An access system for a vehicle is provided and includes antennas and an access module. The antennas are configured to each receive a signal transmitted from a portable access device to the vehicle. One of the antennas is a circular polarized antenna. The access module is configured to: downconvert the received signal to generate an in-phase signal and a quadrature phase signal; execute a music algorithm to determine angles of arrival of the received signal as received at the antennas; determine a distance between the portable access device and the vehicle based on the angles of arrival; and permit access to the vehicle based on the distance.

Bidirectional circularly polarized antenna element and bidirectional circularly polarized array antenna are provided, and comprising a dielectric substrate, a feeder, a radiation patch, a first plane, a second plane, a first coupling assembly and a second coupling assembly which are embedded in the surface of the dielectric substrate. The first plane and the second plane of the antenna element are kept at different heights, and compared with the solution that two planes at the same height can only generate linear polarization radiation in the prior art, the circular polarization radiation can be generated, which solves the problem of linear polarization mismatch. Furthermore, two coupling assemblies are introduced into two sides of the radiation patch to enable the coupling effect with the radiation patch, such that the frequency bandwidth of the circularly polarized antenna can be greatly improved without increasing the size of the antenna.

A circularly polarized array antenna is provided. The circularly polarized array antenna includes a ground plane and a plurality of circularly polarized antennas. Each of the circularly polarized antennas is configured to communicate over a frequency band ranging from 24 gigahertz (GHz) to 52 GHz. Each of the circularly polarized antennas includes a column substrate coupled to the ground plane. The column substrate includes a plurality of faces. Each of the circularly polarized antennas further includes a plurality of isolated magnetic dipole elements. Each of the isolated magnetic dipole elements is disposed on a different face of the column substrate.

An electromagnetic, EM, apparatus includes: a unit cell having at least two dielectric resonator antennas, DRAs; wherein each one of the at least two DRAs is distinctly different from another one of the at least two DRAs; wherein each one of the at least two DRAs is not electromagnetically coupled with another one of the at least two DRAs; wherein the unit cell is configured to operate over a defined overall frequency range; wherein a first DRA of the at least two DRAs is configured to operate over a first frequency range within the overall frequency range; wherein a second DRA of the at least two DRAs is configured to operate over a second frequency range within the overall frequency range that is different from the first frequency range.

A circularly polarized array antenna is provided. The circularly polarized array antenna includes a ground plane and a plurality of circularly polarized antennas. Each of the circularly polarized antennas is configured to communicate over a frequency band ranging from 24 gigahertz (GHz) to 52 GHz. Each of the circularly polarized antennas includes a column substrate coupled to the ground plane. The column substrate includes a plurality of faces. Each of the circularly polarized antennas further includes a plurality of isolated magnetic dipole elements. Each of the isolated magnetic dipole elements is disposed on a different face of the column substrate.

The invention relates to an antenna device having a printed circuit board and at least one antenna radiator which is arranged on the printed circuit board and can be excited by the printed circuit board or a coupling window arranged thereupon, which radiator is designed in such a manner that it comprises at least two polarisations, which are preferably orthogonal to each other, and at least two resonance frequency ranges which are continuous or different to one another and at an interval from one another, wherein the antenna radiator comprises: at least one first dielectric body mounted on the printed circuit board and designed as a resonator, having a first relative permittivity, at least one second dielectric body designed as, having a second relative permittivity, wherein the first relative permittivity is greater than the second relative permittivity and wherein the second dielectric body is formed in such a manner that it is arranged over the at least one first dielectric body in such a manner that it bundles or scatters the electrical field in a plane orthogonal to the main beam direction at least in one of the resonance frequency ranges. The invention also relates to an antenna array.

Provided is an antenna for receiving radio waves including frequencies in the L6 band unique to QZSS to realize accurate positioning by QZSS. A substrate-type antenna 1 comprises an arcuate antenna element 20 including a long arcuate antenna element 22 and a short arcuate antenna element 24, each of which includes an integral antenna element compatible with three frequency bands and a single antenna element compatible with one frequency band and arranged with a space from the integral antenna element. Each of the integral antenna element and the single antenna element extends from an outer peripheral part of the arcuate antenna element toward an inner peripheral part thereof. The substrate-type antenna 1 further comprises a plurality of connection units 34 connected to the long arcuate antenna element 22 and the short arcuate antenna element 24, respectively, and a coupler 30 to which the plurality of connection units 34 is coupled.

A waveguide polarizer for converting between a linearly polarized electromagnetic field in a first waveguide and a circularly polarized electromagnetic field in a second waveguide is provided. The waveguide polarizer includes a structure interconnecting the first and second waveguide which includes a waveguide excitation arrangement with a bifilar helical shape. A circularly polarized antenna arranged to be connected to the first waveguide of the waveguide polarizer and a satellite arrangement are also provided.

A dual-polarized patch antenna includes a first insulating substrate; conductive connections, each of which passes through the first insulating substrate, and which are arranged to form a resonant cavity and two feeding ports; first and second metal layers respectively disposed on two opposite surfaces of the first insulating substrate, the second metal layer being formed with a cross-shaped slot that corresponds in position to the resonant cavity; a second insulating substrate disposed on the second metal layer; and four radiation patch units disposed on the second insulating substrate, and corresponding in position to four regions that are on the second metal layer and that are spaced apart by the cross-shaped slot.

Disclosed is a distance measuring device, in particular for dielectric or metallic target objects, said device comprising a sensor with a resonance chamber and a resonance structure. The resonance structure has an element consisting of a dielectric material which has a narrowing at the edge, the resonance frequency of the resonance chamber being dependent on the distance between the element and a target object.