Antenna and electronic equipment using the same

• US 7,138,950 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2003
• Issued: 11/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2002
• 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: Nanba, Hideki, Fukushima, Susumu, Kuroda, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Shih-Chao
• Assistant Examiner(s): MANCUSO, HUEDUNG XUAN CAO
• Application Number:
  US10/689,845
• Publication Number:
  US 20040130494A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,126 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/700.MS, 343/873, 343/846, 343/829, 343/848
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/24 with receiving set
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/065 Patch antenna array
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/24 Combinations of antenna units polarised in different directions for transmitting or receiving circularly and elliptically polarised waves or waves linearly polarised in any direction circularly polarised patch antennas H01Q9/0428; circularly polarised horns H01Q13/0241; cross-polarised horns H01Q13/0258; polarisation converters H01Q15/242; cross-polarised rear feeds H01Q19/136; crossed polarisation dual antenna H01Q25/001
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/364 Creating multiple current paths
• 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

The objective of the present invention is to realize, in an antenna and an electronic equipment using the same, miniaturization of that antenna. To achieve said objective, an antenna electrode (19) is provided on the surface of the main body (18), a grounding electrode (20) is provided on the back face, and a signal electrode (21) is provided on the circumferential face, the antenna electrode (19) being different in length at the X axis from the Y axis. This enables to construct a broad-band antenna with a single piece of antenna, contributing to miniaturization of the antenna.

Claims

1. An antenna comprising a main body having a flat part, an antenna electrode provided on the flat part of this body, a signal electrode electrically connected to this antenna electrode, and a grounding electrode provided in a way to face said antenna electrode of the main body, said antenna electrode being different in length at the X axis from the Y axis orthogonal or about orthogonal to it, wherein the clearance between the antenna electrode and the grounding electrode is variable, and this clearance between the antenna electrode and the grounding electrode in the area around the central part (intersection of X axis and Y axis) of the antenna electrode is larger than that in the peripheral area of the antenna electrode.

2. An antenna as defined in claim 1, wherein the clearance between the antenna electrode and the grounding electrode is widened at the point of about ⅛

in electric length from the peripheral part of the antenna electrode.

3. An antenna as defined in claim 1, wherein the bottom face of the main body is mounted on the top face of the high-frequency circuit board as mounting face, a convex part is formed on said bottom face of the main body, on the surface of this convex part is formed about the entire part of the grounding electrode, and a high-frequency circuit is mounted in the area other than the area where the convex part on said bottom face of the main body on the top face of said high-frequency circuit board is mounted on said high-frequency circuit board.

13. An antenna as defined in either one of claims 1, 4, 6, 8, or 12, wherein the electric length on the X axis and Y axis are set for approximately half wave lengths.

14. An antenna as defined in either one of claims 1, 4, 6, 8, or 12, wherein a central signal electrode is provided near the intersection of X axis and Y axis, and this central signal electrode electrically connects between the antenna electrode and a high frequency circuit.

4. An antenna comprising a main body having a flat part, an antenna electrode provided on the flat part of this body, a signal electrode electrically connected to this antenna electrode, and a grounding electrode provided in a way to face said antenna electrode of the main body, said antenna electrode being different in length at the X axis from the Y axis orthogonal or about orthogonal to it, wherein the main body between the antenna electrode and the grounding electrode is composed of either a dielectric material, a magnetic material or a mixture of dielectric material and magnetic material, the value obtained by dividing the relative permeability by the relative permittivity of the main body varies at an optional point in the area from the peripheral part of the antenna electrode to the central part of the antenna electrode, and the value obtained by dividing the relative permeability by the relative permittivity of said main body in the area around the central part is made larger than the value obtained by dividing the relative permeability by the relative permittivity of the main body in the peripheral area of the antenna electrode.

5. An antenna as defined in claim 4, wherein the value obtained by dividing the relative permeability by the relative permittivity of the main body is made larger at the point of about ⅛

in electric length from the peripheral part of the antenna electrode.

6. An antenna comprising a main body having a flat part, an antenna electrode provided on the flat part of this body, a signal electrode electrically connected to this antenna electrode, and a grounding electrode provided in a way to face said antenna electrode of the main body, said antenna electrode being different in length at the X axis from the Y axis orthogonal or about orthogonal to it, having 4 slits axially symmetrical against X axis and Y axis on the antenna electrode, and constructed in such a way that 2 sides of the respective slits get about in contact with straight lines orthogonal to the X axis and Y axis at an optional point in the area from the peripheral part of the antenna electrode to the central part of the antenna electrode.

7. An antenna as defined in claim 6, constructed in such a way that 2 sides of the respective slits get about in contact with straight lines orthogonal to the X axis and Y axis at the point of about ⅛

in electric length from the peripheral part of the antenna electrode.

8. An antenna comprising a main body having a flat part, an antenna electrode provided on the flat part of this body, a signal electrode electrically connected to this antenna electrode, and a grounding electrode provided in a way to face said antenna electrode of the main body, said antenna electrode being different in length at the X axis from the Y axis orthogonal or about orthogonal to it, wherein the bottom face of the main body is mounted on the top face of the high-frequency circuit board as mounting face, a concave part is formed on said bottom face of the main body, a no-electrode part of grounding electrode is provided inside this concave part, and a high-frequency circuit is mounted in the area covered by the concave part on said bottom face of the main body on the top face of said high-frequency circuit board.

9. An antenna as defined in claim 8, wherein a concave part is provided, on the bottom face of the main body, at a position of about λ

/8 in electric length from the peripheral part of the main body.

10. An antenna as defined in claim 8, wherein the bottom face of the main body is mounted on the top face of the high-frequency circuit board as mounting face, a convex part is formed on said bottom face of the main body, on the surface of this convex part is formed about the entire part of the grounding electrode, in part of the area at the bottom face of the main body to be in contact with said high-frequency circuit board is formed a concave part, inside this concave part is provided a no-electrode part of the grounding electrode, and a high-frequency circuit is mounted in the area other than the area where the convex part on said bottom face of the main body on the top face of said high-frequency circuit board is mounted on said high-frequency circuit board and the area covered by the concave part, wherein the value obtained by dividing the relative magnetic permeability by the relative permittivity of the base material of the main body is no larger than 1.

11. An antenna as defined in claim 8, wherein the signal electrode and/or the central signal electrode are constructed with a conductive pattern formed inside the concave part facing the antenna electrode, in a way to perform transmission and reception of high-frequency signals by capacity coupling.

12. An antenna comprising a main body having a flat part, an antenna electrode provided on the flat part of this body, a signal electrode electrically connected to this antenna electrode, and a grounding electrode provided in a way to face said antenna electrode of the main body, said antenna electrode being different in length at the X axis from the Y axis orthogonal or about orthogonal to it, wherein the bottom face of the main body is mounted on the top face of the high-frequency circuit board as mounting face, a convex part is formed on said bottom face of the main body, on the surface of this convex part other than the area to be in contact with the high-frequency circuit board is formed about the no-electrode part of the grounding electrode, and a high-frequency circuit is mounted in the area other than the area where the convex part on said bottom face of the main body on the top face of said high-frequency circuit board is mounted on said high-frequency circuit board.