Non-contact communication antenna, communication device, and method for manufacturing non-contact communication antenna

• US 9,941,589 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2014
• Issued: 04/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Iwahashi, Mitsugi, Morimura, Jinichi, Takubo, Hiroyuki, Watanabe, Makoto, Uchida, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hoang
• Assistant Examiner(s): SALIH, AWAT M
• Application Number:
  US14/221,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20140292610A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• Field of Search: 343895, 343867, 235491, 235492, 235493, 3405721, 3405725
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2225 used in active tags, i.e. provided with its own power source or in passive tags, i.e. deriving power from RF signal
• 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 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: Y10T 29/49016 Antenna or wave energy "plumbing" making

Abstract

There is provided a non-contact communication antenna including a first antenna pattern that is formed on one surface of a base material, and a second antenna pattern that is formed on a back surface of the one surface of the base material. The first antenna pattern includes a first coil section and a first electrode section. The second antenna pattern includes a second coil section and a second electrode section. Capacitance of the first electrode section and the second electrode section compensates a change in capacitance depending on a formation situation of the first coil section and the second coil section.

Claims

1. A non-contact communication antenna, comprising:

a first antenna pattern on one surface of a base material, and a second antenna pattern on a back surface of the base material,

wherein the first antenna pattern includes a first coil section and a first electrode section that includes a first plurality of elongated electrode portions,

wherein the second antenna pattern includes a second coil section and a second electrode section that includes a second plurality of elongated electrode portions, wherein, for a first position of the first coil section on the one surface that matches with a second position of the second coil section on the back surface, each of the first plurality of elongated electrode portions of the first electrode section on the one surface is formed to non-overlap each of the second plurality of elongated electrode portions of the second electrode section formed on the back surface, and

wherein a change in capacitance of the first electrode section and the second electrode section compensates for a change in capacitance of the first coil section and the second coil section.

2. The non-contact communication antenna according to claim 1, wherein sum of the capacitance of the first coil section and the second coil section and the capacitance of the first electrode section and the second electrode section corresponds to capacitance of the non-contact communication antenna, and wherein capacitance lost by increase in a difference between the first position of the first coil section and the second position of the second coil section is compensated by the capacitance increased by decrease in a difference between a position of the first plurality of elongated electrode portions of the first electrode section and a position of the second plurality of elongated electrode portions of the second electrode section.

3. The non-contact communication antenna according to claim 2,

wherein capacitance lost by increase in the difference between the position of the first plurality of elongated electrode portions of the first electrode section and the position of the second plurality of elongated electrode portions of the second electrode section is compensated by increase in capacitance generated by decrease in the difference between the first position of the first coil section and the second position of the second coil section.

4. The non-contact communication antenna according to claim 1,

wherein the first coil section has a first circular shape and the second coil section has a second circular shape.

5. The non-contact communication antenna according to claim 1,

wherein the first coil section has a first rectangular shape and the second coil section has a second rectangular shape.

6. The non-contact communication antenna according to claim 1,

wherein the first plurality of elongated electrode portions of the first electrode section are on a first inner side of the first coil section and the second plurality of elongated electrode portions of the second electrode section are on a second inner side of the second coil section.

7. The non-contact communication antenna according to claim 1,

wherein a first diameter of the first coil section is larger than a second diameter of the second coil section.

8. The non-contact communication antenna according to claim 1,

wherein the first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern are formed by resist printing.

9. The non-contact communication antenna according to claim 1,

wherein the non-contact communication antenna is formed by a roll-to-roll method.

10. The non-contact communication antenna according to claim 9,

wherein, a change in the capacitance of the first electrode section and the second electrode section compensates for a change in the capacitance of the first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern, based on a formation situation of the first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern in a flow direction of the base material.

11. A communication device, comprising:

a non-contact communication antenna which comprises;

a first antenna pattern on one surface of a base material; and

a second antenna pattern on a back surface of the base material,

wherein the first antenna pattern includes a first coil section and a first electrode section that includes a first plurality of elongated electrode portions,

wherein the second antenna pattern includes a second coil section and a second electrode section that includes a second plurality of elongated electrode portions, wherein, for a first position of the first coil section on the one surface that matches with a second position of the second coil section on the back surface,

each of the first plurality of elongated electrode portions of the first electrode section on the one surface is formed to non-overlap each of the second plurality of elongated electrode portions of the second electrode section formed on the back surface, and

wherein a change in capacitance of the first electrode section and the second electrode section compensates for a change in capacitance of the first coil section and the second coil section.

12. A method for manufacturing a non-contact communication antenna, the method comprising:

forming, on one surface of a base material, a first antenna pattern having a first coil section and a first electrode section that includes a first plurality of elongated electrode portions; and

forming, on a back surface of the base material, a second antenna pattern having a second coil section and a second electrode section that includes a second plurality of elongated electrode portions,

wherein, for a first position of the first coil section on the one surface that matches with a second position of the second coil section on the back surface, each of the first plurality of elongated electrode portions of the first electrode section on the one surface is formed to non-overlap each of the second plurality of elongated electrode portions of the second electrode section formed on the back surface, and

wherein a change in capacitance of the first electrode section and the second electrode section compensates for a change in capacitance of the first coil section and the second coil section.

13. The method for manufacturing the non-contact communication antenna according to claim 12,

wherein the non-contact communication antenna is formed by a roll-to-roll method.

14. The method for manufacturing the non-contact communication antenna according to claim 13,

wherein a change in the capacitance of the first electrode section and the second electrode section compensates for a change in the capacitance of the first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern, based on a formation situation of the first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern in a moving direction of the base material.