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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2011
Ying Tong Man, Waterloo, CA;
Yihong Qi, St. Agatha, CA;
Adrian Cooke, Kitchener, CA;
Krystyna Bandurska, Waterloo, CA;
Ying Tong Man, Waterloo, CA;
Yihong Qi, St. Agatha, CA;
Adrian Cooke, Kitchener, CA;
Krystyna Bandurska, Waterloo, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a circuit board carried by the portable housing and comprising a ground plane, and wireless communications circuitry carried by the circuit board. The device may also include an antenna assembly carried by the housing. The antenna assembly may include a flexible substrate, an electrically conductive antenna element on the flexible substrate and connected to the wireless communications circuitry and the ground plane, and at least one pair of floating, electrically conductive director elements on opposite sides of the flexible substrate for directing a beam pattern of the antenna element.