Patent ID: 8421686
Filing Date: 2013-04-16
Classification: H01L,H01Q

Abstract:
1. An integrated circuit, comprising: a package housing; a planar substrate arranged inside the package housing, the planar substrate having an antenna section and a circuit section disposed between a feeding means and the antenna section; a conducting ground plane arranged inside the package housing; an antenna element arranged inside the package housing and disposed on the antenna section of the planar substrate; an electrical circuit arranged inside the package housing and disposed on the circuit section of the planar substrate, the electrical circuit operatively coupled to the antenna element and to the conducting ground plane; the antenna element forming a segmented curve that comprises at least five segments, each of the at least five segments forms an angle smaller than 180 degrees with each adjacent segment in the segmented curve and at least one angle is smaller than 90 degrees; at least two angles, which are on the same side of the segmented curve and are formed from adjacent segments of a group of said at least five segments are different; and at least a 50% of a projection area of the antenna element onto the plane containing the conducting ground plane does not overlap said conducting ground plane.