Antenna device and electronic apparatus

• US 9,577,334 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2014
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Ito, Hiromitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Levi, Dameon E
• Assistant Examiner(s): Baltzell, Andrea Lindgren
• Application Number:
  US14/207,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20140191916A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,077 Days
• Field of Search: 343/788
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07771 the record carrier comprising means for minimising adverse effects on the data communication capability of the record carrier, e.g. minimising Eddy currents induced in a proximate metal or otherwise electromagnetically interfering object
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2216 used in interrogator/reader equipment
• 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 1/48 Earthing means; Earth screens; Counterpoises
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/06 with core of ferromagnetic material H01Q7/02 takes precedence

Abstract

An antenna device includes an antenna coil, a magnetic core, and a metal member. The antenna coil is mounted on a flexible base. The antenna coil is wound in a loop shape or a spiral shape such that its winding center section is a coil opening section. The magnetic core passes through a slit opening section in the flexible base. The metal member has a rectangular opening. The antenna coil is exposed through the opening in the metal member. A front-side coil conductor is nearer the opening than the magnetic core, and thus a magnetic flux links the front-side coil conductor.

Claims

1. An antenna device comprising:

an antenna coil;

a magnetic core; and

a metal member,

the antenna coil being wound in a loop shape or a spiral shape along the magnetic core such that a winding center section thereof is a coil opening section,

the magnetic core passing through the coil opening section,

the antenna coil being positioned opposite to a communication partner side with respect to the metal member,

the metal member having an opening whose inner edge is closed,

the opening is surrounded by the metal member, and

part or all of a portion of the antenna coil being exposed through the opening in the metal member, the portion being nearer to the metal member than the magnetic core is near to the metal member.

3. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic core has an outer shape extending along the opening in the metal member.

6. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein another metal member, different from the metal member, is not disposed on a surface of each of the antenna coil and the magnetic core, the surface being opposite the metal member.

7. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic core has a hole inside the coil opening section when seen from a direction perpendicular to the opening in the metal member.

8. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the antenna coil includes a curved section that overlaps the opening in the metal member when seen from a direction perpendicular to the opening in the metal member.

9. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the opening in the metal member has two perpendicular axes in a planar direction of the opening, and the winding center section of the antenna coil is displaced from the center of the opening along both the two axes when seen in a direction perpendicular to the opening in the metal member.

2. An antenna device comprising:

an antenna coil;

a magnetic core; and

a metal member,

the antenna coil being wound in a loop shape or a spiral shape along the magnetic core such that a winding center section thereof is a coil opening section,

the magnetic core passing through the coil opening section,

the antenna coil being positioned opposite to a communication partner side with respect to the metal member,

the metal member having an opening being surrounded by the metal member, and

part or all of a portion of the antenna coil being exposed through the opening in the metal member, the portion being nearer to the metal member than the magnetic core is near to the metal member,

when seen in a direction perpendicular to the opening in the metal member, the winding center section of the antenna coil is displaced from a center of the opening in the metal member in a direction in which the portion of the antenna coil approaches the center of the opening.

4. The antenna device according to claim 2, wherein, when seen in a direction perpendicular to the opening in the metal member, the magnetic core extends to a region defined between an outer edge of the portion of the antenna coil being nearer the metal member than the magnetic core and an inner edge of the metal member, the inner edge defining the opening.

5. An antenna device comprising:

an antenna coil;

a magnetic core; and

a metal member,

the antenna coil being wound in a loop shape or a spiral shape along the magnetic core such that a winding center section thereof is a coil opening section,

the magnetic core passing through the coil opening section,

the antenna coil being positioned opposite to a communication partner side with respect to the metal member,

the metal member having an opening being surrounded by the metal member, and

part or all of a portion of the antenna coil being exposed through the opening in the metal member, the portion being nearer to the metal member than the magnetic core is near to the metal member,

wherein a portion of the antenna coil, the portion being parallel to a direction through which the magnetic core passes, is positioned outside the opening when seen in a direction perpendicular to the opening in the metal member.

10. An antenna device comprising:

an antenna coil;

a magnetic core;

a metal member; and

an excitation coil,

the antenna coil being wound in a loop shape or a spiral shape along the magnetic core such that a winding center section thereof is a coil opening section,

the magnetic core passing through the coil opening section,

the antenna coil being positioned opposite to a communication partner side with respect to the metal member,

the metal member having an opening being surrounded by the metal member,

part or all of a portion of the antenna coil being exposed through the opening in the metal member, the portion being nearer to the metal member than the magnetic core is near to the metal member, and

the excitation coil being different from an antenna coil in a reader-writer electromagnetic-field coupled to the antenna coil of the antenna device,

wherein the antenna coil constitutes at least part of a resonant circuit.

11. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an antenna device; and

a communication apparatus,

wherein the antenna device comprising;

an antenna coil;

a magnetic core; and

a metal member,

the antenna coil being would in a loop shape or a spiral shape along the magnetic core such that a winding center section thereof is a coil opening section,

the magnetic core passing through the coil opening section,

the antenna coil being positioned opposite to a communication partner side with respect to the metal member,

the metal member having an opening being surrounded by the metal member, and

part or all of a portion of the antenna coil being exposed through the opening in the metal member, the portion being nearer to the metal member than the magnetic core is near to the metal member,

wherein the metal member is part of a casing.