CN110534873B - Wearable equipment - Google Patents

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CN110534873B
CN110534873B CN201910939536.2A CN201910939536A CN110534873B CN 110534873 B CN110534873 B CN 110534873B CN 201910939536 A CN201910939536 A CN 201910939536A CN 110534873 B CN110534873 B CN 110534873B
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The invention provides a wearable device. The wearable device includes: the main body comprises a shell and a printed circuit board arranged in the shell; a wearing piece; an antenna radiator comprising: a first flexible conductive plate located inside the donning member; the end of the first flexible conductive plate, which is far away from the printed circuit board, is bent along the thickness direction of the wearing piece to form a second flexible conductive plate; the second flexible conductive plate is bent and extended towards the direction of the printed circuit board to form a third flexible conductive plate; the third flexible conductive plate is positioned inside the wearing piece or at least partially exposed on the outer surface of the wearing piece, and the distance between the first flexible conductive plate and the outer surface of the wearing piece is larger than that between the third flexible conductive plate and the outer surface of the wearing piece. The antenna design of the wearable device can avoid the influence of human body on the performance of the antenna.

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Wearable equipment
Technical Field
The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication application, in particular to wearable equipment.
Background
Under the full coverage of the 5G network, the future supported devices can cover more intelligent products. The main objective of the 5G network is to enable the end user to be always in a networking state, and to flexibly support the use of various devices, including wearable devices such as smart bands and smart watches, in addition to mobile phones and tablet computers. Compared with some bulky and bigger mobile phones, the wearable device is smaller and more portable and closer to the human body. Most users prefer a wristband product that is worn for a long time among many wearable devices. After the bracelet, the watch which is used for only watching time is added with an intelligent product line, and functions similar to or even more than those of a mobile phone are added. With the support of 5G, the intelligent watch can better meet the requirements of people on various aspects such as social contact, office work, entertainment and the like at any time and any place. The premise for realizing all the functions is that the smart watch needs to cover frequency bands supporting a plurality of wireless communication standards including WiFi/Bluetooth, GPS, 4G and 5G.
And because wearable equipment often is less, its internal structure design is complicated and compact, receives self structure size restriction, and antenna performance can receive human influence.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the invention provides wearable equipment, which aims to solve the problem that the antenna performance of the existing wearable equipment is influenced by a human body.
In order to solve the technical problem, the invention is realized as follows:
in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a wearable device, including:
the main body comprises a shell and a printed circuit board arranged in the shell;
a wearing piece connected with the main body;
an antenna radiator comprising:
a first flexible conductive plate located inside the donning member;
the first flexible conductive plate is far away from one end of the printed circuit board, and the second flexible conductive plate is formed by bending along the thickness direction of the wearing piece;
the second flexible conductive plate is bent and extended towards the direction of the printed circuit board to form a third flexible conductive plate;
the third flexible conductive plate is positioned inside the wearing piece or at least partially exposed on the outer surface of the wearing piece, the distance between the first flexible conductive plate and the outer surface of the wearing piece is larger than that between the third flexible conductive plate and the outer surface of the wearing piece, one of the first flexible conductive plate and the third flexible conductive plate is grounded, and the other one of the first flexible conductive plate and the third flexible conductive plate is connected with a feed end of a radio frequency circuit on the printed circuit board.
In the foregoing aspect of the embodiment of the present invention, an antenna radiator provided in a wearable device connected to a main body of a wearable device includes: a first flexible conductive plate located inside the donning member; the first flexible conductive plate is far away from one end of the printed circuit board, and the second flexible conductive plate is formed by bending along the thickness direction of the wearing piece; the second flexible conductive plate is bent and extended towards the direction of the printed circuit board to form a third flexible conductive plate; the third flexible conductive plate is positioned inside the wearing piece or at least partially exposed on the outer surface of the wearing piece, the distance between the first flexible conductive plate and the outer surface of the wearing piece is larger than the distance between the third flexible conductive plate and the outer surface of the wearing piece, one of the first flexible conductive plate and the third flexible conductive plate is grounded, and the other one of the first flexible conductive plate and the third flexible conductive plate is connected with a feed end of a radio frequency circuit on the printed circuit board.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a wearable device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a second schematic structural diagram of a wearable device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an antenna radiator of a wearable device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a front view of fig. 1.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1 to 4, the wearable device includes: a body, comprising: a housing 1 and a printed circuit board 2 disposed in the housing 1; a wearing piece connected with the main body; an antenna radiator 3, comprising: a first flexible conductive plate 31 located inside the wearing piece; a second flexible conductive plate 32 formed by bending the first flexible conductive plate 31 away from one end of the printed circuit board 2 along the thickness direction of the wearing piece; a third flexible conductive plate 33 formed by bending and extending the second flexible conductive plate 32 in the direction of the printed circuit board 2; wherein the third flexible conductive plate 33 is located inside the wearing piece (as shown in fig. 1 and 2) or at least partially exposed on the outer surface of the wearing piece (not shown in the figures), the distance between the first flexible conductive plate 31 and the outer surface of the wearing piece is larger than the distance between the third flexible conductive plate 33 and the outer surface of the wearing piece, one of the first flexible conductive plate 31 and the third flexible conductive plate 33 is grounded, and the other one is connected with the feeding terminal 4 of the radio frequency circuit on the printed circuit board 2.
Here, the wearable device may include hardware devices such as a smart watch, a smart bracelet, smart glasses, and the like.
In particular, the wearing piece is a component for fixing the wearable device to a human body. For example, if the wearable device is a smart watch or a smart bracelet, the wearing piece is a wrist strap; if the wearable equipment is the intelligent glasses, the wearing piece is a glasses frame; if the wearable device is a waist wearing device, the wearing piece is a waist belt.
Here, the material used for the antenna radiator 3 is a flexible conductive material.
Preferably, the first flexible conductive plate 31, the second flexible conductive plate 32 and the third flexible conductive plate 33 are an integral conductive plate.
Note that, the inside of the housing 1 of the main body is provided with a display screen assembly in addition to the printed circuit board 2. The printed circuit board 2 is further provided with a plurality of functional components, such as a processor, a data acquisition component, a communication module and the like.
Here, the wearing piece is made of a non-metal material.
Here, the material used for the case 1 of the wearable device main body is a metal material or a non-metal material. That is, the case 1 is a metal case or a non-metal case.
Specifically, an insulating medium is filled between the first flexible conductive plate 31 and the third flexible conductive plate 33.
Specifically, the wearing piece includes: a first wearing piece 5 and a second wearing piece 6 which are arranged at two sides of the main body and are respectively connected with the main body; the antenna radiator 3 is disposed on the first wearing part 5 and/or the second wearing part 6.
Preferably, the antenna radiator 3 is disposed on the first wearing part 5 or the second wearing part 6.
That is, the antenna radiator 3 may be disposed inside the first wearing part 5, as shown in fig. 1, or inside the second wearing part 6, which is not shown, so that the wearable device including the antenna radiator 3 can support multiple bands.
Also, the third flexible conductive plate 33 of the antenna radiator 3 is at least partially exposed on the outer surface of the first wearing part 5, or the third flexible conductive plate 33 of the antenna radiator 3 is at least partially exposed on the outer surface of the second wearing part 6.
Preferably, the antenna radiator 3 includes: a first antenna radiator disposed on the first wearing part 5 and a second antenna radiator disposed on the second wearing part 6, as shown in fig. 2, wherein the first antenna radiator and the second antenna radiator respectively operate in different frequency bands, or operate in the same frequency band.
In this embodiment, the number of the antenna radiators 3 is two, the antenna radiator 3 provided on the first attachment piece 5 is the first antenna radiator, and the antenna radiator 3 provided on the second attachment piece 6 is the second antenna radiator.
Here, specifically, as shown in fig. 2, one of the first flexible conductive plate and the third flexible conductive plate of the first antenna radiator disposed on the first wearing piece 5 is connected to the first feeding terminal 7 of the radio frequency circuit on the printed circuit board 2, and the other is grounded, where, preferably, the corresponding ground terminal is a first ground terminal 8 of the radio frequency circuit; one of the first and third flexible conductive plates of the second antenna radiator disposed on the second wearing part 6 is connected to the second feeding terminal 9 of the rf circuit on the printed circuit board 2, and the other is grounded, where the corresponding ground terminal is preferably a second ground terminal 10 of the rf circuit.
It should be noted that, in the present implementation, the wearable device is provided with two antennas including the antenna radiator 3, so that the two antennas can respectively cover and support different frequency bands to increase coverable frequency bands, or can simultaneously cover some frequency bands, so as to implement a diversity or Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication function, thereby improving the quality of wireless communication.
Preferably, as shown in fig. 1, the length of the flexible conductive plate between the grounding terminal 11 grounded to one of the first flexible conductive plate 31 and the third flexible conductive plate 33 and the feeding terminal 4 is one-half wavelength of the lowest operating frequency of the antenna.
That is, the height of the antenna including the antenna radiator 3 is a quarter wavelength of the fundamental mode, and the total length of the antenna is a half wavelength of the fundamental mode, that is, a mirror image of a half-wavelength folded dipole antenna, so that the size of the antenna is reduced while the performance of the antenna is maintained, and a plurality of higher-order modes can be excited to cover a plurality of required frequency bands.
Optionally, the first flexible conductive plate 31 is parallel to the third flexible conductive plate 33.
Optionally, the second flexible circuit board 32 is perpendicular to the first flexible conductive plate 31 and the third flexible conductive plate 33, respectively.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 3, one end of the third flexible conductive plate 33 away from the second flexible conductive plate 32 is provided with a first conductive sheet 34; the end of the first flexible conductive plate 31 remote from the second flexible conductive plate 32 is provided with a second conductive sheet 35.
Further, a first gap and a second gap are formed in the position, corresponding to the position where the shell 1 of the wearable device is connected with the wearing piece; the first conducting strip 34 passes through the first slot and is connected with the feed end 4; the second conductive plate 35 is connected to the ground terminal 11 through the second slot.
Here, the first conductive sheet 34 and the second conductive sheet 35 are both copper tabs. The first conducting strip 34, i.e. the feeding tongue piece, is connected with the feeding end 4 through a first slot; the second conductive plate 35, i.e., the ground tongue, is connected to the ground terminal 11 through the second slot.
Optionally, the first conductive plate 34 is fixedly connected to the feeding terminal 4 by a first conductive screw, and the second conductive plate 35 is fixedly connected to the grounding terminal 11 by a second conductive screw.
It should be noted that the antenna radiator 3 has a width and is folded into an upper layer and a lower layer, that is, the antenna radiator has a folded structure, and the wearable device includes an antenna (in the form of a folded grounded antenna) of the antenna radiator 3, so that electromagnetic waves are excited between the upper layer and the lower layer of conductive materials (i.e., the first flexible conductive plate 31 and the third flexible conductive plate 33), and propagate to the left and right sides of the wearable device as shown in fig. 4. So, when the user wore this wearable equipment, the electromagnetic wave can avoid human arm, can reduce the harmful effects of human wrist to the antenna on the wearable equipment by at utmost for the antenna performance of wearable equipment when wearing and not wearing changes little, guarantees the antenna performance.
In order to realize coverage of more frequency bands, as an optional implementation manner, the number of the antenna radiators 3 is at least two; the at least two antenna radiating bodies are arranged side by side, and the length directions of the at least two antenna radiating bodies are parallel to the length direction of the wearing piece.
More specifically, the at least two antenna radiators, that is, two or more antenna radiators may be disposed side by side on the first wearing part, may be disposed side by side on the second wearing part, and may be disposed side by side on the first wearing part and the second wearing part, respectively.
It should be noted that, when at least two antenna radiators are arranged side by side on the wearing part, the width of the antenna radiator is smaller than that of the antenna radiator when one antenna radiator is arranged on the wearing part.
Here, in the case where the number of the antenna radiators 3 is one, it is preferable that the width of the antenna radiator 3 is as wide as possible, that is, the width of the antenna radiator 3 is slightly smaller than the width of the wearing part.
It should be noted that a wider antenna radiator can make the area of the antenna larger, thereby obtaining a wider resonance bandwidth of the antenna.
As an optional implementation, the housing 1 is a metal housing; the ground plane of the printed circuit board 2 is electrically connected to the housing 1 via a grounding device 12.
The wearable device of the embodiment of the present invention includes, by an antenna radiator provided in a wearing piece connected to a main body of the wearable device, the antenna radiator including: a first flexible conductive plate located inside the donning member; the first flexible conductive plate is far away from one end of the printed circuit board, and the second flexible conductive plate is formed by bending along the thickness direction of the wearing piece; the second flexible conductive plate is bent and extended towards the direction of the printed circuit board to form a third flexible conductive plate; the third flexible conductive plate is positioned inside the wearing piece or at least partially exposed on the outer surface of the wearing piece, the distance between the first flexible conductive plate and the outer surface of the wearing piece is larger than the distance between the third flexible conductive plate and the outer surface of the wearing piece, one of the first flexible conductive plate and the third flexible conductive plate is grounded, and the other one of the first flexible conductive plate and the third flexible conductive plate is connected with the feed end of the radio frequency circuit on the printed circuit board.
While the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, which are illustrative and not restrictive, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

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1. A wearable device, comprising:
the main body comprises a shell and a printed circuit board arranged in the shell;
a wearing piece connected with the main body;
an antenna radiator comprising:
a first flexible conductive plate located inside the donning member;
the first flexible conductive plate is far away from one end of the printed circuit board, and the second flexible conductive plate is formed by bending along the thickness direction of the wearing piece;
the second flexible conductive plate is bent and extended towards the direction of the printed circuit board to form a third flexible conductive plate;
wherein the third flexible conductive plate is positioned inside the wearing piece or at least partially exposed on the outer surface of the wearing piece, the distance between the first flexible conductive plate and the outer surface of the wearing piece is greater than the distance between the third flexible conductive plate and the outer surface of the wearing piece, one of the first flexible conductive plate and the third flexible conductive plate is grounded, and the other one of the first flexible conductive plate and the third flexible conductive plate is connected with a feed end of a radio frequency circuit on the printed circuit board;
the length of the flexible conductive plate between the grounding end grounded to one of the first flexible conductive plate and the third flexible conductive plate and the feeding end is one half wavelength of the lowest working frequency of the antenna.
2. The wearable device according to claim 1, wherein an insulating medium is filled between the first and third flexible conductive plates.
3. The wearable device of claim 1, wherein the donning member comprises: the first wearing piece and the second wearing piece are arranged on two sides of the main body and are respectively connected with the main body;
wherein the antenna radiator is disposed on the first wearing piece and/or the second wearing piece.
4. The wearable device of claim 3, wherein the antenna radiator comprises: the first antenna radiator is arranged on the first wearing piece, and the second antenna radiator is arranged on the second wearing piece;
the first antenna radiator and the second antenna radiator respectively work in different frequency bands; or alternatively, operate in the same frequency band.
5. The wearable device of claim 1, wherein the first flexible conductive plate is parallel to the third flexible conductive plate.
6. The wearable device of claim 1, wherein the second flexible circuit board is perpendicular to the first and third flexible conductive plates, respectively.
7. The wearable device according to claim 1, wherein the number of antenna radiators is at least two;
at least two antenna radiators are arranged side by side, and the length directions of the at least two antenna radiators are parallel to the length direction of the wearing piece.
8. The wearable device of claim 1, wherein the housing is a metal housing;
the grounding layer of the printed circuit board is electrically connected with the shell through a grounding device.
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