filed: 11/22/2004
• Issued: 12/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Kazuhiro, Suzuki, Tomotaka, Shikata, Masaru
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Shih-Chao
• Assistant Examiner(s): CABUCOS, MARIE G
• Application Number:
  US10/994,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20050116868A1
• Time in Patent Office: 379 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/767, 343/770, 343/723, 343/746, 343/750, 343/823, 343/861
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0407 Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna dipole H01Q9/285; monopole H01Q9/40
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0442 with particular tuning means

Abstract

An antenna device includes a ground conductor plate, and a radiating conductor plate made of a metal plate, which is spaced from the ground conductor plate. The radiating conductor plate is provided with adjusting means for adjusting the electrical length. Thus, the correction of the electrical lengths can be made even if there is a difference between the electrical lengths of the radiating conductor plate caused by assembling errors, etc. In addition, when the antenna device is used in a state in which it is connected to external equipment, the adjusting means allows the adjustment of the electrical lengths of the radiating conductor plate even if the electrical lengths of the radiating conductor plate are subjected to the electrical influence from the electrical equipment and its surrounding environment.

Claims

1. An antenna device comprising:

a ground conductor plate, and

a radiating conductor plate made of a metal plate and spaced from the ground conductor plate,

wherein the radiating conductor plate is provided with an adjustment element that adjusts an electrical length, the adjustment element formed in a shape of a ladder obtained by a combination of holes and crosspieces which are provided between a central portion and an outer circumferential edge of the radiating conductor plate, the crosspieces are cut to adjust the electrical length, the radiating conductor plate has at least one feeding portion, and the ladder-shaped portion is formed in a direction of an electric field generated on the radiating conductor plate.

2. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein the radiating conductor plate has at least two feeding portions, and the adjusting means is provided on at least one line extending through a center of the radiating conductor plate from at least one of the two feeding portions.

3. The antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein the radiating conductor plate has one feeding portion, and the adjusting means is provided along at least one of second and third lines passing through a center of the radiating conductor plate and offset by 45 degrees with respect to a first line through a center from the feeding portion.

4. The antenna device according to claim 1, further comprising a circuit board arranged between the ground conductor plate and the radiating conductor plate,

wherein the radiating conductor plate has leg pieces attached to the circuit board and extending portions provided at ends of the leg pieces and protruding through the circuit board for forming the adjusting means, and the extending portions are cut to adjust the electrical length.

5. The antenna device according to claim 4,

wherein the circuit board is placed on the ground conductor plate made of a metal plate,

the radiating conductor plate has first and second electrical lengths on two lines passing through a center of the radiating conductor plate orthogonal to each other,

two of the leg pieces are arranged correspondingly to the first and second electrical lengths, and the extending portions provided at the respective leg pieces protrude through the radiating conductor plate, and the extending portions protruding through the ground conductor plate are cut to adjust the electrical length.