Cover structure for a radio device

• US 7,340,286 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2004
• Issued: 03/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pulse Finland Oy (Yageo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pulse Finland Oy (Yageo Corporation)
• Inventors: Korva, Heikki, Niemela, Ilkka
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban; Edward F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hannon; Christian A.
• Application Number:
  US10/568,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20060208951A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,267 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575.1, 455/575.3, 455/575.7, 343/907, 343/911.R
• US Class Current: 455/575.7
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/40 Radiating elements coated with or embedded in protective material

Abstract

The invention relates to a cover structure for a portable radio device, which structure also serves the forming of an antenna for the radio device. The cover of the radio device comprises a conductive planar component (330) and a dielectric planar component (340) fastened together. A certain part of the dielectric component extends under the conductive component. On the lower surface of that component, i.e. on the inner surface of the cover of the radio device and isolated from the conductive component of the cover, there is a conductive element (320), which is dimensioned to function as the feed element of the conductive component of the cover. Then the conductive component of the cover for its part functions as the radiator of the antenna of the radio device. Thus the cover structure of the radio device is utilized with only minor changes to implement such an antenna structure in which the electromagnetically fed radiating element is part of the cover of the radio device. The antenna becomes simple, with stable electric characteristics and using the space of the radio device efficiently.

Claims

1. An outer cover structure for a radio device, comprising a conductive planar component (230;

330;

430) and a dielectric planar component (240;

340;

440), the conductive planar component extending outside the dielectric planar component, which radio device has a planar antenna, a radiating element of which said conductive planar component is, wherein;

the dielectric component comprises a first part (241;

341;

441) and a second part, which are integrally joined to each other, an upper surface of the first part being a part of an upper surface of the outer cover structure, and the second part (242;

342;

442), being located under the conductive component against its lower surface, and

on lower surface of the second part of the dielectric component there is a conductive element (220;

320;

420), when connected to the radio device, together with the conductive component of the cover and the ground plane of the planar antenna, forms a resonator that oscillates on at least one operating band of the radio device.

2. A cover structure for a radio device according to claim 1, the radio device having a main display and a second display, characterized in that the first part of the dielectric component (340) is a window of the second display.

3. A cover structure for a radio device according to claim 2, which radio device (300) is of the foldable type having a first (TP1) and a second (TP2) turning part, characterized in that said conductive component (330) extends over a rear part of the first turning part and has an opening of the size of the window for the second display for that window, and the second part of the dielectric component (340) surrounds the opening.

4. A cover structure for a radio device according to claim 1, characterized in that said conductive component (430) is part of a rear part of the cover of a radio device and the dielectric component (440) forms the rest of the rear part of the cover of the radio device.

5. A cover structure according to claim 1, characterized in that there is adhesive material at the junction between the conductive component and the dielectric component.

6. A cover structure according to claim 1, characterized in that the materials of the conductive component and the dielectric component are mixed together at their junction.