Antenna device

• US 10,535,914 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2016
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Dong Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Munoz, Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Holecek, Patrick R
• Application Number:
  US15/579,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20180159204A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,315 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2291 used in bluetooth or WI-FI devices of Wireless Local Area Networks [WLAN] H01Q1/241 takes precedence; WLAN in general H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/3275 mounted on a horizontal surface of the vehicle, e.g. on roof, hood, trunk
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/28 Combinations of substantially independent non-interacting antenna units or systems multiple beam H01Q25/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 3/26 varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elements; varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture H01Q3/12, H01Q3/22, H01Q3/24 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0064 with separate antennas for the more than one band H04B1/0053 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/06 Receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3822 specially adapted for use in vehicles H04B1/3827 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0802 using antenna selection H04B7/0868 takes precedence; antenna beam directivity switching H01Q3/24

Abstract

An antenna device includes: a substrate; a wave antenna, disposed on one surface of the substrate, for transmitting and receiving data to and from an external vehicle or a base station; a GPS antenna disposed on one surface of the substrate; a WiFi antenna, disposed on the other surface of the substrate, for transmitting, to a head unit, data that the wave antenna has received, and transmitting, to the wave antenna, data that has been received from the head unit; and a system module for receiving a signal from at least any one of the wave antenna, the GPS antenna or the WiFi antenna and controlling the same.

Claims

1. An antenna device comprising:

a substrate;

a WAVE antenna disposed on a first surface of the substrate to transmit and receive data to and from an external vehicle or a base station;

a GPS antenna disposed on the first surface of the substrate; and

a system module disposed on a second surface of the substrate to receive a signal from at least any one of the WAVE antenna and the GPS antenna, wherein the system module includes;

a signal processing unit electrically connected to the WAVE antenna to transmit a signal to the WAVE antenna and to receive a signal from the WAVE antenna;

a GPS unit electrically connected to the GPS antenna to transmit and to receive GPS signals;

a control unit for controlling operation of the system module to transmit and receive signals to and from the signal processing unit or the GPS unit and to transmit and receive the signal to an outside of the antenna device; and

a power supply unit electrically connected to a power supply unit of the vehicle to transform a voltage of the power supply unit of the vehicle to a predetermined voltage for the system module and to supply the transformed voltage.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the WAVE antenna comprises a plurality of antennas.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein oriented directions of the plurality of antennas are different from each other.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein an antenna gain of the WAVE antenna is 3 to 6 dBi.

5. The device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a Wi-Fi antenna disposed on the second surface of the substrate to transmit data, the data received from the WAVE antenna, to a head unit and to transmit data, the data received from the head unit, to the WAVE antenna.

6. The device according to claim 5, wherein the Wi-Fi antenna is disposed in the system module.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the system module further includes a memory unit for storing the signals transmitted and received by the signal processing unit or the GPS unit.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the system module further includes a Hardware Security Module (HSM) unit.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from the external vehicle using Ethernet or to transmit and receive a signal to and from other microcontrollers in the vehicle using CAN (Controller Area Network) communication.

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein the power supply unit is configured to receive 6V to 19V of battery input power of the vehicle, to transform the input power into 5V, which is a voltage appropriate to the system module, and to supply the transformed voltage.

11. The device according to claim 1, wherein the system module is electrically and directly connected to at least one of the WAVE antenna and the GPS antenna through the substrate.

12. The device according to claim 1, wherein the system module further includes a Wi-Fi unit electrically connected to the Wi-Fi antenna to transmit and receive signals to and from the Wi-Fi antenna.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the Wi-Fi unit is configured to authenticate a connected device by pairing a signal transmitted or received by the Wi-Fi antenna with the control unit.

14. The device according to claim 12, wherein the control unit is configured to display the signals transmitted and received by the Wi-Fi antenna on a display unit connected to the system module using a mirror link method.

15. The device according to claim 12, wherein the control unit is configured to transmit the signals transmitted and received by the WAVE antenna or the Wi-Fi antenna to a head-up display (HUD) to be displayed on the HUD.