Antenna device

• US 7,057,558 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2003
• Issued: 06/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2002
• 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: Fukushima, Susumu, Yasuho, Takeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Shih-Chao
• Application Number:
  US10/490,373
• Publication Number:
  US 20040246181A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,076 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/846, 343/860, 343/895, 343/725
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• 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 13/106 Microstrip slot antennas patch antenna elements H01Q9/0407
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/35 using two or more simultaneously fed points
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0435 using two feed points
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/045 with particular feeding means for circular polarisation H01Q9/0428
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0478 with means for suppressing spurious modes, e.g. cross polarisation

Abstract

A small antenna has two or more feeding ports. A radiator is made of a planar conductor having a substantially circular shape having the diameter of a substantially half wavelength or a substantially regularly polygonal shape where the length of a diagonal line passes through the center point is the substantially half wavelength. A ground plate is faced to the radiator. On the radiator, the feeding ports are connected to feeding points on two orthogonal line segments passing through the center of the radiator. This antenna is used as not only a single antenna but also two independent antennas having secured isolation between the feeding ports. A small antenna device used as two independent antennas is thus provided. The radiator is formed in a hat shape having an edge, has an Stepped Impedance Resonator (SIR) structure where the diameter of a crest part is a quarter wavelength, and is shortened.

Claims

1. An antenna device for high frequency comprising:

a radiator made of a planar conductor having one of shapes of;

(i) a substantial circle whose diameter is a substantially half wavelength;

(ii) a substantially regular polygon where a length of a diagonal line passing through a center point of the regular polygon is a substantially half wavelength; and

(iii) a substantial quadrangle whose edge length is a substantially half wavelength;

a ground plate separated from the radiator by a predetermined distance and disposed in parallel with the radiator;

a first feeding port coupled to a first feeding point on the radiator; and

a second feeding port coupled to a second feeding point on the radiator,

wherein

the first feeding point is disposed in a region where high-frequency voltage generated by feeding from the second feeding port is zero, and

the second feeding point is disposed in a region where high-frequency voltage generated by feeding from the first feeding port is zero, and

wherein a line segment passing through a center point of the radiator and the first feeding point and a line segment passing through the center point of the radiator and the second feeding point intersect at substantially right angles, and

wherein a third feeding port is coupled to a center point of the radiator to isolate the third feeding port from the first and second feeding ports.

2. An antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein frequencies of respective high-frequency signals fed from the first, the second, and the third feeding ports are substantially the same.

3. An antenna device according to claim 1,

wherein the first and second feeding points are disposed on an outer periphery of the radiator.

4. An antenna device according to claim 1, wherein

an electromagnetic medium made of one of a dielectric material, a magnetic material, and a mixture of the dielectric material and the magnetic material is disposed between the radiator and the ground plate.

5. An antenna device according to claim 4, wherein

the electromagnetic medium has a multilayered structure, and

an impedance-matching circuit is disposed in at least one layer of the multilayered structure, and connected to at least one of the first and the second feeding ports.

6. An antenna device according to claim 1, wherein

on the radiator, conductive elements, each having an opened end, are mounted to positions symmetric to the first and the second feeding points with respect to the center point of the radiator.

7. An antenna device according to claim 6, wherein

the opened end of each of the conductive elements are cut to change electrical lengths of the conductive elements, so as to adjust a degree of isolation between the first and the second feeding ports.

8. An antenna device according to claim 7, wherein

all conductive elements have the same shape.

9. An antenna device according to claim 6, wherein

the conductive elements have a meander shape.

10. An antenna device according to claim 6, wherein

a reactance element is disposed between the each opened end and the ground plate.

11. An antenna device according to claim 10, wherein

all reactance values of the reactance elements are set substantially the same.

12. An antenna device according to claim 6, wherein

respective meander-shaped conductive elements are disposed between the first feeding point and the first feeding port and between the second feeding point and the second feeding port.

13. An antenna device according to claim 1, wherein

respective meander-shaped conductive elements are disposed between the first feeding point and the first feeding port and between the second feeding point and the second feeding port.

14. An antenna device for high frequency comprising:

a radiator made of a planar conductor having one of shapes of;

(i) a substantial circle whose diameter is a substantially half wavelength;

(ii) a substantially regular polygon where a length of a diagonal line passing through a center point of the regular polygon is a substantially half wavelength; and

(iii) a substantial quadrangle whose edge length is a substantially half wavelength;

a around plate separated from the radiator by a predetermined distance and disposed in parallel with the radiator;

a first feeding port coupled to a first feeding point on the radiator; and

a second feeding port coupled to a second feeding point on the radiator,

wherein

the first feeding point is disposed in a region where high-frequency voltage generated by feeding from the second feeding port is zero, and

the second feeding point is disposed in a region where high-frequency voltage generated by feeding from the first feeding port is zero, and

wherein a line segment passing through a center point of the radiator and the first feeding point and a line segment passing through the center point of the radiator and the second feeding point intersect at substantially right angles,

wherein

the radiator has a crest part and a trough part,

a top surface of the crest part includes the center point and a central part of the radiator,

a distance between a top surface of the crest part and the ground plate is longer than a distance between the trough part and the ground plate, and

the trough part is a part other than the crest part of the radiator and other than the center point and a central part of the radiator.

15. An antenna device according to claim 14, wherein

the top surface of the crest part and the trough part are flat and parallel with the ground plate.

16. An antenna device according to claim 15, wherein

a width of the trough part of the radiator is a substantially ⅛

wavelength, and

one of a diameter, a diagonal length, and an edge length of the top surface of the crest part is a substantially quarter wavelength.

17. An antenna device according to claim 14,

wherein in the outer periphery of the trough part, a plurality of notches are disposed at positions being symmetric with respect to a straight line passing through the first feeding point and the center point of the trough part and a straight line passing through the second feeding point and the center point of the trough part.

18. An antenna device according to claim 14 or claim 17, wherein

a width of the trough part of the radiator is a substantially ⅛

wavelength, and

one of a diameter, a diagonal length, and an edge length of a top surface of the crest part is a substantially quarter wavelength.

19. An antenna device according to claim 14,

wherein the first and second feeding points are disposed on an outer periphery of the radiator.

20. An antenna device for high frequency comprising:

a radiator made of a planar conductor having one of shapes of;

(i) a substantial circle whose diameter is a substantially half wavelength;

(ii) a substantially regular polygon where a length of a diagonal line passing through a center point of the regular polygon is a substantially half wavelength; and

(iii) a substantial quadrangle whose edge length is a substantially half wavelength;

a ground plate separated from the radiator by a predetermined distance and disposed in parallel with the radiator;

a first feeding port coupled to a first feeding point on the radiator; and

a second feeding port coupled to a second feeding point on the radiator,

wherein

the first feeding point is disposed in a region where high-frequency voltage generated by feeding from the second feeding port is zero, and

the second feeding point is disposed in a region where high-frequency voltage generated by feeding from the first feeding port is zero, and

wherein a line segment passing through a center point of the radiator and the first feeding point and a line segment passing through the center point of the radiator and the second feeding point intersect at substantially right angles, and

wherein

the ground plate has a crest part and a trough part,

the ground plate has one of shapes of;

(i) a substantial circle whose diameter is a substantially half wavelength;

(ii) a substantially regular polygon where a length of a diagonal line passing through a center point of the polygon is a substantially half wavelength; and

(iii) a substantial quadrangle whose edge length is a substantially half wavelength; and

the crest part is formed in such a manner that,

a top surface of the crest part includes a center point and a central part of the ground plate,

a distance between the top surface of the crest part and the radiator is longer than a distance between the trough part and the radiator, and

the trough part is a part other than the crest part and other than the center point and the central part of the around plate.

21. An antenna device according to claim 20, wherein

the top surface of the crest part and the trough part in the ground plate are flat and parallel with the radiator.

22. An antenna device according to claim 20,

wherein the first and second feeding points are disposed on an outer periphery of the radiator.

23. An antenna device for high frequency comprising:

a radiator made of a planar conductor having one of shapes of;

(i) a substantial circle whose diameter is a substantially half wavelength;

(ii) a substantially regular polygon where a length of a diagonal line passing through a center point is a substantially half wavelength; and

(iii) a substantial quadrangle of whose edge length is a substantially half wavelength;

a ground plate which is separated from the radiator by a predetermined distance and is disposed in parallel with the radiator;

a first feeding port coupled to a first, feeding point on the radiator; and

a second feeding port coupled to a second feeding point disposed on a line segment orthogonal to a line segment passing through the center of the radiator and the first feeding point,

wherein the first and the second feeding ports are used as feeding ports of an antenna in a diversity communication system,

wherein a third feeding port is coupled to the center of the radiator, and

the first, the second, and the third feeding ports are used as further feeding ports of the antenna in the diversity communication system,

wherein the first and the second feeding ports are used as feeding ports of an antenna in a first diversity communication system, and the third feeding port is used in a second communication system.

24. An antenna device for high frequency comprising:

a radiator made of a planar conductor having one of shapes of;

(i) a substantial circle whose diameter is a substantially half wavelength;

(ii) a substantially regular polygon where a length of a diagonal line passing through a center point is a substantially half wavelength; and

(iii) a substantial quadrangle of whose edge length is a substantially half wavelength;

a ground plate which is separated from the radiator by a predetermined distance and is disposed in parallel with the radiator;

a first feeding port coupled to a first feeding point on the radiator; and

a second feeding port coupled to a second feeding point disposed on a line segment orthogonal to a line segment passing through the center of the radiator and the first feeding point,

wherein the first and the second feeding ports are used as feeding ports of an antenna in a diversity communication system;

wherein a third feeding port is coupled to the center of the radiator, and the first, the second, and the third feeding ports are used as further feeding ports of the antenna in the diversity communication system,

wherein the first and the second feeding ports are used as feeding ports of a circular polarization antenna in a first diversity communication system employing circular polarization, and the third feeding port is used in a second communication system.

25. An antenna device for high frequency comprising:

a radiator made of a conductor having a conical shape, a diameter of the conical shape being a substantially half wavelength;

a ground plate separated from the radiator by a predetermined distance and disposed in parallel with the radiator;

a first feeding port coupled to a first feeding point on the radiator; and

a second feeding port coupled to a second feeding point on the radiator,

wherein

a distance between the ground plate and the radiator is longer at an apex thereof than at other parts thereof than the apex,

the first feeding point is disposed in a region where high-frequency voltage generated by feeding from the second feeding port is zero, and the second feeding point is disposed in a region where high-frequency voltage generated by feeding from the first feeding port is zero, and

wherein a line segment passing through a center point of the radiator and the first feeding point and a line segment passing through the center point of the radiator and the second feeding point intersect at substantially right angles.