Radio frequency IC device

• US 8,610,636 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2011
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Original Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co Limited
• Inventors: Kato, Noboru, Sasaki, Jun, Yamada, Kosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, HOANGANH T
• Application Number:
  US13/163,803
• Publication Number:
  US 20110254752A1
• Time in Patent Office: 911 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/895, 343/850
• US Class Current: 343/850
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 2017/002 Details of via holes for interconnecting the layers
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2225 used in active tags, i.e. provided with its own power source or in passive tags, i.e. deriving power from RF signal

Abstract

A radio frequency IC device includes a radio frequency IC chip, a feeder circuit substrate, and a radiating plate. The feeder circuit substrate includes a feeder circuit that electrically connects to the radio IC chip and that includes a resonance circuit and/or a matching circuit including inductance elements. The feeder circuit substrate is bonded to the radiating plate, which radiates a transmission signal supplied from the feeder circuit and supplies a received signal to the feeder circuit. The inductance elements are arranged in spiral patterns wound in opposite directions and couple to each other in opposite phases. The radio frequency IC device is able to obtain a radio frequency IC device that is not susceptible to being affected by a usage environment, minimizes variations in radiation characteristics, and can be used in a wide frequency band.

Claims

1. A radio frequency device comprising:

a feeder circuit substrate, including a resonance circuit including first and second inductance elements and/or a matching circuit including first and second inductance elements; and

a radiating plate connected to the resonance circuit and/or matching circuit and arranged to radiate a transmission signal supplied from the feeder circuit and/or supply a received signal to the feeder circuit;

wherein

the first and second inductance elements are connected in series and include spiral patterns wound in opposite directions.

2. The radio frequency device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second inductance elements are in different positions when the feeder circuit substrate is viewed in a perspective plan view.

3. The radio frequency device according to claim 2, wherein the winding axes of the first and second inductance elements are substantially parallel.

4. The radio frequency device according to claim 1, wherein each of the first and second inductance elements includes two wiring electrodes adjacent to each other on the same plane.

5. The radio frequency device according to claim 1, wherein the feeder circuit substrate includes a magnetic substance;

and the at least two inductance elements are placed in the magnetic substance.

6. The radio frequency device according to claim 1, wherein the at least two inductance elements are connected to a radio frequency IC chip in series.

7. The radio frequency device according to claim 1, wherein the at least two inductance elements are connected to a radio frequency IC chip in parallel.

8. The radio frequency device according to claim 1, wherein inductance values of the at least two inductance elements are substantially the same.

9. The radio frequency device according to claim 1, wherein the feeder circuit substrate is a multilayer substrate made of ceramic or resin.

10. The radio frequency IC device according to claim 1, wherein the feeder circuit substrate is a flexible substrate.

11. The radio frequency device according to claim 1, wherein the directions of the magnetic fields in the first and second inductance elements are opposite of one another.

12. The radio frequency device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second inductance elements are magnetically coupled to each other in opposite phases.

13. The radio frequency device according to claim 1, further includes third and fourth inductance elements, wherein the third and fourth inductance elements are magnetically coupled to the first and second inductance elements.