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Tunable slot antenna

US6028561A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 6, 1998
Grant dateFeb 22, 2000
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 6, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01Q13/103
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In order to offer a tunable slot antenna capable of varying an impedance matching center frequency thereof, there is provided a coaxial resonant slot antenna for supplying RF power to a strip conductor placed in a flat conductive cubic with a slot formed in its upper surface and electrically insulated from the flat conductive cubic, wherein a variable capacitor is electrically connected between one point lying in the neighborhood thereof including an end far from a RF power connection point on the strip conductor and a side wall of the flat conductive cubic, and a d.c. voltage to be applied across the variable capacitor is supplied to the connection point.

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