Outdoor Antenna Radome Layout for Slim Building Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless communication devices installed outdoors face challenges in maintaining their functionality while improving their size and design to harmonize with building exteriors, thereby spoiling the aesthetic aspects.
Innovation Solution
The wireless communication device is designed with a lower case and an upper radome creating a storage space, where an antenna and a plurality of internal substrates are disposed. These substrates are arranged along a predetermined direction, minimizing the device's thickness and maximizing its aesthetic integration with the surrounding environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the wireless communication device is installed outdoors on building rooftops, then it can maintain its transmission and reception functions, but it spoils the aesthetic aspects of building exteriors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies a radome (radiopaque dome) as a flexible shell that encloses the antenna and internal substrates. The radome has a smooth, aerodynamic surface that can be designed to match building exterior aesthetics while protecting the internal components and maintaining their wireless communication functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent nests multiple internal substrates containing electronic components inside the housing, with the antenna positioned above them. The entire assembly is then enclosed within the radome, creating a compact nested structure that reduces overall device size and improves aesthetic integration with building exteriors.
2Reliability
If the internal components are arranged in a conventional stacked configuration, then the device maintains its functionality, but the device thickness increases and aesthetic integration is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a conventional vertical stacking arrangement to a horizontal arrangement where multiple internal substrates are disposed side-by-side along a first direction parallel to the lower case surface. This dimensional change reduces device thickness while maintaining all necessary functional connections between components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the internal components into multiple separate substrates rather than using a single large substrate. This segmentation allows the components to be arranged horizontally in parallel, reducing the vertical thickness of the device while maintaining individual component functionality and connections.
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AI summary
The present disclosure in at least one embodiment provides a wireless communication device, comprising a lower case, an upper radome, coupled to the lower case, creating a storage space between the lower case and the upper radome, an antenna disposed in the storage space, and a plurality of internal substrates, disposed between the antenna and the lower case in the storage space, of which one of the plurality of internal substrates is connected to the antenna, wherein each internal substrate of the plurality of internal substrates is disposed along a first direction parallel to a surface of the lower case facing the plurality of internal substrates.