NFC antenna using dual resonance

• US 8,736,495 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2010
• Issued: 05/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Young Bin
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hoang V
• Application Number:
  US13/376,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20120075148A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,450 Days
• Field of Search: 343/702, 343/866, 343/742, 455/44.1, 455/44.2, 455/130, 455/558, 340/572.7, 713/168
• US Class Current: 343/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07756 the connection being non-galvanic, e.g. capacitive
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2208 associated with components used in interrogation type services, i.e. in systems for information exchange between an interrogator/reader and a tag/transponder, e.g. in Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] systems methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns G06K7/00; record carrier for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3883 Arrangements for mounting batteries or battery chargers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/00 Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive or capacitive transmission systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/43 Antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15 Active relay systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

The present invention is disclosed to provide an NFC antenna using dual resonance, wherein a closed circuit is formed by a capacitor and a loop antenna, and a relay unit is attached to a portable wireless terminal that forms a resonance to a predetermined frequency signal mutually transmitted between a portable wireless terminal reader and an NFC chip, and in the course of communicating between the NFC chip and the reader, the relay unit relays a signal transmitted by the reader to an NFC antenna unit, and the NFC chip relays a signal transmitted through the NFC antenna unit to the reader to thereby increase a recognition distance capable of obtaining predetermined information.

Claims

1. An NFC antenna using a dual resonance, comprising:

an NFC antenna unit embedded in a portable wireless terminal, transmitting a signal transmitted by an external reader by communicating with the reader to an NFC chip and transmitting a signal provided by an NFC chip to the reader; and

a relay unit embedded in the portable wireless terminal, relaying a signal transmitted by the reader to the NFC antenna and relaying a signal transmitted through the NFC antenna to the reader;

wherein the NFC antenna unit and the relay unit are mounted at an inside of a battery pack that comprises a battery and a PCM (Printed Circuit Module) for protecting the battery, the PCM positioned by the battery,

wherein the NFC antenna unit is formed at the PCM, and

wherein the relay unit is positioned on the battery and the PCM.

2. The antenna of claim 1, wherein the NFC antenna unit includes a loop antenna connected to a transmission/reception terminal of the NFC chip by forming a dual resonance with a capacitor.

3. The antenna of claim 2, wherein the loop antenna is attached to a substrate inside the portable wireless terminal, and the relay unit is attached to an inner surface of a case of the portable wireless terminal.

4. The antenna of claim 2, wherein the loop antenna is attached to a substrate inside the portable wireless terminal, and the relay unit is attached to an outer surface of a case of the portable wireless terminal.

5. The antenna of claim 2, wherein the loop antenna is attached to a substrate inside the portable wireless terminal, and the relay unit is attached to a protection case of the portable wireless terminal for protecting the portable wireless terminal.

6. The antenna of claim 2, wherein the battery pack is attachable to and detachable from the portable wireless terminal and is formed by being integrally molded with the loop antenna and the relay unit.

7. The antenna of claim 2, wherein the loop antenna is an SMT (Surface Mount Technology) type in which loop antenna patterns are formed at a plurality of sheets, and the plurality of sheets formed with the loop antenna pattern is stacked and the loop antenna patterns are mutually connected through a via hole.

8. The antenna of claim 2, wherein the relay unit is such that the loop antenna patterns are formed on an upper surface of a film, and a capacitor is interconnected across the loop antenna patterns of the relay unit.

9. The antenna of claim 8, wherein the capacitor is such that a distal end and the other distal end of the capacitor are oppositely printed on the upper surface and a rear surface of the film, and a distal end pattern and the other distal end pattern are electrically connected across the loop antenna patterns of the relay unit.

10. The antenna of claim 8, wherein the capacitor is connected across the loop antenna patterns of the relay unit using individual elements.

11. The antenna of claim 1, wherein the relay unit is formed by a closed circuit providing a resonance created by the loop antenna and the capacitor to relay a transmission signal of the reader and the NFC antenna unit.

12. The antenna of claim 1, further comprising a ferrite sheet attached to the relay unit.