Patent ID: 8432323

Claim:
A flexible structure for coupling one or more audio input/output components to a radio to a radio processor and incorporating an internal antenna, the flexible structure comprising: a contact area comprising elements for electrically connecting the flexible structure with the radio processor; a substantially L-shaped planar inverted F-antenna (PIFA) extending in a first direction from one end of the contact area and bending to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the antenna including a launch pad area comprising ground and signal conduits for the antenna separate from the contact area; a flexible cable portion containing conductive traces extending in a third direction, substantially perpendicular to the first direction, from another end of the contact area sufficiently far from the PIFA to decouple signals carried by the conductive traces from signals carried by the PIFA; and an extension portion extending from an end of the flexible cable opposite the end coupled to the contact area, the flexible cable conductive traces configured to transmit signals between the elements in the contact area and contacts in the extension portion coupling the extension portion to the one or more audio input/output components of the radio.