Antenna device and communications apparatus comprising same

• US 7,148,851 B2
• Filed: 08/06/2004
• Issued: 12/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Metals (Thailand) Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Metals (Thailand) Ltd.
• Inventors: Takaki, Yasunori, Aoyama, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAN, THO GIA
• Application Number:
  US10/912,282
• Publication Number:
  US 20050078038A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/846
• 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 11/08 Helical antennas
• 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 9/30 with feed to end of elongated active element, e.g. unipole H01Q9/44 takes precedence

Abstract

An antenna device comprising (a) a mounting substrate having a ground portion and a non-ground portion, (b) a chip antenna mounted onto said non-ground portion, which comprises a substrate, a first radiation electrode formed on said substrate, a power-supplying electrode connected or not connected to the other end of said first radiation electrode, and a terminal electrode connected or not connected to one end of said first radiation electrode, and (c) at least one second radiation electrode formed in a conductor pattern on said non-ground portion, said second radiation electrode having one end connected or not connected to said terminal electrode and the other end which is an open end, and a cavity existing between said chip antenna and/or said second radiation electrode and said ground portion.

Claims

1. An antenna device, comprising:

(a) a mounting substrate having a ground portion and a non-ground portion;

(b) a chip antenna mounted onto said non-ground portion, which comprises a substrate, a first radiation electrode formed on said substrate, a power-supplying electrode connected by direct connection to or capacitance coupling with the other end of said first radiation electrode, and a terminal electrode connected by direct connection to or capacitance coupling with one end of said first radiation electrode; and

(c) at least one second radiation electrode formed in a conductor pattern on said non-ground portion, said second radiation electrode having one end connected by direct connection to or capacitance coupling with said terminal electrode and the other end which is an open end, and a cavity existing between said chip antenna and/or said second radiation electrode and said ground portion of said mounting substrate.

2. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein said second radiation electrode is formed such that its open end is distant from said power-supplying electrode.

3. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein said second radiation electrode is formed such that its open end is near said power-supplying electrode.

4. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein said second radiation electrode is formed such that it has one open end distant from said power-supplying electrode and the other open end near said power-supplying electrode.

5. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein a remaining portion of the said substrate obtained by the formation of said cavity is on the side of the open end of said second radiation electrode.

6. A communications apparatus comprising the antenna device recited in claim 1.

7. An antenna device, comprising:

(a) a mounting substrate having a ground portion and a non-ground portion;

(b) a chip antenna mounted onto said non-ground portion, which comprises a substrate, a first radiation electrode formed on said substrate, a power-supplying electrode connected by direct connection to or capacitance coupling with the other end of said first radiation electrode, and a terminal electrode connected by direct connection to or capacitance coupling with one end of said first radiation electrode; and

(c) at least one second radiation electrode formed in a conductor pattern on a non-ground portion, which is an opposing surface of the chip-antenna-carrying surface of said mounting substrate, said second radiation electrode being connected by direct connection to or capacitance coupling with said terminal electrode, with its other end being an open end, and a cavity existing between said chip antenna and/or said second radiation electrode and said ground portion of said mounting substrate.

8. The antenna device according to claim 7, wherein said terminal electrode is connected to said second radiation electrode via a through-hole.

9. The antenna device according to claim 7, wherein said second radiation electrode is formed such that its open end is distant from said power-supplying electrode.

10. The antenna device according to claim 7, wherein said second radiation electrode is formed such that its open end is near said power-supplying electrode.

11. The antenna device according to claim 7, wherein said second radiation electrode is formed such that its one open end is distant from said power-supplying electrode, and that its other open end is near said power-supplying electrode.

12. The antenna device according to claim 7, wherein a remaining portion of the said substrate obtained by the formation of said cavity is on the side of the open end of said second radiation electrode.

13. The antenna device according to claim 7, wherein said chip antenna and said second radiation electrode formed on the opposing surface of the chip-antenna-carrying surface are disposed such that they are not overlapping with each other when viewed from above.

14. The antenna device according to claim 7, wherein said chip antenna and said second radiation electrode formed on the opposing surface of the chip-antenna-carrying surface are disposed such that they are overlapping with each other when viewed from above.

15. A communications apparatus comprising the antenna device recited in claim 7.

16. An antenna device, comprising:

(a) a mounting substrate having a ground portion and a non-ground portion;

(b) a sub-substrate fixed to said mounting substrate with space;

(c) a chip antenna mounted onto said sub-substrate, which comprises a substrate, a first radiation electrode formed on said substrate, a power-supplying electrode connected by direct connection to or capacitance coupling with the other end of said first radiation electrode, and a terminal electrode connected by direct connection to or capacitance coupling with one end of said first radiation electrode; and

(d) at least one second radiation electrode formed in a conductor pattern on the chip-antenna-carrying surface of said sub-substrate or its opposing surface, said second radiation electrode being connected by direct connection to or capacitance coupling with said terminal electrode, with its other end being an open end, and a cavity existing between said chip antenna and/or said second radiation electrode and the ground portion of said mounting substrate.

17. The antenna device according to claim 16, wherein the terminal electrode of said chip antenna is connected to said second radiation electrode on the opposing surface of the chip-antenna-carrying surface via a through-hole.

18. The antenna device according to claim 16, wherein said chip antenna and said second radiation electrode formed on the opposing surface of the chip-antenna-carrying surface are disposed such that they are not overlapping with each other when viewed from above.

19. The antenna device according to claim 16, wherein said chip antenna and said second radiation electrode formed on the opposing surface of the chip-antenna-carrying surface are disposed such that they are overlapping with each other when viewed from above.

20. A communications apparatus comprising the antenna device recited in claim 16.