Antenna device

• US 7,218,282 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2005
• Issued: 05/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forsching E.V.
• Original Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forsching E.V.
• Inventors: Wansch, Rainer, Humpfer, Harald
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, SHIH CHAO
• Application Number:
  US11/260,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20060109179A1
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/725, 343/728, 343/846, 343/848
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 19/023 for reducing the scattering of mounting structures, e.g. of the struts
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/378 Combination of fed elements with parasitic elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/42 with folded element, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of the operating wavelength

Abstract

An antenna device includes a first radiation electrode having an open end and a short-circuited end connected to ground and being coupled to a feed line at a feeding point. Furthermore, the antenna device has a second radiation electrode having an open end and a short-circuited end connected to ground, wherein a portion of the second radiation electrode is part of an electric circuit. The first radiation electrode, the feed line and the electric circuit are arranged such that an alternating current through the feed line to the short-circuited end of the first radiation electrode, for feeding the second radiation electrode, induces an alternating current into the electric circuit via magnetic coupling.

Claims

1. An antenna device comprising

a first radiation electrode comprising an open end and a short-circuited end connected to ground and being coupled to a feed line at a feeding point, wherein the feed line and a portion of the first radiation electrode between the feeding point and the short-circuited end define an exciter loop;

a second radiation electrode comprising an open end and a short-circuited end connected to ground, wherein a portion of the second radiation electrode is part of a conductor loop through which an alternating current may flow,

wherein the exciter loop and the conductor loop are arranged spatially adjacent to each other such that an alternating current through the feed line to the short-circuited end of the first radiation electrode, for feeding the second radiation electrode, induces an alternating current into the conductor loop via magnetic coupling,

wherein the second radiation electrode is arranged on a surface of a substrate on which, additionally, a ground area to which the short-circuited end of the second radiation electrode is connected is arranged, wherein, additionally, a coupling point of the second radiation electrode is connected to the ground area via a coupling conductor such that the part of the second radiation electrode between the short-circuited end and the coupling point, the coupling conductor and the ground area define the conductor loop through which an alternating current may flow.

2. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the first radiation electrode and the feed line are arranged on a first surface of a substrate and the second radiation electrode is arranged on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface.

3. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the exciter loop and the conductor loop, through which an alternating current may flow, are arranged opposite to each other, a substrate being arranged therebetween.

4. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the coupling point is selected such that there is matching between the impedance of the second radiation electrode and the impedance of the coupling line.

5. The antenna device according to claim 1, further comprising a third radiation electrode comprising an open end and a short-circuited end connected to ground, wherein a portion of the third radiation electrode is part of an electric current into which, for feeding the third radiation electrode, an alternating current may be induced by magnetic coupling by an alternating current through the feed line to the short-circuited end of the first radiation electrode or by an alternating current through the electric circuit associated to the second radiation electrode.

6. The antenna device according to claim 5, wherein the first, second and third radiation electrodes are arranged on different layers of a multi-layered substrate.

7. The antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second radiation electrodes comprise different lengths to define antenna elements having different resonant frequencies.