Mobile wireless communications device antenna assembly with antenna element and floating director element on flexible substrate and related methods

摘要

A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, a circuit board carried by the portable housing and having a ground plane thereon, wireless communications circuitry carried by the circuit board, and an antenna assembly carried by the housing. More particularly, the antenna assembly may include a flexible substrate, an electrically conductive antenna element on the flexible substrate and connected to the wireless communications circuitry and the ground plane, and a floating, electrically conductive director element on the flexible substrate for directing a beam pattern of the antenna element.

主权项

1. A mobile wireless communications device comprising:
a housing; a flexible substrate carried by said housing; an electrically conductive antenna element on said flexible substrate; and a floating, electrically conductive director element on said flexible substrate and extending outwardly from said electrically conductive antenna element that directs a beam pattern thereof.