Antenna device and communication terminal apparatus

• US 9,153,865 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2014
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Ishizuka, Kenichi, Nishida, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Levi, Dameon E
• Assistant Examiner(s): LINDGREN BALTZEL, ANDREA J
• Application Number:
  US14/247,271
• Publication Number:
  US 20140218246A1
• Time in Patent Office: 546 Days
• Field of Search: 343/749
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/50 Structural association of antennas with earthing switches, lead-in devices or lightning protectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/335 at the feed, e.g. for impedance matching
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/357 using a single feed point
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/26 with folded element or elements, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of operating wavelength resonant loop antennas H01Q7/00

Abstract

A multiband-capable antenna device includes a loop-shaped radiation element including a power feed end and a ground end, and a matching circuit including a first inductance element loaded at the power feed end and a second inductance element loaded at the ground end and magnetic-field coupled to the first inductance element. The loop-shaped radiation element is configured to resonate in a plurality of resonance modes including an even mode and an odd mode. The first inductance element and the second inductance element are wound and connected such that magnetic fields are mutually strengthened for one of the even mode and the odd mode, and such that the magnetic fields are mutually weakened for the other of the even mode and the odd mode.

Claims

1. An antenna device comprising:

an antenna including a first conductor including a power feed end and a second conductor including a ground end; and

a matching circuit including a first inductance element loaded at the power feed end of the first conductor, and a second inductance element loaded at the ground end of the second conductor and magnetic-field coupled to the first inductance element;

wherein

the antenna is configured to resonate in a plurality of resonance modes including an even mode and an odd mode;

the first inductance element and the second inductance element are wound and connected such that magnetic fields are mutually strengthened for one of the even mode and the odd mode, and such that the magnetic fields are mutually weakened for the other of the even mode and the odd mode;

another end of the first conductor and another end of the second conductor are connected to one another, and the antenna defines a loop-shaped radiation element; and

the first inductance element and the second inductance element are subtractive polarity coupled to each other.

2. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the antenna includes a first resonance mode, a second resonance mode and a third resonance mode in increasing order of a resonance frequency, the first resonance mode and the third resonance mode each are an odd mode, and the second resonance mode is an even mode.

3. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the first inductance element and the second inductance element are integrally provided with a stacked body including a plurality of base material layers stacked on each other.

4. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the antenna is one of a monopole type, a folded type, and a T-branch type.

5. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the antenna is defined by one of a conductive pattern on a flexible substrate, a chip antenna including an antenna pattern provided on a dielectric element body, a conductor pattern on a printed wiring board, and a conductor pattern on a terminal housing.

6. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the first inductance element and the second inductance element is one of a coiled element and a magnetic coupling element.

7. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the antenna device is configured to use 824 MHz to 960 MHz and 1710 MHz to 2170 MHz as a passband, and to accommodate a penta-band of GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, and UMTS.

8. A communication apparatus comprising:

a power feed element;

an antenna including a first conductor including a power feed end and a second conductor including a ground end; and

a matching circuit including a first inductance element loaded at the power feed end of the first conductor, and a second inductance element loaded at the ground end of the second conductor and magnetic-field coupled to the first inductance element;

wherein

the antenna is configured to resonate in a plurality of resonance modes including an even mode and an odd mode; and

the first inductance element and the second inductance element are wound and connected such that magnetic fields are mutually strengthened for one of the even mode and the odd mode, and that the magnetic fields are mutually weakened for the other of the even mode and the odd mode;

another end of the first conductor and another end of the second conductor are connected to one another, and the antenna defines a loop-shaped radiation element; and

the first inductance element and the second inductance element are subtractive polarity coupled to each other.

9. The communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the antenna includes a first resonance mode, a second resonance mode and a third resonance mode in increasing order of a resonance frequency, the first resonance mode and the third resonance mode each are an odd mode, and the second resonance mode is an even mode.

10. The communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the first inductance element and the second inductance element are integrally provided with a stacked body including a plurality of base material layers stacked on each other.

11. The communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the antenna is one of a monopole type, a folded type, and a T-branch type.

12. The communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the antenna is defined by one of a conductive pattern on a flexible substrate, a chip antenna including an antenna pattern provided on a dielectric element body, a conductor pattern on a printed wiring board, and a conductor pattern on a terminal housing.

13. The communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the first inductance element and the second inductance element is one of a coiled element and a magnetic coupling element.

14. The communication apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the communication apparatus is configured to use 824 MHz to 960 MHz and 1710 MHz to 2170 MHz as a passband, and to accommodate a penta-band of GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, and UMTS.