975 results about "Antenna element" patented technology

Antenna elements and electronic devices are provided, including an antenna element includes a first radiator, a second radiator, and a radiator array. The first radiator is connected to a ground plane through a grounding component, the second radiator is spaced from the ground plane and disposed opposite to the ground plane, and the second radiator and the first radiator are spaced apart. The radiator array is spaced from the first radiator and disposed opposite to the first radiator, and is located on a side that is of the first radiator and that is further from the ground plane. The radiator array includes at least two sub-radiators, and the at least two sub-radiators are spaced from each other in an extension direction of a plane on which the radiator array is located. The first radiator includes a first hollow region, and the radiator array includes a second hollow region.

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described. The UE is a sidelink, SL, UE, and is to communicate with one or more further SL-UEs over a sidelink, SL, using more than one antenna or antenna element. The UE is served by a base station of the wireless communication network. The UE is to be assisted by the base station for one or more beam management procedures.

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

Systems, devices, and methods related to dual linear polarized wideband antennas for compact antenna arrangements are provided. An example antenna structure includes a multi-layered printed circuit board (PCB); a folded magnetoelectric antenna element including a first portion disposed on a first layer of the multi-layered PCB and a first fold portion contiguous to the first portion and extending to at least a second layer of the multi-layered PCB; and a patch antenna element disposed on a third layer of the multi-layered PCB, wherein the first, second, and third layers are separate layers of the multi-layered PCB. The antenna structure further includes a first feeding port electrically coupled to the patch antenna element, and a second feeding port electrically coupled to the patch antenna element, where the first and second feeding ports are associated with different polarizations.

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

The invention discloses a broadband dual-circularly-polarized low-cost phased-array antenna array element, which comprises an antenna radiation structure and a slot feed structure which are arranged independently from each other, and is characterized in that the antenna radiation structure comprises a parasitic radiation layer, a first dielectric substrate, an excitation radiation layer and a second dielectric substrate which are arranged in a laminated manner; the slot feed structure comprises a slot layer, a third dielectric substrate, a strip-shaped transmission line and a fourth dielectric substrate; the antenna layer structure and the slot feed structure realize electromagnetic coupling transmission through the slot layer; a hollow symmetrical structure is arranged in the middle of the first dielectric substrate, and the hollow part is used as an air medium to reduce dielectric loss; the gap layer is provided with a multidirectional coupling gap structure; the strip-shaped transmission line is provided with at least two feed ports, and dual circularly polarized radiation is formed in the antenna layer structure through excitation of different feed ports. The antenna radiation layer has no metal through hole or blind hole, can be processed in a layered manner, has the advantages of low processing cost and high yield, and ensures impedance bandwidth while realizing dual circular polarization.

A mobile device having array antenna can be used to communicate with Earth orbiting satellites and base stations on the ground. The display screen of the mobile device has an array antenna capable of transmitting and receiving radio frequency (RF) signals in the range of 0.6 GigaHertz (GHz) to 100 GHz. The configuration of the array antenna, including the number of arrays and the dimension of the arrays, is software programmable by activating and deactivating antenna elements for multiple beams and their beam characteristics.

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

A system can facilitate broadband cellular communications with user equipment via a group of antennas of the system, wherein the group of antennas comprises multiple-input multiple-output antennas. The system can determine channel state information of user equipment for which broadband cellular communications are enabled via the group of antennas. The system can purpose an antenna element of the group of antennas for energy harvesting based on the channel state information failing to satisfy an information exchange criterion. The system can harvest, via the antenna element, non-contributory interference plus noise signals as electrical energy. The system can direct the electrical energy to a processing circuit involved in an information transmission task.

The invention introduces a Doppler radio direction finding system, which relates to the technical field of radio navigation and comprises an antenna array unit, a radio frequency switch matrix, a logic controller, a single-channel receiver and a signal processing unit. The logic controller drives the radio frequency switch matrix to alternately execute clockwise and anticlockwise antenna scanning actions in a single measurement period, and the signal processing unit respectively extracts phase slopes corresponding to forward and reverse scanning, generates an environment error component according to the sum of the two phase slopes and identifies a specific antenna oscillator at a standing wave node. The logic controller responds to the feedback instruction and physically skips the conduction operation on the specific antenna oscillator in the subsequent time sequence, the physical symmetry of positive and negative scanning and an environment feedback mechanism are utilized, environment standing wave interference is actively avoided on the premise that radio frequency channels are not increased, and qualitative change improvement of anti-multipath direction finding precision under a single-channel system is achieved.

The invention discloses a pre-phase-based one-bit beam reconfigurable metasurface antenna device, which comprises a pre-phase-based one-bit metasurface antenna unit which is designed by adopting a resonance scattering analysis method, two microstrip line paths with different lengths are switched through a single-pole double-throw switch, so that a 180-degree phase difference of a signal is obtained to realize 1-bit phase regulation and control, and the one-bit beam reconfigurable metasurface antenna device is obtained. Electromagnetic simulation software is utilized to optimize geometric parameters and output reflection electromagnetic response of the design model; the overall design of the reconfigurable antenna array panel is carried out based on the designed unit model, and the reconfigurable antenna array panel comprises a sub-panel composed of a plurality of low-cost microstrip antenna array units and a control panel connected with external feed equipment and a main panel.

An antenna apparatus includes a radiation shield between an antenna element and at least one radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) coupled to the antenna element. An antenna substrate includes a first dielectric layer having opposite first and second surfaces, and a first metallization layer attached to the second surface to form a ground plane. A base substrate includes at least one second dielectric layer having opposite third and fourth surfaces, and a second metallization layer having a first side attached to the third surface and a second side attached to the first metallization layer to form the radiation shield. The RFIC is RF coupled to the antenna element through at least one via extending through the base substrate and a coupling element within aligned openings of the first and second metallization layers.

Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.

A vehicle radar sensor unit (2) having an antenna arrangement (3), a transceiver arrangement (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) and a processing unit (6). The antenna arrangement (3) includes at least one transmitter array antenna (7) and at least two receiver antennas (24, 25, 26; 27, 28, 29; 30, 31, 32; 33, 34, 35), where each transmitter array antenna (7) have at least two sub-antennas (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) that are vertically spaced from each other, where each sub-antenna (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) have at least one antenna element (20, 21), and where each receiver antenna (24, 25, 26; 27, 28, 29; 30, 31, 32; 33, 34, 35) have a plurality of series fed antenna elements (22, 23) formed in a vertically extending column. Each sub-antenna (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) is connected to the transceiver arrangement (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) that is adapted to feed the corresponding sub-antenna (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) with a controllable phase, such that each transmitter array antenna (7) is adapted to provide a transmitter antenna beam (361, 362) that is controllable in an elevation direction (401, 402).

An electronic device according to various embodiments may comprise: a housing; an antenna structure comprising a substrate, which comprises a first substrate surface facing a first direction and a second substrate surface facing a second direction opposite from the first substrate surface, and at least one antenna element disposed on the substrate so as to form a beam pattern in the first direction; a first support part disposed so as to at least partially correspond to the second substrate surface; a conductive bracket comprising at least one conductive extension part disposed higher than the second substrate surface with respect to the first support part; and a wireless communication circuit configured to transmit and / or receive a wireless signal in a designated frequency band by means of the at least one antenna element.

An antenna system is configured for use with an electronic device having a housing. The antenna system includes a first antenna element configured to be disposed at a first location adjacent to a side of the housing and a second antenna element configured to be disposed at a second location adjacent to the side of the housing. The first antenna element includes a first body extending between a first lower end and a first upper end. The first body includes a first flat portion, a first arcuate portion, and a first cutout configured to facilitate dual-band radiation associated with the first antenna element. The second antenna element includes a second body extending between a second lower end and a second upper end. The second body includes a second flat portion, a second arcuate portion, and a second cutout configured to facilitate dual-band radiation associated with the second antenna element.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus may include first transceiver hardware comprising: first processing logic configured to generate a first plurality of output streams associated with a first sub-array of antenna elements of an antenna array by applying a first inverse power-amplifier- to-antenna-array network (A-l) matrix to one or more first input streams; and a first plurality of digital predistortion (DPD) circuits that are apply first DPD to the first plurality of output streams. The apparatus may include second transceiver hardware comprising: second processing logic configured to generate a second plurality of output streams associated with a second sub-array of antenna elements of the antenna array by applying a second A-l matrix to second one or more input streams, and a second plurality of DPD circuits configured to apply second DPD to the second plurality of output streams.

The invention discloses a double-frequency circularly polarized antenna element, which belongs to the technical field of antennas and comprises a high-frequency-band radiation unit and a low-frequency-band radiation unit. The high-frequency band radiation unit comprises a first dielectric substrate and a first feed probe. A first radiation patch is embedded in one end face of the first dielectric substrate, and the first radiation patch is provided with two symmetrical chamfers. The top end of the first feed probe passes through the first through hole and is fixedly connected with the first radiation patch. The low-frequency-band radiation unit comprises a second dielectric substrate, a second radiation patch and a third dielectric substrate. The second radiation patch is arranged on the second dielectric substrate. The second dielectric substrate is provided with a second metalized through hole. The third dielectric substrate is provided with a Chebyshev Balun feed printed line. The antenna element provided by the invention not only can realize the circular polarization of the antenna, but also can reduce the coupling between antennas of different working frequency bands while expanding the bandwidth of the antenna, improve the isolation between two working frequency band ports, and reduce the cross polarization.

The present disclosure relates to an antenna apparatus, and especially comprises: a main body module in which a main board is mounted; an RF module which is fixed to the front so that an intermediate outside air layer is formed between the RF module and the main body module, and in which an RF filter unit and an antenna element unit are mounted; and an amplification unit module which is disposed so as to be exposed in the intermediate outside air layer between the main body module and the RF module, and comprises an amplification unit substrate having analog amplification elements mounted thereon, wherein heat generated from heating elements mounted on the main board is dissipated through at least any one of the front and back of the main body module, and heat generated from the amplification unit module is directly dissipated through the intermediate outside air layer, and thus the advantage of enabling maximum heat dissipation performance is provided.

A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described. The UE is a sidelink, SL, UE, and is to communicate with one or more further SL-UEs over a sidelink, SL, using more than one antenna or antenna element. The UE is served by a base station of the wireless communication network. The UE is to be assisted by the base station for one or more beam management procedures.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for the mitigation of antenna panel misalignment. One aspect provides a method for wireless communication by an apparatus comprising a plurality of panels, wherein the plurality of panels comprise at least a first panel and a second panel. The method generally includes sending one or more signals from a first subset of a plurality of antenna elements associated with the plurality of panels; receiving the one or more signals on a second subset of the plurality of antenna elements; and determining an angle of misalignment between the first panel and the second panel based on one or more signal characteristics of the one or more received signals.

A horizontally-polarized omnidirectional antenna, including: a body including: a host printed circuit board (PCB) including: a metal-flooded ground plane, windows, and an interconnect providing a radio frequency (RF) signal splitting off into 2*Z0 transmission lines, a plurality of antenna elements, corresponding to respective windows, including: an antenna PCB including an antenna slot having a pullback region with the host PCB therein without directly contacting the pullback region, the window in the antenna slot, loops of conducting strips at top and bottom sides of the antenna PCB, slightly overlapping to form capacitive elements at overlap regions, a pair of input solder joints at respective input conducting strips on the top of the antenna PCB, on opposite sides of the window, a transmission feed solder joint directly between the pair of input solder joints across the window, connected to a Z0 feed line, and an RF connector receiving an antenna power supply.

A communication method and a communication apparatus are provided. The method includes: a terminal device obtains a channel measurement result, wherein the channel measurement result is obtained by the terminal device based on at least two reflections by an antenna element set of an intelligent reflecting surface for a first signal sent by a network device, the first signal is a signal for channel measurement, and the antenna element set includes at least two antenna elements; and the terminal device determines a path difference between the antenna elements of the intelligent reflecting surface based on the channel measurement result.

A patch antenna element has a plurality of patches that are coplanar, each having a length along a resonant dimension that is no greater than one-quarter of a wavelength of a maximum operating frequency of the patch antenna element. The antenna element also includes one or more discrete reactive elements. For each pair of neighboring patches of the plurality of patches, the pair forms an electrically insulating space therebetween. At least one discrete reactive element lies within the electrically insulating space and is electrically connected to both of the neighboring patches of the pair. A patch antenna combines the patch antenna element with a counterpoise that is parallel to, and displaced from, the patch antenna element. Each discrete reactive element may be an inductor or capacitor, either planar or non-planar. The patch antenna may be configured as a dual-polarization patch antenna or quarter-wave patch antenna.

The invention discloses a phased-array antenna control method and system based on impedance matching, a medium and a product, and relates to the technical field of antennas. In the method, before the phased-array antenna works, a target impedance matching parameter is calculated for active input impedance under each preset scanning angle point; establishing a target mapping relation table based on the plurality of preset scanning angle points and the corresponding target impedance matching parameters; during the working period of the phased-array antenna, receiving a target scanning angle, and calculating to obtain a corresponding beam pointing phase value for each antenna unit in the antenna array according to the target scanning angle; determining a real-time impedance matching parameter based on the target scanning angle and the target mapping relation table; and loading the beam pointing phase value to a phase shifter in the feed network, and applying a real-time impedance matching parameter to the dynamic impedance matching network, so that the input impedance of the antenna array is matched with the characteristic impedance of the feed network. By implementing the technical scheme provided by the invention, the radio frequency performance of the phased-array antenna is improved.