Omnidirectional flat antenna and method of production

• US 8,106,845 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2006
• Issued: 01/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique (AES Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique (AES Corporation)
• Inventors: Savry, Olivier
• Primary Examiner(s): Wimer, Michael C
• Application Number:
  US11/991,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20100220025A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,957 Days
• Field of Search: 343/787, 343/788, 343/742, 343/867, 343/895
• US Class Current: 343/788
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07779 the inductive antenna being a coil
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07783 the coil being planar
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/22 by structural association with other equipment or articles

Abstract

The inventive antenna comprises a planar substrate carrying as first winding whose axis is arranged in a parallel position to the plane of the substrate. Said antenna also comprises at least one second winding, whose axis is arranged in a parallel position to the plane of the substrate and which is wound-up about a thin layer made of high magnetically permeable material and arranged in a parallel position with respect to the plane of the substrate. A third winding, whose axis is perpendicular to the first and second windings and which is wound-up about an additional thin layer can be provided. Said additional thin layer is arranged in a parallel position to the plane of the substrate and is made of high magnetically permeable material.

Claims

1. A flat antenna comprising:

a flat substrate,

a first flat coil formed on a surface of the flat substrate, the first coil having an axis perpendicular to the plane of the substrate,

a first magnetic thin layer arranged on said surface of the substrate,

a second coil having an axis parallel to the plane of the substrate and wound around the first magnetic thin layer,

an electrically insulating layer arranged on the second coil and the first magnetic thin layer,

a second magnetic thin layer arranged on the electrically insulating layer, and

a third coil having an axis perpendicular to the axes of the first and second coils and wound around the second magnetic thin layer.

2. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein the first and second magnetic thin layers comprise a high magnetic permeability material, with a relative permeability of more than 500.

3. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein the second and third coils extend along the axes of symmetry of the first coil.

4. The antenna according to claim 2, wherein said high magnetic permeability material of the first magnetic thin layer comprises an axis of greatest magnetic susceptibility parallel to the axis of the second coil.

5. The antenna according to claim 2, wherein said high magnetic permeability material of the second magnetic thin layer comprises an axis of greatest magnetic susceptibility parallel to the axis of the third coil.

6. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein each of the second and third coils covers a smaller surface, in a plane parallel to the plane of the substrate, than the surface delineated by the first coil.

7. A method of production of an antenna according to claim 1, comprising:

deposition on the substrate of metallized tracks forming the first coil,

deposition of bottom metallized tracks of the second coil,

deposition, parallel to the plane of the substrate, of the thin layer of high magnetic permeability material,

formation, on the first magnetic thin layer and at the periphery thereof, respectively of top metallized tracks of the second coil and of lateral metallized tracks connecting the top and bottom metallized tracks of the second coil,

deposition of an electrically insulating layer covering the first magnetic thin layer and the second coil,

deposition on the electrically insulating layer of bottom metallized tracks of the third coil,

deposition, parallel to the plane of the substrate, of the second magnetic thin layer of high magnetic permeability material, and

formation, on the second magnetic thin layer and at the periphery thereof, respectively of top metallized tracks of the third coil and of lateral metallized tracks connecting the top and bottom metallized tracks of the third coil.