Portable wireless apparatus

• US 7,398,113 B2
• Filed: 02/06/2004
• Issued: 07/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ono, Noboru, Saito, Yuichiro, Kozakai, Osamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Eng; George
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sams; Matthew C
• Application Number:
  US10/772,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20040214620A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,614 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575.5, 455/575.7, 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/841, 343/792
• US Class Current: 455/575.7
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in 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 9/26 with folded element or elements, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of operating wavelength resonant loop antennas H01Q7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/285 Planar dipole H01Q9/065 takes precedence; patch antenna H01Q9/0407
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/40 Element having extended radiating surface
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/42 with folded element, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of the operating wavelength

Abstract

A thinner portable wireless telephone with a thinner built-in antenna. An antenna unit is composed of a first radiating conductor and a second radiating conductor. The second radiating conductor having about half electrical length of the first radiating conductor is arranged so as to correspond the first radiating conductor from its center to one end in parallel. In addition, one ends of the first and second radiating conductors are electrically connected and power is supplied to around the center of the first radiating conductor and the other end of the second radiating conductor. Only electric current flowing on the external surfaces of the antenna unit causes radio waves. As a result, the space between the first and second radiating conductors can be narrowed, thus making it possible to construct a thinner antenna unit. Thus a portable wireless apparatus can be made thinner.

Claims

1. A portable wireless apparatus, comprising:

a conductor board including at least a circuit board;

a box-shaped shield member having at least five sides, said box-shaped shield member having an electrical length about half that of said conductor board, and having an opening at a top thereof to receive said conductor board therein so that said box-shaped shield member has an inside surface that faces a surface of said conductor board and a bottom of said conductor board is electrically connected to a bottom of said box-shaped shield member; and

a feeding mechanism configured to supply power to around a center of said conductor board and at the top of said box-shaped shield member.

2. The portable wireless apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the electrical length of said box-shaped shield member corresponds to about a quarter wavelength of a radio wave transmitted by said portable wireless apparatus.

3. The portable wireless apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

said box-shaped shield member comprises a metal coating on an inside of a housing of said portable wireless apparatus.