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US 2014/0273841 A1Published application
Mobile wireless communications device including parallel nfc loop antennas and associated methods
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorRAYHAN BEHIN
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Abstract
A mobile wireless communications device includes a portable housing, an NFC transceiver carried by the portable housing, and an antenna assembly coupled to the NFC transceiver and comprising a plurality of loop antennas connected in parallel, and progressively increasing in size from an innermost loop antenna to an outermost loop antenna.
Claims20
1-25. (canceled)
An electronic device comprising:
- an NFC transceiver;
- a pair of antenna feed points coupled to said NFC transceiver;
- and
- a plurality of nested loop antennas having adjacent ends electrically coupled in parallel and to said pair of antenna feed points, said plurality of nested loop antennas progressively increasing in size from an innermost loop antenna to an outermost loop antenna.
1 more element
An electronic device comprising:
- a housing
- a cellular transceiver carried by said housing;
- a cellular antenna carried by said housing and coupled to said cellular transceiver;
- an NFC transceiver carried by said housing;
- a pair of antenna feed points coupled to said NFC transceiver;
- and
- a plurality of nested loop antennas having adjacent ends electrically coupled in parallel and to said pair of antenna feed points.
4 more elements
A method for making an electronic device comprising:
- coupling a pair of antenna feed points to an NFC transceiver;
- and
- coupling adjacent ends of a plurality of nested loop antennas in parallel and to the pair of antenna feed points, the plurality of nested loop antennas progressively increasing in size from an innermost loop antenna to an outermost loop antenna.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.