Mobile wireless communications device including an electrically conductive, electrically floating element and related methods
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsYihong Qi, Ying Tong Man, Krystyna Bandurska
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Abstract
A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing having a surface, a printed circuit board (PCB) carried by the portable housing, and wireless transceiver circuitry carried by the PCB. The device may further include an antenna connected to the transceiver, and at least one electrically floating, electrically conductive, antenna beam shaping element secured to the surface of the portable housing for directing a beam pattern of the antenna.
Claims25
1-26. (canceled)
A mobile wireless communications device comprising:
- a portable housing having an exterior surface;
- a printed circuit board (PCB) carried by said portable housing;
- wireless transceiver circuitry carried by said PCB;
- an antenna connected to said wireless transceiver;
- and
- at least one electrically floating, electrically conductive, antenna beam shaping element adhesively secured to the exterior surface of said portable housing.
A mobile wireless communications device comprising:
- a portable housing having an interior surface;
- a printed circuit board (PCB) carried by said portable housing;
- wireless transceiver circuitry carried by said PCB;
- an antenna connected to said wireless transceiver;
- and
- at least one electrically floating, electrically conductive, antenna beam shaping element adhesively secured to the interior surface of said portable housing.
A method for making a mobile wireless communications device comprising:
- positioning a printed circuit board (PCB) carrying wireless transceiver circuitry within a portable housing, the portable housing having an exterior surface;
- and
- adhesively securing at least one electrically floating, electrically conductive, antenna beam shaping element to the exterior surface of the portable housing.
A method for making a mobile wireless communications device comprising:
- positioning a printed circuit board (PCB) carrying wireless transceiver circuitry within a portable housing, the portable housing having an interior surface;
- and
- adhesively securing at least one electrically floating, electrically conductive, antenna beam shaping element to the interior surface of the portable housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.