Patent Application
20060038739
a) Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an antenna, and more particularly to a GPS (Global Positioning System) antenna that minimizes the volume of the antenna set and the influence of ambient environment to the radiation pattern of the antenna, and that is omni antenna such that signal can be received at any position when the antenna is integrated with PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), cellular phones, or GPS hand-held devices.
b) Description of the Prior Art
Most of the energy emitted and received by radio wave for conventional microwave antenna hand-held electronic devices or other communication products will be affected by hand, head, or body of a user, and the near-field energy is huge by the antenna, thereby wasting most of the radiation energy and causing the efficiency and response of the antenna to be worse than expected. Moreover, the conventional antenna must use metal for grounding, and its radiation pattern has specific direction, such as that general hand-held electronic devices must align the antenna to the sky to be able to receive signal.
Accordingly, these shortcomings need to be fixed, and a new GPS antenna is invented.
The present invention is a GPS antenna comprising a body made of microwave ceramic material, and spiral radiation metallic electrodes to form a rotation loop structure that can reduce induction noise and serve as a better wave filter, and with right circular polarized all direction radiation pattern, and ceramic ground plane that including balun and transformer component. This GPS antenna has a complete 360 degrees of reception capability, and thereby when integrating with PDA, cellular phones, or GPS hand-held devices, signal can be received independent of their positions; whereas conventional antenna requires horizontal position to be able to receive signal.
To enable a further understanding of the said objectives and the technological methods of the invention herein, the brief description of the drawings below is followed by the detailed description of the preferred embodiments.
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According to the present invention, the dielectric constant of the ceramic ground plane (or PCB) 3 is greater than 5, and a BALUN (Balanced-Unbalanced) and transformer component or circuitry 31 is embedded into the ground plane to transfer unbalanced signal to balanced signal and provide impedance matching. With this design, not too many near-field values will be created, and noise surrounding the antenna can be isolated, thereby allowing antennae with various functions to be coexisted in a tiny space without interfering with one another. This feature is especially important for hand-held electronic devices with diversely integrated functions and emphasizing compact size. Moreover, the present invention does not require grounding as a conventional antenna, hence client-side developers can save a lot of time in designing their products.
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According to the present invention, a GPS antenna comprises a body made of microwave ceramic material, and spiral radiation metallic electrodes to form a rotation loop structure that can reduce induction noise and serve as a better wave filter, and with right circular polarized all direction radiation pattern. This GPS antenna has a complete 360 degrees of reception capability, and thereby when integrating with PDA, cellular phones, or GPS hand-held devices, signal can be received independent of their positions; whereas a conventional antenna requires horizontal position to be able to receive signal.
It is of course to be understood that the embodiments described herein is merely illustrative of the principles of the invention and that a wide variety of modifications thereto may be effected by persons skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.
