Patent classifications
H01Q25/002
Multi Spoke Beamforming For Low Power Wide Area Satellite and Terrestrial Networks
Wireless communication method and apparatus to enable communications between a plurality of endpoints and a satellite or terrestrial gateway integrated with a plurality of oblong shaped antenna arrays. The wireless communication method leverages data symbols that are orthogonally modulated. The method permits the use of a plurality of compact oblong shaped antenna arrays to increase network capacity and reduce endpoint power consumption.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING ANTENNA
One embodiment provides an electronic device comprising an antenna. The electronic device comprises: an array antenna including a plurality of antenna elements; a transceiver circuit operatively coupled to the array antenna and configured to control a signal of a millimeter wave band applied to the array antenna; and a processor operatively coupled to the transceiver circuit and configured to control the transceiver circuit. The processor can emit a signal to a second electronic device through one antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements, select an optimum antenna element on the basis of a data rate in the second electronic device which has received the signal, and communicate with the second electronic device through the selected antenna element.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPERATURE-BASED ANTENNA SELECTION
An electronic device having multiple antenna groups for data communication may determine a temperature of a first antenna group and determine a power gain of a second antenna group. The electronic device may communicate using the second antenna group in response to determining that the temperature of the first antenna group exceeds a temperature threshold and the power gain of the second antenna group exceeds a gain threshold. In some embodiments, the electronic device may receive communication link preferences, determine an antenna group that is disposed outside of thermal hotspots of the electronic device, and determine a beam that enables the communication link preferences via the antenna group. The electronic device may then transmit or receive data via the antenna group by forming the beam.
MULTI-BEAM ON RECEIVE ELECTRONICALLY-STEERABLE ANTENNA
A Multi-Beam on Receive Electronically Steerable Antenna comprising a Tx array comprising a phased array of Tx antenna elements and having a geometric aperture with one or more pairs of parallel opposite sides; and an Rx array comprising a phased array of Rx antenna elements and having a geometric aperture with one or more pairs of parallel opposite sides. One or more pairs of parallel opposite sides of the geometric aperture of the Tx array are inclined relative to one or more pairs of parallel opposite sides of the geometric aperture of the Rx array.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING BEAM SWITCHING AND/OR BEAMFORMING AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF
An electronic device includes one or more antenna arrays; and a controller configured to control the one or more antenna arrays. The controller is configured to maintain a current beam formed in a first sector by the one or more antenna arrays in an on state and turn on a new beam in a second sector that is different from the first sector, and turn off either the current beam or the new beam based on whether a signal quality of the new beam is greater than a signal quality of the current beam.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING ANTENNA
An electronic device includes: an electronic device includes: a housing; a first antenna structure provided in an inner space of the housing, the first antenna structure including: a first substrate having a first substrate surface facing a first direction and a second substrate surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, the first substrate including a plurality of first insulating layers and a first ground layer disposed on at least one of the plurality of first insulating layers; and a conductive patch disposed on one of the plurality of first insulating layers and overlapping the first ground layer; and a second antenna structure disposed in an opening of the first substrate in the inner space of the housing, the second antenna structure including: a second substrate having a third substrate surface facing the first direction and a fourth substrate surface facing the second direction, the second substrate including a plurality of second insulating layers that are stacked and a second ground layer; and at least two antenna elements disposed on a second insulating layer, among the plurality of second insulating layers, that is closer to the third substrate surface than the fourth substrate surface, wherein the conductive patch at least partly surrounds the second antenna structure.
Reconfigurable Antenna and Network Device
A reconfigurable antenna includes a bottom plate, a vertically polarized high-density antenna, and a controllable reflector. The controllable reflector is located between the bottom plate and the vertically polarized high-density antenna, and a projection of the controllable reflector on the bottom plate is at a center of a projection of the vertically polarized high-density antenna on the bottom plate. The controllable reflector includes a switch, and the switch is configured to enable the controllable reflector to be in an operating state or an off state.
HYBRID CENTER-FED EDGE-FED METASURFACE ANTENNA WITH DUAL-BEAM CAPABILITIES
An antenna and method for using the same having a hybrid feed approach. In some embodiments, the metasurface antenna with dual beam capabilities is feed with feed waves from a center-fed waveguide structure and an edge-fed waveguide structure. In some embodiments, the antenna comprises an array of radio-frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements and operable to generate two beams simultaneously in response to interacting with two propagating waves at a same time; and a feed structure coupled to feed the two waves to the array of RF radiating antenna elements, the feed structure having a first waveguide beneath the RF radiating antenna elements in which the two waves propagate in opposite directions.
Dual-beam sector antenna and array
A low sidelobe beam forming method and dual-beam antenna schematic are disclosed, which may preferably be used for 3-sector and 6-sector cellular communication system. Complete antenna combines 2-, 3- or -4 columns dual-beam sub-arrays (modules) with improved beam-forming network (BFN). The modules may be used as part of an array, or as an independent 2-beam antenna. By integrating different types of modules to form a complete array, the present invention provides an improved dual-beam antenna with improved azimuth sidelobe suppression in a wide frequency band of operation, with improved coverage of a desired cellular sector and with less interference being created with other cells. Advantageously, a better cell efficiency is realized with up to 95% of the radiated power being directed in a desired cellular sector.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING ANTENNA
An electronic device including an antenna according to various embodiments comprises: a printed circuit board disposed in a first area of the electronic device; a battery disposed in a second area of the electronic device; a heat dissipation member including a thermally conductive material disposed on the upper part of the printed circuit board and the battery; a first antenna disposed in the first area on the heat dissipation member; and a second antenna disposed in the second area on the heat dissipation member, wherein the frequency bands and the dielectric constants of the first antenna and the second antenna may be configured differently.