Thin slot antenna having cavity, antenna power feeding method, and RFID tag device using the antenna and the method

• US 8,253,640 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2007
• Issued: 08/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitoshi Kitayoshi
• Original Assignee: Hitoshi Kitayoshi
• Inventors: Kitayoshi, Hitoshi, Sawaya, Kunio
• Primary Examiner(s): Owens, Douglas W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hu, Jennifer F
• Application Number:
  US12/440,152
• Publication Number:
  US 20100188306A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,821 Days
• Field of Search: 343/767, 343/700.MS
• US Class Current: 343/767
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/085 Flexible aerials; Whip aerials with a resilient base
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 13/18 the slot being backed by, or formed in boundary wall of, a resonant cavity longitudinally slotted cylinder H01Q13/12 ; Open cavity antennas

Abstract

A highly efficient thin slot antenna having a cavity and an RFID tag device are provided, in which such flexible properties can be provided to the antenna that the antenna can be worn on the curved surface of a human body, an object, or the like as well as the antenna can be relatively freely deformed, and changes in the characteristics caused by deformation and changes in the characteristics caused by a product to mount the antenna thereon. are extremely small. Conductive foil such as aluminum or foil vapor deposited with conductive metal such as aluminum is used to form a bag shape for configuring a bag-shaped product having a cavity (12). A relatively soft dielectric sheet (13) is provided inside the cavity (12), and a slot (14) is provided lengthwise on one side of the bag-shaped product at the center position in the width direction.

Claims

1. A thin slot antenna for use in wireless communications with radio frequency wavelength λ

, comprising;

a closed cavity defined by walls of a flexible conductive foil or a substrate with a conductive thin film on the surface thereof;

a dielectric sheet inside the cavity;

a linear slot through at least one of the walls of the cavity;

an adhesive conductive tape on one of the walls of the cavity over the slot; and

a tape slot in the tape having a same shape as the linear slot,

wherein the tape is bonded to the foil or substrate so that positions of the tape slot and the linear slot coincide so that an antenna feeding point on the tape slot is bonded over the linear slot.

2. An RFID tag device comprising the thin slot antenna according to claim 1, further comprising an IC chip that includes a third terminal for modulating a return reflected wave in addition to two feed terminals connected to the adhesive conductive tape on opposite sides of the tape slot,

wherein one end of the linear slot is extended by about λ

/4 to cause feed point impedance not to match with a receiving power matching state, and

wherein a variable impedance device is mounted across the extended slot, and the variable impedance device is controlled by the third terminal.

3. An RFID tag device comprising the thin slot antenna according to claim 1, further comprising an IC chip connected across the linear slot and having two feed terminals, the IC chip having a third terminal for modulating a return reflected wave in addition to two feed terminals, and

a variable impedance semiconductor device mounted at a position spaced from the antenna feeding point, wherein the semiconductor device is controlled by the third terminal.