Communication device

• US 9,124,002 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2013
• Issued: 09/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Inventors: Wong, Kin-Lu, Weng, Tseng-Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): DUONG, DIEU HIEN
• Application Number:
  US13/743,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20140139392A1
• Time in Patent Office: 958 Days
• Field of Search: 343/841, 343/702, 343/893
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2266 disposed inside the computer
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2291 used in bluetooth or WI-FI devices of Wireless Local Area Networks [WLAN] H01Q1/241 takes precedence; WLAN in general H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/38 formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface H01Q15/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/521 reducing the coupling between adjacent antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/523 between antennas of an array

Abstract

A communication device including a first antenna, a second antenna, a ground element, and an isolation element is provided. The ground element is coupled to a conductive plane. The isolation element is disposed between the first antenna and the second antenna and includes a first portion and a second portion. A first end of the first portion and a first end of the second portion are respectively coupled to the ground element, and a second end of the first portion is spaced apart a coupling distance from a second end of the second portion.

Claims

1. A communication device, comprising:

a first antenna;

a second antenna;

a ground element, coupled to a conductive plane; and

an isolation element, disposed between the first antenna and the second antenna, and comprising a first portion and a second portion, wherein a first end of the first portion and a first end of the second portion are respectively coupled to the ground element, the first portion faces to the first antenna, the second portion faces to the second antenna, and a second end of the first portion is spaced apart a coupling distance from a second end of the second portion,

wherein the communication device is operated in at least a first communication band and a second communication band, a frequency of the first communication band is lower than a frequency of the second communication band, and the first portion and the second portion of the isolation element resonate respectively in the first communication band and the second communication band so as to improve isolation between the first antenna and the second antenna in the first communication band and the second communication band.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the second end of the first portion is an open end, and the second end of the second portion is an open end.

3. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the first antenna, the first portion of the isolation element, the second portion of the isolation element, and the second antenna are sequentially arranged along an edge of the ground element.

4. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna are operated in at least one same communication band.

5. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the first antenna, the second antenna, the isolation element, and the ground element form an antenna system, and the antenna system is adjacent to the conductive plane and disposed on a dielectric substrate to form a planar structure.

6. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the second end of the first portion and the second end of the second portion of the isolation element are spaced to the ground element with different distances.

7. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the second end of the first portion and the second end of the second portion of the isolation element are spaced to the ground element with the same distance.

8. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein a shape of the first portion is an inverted L shape.

9. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein a shape of the second portion is an inverted L shape.

10. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the communication device is a notebook computer or a tablet computer, and the conductive plane is disposed on a supporting backplate of a top cover of the notebook computer or on a supporting backplate of the tablet computer.

11. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein a part of the first portion comprises a meandering structure.

12. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein a part of the second portion comprises a meandering structure.