Patent ID: 8605003

Claim:
A miniature wire antenna comprising: N rectangular metal plates located at a first layer of a PCB; a tunable metal plate located at the first layer of the PCB; and N serpentine lines located at a second layer of the PCB; wherein N is an integer and greater than 1, positions of the N serpentine lines correspond to positions of the N rectangular metal plates, wherein each of the serpentine lines is substantially in full above a corresponding one of the rectangular metal plates except joining portions; a first end of each of the serpentine lines but a last one is connected to the corresponding one of the rectangular metal plates, and a second end of each of the serpentine lines but the last one is connected to a next one of the rectangular metal plates; a first end of the last one of the serpentine lines is connected to the corresponding one of the rectangular metal plates, and a second end of the last one of the serpentine lines is connected to the tunable metal plate.