Patent 7859467 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on December, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An object of the present invention is to provide an antenna device for a radio apparatus in which the amount of energy (SAR) absorbed by a head of a human body can be reduced without lowering the power of radio waves transmitted during a call. There is provided a board 108 serving as a base plate of an antenna element, an antenna element 102 disposed in a longitudinally end portion of the board 108 through a feeding portion 107, a conductor plate 109 disposed substantially in parallel with a main surface of the board 108 and disposed on the opposite side to a surface having a sound hole of a receiver portion, and a plurality of short-circuit conductors 110 disposed on a lower end portion of the conductor plate 109. The conductor plate 109 is short-circuited to a lower end portion of the board 108 through the short-circuit conductors 110.