Patent ID: 8537057
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: H01Q

Abstract:
1. Mobile terminal for receiving wireless transmissions from a transmitter and transmitting wireless transmissions to a receiver, in particular for use in a wireless telecommunication system, comprising: a casing with at least one body, said body having a conducting chassis part and electronic means, said body further having a first surface located on a first side of its conducting chassis part and a second surface located on a second side of its conducting chassis part; an antenna arrangement provided on or within said body, said antenna arrangement together with associated high frequency circuitry or said antenna arrangement together with said conducting chassis part and associated high frequency circuitry being adapted to receiving wireless transmissions and transmitting wireless transmissions in at least one predetermined frequency band; said antenna arrangement has a plurality of antenna elements each provided on or within said body in a defined spatial relation to its conducting chassis part, wherein at least one first antenna element is located on the first side of the conducting chassis part and at least one second antenna element is located on the second side of the conducting chassis part; said high frequency circuitry, for transmitting a respective wireless transmission, being adapted to simultaneously drive said first antenna element and said second antenna element by feeding the same or corresponding high frequency signals to said first antenna element and to said second antenna element; and a control unit to determine which of the antenna elements is farthest away from a user and which controls a switching arrangement to use only that antenna element located farthest away from the user for transmissions.