Monopole antenna

• US 7,391,374 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2006
• Issued: 06/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2004
• 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: Segawa, Masami, Inatsugu, Susumu, Masutani, Takeshi, Fujikawa, Kazuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): MANCUSO, HUEDUNG XUAN CAO
• Application Number:
  US11/546,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20070024521A1
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/722, 343749-750, 343/752, 343/711
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/32 Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles
• 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 5/321 within a radiating element or between connected radiating elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/36 with top loading

Abstract

A monopole antenna is formed of a ground plane, a flat conductor faced to the ground plane and separated from it by a clearance “H”, and a linear conductor that is connected to the flat conductor, extended on the ground plane side in an insulated state from the ground plane, and connected to a signal source. The flat conductor is formed of an inner conductor, and outer conductors disposed on the outer periphery of the inner conductor at a predetermined interval. Set regions of the outer edge of the inner conductor and the inner edges of the outer conductors are interconnected through one or more coupling conductors.

Claims

1. A monopole antenna comprising:

a ground plane;

a flat conductor faced to the ground plane and separated from the ground plane by a predetermined clearance, the flat conductor having an inner conductor and an outer conductor that is disposed around the inner conductor and separated from the inner conductor by another predetermined clearance;

a linear conductor coupled to the flat conductor, the linear conductor extending on a ground plane side in an insulated state from the ground plane and being coupled to a feeding point; and

at least one coupling conductor located at a region of the another predetermined clearance and inter-coupling an outer edge of the inner conductor and an inner edge of the outer conductor,

wherein the coupling conductor is formed with a set angle with respect to a center of the flat conductor, and the coupling conductor resonates with a resonance frequency depending on the set angle.

2. The monopole antenna according to claim 1,

wherein the coupling conductor is a plurality of the coupling conductors disposed at positions symmetric with respect to the center of the flat conductor.

3. The monopole antenna according to claim 1,

wherein the flat conductor is formed by an integration of the inner conductor, the outer conductor, and the coupling conductor.

4. The monopole antenna according to claim 1, further comprising a short-circuit conductor disposed in parallel with the linear conductor,

wherein the short-circuit conductor short circuits the ground plane and the inner conductor.

5. The monopole antenna according to claim 1, further comprising a dielectric material, wherein

the ground plane is disposed on one surface of the dielectric material,

the flat conductor is disposed on another surface of the dielectric material, and

the linear conductor coupled to the flat conductor is extended on the ground plane side in the insulated state from the ground plane, and is coupled to the feeding point.

6. The monopole antenna according to claim 1,

wherein an outer size of the ground plane is larger than an outer size of the flat conductor, and is smaller than a wavelength of a highest frequency of a plurality of operating frequencies.

7. The monopole antenna according to claim 1,

wherein the coupling conductor act as a coil, the another predetermined clearance in an area where the coupling conductor is not located acts as a capacitor, and the coil and the capacitor form a resonance circuit.

8. The monopole antenna according to claim 1, wherein

the outer conductor includes a first outer conductor disposed at an outer periphery of the inner conductor with the another predetermined clearance therebetween and a second outer conductor disposed at an outer periphery of the first outer conductor with a predetermined interval therebetween,

the coupling conductor is a plurality of coupling conductors respectively disposed between the inner conductor and the first outer conductor and between the first outer conductor and the second outer conductor, and

each of the coupling conductors coupling the inner conductor to the first outer conductor and the first outer conductor to the second outer conductor is formed with the set angle and each resonates with a different set frequency.