This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 111147315, filed on Dec. 9, 2022. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
The disclosure relates to an antenna module and an electronic device, and particularly relates to a multi-band antenna module and an electronic device.
Generally, regarding a mobile device with an all-metal back cover, since a Wi-Fi antenna is close to a metal frame, it is easily affected by factors, such as a width of the metal frame, a way the metal frame is connected, and shielding of the all-metal back cover, resulting in poor performance of wireless transmission in low frequency band (i.e. 2.4 GHz). In order to improve the low frequency band antenna performance, a wider metal frame on the Y axis and a deeper internal space on the Z axis are required, but this is not conducive to product thinning.
The disclosure is directed to an antenna module with good antenna performance in a low frequency band.
The disclosure is directed to an electronic device having the aforementioned antenna module.
The disclosure provides an antenna module including a first radiator and a second radiator. The first radiator includes a first segment, a second segment, a third segment, a fourth segment and a fifth segment connected in sequence. The first segment and the second segment are connected to a feeding terminal. The fifth segment is connected to a first ground terminal. A first slot is formed between the second segment and the fourth segment. The second radiator is disposed beside the first segment, has an edge, and is connected to a second ground terminal. The second segment retracts from an extension line of the edge, and a first retracting distance is between the second segment and the extension line. The fourth segment retracts from the extension line, and a second retracting distance is the fourth segment and the extension line. The first segment resonates at a first high frequency band. The first radiator resonates at a low frequency band and a second high frequency band. The first retracting distance, the second retracting distance, the second segment, the third segment, a part of the fourth segment, the fifth segment and the first slot resonate at a third high frequency band. The first segment and the second radiator resonate at a fourth high frequency band.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the antenna module further includes a substrate, where the substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite each other, the first radiator and the second radiator are disposed on the first surface, the feeding terminal, the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal are disposed on the second surface, the feeding terminal is connected to the first segment and the second segment through a first through hole via, the first ground terminal is connected to the fifth segment through a second through hole via, and the second ground terminal is connected to the second radiator through a third through hole via.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, in the antenna module, a second slot is formed between the first segment and the second radiator.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, a projection of the second ground terminal on the first surface is adjacent to the edge.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the second radiator is connected to a third ground terminal, the second ground terminal is located between the first ground terminal and the third ground terminal, and the second ground terminal is adjacent to the feeding terminal.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the antenna module further includes a substrate and a third radiator, where the substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite each other, the first radiator and the second radiator are disposed on the first surface, and the third radiator is disposed on the second surface, and a projection of the third radiator on the first surface partially overlaps the second radiator, the second radiator is connected to the third radiator through a fourth through hole via, and a second slot is formed between the first segment and the projection of the third radiator on the first surface.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the antenna module further includes a substrate, where the substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite each other, the second radiator has an edge, projections of the second ground terminal and the third ground terminal on the first surface are adjacent to the edge, and a part of the first radiator that is near a projection of the feeding terminal on the first surface is retracted from the edge, and the first retracting distance is between the part of the first radiator and the edge.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the third segment of the first radiator has at least one slot.
The disclosure provides an electronic device including a metal casing and the above-mentioned antenna module, the metal casing includes a frame area, the above-mentioned antenna module is disposed in the frame area, and the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal are connected to the metal casing.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the above-mentioned metal casing includes a side wall adjacent to the antenna module, a bottom wall connected to the side wall, and a slot between the side wall and the bottom wall corresponding to the antenna module, and a length of the slot is ¼ times a wavelength of the low frequency band.
Based on the above description, the antenna module of the disclosure includes a first radiator and a second radiator. The first radiator includes a first segment, a second segment, a third segment, a fourth segment and a fifth segment connected in sequence. The first segment and the second segment are connected to a feeding terminal. The fifth segment is connected to a first ground terminal. A first slot is formed between the second segment and the fourth segment. The second radiator is disposed beside the first segment and connected to a second ground terminal. In this way, not only does the antenna module resonate at the low frequency band and the multiple high frequency bands, but also the antenna module may have a good performance on antenna efficiency in low frequency band.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.
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A distance between the two antenna modules 100, 100′ of the embodiment is about 72 mm, which may accommodate a camera module 170 (
The embodiment uses the limited space in the electronic device 10 to accommodate the antenna modules 100, 100′, and resonates at a frequency band of Wi-Fi 2.4G (2400-2500 MHZ) and a frequency band of Wi-Fi 5G/6E (5150-7125 MHz). The following description will take the antenna module 100 as an example.
The antenna module 100 includes a substrate 150 (about 31 mm in length and 6 mm in width) disposed at a frame area 112 adjacent to the side wall 114. Specifically, the substrate 150 is located in a cavity (about 71.8 mm in length, 13.1 mm in width, and about 6.9 mm in height) of the frame area 112, and is attached to and fixed on the bracket 160, making full use of space of the frame area 112.
The substrate 150 has a plurality of screw holes 172 (
In the embodiment, the coaxial transmission line 164 is connected to the substrate 150, and is used to transmit signals of the antenna module 100 to a module card (not shown) of a main board (not shown) away from the frame area 112, so as to implement further signal processing.
In the embodiment, the metal barrier 166 is disposed between the antenna module 100 and the main board, as well as between the two antenna modules 100 and 100′, to form a decoupling structure to effectively block or reduce interference from a noise source of the main board on the antenna module 100, and to avoid mutual interference between the two antenna modules 100, 100′ (
The antenna module 100 further includes a first radiator 120 and a second radiator 130 adjacent to each other. The first radiator 120 and the second radiator 130 are arranged on the first surface F1 of the substrate 150.
The first radiator 120 includes a first segment 121 (a position A1 to a position A2), a second segment 122 (positions A1, A3, A4 to a position A5), a third segment 123 (the position A5 to a position A6), a fourth segment 124 (the position A5 to a position A7), and a fifth segment 125 (an area between the screw hole 172 and the position A7) connected in sequence. The first segment 121 is located on one side of the first radiator 120 (i.e., a right side of
The antenna module 100 further includes a feeding terminal F (
In detail, a projection of the feeding terminal F on the first surface F1 is between the first segment 121 and the second segment 122, and is connected to the first segment 121 and the second segment 122 through a first through hole via H1. The first ground terminal G1 is an ENIG (Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold) area adjacent to the screw hole 172. A projection of the first ground terminal G1 on the first surface F1 overlaps the fifth segment 125, and is connected to the fifth segment 125 through a second through hole via H2.
The second ground terminal G2 is another ENIG area adjacent to the screw hole 172, and is aligned with first ground terminal G1. A projection of the second ground terminal G2 on the first surface F1 overlaps the second radiator 130, and is connected to the second radiator 130 through a third through hole via H3.
The ground terminal T is disposed beside the second ground terminal G2, and is connected to the second radiator 130 through a fifth through hole via H5. The feeding terminal F is electrically connected to a positive signal terminal of the coaxial transmission line 164 (
On the other hand, the second radiator 130 is disposed beside the first segment 121 and connected to the second ground terminal G2 and the ground terminal T, and includes a sixth segment 131 (a position B1 to a position B2), a seventh segment 132 (a projection of the ground terminal T on the first surface F1) and an eighth segment 133 (a projection of the second ground terminal G2 on the first surface F1) connected in sequence.
The second radiator 130 has an edge ED extending along a negative X direction. The projection of the second ground terminal G2 on the first surface F1 is adjacent to the edge ED. The second segment 122 retracts from an extension line of the edge ED, and a first retracting distance D1 is between the second segment 122 and the extension line. The fourth segment 124 retracts from the extension line, and a second retracting distance D2 is between the fourth segment 124 and the extension line.
The antenna module 100 may generate a low frequency band of WiFi 2.4G (2400-2500 MHz) and a high frequency band of WiFi 5G/6E (5150-7125 MHz) through the first radiator 120 and the second radiator 130. In detail, a signal fed from the feeding terminal F may resonate at a first high frequency band (5200 MHz) through a path of the first segment 121, and by changing a length and a width of the first segment 121, a central frequency and impedance matching of the first high frequency band may be adjusted.
The first radiator 120 resonates at a low frequency band and a second high frequency band. Specifically, the signal is fed from the feeding terminal F and travels along the first segment 121, the second segment 122, the third segment 123, the fourth segment 124 and the fifth segment 125, which forms a PIFA (planar inverted-F antenna) structure and further resonates at the low frequency band (2400-2500 MHZ) of Wi-Fi 2.4G and the second high frequency band (5900 MHZ). By changing the second retracting distance D2 and a width of the fifth segment 125, central frequencies and impedance matching of the low frequency band and the second high frequency band may be further adjusted.
The signal is fed from the feeding terminal F and travels along the second segment 122, the fourth segment 124 to the fifth segment 125 and couples the first retracting distance D1, the second retracting distance D2 and a first slot S1, to resonate at a third high frequency band (6400 MHZ). It should be noted that the first slot S1 is formed between the second segment 122 and the fourth segment 124. By changing a width of the first slot S1 and the first retracting distance D1, a central frequency and impedance matching of the third high frequency band may be further adjusted.
The first segment 121 and the second radiator 130 resonate at a fourth high frequency band. In detail, the first segment 121 and the path formed by the sixth segment 131, the seventh segment 132 and the eighth segment 133 form an open-loop antenna structure, which resonates at the fourth high frequency band (7000 MHZ). It should be noted that the antenna module 100 has a second slot S2 formed between the first segment 121 and the second radiator 130. By changing a width of the second slot S2, a central frequency and impedance matching of the fourth high frequency band may be adjusted.
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In other words, the embodiment makes full use of the space on the second surface F2 of the substrate 150A to arrange the third radiator 140A, and integrates the ground terminal T (
On the other hand, there are three screw holes 172 in the embodiment, which are located in the first ground terminal G1 (
The second radiator 130A is connected to the third ground terminal G3 through a sixth through hole via H6, and the second radiator 130A forms a path (the position B1, the position B2, a position B3 and the third ground terminal G3). Through the design of the above path and the three screw holes 172, not only are a grounding area of the antenna and the antenna bandwidth (5150-7125 MHZ) increased, but also the interference generated by the coaxial transmission line 164 (
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Specifically, the widths of the first radiator 120B at the positions A4 and A2 may be increased, so as to improve the impedance matching of the third high frequency band and the fourth high frequency band. On the other hand, the widths of the first radiator 120B at the positions A6, A5 and A7 may be adjusted, for example, a third slot S3 and a fourth slot S4 are formed in the third segment (i.e., between the position A5 and the position A6). The position of resonance frequency in the low frequency band is adjusted by changing the thickness of the resonance path, so that the position of the resonance frequency is not fixed at a specific position.
In summary, based on the above descriptions, the antenna module of the disclosure includes a first radiator and a second radiator. The first radiator includes a first segment, a second segment, a third segment, a fourth segment and a fifth segment connected in sequence. The first segment and the second segment are connected to a feeding terminal. The fifth segment is connected to a first ground terminal. A first slot is formed between the second segment and the fourth segment. The second radiator is disposed beside the first segment, and has an edge and connected to a second ground terminal. A first retracting distance is between the second segment and the extension line of the edge. A second retracting distance is between the fourth segment and the extension line. In this way, not only may the limited space be used to resonate at low frequency band and multiple high frequency bands, but also the antenna module may have good performance on antenna efficiency in low frequency band and high frequency band.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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111147315 | Dec 2022 | TW | national |