Antenna mounting printed-circuit board

• US 7,034,750 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2003
• Issued: 04/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Chemicals Corp. (Dexerials Corporation), Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yasuda, Shuichiro, Asakura, Kenji, Muranaka, Hidenobu
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, SHIH CHAO
• Application Number:
  US10/694,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20040119653A1
• Time in Patent Office: 911 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/846, 343/895, 343/700.MS
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2266 disposed inside the computer
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2275 associated to expansion card or bus, e.g. in PCMCIA, PC cards, Wireless USB
• 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 9/0421 with a shorting wall or a shorting pin at one end of the element H01Q9/0414 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/16 incorporating printed electric components, e.g. printed resistor, capacitor, inductor

Abstract

A chip-like printed antenna in which an open end is formed by at least two antenna conductors separated from each other is mounted on a printed-circuit board. A ground required by one or plural other modules is disposed and mounted on the printed-circuit board so as to surround a remaining area of a surrounding area of the printed antenna except a partial area as indicated by oblique line parts. By this, in the printed-circuit board , a radiation electric field does not come to have a dipole mode, but is formed into a balloon shape and is radiated in one direction as indicated by a broken line.

Claims

1. An antenna mounting printed-circuit board for incorporation into equipment having at least a communication function, said printed-circuit board adapted to mount various modules thereon, comprising:

a chip-like antenna element formed into a shape having a rectangular horizontal cross section and having an open end formed of at least two antenna conductors separated from each, said antenna element adapted for mounting on the printed-circuit board;

a ground utilized by one or more of said various modules and arranged so as to surround a surrounding area of at least three of four sides to form the rectangular horizontal cross section in the antenna element, and

wherein the antenna element is mounted on a substantially central position of an arbitrarily selected side of the antenna mounting printed-circuit board.

2. The antenna mounting printed-circuit board according to claim 1, wherein said at least two antenna conductors are separated from each other in a height direction.

3. The antenna mounting printed-circuit board according to claim 1, wherein the antenna element is constructed with a conductor pattern having a three-dimensional structure formed on a resin substrate.

4. The antenna mounting printed-circuit board according to claim 3, wherein the conductor pattern in the antenna element is formed by connecting the at least two antenna conductors to each other to permit electrical conductivity through one or more through holes, said through holes configured to pierce the resin substrate from a front surface to a back surface and having inside portions plated with copper foil.

5. The antenna mounting printed-circuit board according to claim 4, wherein the conductor pattern in the antenna element is formed by connecting the at least two antenna conductors in a meandering pattern via the through holes.