Patent ID: 8199058

Claim:
An antenna system for a wireless communications device comprising: a ground plane conductor defined at least by portions of a printed wiring board of the wireless communications device, said ground plane conductor defining a pair of longitudinal ends; a first PIFA-fed resonator having a ground end and a free end, with said ground end being electrically coupled to the ground plane conductor at a ground point located a distance away from one of the pair of longitudinal ends, and with the resonator defining a feed point within the region between the ground point and said one longitudinal end, wherein at least a portion of the resonator between the feed point and the free end overlays the ground plane conductor and another portion of the resonator extends beyond said one of said pair of longitudinal ends of the ground plane conductor; and a second PIFA-fed resonator having a ground end and a free end, with said ground end being electrically coupled to the ground plane conductor at a ground point located a distance away from said one of said pair of longitudinal ends, and with the resonator defining a feed point within the region between the ground point and said one of said pair of longitudinal ends, and with the free end defining a pair of end portions separated by an open portion, with the pair of end portions being positioned between said one of said pair of longitudinal ends and said feed point of said second PIFA-fed resonator.