US 12,615,324 B2Granted

Electronic device including antenna

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsKyihyun Jang, Gyusub Kim, Kyungmoon Seol, Bumjin Cho, Seongyong An, Chankyu An, Jaebong Chun, Nakchung Choi

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Abstract

An electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing, a supporting member, at least one slit, and at least one processor. The second housing includes a plurality of conductive portions and a plurality of non-conductive portions. At least one processor is configured to communicate with an external electronic device through the housing and the at least one conductive portion acting as an antenna in a first state in which the second housing is slid in the first housing and communicate with the external electronic device through the at least one conductive portion acting as an antenna in a second state in which the second housing is slid out the first housing.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An electronic device comprising:

a first housing including:
a first conductive cover plate, and
a first conductive side member including:
a first portion surrounding a bottom side, a left side, and a right side of the first conductive cover plate,
a second portion extending from an end of the first portion of the first conductive side member in a first direction, and
a third portion, extending from another end of the first portion of the first conductive side member, substantially parallel to the second portion of the first conductive side member;
and
a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing in the first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction, the second housing including:
a second side member that includes a plurality of conductive portions and a plurality of non-conductive portions disposed between the plurality of conductive portions, the plurality of conductive portions including:
a first conductive portion extending to be substantially parallel to the second portion of the first conductive side member, wherein the first conductive portion of the second side member, when the electronic device is in a first state in which at least a portion of the second housing is positioned in the first housing, at least partially overlaps the second portion of the first conductive side member, and
a second conductive portion extending to be substantially parallel to the first conductive portion of the second housing, wherein the second conductive portion of the second side member, when the electronic device is in the first state, at least partially overlaps the third portion of the first conductive side member,
wherein the first conductive portion of the second side member is configured to, when the electronic device is in a second state in which at least the portion of the second housing is positioned out of the first housing, function as an antenna radiator, and
wherein the first conductive cover plate, the first conductive side member, and the first conductive portion are configured to, when the electronic device is in the first state, function as an antenna radiator based on an inductive coupling between the first conductive portion of the second side member and the second portion of the first conductive side member.

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An electronic device comprising:

a first housing including a conductive material;
a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing for sliding in a first direction, the second housing including:
a second cover plate, and
a side member disposed along a circumference of the second cover plate;
a supporting member positioned inside the second housing;
a first conductive portion formed along at least a portion of the side member extending in the first direction;
a first slit adjacent to the first conductive portion in the supporting member;
a sensor that outputs a signal related to a state of the electronic device, wherein the state of the electronic device includes a first state in which at least a portion of the second housing is positioned in the first housing, and a second state in which the at least the portion of the second housing is positioned out of the first housing;
an impedance matching circuit electrically connected to the first conductive portion;
at least one processor comprising processing circuitry and operatively coupled to the impedance matching circuit and the sensor,
wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
communicate with an external electronic device, based on a resonant frequency set as a first frequency, through the first conductive portion and the first housing acting as an antenna in the first state, in response to identifying the first state, by the sensor;
and
communicate with the external electronic device, based on the resonant frequency set as a second frequency, through the first conductive portion exposed to an outside of the first housing acting as an antenna in the second state, in response to identifying the second state, by the sensor.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/083,864Filed 19 Dec 2022 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2021-018782924 Dec 2021
Published: US 2023/0208950 A129 Jun 2023
Granted: 28 Apr 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

H04M 1/026
Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets: details of the structure or mounting of specific components
G09F 9/30
Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual…
H01Q 1/24
By structural association with other equipment or articles: with receiving set
H01Q 1/243
Specially adapted for hand-held use: with built-in antennas