Patent Application
20170324151
The present disclosure relates to the field of mobile communications and, in particular, to an LTE full-band cellphone antenna structure for a mobile electronic device.
Antenna is used for transmitting or receiving radio waves, so as to transfer or exchange radio signals. Electronic devices with wireless communication function, for example cellphone, personal digital assistant, laptop etc., generally access to wireless network through a built-in antenna. At present, electronic devices adopting metal frame are more and more popular to the mass consumers.
Cellphone antenna in the related art usually adopts a metal frame with a fracture as the radiator, in addition, a single or multiple radiators with a flexible printed circuit (Flexible Printed Circuit, FPC) or laser direct structuring (Laser Direct Structuring, LDS) form may also be adopted. However, antenna with FPC or LDS form exists certain problems, for example, difficulty on antenna pattern tuning and frequency offset brought by processing accuracy tolerance.
Therefore, there is a need to provide a new LTE full-band cellphone antenna structure.
Many aspects of the exemplary embodiments can be better understood with reference to the following drawings. The components in the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale, the emphasis instead being placed upon clearly illustrating the principles of the present disclosure. Moreover, in the drawings, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.
The present disclosure will be further illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings and following embodiments.
As shown from
The metal frame 101 is of a rectangular shape, which has four side edges. A shape of the ground plate 102 is the same with that of the metal frame 101, which has a pair of short edges and a pair of long edges. A gap 104 is provided between a short edge 102A and a relative shorter side edge of the metal frame. The relative shorter side edge is provided with two slottings 101B which are arranged in parallel to and spaced with each other, the portion between the two slottings is a non-grounding potion 101A, other portions of the metal frame 101 are electrically connected with the ground plate 102 and is electrically disconnected with the non-grounding portion 101A.
Actually, the electrical connection between the feeding point and the non-grounding portion 101A makes the non-grounding portion 101A be a middle-high frequency radiator in the antenna structure, and the non-grounding portion 101A is not connected with the ground plate, thus the non-grounding portion 101A actually corresponds to a capacitive coupling element, when the non-grounding portion 101A is close enough to the short edge of the ground plate 102, the ground plate 102 is exited to generate a current, so that the ground plate 102 can serve as the low frequency radiator of the antenna structure. Therefore, radiators of FPC or LDS form can be omitted, which reduces the tuning difficulty, and is not affected by processing accuracy. When the non-grounding portion 101A is coupled with the ground plate 102 so that the ground plate 102 itself serves as the low frequency radiator, the antenna structure will have very wide working bandwidth, therefore, the antenna structure can operate at a needed frequency band through an external matching circuit. Comparing with conventional antennas (such PIFA), antenna with such structure has much smaller size.
As shown in
The two feeding branches of the metal sheet 103 are formed as follows: the metal sheet 103 is provided with a semi-closed slit 103C, the slit 103C extends to an edge of the connecting end 103A and forms an opening, so that the feeding unit 103 is divided into two portions which are connected with each other, the two portions are the two feeding branches of the metal sheet 103. The two feeding branches broaden working bandwidth in middle-high frequency for the non-grounding portion 101A. Taking the position where the connecting end 103A is located as a boundary point, the side edge 101A between the two slottings 101B can be divided as a relative longer first radiating branch and a relative shorter second radiating branch.
Due to the influence of the metal frame at the grounding portion, the low frequency portion of the antenna static bandwidth can only cover GSM frequency band (824-960 MHz), therefore the present disclosure adds a feeding terminal matching circuit 200 so as to achieve coverage on LTE full frequency bands. In the present disclosure, the feeding terminal matching circuit 200 mainly includes a switch S1 and two inductances L2 and L3 which are connected in parallel, which can achieve coverage on LTE full frequency bands through switching Si to different inductances L2 and L3. To be specific, the feeding terminal matching circuit 200 includes an inductance L1, a capacitance C1 connected in parallel with the inductance L1, a capacitance C1 connected in series with the inductance L1, inductances L2 and L3 connected in parallel with the capacitance C2 and a switch which can be switched between the inductance L2 and inductance L3. L1=2 nH, L2=6.8 nH, L3=10 nH, C1=0.4 pF, C2=2 pF. When the switch is at the S1 position, frequency of 700-824 MHz can be generated; when the switch is at the S2 position, frequency of 824-960 MHz can be generated. In addition, the value of the inductance and the capacitance can be adjusted according to the required antenna performance
The above merely shows embodiments of the present disclosure, it should be noted that, improvements can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the inventive concept of the present disclosure, however, these shall belong to the protection scope of the present disclosure.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 201610284245.0 | May 2016 | CN | national |
