Wireless IC device and electromagnetic coupling module

• US 9,117,157 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2014
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Kato, Noboru
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hoang V
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, HAI V
• Application Number:
  US14/160,597
• Publication Number:
  US 20140131457A1
• Time in Patent Office: 580 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/803, 343/895
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07754 the connection being galvanic
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2216 used in interrogator/reader equipment
• 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 9/285 Planar dipole H01Q9/065 takes precedence; patch antenna H01Q9/0407

Abstract

A wireless IC device includes a wireless IC chip, a feeder circuit substrate which is coupled to the wireless IC chip and includes a feeder circuit including an inductance element, and a radiation plate. The inductance element includes a plurality of stacked layers having coil conductors electrically connected, and a coil conductor electrically connected in a middle portion of the inductance element is arranged at an end position in the coil axis direction and faces a coupling portion of the radiation plate.

Claims

1. A module comprising:

a wireless IC; and

a feeder circuit including first and second inductance elements each connected to the wireless IC and coupled to a radiation plate;

wherein

the first inductance element includes a first coil conductor and a second coil conductor connected to the first coil conductor, and the second inductance element includes a third coil conductor and a fourth coil conductor connected to the third coil conductor, the first and third coil conductors being connected to the wireless IC, and an end of the second coil conductor and an end of the fourth coil conductor being electrically connected to each other.

2. The module according to claim 1, wherein the first and second inductance elements are located at different positions when viewed in a direction along the coil axes of the first, second, third, and fourth coil conductors.

3. The module according to claim 1, wherein the wireless IC and the first inductance element are electrically connected to each other, and the wireless IC and the second inductance element are electrically connected to each other.

4. The module according to claim 1, wherein the first and second inductance elements are each helically wound in opposite directions.

5. A wireless IC device comprising:

a wireless IC;

a radiation plate; and

a feeder circuit including first and second inductance elements each connected to the wireless IC and coupled to the radiation plate;

wherein

the first inductance element includes a first coil conductor and a second coil conductor connected to the first coil conductor, and the second inductance element includes a third coil conductor and a fourth coil conductor connected to the third coil conductor, the first and third coil conductors being connected to the wireless IC, and an end of the second coil conductor and an end of the fourth coil conductor being electrically connected to each other.

6. The wireless IC device according to claim 5, wherein the first and second inductance elements are located at different positions when viewed in a direction along the coil axes of the first, second, third, and fourth coil conductors.

7. The wireless IC device according to claim 5, wherein the wireless IC and the first inductance element are electrically connected to each other, and the wireless IC and the second inductance element are electrically connected to each other.

8. The wireless IC device according to claim 5, wherein the first and second inductance elements are each helically wound in opposite directions.