A slot antenna comprising: a first and second boards each having an edge attached to respective opposite edges of a center board to form an essentially C-shaped open-ended channel having an inner surface and an outer surface; the center board having a slot for radiating signals defined in an electrically conductive layer bonded to an outer surface thereof and an electrically conductive feed line bonded to an inner surface thereof; the slot having a drive point being a portion of the feed line undercrossing the slot between opposite edges of the slot; the first and second boards each having an electrically conductive layer bonded to an outer surface thereof to reduce nulls, thereby providing an essentially omni-directional radiation pattern for the slot; and, a connector for coupling the signals to the antenna.
This application claims priority from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 60/331,765, filed Nov. 21, 2001, and Canadian Patent Application No. 2,363,519, filed Nov. 21, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference.
A wireless apparatus capable of controlling radiation patterns and directions of antenna is provided. It comprises an antenna element, a ground plane, an antenna feed-point, and at least one slot or slit formed on the ground plane. The inclusion of such slots or slits in the wireless apparatus improves the radiation directivity of antenna, and greatly enhances the antenna gain on the horizontal plane. It also resolves the problems caused by shift of radiation patterns of antenna and the poor antenna gains for a conventional antenna apparatus. The wireless apparatus of the present invention has the advantages of simple structure and easy fabrication. The invention can be applied to various kinds of antennas, such as monopole antenna, shorted-monopole antenna, dipole antenna, loop antenna, and planar inverted-F antenna, etc.
