US 12,136,775 B2
Apparatus with integrated antenna assembly
Aaron Bouillet, Noblesville, IN (US); Joseph Carpenter, Noblesville, IN (US); and Gerald Colman, Indianapolis, IN (US)
Assigned to Thomson Licensing, Cesson (FR)
Appl. No. 17/615,597
Filed by Thomson Licensing, Cesson-Sevigne (FR)
PCT Filed Jun. 5, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/065624
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 1, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/245354, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/858,360, filed on Jun. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0311143 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H01Q 9/06 (2006.01); H01Q 1/22 (2006.01); H01Q 1/38 (2006.01); H01Q 1/52 (2006.01); H01Q 9/26 (2006.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 9/065 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/2291 (2013.01); H01Q 1/38 (2013.01); H01Q 1/52 (2013.01); H01Q 9/26 (2013.01); H01Q 21/0075 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An antenna structure, comprising:
a flexible substrate;
at least two antenna elements, the at least two antenna elements being formed from conductive traces on a layer of the flexible substrate; and
a plurality of conductive traces formed on the layer of the flexible substrate, the plurality of conductive traces including at least a first subset of the plurality of conductive traces being electrically coupled as a lead in to a first one of the at least two antenna elements and at least a second subset of the plurality of conductive traces being electrically coupled as a lead in to a second one of the at least two antenna elements;
wherein the first subset and the second subset of the plurality of conductive traces are separately coupled electrically to an edge of the flexible substrate, wherein the edge of the flexible substrate is configured to be inserted into a single connectors, and
wherein said at least two antenna elements are formed using folds to be in two non-parallel planes that are different from the plane used for the lead-in traces for the antenna elements.