US 11,901,634 B2
Antenna and electronic device including same
Woosup Lee, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Youngsuk Yoo, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Sukgi Hong, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Dongyeon Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/668,540.
Application 17/668,540 is a continuation of application No. PCT/KR2022/000927, filed on Jan. 18, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0007038 (KR), filed on Jan. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0271441 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. H01Q 21/06 (2006.01); H01Q 5/25 (2015.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 21/065 (2013.01) [H01Q 5/25 (2015.01); H01Q 21/0006 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a circuit board;
an electronic component arranged in a first direction from the circuit board;
a metal member arranged in the first direction from the electronic component and disposed to overlap the electronic component; and
a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) arranged in the first direction from the metal member, wherein the FPCB includes:
an antenna,
a first portion in which the antenna is provided in a form of a patch antenna that overlaps the metal member,
a second portion coupled to a connector of the circuit board; and
a third portion arranged between the first portion and the second portion,
wherein a layered structure of the FPCB includes:
a dielectric material having a first thickness in the first portion and having a second thickness, which is smaller than the first thickness, in the second portion and the third portion,
a first conductive layer provided in the first direction from the dielectric material, and
an intermediate conductive layer provided in a second direction opposite to the first direction, from the dielectric material,
wherein the intermediate conductive layer is provided only in the second portion and the third portion, and is not provided in the first portion, and
wherein a portion of the dielectric material in the first portion is disposed to face the metal member.