Antenna apparatus

• US 5,982,330 A
• Filed: 09/15/1997
• Issued: 11/09/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Koyanagi, Yoshio, Yamazaki, Masazumi, Ogawa, Koichi
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, HOANGANH T
• Application Number:
  US08/929,698
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/895, 343/900, 343/901
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/24 with receiving set
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/244 extendable from a housing along a given path
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/362 for broadside radiating helical antennas

Abstract

In an antenna apparatus, a monopole antenna element connected to an antenna matching circuit via a first contact 105 when a whip antenna is extended; a helical antenna element connected to the antenna matching circuit via a second contact when the whip antenna is accommodated; and a parasitic helical element disposed in close proximity to the helical antenna element at a spacing which is sufficiently small with respect to the wavelength of a first frequency band of a radio circuit.

Claims

1. An antenna apparatus for use in a compact portable radio, said apparatus including a telescopic whip antenna corresponding to first and second frequency bands, said whip antenna being movable between a position extended from a body of said radio and a position accommodated in the body of said radio, comprising:

a monopole antenna element connected to an antenna matching circuit via a first contact when said whip antenna is extended;

a helical antenna element connected to said antenna matching circuit via a second contact when said whip antenna is accommodated;

a parasitic helical element, said parasitic helical element being disposed a distance from said helical antenna element, said distance being smaller than a wavelength of said first frequency band, and wherein said parasitic helical element remains said distance from said helical antenna element as said whip antenna is moved between said extended and accommodated positions.

2. The antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said parasitic helical element is disposed on an inner side of said helical antenna element.

3. The antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said parasitic helical element is disposed on an outer side of said helical antenna element.

4. The antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an impedance of said parasitic helical element is adjusted such that a first impedance of said helical antenna elements, with said whip antenna accommodated, matches a second impedance of said monopole antenna element, with said whip antenna extended, in both the first frequency band and the second frequency band.

5. The antenna apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said parasitic helical element is disposed on an inner side of said helical antenna element.

6. The antenna apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said parasitic helical element is disposed on an outer side of said helical antenna element.