Multiple-body-configuration multimedia and smartphone multifunction wireless devices

• US 8,738,103 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Issued: 05/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fractus SA
• Original Assignee: Fractus SA
• Inventors: Puente Baliarda, Carles, Mumbru, Josep, Ilario, Jordi
• Primary Examiner(s): Figueroa, Marisol
• Application Number:
  US11/614,429
• Publication Number:
  US 20080018543A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,714 Days
• Field of Search: 455/575.5, 455/575.7
• US Class Current: 455/575.7
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/36 Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; Particular materials used therewithH01Q1/08, H01Q1/14 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/371 Branching current paths
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/40 Imbricated or interleaved structures; Combined or electromagnetically coupled arrangements, e.g. comprising two or more non-connected fed radiating 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 9/0421 with a shorting wall or a shorting pin at one end of the element H01Q9/0414 takes precedence

Abstract

A multifunction wireless device having at least one of multimedia functionality and smartphone functionality, the multifunction wireless device including an upper body and a lower body, the upper body and the lower body being adapted to move relative to each other in at least one of a clamshell, a slide, and a twist manner. The multifunction wireless device further includes an antenna system disposed within at least one of the upper body and the lower body and having a shape with a level of complexity of an antenna contour defined by complexity factors F₂₁ having a value of at least 1.05 and not greater than 1.80 and F₃₂ having a value of at least 1.10 and not greater than 1.90.

Claims

1. A handheld multifunction wireless device having at least one of multimedia functionality and smartphone functionality, the handheld multifunction wireless device comprising:

a touch screen;

a geolocalization system; and

an antenna system comprising a ground plane layer and three antenna elements within the handheld multifunction wireless device, the handheld multifunction wireless device being configured to transmit and receive signals from at least four frequency bands, each of the at least four frequency bands being used by at least one communication standard, the antenna system comprising;

a first antenna element having a conductive plate configured to simultaneously support radiation modes for at least first, second and third of the at least four frequency bands; and

a second antenna element configured to receive signals from a 4 G communication standard, wherein a perimeter of the second antenna element defines an antenna contour having a level of complexity defined by complexity factor F₂₁ having a value of at least 1.20 and complexity factor F₃₂ having a value less than 1.75.

2. The handheld multifunction wireless device of claim 1, wherein the first frequency band is contained within 810-960 MHz frequency range, the second frequency band is contained within 1710-1990 MHz frequency range, and the third frequency band is contained within 1900-2170 MHz frequency range.

3. The handheld multifunction wireless device of claim 1, wherein the first antenna element is proximate to a short side of a ground plane rectangle defined by the ground plane layer, and the second antenna element is proximate to a short side of the ground plane rectangle.

4. The handheld multifunction wireless device of claim 1, wherein the first antenna element is proximate to a short side of a ground plane rectangle defined by the ground plane layer, and the second antenna element is proximate to a long side of the ground plane rectangle.

5. The handheld multifunction wireless device of claim 1, wherein the third antenna element is configured to operate in a fifth frequency band within 2400-2480 MHz frequency range.

6. A handheld multifunction wireless device having at least one of multimedia functionality and smartphone functionality, the handheld multifunction wireless device comprising:

a touch screen;

a microprocessor and an operating system adapted to permit running of word-processing, spreadsheet, and slide software applications;

an image recording system comprising an at least two-Megapixel image sensor;

an antenna system within the handheld multifunction wireless device and configured to operate in at least five frequency bands, the antenna system comprising;

a ground plane layer;

a first antenna element having a conductive plate configured to support first, second, and third radiation modes respectively providing first, second, and third paths for current respectively associated with first, second, and third frequencies bands, the first, the second, and the third radiation modes overlapping at least partially with each other, the first frequency band being contained within a first frequency region of an electromagnetic spectrum, the second and the third frequency bands being contained within a second frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is higher in frequency than the first frequency region; and

a second antenna element configured to operate in at least one frequency band, the at least one frequency band being used by a 4 G communication standard, wherein;

a perimeter of the first antenna element defines a first antenna contour having a level of complexity defined by first complexity factor F₂₁ having a value of at least 1.20 and first complexity factor F₃₂ having a value less than 1.75; and

a perimeter of the second antenna element defines a second antenna contour having a level of complexity defined by second complexity factor F₂₁ having a value of at least 1.20 and second complexity factor F₃₂ having a value less than 1.75.

7. The handheld multifunction wireless device of claim 6, wherein the first antenna element is configured to transmit and receive signals from a 4 G communication standard.

8. The handheld multifunction wireless device of claim 6, wherein the first antenna contour comprises at least thirty-five segments.

9. The handheld multifunction wireless device according to claim 8, wherein the second antenna contour comprises at least twenty segments.

10. The handheld multifunction wireless device according to claim 6, wherein the first antenna contour comprises at least two disjointed subsets of segments, each of the at least two subsets of segments comprising at least ten segments.

11. The handheld multifunction wireless device according to claim 6, wherein the handheld multifunction wireless device comprises a third antenna configured to operate in a frequency band within 2400-2480 MHz frequency range.

12. A handheld multifunction wireless device having at least one of multimedia functionality and smartphone functionality, the handheld multifunction wireless device comprising:

a touch screen;

a processing module;

a memory module;

a communication module;

a power management module;

an antenna system within the handheld multifunction wireless device and comprising;

a ground plane layer;

a first antenna element configured to simultaneously support radiation modes for first, second, and third frequency bands, the first frequency band being contained within a first frequency region of an electromagnetic spectrum, the second frequency band being contained within a second frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is higher in frequency than the first frequency region, the third frequency band of operation being used by a 4 G communication standard, wherein a perimeter of the first antenna element defines a first antenna contour comprising at least thirty-five segments, the first antenna element defining an antenna box, an orthogonal projection of the antenna box along a normal to a face with a largest area of the antenna box defining an antenna rectangle, wherein a length of the first antenna contour is greater than four times a diagonal of the antenna rectangle; and

a second antenna element configured to operate in at least one frequency band used by a 4 G communication standard, wherein a perimeter of the second antenna element defines a second antenna contour comprising at least twenty segments.

13. The handheld multifunction wireless device according to claim 12, wherein the communication module is configured to simultaneously transmit signals from a CDMA communication standard, a WiFi communication standard, and a 4 G communication standard.

14. The handheld multifunction wireless device according to claim 12, wherein each of the first frequency band and the second frequency band is used by at least one communication standard selected from:

GSM, UMTS, CDMA, and W-CDMA.

15. The handheld multifunction wireless device according to claim 12, wherein the ground plane layer defines a ground plane rectangle, the projection of the antenna rectangle on the ground plane rectangle partially overlapping the ground plane rectangle.

16. A handheld multifunction wireless device having at least one of multimedia functionality and smartphone functionality, the handheld multifunction wireless device comprising:

a touch screen;

a microprocessor;

at least one memory module; and

a communication module configured to operate in a first frequency band used by at least one communication standard and contained within a first frequency region of an electromagnetic spectrum, in a second frequency band used by at least one communication standard and contained within a second frequency region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is higher in frequency than the first frequency region, and in a third frequency band used by a 4 G communication standard;

the communication module comprising an antenna system within the handheld multifunction wireless device having at least a first and a second antenna elements and a ground plane layer, the first antenna element being configured to transmit and receive signals from a 4 G communication standard, and the second antenna element being configured to receive signals from a 4 G communication standard, wherein;

the ground plane layer defines a ground plane rectangle;

the first antenna element is proximate to a first short side of the ground plane rectangle;

the second antenna element is proximate to a second short side of the ground plane rectangle; and

a perimeter of the second antenna element defines an antenna contour having a level of complexity defined by complexity factor F₂₁ having a value of at least 1.20 and complexity factor F₃₂ having a value less than 1.75.

17. The handheld multifunction wireless device according to claim 16, wherein an antenna box is defined by the first antenna element, an antenna rectangle is defined by an orthogonal projection of the antenna box along a normal to a face with a largest area of the antenna box, and wherein a longer side of said antenna rectangle is substantially parallel to the first short side of the ground plane rectangle.

18. The handheld multifunction wireless device according to claim 16, wherein the first frequency region is delimited by 810-960 MHz frequency range, and the second frequency region is delimited by 1710-1990 MHz frequency range.

19. The handheld multifunction wireless device according to claim 16, wherein the complexity factor F₂₁ has a value less than 1.45.

20. The handheld multifunction wireless device according to claim 16, wherein the handheld multifunction wireless device is configured to use the first antenna element and the second antenna element as a diversity system.