IP Library Granted Patent US 8,406,686
Granted Patent B2
US 8,406,686 · App. 11/748,116 · Granted Mar 26, 2013

Wireless communication terminal apparatus and method of controlling same

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Patent No.
US 8,406,686
App. No.
11/748,116
Granted
Mar 26, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mobile communication terminal apparatus includes a non-contact communication section configured to perform non-contact communication with an external terminal apparatus. The non-contact communication section includes a main unit having a controller configured to control communication with the external terminal apparatus and a main antenna, and a sub-unit having a sub-antenna having a coil whose number of windings is smaller than the number of windings of a coil of the main antenna and an adjuster configured to adjust a resonance frequency.

Claims (9)

1. A mobile communication terminal apparatus comprising:

a non-contact communication section configured to perform non-contact communication with an external terminal apparatus, wherein the non-contact communication section includes:

a main unit having a controller configured to control communication with the external terminal apparatus;

a main antenna coil disposed on an obverse surface of a substrate;

a sub-antenna coil disposed on a reverse surface of the substrate and having a same horizontal and vertical dimension as the main antenna coil and covering a same surface area as the main antenna coil, having a number of windings less than a number of windings of a coil of the main antenna coil, and coupling densely magnetically with the main antenna coil such that a coupling coefficient value is substantially one to reduce leakage of magnetic flux from the non-contact communication section; and

an adjuster configured to adjust a resonance frequency.

2. The mobile communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the adjuster comprises at least one adjustment capacitor, a switching element connected in series to each adjustment capacitor, and a switch controller configured to control on/off of the switching element, and

the controller controls on/off of the switching element on the basis of an on/off pattern of the switching element, the on/off pattern being determined by the amount of deviation between a measured resonance frequency of the non-contact communication section and a target resonance frequency.

3. The wireless communication terminal apparatus according claim 1 , wherein the ratio of the number of windings of the coil of the main antenna coil to that of the sub-antenna coil is greater than or equal to 2 and smaller than or equal to 3.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2019
From: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 050459/0287 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 26, 2019
From: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
To: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Reel/Frame 048698/0713 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 20, 2012
From: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
To: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
Reel/Frame 028078/0247 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 14, 2007
From: TSUSHIMA, TAKAAKI; HATAKEYAMA, HIDEAKI
To: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.
Reel/Frame 019289/0208 →