Variable type antenna matching circuit

• US 6,885,353 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2003
• Issued: 04/26/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kurihara, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, SHIH CHAO
• Application Number:
  US10/454,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20040008151A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/850, 343/860, 343/861
• US Class Current: 343/860
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/241 used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM H01Q1/247, H01Q1/248 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 7/40 Automatic matching of load impedance to source impedance
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/18 Input circuits, e.g. for coupling to an antenna or a transmission line coupling networks between antennas or lines and receivers independent of the nature of the receiver H03H
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/403 using the same oscillator for generating both the transmitter frequency and the receiver local oscillator frequency

Abstract

A variable type antenna matching circuit includes an antenna, shape change detecting section, transmission/reception radio section, and variable type antenna matching section. The shape change detecting section detects a change in the shape of the housing of a portable terminal. The transmission/reception radio section transmits and receives signals. The variable type antenna matching section changes the input impedance between the antenna and the transmission/reception radio section in accordance with an output signal from the shape change detecting section.

Claims

1. A variable type antenna matching circuit comprising:

an antenna;

shape change detecting means for detecting a change in a shape of a housing of a portable terminal;

transmission/reception radio means for transmitting and receiving signals; and

variable type antenna matching means for changing an input impedance between said antenna and said transmission/reception radio means in accordance with an output signal from said shape change detecting means;

wherein said shape change detecting means further comprising speech communication state detecting means for detecting whether or not speech communication is being performed, and said variable type antenna matching means changes an input impedance between said antenna and said transmission/reception radio means in accordance with an output from the speech communication state detecting means when said shape change detecting means detects a change of the housing shape.

2. A circuit according to claim 1, wherein

said variable type antenna matching means comprises

an inductor connected between said antenna and said transmission/reception radio means,

a first capacitor which grounds a node between said antenna and said inductor,

a second capacitor which grounds a node between said inductor and said transmission/reception radio means, and

a switch which switches values of the first capacitor in accordance with an output from said shape change detecting means.

3. A circuit according to claim 2, wherein the switch is connected in series with the first capacitor and turned on/off in accordance with an output from said shape change detecting means.

4. A circuit according to claim 2, wherein

the first capacitor comprises a plurality of capacitors, and

the switch switches the first capacitor in accordance with an output from said shape change detecting means.

5. A circuit according to claim 1, wherein the housing of a portable terminal has a folding type shape and can change between an open state and a closed state, and when the shape change detecting means detects the open state of the housing and the speech communication state detecting means detects that the portable terminal is in the speech communication state, the antenna matching means performs the input impedance matching of the antenna.

6. A circuit according to claim 1, wherein the housing of a portable terminal has a stretchable type shape and can change between a stretched state and a contracted state, and when the shape change detecting means detects that the housing is in the stretched state and the speech communication state detecting means detects that the portable terminal is in the speech communication state, the antenna matching means performs the input impedance matching of the antenna.