Patent ID: 7425923
Filing Date: 2008-09-16
Classification: H01Q

Abstract:
1. A combined digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) and mobile communication antenna apparatus for a mobile communication terminal, the apparatus comprising: a whip antenna for receiving both signals in a DMB frequency band and in a mobile communication frequency band at an extended state that the whip antenna is extended from a terminal main body of the mobile communication terminal, and for receiving a signal in the mobile communication frequency band at a retracted state that the whip antenna is pushed into the terminal main body; a first contact being indirectly coupled to the whip antenna to receive the signal in the mobile communication frequency band from the whip antenna at both the extended state and the retracted state; and a second contact being located under the first contact within the terminal main body and contacting a lower end of the whip antenna to receive a signal in the DMB frequency band at the extended state.