Title :
A flat car-roof antenna module for phone and GPS applications
Author :
Ning Guan ; Chiba, Hidetoshi ; Yamaguchi, Yoshio ; Tayama, Hiroiku
Author_Institution :
Opt. & Electron. Lab., Fujikura Ltd., Sakura, Japan
Abstract :
A flat car-roof antenna module for phone and GPS applications is proposed. The module consists of a planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) for the phone operation and a planar loop antenna for the GPS one. The two antennas are located in a same plane parallel to car roof and put close to each other so that the dimension of the module is only 50 × 80 mm2 in plane. Gap between the antenna plane and the car roof is only 19 mm. This low profile makes the module almost invisible when it is installed on a car roof. Even with this narrow gap, the two antennas keep high performance in their operation frequencies.
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; loop antennas; mobile antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; GPS applications; PIFA; flat car-roof antenna module; narrow gap; operation frequencies; planar inverted-F antenna; planar loop antenna; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Current distribution; Global Positioning System;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), 2013 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on
Conference_Location :
Torino
DOI :
10.1109/APWC.2013.6624884
