Nokia Technologies Oy

Qualcomm Incorporated

Sung-Hoon Oh

Harri Lasarov

Nicolas Pedro Lylyk

Axel E Meyer

Thorsten Hertel

Anton Fahlgren

Mika Nenonen

Ville Henrikki Vehkapera

Janne H Rautio

Thomas Liu

Ville Henrikki VehkaperÄ

An antenna, a portable electronic device incorporating an antenna and a method of operation are provided to enable both wide and multiple frequency band response. The antenna may include a feeding arm and a parasitic element. The feeding arm may include a conductive loop antenna and a conductive excitation arm portion. The loop antenna portion may extend from a first end that is configured to be grounded to a second end that is configured to be driven by radio frequency circuitry. The excitation arm may be coupled at a first end to the loop antenna portion and extend outwardly therefrom to an open end. The parasitic element may extend from a first end is configured to be grounded to a second end that is open. The parasitic element may extend along opposite sides of the excitation arm portion so as to be coupled thereto.

Loop antenna having a parasitically coupled element

A method of fabricating the body of the portable electronic device as well as the resulting portable electronic device and its body are provided to facilitate the transmission of radio frequency signals through the body of the portable electronic device. In the context of a method, at least one aperture and, in some instances, a plurality of apertures are defined by laser perforation through a conductive portion of the body of the portable electronic device. The method may also anodize the conductive portion including at least partially filling the at least one aperture with an anodization layer. As such, the conductive portion of the body of the portable electronic device has a relatively consistent, metallic appearance, even though laser perforation apertures are defined therein for supporting the transmission of radio frequency signals.

Portable electronic device body having laser perforation apertures and associated fabrication method

Various embodiments of an antenna structure for mobile devices are described. In one or more embodiments a multi-band antenna includes a grounded parasitic element. In some embodiments, a high band arm is provided, and is fed off-center, so that the resonating arms are not symmetrical in length. In some embodiments, a coupled ground resonator is included to add a differential resonating mode. A ground leg may be included to offer facilitate impedance and inductance matching. The combination of these structures creates four distinct resonance modes for the high band, which creases a wide effective bandwidth for the disclosed antenna. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Multiband antenna with grounded element

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Sung-Hoon Oh