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SPACE-FILLING MINIATURE ANTENNAS

  • US 20110177839A1
  • Filed: 03/09/2011
  • Published: 07/21/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus comprising:

  • a portable communication device, wherein said portable communication device is a handset;

    an antenna, the antenna being included entirely within the handset;

    wherein said antenna operates at multiple frequency bands, and wherein at least two of said frequency bands are within the 800 MHz-3600 MHz frequency range;

    wherein a perimeter of the antenna is shaped as a multi-segment curve;

    wherein said multi-segment curve comprises at least ten connected segments, each segment is shorter than one tenth of at least one operating free-space wavelength of the antenna; and

    wherein said multi-segment curve is shaped so that an arrangement of the segments of the multi-segment curve are not self-similar with respect to the entire multi-segment curve.

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