Patent ID: 7706556

Claim:
A mobile wireless communications device for a user wearing an electronic hearing aid adjacent an ear of the user, the mobile wireless communications device comprising: an upper housing and a lower housing being slidably connected together for sliding relative to one another between a retracted position and an extended use position, said upper and lower housings each having respective top and bottom ends, the top end of said upper housing being further separated from the bottom end of said lower housing when in the extended use position as compared to the retracted position; an audio output transducer carried by said upper housing and accessible to the electronic hearing aid of the user adjacent the top end of said upper housing; an audio input transducer carried by said lower housing and accessible to a mouth of the user adjacent the bottom end of said lower housing; an antenna having portions extending in three dimensions and carried by said lower housing adjacent the bottom end thereof so that the electronic hearing aid of the user is further separated from said antenna when said upper and lower housings are in the extended use position to thereby reduce undesired coupling from said antenna to the electronic hearing aid; and a wireless circuit board carried by said lower housing and at least one wireless communications circuit carried thereby, said at least one wireless communications circuit comprising a wireless transceiver connected to said antenna; said antenna comprising a dielectric substrate, an antenna frame extending outwardly from said dielectric substrate, a plurality of conductive traces on said dielectric substrate, and at least one of said plurality of conductive traces wrapping from said dielectric substrate onto said antenna frame.