EP1253667A1 - Antenne microbande - Google Patents

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EP1253667A1
EP1253667A1 EP02014037A EP02014037A EP1253667A1 EP 1253667 A1 EP1253667 A1 EP 1253667A1 EP 02014037 A EP02014037 A EP 02014037A EP 02014037 A EP02014037 A EP 02014037A EP 1253667 A1 EP1253667 A1 EP 1253667A1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/0407—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna
    • H01Q9/0421—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna with a shorting wall or a shorting pin at one end of the element
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/12—Supports; Mounting means
    • H01Q1/22—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles
    • H01Q1/24—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set
    • H01Q1/241—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM
    • H01Q1/242—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM specially adapted for hand-held use
    • H01Q1/243—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM specially adapted for hand-held use with built-in antennas
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/0407—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna
    • H01Q9/0471—Non-planar, stepped or wedge-shaped patch
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/0485—Dielectric resonator antennas

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  • the present invention relates to a patch antenna and particularly to a patch antenna for use inside the housing of a portable device, such as a mobile telephone.
  • patch antennas such as microstrip patch antennas
  • microstrip patch antennas typically are efficient only in a narrow frequency band. Otherwise, the advantage of patch antennas is that they are mountable in a small space, have a high gain and can be constructed in a rugged form.
  • Patch antennas and microstrip patch antennas have been known in the art for applications in which thin and small antennas were required. These kinds of antennas comprise a conductive patch as a resonator element, which is generally parallel to and spaced from a conducting ground element by an insulator consisting of a dielectric material.
  • US 5 777 581 discloses such a microstrip patch antenna, which is designed for use in the UHF band.
  • US 4 980 697 discloses a microstrip type antenna comprising a stack of alternate conductive and dielectric layers, so that the antenna is designed for use in several frequency bands.
  • WO95/24745 discloses an antenna unit for a handheld receiving/transmitting apparatus.
  • the antenna unit comprises a resonator element, a ground element and a connector element, which are formed as conducting layers on a dielectric body.
  • the connector element electrically connects the resonator element and the ground element on one side of the antenna unit. Since the entire space of the antenna unit inside the ground element and the resonator element is occupied by the solid dielectric material, this known antenna unit is quite heavy, so that the use of this known antenna unit in portable devices is very inconvenient. Further, the antenna unit is costly to produce, since the entire antenna volume is filled with dielectric material.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to provide a patch antenna according to the preamble of claim 1, which is lightweight and which can be produced at low cost but is still reliable in operation.
  • a patch antenna comprising a ground element being electrically conductive, a resonator element being electrically conductive and a solid dielectric element located between said resonator element and said ground element.
  • the ground element and the resonator element are electrically connected by means of a connector.
  • the patch antenna of the present invention is characterized in that only part of the volume between the resonator element and the ground element is filled with the solid dielectric element which works as a spacer to keep the tolerance of distance between the resonator element and the ground element low.
  • the patch antenna according to the present invention can be produced at low cost, since not the entire volume between the ground element and the resonator element is filled with solid dielectric material.
  • the patch antenna according to the present invention can be produced having a light weight, since only a part of the provided with solid dielectric material, whereas the other part of the antenna can e. g. comprise air, so that the weight of the antenna is significantly reduced compared to known antennas.
  • the solid dielectric material working as a spacer has the further advantage, that the tolerances of the ground element and the resonator element in this very tolerance critical part of the antenna can be set accurately.
  • the resonator element and the ground element are kept in parallel by the solid dielectric material.
  • the tolerances of the ground element, the resonator element and the dielectric element are critical in view of the resonance frequency and the efficiency of the antenna. Therefore, advantageously in this region the resonator element and the ground element are essentially parallel to each other.
  • the ground element and the resonator element need not necessarily be parallel to each other, since the tolerances in this region are not that critical. This is also the reason why no solid dielectric material needs to be provided in this region of the antenna to support the resonator element and the ground element to thereby fix their dimensional relation and reduce their dimensional tolerances.
  • the solid dielectric element has a sheetlike shape with a first and a second main surface, which respectively comprise a printed metal layer.
  • the metal layers respectively contact the resonator element and the ground element.
  • the solid dielectric element can be produced as a printed circuit board, so that a mass production with low cost is possible.
  • the tolerances e. g. the distance between the resonator element and the ground element can be set accurately, which is very important in the region of the open end of the antenna.
  • the patch antenna according to the present invention is advantageously of a design, in which the ground element has approximately only the double length of the resonator element, whereby the width of the resonator and the ground element is essentially the same.
  • the ground element and the resonator element of the patch antenna are at least partially parallel to each other.
  • the distance between the resonator element and the ground element in the region of the dielectric element is smaller than in the region without dielectric element.
  • the antenna length can be further decreased. This is particularly advantageous if the antenna has to be integrated in mobile devices, in which the valuable space is very refined. Further, increasing the distance between the resonator element and the ground element in the region without dielectric element as compared to the region of the dielectric element increases the frequency bandwidth and the efficiency of the antenna according to the present invention significantly.
  • the ground element has a stepped shape with a first and a second step section, whereby the second step section corresponds to the region of the dielectric element.
  • said first step section corresponds to the region of the region without dielectric element and has a larger distance to the resonator element than said second step section.
  • said resonator element can have essentially stepped shape with a first and a second step section, whereby the second step section corresponds to the region at which the solid dielectric material is provided.
  • said first step section corresponds to the region without dielectric element and has a larger distance to the ground element than said second step section.
  • the stepped shapes of the ground element and the resonator element, respectively, provide a simple and at low cost produceable design for the patch antenna according to the present invention.
  • the second step sections respectively are located adjacent to the solid dielectric material and the first step sections provide the larger distance between the resonator element and the ground element in the region, where no solid dielectric material is provided, so that a very light structure is enabled.
  • the length of the resonator element is essentially half of the length of the ground element.
  • the length direction is thereby the direction between the side at which the electrical connector between ground and resonator element is provided and the opposite side of the antenna.
  • the length of the resonator element can e. g. correspond to a quarter wavelength of the resonance frequency of the antenna.
  • the present invention further relates to a mobile terminal according to claim 4 comprising a patch antenna as defined above.
  • the patch antennas shown in figure 1, 2 and 3 are designed to be used as internal antennas of a GSM mobile phone.
  • the proposed antennas can also be used in other applications, in which lightweight, small and low cost antennas are required.
  • the so-called Q-value is the ratio between the resonance frequency and the frequency bandwidth of the antenna.
  • the Q-value is a property of the antenna, which depends mainly on the antenna dimensions. Increasing the dimensions of an antenna lowers the Q-value significantly. Thus a good antenna with a large bandwidth is usually a physically large antenna.
  • small antennas to be integrated in a portable device necessarily have a high Q-value and thus a small frequency bandwidth.
  • a bandwidth of an antenna with a given Q-value can be increased by proper matching, but only within some limits.
  • the bandwidth that can be matched with a certain matching loss can e. g. be increased by increasing the number of reactive elements in the matching network of the antenna.
  • the bandwidth that can be matched with a certain matching loss is limited for a given Q-value.
  • a matching section with zero loss does not exist. Therefore, it is usually not a good idea to put more than a single section into the matching network in the case of GSM antennas with high Q-values. An increase of this number of sections will normally give an insertion loss increase larger than the matching loss decrease.
  • One possibility to design an antenna for GSM mobile phones is thus to design the antenna to half of the necessary bandwidth and to use a range switching network to switch the antenna resonance frequency between the transmission and the reception band.
  • the second possibility is to use a corresponding matching network to match the antenna to the entire GSM band.
  • a patch antenna is such an antenna type.
  • Patch antenna theory usually assumes a ground plane with an infinite length compared to the length of the resonator plane.
  • the ground plane can have a length L in the range of the length of the resonator plane, e. g. the double length or the triple length.
  • the ground plane has a length L, which is approximately the double of the length of the resonator element.
  • the width w of the ground plane and the resonator plane are generally the same.
  • a patch antenna is an antenna with a narrow frequency bandwidth.
  • the frequency bandwidth can thereby be decreased to some extent by increasing the distance from the resonator plane to the ground plane. Making this distance too large, however, creates surface waves which limit the bandwidth since more energy will be stored.
  • the frequency bandwidth is mainly determined by the dimensions of the antenna.
  • the insertion loss will also be lowered for a given antenna Q-value.
  • the frequency bandwidth of an antenna with a given Q-value can be increased by proper matching, as stated above, but only within some limits. The matching loss thereby increases with an increasing frequency bandwidth to be matched.
  • the patch antenna 1 shown in figure 1 is a first simple embodiment of an antenna according to the present invention.
  • the antenna comprises a ground plane 3 of electrically conductive material, e. g. metal, and a resonator plane 2 of electrically conductive material, e. g. metal.
  • the length L of the ground plane 3 has generally the double value of the length of the resonator plane 2.
  • the resonator plane 2 is electrically connected at a first end by means of a connector 5 to the ground plane 3, so that a closed end is formed.
  • the second end of the resonator plane 2 opposite to the first end is not connected to the ground plane 3 so that an open end is formed.
  • a solid dielectric material is provided in the region of the open end between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3.
  • the resonator plane 2 thus works essentially as a quarter wave resonator with 0 V at the closed end and a voltage maximum at the open end. This high voltage at the open end creates an E-field to the ground which propagates into space. Therefore the radiation mainly comes from the slot at the open end of the antenna 1.
  • the ground plane 3 and the resonator plane 2 have generally the same width w, whereby the width of the resonator plane 2 might be a little smaller than the width of the ground plane 3.
  • the ground plane 3 and the resonator plane 2 are essentially parallel to each other and spaced by a uniform distance h.
  • the length of the resonator plane 2 corresponds to a quarter wavelength and the length L of the ground plane 3 is a little bit shorter than one half wavelength.
  • the normal microstrip antenna theories states that the radiation resistance only depends on the width of the resonator plane. The wider the resonator plane is, the lower the radiation resistance is.
  • the radiation resistance does not really depend on the distance h between the ground plane and the resonator plane or the dielectric constant of the solid dielectric material 4 between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3.
  • the solid dielectric material 4 is only provided in the region of the open end of the resonator plane 2 and not in the region of the closed end.
  • the resonator plane is considered to be a very wide microstrip line. This is not a reasonable assumption in the case of a patch antenna as shown in figure 1, where the resonator plane and the ground plane essentially have the same width.
  • the radiation resistance does not really depend on a distance h between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3.
  • the Q-value of a patch antenna 1 as shown in figure 1 depends on the distance h, whereby a large value for h gives a low value for Q.
  • the distance h between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3 should be as large as possible to achieve a low Q-value.
  • the Q-value depends on the relative dielectric constant of the solid dielectric material 4 in that a large relative dielectric constant gives a large Q-value.
  • the Q-value of the patch antenna 1 shown in figure 1 further depends on the width of the resonator plane in that a larger width gives a lower Q-value.
  • the efficiency of the patch antenna 1 shown in figure 1 can also be increased by increasing the distance h between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3.
  • the patch antenna 1 is fed with a direct probe feeding by means of a coaxial line 6.
  • the feeding line is connected to a side edge of the resonator plane 2 in the region of the closed end of the antenna.
  • the impedance level of the patch antenna 1 can be decreased by moving the feeding point closer towards the closed end.
  • the ground of the coaxial feeding line 6, i. e. the outer line of the coaxial line 6 is connected to the ground plane 3 as close as possible to the feeding point at the side edge of the resonator plane 2.
  • Another possibility is to feed the resonator plane 2 by electromagnetic coupling from a feeding line, whereby the impedance level of the antenna can be changed by changing the distance from the coupling feeding line to the resonator plane 2 and/or to the ground plane 3.
  • the physical dimensions of the patch antenna can be determined.
  • the width of the resonator element 2 should be as large as possible and the distance a between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3 should be as large as possible in order to gain as much frequency bandwidth and efficiency as possible.
  • the space available for the patch antenna according to the present invention in a mobile phone is usually very small, so that the distance h is already restricted in this respect and surface waves should not be an item.
  • the length of the resonator plane corresponds to a quarter wavelength, so that the physical length of the resonator plane is approximately determined by the frequency and the dielectric material.
  • the length of the resonator plane 2 can thereby be decreased by increasing the distance between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3 in the region of the closed end compared to the open end of the antenna. This feature is realized in the patch antenna 7 shown in figure 2 and the patch antenna 16 shown in figure 3.
  • the tolerances of the physical dimensions of the patch antenna according to the present invention is a critical item mainly due to the low frequency bandwidth of the antenna.
  • tolerances of the distance h between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3 and of the width of the resonator plane 2 will not give any direct change in the resonance frequency of the patch antenna, but will change the impedance level of the antenna so that the matching network will be affected.
  • the solid dielectric material 4 provided between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3 in the region of the open end of the antenna has mainly two functions, namely to reduce the size of the antenna due to the relative dielectric constant which is larger than 1 and to work as a spacer between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3 to keep the tolerance of the distance h low.
  • the relative dielectric constant of the solid dielectric material 4 should be in the range of 2 to 4. A too low constant makes the antenna too large and a too high constant makes the frequency bandwidth too narrow. Further, the dielectric constant should be very constant in view of temperature changes.
  • the position of the resonator plane 2 in relation to the ground plane 3 is another feature to be considered.
  • the ground plane 3 or the ground element extends with a much longer distance from the closed end of the resonator plane 2 as from the open end. This is due to the fact that the Q-value depends strongly on the length of the ground plane 3 between the open end of the resonator plane 2 and the corresponding end of the ground plane 3.
  • the ground plane 3 has an optimum entire length with respect to the Q-value taking the dielectric material between the resonator plane 2 and the ground plane 3 into account, this optimum length is approximately one half wavelength.
  • Figure 2 shows a second embodiment of a patch antenna 7 according to the present invention, in which the distance between the resonator element and the ground plane 3 in the region of the closed end is larger than the distance between the resonator element and the ground plane 3 in the region of the open end of the antenna.
  • a resonator element consists essentially of a first step section 8 in the region of the closed end and a second step section 9 in the region of the open end of the antenna. Both step sections 8 and 9 are essentially parallel to the ground plane 3, but the distance of the first step section 8 to the ground plane 3 is Larger than the distance of the second step section 9 to the ground plane 3.
  • the solid dielectric material is provided, whereas no dielectric material is provided between the first step section 8 and the ground plane 3.
  • the first step section 8 and the second step section 9 are connected by a connecting section 10 protecting upwardly from the end of the solid dielectric material 4. Due to the stepped design of the resonator element, the length of the resonator element can be made shorter compared to the resonator element formed as a resonator plane 2 of the embodiment shown in figure 1.
  • the first step section 8 of the resonator element of the patch antenna 7 is connected to the ground plane by a connector 5 to form a closed end like in the first embodiment.
  • the first step section 8, the second step section 9 and the connecting section 10 consist of electrically conductive material, e. g. metal.
  • FIG. 3 shows a preferred embodiment of a patch antenna according to the present invention.
  • the patch antenna 16 shown in figure 3 comprises a ground element consisting of a first step section 12 and a second step section 11.
  • the resonator element consists of a first section 14 and a second section 13.
  • the first section 14 is located over a part of the first step section 12 of the ground element and the second section 13 of the resonator element is located over and essentially parallel to a part of the second step section 11 of the ground element.
  • the solid dielectric material 4 is provided between the second section 13 of the resonator element and the corresponding part of the second step section 11 of the ground element.
  • the end of the first section 14 of the resonator element on the opposite side of the second section 13 of the resonator element is electrically connected to the ground element by means of a connecting section 15 to form a closed end similar to the first two embodiments.
  • the connecting section 15 extends upright from the first step section 12 of the ground element.
  • the distance between the first section 14 of the resonator element and the first step section 12 of the ground element is larger than the distance between the second section 13 of the resonator element and the second step section 11 of the ground element.
  • the first section 14 of the resonator element is slant so that the distance between the first section 14 of the resonator element and the first step section 12 of the ground element increases towards the closed end.
  • the second step section 11 of the ground element can also serve as shield for circuitry located underneath.
  • the first section 14 and the second section 13 of the resonator element as well as the connecting section 15 are electrically conductive and can e. g. be metal sheets.
  • the solid dielectric material 4 is low cost, low loss material with a low relative dielectric constant, e. g. polystyrene or polyethlylen.
  • the three embodiments of the patch antenna according to the present invention shown in figures 1, 2 and 3 provide a lightweight and low cost patch antenna particularly useful for applications as internal antenna in portable devices.
  • the solid dielectric material 4 is only provided in the region of the open end of the resonator element, since this part is the main transmitting/receiving part of the antenna and therefore the tolerances in this part of the antenna are more critical than in the other parts. Further, by making the distance between the resonator element and the ground element in the region of the open part of the antenna considerably smaller than in the region of the closed end of the antenna, Less dielectric material is needed and the antenna becomes even cheaper to produce.
  • the solid dielectric material 4 can in all three embodiments comprise printed metal layers on its first and second main surface.
  • the patch antenna according to the present invention has a high efficiency and a very good radiation pattern and gain.

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