Antenna Emitter With Slit And Opening For Mobile Terminals

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Solution Overview

Problem

The communication performance of antenna devices in mobile communication terminals, such as cellular phones, is affected by metallic components, limiting the size and shape of the antenna and casing, which restricts signal transmission and reception efficiency.

Innovation Solution

An antenna device with a feeding member featuring a coil pattern and an emitting member that includes an opening portion and a slit portion, allowing partial overlap with the coil pattern, enhances signal transmission and reception by optimizing the distribution of the magnetic field and inducing currents, thereby improving gain and communication distance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the size of the antenna is increased to ensure predetermined communication performance, then communication performance is improved, but the device size increases which is not acceptable in small mobile communication terminals

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication performanceVSAvoidantenna size
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the structural parameters of the emitting member by introducing opening portions and slit portions. These geometric modifications alter the electromagnetic field distribution and resonance characteristics, enabling improved communication performance without increasing the physical size of the antenna in mobile communication terminals

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The emitting member is designed with non-uniform local structures including opening portions and slit portions at specific locations. These local modifications create concentrated electromagnetic field regions that enhance signal transmission and reception efficiency without requiring overall antenna size increase

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If metallic components are arranged densely in the casing to achieve multifunctionality, then device functionality is improved, but the communication performance of the antenna is degraded

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice functionalityVSAvoidantenna communication performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The emitting member incorporates local opening portions and slit portions that create specific electromagnetic field distribution patterns. These local structural qualities enable the antenna to maintain communication performance despite the presence of densely arranged metallic components in the casing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent designs the emitting member structure to utilize and adapt to the electromagnetic environment created by surrounding metallic components. The opening and slit portions are positioned to optimize field distribution in the presence of metallic structures, converting the potentially harmful interference into a workable electromagnetic environment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This configuration improves signal gain and communication performance, allowing for longer communication distances and more efficient signal transmission and reception, even in the presence of metallic components within the casing.

Implementation Method 1

a non-contact IC card is embedded... using an electromagnetic field between a reader-writer for generating an induction field and a wireless IC device

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic induction: Electromagnetic Induction

Implementation Method 2

an excited magnetic field passes through the opening portion of the emitting member and is ideally distributed, and the induction field excites an inductive current in the vicinity of the opening portion of the emitting member

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic field distribution and induction: Electromagnetic Induction

Data Source

PatentUS8704716B2Antenna device and mobile communication terminal
Publication Date: 2014.04.22 MURATA MFG CO LTD
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AI summary

An antenna device includes a feeding member including a coil pattern and an emitting member to emit a transmit signal supplied from the feeding member and to receive a receive signal and supplying it to the feeding member. The emitting member includes an opening portion and a slit portion communicating with the opening portion. When seen in plan view from the direction of the winding axis of the coil pattern, the opening portion of the emitting member and the inner region of the coil pattern overlap each other, and the emitting member and the coil pattern overlap each other at least partially.