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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2012
Htc Corporation, Taoyuan, Taoyuan County, TW;
Tae Young Yang, Cary, NC (US);
William Haywood Tolbert, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Koichiro Takamizawa, Cary, NC (US);
HTC Corporation, Taoyuan, Taoyuan County, TW;
Abstract
Mobile devices with conductive liquid antennas and related methods are provided. In this regard, a representative mobile device includes a first antenna having a first channel and a first liquid, the first channel defining a first interior volume, the first liquid being electrically conductive and located within the first channel, the first liquid further exhibiting a first volume smaller than the first interior volume; and a first antenna feed mounted such that, responsive to the device being in a first orientation, the first liquid electrically communicates with the first antenna feed.