601results about "Waveguide horns" patented technology

An RF-based material detection device includes an antenna connector, a first interchangeable antenna capable of being releasably coupled to the RF-based material detection device via the antenna connector, an RF transmitter unit operably connected to the antenna connector and configured to transmit an RF signal via the first interchangeable antenna into a first material at a specific resonance frequency for the first material, and an RF receiver unit operably connected to the antenna connector and configured to receive from the first material via the first interchangeable antenna a first modified signal in response to interaction of the RF signal with the first material, wherein the first interchangeable antenna includes one or more design characteristics optimized to detect the first modified signal from the first material.

An RF-based material detection device includes an antenna connector, a first interchangeable antenna capable of being releasably coupled to the RF-based material detection device via the antenna connector, an RF transmitter unit operably connected to the antenna connector and configured to transmit an RF signal via the first interchangeable antenna into a first material at a specific resonance frequency for the first material, and an RF receiver unit operably connected to the antenna connector and configured to receive from the first material via the first interchangeable antenna a first modified signal in response to interaction of the RF signal with the first material, wherein the first interchangeable antenna includes one or more design characteristics optimized to detect the first modified signal from the first material.

The invention belongs to the technical field of antennas, and particularly discloses an ultra-wide-band low-profile conformal double-ridge horn antenna which comprises a plurality of antenna radiation units which are arranged in a surrounding mode in the circumferential direction of an aircraft platform and can be installed with the aircraft platform in a conformal mode, and each antenna radiation unit comprises a double-ridge assembly and a feed assembly. Wherein the double-ridge assembly comprises a first ridge unit and a second ridge unit which are symmetrically arranged left and right, the opposite inner side surfaces of the first ridge unit and the second ridge unit are of curved surface structures, and the first ridge unit and the second ridge unit jointly form a horn section at the top and a waveguide section at the bottom; and the feed assembly is arranged on the waveguide section and is used for feeding to the first ridge unit and the second ridge unit. According to the horn antenna, through the structural design, the overall structure of the antenna is relatively compact, the size is relatively small, the height and the profile size of the antenna radiation unit can be reduced through the double-ridge curved surface structural design, and meanwhile the excellent frequency band width is achieved.

An antenna apparatus includes a board, an integrated circuit chip including a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna and mounted on the board, a waveguide having a first aperture provided on the board side and surrounding the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna in aperture view, a second aperture provided on a rear side with respect to the first aperture in a radiation direction of the transmitting antenna, and a first inner wall surface connecting the first aperture and the second aperture, a radio wave lens fixed to the second aperture, and a first radio wave absorber disposed on the first aperture side in a space surrounded by the first inner wall surface. At least part of the first radio wave absorber is located inside a first path of a first direct wave, and the first radio wave absorber is located outside a second path of a second direct wave.

Provided are: an antenna device in which the minimum detection distance is shortened; and a radar device.　The antenna device comprises: a waveguide having a first opening, a second opening that is larger than the first opening when observed in a planar view of the opening, and an inner wall surface connecting the first opening and the second opening; an antenna that is provided inside the first opening so as to be positioned, when observed in a planar view of the opening, inside the first opening, directed toward the inside of the waveguide; and a radio wave lens provided inside the waveguide, the radio lens having a first surface located on the first opening side and located more toward the inside of the waveguide than the first opening, a second surface located on the second opening side and located more toward the inside of the waveguide than the second opening, and an outer edge part which is sized so as to close a gap between the inner wall surface and the outer edge part when observed in a planar view of the opening.

For improved Ku band communications, an antenna system includes a planar antenna surface, at least one waveguide feed network, and a waveguide. The planar antenna surface is coupled to at least one port. The at least one waveguide feed network includes an H plane junction splitter and at least two E plane junction splitters. The H plane junction splitter is disposed on a channel septum in a channel. A splitter axis of the channel septum and the H plane junction splitter is rotated about a P axis. The at least two E plane junction splitters are each disposed on septum and coupled to the H plane junction splitter via the channel. The waveguide is coupled to the waveguide feed network.

The utility model relates to a broadband wide-beam horn antenna, which comprises an antenna main body, a feed port, a feed probe, a polarizer, a waveguide and a beam widening structure, the antenna body is in a cuboid shape with an opening in the upper middle end inside, through holes are formed in the left side face and the right side face of the antenna body, feed ports are connected to the through holes, feed probes are arranged in the feed ports, a polarizer is vertically connected to the bottom face inside the antenna body, and the polarizer is located between the two feed probes. The open end of the antenna main body is connected with a waveguide, and the inner diameter of the waveguide is gradually increased along the direction close to the antenna main body to form a horn shape with a big-end-down opening; the side surface of the waveguide is provided with a wave beam widening structure which extends outwards. The antenna with the structure has the advantages that the antenna with the structure can achieve the wide-beam antenna gain of 1.5 dB within + / -60 degrees and the wide-beam antenna gain of-0.5 dB within + / -70 degrees; and the working bandwidth can reach 10%. And the diameter is only 1.27 times of the wavelength of the lowest working frequency.

The invention belongs to the technical field of antennas, and particularly relates to an ultrathin full-space metasurface unit with dual-band amplitude-phase regulation and control and a multi-beam generator. In order to solve the problems that component design cost is high, unit amplitude is low, and incident wave energy cannot be efficiently regulated and controlled, the full-space metasurface unit comprises a first metal layer and a second metal layer, the first metal layer is located above the second metal layer, a dielectric plate is arranged between the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and the dielectric plate is located between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. A first C-shaped groove and a double split ring resonator are etched on the first metal layer from outside to inside in a hollowed-out manner, a second C-shaped groove and an elliptical groove are etched on the second metal layer from outside to inside in a hollowed-out manner, and the opening directions of the first C-shaped groove and the second C-shaped groove are perpendicular to each other. And the multi-beam generator is designed based on the total space metasurface unit.

The invention relates to the technical field of antennas, in particular to a dual-mode high-gain millimeter wave beam scanning antenna, which comprises a bottom layer dielectric substrate, a first excitation port and a second excitation port are arranged at two ends of the bottom layer dielectric substrate; the top-layer dielectric substrate comprises a +-shaped dielectric covering layer arranged at the top of the bottom-layer dielectric substrate; two ends of the parallel plate slot waveguide are respectively connected with the first substrate integrated waveguide horn and the second substrate integrated waveguide horn; two ends of the first waveguide transition structure are respectively connected with the first excitation port and the first substrate integrated waveguide horn; two ends of the second waveguide transition structure are respectively connected with the second excitation port and the second substrate integrated waveguide horn; according to the invention, large-range beam scanning including backward end radiation can be realized, high-gain single-beam scanning is maintained, the antenna has the characteristics of simple structure, easy integrated processing, high gain and full coverage of the upper half space, and the performance of a millimeter wave wireless communication system is greatly improved.

The invention relates to a double-ridge waveguide antenna array applied to satellite communication, and relates to the technical field of antennas. The antenna comprises a horn radiation layer, a waveguide transmission layer, a low-frequency feed layer and a high-frequency feed layer which are sequentially arranged in the stacking direction. The low-frequency feed layer and the high-frequency feed layer are connected with the horn radiation layer through the waveguide transmission layer and the stepped impedance conversion waveguide; the horn radiation layer comprises dual-band horn common-caliber radiation units, metal blocks and metal strips, the metal blocks and the metal strips are used for constructing ridge waveguide structures, the adjacent dual-band horn common-caliber radiation units are separated by the metal strips, and the ridge waveguide structures constructed by the metal blocks are used for loading and expanding bandwidth; according to the invention, the design complexity of double frequency bands with a large frequency ratio is effectively simplified, and the design compactness of the antenna array is improved.

The invention discloses a throwing sensor integrated with a millimeter-wave radar and a use method. The sensor comprises a shell, a millimeter-wave radar detection module and a printed circuit board, wherein the millimeter-wave radar detection module and the printed circuit board are located in the shell; wherein the millimeter wave radar detection module comprises an antenna, a radiation patch, an RDL layer and a control chip; a radiation window is arranged on the printed circuit board; the antenna is located on one side face of the printed circuit board, and the antenna and the printed circuit board are connected in an embedded mode through a first metal through hole. The radiation patch, the RDL layer and the control chip are positioned on the other side surface of the printed circuit board; the radiation patch and the control chip are located on the two side faces of the RDL layer respectively, and the radiation patch is further located in the radiation window. The RDL layer is provided with a first signal window, and the control chip is connected with the radiation patch through the first signal window. The control chip feeds power to the antenna radiation structure, so that the transmission loss is reduced, and the transmission efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses a multi-channel switching antenna based on a translation reconfigurable metasurface array, and relates to a multi-channel switching antenna design technology, in particular to a function of translation regulation and control of a beam deflection angle of a translation reconfigurable metasurface. And therefore, the functions of channel switching, dual-channel output and the like can be achieved. The multi-channel switching antenna comprises a translation reconfigurable metasurface array, a mechanical driving system, a feed circuit and a horn antenna array. The main process of the design method is that phase distribution of the translation reconfigurable metasurface is solved based on the generalized Snell law, the differential equation and the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld formula, then the metasurface unit structure and the translation reconfigurable metasurface which meet the requirements are designed through electromagnetic simulation software, arraying is conducted on the translation reconfigurable metasurface, and finally the translation reconfigurable metasurface is obtained. The multi-channel switching antenna based on the translation reconfigurable metasurface array is obtained, and the functions of channel switching, dual-channel output and the like can be achieved.

The provided is a germanium telluride-based reflectarray element and millimeter-wave frequency-reconfigurable reflectarray antenna. The reflectarray antenna includes a plurality of reflectarray elements, a dielectric substrate, a metal ground, and a feed source, where the reflectarray element is located on an upper surface of the dielectric substrate, and includes a loop body and two phase delay lines; two first germanium telluride films are embedded in the loop body to divide the loop body into two parts with equal lengths; each part of the loop body is connected to a middle portion of one phase delay line; two second germanium telluride films are embedded in the phase delay line; the two second germanium telluride films are symmetrically distributed up and down with the middle portion of the phase delay line as a center.

The application provides a high-precision flexible reflecting surface antenna device, which comprises a center body, an unfolding mechanism connected with the center body, an antenna arranged on the center body and a locking mechanism arranged below the center body and used for fixing the unfolding mechanism and the antenna. The high-precision flexible reflecting surface antenna device has the advantages of simple structure, small storage envelope, reliable unfolding process, high shape precision after unfolding and the like, and can meet the use requirements of Ka frequency band.

An antenna assembly is provided. The antenna assembly includes a ceramic carrier having a first surface and a second surface, the second surface being opposite the first surface. The antenna assembly further includes an antenna pattern. The antenna pattern includes a first antenna portion positioned at least partially on the first surface of the ceramic carrier. The antenna pattern further includes a second antenna portion comprising a plurality of conductive vias extending through the ceramic carrier from the first antenna portion to the second surface of the ceramic carrier.

The disclosed principles provide novel antennas and corresponding methods of manufacturing thereof. In one aspect, an antenna according to the disclosed principles have a dielectric unit. The dielectric unit may be azimuthally uniform, radially symmetric, or symmetric. The dielectric unit may include a first conducting surface, a second conducting surface, and a non-conducting aperture. The first conducting surface may be located on a first radially interior surface of the dielectric unit and have both convex and concave surfaces. The second conducting surface, oblique to an axis of radial symmetry, may extend radially outward from the axis of radial symmetry. The non-conducting aperture may be located on the radial exterior of the dielectric unit. The first conducting surface and the second conducting surface may define a dielectric volume extending radially toward and terminating in the non-conducting aperture.

A millimeter-wave antenna module includes a circuit board and a plurality of millimeter-wave antenna structures. Each of the millimeter-wave antenna structures includes a substrate assembly, a feeding opening structure, a feeding stripline, and a shielding cover. The feeding opening structure and the feeding stripline are each disposed in the substrate assembly, and a portion of the feeding stripline is exposed in the feeding opening structure. The feeding opening structure is covered by the shielding cover, a side of the shielding cover has an opening, and a height of the shielding cover is increased along a direction toward the opening. The feeding stripline is configured to emit an electromagnetic wave signal in a single and horizontal direction through the feeding opening structure and the shielding cover.

The invention belongs to the technical field of antennas, and discloses a reflection unit based on a metasurface and an array antenna thereof. Comprising a linear polarization horn antenna feed source and a metasurface reflection array. The array is composed of reflection units which are arranged periodically, and each reflection unit comprises a metal resonance layer, a dielectric substrate and a metal back plate from top to bottom. The metal resonance layer comprises a non-uniform line width structure formed by a central metal strip and two symmetrically connected arc-shaped metal arms, namely, the line width of the central metal strip is unequal to that of the arc-shaped metal arms, so that the loss of the reflection unit is effectively reduced, and coupling between amplitude and phase regulation is remarkably reduced. The reflection phase of the reflection unit is realized by adjusting the central angle corresponding to the arc-shaped arm, and the reflection amplitude is realized by adjusting the rotation angle of the whole metal resonance layer around the normal axis of the metal resonance layer. Through joint optimization of parameters and array arrangement of each unit, excellent performance of low sidelobe level, low cross polarization level and high aperture efficiency is finally realized.

The invention discloses a satellite-borne flexible coverage multi-beam antenna and a design method thereof, and the antenna is composed of a reflector and a feed source array. A beam synthesis mode of synthesizing each beam by a full-scale feed source is adopted, antenna parameter configuration is optimized, and a feed source array excitation coefficient is reconstructed to carry out beam flexible coverage design, so that the problems that a traditional satellite-borne passive antenna does not have a beam on-orbit reconfigurable capability, the number of direct radiation array antennas is large, and a system is complex are solved; in-orbit flexibility and variability of antenna coverage size, coverage shape, coverage position, beam scale and the like in a service area are met, and an antenna design theoretical method and key technical support are provided for high-flux flexible load satellites in the future.

The invention discloses a waveguide antenna structure. The waveguide antenna structure comprises a chip; a PCB substrate, wherein the chip is arranged on the first surface of the PCB substrate; the radiation slot layer is arranged on the first surface; wherein the first surface is provided with a metal ground wire, and the metal ground wire is connected between the chip and the waveguide. According to the waveguide antenna structure, the metal ground wire is arranged on the first surface of the PCB substrate, and the metal ground wire is utilized to realize feeding between the chip and the waveguide, so that the waveguide and the PCB substrate can share the metal ground wire on the first surface of the PCB substrate, a feeding waveguide layer is reduced, the assembly steps are simplified, and the cost is reduced.

The invention discloses a biplane tapered slot antenna, and belongs to the technical field of antennas. The antenna comprises a dielectric substrate, a metal radiation patch, a metal conduction band and a resistor. The radiation patch is arranged in a double-plane manner, so that the different-plane tapered slot line is constructed, and the impedance matching of the antenna is improved while the power capacity is improved. The metal radiation patch comprises an upper radiation patch and a lower radiation patch, the metal conduction band and the lower radiation patch form a microstrip line, and the resistor, the upper radiation patch and the lower radiation patch are connected in series into a whole, so that the effective suppression of the reflection voltage of the antenna is realized; therefore, resistance loading does not affect the radiation efficiency of the antenna. Technical index parameters such as power capacity, reflection voltage and radiation efficiency are considered at the same time, a technical scheme with excellent comprehensive performance is provided for ultra-wideband microwave pulse radiation, and the ultra-wideband microwave pulse radiation model can be used as an antenna basic model.

The invention aims to provide a medium-loaded ultra-wideband miniaturized double-ridged horn antenna, and belongs to the technical field of double-ridged horn antennas. A dielectric structure loaded on a horn mouth surface in the antenna comprises a dielectric lens, a dielectric flat plate and a dielectric guide section with a specific shape, and through loading of an integrated dielectric structure formed by the dielectric lens, the dielectric flat plate and the dielectric guide section, impedance mutation from a metal waveguide to a free space can be optimized, and reflection is reduced; electromagnetic waves are guided to converge, beam divergence is reduced, and the directivity and gain of a main lobe are improved; meanwhile, the wavefront of the horn mouth electromagnetic wave can be corrected to be a plane wave, phase distortion is reduced, and the far-field directivity is improved; focused electromagnetic waves are refracted, side lobes are reduced, and main lobe gain is improved. The ultra-wide-band miniaturized double-ridge horn antenna has excellent comprehensive performance of ultra wide band, miniaturization, high gain and low side lobe.

The invention particularly relates to an antenna for realizing quasi-diffraction-free beamforming and scanning, which comprises a phase shift metasurface and a feed horn antenna, and is characterized in that the feed horn antenna directly faces the center of the phase shift metasurface; the phase shift metasurface is of a double-layer dielectric substrate structure with an electromagnetic wave phase shift function, the whole phase shift metasurface is composed of a plurality of phase shift units arranged periodically, and the structure of each phase shift unit comprises an upper layer metal patch, a middle layer metal patch, a lower layer metal patch, an upper layer dielectric substrate and a lower layer dielectric substrate; the phase shift unit is equivalent to a low-pass filtering phase shifter with a phase shift effect, insertion phase shift at different angles can be realized at any position of the phase shift metasurface by setting the sizes of the three layers of metal patches in each phase shift unit on the phase shift metasurface, and then the insertion phase shift at different angles can be realized under the irradiation of the feed horn antenna. And generating phase distribution meeting the ideal phasor shift quantity of the quasi-non-diffraction beam on the outlet surface of the phase shift metasurface so as to generate the quasi-non-diffraction beam. According to the invention, the problem that the starting point of the non-diffraction region of the quasi-non-diffraction wave beam is uncontrollable is solved.

A radar antenna with a flushing function, comprising an antenna body forming an antenna horn and a flushing fluid channel configured to receive flushing fluid. The flushing fluid channel opens at its end into an annular gap for discharging the flushing fluid into the interior of the antenna body.

To provide an omni-directional antenna with a simple configuration.SOLUTION: An antenna includes a main body. The main body includes: a reception unit; a first conversion unit; a second conversion unit; and a radiation unit. The reception unit receives an electromagnetic wave of a TE10. The first conversion unit is connected to the reception unit and converts a TE10 mode into a TE20 mode in a waveguide. The second conversion unit is connected to the first conversion unit and converts the TE20 mode into a TE01 mode in the waveguide. The radiation unit is connected to the second conversion unit. The reception unit, the first conversion unit, the second conversion unit, and the radiation unit are disposed along a predetermined radiation axis.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an antenna array (1000), the method comprising the following steps: additively manufacturing a first layer (1) on a manufacture support (S) in a manufacture direction (z), the first layer (1) comprising a plurality of radiating elements (10); manufacturing a second layer (2) on top of the first layer (1) in the manufacture direction (z), the second layer (2) comprising a first vertical beamforming network (20) coupled to the plurality of radiating elements (10), characterised in that the first vertical beamforming network (20) is entirely supported by the first layer (1) during its additive manufacture. The invention also relates to an antenna array (1000) obtained using the above method.

The present disclosure is directed to an antenna device (1) comprising a printed circuit board (2) and an electronic component (3) disposed on the printed circuit board (2). The antenna device (1) comprises at least two individual antenna elements (12) interconnected to the electronic component (3) and configured to transmit and receive signals. The antenna elements (12) each comprise at least one waveguide channel (9) interconnecting them in an antenna assembly (6). A first waveguide aperture (10) is disposed on a rear surface (16) of the antenna assembly (6). The first waveguide aperture (10) is interconnected to the electronic component (3) and configured to transmit and / or receive signals. A second waveguide aperture (11) is disposed on a front surface (17) of the waveguide assembly (6) and is also configured to transmit and / or receive signals.

The present invention discloses a single-layer broadband reflectarray antenna with independent control of dual-linear polarization. The present invention realizes the x-polarization working state and the y-polarization working state of the reflectarray antenna by rotating the horn antenna 0° and 90° relative to the planar reflectarray; the planar reflectarray includes a plurality of reflective units, each of which includes a dielectric layer, a metal reflective layer and a metal backplane layer; the metal reflective layer includes a metal ring and a cross-shaped metal patch. The present invention realizes independent reflection responses in two directions of the reflective unit through a single degree of freedom, and relies on rotating the feed horn antenna to change the polarization working state of the array antenna. The present invention adopts a single-layer structure without air gaps, achieving low profile, lightweight, simple manufacturing and low cost, and adopts a continuous phase adjustable method. It is the first time to propose a single-layer broadband reflectarray antenna with independent dual-linear polarization and continuous phase adjustment, realizing a lightweight single-layer design while ensuring high aperture efficiency and broadband.

In an embodiment of the invention, a passive beamforming wireless signal repeater includes a Rotman lens having a plurality of input ports and a corresponding plurality of output ports, each output port corresponding to an input port, each input port configured to receive a signal from an uplink antenna and apply a phase change to the signal before emitting the signal from the corresponding output port, and a frequency scanning antenna (FSA) structure comprising a first plurality slots of varying lengths configured to apply a different phase shift at each radiating slot and cause the radiated signals to combine constructively in a certain direction, the FSA configured to receive a signal from the Rotman lens and direct an output signal in a direction determined by the frequency of the signal.