US 7,515,111 B2
Antenna apparatus
Akihiro Tsujimura, Ome (Japan); Koichi Sato, Fuchu (Japan); Takashi Amano, Soka (Japan); and Hiroyuki Hotta, Ome (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 01, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/515,304.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-147282 (JP), filed on May 26, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0273600 A1, Nov. 29, 2007
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/00 (2006.01); H01Q 9/28 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 343—787  [343/795] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An antenna apparatus which is set on a printed circuit board comprising a metal surface to generate a ground potential, and a signal line pattern to transmit a high-frequency signal, wherein said antenna apparatus comprises:
an antenna element to which the ground potential is received from the metal surface; and
a magnetic member arranged between the antenna element and the printed circuit board, wherein within said magnetic member a plurality of magnetic nanoparticles with ferromagnetism are dispersed and arranged in an insulating matrix substrate.