Paired Snap-On Buttons Connections for Balanced Antennas in Wearable Systems

Shengjian Jammy Chen; Christophe Fumeaux; Damith Chinthana Ranasinghe; Thomas Kaufmann

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2014.2363852

Paired Snap-On Buttons Connections for Balanced Antennas in Wearable Systems

Shengjian Jammy Chen, Christophe Fumeaux, Damith Chinthana Ranasinghe, Thomas Kaufmann

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Abstract

A pair of commercial snap-on buttons is demonstrated as a detachable radio frequency (RF) balanced connection between a garment-integrated textile dipole antenna and a passive sensor-enabled radio frequency identification (RFID) tag in a wearable wireless system. This arrangement offers reliable, low-cost, and easily detachable RF coupling and feeding connections for balanced antennas, as conceptualized in simulations and validated through measurements. In addition, a back-to-back balanced transmission-line structure has been designed and measured to characterize the RF performance of the proposed snap-on button connection. The resulting S-parameters indicate the good performance of the snap-on buttons as RF connectors for balanced antennas/transmission lines at least up to 5 GHz with insertion loss better than 0.8 dB.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1498-1501
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2014.2363852
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Antenna feeding
balanced transmission line
radio frequency identification (RFID)
textile antennas
wearable electronic system

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