Chip antenna and mobile communication apparatus using same

• US 6,075,491 A
• Filed: 05/14/1998
• Issued: 06/13/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Suesada, Tsuyoshi, Kanba, Seiji, Dakeya, Yujiro, Tsuru, Teruhisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): VANNUCCI, JAMES
• Application Number:
  US09/078,850
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700 MS, 343/702, 343/722
• US Class Current: 343/722
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/362 for broadside radiating helical antennas
• 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

Abstract

A chip antenna 10 includes, inside a rectangular-parallelepiped base 11 having barium oxide, aluminum oxide, and silica as main constituents, a conductor 12 wound in a spiral form along the length direction of the base 11, and an LC parallel resonance circuit 13, which is inserted in the intermediate portion of the conductor 12 and which is connected electrically in series with the conductor 12, and includes, on the surface of the base 11, a power-feeding terminal 14 for applying a voltage to the conductor 12. The conductor 12 is separated into a first conductor 121 and a second conductor 122 by the LC parallel resonance circuit 13. The LC parallel resonance circuit 13 is formed of a coil L1, which is an inductance element, and a capacitor C1, which is a capacitance element, which are connected in parallel.

Claims

1. A chip antenna, comprising:

a base comprising at least one of a dielectric material and a magnetic material;

at least one conductor provided at least one of within the base and on the surface of the base;

and an anti-resonance circuit inserted in the intermediate portion of said conductor and electrically connected in series; and

a power-feeding terminal provided on the surface of said base and electrically connected to one end of said conductor.

2. A chip antenna according to claim 1, wherein said anti-resonance circuit is an LC parallel resonance circuit comprising an inductance element and a capacitance element.

3. A chip antenna according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the inductance element and the capacitance element which constitutes said anti-resonance circuit may be a variable element.

4. A chip antenna according to claim 1, wherein said anti-resonance circuit is mounted within said base.

5. A mobile communication apparatus, comprising:

a chip antenna comprising a base comprising at least one of a dielectric material and a magnetic material, at least one conductor provided at least one of within the base and on the surface of the base, an anti-resonance circuit inserted in the intermediate portion of said conductor and electrically connected in series, and a power-feeding terminal provided on the surface of said base and electrically connected to one end of said conductor;

a transmission circuit connected to said chip antenna;

a receiving circuit connected to said chip antenna; and

a housing which covers said chip antenna, said transmission circuit and said receiving circuit.