Inverted F-antennas at a wireless communication node

• US 9,252,502 B2
• Filed: 06/18/2013
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Ek, Anders, Karlsson, Hakan, Kaspersson, Ola
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAN, THO GIA
• Application Number:
  US13/920,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20140368405A1
• Time in Patent Office: 959 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/829, 343/846, 343/702
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• 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 21/12 Parallel arrangements of substantially straight elongated conductive units travelling-wave antennas comprising transmission line loaded with transverse elements H01Q11/02; Yagi antennas H01Q19/30
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/28 Combinations of substantially independent non-interacting antenna units or systems multiple beam H01Q25/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/29 Combinations of different interacting antenna units for giving a desired directional characteristic H01Q25/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/371 Branching current paths
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/04 Resonant antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0421 with a shorting wall or a shorting pin at one end of the element H01Q9/0414 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/42 with folded element, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of the operating wavelength

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a node in a wireless communication arrangement, the node comprising an antenna arrangement that comprises a first and second inverted F antenna. The inverted F antennas comprise a corresponding first and second feed connection, first and second ground connection and a corresponding first and second radiating element mainly extending from the respective ground connection along a corresponding first and second longitudinal extension. The inverted F antennas are arranged on, or in, a plane. Furthermore, the first and second radiating elements are extending in opposite directions along their respective longitudinal extensions from the respective ground connections, the first longitudinal extension and the second longitudinal extension being mutually parallel. The closest distance between the first radiating element and the second radiating element exceeds 0,4*λ₀, where λ₀ is the wavelength for the centre frequency of the frequency band for which the inverted F antennas are intended.

Claims

1. A node in a wireless communication arrangement, the node comprising:

an antenna arrangement comprising;

a base having a top side lying in a first plane and an opposite bottom side lying in a second plane parallel with the first plane;

a first inverted F antenna; and

second inverted F antenna,

the first inverted F antenna comprising a first feed connection, a first ground connection and a first radiating element mainly extending from the first ground connection along a first longitudinal extension and being positioned above the top side of the base and lying in a third plane that is parallel with and spaced apart from the top side of the base, the first feed connection connected to the first radiating element and extending along a line that is perpendicular with the top side of the base,

the second inverted F antenna comprising a second feed connection, a second ground connection and a second radiating element mainly extending from the second ground connection along a second longitudinal extension and being positioned above the top side of the base and lying in said third plane, the second feed connection connected to the second radiating element and extending along a line that is perpendicular with the top side of the base,

the first radiating element and the second radiating element extending in opposite directions along their respective longitudinal extensions from the respective ground connections, and

the first longitudinal extension and the second longitudinal extension being mutually parallel, where the closest distance between the first radiating element and the second radiating element exceeds 0.4*λ

0, where λ

0 is the wavelength for the centre frequency (f0) of a frequency band (fB) for which the first and second inverted F antennas are intended.

2. The node according to claim 1, wherein the first inverted F antenna comprises a first upper radiating element and that the second inverted F antenna comprises a second upper radiating element.

3. The node according to any one of the claim 1, wherein each radiating element runs parallel to the plane.

4. The node according to claim 1, wherein the base comprises an electrically conducting ground plane positioned on a dielectric material.

5. The node according to claim 4, wherein each feed connection(5, 9) is running to the corresponding radiating element through a corresponding aperture (18, 19) in the ground plane.

6. The node according to claim 1, wherein the antenna arrangement comprises planar inverted F antennas and a partially surrounding ground plane, where the inverted F antennas and the ground plane are arranged in a plane.

7. The node according to claim 6, wherein the inverted F antennas and the ground plane either are etched from an initial copper layer that is positioned on a dielectric material, or are formed from sheet metal parts that are positioned on a carrier material.