A rod antenna with a meander element for hand-held phone

Author

Odachi, N. ; Sekine, S. ; Shoki, H. ; Suzuki, Y.

Author_Institution

Corp. R&D Center, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

16-21 July 2000

Firstpage

1682

Abstract

This paper proposes a rod antenna with a meander element mounted on a hand-held phone. The quarter-wavelength meander element can improve the input impedance of a half-wavelength rod antenna. The reason for the improvement of the input impedance is that the total length of the antenna is three quarter-wavelengths. Also, the proposed antenna can realize a high gain in the horizontal plane. The reason for the high gain in this direction is that the meander element is optimized to radiate in the horizontal direction so as to add to the radiation from the antenna.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; electric impedance; helical antennas; mobile antennas; telephone sets; antenna radiation pattern; half-wavelength rod antenna; hand-held phone; helical element; high gain; horizontal plane; input impedance; quarter-wavelength meander element; three quarter-wavelengths antenna; Antenna feeds; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Degradation; Dipole antennas; Directive antennas; Frequency; Helical antennas; Impedance; Mobile communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2000. IEEE

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6369-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2000.874565

Filename

874565