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Compact Size Antenna for Car FM Radio
Dau-Chyrh Chang 1 , Fong-Yi Lin 1 , Bing-Hao Zeng 2 , and Jay Chen 2 1 Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan 2 Lorom Industrial Co. Ltd, Taiwan Abstract Car antenna can be divided into dierent types, various forms of car antenna is like below types: internal antenna, external antenna, hidden antenna and we have seen in the car is almost the mast antenna, but the mast antenna is easy to collide when we driving in the restricted space of occasions. Therefore the structure of shark n antenna doesnt easily to inuence at narrow space and that have appearance and function of advantages but the drawback is the poor reception. This paper describes combination of the antenna board and the car FM amplier, and to set the shape of the car antenna board to the shark n antenna that in order to achieve compact size, ease assembly and lower manufacturing costs, and kept to good reception on the FM radio. 1. INTRODUCTION FM radio is almost required for any kinds of car. From the FCC regulation, the frequency band for FM radio is from 88 MHz to 108 MHz that means the wavelength the FM car radio is around 3 meters. Due to the car environment, the size of antenna should be as small as possible to reduce the wind resistance when the car is moving. For the size of quarter wavelength monopole antenna for this band is about 75 cm. It is large in length for the car. In order to reduce the size of the wire antenna, broadside mode helix antenna with height about 6 cm is used for the traditional FM car radio. This paper describes a wire antenna, which is printed on FR4 with thickness 0.8 mm, is used for car FM radio. 2. WIRE ANTENNA The car FM radio, which is composed of a wire antenna and a printed circuit board FM amplier, and they was etched on an FR4/Epoxy substrate with a thickness of 0.8 mm. This wire antenna is a metal strip, and the metal strip is bent around the printed circuit board FM amplier. The ground plane area is 50 30 cm, and it is below the wire antenna and is simulated as roof of the car. The shape of the car antenna board is for a shark n antenna, which size is 10 6 cm. The wire width is 1 mm, the wire between each other is 1 mm meter. The wavelength of FM is 3 meters, and this band of the quarter-wave length is 75 cm, but now this wire antenna isnt enough for the quarter-wave length. The wire antenna simulations the FM band impedance of the imaginary parts is capacitive. so we used the parallel LC, by using the equating of the imaginary parts to solve the jX c . We were used lumped elements such as SMD capacitors/inductors, and let the wire antenna to achieve compact size. Figure 2 shown the Equivalent circuit model of the wire antenna, and jB is Equivalent circuit as parallel LC. Figure 1: The Equivalent circuit model of the wire antenna. Figure 2: Eciency of wire antenna. 224 PIERS Proceedings, Taipei, March 2528, 2013 Figure 3: The car FM wire antenna. Figure 4: The environment of performance test for S 21 . Figure 5: Test S 21 of car FM wire antenna. Figure 6: The environment of performance test for car FM radio. 3. MEASUREMENT RESULTS When measured, we have to simulate the car of the roof, so the wire antenna was placed in the metal plane, and connected a 12 V battery to make it work. We compared the wire antenna and other commercially available shark n antenna, the wire antenna of the S 21 is better than the other. Figure 3 the car FM wire antenna. Figure 4 is the environment of performance test for S 21 . Figure 5 shows that test S 21 of the car antenna. 4. CONCLUSIONS The car FM wire antenna full use of shark n antenna some of the space, and does not interfere with the reception of the signal, such a combination of methods, making the car antenna can be compact size, low-cost, and also to simplify the complicated assembly, and the test result shows that there are 38 radio base station are received with good audio quality. Figure 6 is the environment of performance test for the car FM wire antenna with amplier and radio receiver mounted on the 1 meter by 1.5 meter ground. This paper had patent applications by Lorom Industrial Co. Ltd, Taiwan. REFERENCES 1. Ali, M. and S. S. Stuchly, A meander-line bow tie antenna, IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society International Symposium, Vol. 3, 15661569, 1996. 2. Best, S. R. and J. D. Morrow, Limitations of inductive circuit model representations of meander line antenna, IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society International Symposium, Vol. 1, 852855, 2003.