This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 104117655, filed on Jun. 1, 2015. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
Field of the Invention
The invention is related to an antenna and particularly to an antenna and a radio frequency signal transceiving device including said antenna.
Description of Related Art
Along with rapid changes of technology, mobile electronic devices, such as smartphone and tablet PC etc., are widely used in people's life. In general, the mobile electronic device is equipped with a wireless radio frequency signal transceiving module and a corresponding antenna structure so that the mobile electronic device is capable of transceiving wireless radio frequency signals, so as to fulfill the communication and data transmission requirements of the user. The antenna structure of the mobile electronic device needs to be set up corresponding to the frequency band and the characteristics of the transceiving radio frequency signal. Therefore, the mobile electronic device may include one or more antennas for transceiving the corresponding radio frequency signal.
The size of the antenna is limited by the wavelength of the transceiving radio frequency signal, which is not easy to increase or decrease. In addition, designer of the mobile electronic device also has to dispose a clearance area corresponding to the size of the antenna, so that the transceiving capability of the antenna would not be affected by the other elements in the mobile electronic device. However, in order to be carried easily, the mobile electronic device is designed to be smaller, thinner, and lighter. Therefore, the problem of disposing the antenna needs to be further considered. For example, how to configure an integrated antenna capable of transceiving radio frequency signals at a plurality of frequency bands inside a certain space is a problem that people skilled in the art need to solve.
The invention provides an antenna which has a miniaturized antenna structure and further satisfies the requirement that the antenna is operated in a wide variety of bands.
In one aspect of the invention, an antenna includes an antenna structure which is disposed on the substrate. The antenna structure includes a grounding plane, a first radiation part, a second radiation part, a metal coupling part, a third radiation part and a feeding point. The grounding plane includes a grounding point. The first radiation part has a first bend, a second bend and an opening end. The first radiation part extends from the grounding point and the opening end thereof is nearing the grounding plane. The second radiation part extends from a section between the first bend of the first radiation part and the grounding point. The metal coupling part is nearing the grounding plane, the first radiation part and the second radiation part. The third radiation part is disposed between the second radiation part and the grounding plane, and extends from the metal coupling part. The feeding point is coupled to where the third radiation part and the metal coupling part connected. The antenna is configured to transceive a plurality of radio frequency signals in a plurality of frequency bands.
In another aspect of the invention, a radio frequency signal transceiving device includes a radio frequency signal processing module and the antenna structure disposed on the substrate. The antenna structure includes a grounding plane, a first radiation part, a second radiation part, a metal coupling part, a third radiation part and a feeding point. The grounding plane includes a grounding point. The first radiation part has a first bend, a second bend and an opening end. The first radiation part extends from the grounding point and the opening end thereof is nearing the grounding plane. The second radiation part extends from a section between the first bend of the first radiation part and the grounding point. The metal coupling part is nearing the grounding plane, the first radiation part and the second radiation part. The third radiation part is disposed between the second radiation part and the grounding plane, and extends from the metal coupling part. The feeding point is coupled to where the third radiation part and the metal coupling part connected. Wherein the radio frequency signal processing module is coupled to the antenna structure, and the radio frequency signal processing module transceives a plurality of radio frequency signals at a plurality of frequency bands by using the antenna structure via the feeding point.
Based on the above, the invention provides an antenna and a radio frequency signal transceiving device including said antenna, and the radio frequency signal transceiving device can transceive a plurality of radio frequency signals at a plurality of frequency bands. Under the premise that the antenna structure does not affect the efficiency of the antenna, the design goal that the antenna structure is miniaturized is achieved.
In order to make the aforementioned and other features and advantages of the invention more comprehensible, embodiments accompanying figures are described in detail belows.
The second radiation part 120 has an opening end OE2 and the opening end OE2 extends from a section between the first bend B1 of the first radiation part 110 and the grounding point GP (i.e., the first section S1 of the first radiation part 110) to a section between the second bend B2 of the first radiation part 110 and the opening end OE1 (i.e., the second section S2 of the first radiation part 110). The metal coupling part 130 is nearing the grounding plane GND, the second bend B2 and the opening end OE1 of the first radiation part 110, and the second radiation part 120 (specifically, the opening end OE2 of the second radiation part 120). The third radiation part 140 has an opening end OE3, and the third radiation part 140 is disposed between the second radiation part 120 and the grounding plane GND, and extends from the metal coupling part 130 to the section between the first bend B1 of the first radiation part 110 and the grounding point GP (i.e., the first section S1 of the first radiation part 110). The feeding point FP is coupled to where the third radiation part 140 and the metal coupling part 130 connected.
The antenna could be configured in a radio frequency signal transceiving device, and the radio frequency signal transceiving device may transceiver a plurality of radio frequency signals at a plurality of frequency bands through the antenna structure 10 via the feeding point FP. For example,
Specifically, to feed-in/receive a first radio frequency signal at the first frequency band, a first mode is excited by coupling the third radiation part 140 to the first radiation part 110 for transceiving the first radio frequency signal according to a coupled monopole antenna principle, wherein the length of the first radiation part (corresponding to the length of a -shaped first excitation path EP1 at the first mode) is smaller than one fourth of the wavelength of the first radio frequency signal.
To feed-in/receive a second radio frequency signal at the second frequency band, a second mode is excited by coupling the third radiation part 140 to the second radiation part 120 for transceiving the first radio frequency signal according to a coupled monopole antenna principle. The length of a second excitation path EP2 at the second mode (the length of the L-shaped second excitation path EP2 from the opening end OE2 to the grounding point GP) is smaller than one fourth of the wavelength of the second radio frequency signal.
Similarly, to feed-in/receive a third radio frequency signal at the third frequency band via the feeding point FP between the metal coupling part 130 and the third radiation part 140, the antenna structure 10 uses the feeding point FP to excite a third mode for transceiving the third radio frequency signal according to the coupled monopole antenna principle. Wherein, the length of a third excitation path EP3 corresponding to the third mode (from the opening end OE3 of the third radiation part 140 to the feeding point FP) is smaller than one fourth of a wavelength of the third radio frequency signal.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the first frequency band is set from 790 MHz to 960 MHz, the second frequency band is set from 1710 MHz to 2170 MHz, and the third frequency band is set between 2500 MHz to 2700 MHz. The above-mentioned frequency bands can cover, for example, the frequency band of the long term evolution (LTE) standard of the fourth generation wireless communication standard, and the frequency band of the global system for mobile (GSM) of the second and the third generation wireless communication standard. Therefore, the radio frequency signal processing module of the radio frequency signal transceiving device can further transmits and receives radio frequency signals, which conform to the above-mentioned mobile communication standard, through the antenna structure 10.
On the other hand, because of the arrangement between the metal coupling part 130 and each radiation part in the antenna structure 10, the first excitation path EP1, the second excitation path EP2, and the third excitation path EP3 all are smaller than one fourth or even approximate to one sixth of the wavelengths of the first radio frequency signal, the second radio frequency signal, the third radio frequency signal, respectively. Each of gaps exist between the metal coupling part 130 and each of the radiation parts in the antenna structure 10 could be used to adjust the impedance matching value, the operating frequency and/or the length of the excitation paths EP1-EP3.
For example, in the present embodiment, a first gap G1 exists between the metal coupling part 130 and the first radiation part 110, a second gap G2 exists between the third radiation part 140 and the second radiation part 120, and a third gap G3 exists between the third radiation part 140 and the grounding plane GND. In the present embodiment, the width of the first gap G1 could be set between 0.3 mm and 1.3 mm. The width of the second gap G2 and the third gap G3 could be respectively set between 0.5 mm and 1 mm With these settings, the length of the first excitation path EP1, the second excitation path EP2, and the third excitation path EP3 could be set approximately to one sixth of the wavelength of the corresponding radio frequency signals while maintaining the antenna efficiency.
Another difference between the embodiment in
Therefore, the size of the fourth radiation part 150 and the width of the gap between the fourth radiation part 150 and the second radiation part 120 could also be used to adjust the operating frequency of the first mode, the second mode, and the third mode (mainly corresponding to the second mode of the second radiation part 120), and to adjust the impedance matching value of the antenna structure 30.
In summary, the invention provides an antenna and a radio frequency signal transceiving device including said antenna, using the monopole antenna principle and mutually coupling relationship between each of radiation parts and the metal coupling part in the antenna structure while exciting, the area of the antenna structure can be smaller than the area of the conventional antenna structure used for transceiving signals at the same frequency band, not only the requirement of operating the antenna multiple bands is satisfied, but the goals of antenna miniaturization and good antenna efficiency are also achieved.
Although the invention has been disclosed with reference to the aforesaid embodiments, they are not intended to limit the invention. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that modifications and variations to the described embodiments may be made without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention will be defined by the attached claims and not by the above detailed descriptions.
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