EP1443595A1 - Antenne - Google Patents
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- EP1443595A1 EP1443595A1 EP03001011A EP03001011A EP1443595A1 EP 1443595 A1 EP1443595 A1 EP 1443595A1 EP 03001011 A EP03001011 A EP 03001011A EP 03001011 A EP03001011 A EP 03001011A EP 1443595 A1 EP1443595 A1 EP 1443595A1
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- 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
- H01Q9/0442—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna with particular tuning means
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- 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
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q19/00—Combinations of primary active antenna elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the antenna a desired directional characteristic
- H01Q19/005—Patch antenna using one or more coplanar parasitic elements
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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
- H01Q9/0414—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna in a stacked or folded configuration
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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
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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
- H01Q9/045—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna with particular feeding means
- H01Q9/0457—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna with particular feeding means electromagnetically coupled to the feed line
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- the present invention relates to the field of antennas and more particularly to an antenna arrangement for a portable communication device as well as a portable communication device including such an antenna arrangement built-in.
- Microstrip antennas have low profile, are small in size and light in weight, but do not always provide use of more than one band, i. e. do not offer so-called "multi-band" capability.
- multi-band capability could be provided as multiple strip line parts which resonant at different frequencies, thus, as a result an antenna providing multi-band possibility.
- An example of this technique could be found in US-A-6 166 694. In this document a printed twin-spiral dual band antenna is disclosed.
- PIFAs have already been used in mobile phones and is one of the most promising designs. See for instance K. Qassim, "Inverted F-antenna for portable handsets", IEEE Colloqium on Microwave Filters and Antennas for Personal Communication Systems, pp. 3/1-3/6, Feb. 1994, London, UK.
- inverted F-antennas have been described, see for instance WO-A1-96/27 219, whereby antenna size can be reduced compared to conventional PIFAs.
- the present invention is directed towards solving the problem of providing an antenna arrangement, in particular a built-in antenna arrangement, that provides broad-band capability combined with light weight and/or small size.
- an antenna arrangement comprising:
- variable capacitance is provided which is frequency dependent. This provides much more bandwidth, typically twice as much when compared to a conventional PIFA having the same antenna volume.
- a second aspect of the present invention is directed towards an antenna arrangement including the features of the first aspect, wherein the patches are separated by a gap comprising dielectric or forming material. Since the antenna arrangement looks like dual L:s, in the following, the antenna arrangement, according to various embodiments of the present invention, will also be referred to as a "PDLA" ( P lanar D ual L A ntenna). Preferably, the dielectric material has low dielectric constant.
- a third aspect of the present invention is directed towards an antenna arrangement including the features of the first or second aspect, wherein the length of the gap is between 0,1 to 0,3 % of a wavelength coming to/from a source.
- a fourth aspect of the present invention is directed towards an antenna arrangement including the features of the first, second or third aspect, wherein the second feeding potential is ground.
- a fiftth aspect of the present invention is directed towards an antenna arrangement including the features of the first, second, third or fourth aspect, wherein the patches have a length approximately equal to a quarter of a wavelength at the operating frequency band.
- a sixth aspect of the present invention is directed towards an antenna arrangement including the features of the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth aspect, wherein the connection between the first feeding potential, provided by a radio circuit (source) and first patch is screened.
- a seven aspect of the present invention is directed towards an antenna arrangement including the features of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth or sixth aspect, wherein the radio circuit is connected to the first patch at an edge thereof.
- Another object of the present invention is directed towards providing a portable communication device including an antenna arrangement.
- a portable communication device comprising a chassis having a microphone, a speaker opening, and a keypad, wherein the device further comprises an antenna arrangement, said antenna arrangement comprising:
- the invention has the following advantages:
- the antenna arrangement has broad-band capability, whereby much wider bandwidth can be achieved by using the same volume as prior art antennas. It is cheap and easy to implement in a portable communication device.
- the PCB space requirement for the built-in antenna arrangement is minimised due to its small size.
- Fig. 1 schematically shows a perspective view of the antenna arrangement according to a first embodiment of the invention.
- the antenna arrangement 10 includes a first antenna patch 12 herein in the form of a conducting layer, to be connected to a first feeding potential V 1 , and a second antenna patch 14, herein in the form of a conducting layer, to be connected to a second feeding V 2 potential, in this particular embodiment ground potential.
- the second feeding potential V 2 is typically ground, but can be any suitable potential including negative potential.
- the antenna patches can be made of any suitable material, such as metal, polymer material or the like.
- Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of Fig. 1.
- the first and second patches 12, 14 are separated by a gap 17 comprising dielectric or forming material, thereby providing a variable capacitance being frequency dependent, depending on an operating frequency of the antenna arrangement.
- the patches 12, 14 are in the form of L-shaped conducting layers stacked onto each other in a capacitor like fashion.
- the short between the second patch 14 and ground can be formed, for instance by threading conducting fabric through a slot 19.
- the arrangement of the antenna arrangement 10 in a portable communication device will be further described below; however, design parameters such as sufficient distance from a chassis of the device (not shown) and other parameters obvious for a person skilled in the art to design, will not be described.
- the term "gap” is meant a space where no conducting elements are placed. Different dieletric or forming (electret) material can therefore be placed here. Materials to be employed as dielectric materials in the gap should preferably have low dieletric constants (such materials are dependent on the frequency at "high” frequencies, but normally not at “low” frequencies). Normally, in application within the field of the present invention, frequencies are high. Particular examples of materials are for instance: polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) or low-density polyethylene (LDPE).
- PTFE polytetrafluorethylene
- LDPE low-density polyethylene
- An insulated conductor 18, connecting to a radio circuit or other source (not shown) is connected to the first patch 12.
- the conductor 18 can for instance be a conventional coaxial cable, whereby for instance a centre conductor of the same is connected to the first patch 12, typically at an edge of the first patch 12, for instance by soldering or other suitable conventional fastening method.
- the patches can have different area.
- the antenna arrangement can also be capable of being tuned to different frequencies, for instance to be able also to operate in multiple frequency bands.
- a first band may be a GSM band and the second band a DCS band.
- other combinations of frequency bands may be implemented without departing from the invention. Examples are: GSM+PCS, GSM+WCDMA etc.
- the patches has a length approximately equal to, or approaching a quarter wavelength at the operating frequency band (e.g. around 450 MHz for a cellular phone). It can also be equal to the full wavelength.
- the physical form of the patches can be any suitable, for instance planar layers, curved surfaces etc provided that they can be arranged in a capacitor-like fashion.
- an overall thickness of the antenna arrangement according to the invention is below 15 mm.
- Tuning of the antenna arrangement can be accomplished for instance by a matching bridge (not shown).
- Fig. 3 shows an equivalent circuit of the antenna arrangement.
- the antenna arrangement can be described by means of an equivalent circuit 100, wherein an inductance L and a capacitor C connected in parallel are connected in series to a variable capacitor Cv having a variable capacitance (illustrated by an inclined arrow), which is frequency dependent due to the gap between the patches.
- Conventional PIFAs has fixed L and C, i. e. no variable capacitance Cv, whereby the bandwidth is limited when the antenna volume is small.
- the gap is dimensioned such that its length and impedance allow the antenna arrangement to be fed with an intended radio frequency bandwidth to stay within limits for broad-band performance and the antenna arrangement to work well. Radiation characteristics, drive point impedance and simple construction are parameters that typically have to be considered. However, since they are well-known for a person skilled in the art to design, they will not be further discussed herein.
- the gap is about 0,1 to 0,3 percent of the wavelength.
- the resonant frequencies f0 and bandwidth of the built-in antenna arrangement according to the present invention are dependent upon thickness of the dielectric material, but also the type of dielectric material (i. e. the dielectric constant) will influence.
- the antenna is easily driven in many frequency bands, for instance GSM/900/1800, PCS 1900, UMTS bands and even GPS bands.
- the different frequency bands are easily provided by the radio circuits including components such as tuning filter or a tuning network in order to comply with the different frequency bands.
- Fig. 4 set forth results of simulations for exemplary antenna arrangements.
- Fig. 4 shows that bandwidth increases by 30 % compared to a conventional PIFA.
- the PDLA introduces a Cv component as illustrated in Fig. 3 that allows the PDLA to have near 50 ohms in a broad-band. This is further shown in Fig. 6, in which a circle around a centre of 50 ohms is shown. In Fig. 6 it is shown the impedance of the antenna arrangement for a large frequency range. Since Fig. 6 is a conventional Smith chart it will not be further described herein.
- the present invention has many advantages.
- the frequency dependent capacitance feeding realised by two patches coupled to ache other, provides two resonances adjacent to each other. In this way the bandwidth is doubled compared to a conventional PIFA.
- the antenna arrangement provides better wideband performance because of the capacitive feeding compared to conventional PIFAs.
- a portable communication device according to the invention will now be described in relation to a mobile phone, which is a preferred embodiment of the invention. It can be other types of electronic communication devices though, like a cordless phone, a communication module, a PDA or any other type of portable device communicating with radio waves. Most likely, there will be a number of varying portable communication devices in the future when the 3 rd generation cellular systems are implemented. Therefore, preferably, the portable communication device according to the present invention, provides adequate gain and bandwidth in all existing present and future frequency bands, typically within a range of 300-3000 MHz.
- the portable communication device herein a mobile phone, illustrated in Fig. 5 comprises a built-in antenna arrangement according to the present invention.
- the mobile phone 200 includes a chassis 210 having a microphone opening 220 and speaker opening 230 located approximately next to the position of the mouth and ear, respectively of a user.
- a keypad 240 allows the user to interact with the communication device, e. g. by inputting a telephone number to be dialled.
- the mobile phone 200 also includes a built-in antenna 250, the details of which have been described above.
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EP03001011A EP1443595A1 (de) | 2003-01-17 | 2003-01-17 | Antenne |
US10/542,310 US20060066488A1 (en) | 2003-01-17 | 2004-01-14 | Antenna |
PCT/EP2004/000178 WO2004066439A1 (en) | 2003-01-17 | 2004-01-14 | Antenna |
CN 200480002348 CN1739219A (zh) | 2003-01-17 | 2004-01-14 | 天线 |
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EP0332139A2 (de) * | 1988-03-10 | 1989-09-13 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho | Breitbandige Antenne für bewegliche Funkverbindungen |
US5764190A (en) * | 1996-07-15 | 1998-06-09 | The Hong Kong University Of Science & Technology | Capacitively loaded PIFA |
EP0871238A2 (de) * | 1997-03-25 | 1998-10-14 | Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd. | Breitbandige Antenne mit kurzgeschlossenen Mikrostreifenleitern |
EP0942488A2 (de) * | 1998-02-24 | 1999-09-15 | Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | Antennenanordnung und Funkgerät mit einer derartigen Antenne |
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US5764190A (en) * | 1996-07-15 | 1998-06-09 | The Hong Kong University Of Science & Technology | Capacitively loaded PIFA |
EP0871238A2 (de) * | 1997-03-25 | 1998-10-14 | Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd. | Breitbandige Antenne mit kurzgeschlossenen Mikrostreifenleitern |
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