Antenna Arrangement

• US 20120093046A1
• Filed: 10/14/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snaptrack Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Epcos AG (TDK Corporation)
• Inventors: Tikka, Pasi, Wiesbauer, Kurt, Lehtonen, Pasi
• Granted Patent: US 8,837,336 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/297
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/521 reducing the coupling between adjacent antennas

Abstract

An antenna arrangement has a first signal path connected to a first antenna. A second signal path is connected to a second antenna. A third signal path includes a device that measures the signal strength. Directional couplers couple the first and second signal paths to the third signal path. Filters filter out signal components that are coupled by one antenna into the other antenna.

Claims

1. An antenna arrangement, comprising:

a first signal path connected to a first antenna;

a second signal path connected to a second antenna;

a third signal path that includes a measurement device configured to measure signal strength;

a first directional coupler that couples the first signal path to the third signal path;

a second directional coupler that couples the second signal path to the third signal path;

a plurality of filters that filter out signal components that are coupled by the antenna into the second antenna and by the second antenna into the first antenna.

2. The antenna arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first antenna is designed for frequencies from a high-frequency band and wherein the second antenna is designed for frequencies from a low-frequency band, wherein the low-frequency band comprises lower frequencies than the high-frequency band and adjoins the high-frequency band.

3. The antenna arrangement according to claim 2,

wherein the first signal path includes a first switch between different connections that can be used to connect the first signal path to a transmission and reception circuit for frequencies from the high-frequency band, and

wherein the second signal path includes a second switch between different connections that can be used to connect the second signal path to a transmission and reception circuit for frequencies from the low-frequency band.

4. The antenna arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first signal path and the second signal path are each connected by a common dual-band directional coupler to the third signal path such that the first directional coupler and the second directional coupler are together embodied as the common dual-band directional coupler.

5. The antenna arrangement according to claim 4, wherein the first signal path contains a first diplexer and the second signal path contains a second diplexer, wherein one output of the first diplexer is connected to a first terminating resistor and another output of the first diplexer is connected to the dual-band directional coupler and wherein one output of the second diplexer is connected to a second terminating resistor and another output of the second diplexer is connected to the dual-band directional coupler.

6. The antenna arrangement according to claim 5, wherein each of the first and second diplexers has a high-pass filter and a low-pass filter.

7. The antenna arrangement according to claim 6,

wherein, in the first signal path, the low-pass filter of the first diplexer is connected to the first terminating resistor,

wherein, in the first signal path, the high-pass filter of the first diplexer is connected to the dual-band directional coupler,

wherein, in the second signal path, the high-pass filter of the second diplexer is connected to the second terminating resistor, and

wherein, in the second signal path, the low-pass filter of the second diplexer is connected to the dual-band directional coupler.

8. The antenna arrangement according to claim 1,

wherein the third signal path is split into first and second sub-signal paths, wherein the first sub-signal path is connected to the first signal path by the first directional coupler and the second sub-signal path is connected to the second signal path by the second directional coupler.

9. The antenna arrangement according to claim 8, wherein the third signal path has two diplexers that are arranged at input-side and output-side ends of the two sub-signal paths and connect the input and output sides of the two sub-signal paths to a respective common signal path.

10. The antenna arrangement according to claim 9, wherein the two diplexers are connected to the measurement device.

11. The antenna arrangement according to claim 9, wherein the two diplexers each have a high-pass filter and a low-pass filter.

12. The antenna arrangement according to claim 11, wherein the first sub-signal path is connected to the high-pass filter of each of the two diplexers, and

wherein the second sub-signal path is connected to the low-pass filter of each of the two diplexers.

13. The antenna arrangement according to claim 2,

wherein the first signal path contains a high-pass filter, and

wherein the second signal path contains a low-pass filter.