US 2013/0259486 A1Published application

Wireless communication device

AssigneeFIH (Hong Kong) Limited

InventorsCHUAN-CHOU CHI, CHIH-YANG TSAI, PAI-CHENG HUANG, HAO-YING CHANG

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Abstract

A wireless communication device includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a first light sensor adjacent to the first antenna, a second light sensor adjacent to the second antenna, a controller, and a magnetic member movably located between the first antenna and the second antenna. When one of the first and second antennas in a state of receiving/transmitting wireless signals is covered by a user's hand, the nearby light sensor sends a pulse signal to the controller. The controller receiving the pulse signal controls the first and second antennas to change their magnetic polarity, enabling the magnetic member to be separated from one of the first and second antennas and attached to the another one, thereby choosing one of the first and second antennas, or a combination of one of the two antennas and the magnetic member to receive/transmit the wireless signals.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A wireless communication device, comprising:

a first antenna;
a second antenna;
a first light sensor adjacent to the first antenna;
a second light sensor adjacent to the second antenna;
a controller electronically connected to the first light sensor and the second light sensor;
and
a magnetic member movably located between the first antenna and the second antenna;
wherein the first and second antennas have the same initial magnetic polarity, when one of the first and second antennas is in a state of receiving/transmitting wireless signals and is covered, one of the first and second light sensors adjacent to the covered antenna sends a pulse signal to the controller, the controller receiving the pulse signal controls the first and second antennas to change their magnetic polarity, enabling the magnetic member to be separated from one of the first and second antennas and attracted by and attached to the other of the antennas, thereby choosing one of the first antenna, second antenna, a combination of the first antenna and the magnetic member, and a combination of the second antenna and the magnetic member to receive/transmit the wireless signals.

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Facts

Application: 13/647,482Filed 9 Oct 2012
Priority: TW 10111064727 Mar 2012
Published: 3 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H01Q 1/243
Specially adapted for hand-held use: with built-in antennas
H01Q 3/24
Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna…
H01Q 9/42
With feed to end of elongated active element, e.g. unipole: with folded element, the folded parts being spaced apart a small fraction of the…
H01Q 21/28
Antenna arrays or systems: combinations of substantially independent non-interacting antenna units or systems