1860 results about "Antenna feed" patented technology

A multiband waveguide reflector antenna feed comprises waveguide feeds in a concentric architecture. A waveguide feed is located in the center and coaxial waveguide feeds are disposed around the center feed. The waveguide feeds may be all-metallic with the center feed operating in a TE₁₁ mode and the coaxial feeds operating in a coaxial TE₁₁ mode. The waveguide feeds may have electromagnetic band gap (EBG) surfaces on waveguide surfaces. The center waveguide feed may have an EBG outer conductor surface and operate in a circular waveguide TEM mode. The coaxial waveguide feeds may have EBG inner and outer conductors and operate in a circular waveguide TEM mode. The coaxial feeds may have EBG inner conductors and near perfect electrical conductor (PEC) outer conductors and operate in a circular waveguide-like TE₁₁ mode or may comprise EBG outer conductors and PEC inner conductors and operate in a quasi-TEM waveguide mode.

An apparatus is disclosed herein for a cylindrically fed antenna and method for using the same. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises an antenna feed to input a cylindrical feed wave and a tunable slotted array coupled to the antenna feed.

The invention discloses a microwave antenna and an outer cover thereof. The outer cover is a rotational symmetric element which comprises a plurality of homocentrically arranged parts as below: a compensation part arranged at the middle of the outer cover and used for compensating the phase delay of the electric field distribution at the middle of an antenna aperture surface caused by the shielding of a feed source, a main reflection part arranged at the periphery of the compensation part and used for reflecting the electromagnetic wave emitted from the microwave antenna feed source to a specific direction deviating from the feed source, and an assistant reflection part arranged at the periphery of the main reflection part and used for carrying out reflex bunching on the edge diffraction electromagnetic wave of the microwave antenna. All the parts of the outer cover are especially designed and shaped, therefore the microwave antenna has the characteristics of excellent electrical properties, stable structure, low cost and the like.

A compact, agile polarization diversity, multiple frequency band antenna with integrated electronics for terrestrial terminal use in satellite communications systems is disclosed. The antenna includes an antenna feed having highly integrated microwave electronics that are mechanically and electromagnetically coupled thereto in a distributed arrangement so that diverse polarization senses having a low axial ratio and electronic switching control of the polarization senses is provided. The arrangement of the integrated distributed transceiver configuration enables the mechanical rotation of the orientation of a first transceiver for skew alignment while a second transceiver remains stationary relative to the antenna feed assembly. The first transceiver can be a high-band transmitter and receiver pair that supports linear polarization senses and the second transceiver can be a low-band transmitter and receiver pair that supports circular polarization senses. The antenna system presented is highly compact and offers improved polarization performance previously achievable by only larger devices.

A wireless repeater with features that improve the server-donor antenna isolation including multi-purpose server and donor mounting plates that each carry an antenna feed circuit board and associated antenna elements mounted in a back-to-back arrangement with the duplex repeater electronics board sandwiched between the server and donor mounting plates. To improve the server-donor antenna isolation, one or both mounting plates may include corner, side tabs, which may be asymmetric, and raised walls around one or both mounting plates. In addition, the radomes covering the donor antenna and/or the server antennas may carry one or more parasitic conductors, such as a two parasitic strips arranged in parallel lines or for parasitic strips arranged in a square configuration.

A method of operating a communications system including a satellite may include providing communications feeder links between the satellite and a plurality of satellite gateways, and providing a communications service link between the satellite and at least one radioterminal using a plurality of satellite service link antenna feed elements. During a first time period, signals of first and second service link antenna feed elements of the plurality of service link antenna feed elements may be coupled between a first one of the plurality of satellite gateways and the first and second service link antenna feed elements. During a second time period, a signal of the first service link antenna feed element may be coupled between the first satellite gateway and the first service link antenna feed element, and a signal of the second service link antenna feed element may be coupled between a second one of the plurality of satellite gateways and the second service link antenna feed element. Related communications systems and satellites are also discussed.

An antenna configuration includes two closely spaced antennas each positioned so as to be orthogonally polarized with respect to the other. The antenna configuration increases antenna isolation and reduces electromagnetic coupling between donor side antenna and repeat side antenna. The antennas include printed dipoles connected to respective transceivers through respective baluns to balance the non-symmetrical portions of the antenna feed paths to reduce unwanted radiation therein. Printed features such as chokes and non-symmetrical and non-parallel structures are preferably included in the ground plane of a multi-layer circuit board to reduce or eliminate circulating ground currents.

An RF front-end apparatus in a TDD wireless communication system is provided. In the RF front-end apparatus, a detector is provided at a predetermined position in a signal path, and detects a signal propagating in the signal path. A circulator provides a signal received from a power amplifier to an antenna feed line and a signal received from the antenna feed line to a switch. A switch controller generates a control signal based on the signal received from the detector and a switch on/off signal received from a control board. The switch, which is disposed at an input port of an LNA, switches on/off according to the control signal received from the switch controller.

A front-end circuit for a wireless communication unit includes at least two antenna feeds. At least one of the antennas is coupled to an antenna switch. The circuit comprises filters and duplexers and is prepared to operate a number of FDD frequency bands. Each FDD band comprises an Rx band for receive signals and a Tx band for transmit signals. The circuit provides a single band operation mode for each frequency band and aggregated band operation modes. In an aggregated band operation mode Rx signals can be received in two different frequency bands at the same time as well as Tx signals can be transmitted in at least one of the two different frequency bands. In addition, TDD bands as well as GSM bands are covered.

A transmitting apparatus in a TDD wireless communication system is provided. In the transmitting apparatus, a circulator transmits a signal received from a power amplifier to an antenna feed line and transmits a signal received from the antenna feed line to a quarter-wave transmission line. The quarter-wave transmission line is installed in a reception path, for reception isolation in a transmission mode. An RF switch shorts the load of the quarter-wave transmission line to the ground or connects the load of the quarter-wave transmission line to an LNA according to a control signal. The LNA low-noise-amplifies a signal received from the RF switch.

Examples of the present invention include metamaterials, including metamaterial lenses, having material properties that approximate the behavior of a material with low (0<n<1) effective index of refraction. Metamaterials may be designed and tuned using dispersion engineering to create a relatively wide-band low-index region. A low-index metamaterial lens created highly collimated beams in the far-field from a low-directivity antenna feed.

A multi-band frame antenna is used for LTE, MIMO, and other frequency bands. The frame antenna includes a conductive block and a metallic frame with no gaps or discontinuities. The conductive block functions as a system ground and has at least one electronic component mounted on the surface. The outer perimeter of the metallic frame surrounds the conductive block, and there is a gap between the metallic frame and the conductive block. One or more antenna feeds are routed across the gap, between the metallic frame and the conductive block. One or more connections can be made across the gap, and at least one electronic element connects the conductive block to the metallic frame.

The invention discloses a mobile terminal antenna system and a mobile terminal. The antenna system comprises a metal frame of the mobile terminal, an NFC feed source, a first matching circuit, a diversity antenna feed source, a second matching circuit, a zeroth inductor and reference ground; at least two slots are formed in the metal frame; a metal frame section between any adjacent slots is a first metal frame; the NFC feed source is connected with the first metal frame through the first matching circuit; the diversity antenna feed source is connected with the first metal frame through the second matching circuit; one end of the zeroth inductor is connected with the first metal frame, and the other end of the zeroth inductor is grounded; the NFC feed source, the first matching circuit, the first metal frame, the zeroth inductor and the reference ground form an NFC antenna system; the diversity antenna feed source, the second matching circuit and the first metal frame form a diversity antenna system; and the NFC antenna system and the diversity antenna system share the first metal frame as an antenna radiating body. With the mobile terminal antenna system of the invention adopted, the problems of large occupied space and high cost of a mobile terminal built-in antenna can be solved.

The present invention provides a mobile terminal of a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal. The antenna device comprises a first antenna radiator, a feed-in device, an antenna feed, a first switch module, a second switch module and a controller. The first antenna radiator is composed of a first antenna radiator branch and a second antenna radiator branch, wherein the first antenna radiator branch and the second antenna radiator branch are symmetrical. The antenna feed is respectively connected with the feed-in device and the main board of the mobile terminal. The first switch module is respectively connected with the first antenna radiator branch and the main board. The second switch module and the first switch module are symmetrically arranged. The second switch module is respectively connected with the second antenna radiator branch and the main board. The controller is connected with the first switch module and the second switch module, respectively. The controller controls the first switch module to be switched on and the second switch module to be switched off, or controls the first switch module to be switched off and the second switch module to be switched on. According to the technical scheme of the invention, only one antenna feed point and two switches are required to balance the fingerprint function at left and right ends. Therefore, the device is low in cost, small in switching loss and small in end-fingerprint absorption. Moreover, the Grasp of Dead problem can be solved.

A transceiver system having an RF front-end operatively connected to two separate non-50 ohm antennas for separately providing transmission/reception paths for 1 GHz band and for 2 GHz band. A switching module is operatively connected to each antenna for mode and frequency-range selection within each band. Each switching module has a plurality of switching elements connected to a plurality of signal paths. Matching is separately and independently provided for each signal path. The matching can be achieved by using distributed elements or lumped elements arranged in shunt or series in order to widen the bandwidth. An electrostatic discharge protection circuit is provided between the antenna feed point and the switching module. The protective circuit can also be used as a discrete matching network that can be optimized depending on the phone mechanics and dimensions.