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Mobile wireless communications device with shunt component and related methods

  • US 8,615,279 B2
  • Filed: 01/12/2011
  • Issued: 12/24/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A mobile wireless communications device comprising:

  • a portable housing having a perimeter and comprising a top housing portion, a bottom housing portion, and an electrically conductive continuous closed ring between the top and bottom housing portions and along the perimeter and configured to function as an antenna;

    a printed circuit board (PCB) carried by said portable housing;

    wireless transceiver circuitry comprising at least one circuit element carried by said PCB; and

    at least one current shunt component electrically coupled between said electrically conductive continuous ring and said at least one circuit element to define a non-current carrying portion of the electrically conductive continuous closed ring, said at least one current shunt component being configured so that a propagation constant along said electrically conductive continuous closed ring becomes imaginary to define the non-current carrying portion.

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