US 7,321,336 B2 | ||
Mobile wireless communications device including a wrap-around antenna assembly and related methods | ||
Robert Phillips, Waterloo (Canada); Yihong Qi, St. Agatha (Canada); and Ying Tong Man, Waterloo (Canada) | ||
Assigned to Research in Motion Limited, Ontario (Canada) | ||
Filed on Oct. 31, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/554,874. | ||
Claims priority of provisional application 60/732072, filed on Nov. 01, 2005. | ||
Prior Publication US 2007/0109204 A1, May 17, 2007 | ||
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/24 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 343—702 [343/906] | 23 Claims |
1. A mobile wireless communications device comprising:
a housing;
a printed circuit board (PCB) carried by said housing;
at least one wireless RF circuit carried by said PCB;
at least one first contact carried by said PCB and electrically connected to said at least one wireless RF circuit; and
a wrap-around antenna assembly comprising
an antenna retainer frame removably coupled to an edge of said PCB and having first and second portions wrapping around adjacent
first and second surfaces of said PCB at the edge thereof when said antenna retainer frame is coupled to said PCB, and
an antenna carried by said antenna retainer frame and extending along the first and second portions thereof,
said antenna comprising at least one second contact removably coupled to said at least one first contact when said antenna
retainer frame is coupled to said PCB.
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