ANTENNA, ANTENNA APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS

• US 20140152521A1
• Filed: 02/06/2014
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Shuichiro, Yanagida, Tatsuya, Hieda, Yasutaka
• Granted Patent: US 9,172,141 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/788
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 17/0006 Printed inductances printed coils for dynamo-electric machines H02K3/26; printed circuits H05K
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 17/04 with magnetic core
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2208 associated with components used in interrogation type services, i.e. in systems for information exchange between an interrogator/reader and a tag/transponder, e.g. in Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] systems methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns G06K7/00; record carrier for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/06 with core of ferromagnetic material H01Q7/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/08 Ferrite rod or like elongated core

Abstract

The claimed invention discloses an antenna including: a magnetic core (11); a coil winding section (14a, 14b) in which a conductive wiring line is wound around the magnetic core; and an adjustment section (13) connected to one end of the coil winding section. The adjustment section (13) is disposed at an end part of the magnetic core (11) and includes a plurality of adjustable conductive wiring lines (13b-13d) formed by dividing a conductive wiring line connected to one end of the coil winding section (14a, 14b) into multiple conductive wiring lines in a direction intersecting with a winding axis direction of the coil winding section (14a, 14b).

Claims

1. An antenna comprising:

a magnetic core;

a coil winding section in which a conducting wire is wound around a surface of the magnetic core; and

an adjustment section arranged between an edge of the surface of the magnetic core, on which the conducting wire is not wound, and the coil winding section, wherein,

the adjustment section includes a plurality of adjustable conducting wires;

the plurality of adjustable conducting wires, which include at least a first adjustable conducting wire and a second adjustable conducting wire, are connected with each other at both ends of the adjustable conducting wires, one of the ends of the adjustable conducting wires being connected to the conducting wire of the coil winding section; and

a first distance between the edge of the surface of the magnetic core and the first adjustable conducting wire is longer than a second distance between the edge of the surface of the magnetic core and the second adjustable conducting wire in a direction of a winding axis of the coil winding section.

2. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein the first adjustable conducting wire is connected to the end of the conducting wire without via a cutting point, and the second adjustable conducting wire is connected to the end of the conducting wire via the cutting point.

3. The antenna according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of adjustable conducting wires further include a third adjustable conducting wire;

the first distance is longer than a third distance between the edge of the surface of the magnetic core and the third adjustable conducting wire in the direction of the winding axis of the coil winding section; and

the third adjustable conducting wire is connected to the end of the conducting wire via a second cutting point.

4. The antenna according to claim 3, wherein an inductance of the antenna is adjusted by cutting only one of the cutting point of the second adjustable conducting wire and the second cutting point of the third adjustable conducting wire.

5. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein an inductance of the antenna is adjusted by cutting off the second adjustable conducting wire at a cutting point.

6. The antenna according to claim 5, wherein the cutting point of the second adjustable conducting wire is located at a position that does not overlap with the magnetic core.

7. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein a longitudinal direction of the adjustment section is substantially perpendicular to the winding axis of the coil winding section.

8. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of adjustable conducting wires and the conduction wire of the coil winding section are substantially in parallel with each other.

9. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein the first adjustable conducting wire is thicker than the second adjustable conducting wire.

10. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein a width of the adjustable conducting wire is identical with a width of the conducting wire of the coil winding section.

11. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein a space between windings of the conducting wire in the coil winding section is larger than a space between the adjustable conducting wires in the adjustment section.

12. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic core is plate-shaped and provided with the coil winding section on both surfaces of the magnetic core.

13. The antenna according to claim 1, wherein:

the coil winding section comprises a first flexible substrate and a second flexible substrate, on each of which a conducting wire is formed, and the coil winding section is formed by connecting the conducting wires with each other; and

the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate hold the magnetic core in between to cover the magnetic core.

14. An antenna apparatus comprising:

a metal body; and

the antenna according claim 1,

wherein the antenna and the metal body are adjacently disposed in a state of being in contact with each other or not being in contact with each other.

15. The antenna apparatus according claim 14, wherein at least a part of the antenna overlaps the metal body.

16. The antenna apparatus according claim 14, wherein:

at least a part of the coil winding section overlaps the metal body; and

at least a part of the adjustment section does not overlap the metal body.

17. The antenna apparatus according claim 14, wherein an opening formed by windings of the conductive wire of the coil winding section is perpendicular to a region of the metal body that overlaps the antenna.

18. A communication apparatus comprising the antenna apparatus according to claim 14.