207 results about "Axial ratio" patented technology

The invention provides a Ku/Ka frequency band circularly polarization integrated receiving and transmitting feed source antenna applied to antenna systems, such as a paraboloid antenna and the like, in satellite communication. The antenna adopts a coaxial nested compact structure, and is applied to Ku frequency band and Ka frequency band at the same time. The basic structure of a feed source comprises a circular waveguide, on which a pointed cone shaped dielectric rod is loaded, a flange, a coaxial waveguide, a symmetrical SMA connector pair, a circular polarizer and an orthogonal mode coupler, wherein the feed source in the Ka frequency band is applied to dual circular polarization, has rotary symmetrical radiation directional diagrams, the circularly polarization axial ratio in Ka double band is smaller than minus 2dB, and the transmitter-receiver isolation is smaller than minus 70dB; and the feed source in the Ku frequency band is applied to dual circular polarization, has rotary symmetrical radiation directional diagrams, a cross polarization level smaller than minus 40dB, and good transmitter-receiver isolation and reflection loss.

A circularly-polarized-wave patch antenna includes a main body having a patch electrode provided with two feeding points and a circuit for generating a phase difference of 90° between signals supplied to the feeding points. A Wilkinson distribution circuit is provided between the 90°-phase-difference generating circuit and a coaxial cable (feeder line) so as to improve a reflection characteristic. The patch antenna includes two feeding points, and thus a favorable axial ratio characteristic can be obtained in a wide band. Also, a favorable reflection characteristic can be obtained in a wide band because of the Wilkinson distribution circuit. Accordingly, the patch antenna can be used in a wider frequency band.

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.

The invention discloses a low-cost microwave- and millimeter-wave polarized antenna of the multi-layer PCB (Printed circuit board) process. The polarized antenna is of a multi-layer structure and comprises a quadrate radiating metal patch, an upper dielectric substrate, a metal floor equipped with an H-shaped coupling gap, a medium dielectric substrate, a feed metal plate with power division network, a lower dielectric substrate and a bottom metal floor; the quadrate radiating metal patch is coupled with the floor equipped with the H-shaped coupling gap to realize feed; the feed network of a microstrip line structure is positioned below the floor; the metal floor equipped with the H-shaped coupling gap is connected with the bottom metal floor through a metal through hole; the feed metal plate with the power division network is connected with the bottom metal floor through a second metal through hole to form a coaxial microstrip line conversion structure by which feeding from the bottom part of the antenna is realized. The antenna has the characteristics that the frequency band is wide, the size is small, the cost is low, the manufacturing and processing are simple, and the axial ratio feature is great.

A printed quasi-tapered tape helical element and printed helical array antenna arc disclosed. The helical element comprises a thin helix conductor having a uniform section associated with a tapered section. The helix conductor can be printed on a thin dielectric sheet and bonded to a hollow composite dielectric support. A solid copper conductor is configured to provide electrical connection between a feeding point of the helix conductor and a microstrip line of a microstrip feed network. The uniform and tapered helix turns are respectively wrapped around the uniform and tapered sections, which enables impedance matching, axial mode excitation, gain and radiation patterns, and damping out of standing waves generated in current distribution over the helix conductor. Conductive composite cups surrounding each helical element reduces mutual coupling in array environment. Thus, the helical element and the array antenna achieve low on-axis and off-axis axial ratio performance over the wideband for global coverage.

The present invention relates to a vehicle mountable satellite antenna as defined in the claims which is operable while the vehicle is in motion. The satellite antenna of the present invention can be installed on top of (or embedded into) the roof of a vehicle. The antenna is capable of providing high gain and a narrow antenna beam for aiming at a satellite direction and enabling broadband communication to vehicle. The present invention provides a vehicle mounted satellite antenna which has low axial ratio, high efficiency and has low grating lobes gain. The vehicle mounted satellite antenna of the present invention provides two simultaneous polarization states. In one embodiment, an inverted L-shaped waveguide has a first wall extending vertically downward from a top surface. The top surface can include a ridge portion. The top surface includes a plurality of radiating elements for forming a radiating surface.

Embodiments provide single-sided and multi-layered circular polarized, self-contained, compound loop antennas (circular polarized CPL). Embodiments of the CPL antennas produce circular polarized signals by using two electric field radiators physically oriented orthogonal to each other, and by ensuring that the two electric field radiators are positioned such that an electrical delay between the two electric field radiators results in the two electric field radiators emitting their respective electric fields out of phase. Ensuring the proper electrical delay between the two electric field radiators also maintains high efficiency of the antenna and it improves the axial ratio of the antenna.

The invention provides a small-sized double-frequency active navigation antenna device which comprises a suppression plate, a first microstrip patch, a second microstrip patch, a first substrate and a second substrate. The first microstrip patch is arranged on the top face of the first substrate, the second microstrip patch is arranged on the top face of the second substrate, the second microstrip patch is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the second substrate is arranged on the top face of the suppression plate; the first microstrip patch, the second microstrip patch, the first substrate and the second substrate are arranged in a 45 degrees inclined angle in an axial direction with the suppression plat. The device improves the the axial ratio, the impedance bandwidth, the stability of a phase center of the antenna, the signal receiving ability of a low elevation GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and an ability to resist multipath interference, and the placing form of the antenna microstrip patch is more applicable to the actual handheld device application. By means of a combination way of a low insertion loss filter and a out-of-band high suppression filter, the noise figure is low and the antijamming capability is improved. The inside antenna and the outside arranged antenna have the advantages of being quick in switching speed, simple in operation and high in insulation.

The invention relates to a multifrequency patch antenna device, comprising a patch antenna, a printed circuit board (PCB), a shielding case and a low-noise amplifying circuit, wherein the patch antenna further consists of a patch antenna, a multi-frequency band feed network, a multi-frequency band feed probe and at least four feedback points; the at least four feedback points form at least two groups of feed points; one end of each of the at least two feed points is connected with the patch antenna, and the other end thereof respectively passes through the PCB via the multi-frequency band feed probe to be connected with the multi-frequency band feed network; and a shielding case is connected with the PCB. The invention improves the stability of antenna phase center, lowers axial ratio, and enables the matching to be much simpler and the antenna to become more compact. The device in the invention can receive multipath carrier at the same time, thus eliminating interference on an ionized layer and improving measurement precision.

The invention discloses a broadband low-section omni-directional circularly polarized antenna. A dielectric substrate of the broadband low-section omni-directional circularly polarized antenna comprises an upper-layer dielectric substrate and a lower-layer dielectric substrate, the upper-layer dielectric substrate and the lower-layer dielectric substrate are parallel to each other, and the upper-layer dielectric substrate is positioned right above the lower-layer dielectric substrate; a metal floor is adhere on the lower-layer dielectric substrate; a zero-order resonator, a parasitic radiator and a radiation type feeding network are adhered on the upper-layer dielectric substrate; the radiation type feeding network is positioned in the center of the upper-layer dielectric substrate; zero-order resonant patches of the zero-order resonator are annularly on the outer side of the radiation type feeding network, one end of each zero-order resonant dowel of the zero-order resonator is connected with the corresponding zero-order resonant patch, and the other end of each zero-order resonant dowel is connected with the metal floor; parasitic radiation patches are annularly arranged on the outer sides of the zero-order resonant patches, one end of each parasitic radiation dowel of the corresponding parasitic radiation patch is connected with the corresponding parasitic radiation patch, and the other end of each parasitic radiation dowel is suspended. The broadband low-section omni-directional circularly polarized antenna has the advantages that impedance of the broadband low-section omni-directional circularly polarized antenna and the bandwidths of directional diagrams can be increased, and excellent axial ratio characteristics can be kept.

The invention discloses a broadband broad-angle circular polarization overlapping microstrip antenna which is low in profile, wide in axial ratio and impedance bandwidth, and good in wide-angle axial ratio performance. According to the technical scheme, an upper-layer rectangular microstrip metal patch (9) serving as a parasitic radiator is attached under a covering layer dielectric slab (1), a lower-layer rectangular microstrip metal microstrip patch (8) serving as a driving radiator is attached to the upper portion of a bottom-layer dielectric slab (5), the upper-layer rectangular microstrip metal patch works at a high-frequency end in a resonance mode, and the lower-layer rectangular microstrip metal microstrip patch works at a low-frequency end in a resonance mode; a cavity with the dielectric slabs as walls is formed in the central area of a rectangular box body, the cavity area is filled with a dielectric body of which the dielectric constant is similar to that of the air, a feed probe (10) is fixedly connected with the lower-layer rectangular microstrip metal microstrip patch through a metallized via hole, the metallized via hole penetrates through the bottom-layer dielectric slab, and the diameter of the metallized via hole is larger than the feed probe. By means of the broadband broad-angle circular polarization overlapping microstrip antenna, a wider work bandwidth can be achieved.

The present invention relates to a vehicle mountable satellite antenna as defined in the claims which is operable while the vehicle is in motion. The satellite antenna of the present invention can be installed on top of (or embedded into) the roof of a vehicle. The antenna is capable of providing high gain and a narrow antenna beam for aiming at a satellite direction and enabling broadband communication to vehicle. The present invention provides a vehicle mounted satellite antenna which has low axial ratio, high efficiency and has low grating lobes gain. The vehicle mounted satellite antenna of the present invention provides two simultaneous polarization states. In one embodiment, a hybrid mechanic and electronic steering approach provides a more reasonable cost and performance trade-off. The antenna aiming in the elevation direction is achieved via control of an electronic beamforming network. The antenna is mounted on a rotatable platform under mechanical steering and motion control for aiming the antenna in the azimuth direction. Such approach significantly reduces the complexity and increases the reliability of the mechanical design. The antenna height is compatible to the two-dimensional electronic steering phased-array antenna. Additionally, the number of the electronic processing elements required is considerably reduced from that of the conventional two-dimensional electronic steering phased-array antenna, thereby allowing for low cost and large volume commercial production. The present invention provides electronically generated left, right, up, and down beams for focusing the antenna beam toward the satellite while the vehicle is moving. All of the beams are simultaneously available for use in the motion beam tracking. This provides much faster response and less signal degradation.

The invention discloses a communication and navigation integrated integration antenna, and belongs to the technical field of microwave array antennas. The invention proposes an integrated design of anantenna unit and a network, physically adopts a multi-layer plate crimping technology to integrate the radio frequency and a digital circuit, perform the aperiodic arrangement of the antenna unit ofthe satellite communication and rotate the feeding to improve the axial ratio of the antenna. In the gap between the antenna units, a series of antennas for satellite navigation, including an L-band anti-jamming receiving antenna, a Beidou antenna, a Beidou directional antenna and a short message service antenna, are fully utilized, so that the functional diversification of the system design is fully considered, and the S-band satellite communication phased array antenna is laid out, and the navigation antenna is decomposed and designed to simplify the design difficulty. The communication andnavigation integrated integration antenna is applicable to various platforms, can be used as an antenna for satellite communication and satellite navigation combination, and is particularly suitable for occasions where the installation space of the platform is limited but the type of the antenna is required.

A multimode occulting antenna with a stable phase center comprises a reflection cavity, a lower radiation paster, an upper radiation paster, four feed probe sleeves, four feed probe inner cores and two support columns. Each feed probe sleeve comprises a metal seat and filler, one end of the metal seat is a metal column, the other end of the metal seat is a cylindrical metal cavity, and the filler is used for filling the cylindrical cavity of the metal seat. The sleeve-shaped probes are coupled with feed through four points, probes are uniformly distributed on the circumference, an aerial radiation paster consists of an upper layer and a lower layer, the lower layer is coupled with the feed through the sleeve-shaped probes, the upper layer is coupled with the feed through the lower radiation paster, the middle is supported by the metal support columns, and the reflection cavity is of a round bowl-shaped structure and higher than the upper radiation paster. The occulting antenna is excellent in performance and structure, simple and reliable in process, wide in frequency band, capable of meeting use requirements of a GPS (global positioning system), BD-2, GALILEO and GLONASS, wide in beam coverage, high in gain, stable in phase center, excellent in axial ratio performance, and applicable to a precise obscuration detection system and other high-precision detection systems.

The invention provides an elliptic blade edge-modeling system for impellers, which comprises a data input module, a coordinate transformation module, a two-dimensional plane curve elliptic transition module, a three-dimensional curved surface generation module and a data output module, which are used for first reading blade surface data points and blade edge parameters, then transforming and mapping the coordinates of the blade data points into a two-dimensional plane (m, r * Theta), using B-splines to fit the two-dimensional data points to obtain a curve (1) and a curve (2), first generating an initial ellipse on the bases, then iteratively generating a final ellipse and a blade surface and finally outputting impeller data. The invention also provides a corresponding method. The invention provides a modeling design method for a variable-axial ratio elliptic blade edge for the first time, achieves an impeller-modeling program, and can automatically generate an impeller under the conditions of given impeller data points and blade edge shape parameters. The calculation efficiency of a programmed algorithm is high, operation is easy, and the invention can be applied in the three-dimensional modeling design of various impellers.

A micro-strip antenna includes a conducting ground plane and a dielectric substrate mounted above the conducting ground plane. A patch element is mounted above the dielectric substrate and configured to produce an antenna pattern. The antenna pattern is formed by a number of linear polarization components. The patch element includes a single feed point extending through the conducting ground plane and the dielectric substrate. Two or more notches within the patch element are configured to perturb each of the linear polarization components.

A compact type broadband bicircular polarization patch antenna based on a 3 dB coupling microstrip line coupler adopts a printed circuit board technology to arrange a feed network, a ground plane and capacitance coupling patches and a main radiation patch on the upper surfaces and the lower surfaces of two dielectric substrates from bottom to top, wherein the feed network is the 3 dB broadband coupling microstrip line coupler with a compact structure, so that the circular polarization orthogonal feed network with functions of power distribution and 90-degree phase shift is formed; and the two dielectric substrates are supported and fixed by upright columns and nuts made of a non-conducting material, and a gap is reserved between the two dielectric substrates to form air dielectrics. Two output ends of the feed network and the two capacitance coupling patches are connected together through two feed probes, and the orthogonal feed is performed on the main radiation patch through the mode of combining the metal probes and the capacitance coupling patches, and accordingly, circular polarization radiation with high gain, low axial ratio and broadband is achieved. The antenna achieves miniaturization of the broadband circular polarization patch, is simple in structure and low in cost, and facilitates popularization and application.

The invention discloses a circular polarized antenna with omnidirectional broad axial ratio beam width. The circular polarized antenna comprises a parasitic element, an upper-layer medium baseplate, an exciting element, a middle-layer medium baseplate, an earthing unit, a lower-layer medium baseplate and a 3dB mixed electric bridge electric feeding network, wherein the parasitic element and the exciting element are respectively arranged on the upper surfaces of the upper-layer medium baseplate and the middle-layer medium baseplate; the upper-layer medium baseplate and the middle-layer medium baseplate are separated by an air layer; the 3dB mixed electric bridge electric feeding network is placed on the lower surface of the lower-layer medium baseplate; an internal conductor of a coaxial electric feeding unit is connected with an input port of the 3dB electric bridge electric feeding network; and an external conductor of the coaxial electric feeding unit penetrates through the lower-layer medium baseplate and is connected with the earthing unit. According to the invention, not only is the circular polarized radiation realized very well, at the same time, the circular polarized antenna has broader axial ratio beam width within the omnidirectional range, is small in volume, is low in section plane, is light in weight, is simple in structure, and is easy to be conformal.

The related design method for compact stack integrated microstrip antenna comprises: 1. modeling and simulating the entire structure to obtain the key performance parameter; 2. determining/adjusting the top antenna radiator and its feed part position according to real requirement, adding a compensation strip on the bottom antenna radiation strip, determining the exact size, and optimizing the axial ratio performance and angle of elevation gain; and 3. adding a metal base under the public ground.