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User terminal antenna arrangement for multiple-input multiple-output communications

  • US 20050104777A1
  • Filed: 02/24/2003
  • Published: 05/19/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An antenna arrangement suitable for use in a user terminal in order to provide wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communications, said antenna arrangement comprising:

  • (i) at least a first and a second ground plane, the first ground plane (36) arranged to be provided in a body of the user terminal and the second ground plane (35) arranged to be provided external to the body of the user terminal; and

    (ii) two or more antennas (31, 32, 33, 34) each associated with one of the ground planes, at least one of the antennas (34) being associated with the first ground plane and at least another of the antennas (31) being associated with the second ground plane.

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