ANTENNA AND ELECTRIC APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an antenna in which the thickness of an entirety containing a power supply cable never influences the mounting space of an electric apparatus, etc., and to provide an electric apparatus reduced in thickness by building the antenna therein. SOLUTION: The antenna 10 is formed by including a conductor flat plate 1, a power supply line 4 formed of slits 2, 3 provided at the plate 1, a radiating element 5 and a ground unit 7 formed on peripheries of the element 5 and the line 4 via the slits 2, 3. Since a power supply point by a coaxial cable 6 is located at an end of the line 4, the entirety of the antenna 10 is not thickened. Since the antenna 10 itself is thin, even when the antenna 10 is contained in an LCD housing of the apparatus, the thickness of the LCD housing is not increased due to no necessity of an antenna mounting space. The apparatus can be reduced in thickness and cost, and its developing period can be shortened. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO