Antenna device with surface antenna pattern integrally coated casing of electronic device

• US 7,825,862 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2007
• Issued: 11/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Getac Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Getac Technology Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, Ping-Cheng, Chou, Cheng-Zing, Cheng, Yu-Chiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Owens; Douglas W
• Assistant Examiner(s): DUONG, DIEU HIEN
• Application Number:
  US11/898,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20080297420A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/700.MS
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2258 used with computer equipment

Abstract

An antenna device with a surface antenna pattern is formed either on an internal surface or on the external surface of a casing of an electronic device by film coating technology. The surface antenna pattern is either directly connected to a signal feeding line or connected to a signal feeding line through a signal guiding passage. In an embodiment, a recess is pre-formed on the external surface of the casing and then a surface antenna pattern is coated to the recess. The antenna device may further comprise an antenna coupling element arranged at the internal surface of the casing, in opposite to the surface antenna pattern. The antenna coupling element is inductively coupled with the surface antenna pattern for transceiving the signals to the electronic device.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a casing with an internal surface and an external surface; and

an antenna device, comprising;

a surface antenna pattern, which is formed by film coating technology on the external surface of the casing of the electronic device for transceiving a wireless signal of a predetermined radiation frequency;

a signal guiding passage comprising an electroplated through-hole passing through the casing from the external surface to the internal surface, the signal guiding passage having a signal feeding end at the external surface electrically connecting to the surface antenna pattern and a connecting end at the internal surface; and

an antenna signal feeding line, which is electrically connected between the connecting end of the signal guiding passage and an antenna module of the electronic device for feeding the wireless signal transceived by the surface antenna pattern to the antenna module of the electronic device,

wherein the surface antenna pattern is formed by film coating technology selected from the group of dip coating, electroplating and sputtering.

2. The antenna device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the surface antenna pattern is formed on a recess pre-formed at the external surface of the casing.

3. The antenna device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a portable personal computer and the casing is a display module casing for the mounting of a LCD display.

4. The antenna device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the surface antenna pattern has an edge portion at a perimeter thereof and an interior portion inside the edge portion, and wherein the signal feeding end and the connecting end of the signal guiding passage are formed in a portion of the casing completely covered by the interior portion of the surface antenna pattern.