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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2016
Applicant:
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); H01Q 1/38 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); H01Q 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/245 (2013.01); H01Q 1/243 (2013.01); H01Q 1/38 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0421 (2013.01); H01Q 19/005 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49002 (2015.01); Y10T 29/49016 (2015.01); Y10T 29/49018 (2015.01);
Abstract
A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a circuit board carried by the portable housing and having a ground plane thereon, wireless communications circuitry carried by the circuit board, and an antenna assembly carried by the housing. More particularly, 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 a floating, electrically conductive director element on the flexible substrate for directing a beam pattern of the antenna element.