Segmented Housing Antenna Layout With Vent Holes and Cooling Fan

Solution Overview

Problem

The integration of multiple antennas in electronic devices for diverse frequency bands poses challenges to the design of other components, such as cooling components, and creates difficulties in achieving a thin, light, and compact product structure while maintaining optimal communication performance.

Innovation Solution

The electronic device incorporates a first housing with segmented conductive portions and vent holes, along with a fan and printed circuit boards, and a feeding part to optimize antenna arrangement, ensuring balanced communication standards and enhanced cooling capability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple antennas are deployed to support diverse frequency bands, then communication functionality is improved, but device complexity and design difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication functionalityVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The housing structure serves multiple functions: it provides mechanical protection, acts as an antenna element for communication, and incorporates cooling features through vent holes. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components, thereby reducing overall device complexity while maintaining diverse communication capabilities

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The conductive portion of the housing is divided into multiple segments along the lateral surface, with each segment serving as a separate antenna element for different frequency bands. This segmentation allows independent optimization of each antenna element while simplifying the overall integration process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple antennas are deployed to support diverse frequency bands, then communication functionality is improved, but the product structure becomes harder to make thin and compact

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication functionalityVSAvoidproduct structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The housing structure serves multiple functions: it provides mechanical protection, acts as an antenna element for communication, and incorporates cooling features through vent holes. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components, thereby reducing overall device complexity while maintaining diverse communication capabilities

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The conductive portion of the housing is divided into multiple segments along the lateral surface, with each segment serving as a separate antenna element for different frequency bands. This segmentation allows independent optimization of each antenna element while simplifying the overall integration process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If antenna arrangement is optimized for communication performance, then communication functionality is improved, but cooling component design is adversely impacted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication performanceVSAvoidcooling component design

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The conductive portion is segmented into multiple sections along the lateral surface, creating distinct regions that can serve different functions. Some segments are positioned to optimize antenna performance for specific frequency bands, while other areas are designated for cooling vent holes, allowing both communication and thermal management requirements to be met simultaneously

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different portions of the housing have different properties: some areas are made conductive for antenna functionality, while other areas incorporate vent holes for cooling. This local differentiation allows each region to be optimized for its specific function without compromising the other

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20250337152A1Antenna structure and electronic device comprising same

Publication Date: 2025.10.30 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise: a first housing comprising at least one or more first conductive portions segmented along at least a part of a side surface thereof, and multiple vent holes formed on at least a part of the side surface; a fan disposed in the first housing; a first printed circuit board disposed on one side in the first housing, the first printed circuit board comprising a first communication module electrically connected to the first conductive portion; and a feeding portion for electrically connecting the first printed circuit board and one surface of the first housing positioned between the multiple vent holes. The first conductive portion may comprise a (1-1)th conductive portion having a first length and a (1-2)th conductive portion having a second length larger than the first length. The distance between the first communication module and the (1-1)th conductive portion may be smaller than the distance between the first communication module and the (1-2)th conductive portion.