Antenna Device and Radio Communication Apparatus

• US 7,511,669 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2005
• Issued: 03/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Maeda, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): MANCUSO, HUEDUNG XUAN CAO
• Application Number:
  US11/628,919
• Publication Number:
  US 20080018548A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/841, 343/846, 343/833, 343/795
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/521 reducing the coupling between adjacent antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/28 Combinations of substantially independent non-interacting antenna units or systems multiple beam H01Q25/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0414 in a stacked or folded configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0421 with a shorting wall or a shorting pin at one end of the element H01Q9/0414 takes precedence

Abstract

An antenna device has a plane ground conductor plate, and two radiating conductors disposed on the upper side of the plane ground conductor plate in parallel to and adjacently to each other so as to be symmetrical with each other with reference to the center of the plane ground plate. The radiating plates are individually provided with respective feeder ports, and are operated independently from each other. End portions of the radiating conductors may be bent to be substantially perpendicular to the plane ground plate in a direction of achieving a maximum gain, whereby isolation between the feeder ports can be enhanced. With this antenna device, antenna directivity can be secured, a high antenna gain can be obtained, and the going-round of a current from a transmitting unit to a receiving unit can be suppressed favorably.

Claims

1. An antenna device comprising:

a plane ground conductor plate;

a first radiating conductor for performing first radiation, disposed on the upper side of said plane ground conductor plate;

a second radiating conductor for performing second radiation, disposed on the upper side of said plane ground conductor plate adjacently to and in parallel to said first radiating conductor so as to be symmetrical with said first radiating conductor with reference to the center of said plane ground conductor plate; and

a first feeder port provided in said first radiating conductor, and a second feeder port provided in said second radiating conductor and isolated from said first feeder port so that said first radiating conductor and said second radiating conductor are operated independently from each other.

2. The antenna device as set forth in claim 1, wherein end portions of said first radiating conductor are each bent substantially perpendicularly to said plane earth plate in a direction of achieving a maximum gain of said first radiating conductor, and end portions of said second radiating conductor are each bent substantially perpendicularly to said plane earth plate in a direction of achieving a maximum gain of said second radiating conductor.

3. The antenna device as set forth in claim 1, wherein end portions of said first plane radiating conductor are each bent substantially perpendicularly to said plane earth plate in a direction of achieving a maximum gain of said first radiating conductor, and the tip end of said end portion is bent horizontally in relation to said plane earth plate toward the center of said second radiating conductor;

and end portions of said second plane radiating conductor are each bent substantially perpendicularly to said plane earth plate in a direction of achieving a maximum gain of said second radiating conductor, and the tip end of said end portion is bent horizontally in relation to said plane earth plate toward the center of said second radiating conductor.

4. A radio communication apparatus for performing reflected wave communication utilizing modulation of a reflected wave from a reflector for an unmodulated carrier wave, said apparatus comprising:

an antenna for transmitting a carrier wave and receiving said reflected wave from said reflector; and

a communication control section for controlling an unmodulated carrier wave transmitting operation, reception of data by said carrier wave, and a reception processing applied to a reflected wave signal received,

wherein said antenna includes;

a plane ground conductor plate;

a first radiating conductor for performing first radiation, disposed on the upper side of said plane ground conductor plate;

a second radiating conductor for performing second radiation, disposed on the upper side of said plane ground conductor plate adjacently to and in parallel to said first radiating conductor so as to be symmetrical with said first radiating conductor with reference to the center of said plane earth plate; and

a first feeder port provided in said first radiating conductor, and a second feeder port provided in s said second radiating conductor and isolated from said first feeder port so that said first radiating conductor and said second radiating conductor are operated independently from each other.

5. The radio communication apparatus as set forth in claim 4, wherein end portions of said first radiating conductor are each bent substantially perpendicularly to said plane earth plate in a direction of achieving a maximum gain of said first radiating conductor, and end portions of said second radiating conductor are each bent substantially perpendicularly to said plane earth plate in a direction of achieving a maximum gain of said second radiating conductor.

6. The radio communication apparatus as set forth in claim 4, wherein end portions of said first plane radiating conductor are each bent substantially perpendicularly to said plane earth plate in a direction of achieving a maximum gain of said second radiating conductor, and the tip end of said end portion is bent horizontally in relation to said plane earth plate toward the center of said second radiating conductor;

and end portions of said second plane radiating conductor are each bent substantially perpendicularly to said plane earth plate in a direction of achieving a maximum gain of said second radiating conductor, and the tip end of said end portion is bent horizontally in relation to said plane earth plate toward the center of said second radiating conductor.