409 results about "Radiation pattern" patented technology

The invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication and sensing, and particularly discloses a holographic amplitude weighting-based two-dimensional antenna array multi-beam scanning method, which comprises the following steps of: determining the position information of each radiation unit in a two-dimensional antenna array, including calculating the interval and the arrangement mode of the units; an amplitude weighted value of each radiation unit is generated according to the target wave direction, a two-dimensional multi-beam holographic amplitude weighting technology is used, and the radiation unit amplitude weighted values are determined through the two-dimensional multi-beam holographic amplitude weighting technology; generating a corresponding binary discretization coding sequence based on the amplitude weighted value so as to control the excitation amplitude of each radiation unit; and designing a liquid crystal-based Ka-band two-dimensional holographic beam scanning leaky-wave antenna square array, and regulating and controlling a radiation pattern of a two-dimensional antenna array through the coding sequence to realize multi-beam scanning.

A vehicle antenna apparatus installed in a vehicle is provided. The vehicle antenna apparatus includes an array antenna including a plurality of antenna elements, and a processor configured to perform at least one instruction. The processor is configured to obtain, based on a sensing result of a sensor for sensing a position of a user riding in the vehicle, information about the position of the user, adjust, based on the information about the position of the user, a phase of at least one radio wave signal such that a position of a radiation pattern formed by the at least one radio wave signal output from the plurality of antenna elements and the position of the user riding in the vehicle vary from each other, and control the array antenna to output the at least one phase-adjusted radio wave signal.

The invention discloses a broadband circularly polarized magnetoelectric dipole antenna with superposed Ka-band radiation modes, and belongs to the field of radio frequency front-end devices. The antenna is composed of an electric dipole patch composed of a rectangular patch and a stepped patch, a magnetic dipole radiator composed of four metal columns, an H-shaped slotted coupling floor, a feeder line, coaxial feed metal columns, an SIW structure, a metal ground backboard, an upper dielectric substrate, a lower dielectric substrate and a pp bonding layer, an antenna unit is subjected to 4 * 4 arraying, and the circularly polarized radiation performance of the antenna unit is verified. According to the invention, the circularly polarized wave beam range is wide, and the axial ratio bandwidth is 3GHz to cover the complete working frequency band. After the array is formed, the active S parameters of the array elements are well matched, and the excellent axial ratio performance is still achieved during beam scanning.

A microstrip antenna which includes a substrate, a ground on a second side of the substrate, a first patch on a first side of the substrate, and a second patch on the first side of the substrate. The first patch is connected to a first port. The second patch is separated from the first patch and connected to a second port. Each of the first and second patches is further formed with a plurality of shorting vias connected to the ground. The radiation patterns of each element also feature the RPD characteristic, which is promising for large-scale MIMO or array antennas.

The invention provides an arrival wave angle estimation method based on a zero scanning leaky-wave antenna. A rectangular waveguide is selected as a basic structure to design a periodic leaky-wave antenna only working in a-1 harmonic state; designing necessary antenna simulation parameters; a first leaky-wave antenna is designed; adjusting the gap interval p, and designing a second leaky-wave antenna; obtaining pattern functions of the first leaky-wave antenna and the second leaky-wave antenna; proper amplitude and phase parameters are selected for directional diagram synthesis, and a new directional diagram function is obtained; constructing an array guiding matrix suitable for the MUSIC algorithm; signal sources are arranged at different positions, simulation testing is carried out through MATLAB, and the incoming wave angle estimation capability of the zero-point scanning leaky-wave antenna is verified. According to the invention, a feasible technical path is provided for high-precision positioning and tracking application in future 6G mobile communication. The antenna is especially suitable for application in millimeter wave and terahertz frequency bands, such as vehicle-mounted communication, unmanned aerial vehicle platforms, military electronic countermeasures and the like.

A method comprising receiving a positioning reference signal request, determining positioning requirements associated with the received positioning reference signal request, determining capabilities of a terminal device, determining an antenna array radiation pattern beam width for a position reference signal based, at least partly on the determined positioning requirements and the determined capabilities of the terminal device, obtaining a value for a compensation parameter based on the determined antenna array radiation pattern beam width, performing beam steering towards a target access node, and performing a timing compensation using the compensation parameter with the obtained value.

Disclosed is a shield can which operates as an antenna for location determination while blocking electromagnetic waves by defining a shielding area and radiation areas which resonate in one or more frequency bands by forming a shielding pattern and a radiation pattern, and an electronic module comprising same. Here, the shield can comprises: a carrier, a shielding pattern plated on a portion of the surface of the carrier to form the shielding area; and a radiation pattern plated on a different portion of the surface of the carrier to form a plurality of radiation areas.

There is provided a wireless communication device including a substrate, a ground plane, a main radiation source antenna, a passive radiation source and a switching device. The ground plane, the main radiation source antenna, the passive radiation source and the switching device are arranged on the substrate. The main radiation source antenna is coupled to the ground plane. The passive radiation source is connected to or not connected to the ground plane via the switching device to change an effective area and shape of the ground plane.

Implementations of the present disclosure relate to a method implemented at a wireless device. In this method, the wireless device transmits first information related to the position, orientation and a part number of the antenna of the wireless device to an automatic frequency coordination (AFC) system, and the part number is related to the radiation pattern envelope (RPE) of the antenna. Then, the wireless device can receive second information related to the RF signal coverage of the antenna from the AFC system, wherein the RF signal coverage is determined by the AFC system based on the received first information and the transmitting power of the wireless device. Then, the wireless device can adjust at least one angle and / or transmitting power of the antenna based on the second information so that the RF signal coverage of the antenna does not overlap with the RF signal coverage of the adjacent antenna.

Measurement system and method are presented for determining spatial distribution of chemical elements in a sample. The system comprises a measurement unit and a control system. The measurement unit is adapted to produce primary radiation having spectral characteristic adapted to excite a number M of chemical elements in the sample to induce secondary radiation responses, and generate spectral measured data indicative of intensity of detected responses. The primary radiation interacting with the sample includes a sequence of two or more encoded radiation patterns of the primary radiation, each having its predetermined spatial intensity pattern. The measured spectral data includes a sequence of data pieces, each being modulated by the respective one of the two or more predetermined spatial intensity patterns of the encoded primary radiation and characterized by sparsity in spectral domain with respect to each spectral component of the secondary radiation response.

Each antenna element within the array is oriented substantially coplanar with respect to the other antenna elements. The array overlies a primary dielectric substrate. A ground plane layer is spaced apart from the array of antenna elements by a first dielectric spacer. A beam-forming layer is spaced apart from the array of antenna elements by a second dielectric spacer. The beam-forming layer has a set of electrically conductive beam-forming antenna elements overlying a secondary dielectric substrate. A combining network is configured for combining the received electromagnetic signal components from the array, wherein the combining network cooperates to yield or receive a radiation pattern that is generally circularly polarized at the target wavelength range.

The invention provides a near-field scanning rapid imaging device for the radio frequency performance of a multi-channel electrically tunable base station antenna, and relates to the technical field of radio frequency antenna testing, the device comprises a scanning assembly and a data processing module, the scanning assembly is composed of a radio frequency probe installed on a two-dimensional precision displacement platform and a vector network analyzer connected with the radio frequency probe, and the data processing module is connected with the scanning assembly. The scanning module is used for performing point-by-point scanning in an antenna near-field area along a preset plane grid path and collecting scattering parameters representing electromagnetic field characteristics at sampling points to form a near-field scanning data set; and the data processing module receives the data set, executes fast Fourier transform operation, and converts near-field data into far-field radiation characteristics so as to generate a far-field radiation pattern representing the radio frequency performance of the antenna. And the data processing module applies a preset static compensation matrix to the near-field data before conversion, so that the mutual coupling effect between the probe and the antenna is inhibited, and the accuracy of a measurement result is improved.

Single band and multiband wireless antennas are an important element of wireless systems. Competing tradeoffs of overall footprint, performance aspects such as impedance matching and cost require not only consideration but become significant when multiple antenna elements are employed within a single antenna such as to obtain circular polarization transmit and / or receive. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide designers of a wide range of electrical devices and systems with compact single or multiple frequency band antennas which, in addition to providing the controlled radiation pattern and circular polarization purity (where required) are impedance matched without substantially increasing the footprint of the antenna and / or the complexity of the microwave / RF circuit interfaced to them, whilst supporting multiple signals to / from multiple antenna elements in antennas employing them. Solutions present achieve this through provisioning one or more capacitive series reactances discretely or in combination with one or more shunt capacitive reactances.

The invention discloses an ultra-wideband miniaturized vertical polarization horizontal omnidirectional radiation antenna, and belongs to the technical field of antenna engineering and wireless communication. The antenna comprises a vertical polarization radiator, a metal top cap, a parasitic metal column, a metal floor and a polarization surface, wherein the vertical polarization radiator is composed of four miniaturized Vivaldi antennas which are placed towards the end-fire direction; the metal top cap and the metal floor are respectively located above and below the radiator, the polarization surface surrounds the periphery of the radiator, and two ends of the parasitic metal column are respectively connected with the metal top cap and the metal floor. The miniature Vivaldi antenna is adopted to form the radiator, so that the problem of distortion of a high-frequency radiation pattern caused by the size of an ultra-wideband antenna is solved; a low-frequency magnetic dipole radiation mode is formed by using the parasitic metal columns, the metal top caps and the metal floor, and the low-frequency bandwidth is expanded. On the basis of miniaturization, the antenna provided by the invention can realize S11lt in 1-6GHz; and vertical polarization horizontal omnidirectional radiation of-10dB is realized, and the out-of-roundness of an omnidirectional radiation pattern is less than 3dB.

This invention discloses a high-gain vehicle-mounted optically transparent antenna with improved radiation pattern, operating in the 0.74-0.87 GHz range. The invention includes a substrate, an antenna body, and a system ground plane. The substrate comprises a PET film layer, an OCA adhesive layer, and a PC dielectric substrate. The antenna body consists of two trapezoidal radiating patches, a reverse cancellation strip, a feed line, and a system ground plane located on the same layer as the antenna. The two trapezoidal radiating patches are connected by the reverse cancellation strip, which links their longer base edges. Its transparency is primarily achieved through the use of a transparent substrate material and a metal mesh structure composed of thin and fine metal wires. The cascaded trapezoidal radiating patches and the connected reverse radiation strip achieve performance improvements such as high gain, wide bandwidth, and improved horizontal radiation pattern nulls. This invention can achieve optical transparency of over 70%, radiation efficiency of over 65%, and radiation pattern null improvement of over 3 dB in the operating frequency band.

An apparatus, method and computer program product for: selecting (405), based on at least one first criterion, a set of antenna elements, determining (410) a radio beam codebook comprising a plurality of radio beam configurations for the set of antenna elements, determining (415) a radiation pattern obtainable based on the radio beam codebook, determining (420), based on the obtainable radiation pattern, a radio beam configuration that fulfills a second criterion, and applying (425) the radio beam configuration to a radio beam provided by the set of antenna elements.

This invention provides a method for rapid planar near-field measurement of large-aperture antennas, relating to the field of antenna technology. The method obtains sparse field amplitude and phase information of several sampling surfaces in the near-field radiation region of the antenna under test through large-step uniform sampling. Simultaneously, it samples a finite number of precise field amplitude and phase information points for each sampling surface and obtains the field distribution characteristics by calculating the fluctuation of the amplitude at the sampling points. Based on the sparse field amplitude and phase information and field distribution characteristics of the sampling surfaces, it uses partitioned interpolation and field distribution calibration methods to obtain the initial electric field of each sampling surface. Based on planar wave spectrum theory, iterative numerical calculations are performed on the initial electric field to recover the near-field distribution of each sampling surface. Finally, the far-field radiation characteristics of the antenna are obtained through near-field-to-far-field transformation. This invention can significantly shorten the testing time while obtaining key indicators of the antenna's far-field characteristics, including the normalized radiation pattern main lobe and first sidelobe, 3dB beamwidth, sidelobe level, and axial ratio.

The invention provides a metal patch loaded miniaturized dielectric resonator antenna for a base station, and relates to the technical field of wireless communication, a specific parasitic metal patch is introduced at the bottom of a dielectric resonator, the limitation that the traditional design only depends on geometric dimension to adjust the frequency is broken through, the TM12 high-order mode frequency is obviously pulled down to be close to a fundamental mode TM10 and fusion is realized, and the antenna has the advantages of being simple in structure and convenient to use. On the premise that the size of the antenna is not increased, the working bandwidth is expanded to 3.4-4.0 GHz. Through the structural design, a cross-shaped groove structure is loaded in the central area of the dielectric resonator, a current path of a TM20 parasitic mode is cut off accurately, directional diagram distortion and cross polarization interference caused by the mode are effectively suppressed, and it is ensured that the antenna has stable radiation performance. Therefore, the antenna has excellent broadband and radiation characteristics, can still keep compact physical size, low profile structure and simple processing technology, and meets the urgent demand of a microwave frequency band wireless communication terminal on high performance and miniaturization antennas.

The application relates to the field of wireless communication and sensing technology, and particularly discloses a two-dimensional antenna array multi-beam scanning method based on holographic amplitude weighting, which comprises the following steps: determining the position information of each radiation unit in the two-dimensional antenna array, including calculating the unit spacing and arrangement mode; generating the amplitude weighting value of each radiation unit according to the target wave direction; using the two-dimensional multi-beam holographic amplitude weighting technology, the amplitude weighting value of the radiation unit is determined through the two-dimensional multi-beam holographic amplitude weighting technology; generating the corresponding binary discretization coding sequence based on the amplitude weighting value to control the excitation amplitude of each radiation unit; designing a Ka-band two-dimensional holographic beam scanning leaky-wave antenna square array based on liquid crystals, and the radiation pattern of the two-dimensional antenna array is regulated and controlled through the coding sequence to realize multi-beam scanning.

The invention provides a one-dimensional wide-angle scanning phased-array antenna based on a multimode substrate integrated waveguide. The one-dimensional wide-angle scanning phased-array antenna comprises a plurality of antenna units, a rectangular SIW cavity structure formed by a plurality of first metalized via holes connected with the metal bottom plate is arranged at the position, close to the periphery, of each antenna unit radiation patch; and two symmetrical rectangular radiation slots, a rectangular mode fusion groove and two rows of second metalized via holes are etched in the SIW cavity on the radiation patch. According to the SIW cavity structure, the defect of relatively high transmission loss caused by easy leakage of a fringe field in the prior art is avoided, and the scanning range of a wave beam is effectively widened; the rectangular mode fusion groove and the two rows of second metalized via holes change the current path when the antenna works, realize effective fusion of TE10 and TE30 resonant modes, effectively widen the working bandwidth of the antenna and the 3dB beam width of a radiation pattern, and are used for solving the problems of narrow working bandwidth and small beam scanning range in the prior art.

A pixel-based reconfigurable antenna (PRA) and the method for designing a PRA are disclosed. The PRA supports a total of N fluid antenna system (FAS) ports uniformly distributed across a linear length of Wλ. A physical model is established to connect the correlation of the antenna's reconfigurable radiation patterns with the spatial correlation of physical displacement. A two-step search optimization algorithm is proposed to find the optimized configurations of a pixel layer of the PRA.

Methods of arranging and designing antennas to optimize electromagnetic field distributions in the near-field region of an antenna to optimize parameters such as electric field (E-field), magnetic field (H-field), specific absorption rate (SAR), power density (PD), etc. while ensuring specific performance of the antenna in the far-field region in terms of gain, efficiency, radiation pattern, etc.

The application discloses a dual-polarized microstrip patch antenna applied to a millimeter wave phased array, and belongs to the field of radio frequency front ends.The antenna mainly comprises two substrates and two patch structures, wherein the top patch is fed by two coaxial probes, the feeding port has two feeding slits, and the bottom patch is in a cross shape, which increases the cross-polarization ratio of the dual-polarized antenna radiation.The antenna realizes the dual-polarized characteristic at H plane + / -45 DEG, the 10dB relative bandwidth is 38.9%, and the radiation pattern half-power beam width is greater than 100 DEG. The antenna has the characteristics of simple structure and simple manufacturing, and can be rapidly printed and manufactured by adopting a planar microstrip structure.

The invention discloses a multi-frequency antenna radiation unit device with a decoupling function, and belongs to the field of mobile communication antennas. The high-frequency radiation unit comprises a balun electrically connected with the reflecting plate and a radiation arm connected to the balun; the low-frequency radiation unit is positioned on the periphery of the high-frequency radiation unit and is arranged on the reflecting plate; the capacitor loading assembly comprises a coupling patch connected with the radiation arm and a capacitor branch connected to the balun, the capacitor branch is located on the side, close to the reflecting plate, of the balun, the coupling patch and the capacitor branch form an additional capacitor connected with the high-frequency radiation unit in parallel, and the total equivalent capacitance of the high-frequency radiation unit is changed through the additional capacitor; therefore, the resonant frequency of the high-frequency radiation unit is shifted out of the low-frequency working frequency band, common-mode resonance generated when the high-frequency radiation unit and the low-frequency radiation unit are adjacently arranged is eliminated, the standing-wave ratio of a low-frequency port is improved, the working bandwidth is widened, distortion of a low-frequency radiation pattern is eliminated, and the coverage quality of a base station is guaranteed.

The present invention provides a radome incorporating a circularly polarized metamaterial, including a dielectric carrier and a circularly polarized metamaterial layer attached to or embedded into the dielectric carrier and electrically floating with respect to ground. The circularly polarized metamaterial layer includes a plurality of X-shaped openings arranged in an array and exposing the dielectric carrier, and a first radiation pattern transmits through the circularly polarized metamaterial layer, resulting in a second radiation pattern having enhanced focusing characteristics compared to the first radiation pattern.

The present application provides an electronic device. The electronic device comprises an antenna. An operating frequency band of the antenna comprises a satellite communication frequency band. A frame of the electronic device comprises a first position, a second position and a third position which are arranged in sequence, and insulating gaps are formed at said positions. The antenna uses a conductive portion of the frame between the first position and the third position as a radiator. The antenna is coupled to an adjustable element at the second position. By adjusting the adjustable element, the antenna can generate radiation patterns having different maximum radiation directions, thereby improving the user experience during satellite communication.

A method performed by a radio base station to determine the physical orientation of an antenna array, in a wireless communications network. The radio base station is equipped with the antenna array and capable of dynamically shaping the radiation pattern of the antenna array. The method comprises receiving (401) communication reference signals from known devices with known locations. Estimated (402) directions to respective device are obtained using the received communication reference signals. A determined (403) absolute orientation of the antenna array is obtained, based on the known locations of the known devices and the estimated directions to the known devices. The method comprises performing remedial network management procedures when the determined orientation of the antenna array differs from a nominal value for the antenna orientation and / or to shape (404) the radiation pattern of the antenna array (11) based on the determined orientation.

The utility model discloses a slot waveguide array antenna attached to the outer side of an elastic wall. The slot waveguide array antenna comprises a protection base embedded in the elastic wall and an antenna substrate attached to the outer side of the elastic wall. The bottom of the antenna substrate is welded with a connecting socket, the connecting socket is inserted into the protection base, one side of the upper surface of the antenna substrate is provided with an inclined chamfer, and the upper surface of the antenna substrate is provided with slot guided waves. The utility model provides a detection antenna which is suitable for being used on a missile, can save the space of the whole missile, is high in performance and narrow in radiation pattern of a pitching surface, and in order to improve the available design space of the antenna, reduce the design difficulty and save the space of the whole missile, a transmitting-receiving antenna which is conventionally arranged on the inner side of the missile wall and is conformal with the missile wall is improved into a transmitting-receiving antenna which is attached to the outer side of the missile wall. The available design space of the antenna is increased to a great extent by arranging the antenna on the outer side of the missile wall, so that the design difficulty is reduced, the antenna performance is improved, and the whole missile space is saved.

Low elevation angle nulling antenna (LEANAs) designs seek to address interference from sources along the direction of the horizon. However, in many applications, including global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), the signal sources of interest may at a number of elevations and azimuths as may interference sources. Accordingly, a controlled radiation pattern antenna (CRPA) may be employed to selectively null at one or more elevations and azimuths. However, in many applications such as GNSS continuous real-time signal acquisition is required such that the GNSS cannot be offline whilst interference sources are identified. Embodiments of the invention provide for continuous real-time signal acquisition with interference signal location acquisition and CRPA null generation.