Abstract:
An antenna module includes an antenna element including coil patterns and via conductors coupling together two adjacent two coil patterns. At least one of the coil patterns has a spiral shape, is wound three or more turns parallel or substantially parallel to an outer edge of a principal surface of a multilayer body, includes a first partial pattern including an outer end portion, a second partial pattern extending parallel or substantially parallel with the first partial pattern and being adjacent to the first partial pattern with a first gap provided therebetween, and a third partial pattern extending parallel or substantially parallel with the second partial pattern and being adjacent to the second partial pattern with a second gap provided therebetween, the second gap being smaller than the first gap.
Abstract:
A radio IC device includes a flexible dielectric base, a radiation element that is a metal film or a metal foil wrapped around the dielectric base, and a radio IC element mounted on the radiation element. The radiation element includes, in a portion other than a portion where the radio IC element is disposed, a bonded portion that is bonded to the dielectric element and a non-bonded portion that is not bonded to the dielectric element. The radio IC element is arranged to be directly opposed to the dielectric element with the portion of the radiation element where the radio IC element is disposed not bonded to the dielectric base.
Abstract:
A radio IC device includes a radio IC element that includes an antenna terminal connected to an antenna element, and a ground terminal connected to a ground conductor provided integrally with the antenna element, and a circuit element that includes an impedance matching circuit connected to the antenna terminal of the radio IC element. The circuit element includes a first inductance element that defines the impedance matching circuit, and a second inductance element that is connected, as a high-frequency cutoff circuit for the radio IC element, to the ground terminal.
Abstract:
In a transmission line, a first ground conductor pattern and a second ground conductor pattern are connected through a first interlayer connecting conductor, and the first ground conductor pattern and a third ground conductor pattern are connected through a second interlayer connecting conductor. A first signal conductor pattern includes a first bypassing pattern portion that bypasses the first interlayer connecting conductor, and a second signal conductor pattern includes a second bypassing pattern portion that bypasses the second interlayer connecting conductor. Bypassing directions of the first bypassing pattern portion and the second bypassing pattern portion are opposite to each other.
Abstract:
A radio IC device includes an electromagnetic coupling module includes a radio IC chip arranged to process transmitted and received signals and a feed circuit board including an inductance element. The feed circuit board includes an external electrode electromagnetically coupled to the feed circuit, and the external electrode is electrically connected to a shielding case or a wiring cable. The shielding case or the wiring cable functions as a radiation plate. The radio IC chip is operated by a signal received by the shielding case or the wiring, and the answer signal from the radio IC chip is radiated from the shielding case or the wiring cable to the outside. A metal component functions as the radiation plate, and the metal component may be a ground electrode disposed on the printed wiring board.
Abstract:
A wireless communication device includes a wireless IC device, a multilayer substrate including a stack of a plurality of dielectric layers, a resonant circuit that is connected to the wireless IC device and that includes a capacitance element provided in the multilayer substrate and an inductance element provided outside the multilayer substrate, and a radiation conductor connected to the resonant circuit.
Abstract:
An antenna module includes a base including two opposing mounting surfaces, an antenna coil provided on or in the base so as to define an opening, the antenna coil having a shape that is symmetrical or substantially symmetrical with respect to a reference plane, and an IC chip and a plurality of electronic components mounted on one of the mounting surfaces and electrically coupled to the antenna coil, the IC chip and the electronic components being arranged inside the opening when viewed in plan from a normal direction of the mounting surface. At least two of the plurality of electronic components are arranged so as to be symmetrical or substantially symmetrical to each other with respect to the reference plane when viewed in plan from the normal direction.
Abstract:
A wireless communication device includes a flexible base material film, a flexible antenna conductor that is provided in substantially the entire region of one main surface of the flexible base material film and that includes a first radiation element and a second radiation element facing each other through a slit, an inductor substrate that is connected to the first radiation element and the second radiation element so as to extend across the slit, the inductor substrate including an inductance element, and a wireless IC element that is connected in parallel to the inductance element and that is mounted in the inductor substrate. The wireless IC element is connected to the first radiation element and the second radiation element so as to extend across the slit.
Abstract:
A wireless IC device includes a base material sheet having a long-side direction and a short-side direction, an antenna element provided on a surface of the base material sheet and that includes two radiation portions extending in the long side direction with a predetermined gap therebetween and two connection portions located in a gap through which the two radiation portions oppose each other, a wireless IC element connected to the two connection portions via a conductive bonding material, and a resist layer that covers the two radiation portions and does not cover the two connection portions and at least areas adjacent to the connection portions in the short-side direction.
Abstract:
A wireless IC device includes a wireless IC element, a power supply circuit substrate including a laminate of a plurality of base layers and a power supply circuit connected to the wireless IC element, and a radiating element connected to the power supply circuit. The power supply circuit includes a first coil element connected in series with the wireless IC element, and a second coil element connected in parallel with the wireless IC element. The first coil element and the second coil element are wound and arranged such that winding axes of the first and second coil elements coincide or substantially coincide with each other and directions of magnetic fields generated in the respective first and second coil elements are opposite to each other.