Antenna with built-in filter

• US 7,132,984 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2003
• Issued: 11/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: UBE Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: UBE Industries Limited, Yokowo Company Limited
• Inventors: Ichikawa, Hiroshi, Ge, JunXiang, Kameda, Shozaburo
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Tuyet
• Assistant Examiner(s): Alemu, Ephrem
• Application Number:
  US10/520,814
• Publication Number:
  US 20060055601A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,223 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/850, 343/873, 333/134
• 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 23/00 Antennas with active circuits or circuit elements integrated within them or attached to them
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0407 Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna dipole H01Q9/285; monopole H01Q9/40

Abstract

A laminated dielectric block (3) is formed by laminating dielectric sheets (31) each having a conductive film formed on its one surface so as to constitute at least one filter (2). A radiation element (1) is provided so as to fix to the laminating dielectric block, wherein one electrode of the filter is electrically connected to the radiation element. The other electrode (22) of the filter is connected to a feeding terminal electrode (4) provided mounting face B (a face opposing to a circuit board) of the laminated dielectric block through a via-contact (33) and a wiring (34), not being exposed to the side face. As a result, an antenna with built-in filter of the structure where even if it is mounted on a circuit board, interference between an electronic circuit on the circuit board and the feeding terminal electrode of the antenna is prevented to improve the isolation characteristic and transmitting or receiving characteristic.

Claims

1. An antenna with built-in filter comprising:

a laminated dielectric block that is formed such that dielectric sheets each having a conductive film formed on one surface are laminated so as to constitute at least one filter;

a radiation element fixedly provided at the laminated dielectric block and electrically connected to one electrode of the filter; and

a feeding terminal electrode that is provided on a mounting face of the dielectric block, and opposes to a circuit board when the laminated dielectric block is mounted on the circuit board;

wherein the feeding terminal electrode and the other electrode of the filter are electrically connected by at least one connecting wiring provided on one of one or more dielectric sheets, and two or more via-contacts each of which is composed of a conductor embedded into a contact hole formed in at least one of the one or more dielectric sheets,

wherein the at least one connecting wiring and the two or more via-contacts are not exposed to an outer face of the laminated dielectric block, and

wherein the two via-contacts are formed at places that are different from each other on a plane view of the dielectric block.

2. The antenna with built-in filter of claim 1, wherein at least one of the via-contacts is formed into a band shape by embedding the conductor into a slender and groove-like contact hole provided on the at least one of the one or more dielectric sheets so as to increase the cross section of the via-contact.

3. The antenna with built-in filter of claim 1, wherein the filter comprises a filter group including at least two of a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter and a band elimination filter.

4. A mounting structure of an antenna with built-in filter comprising:

the antenna with built-in filter of claim 1; and

a circuit board which has a laminated structure including at least a shielding layer and a wiring layer, on which the antenna is mounted,

wherein the feeding terminal electrode is electrically connected to an internal wiring provided in the circuit board and an electronic device provided on a surface of the circuit board is electrically connected to the feeding terminal electrode via the internal wiring.

5. The antenna with built-in filter of claim 1, wherein the radiation element is formed so as to be capable of receiving or transmitting two or more frequency bands, and two or more filters are formed so as to be capable of receiving or transmitting signals of the two or more frequency bands.

6. The antenna with built-in filter of claim 5, wherein one of the two or more filters comprises a band elimination filter for eliminating a frequency band of a signal that is received or transmitted by the other filter of the two or more filters.

7. The antenna with built-in filter of claim 5, wherein the two or more frequency bands received or transmitted by the radiation element comprise at least two of frequency bands for cellular, a frequency band for GPS and a frequency band for Bluetooth.

8. The antenna with built-in filter of claim 5, wherein two or more filters are shielded not so as to interfere with each other by forming a shielding wall in a vertical direction in dielectric sheets of the laminated dielectric block, the shielding wall being formed by a band-like via-contact provided in the dielectric sheets.

9. An antenna comprising:

a dielectric filter block having first and second filter electrodes therein;

a radiation element provided on the dielectric filter block and electrically connected to the first filter electrode of the dielectric filter block;

a feeding terminal electrode provided on a mounting face of the dielectric filter block that faces a circuit board when the dielectric filter block is mounted on the circuit board;

at least one connecting wiring that is provided in the dielectric filter block and extends in a first direction approximately parallel to the mounting face of the dielectric filter block;

two or more via-contacts, each of which is composed of a conductor embedded into a contact hole formed in the dielectric filter block and extends in a second direction which is different from the first direction, and in which the two or more via-contacts are electrically connected through the at least one connecting wiring;

wherein the feeding terminal electrode and the second electrode of the dielectric filter block are electrically connected by the two or more via-contacts and the at least one connecting wiring; and

wherein the two via-contacts are formed at different places from each other in a plane view of the dielectric filter block.

10. The antenna according to claim 9, wherein the dielectric filter block includes a conductive film.

11. The antenna according to claim 9, wherein the dielectric filter block includes two or more dielectric sheet.