Summary of the invention
For this reason, the invention provides a kind of new antenna and the footwear with positioning function to try hard to solve or at least alleviate the problem existing above.
According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of antenna, this antenna comprises: flexible material layer, as the radiating surface of antenna; Be positioned at the protective layer at this flexible material layer centre position place; And connection of antenna receiving end under this protective layer.
Alternatively, according to antenna of the present invention, also comprise the electric connecting joint being positioned on this protective layer.
Alternatively, in antenna according to the present invention, electric connecting joint comprises: receiving face, and the conduction that is arranged in this receiving face center is round; The conductive ring of arranging on the receiving face of being arranged in and around conduction circle; And the receiving face of being arranged in magnetic material layer afterwards.And conductive ring is at a side opening.
Alternatively, in antenna according to the present invention, in flexible material layer, be furnished with conducting wire, be delivered to outside antenna for the signal that antenna reception termination is received.This conducting wire is also electrically connected with described conduction circle and conductive ring with respect to the another side of conduction circle via described receiving face.
Alternatively, in antenna according to the present invention, flexible material layer is that metal forming is made, and this antenna is satellite fix antenna.And can be gps antenna.
According to another aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of footwear with positioning function, these footwear comprise carry-on positioning equipment; And according to antenna of the present invention, this antenna is couple to carry-on positioning equipment.
Alternatively, in footwear according to the present invention, antenna arrangement is on vamp.For example, antenna can be arranged on the shoestring of vamp, and the flexible material layer of antenna is outside footwear, and electric connecting joint is in footwear.
According to antenna of the present invention, in the time using on the footwear with positioning function, because the radiating surface of antenna is larger, can easier receiving satellite signal, receiving and processing the power consumption on satellite-signal thereby reduced carry-on positioning equipment in footwear, the service time of the battery that has extended carry-on positioning equipment after charging.
In addition, can be arranged according to antenna of the present invention on the shoestring of footwear, like this, can not cause remarkable change to the traditional design of footwear, and shoestring comprise that charging circuit and antenna also facilitate user to charge to the carry-on positioning equipment in footwear.
Embodiment
Exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is described below with reference to accompanying drawings in more detail.Although shown exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure in accompanying drawing, but should be appreciated that and can realize the disclosure and the embodiment that should do not set forth limits here with various forms.On the contrary, it is in order more thoroughly to understand the disclosure that these embodiment are provided, and can be by the those skilled in the art that conveys to complete the scope of the present disclosure.
Fig. 1 shows the schematic diagram of the footwear 100 with positioning equipment according to an embodiment of the invention.Footwear 100 can comprise carry-on positioning equipment 130, for footwear 100 are positioned.Positioning equipment 130 generally comprises satellite positioning functions and mobile communication function with oneself.These functions needs and satellite and/or base station communicate, and therefore need corresponding antenna.Fig. 1 shows the satellite fix antenna 140 and the mobile communication antenna 150 that are arranged in footwear.Alternatively, in footwear 100, can also comprise the charging circuit 160 being arranged in footwear.The present invention is not limited to satellite fix antenna and the mobile communication antenna of particular type.The all antennas that can realize satellite fix and mobile communication are all within protection scope of the present invention.According to one embodiment of present invention, satellite fix antenna 140 can be gps antenna, big-dipper satellite positioning antenna, Galileo positioning antenna etc., particularly gps antenna.Mobile communication antenna 150 can be GSM antenna, CDMA antenna, various 3G and 4G communication antenna etc., particularly GSM antenna.As shown in Figure 1, according to one embodiment of present invention, mobile communication antenna 150 can be arranged in the position of sole near side.Because mobile communication is lower for the requirement of antenna, mobile communication antenna is arranged in to sole, can make the shape of footwear consistent with conventional footwear shape, increase user to this acceptance level with positioning function footwear.Satellite fix antenna 140 is arranged on vamp.Because satellite fix antenna 140 need to receive the signal of position location satellite, be arranged on vamp, can allow satellite fix antenna 140 have larger space to communicate with position location satellite, thereby reduce the power consumption of carry-on positioning equipment 130 in this communication, extended the time interval that carry-on positioning equipment 130 need to charge.According to one embodiment of present invention, as shown in Figure 1, due to charging circuit 160 need to the supply coupling of footwear outside, thereby utilize external power source to charge to carry-on positioning equipment 130, therefore charging circuit 160 is also arranged on vamp.
With oneself positioning equipment 130 can be arranged in sole, and for example sole latter half of can not affect the design of existing footwear and outward appearance so to some extent.In addition, the latter half of stressing conditions of sole is more stable, thereby can avoid the impact to carry-on positioning equipment 130.
Fig. 2 shows the vamp schematic diagram of footwear according to an embodiment of the invention.As shown in Figure 2, for convenient wiring, satellite fix antenna 140 and charging circuit 160 can be arranged on same shoestring 180.Footwear 100 have special shoestring 180, and this shoestring 180 has function attractive in appearance on the one hand, on the other hand, also has the function of holding satellite fix antenna 140 and charging circuit 160 simultaneously.In the time that needs charge, can undo shoelaces, expose the charging circuit 160 in shoestring, subsequently by power line being connected to charging circuit 160, and charge via this charging circuit 160.
Fig. 3 and 4 shows the structural representation of antenna 140 according to an embodiment of the invention.In Fig. 4, also show the position view of all parts in antenna 140 with dashed lines.Antenna 140 comprises radiating surface and receiving terminal.As shown in Figures 3 and 4, in antenna 140, flexible material layer 210 is as radiating surface.Flexible material layer 210 for example can be made up of metal forming, and can be by random bending, is therefore adapted at due to former thereby equipment that can cause antenna to be frequently bent such as motions, for example, in footwear, using.
Flexible material layer 210 is generally strip structure, and is furnished with protective layer 220 in strip centre position.The receiving terminal 230 of antenna 140 is arranged in protective layer 220.Protective layer 220 has relatively firmly structure, and can the bending along with the bending of flexible material layer 210.Like this, receiving terminal 230 just can obtain protection in protective layer 220, impaired to prevent.
In Fig. 3 and 4, also show the electric connecting joint 240 being positioned on protective layer 220.Electric connecting joint 240 and flexible material layer 210 are usually located at the both sides of protective layer 220.Like this, in the time that antenna 140 is placed in shoestring, the radiating surface of antenna 140 and receiving terminal are in the face of the outside of footwear, and electric connecting joint 240 is faced the inside of footwear, thus more convenient antenna 140 receiving satellite signals.
As shown in Figures 3 and 4, electric connecting joint 240 comprises receiving face 242.On receiving face 242, be furnished with conduction circle 244 and conductive ring 246.Conduction circle 244 is arranged in the center of receiving face 242, and conductive ring 246 is arranged the center arrangement of receiving face 242 (around) around conduction circle 244.On receiving face 242, except conduct electricity circle 244 and conductive ring 246, other position is all non-conductive.
Alternatively, conductive ring 246 has opening in a part for its annulus, and conductive ring 246 is not the annulus of sealing.Electric connecting joint 240 also comprises the receiving face of being arranged in 242 magnetic material layer 248 after the opposite side of conduction circle 244 and conductive ring 246 relatively.
Alternatively, magnetic material layer 248 can have the sectional area identical with receiving face 242, and the receiving face of being close to 242 is arranged.Certainly, the area of magnetic material layer 248 can be greater than receiving face 242, and the receiving face of being arranged in 242 any position afterwards.The present invention is not limited to particular location and the size of magnetic material layer 248, as long as in the time using electric connecting joint 240, the magnetic part of magnetic material layer 248 and corresponding joints can interact, and electric connecting joint 240 is adsorbed in corresponding joints.
In addition, in flexible material layer 210, be furnished with conducting wire, be delivered to outside antenna for the signal that connection of antenna receiving end 230 is received.In addition, this conducting wire can also be electrically connected with conduction circle 244 and conductive ring 246 with respect to the another side of conduction circle 244 via receiving face 242.
In the specification that provided herein, a large amount of details are described.But, can understand, embodiments of the invention can be put into practice in the situation that there is no these details.In some instances, be not shown specifically known method, structure and technology, so that not fuzzy understanding of this description.
Similarly, be to be understood that, in order to simplify the disclosure and to help to understand one or more in each inventive aspect, in the above in the description of exemplary embodiment of the present invention, each feature of the present invention is grouped together into single embodiment, figure or sometimes in its description.But, the method for the disclosure should be construed to the following intention of reflection: the present invention for required protection requires than the more features of the feature of clearly recording in each claim.Or rather, as reflected in claims below, inventive aspect is to be less than all features of disclosed single embodiment above.Therefore, claims of following embodiment are incorporated to this embodiment thus clearly, and wherein each claim itself is as independent embodiment of the present invention.
As used in this, unless made separate stipulations, use ordinal number " first ", " second ", " 3rd " etc. to describe the different instances that common object only represents to relate to similar object, and be not intended that object that hint is described like this must have on upper, space of time, sequence aspect or with any alternate manner to definite sequence.
Although described the present invention according to the embodiment of limited quantity, benefit from description above, those skilled in the art understand, in the scope of the present invention of describing thus, it is contemplated that other embodiment.In addition, it should be noted that the language using in this specification is mainly for object readable and instruction is selected, instead of select in order to explain or to limit theme of the present invention.Therefore,, in the case of not departing from the scope and spirit of appended claims, many modifications and changes are all apparent for those skilled in the art.For scope of the present invention, disclosing that the present invention is done is illustrative, and nonrestrictive, scope of the present invention is limited by appended claims.