Mobile telecommunication antenna and mobile telecommunication apparatus using the same

• US 6,980,158 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2004
• Issued: 12/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yuda, Naoki, Fukushima, Susumu, Satoh, Yuki, Iguchi, Akihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Wimer, Michael C.
• Application Number:
  US10/758,039
• Publication Number:
  US 20040145529A1
• Time in Patent Office: 711 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/725, 343/729, 343/700.MS, 455/347, 455/575.7, 455/90.2, 455/90.3
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/362 for broadside radiating helical 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 5/378 Combination of fed elements with parasitic elements

Abstract

The present invention relates to an antenna equipped in a mobile telecommunication apparatus such as a portable telephone. The object of the invention is to enhance the portability and the durability of the mobile telecommunication apparatus, to provide a mobile telecommunication antenna while is improved in the mass productivity and the electrical characteristics, and to provide a mobile telecommunication apparatus employing the antenna. To achieve the object of the present invention, the mobile communication apparatus has no projecting portion of the antenna provided on a case, and the antenna is accommodated in the case. This enhances both the portability and the durability. Also, the antenna is reduced to a chip size thus improving its mass-productivity and electrical characteristics.

Claims

1. A mobile telecommunication antenna embedded in an upper region in a case of a telecommunication apparatus comprising a high-frequency circuit and a grounding substrate in use operable in a plurality of different frequency bands, comprising:

a first radiation-conductive element having a sheet shape arranged in parallel with a surface of the grounding substrate and over the surface of the grounding substrate;

a second radiation-conductive element having a strip shape having walls perpendicular to the surface of the grounding substrate; and

a power supply terminal for electrically coupling at least one of the radiation-conductive elements to the high-frequency circuit embedded in the case,

wherein the first and second radiation-conductive elements are electrically coupled to each other, and at least one of the radiation-conductive elements is electrically coupled to the grounding substrate.

2. The mobile telecommunication antenna according to claim 1, further comprising a body having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being parallel with the surface of the grounding substrate and facing away from the surface of the grounding substrate, the second surface being perpendicular to the surface of the grounding substrate, wherein the first radiation-conductive element is arranged on the first surface of the body, and the second radiation-conductive element is arranged on the second surface of the body.

3. The mobile telecommunication antenna according to claim 2, wherein the body is made of one of dielectric material and magnetic material.

4. The mobile telecommunication antenna according to claim 1, further comprising a body accommodating the first and second radiation-conductive elements therein.

5. The mobile telecommunication antenna according to claim 4, wherein the body is made of one of dielectric material and magnetic material.

6. The mobile telecommunication antenna according to claim 1, wherein the first and second radiation-conductive elements are capable of at least one of emitting radio waves therefrom and receiving radio waves thereto.

7. A mobile telecommunication apparatus operable in a plurality of different frequency bands comprising

an operating unit;

a display;

a speaker;

a microphone;

a case;

a high-frequency circuit embedded in the case;

a grounding substrate; and

an antenna embedded in the case, comprising;

a first radiation-conductive element arranged in parallel with a surface of the grounding substrate and disposed at an upper region in the case;

a second radiation-conductive element having walls perpendicular to the surface of the grounding substrate and disposed at the upper region in the case; and

a power supply terminal electrically coupling at least one of the first and second radiation-conductive elements to the high-frequency circuit,

wherein the first and second radiation-conductive elements are electrically coupled to each other, and at least one of the first and second radiation-conductive elements is electrically coupled to the grounding substrate.

8. The mobile telecommunication apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a body having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being parallel with the surface of the grounding substrate and facing away from the surface of the grounding substrate, the second surface being perpendicular to the surface of the grounding substrate,

wherein the first radiation-conductive element is arranged on the first surface of the body, and

wherein the second radiation-conductive element is arranged on the second surface of the body.

9. The mobile telecommunication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the body is made of one of dielectric material and magnetic material.

10. The mobile telecommunication apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a body accommodating the first and second radiation-conductive elements therein.

11. The mobile telecommunication apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the body is made of one of dielectric material and magnetic material.

12. The mobile telecommunication apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the first and second radiation-conductive elements are capable of at least one of emitting radio waves therefrom and receiving radio waves thereto.