Patent Application
20240021982
This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202011423001.9, filed with the China National Intellectual Properly Administration on Dec. 8, 2020 and entitled “ANTENNA APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE”, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of terminal technologies, and in particular, to an antenna apparatus and an electronic device.
With continuous development of communication technologies, a multiple-input multiple-output (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output, MIMO) antenna technology is more widely used in an electronic device, and a requirement is increasingly high. Therefore, a quantity of antennas increases exponentially, and more frequency bands are covered. Currently, an electronic device product, especially an electronic device of a metal industry design (industry design, ID), still requires very high structural compactness and a metal proportion, while a recent electronic device design trend is a higher screen-to-body ratio, more multimedia devices, and a larger battery capacity. These designs cause antenna space to be sharply compressed. This brings a severe challenge to an antenna design of a metal body terminal.
In the conventional technology, on an electronic device with a metal frame and a glass battery cover ID, a conventional design scheme of a MIMO antenna, for example, a MIMO antenna of a low band (Low Band, LB) frequency band (which may also be referred to as an LB MIMO antenna), generally means to design a plurality of low-frequency antennas on a metal frame. In addition, considering that a frequency band of the MIMO antenna is usually the same as a frequency band of an original communication antenna, isolation of an antenna system is prone to deterioration, and a distance between two adjacent low-frequency antennas is usually designed to be large, to achieve good isolation.
However, in the foregoing scheme, the low-frequency antenna occupies an excessively large design area on the metal frame of the electronic device, which is unfavorable to layout of another antenna.
Embodiments of this application provide an antenna apparatus and an electronic device, to reduce a layout area on a metal frame, and reduce impact on another antenna.
A first aspect of embodiments of this application provides an antenna apparatus, where the antenna apparatus is configured for an electronic device, the electronic device includes a middle frame, a battery cover, and a battery located between the middle frame and the battery cover, and the antenna apparatus includes: at least one group of coupling feeding elements and at least one group of radiation elements, where each group of radiation elements includes: a first radiator and a second radiator, where the first radiator and the second radiator are arranged on an inner surface of the battery cover; and the first radiator and the second radiator are respectively located on two sides of the coupling feeding element, and the coupling feeding element is separately coupled to and feeds the first radiator and the second radiator.
Embodiments of this application provide an antenna apparatus. The antenna apparatus includes at least one group of coupling feeding elements and at least one group of radiation elements. A first radiator and a second radiator in the at least one group of radiation elements are arranged on an inner surface of a battery cover. The first radiator and the second radiator are respectively located on two sides of the coupling feeding element, and the coupling feeding element is separately coupled to and feeds the first radiator and the second radiator, so that distributed feeding connection between the coupling feeding element and the radiation element may be implemented. In this way, double resonance may be excited to implement wide frequency band coverage. Most of a feeding network may he implemented through a radiator arranged on the inner surface of the battery cover, so that a layout area of an antenna on a metal frame may be reduced, and impact on another antenna may be reduced. In addition, the antenna apparatus may be implemented in limited design space. This effectively saves antenna design space inside an electronic device to some extent.
In a possible implementation, at least one of the first radiator and the second radiator is located between orthographic projection of one side frame of the middle frame and the battery towards the battery cover.
In other words, at least one of the first radiator and the second radiator is located between the side frame (a left side frame or a right side frame) and an outer edge of the battery (an outer edge of the battery close to a side of the side frame). In this way, if at least one of the first radiator and the second radiator is not located in an orthographic projection area of the battery towards the battery cover, the battery does not block the first radiator or the second radiator. This avoids impact or interference on radiation performance of the first radiator or the second radiator.
In a possible implementation, the first radiator is located between the orthographic projection of one side frame of the middle frame and the battery towards the battery cover, and the second radiator is located between the orthographic projection of another opposite side frame of the middle frame and the battery towards the battery cover.
In this way, both the first radiator and the second radiator are located between the side frame (the left side frame or the right side frame) and the outer edge of the battery (the outer edge of the battery close to the side of the side frame). In other words, neither the first radiator nor the second radiator is located in the orthographic projection area of the battery towards the battery cover, and the battery does not block the first radiator and the second radiator. This avoids the impact or interference on the radiation performance of the first radiator and the second radiator.
In a possible implementation, the apparatus further includes at least two metal frame antennas, where two of the at least two metal frame antennas are low-frequency antennas.
Using some metal frames of the electronic device as a radiator in the antenna apparatus helps further improve radiation performance of the antenna apparatus.
In a possible implementation, one end of the first radiator extends toward a top frame of the middle frame, and one end of the second radiator extends toward a bottom frame of the middle frame; an orthographic projection of one low-frequency antenna towards the battery cover is opposite to the first radiator, and the orthographic projection of the one low-frequency antenna towards the battery cover and the first radiator are respectively located on two sides of the orthographic projection of the battery towards the battery cover; and an orthographic projection of another low-frequency antenna towards the battery cover is opposite to the second radiator, and the orthographic projection of another low-frequency antenna towards the battery cover and the second radiator are respectively located on the two sides of the orthographic projection of the battery towards the battery cover.
The first radiator is arranged diagonally opposite to the second radiator, the first radiator is arranged opposite to one low-frequency antenna along a central axis in a length direction of the frame, and the second radiator is arranged opposite to another low-frequency antenna along the central axis in the length direction of the frame. One low-frequency antenna is arranged diagonally opposite to another low-frequency antenna. In this way, both the radiator (the first radiator or the second radiator) and the metal frame antennas (the two low-frequency antennas) are separately arranged, so that the radiator (the first radiator or the second radiator) is far away from the metal frame antennas in terms of spatial positions, and isolation between the first radiator and the metal frame antennas and between the second radiator and the metal frame antennas may be increased. In this way, an isolation effect between antenna modules in the antenna apparatus may be effectively improved, and further, it may be ensured that the first radiator and the second radiator do not cause interference to the metal frame antennas (the two low-frequency antennas).
In a possible implementation, one end of the first radiator extends toward a bottom frame of the middle frame, and one end of the second radiator extends toward the bottom frame of the middle frame; or one end of the first radiator extends toward a top frame of the middle frame, and one end of the second radiator extends toward the top frame of the middle frame; or one end of the first radiator extends toward a bottom frame of the middle frame, and one end of the second radiator extends toward a side frame of the middle frame.
In a possible implementation, an electrical length of the first radiator and an electrical length of the second radiator range from ¼λ to ½λ, where λ is a wavelength corresponding to a resonant frequency of each of the first radiator and the second radiator.
In a possible implementation, each group of coupling feeding elements includes: a first coupling feeding element and a second coupling feeding element, where the first coupling feeding element is electrically connected to a feed, and the first coupling feeding element is separately coupled to and feeds another end of the first radiator and one end of the second coupling feeding element; and another end of the second coupling feeding element is coupled to and feeds another end of the second radiator.
In this way, the external feed feeds the first coupling feeding element, the first coupling feeding element is separately coupled to and feeds the first radiator and the second coupling feeding element, and then the second coupling feeding element is coupled to and feeds the second radiator. In this way, a process of feeding the first radiator and the second radiator through the feed is implemented.
In a possible implementation, the first coupling feeding element includes: a bracket and a feeding branch arranged on the bracket, where the feeding branch is electrically connected to the feed; and the bracket is fixed on the inner surface of the battery cover.
The bracket is fixed on the inner surface of the battery cover, so that the first coupling feeding element may be fixed. The feeding branch is electrically connected to the feed, so that the feed may feed the first coupling feeding element. The first coupling feeding element is separately coupled to and feeds the first radiator and the second coupling feeding element, and then the second coupling feeding element is coupled to and feeds the second radiator, to implement a process of feeding the first radiator and the second radiator through the feed.
In a possible implementation, the second coupling feeding element, the first radiator, and the second radiator are floating metals, graphene layers, or transparent conductive layers.
In a possible implementation, an operating frequency band of the first radiator and an operating frequency band of the second radiator range from 700 MHz to 900 MHz.
In a possible implementation, the apparatus further includes: at least one group of coupling grounding elements, where each group of coupling grounding elements includes at least two coupling ground layers, where one coupling ground layer is arranged close to one end of the first radiator and is coupled to and grounded with the first radiator; and another coupling ground layer is arranged close to one end of the second radiator and is coupled to and grounded with the second radiator.
In this way the first radiator may be coupled to and grounded with the middle frame through the coupling ground layer close to the first radiator, and the second radiator may be coupled to and grounded with the middle frame through the coupling ground layer close to the second radiator.
A second aspect of embodiments of this application provides an electronic device, including at least a display screen, a middle frame, a battery cover, and a battery located between the middle frame and the battery cover, and further including any one of the foregoing antenna apparatuses, where all the first radiator, the second radiator, and the coupling feeding element in the antenna apparatus are arranged on an inner surface of the battery cover.
Embodiments of this application provide an electronic device. The foregoing antenna apparatus is arranged in the electronic device. Because the antenna apparatus may reduce a layout area of an antenna on a metal frame, impact on another antenna may be reduced, and the antenna apparatus may be implemented in limited design space. To some extent, antenna design space inside the electronic device is effectively saved, and the antenna apparatus is arranged in the electronic device. In this way, while a function of the electronic device is enhanced, an occupied size of the antenna apparatus in the electronic device may be reduced, so that effective space for mounting another component in the electronic device is provided, and an experience effect of the electronic device is optimized. In addition, stability of signal transmission in the electronic device is ensured, and normal operation of the electronic device is ensured.
In a possible implementation, the middle frame is a metal middle frame, the metal middle frame includes at least a metal flame, and the metal frame forms at least two metal frame antennas in the antenna apparatus.
At least two metal frame antennas in the antenna apparatus formed by some metal frames of the electronic device are used as radiators, which helps further improve radiation performance of the antenna apparatus in the electronic device.
A third aspect of embodiments of this application further provides an electronic device, where the electronic device includes: at least a metal middle frame, a battery cover, and a battery located between the metal middle frame and the battery cover, and further includes: an antenna apparatus, where the antenna apparatus includes: a coupling radiation element, a feeding element, and at least three low-frequency antennas formed by a metal frame of the metal middle frame; and the coupling radiation element is arranged close to one of the low-frequency antennas, one end of the feeding element is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiation element, and another end of the feeding element feeds one of the low-frequency antennas.
Embodiments of this application provide an electronic device, At least three low-frequency antennas are formed through a metal frame of a metal middle frame, a coupling radiation element in an antenna apparatus is arranged close to one of the low-frequency antennas, and one end of a feeding element in the antenna apparatus is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiation element. Another end of the feeding element feeds one of the at least three low-frequency antennas. In this way, distributed feeding may be implemented by feeding and being connected to a metal frame antenna through the coupling radiation element. This improves radiation performance of the antenna apparatus. In addition, design difficulty of the entire antenna apparatus may be reduced to some extent.
In a possible implementation, the coupling radiation element includes: at least one coupling radiator, and the coupling radiator is arranged on an inner surface of the battery cover; and the coupling radiation element is arranged between the coupling radiator and the low-frequency antenna, one end of the feeding element is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiator, and another end of the feeding element feeds the low-frequency antenna.
In a possible implementation, at least some coupling radiators are located between orthographic projection of one side frame of the middle frame and the battery towards the battery cover.
In other words, a part or all of the structure of the coupling radiator is located between the side frame (a left side frame or a right side frame) and an outer edge of the battery (an outer edge of the battery close to a side of the side frame). In this way, a part or all of the structure of the coupling radiator is not located in an orthographic projection area of the battery towards the battery cover. In this case, the battery does not block the coupling radiator or may block only a part of the structure of the coupling radiator. This avoids impact or interference on radiation performance that blocks the coupling radiator.
In a possible implementation, the feeding element is electrically connected to a feed, one end of the feeding element is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiator, and another end of the feeding element is electrically connected to the low-frequency antenna through a feeding cable, so that the feeding element feeds the low-frequency antenna.
In this way, an external feed feeds the feeding element, the feeding element is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiator, and the feeding element feeds the low-frequency antenna through a feeding cable. In this way, a process of feeding the coupling radiator and the low-frequency antenna through the feed is implemented.
In a possible implementation, the feeding element includes: a bracket and a feeding branch arranged on the bracket, where the feeding branch is electrically connected to the feed; and the bracket is fixed on the inner surface of the battery cover.
The bracket is fixed on the inner surface of the battery cover, so that the feeding element may be fixed. The feeding branch is electrically connected to the feed, so that the external feed may feed the feeding element. The feeding element is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiator, and the feeding element feeds the low-frequency antenna through the feeding cable, to implement a process of feeding the coupling radiator and the low-frequency antenna through the feed.
In a possible implementation, the coupling radiation element or the feeding element is a floating metal, a graphene layer, or a transparent conductive layer.
In a possible implementation, the electronic device further includes: at least one ground layer, where the ground layer is arranged close to one end of the coupling radiator and is coupled to and grounded with the coupling radiator; and the ground layer is further grounded to the low-frequency antenna through the feeding cable.
In this way, a first radiator may be coupled to and grounded with the middle frame through a coupling ground layer close to the first radiator. The coupling radiator may be coupled to and grounded with the middle frame through the ground layer close to the coupling radiator, and the low-frequency antenna may be grounded to the middle frame.
With reference to the accompanying drawings, these and other aspects, implementation forms, and advantages of example embodiments will become apparent based on embodiments described below. However, it should be understood that the specification and the accompanying drawings are merely intended for descriptions and are not intended as definitions of limitations on embodiments of this application. For details, refer to the appended claims. Other aspects and advantages of embodiments of this application are described in the following description, and some aspects are obvious from the description or learned from practices of embodiments of this application. In addition, the aspects and advantages of embodiments of this application may be achieved and obtained by means and combinations specifically pointed out in the appended claims.
100—antenna apparatus; 10—coupling feeding element; 101—first coupling feeding element; 102—second coupling feeding element; 20—radiation element; 201—first radiator; 202—second radiator; 30—metal frame antenna; 40—coupling grounding element; 401—coupling ground layer; 50—coupling radiation element; 60—feeding element; 70—printed circuit board; 200—mobile phone; 21—display screen; 211—opening; 22—middle frame; 221—metal middle plate; 222—frame; 2221—top frame, 2222—bottom frame; 2223—left side frame; 2224—right side frame; 23—circuit board; 24—battery; 25—battery cover; 26a—front camera module; and 26b—rear camera module.
The terms used in embodiments of this application are only used to explain specific embodiments of this application, and are not intended to limit this application. The following will describe the implementations of embodiments of this application in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Embodiments of this application provide an electronic device, which may include but is not limited to a fixed or mobile terminal with an antenna such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, an ultra-mobile personal computer (ultra-mobile personal computer, UMPC), a handheld computer, a walkie-talkie, a netbook, and a point of sales (Point of sales, POS) machine, a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant, PDA), a wearable device, a virtual reality device, a wireless USB Flash drive, a Bluetooth audio/headset, or a vehicle-mounted front-mounted device, a car recorder, and a security device.
In embodiments of this application, a description is made by using an example in which a mobile phone 200 is the foregoing electronic device. The mobile phone 200 provided in embodiments of this application may be a curved-screen mobile phone or may be a flat-screen mobile phone. In embodiments of this application, a description is made by using an example of the flat-screen mobile phone.
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The battery 24 may be connected to a charging management module and the circuit board 23 through a power management module. The power management module receives input from the battery 24 and/or the charging management module, and supplies power to a processor, an internal memory, an external memory, the display screen 21, a camera module, a communication module, and the like. The power management module may be further configured to monitor parameters such as a battery 24 capacity, a battery 24 cycle count, and a battery 24 state of health (leakage and impedance). In some other embodiments, the power management module may also be arranged in a processor of the circuit board 23. In some other embodiments, the power management module and the charging management module may further be configured in a same device.
When the mobile phone 200 is the flat-screen mobile phone, the display screen 21 may be an organic light-emitting diode (Organic Light-Emitting Diode, OLED) display screen, or may be a liquid crystal display (Liquid Crystal Display, LCD). When the mobile phone 200 is the curved-screen mobile phone, the display screen may be the OLED display screen.
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The battery cover 25 may be a metal battery cover, a glass battery cover, a plastic battery cover, or a ceramic battery cover. In embodiments of this application, a material of the battery cover 25 is not limited, and is not limited to the foregoing example.
It should be noted that in some examples, the battery cover 25 of the mobile phone 200 may be connected to the frame 222 to form an integrally formed (Unibody) battery cover. For example, the mobile phone 200 may include: the display screen 21, the metal middle plate 221, and the battery cover. The battery cover may be a battery cover integrally formed (Unibody) by the frame 222 and the battery cover 25. In this way, the circuit board 23 and the battery 24 are located in space enclosed by the metal middle plate 221 and the battery cover.
To implement a photographing function, the mobile phone 200 may further include: a camera module. Still referring to
In embodiments of this application, arrangement positions of the front camera module 26a and the rear camera module 26b include but are not limited to the foregoing description. In some embodiments, there may be 1 or N front camera modules 26a and rear camera modules 26b arranged in the mobile phone 200, where N is a positive integer greater than 1.
It may be understood that an example structure in embodiments of this application does not constitute a specific limitation on the mobile phone 200. In some other embodiments of this application, the mobile phone 200 may include more or fewer components than those shown in the figure, or some components may be combined, or some components may be split, or components are arranged in different manners. The components shown in the figure may be implemented by hardware, software, or a combination of software and hardware.
To further increase an implementable function of the mobile phone 200, an antenna may be arranged on the mobile phone 200. Currently, most electronic devices use an ID design of the metal frame and the glass rear cover. Because a size of the metal frame is limited and an antenna environment is tight, antennas of some frequency bands may only stimulate a single mode of the metal frame to minimize the size. Therefore, a bandwidth of the antenna designed by using the metal frame is narrow especially when the antenna is designed in a low-frequency band, and performance is greatly affected by hand holding. Currently, specifications of a low-frequency three-antenna and a low-frequency four-antenna are gradually put on the agenda. An added MIMO antenna continues to use a frame antenna design, and occupies a large layout area on a metal frame of a mobile phone. Therefore, space of other antennas is inevitably compressed, which greatly affects other antennas (such as medium and high frequency antennas). Therefore, it is urgent to find a novel MIMO antenna scheme that has little impact on other antennas.
Based on this, embodiments of this application provide an antenna apparatus. The antenna apparatus may be used in the foregoing electronic device (for example, the mobile phone 200), and a first radiator, a second radiator, and a coupling feeding element in the antenna apparatus are all arranged on an inner surface of a battery cover. Specifically, the antenna apparatus includes at least one group of coupling feeding elements and at least one group of radiation elements. A first radiator and a second radiator in the at least one group of radiation elements are arranged on an inner surface of a battery cover. The first radiator and the second radiator are respectively located on two sides of the coupling feeding element, and the coupling feeding element is separately coupled to and feeds the first radiator and the second radiator, so that distributed feeding connection between the coupling feeding element and the radiation element may be implemented. In this way, double resonance may be excited to implement wide frequency band coverage. Most of a feeding network may be implemented through a radiator arranged on the inner surface of the battery cover, so that a layout area of an antenna on a metal frame may be reduced, and impact on another antenna may be reduced. In addition, the antenna apparatus may be implemented in limited design space. This effectively saves antenna design space inside an electronic device to some extent.
It should be noted that the antenna apparatus provided in this application is configured for an electronic device that uses one or more of the following MIMO communication technologies: for example, a long term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) communication technology, a Wi-Fi communication technology, a 5G communication technology, a SUB-6G communication technology, and another future MIMO communication technology.
The following uses different embodiments as an example, and describes a specific structure of the antenna apparatus with reference to the accompanying drawings. (The following embodiments do not highlight a requirement of a communication network, and only describe an operating feature of the antenna apparatus by using a frequency value.)
Embodiments of this application provide an antenna apparatus 100. The antenna apparatus 100 is configured for an electronic device. The electronic device (for example, a mobile phone 200) may include at least a middle frame 22, a battery cover 25, and a battery 24 (referring to
To some extent, the antenna apparatus 100 may be implemented in limited design space. This effectively saves antenna design space inside the electronic device. In addition, a groove does not need to be additionally provided on the antenna apparatus 100 on a metal frame of the middle frame 22, so that an industrial design appearance of the electronic device is not affected, and hand holding impact may be effectively reduced.
The first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 may be printed or pasted on the inner surface of the battery cover 25, or the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 may be embedded in the inner surface of the battery cover 25. A specific manner of arranging the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 on the inner surface of the battery cover 25 is not limited in embodiments of this application, and is not limited to the foregoing example. Certainly, in some other embodiments, the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 may alternatively be arranged on an outer surface of the battery cover 25. This is not limited in embodiments of this application.
It may be understood that in some embodiments, the antenna apparatus 100 provided in embodiments of this application may include a plurality of groups of radiation elements 20, to add more radiators. As a quantity of radiators increases, the antenna apparatus 100 may implement coverage of more modes.
In embodiments of this application, at least one of the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 may be located between an orthographic projection of one side frame of the middle frame 22 and the battery 24 towards the battery cover 25. In other words, at least one of the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 may be located between an outer edge of the side frame (a left side frame 2223 or a right side frame 2224) and an outer edge of the battery 24 (an outer edge of the battery 24 close to a side of the side frame). For example, referring to
Further, in some embodiments, the first radiator 201 may be located between the orthographic projection of one side frame of the middle frame 22 and the battery 24 towards the battery cover 25. The second radiator 202 may be located between the orthographic projection of another opposite side frame of the middle frame 22 and the battery 24 towards the battery cover 25. In other words, the first radiator 201 may be located between one of the side frames of the middle frame 22 and the outer edge of the battery 24 (the outer edge of the battery 24 close to the side of the side frame). The second radiator 202 may be located between another side frame opposite to the side frame of the middle frame 22 and another opposite outer edge of the battery 24 (another outer edge of the battery 24 close to the side of another side frame). For example, as shown in
In this way, both the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 are located between the side frame (the left side frame 2223 or the right side frame 2224) and the outer edge of the battery 24 (the outer edge of the battery 24 close to the side of the side frame). In other words, neither the first radiator 201 nor the second radiator 202 are located in the orthographic projection area of the battery 24 towards the battery cover 25, and the battery 24 does not block the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202. This avoids the impact or interference on the radiation performance of the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202.
Alternatively, in some other embodiments, the first radiator 201 or the second radiator 202 may not he completely located between the side frame (the left side frame 2223 or the right side frame 2224) and the outer edge of the battery 24 (the outer edge of the battery 24 close to the side of the side frame). In other words, a part of the first radiator 201 or the second radiator 202 may also be located in the orthographic projection area of the battery 24 towards the battery cover 25, provided that it is ensured that not all of the first radiator 201 or the second radiator 202 are located in the orthographic projection area of the battery 24 towards the battery cover 25. In other words, in some examples, some areas of the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 may be located in the orthographic projection area of the battery 24 towards the battery cover 25. However, most areas of the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 are located outside the orthographic projection area of the battery 24 towards the battery cover 25.
The antenna apparatus 100 may further include: at least two metal frame antennas 30, and two of the at least two metal frame antennas 30 may be low-frequency antennas. For example, as Shown in
It should be noted that in embodiments of this application, the middle frame 22 may be a metal middle frame, the metal middle frame includes at least a metal frame, and the metal frame forms at least two metal frame antennas 30 in the antenna apparatus 100. Specifically, the metal frame antenna 30 may be a radiator located on the metal frame, and a slot is provided on the metal frame to form the radiator. In other words, the metal frame antenna 30 is a groove antenna formed by providing a slot on the metal frame. The groove antenna may include a first part, a second part, and a third part that are separated by a slot, where a non-conductive material may be filled between the first part and the second part, between the second part and the third part, and between the third part and the first part.
In actual application, a position of the slot may be changed as required, and each slot may be filled with the non-conductive material (for example, plastic), to ensure appearance integrity of the metal frame. A providing position of the slot on the metal frame is flexibly set, so that appearance designs with different requirements may be implemented while antenna radiation performance is ensured, and product quality of the electronic device may be improved.
In embodiments of this application, an extension direction of the first radiator 201 and an extension direction of the second radiator 202 may include but are not limited to the following several possible implementations:
In a possible implementation, one end of the first radiator 201 may extend toward a bottom frame of the middle frame 22, and one end of the second radiator 202 may extend toward the bottom frame of the middle frame 22 (refer to
In another possible implementation, one end of the first radiator 201 may extend toward a top frame of the middle frame 22, and one end of the second radiator 202 may extend toward the bottom frame of the middle frame 22 (refer to
In still another possible implementation, one end of the first radiator 201 may extend toward the top frame of the middle frame 22, and one end of the second radiator 202 may extend toward the top frame of the middle frame 22 (refer to 31A or FIG, 47).
In yet another possible implementation, one end of the first radiator 201 may extend toward the bottom frame of the middle frame 22, and one end of the second radiator 202 may extend toward a side frame of the middle frame 22 (refer to
Based on the foregoing description, in embodiments of this application, an electrical length of the first radiator 201 and an electrical length of the second radiator 202 may range from ¼λ to ½λ, where λ is a wavelength corresponding to a resonant frequency of the first radiator 201 and a wavelength corresponding to a resonant frequency of the second radiator 202. The electrical length of the first radiator 201 and the electrical length of the second radiator 202 are one quarter wavelength to one half wavelength corresponding to a required resonant frequency.
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In embodiments of this application, the first coupling feeding element 101 may include: a bracket (not shown in the figure) and a feeding branch (not shown in the figure) arranged on the bracket, where the feeding branch is electrically connected to the feed (or, the feeding branch may have a feeding point, and the feeding point is electrically connected to the feed), and the bracket may be fixed on the inner surface of the battery cover 25. The bracket is fixed on the inner surface of the battery cover 25, so that the first coupling feeding element 101 may be fixed. The feeding branch is electrically connected to the feed, so that the feed may feed the first coupling feeding element 101. The first coupling feeding element 101 is separately coupled to and feeds the first radiator 201 and the second coupling feeding element 102, and then the second coupling feeding element 102 is coupled to and feeds the second radiator 202, to implement a process of feeding the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 through the feed.
In addition, the feeding branch may also be directly a circuit layer arranged on the bracket, and the feeding branch may be directly formed and etched on the bracket by laser, to form a part that is fixed to the inner surface of the battery cover 25, and a part that is fixed to the first coupling feeding element 101 that is electrically connected to the external feed. It should be noted that if the feeding branch is implemented through a floating metal, the feeding branch may also be configured to cover another frequency band.
In an optional implementation, the bracket may be an insulating material. For example, the bracket may be any one or more of polycarbonate, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer, and a mixture PC/ABS material (for example, plastic). This is not limited in embodiments of this application, and is not limited to the foregoing example.
In a possible implementation, the coupling feeding element 10 (for example, the first coupling feeding element 101 and the second coupling feeding element 102) may also be arranged on the battery cover 25. In addition, there is a coupling spacing between the first coupling feeding element 101 and the second coupling feeding element 102, the second coupling feeding element 102 is coupled by the first coupling feeding element 101 in the air, and a coupling region may be formed between the second coupling feeding element 102 and the first coupling feeding element 101. It should be understood that the smaller the coupling spacing, the stronger the coupling effect. The larger the coupling distance, the weaker the coupling effect. The larger the coupling region, the stronger the coupling effect. The smaller the coupling region, the weaker the coupling effect. The coupling spacing and a specific value of the coupling region may be flexibly set based on an actual application requirement. This is not limited in embodiments of this application.
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It is easily understood that in embodiments of this application, one end of the coupling ground layer 401 may be connected to at least one of the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202, and another end of the coupling ground layer 401 may be connected to a ground layer of the electronic device. Certainly, in some other embodiments, the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 may alternatively not use a coupling grounding structure, for example, may be directly grounded through the feeding cable. The feeding cable may be a wired able (for example, a cable), a transmission cable, or the like. A grounding structure of the antenna apparatus 100 is not limited in embodiments of this application, and is not limited to the foregoing example.
In embodiments of this application, the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 are low-frequency antennas. When the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 are used as the low-frequency antennas, an operating frequency band of the first radiator 201 and an operating frequency band of the second radiator 202 may be 700 MHz to 900 MHz. For example, the operating frequency band of the first radiator 201 and the operating frequency band of the second radiator 202 may be 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, or the like. This is not limited in embodiments of this application, and is not limited to the foregoing example.
Specifically, the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 may be arranged on the inner surface of the battery cover 25. Design space of the first radiator 201 and design space of the second radiator 202 on the inner surface of the battery cover 25 are sufficient, and a size of the first radiator 201 and a size of the second radiator 202 may be designed to be large. In this way, a coupling antenna design structure formed by the first radiator 201, the second radiator 202, and the coupling feeding element 10 may excite a resonant mode of a low-frequency band, generate more resonances, and implement coverage of more frequency bands. Alternatively, in some other embodiments, the size of the first radiator 201 and the size of the second radiator 202 included in the antenna apparatus 100 may be designed to be small, influence of surrounding components is reduced, and may be implemented in small design space.
In addition, in some embodiments, an example in which the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 are floating metal antennas is used. A filter, such as a band-pass filter or a high-frequency filter, may be further arranged inside the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202. In this way, a signal radiated by a floating metal antenna may be filtered. In other words, a plurality of frequency bands may be implemented.
In embodiments of this application, the second coupling feeding element 102, the first radiator 201, and the second radiator 202 may be floating metals, graphene layers, or transparent conductive layers. The first radiator 201 may be configured to form a first MIMO antenna, and the second radiator 202 may be configured to form a second MIMO antenna. Certainly, in embodiments of this application, the second coupling feeding element 102, the first radiator 201, and the second radiator 202 include but are not limited to floating metal antennas, graphene antennas, and transparent antennas. For example, the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 that are arranged on the inner surface of the battery cover 25 may alternatively be other antenna elements that are arranged on the inner surface of the battery cover 25 and that may be coupled and radiate signals.
Based on the foregoing description, to further reflect advantages of the antenna apparatus 100, embodiments of this application further provide the antenna apparatus 100 whose radiation element 20 includes only the first radiator 201 (refer to
In addition, based on head-hand performance of the three antenna apparatuses 100 in an actual scenario, in other words, the electronic device such as the mobile phone 200 is held close to the head by hand, where the mobile phone 200 has an application evaluation of the antenna apparatus 100 that the mobile phone 200 is held close to a left ear by a left hand (refer to
In addition,
Different from the foregoing Embodiment 1, still referring to
Specifically, still referring to
Similarly, based on the foregoing description, to further reflect advantages of the antenna apparatus 100, embodiments of this application further provide the antenna apparatus 100 whose radiation element 20 includes only the first radiator 201 (refer to
In addition, based on head-hand performance of the antenna apparatus 100 corresponding to the distributed radiator feeding structure shown in
In addition,
In addition, when the metal frame antenna 30 also radiates, an example in which the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 are low-frequency antennas is used. As shown
For example, in
In addition,
In embodiments of this application, other technical features are the same as those in Embodiment 1, and a same or corresponding technical effect may be achieved. Details are not described herein again.
Different from the foregoing Embodiment 1 or Embodiment 2, the radiator in embodiments of this application is a medium and high frequency radiator. For example, a length of the radiator may be reduced to implement an increase of a frequency hand. Two medium and high frequency radiators (for example, floating metal antennas) are located on a left side and a right side, and a connection is implemented through a coupling feeding element 10 (for example, a floating metal). Specifically, compared with Embodiment 1, referring to
In embodiments of this application, the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 are medium and high frequency antennas. When the first radiator 201 and the second radiator 202 are used as the medium and high frequency antennas, the operating frequency band of the first radiator 201 and the operating frequency band of the second radiator 202 may be greater than 1000 MHz. For example, the operating frequency hand of the first radiator 201 and the operating frequency band of the second radiator 202 may be 1000 MHz, 1100 MHz, 1200 MHz, or the like. This is not limited in embodiments of this application, and is not limited to the foregoing example.
In addition,
Similarly, based on the foregoing description, to further reflect advantages of the antenna apparatus 100, embodiments of this application further provide the antenna apparatus 100 whose radiation element 20 includes only the first radiator 201 (refer to
In addition
In addition,
In addition, in the foregoing table, a 5 mm body SAR (electromagnetic radiation energy absorbed by a matter per unit mass and per unit time, measuring a thermal effect of terminal radiation) on a lower back surface of each of the two antenna structures such as the antenna apparatus 100 (a double resonance structure) shown in
In embodiments of this application, other technical features are the same as those in Embodiment 1 or Embodiment 2, and a same or corresponding technical effect may be achieved. Details are not described herein again.
Different from Embodiment 1, Embodiment 2, or Embodiment 3, in embodiments of this application, a radiator may feed and be connected to a metal frame antenna 30, and the radiator and the metal frame antenna 30 are combined to implement distributed feeding.
Embodiments of this application provide an electronic device. The electronic device includes: at least a middle frame 22 (a metal middle frame), a battery cover 25, and a battery 24 located between the metal middle frame and the battery cover 25, and further includes: an antenna apparatus 100. Specifically, referring to
At least three low-frequency antennas are formed through the metal frame of the metal middle frame, a coupling radiation element 50 in an antenna apparatus 100 is arranged close to one of the low-frequency antennas, and one end of the feeding element 60 in the antenna apparatus IOU is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiation element 50. Another end of the feeding element 60 feeds one of the at least three low-frequency antennas. In this way, distributed feeding may be implemented by feeding and being connected to a metal frame antenna 30 through the coupling radiation element 50. This improves radiation performance of the antenna apparatus 100. In addition, design difficulty of the entire antenna apparatus 100 may be reduced to some extent.
The coupling radiation element 50 may include: at least one coupling radiator, and the coupling radiator is arranged on an inner surface of the battery cover 25; and the feeding element 60 is located between the coupling radiator and the low-frequency antenna, one end of the feeding element 60 is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiator, and another end of the feeding element 60 feeds the low-frequency antenna.
In a possible implementation, at least some coupling radiators are located between orthographic projection of one side frame of the middle frame 22 and the battery 24 towards the battery cover 25. In other words, a part or all of the structure of the coupling radiator is located between the side frame (a left side frame 2223 or a right side frame 2224) and an outer edge of the battery 24 (an outer edge of the battery 24 close to a side of the side frame). In this way, a part or all of the structure of the coupling radiator is not located in an orthographic projection area of the battery 24 towards the battery cover 25. In this case, the battery 24 does not block the coupling radiator or may block only a part of the structure of the coupling radiator. This avoids impact or interference on radiation performance that blocks the coupling radiator.
In embodiments of this application, the feeding element 60 is electrically connected to a feed, one end of the feeding element 60 is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiator, and another end of the feeding element 60 is electrically connected to the low-frequency antenna through a feeding cable, so that the feeding element 60 feeds the low-frequency antenna. In this way, an external feed feeds the feeding element 60, the feeding element 60 is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiator, and the feeding element 60 feeds the low-frequency antenna through a feeding cable. In this way, a process of feeding the coupling radiator and the low-frequency antenna through the feed is implemented.
It may be understood that a feeding form may be implemented through a wired cable (for example, a cable), a transmission cable, a floating metal structure, or the like. The feeding form in embodiments of this application includes but is not limited to the foregoing examples, and may be specifically flexibly set based on a requirement of an actual application scenario.
The feeding element 60 includes: a bracket and a feeding branch arranged on the bracket, where the feeding branch is electrically connected to the feed; and the bracket is fixed on the inner surface of the battery cover 25. The bracket is fixed on the inner surface of the battery cover 25, so that the feeding element 60 may be fixed. The feeding branch is electrically connected to the feed, so that the external feed may feed the feeding element 60. The feeding element 60 is coupled to and feeds the coupling radiator, and the feeding element 60 feeds the low-frequency antenna through the feeding cable, to implement a process of feeding the coupling radiator and the low-frequency antenna through the feed.
In embodiments of this application, the coupling radiation element 50 or the feeding element 60 may be a floating metal, a graphene layer, or a transparent conductive layer.
In addition, the antenna apparatus 100 provided in embodiments of this application may further include: at least one ground layer, where the ground layer is arranged close to one end of the coupling radiator and is coupled to and grounded with the coupling radiator; and the ground layer is further grounded to the low-frequency antenna through the feeding cable. In this way, the first radiator 201 may be coupled to and grounded with the middle frame 22 through the coupling ground layer 401 close to the first radiator 201. The coupling radiator may be coupled to and grounded with the middle frame 22 through the ground layer close to the coupling radiator, and the low-frequency antenna may be grounded to the middle frame 22.
In summary, when the coupling radiator and the metal frame antenna 30 perform distributed feeding connection to improve radiation performance, referring to
In embodiments of this application, other technical features are the same as those in Embodiment 1, Embodiment 2, or Embodiment 3, and a same or corresponding technical effect may be achieved. Details are not described herein again.
In the description of embodiments of this application, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly stipulated and restricted, terms “installation”, “joint connection”, and “connection” should be understood broadly, which, for example, may be a fixed connection, or may be an indirect connection by using a medium, or may be an internal communication between two components, or may be an interactive relationship between two components. A person of ordinary skill in the art may understand the specific meanings of the foregoing terms in embodiments of this application according to specific situations.
In embodiments of this application, it is implied that an apparatus or element in question needs to have a particular orientation, or needs to be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore cannot be construed as a limitation on embodiments of this application. In the description of embodiments of this application, unless otherwise exactly and specifically ruled, “a plurality of” means two or more than two.
The terms such as “first”, “second”, “third”, and “fourth” (if any) in the specification and claims of embodiments of this application and in the accompanying drawings are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily used for describing any particular order or sequence. It may be understood that the data used in such a way is interchangeable in proper circumstances, so that embodiments of this application described herein can be implemented in other sequences than the sequence illustrated or described herein. Moreover, the terms “include”, “contain” and any other variants mean to cover the non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a process, method, system, product, or device that includes a list of steps or units is not necessarily limited to those steps or units, but may include other steps or units not expressly listed or inherent to such a process, method, product, or device.
Finally, it should be noted that the foregoing embodiments are merely intended for describing the technical solutions of embodiments of this application other than limiting this application. Although embodiments of this application is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, a person of ordinary skill in the art should understand that they may still make modifications to the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments or make equivalent replacements to some or all technical features thereof, without departing from the scope of the technical solutions of embodiments of this application.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 202011423001.9 | Dec 2020 | CN | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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| PCT/CN2021/135167 | 12/2/2021 | WO |
