Wireless communication device

• US 8,659,495 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2009
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Yanagi, Takashi, Nishioka, Yasuhiro, Fukasawa, Toru, Miyashita, Hiroaki, Mizuno, Tomohiro, Sasaki, Takuro, Okegawa, Hirokatsu
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, THIEN MINH
• Application Number:
  US13/122,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20110175790A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,679 Days
• Field of Search: 343/857, 343/767, 343/700.MS, 343/702
• US Class Current: 343/857
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07771 the record carrier comprising means for minimising adverse effects on the data communication capability of the record carrier, e.g. minimising Eddy currents induced in a proximate metal or otherwise electromagnetically interfering object
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07786 the antenna being of the HF type, such as a dipole
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2225 used in active tags, i.e. provided with its own power source or in passive tags, i.e. deriving power from RF signal
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/335 at the feed, e.g. for impedance matching
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/378 Combination of fed elements with parasitic elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0407 Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna dipole H01Q9/285; monopole H01Q9/40
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0457 electromagnetically coupled to the feed line
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/22 Capacitive coupling

Abstract

A wireless communication device whose impedance can be matched with an arbitrary load impedance and that can be broadened in operating frequency band even when choosing an input impedance of an IC chip freely is not possible. The wireless communication device includes: a first conductor; a second conductor disposed substantially parallel to the first conductor; a hole formed in the second conductor; a capacitive coupling mechanism disposed adjacent to the hole; and a communication circuit which has at least one of a radio wave transmitting function and a radio wave receiving function. The communication circuit is connected through the capacitive coupling mechanism to two sites on the second conductor that are near borders between the second conductor and the hole.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device, comprising:

a first conductor;

a second conductor which is disposed substantially parallel to the first conductor;

a hole which is formed in the second conductor;

capacitive coupling means which are disposed adjacent to the hole; and

a communication circuit which has at least one of a radio wave transmitting function and a radio wave receiving function,

wherein the hole contains a magnetic field coupling element magnetically coupled with a microstrip antenna consisting of the first conductor and the second conductor and an inductance element which forms inductance,

wherein the communication circuit is connected through the capacitive coupling means to the two sites on the second conductor that are near borders between the second conductor and the hole, and

wherein the degree of coupling between the hole and the microstrip antenna, the inductance, and the capacitance are adjusted independently so that impedance can be matched with an arbitrary load impedance.

2. A wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the hole is formed from a slot line.

3. A wireless communication device according to claim 2, wherein, as the two sites to which the communication circuit is connected through the capacitive coupling means, sites that stretch across the slot line are chosen.

4. A wireless communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the capacitive coupling means include third conductors connected to terminals of the communication circuit, and

wherein the capacitive coupling means are constructed by coupling the second conductor to the third conductors through capacitive coupling.

5. A wireless communication device according to claim 4, wherein the capacitive coupling means are constituted of interdigital capacitors.

6. A wireless communication device according to claim 4, wherein the capacitive coupling means are constituted of chip capacitors.

7. A wireless communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a parasitic element which is disposed in a place where the parasitic element is coupled by magnetic field coupling to the second conductor to generate multi-resonance,

wherein the parasitic element has an electrical length that causes resonance within a range of an operating frequency band of the wireless communication device or near the operating frequency band.

8. A wireless communication device according to claim 1, further comprising a fourth conductor which is connected to an edge of the second conductor that corresponds to a place where an electric field is zero at a center of the second conductor in a resonance direction,

wherein the second conductor is structured to have an approximately half length in the resonance direction, and the edge of the second conductor is connected by a short circuit to the first conductor via the fourth conductor.

9. A wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the capacitive coupling means are constituted of a series capacitance circuit within the communication circuit.

10. A wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein the capacitive coupling means are constituted of a series LC circuit within the communication circuit.

11. A wireless communication device according to claim 2,

wherein the slot line comprises at least one fold-back slot portion, and

wherein the at least one fold-back slot portion comprises parallel opposing slots which are provided at two points set apart from each other within a distance range where the opposing slots affect each other.

12. A wireless communication device according to claim 11, wherein the distance between the opposing slots is set to 0.05 times or less a wavelength with respect to a center frequency of a frequency used.

13. A wireless communication device, comprising:

a first conductor;

a second conductor which is disposed substantially parallel to the first conductor;

a hole which is formed in the second conductor; and

a communication circuit which has at least one of a radio wave transmitting function and a radio wave receiving function,

wherein the hole contains a magnetic field coupling element magnetically coupled with a microstrip antenna consisting of the first conductor and the second conductor and an inductance element which forms inductance,

wherein the communication circuit is connected through capacitive coupling means to the two sites on the second conductor that are near borders between the second conductor and the hole, and

wherein the degree of coupling between the hole and the microstrip antenna, and the inductance are adjusted independently, and the input reluctance of the microstrip antenna is adjusted so as to form a complex conjugate relationship with the input capacitance of the communication circuit so that impedance can be matched with an arbitrary load impedance.

14. A wireless communication device according to claim 13, wherein the hole is formed from a slot line.

15. A wireless communication device-according to claim 13, further comprising a parasitic element which is disposed in a place where the parasitic element is coupled by magnetic field coupling to the second conductor to generate multi-resonance,

wherein the parasitic element has an electrical length that causes resonance within a range of an operating frequency band of the wireless communication device or near the operating frequency band.

16. A wireless communication device according to claim 13, further comprising a fourth conductor which is connected to an edge of the second conductor that corresponds to a place where an electric field is zero at a center of the second conductor in a resonance direction,

wherein the second conductor is structured to have an approximately half length in the resonance direction, and the edge of the second conductor is connected by a short circuit to the first conductor via the fourth conductor.

17. A wireless communication device according to claim 14,

wherein the slot line comprises at least one fold-back slot portion, and

wherein the at least one fold-back slot portion comprises parallel opposing slots which are provided at two points set apart from each other within a distance range where the opposing slots affect each other.

18. A wireless communication device according to claim 17, wherein the distance between the opposing slots is set to 0.05 times or less a wavelength with respect to a center frequency of a frequency used.