IP Library Granted Patent US 12,272,888
Granted Patent B2
US 12,272,888 · App. 17/403,938 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Electronic device and antenna feeding module

Inventors: Hsuan-Jui Chang (Hsinchu, TW); Yun-Tsan Lee (Hsinchu, TW); Chia-Hao Chang (Hsinchu, TW)
Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION
H01Q9/42H01Q13/10H01Q1/2266
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Patent No.
US 12,272,888
App. No.
17/403,938
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device and an antenna feeding module are provided. The electronic device includes a metal housing and an antenna feeding module. The metal housing is provided with a slot with an opening end and a closed end. The antenna feeding module includes a carrier board and a feeding circuit. The feeding circuit includes a feeding element and a radiating element. The radiating element includes a coupling portion, a radiating branch and a feeding portion. There is a coupling gap between the coupling portion and the metal housing, and the coupling gap is less than 0.5 times the width of the slot. The feeding circuit is used to excite the metal housing, so that the metal housing and the radiating element generate a first resonance path with a first resonance mode and a second resonance path with a second resonance mode.

Claims (16)

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a metal housing, having a slot, the slot including an opening end and a closed end;

a carrier board, disposed on the metal housing; and

a feeding circuit, disposed on the carrier board, the feeding circuit including a feeding element and radiating element, a vertical projection of the radiating element on the metal housing is completely positioned in the slot, the radiating element and the metal housing are separated from and not in contact with each other, the radiating element including a coupling portion, a radiating branch and a feeding portion, the radiating branch disposed between the coupling portion and the feeding portion, the coupling portion is closer to the metal housing than the radiating branch, the feeding portion connected to the feeding element, a coupling gap being between the coupling portion and the metal housing, and the width of the coupling gap is less than 0.5 times the width of the slot;

wherein the feeding circuit is used to excite the metal housing so that the metal housing and the radiating element generate a first resonance path with a first resonance mode;

wherein the coupling portion and the metal housing are coupling to each other to form an electrical path and a second resonance path with a second resonance mode is generated, and the first resonance mode is different from the second resonance mode.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the slot defines a first axis and a second axis according to its extending directions, the first axis is parallel to the extending direction of the slot toward the opening end, and the second axis is parallel to the extending direction of the slot toward the closed end, the first axis and the second axis intersect at an intersection point, the distance between the closed end and the intersection point is less than or equal to a quarter-wavelength of the lowest operating frequency within the first resonance mode.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the extending direction of the radiating branch is toward the closed end.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the extending direction of the radiating branch is away from the closed end.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the metal housing has a first slot wall, a second slot wall, a third slot wall, a fourth slot wall, and a fifth slot wall at the position where the slot is formed, the first slot wall is parallel to the fifth slot wall, the second slot wall is parallel to the fourth slot wall, the third slot wall is connected between the second slot wall and the fourth slot wall, the vertical projection of the radiating branch on the metal housing defines a center line, a first predetermined distance is between the center line and the fourth slot wall, a second predetermined distance is between the center line and the second slot wall, and the first predetermined distance is smaller than the second predetermined distance.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5 , wherein a third predetermined distance is between the vertical projection position of the feeding element on the metal housing and the third slot wall, a fourth predetermined distance between the vertical projection position of the feeding element on the metal housing and the fifth slot wall, and the third predetermined distance is greater than the fourth predetermined distance.

7. The electronic device according to claim 5 , wherein the metal housing has a first section, a second section, a third section and a fourth section, the first section is a horizontal line segment from the vertical projection position of the feeding element on the metal housing to the third slot wall, and the second section is a vertical line segment with the same length as the third slot wall, the third section is a horizontal line segment from a coupling point between the coupling portion and the metal housing to the third slot wall, and the fourth section is a horizontal line segment from the coupling point to the fifth slot wall; wherein the first resonance path includes the first section, the second section, the third section, and the fourth section;

wherein the second resonance path includes the first section, the second section, the third section and a vertical line segment from the coupling point to the vertical projection position of the feeding element on the metal housing; wherein the coupling portion and the metal housing are coupling to each other to further generate a third resonance path with a third resonance mode and a fourth resonance path with a fourth resonance mode, the third resonance path includes the vertical line segment from the coupling point to the vertical projection position of the feeding element on the metal housing and the fourth section, and the fourth resonance path includes a vertical line segment between the vertical projection position of the feeding element on the metal housing and the radiating branch and the radiating branch.

8. An antenna feeding module, disposed in a metal housing, the metal housing having a slot, the antenna feeding module comprising:

a carrier board, disposed in the metal housing; and

a radiating element, disposed on the carrier board, a vertical projection of the radiating element on the metal housing is completely positioned in the slot, the radiating element and the metal housing are separated from and not in contact with each other, the radiating element including a coupling portion, a radiating branch and a feeding portion, the radiating branch disposed between the coupling portion and the feeding portion, the feeding portion connected to the feeding element, a coupling gap being between the coupling portion and the metal housing, and the width of the coupling gap is less than 0.5 times the width of the slot.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 29, 2025
From: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION
To: WNC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 072255/0226 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 17, 2021
From: CHANG, HSUAN-JUI; LEE, YUN-TSAN; CHANG, CHIA-HAO
To: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057196/0904 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 110111907 · Mar 31, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220320740A1 · Oct 6, 2022
References Cited (4)
US 20160294067A1 · Chang · 2016 [cited by examiner]
US 20180342809A1 · Wu · 2018 [cited by examiner]
TW M553500U · 2017 [cited by applicant]
TW I627794B · 2018 [cited by applicant]