ANTENNA UNIT, ANTENNA ASSEMBLY, MULTI-ANTENNA ASSEMBLY, AND WIRELESS CONNECTION DEVICE

• US 20150171522A1
• Filed: 02/13/2015
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kuang-Chi Innovative Technology Ltd. (Shenzhen Dapeng Kuang-Chi Lianzhong Technology Ltd. LP)
• Original Assignee: Kuang-Chi Innovative Technology Ltd. (Shenzhen Dapeng Kuang-Chi Lianzhong Technology Ltd. LP)
• Inventors: LIU, Ruopeng, XU, Guanxiong, LV, Jing, LI, Shuangshuang, LI, Chunfeng, DENG, Cunxi, YANG, Yuchang, YIN, Liuzhong
• Application Number:
  US14/621,404
• Publication Number:
  US 20150171522A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/38 formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface H01Q15/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 19/30 the primary active element being centre-fed and substantially straight, e.g. Yagi antenna
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/067 using endfire radiating aerial units transverse to the plane of the array
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/20 the units being spaced along or adjacent to a curvilinear path slotted waveguide arrays H01Q21/005; circularly or helically slotted waveguides H01Q21/0062
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 5/42 using two or more imbricated arrays H01Q5/49 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention relates to an antenna unit, including a dielectric substrate and an antenna conductor attached to the dielectric substrate, where a maximum gain direction of the antenna unit is consistent with an extension direction of a surface of the dielectric substrate. The present invention also relates to an antenna assembly with the antenna unit, a multi-antenna assembly, and a wireless connection device with the antenna unit, the antenna assembly or the multi-antenna assembly. The antenna unit of the present invention has high directivity, and has advantages of broad bands, high gains, and easy commissioning, so that both the multi-antenna assembly and the wireless connection device have high performance.

Claims

1. An antenna unit, comprising a dielectric substrate and an antenna conductor attached to the dielectric substrate, wherein a maximum gain direction of the antenna unit is consistent with an extension direction of a surface of the dielectric substrate.

2. The antenna unit according to claim 1, wherein the antenna conductor comprises a main element used for connecting to a feeder, and a director used to enhance a radio wave on a radio side, wherein both the main element and the director are conductor wires attached to the dielectric substrate, wherein the conductor wire is a metal wire, wherein there are multiple directors, which constitute a group of conductor wires that are parallel to each other, wherein centers of the multiple directors are on a same straight line, and the straight line is vertical to the directors.

3. The antenna unit according to claim 2, wherein the director is a radial structure that is formed of a conductor material and disposed along a propagation direction of an electromagnetic wave, wherein the dielectric substrate comprises two surfaces, and at least one director is disposed on another surface that is different from a surface on which the main element is located, wherein the main element comprises two collinear conductor wires, which are parallel to the conductor wires of the directors respectively, wherein a total length of the main element is greater than a length of each director.

4. The antenna unit according to claim 1, wherein the antenna conductor comprises a first antenna conductor disposed on one surface of the dielectric substrate and a second antenna conductor that is disposed on another surface, wherein the antenna unit comprises multiple layers of dielectric substrates, and the antenna conductor is disposed on one or more of the multiple layers of dielectric substrates.

5. The antenna unit according to claim 1, wherein the antenna conductor comprises a main element and at least one director that are disposed apart on a surface of the dielectric substrate, both the main element and the director are conductor strips, and both ends of the main element are a feed point and a ground point respectively, wherein the main element is a splayed curve ring or a splayed polyline ring, and the feed point and the ground point are located at ends of a splay separately, wherein some of the conductor strips at the splay have overlaps, and the overlaps are spaced apart to form the splay, wherein the conductor strips with the overlaps take on two opposite L shapes, wherein the conductor strips are metal wires, wires formed of a nonmetal conductive substance, or conductive wires formed of a metal and a nonmetal, wherein there are multiple directors, which constitute a group of conductor strips that are parallel to each other, wherein the dielectric substrate comprises two surfaces, and at least one director is disposed on another surface that is different from a surface on which the main element is located.

6. A multi-antenna assembly, comprising a dielectric reflection surface and at least one antenna group installed on the dielectric reflection surface, wherein radio wave frequencies used by different antenna groups are different, and each antenna group comprises at least one antenna unit according to claim 1.

7. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 6, wherein the dielectric reflection surface is a conductive microstructure with a geometric pattern, wherein a size of the conductive microstructure is less than one-sixth of a wavelength corresponding to a radio wave frequency used by the antenna group.

8. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 6, wherein the antenna conductor comprises a main element used for connecting to a feeder, and a director used to enhance a radio wave on a radio side, wherein both the main element and the director are conductor wires attached to the dielectric substrate, wherein the multi-antenna assembly comprises two antenna groups which are a first antenna group and a second antenna group, and main elements of antenna units of the two antenna groups have different sizes, wherein the first antenna group and the second antenna group comprise the same number of antenna units, and antenna units of the first antenna group are spaced apart by antenna units of the second antenna group.

9. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 6, wherein the antenna conductor comprises a main element used for connecting to a feeder, and a director used to enhance a radio wave on a radio side, wherein both the main element and the director are conductor wires attached to the dielectric substrate, wherein the multi-antenna assembly comprises two antenna groups which are a first antenna group and a second antenna group, the first antenna group and the second antenna group comprise their respective same antenna units, and their respective antenna units are evenly distributed on the dielectric reflection surface in an angular array manner, wherein a reflector is disposed outside each antenna unit, wherein the reflector is a splayed structure that is small at one end and big at the other end, and the splay is oriented to a maximum gain direction of the antenna unit.

10. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 6, wherein the antenna conductor comprises a main element used for connecting to a feeder, and a director used to enhance a radio wave on a radio side, wherein both the main element and the director are conductor wires attached to the dielectric substrate, wherein a dielectric reflection surface thereof and a director of each antenna unit are separately located on two sides of a main element of a corresponding antenna unit, the multi-antenna assembly comprises two antenna groups which are a first antenna group and a second antenna group, and a size of a main element of an antenna unit of the former is larger than a size of a main element of an antenna unit of the latter.

11. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 10, wherein the first antenna group and the second antenna group each comprise three same antenna units, a dielectric substrate of each antenna unit is vertical to the dielectric reflection surface, the three antenna units of the first antenna group are 120 degrees apart from each other, use a same straight line as an extension intersection line and are equidistant to the extension intersection line, and the three antenna units of the second antenna group are 60 degrees apart from each other and dielectric substrates of the three antenna units intersect to form an equilateral triangle after extending along a surface direction, wherein the three antenna units of the second antenna group are located at three adjacent spacings of the three antenna units of the first antenna group consecutively.

12. A multi-antenna assembly, comprising a dielectric reflection board used to reflect radio waves used by the multi-antenna assembly, and at least one antenna group located on a side of the dielectric reflection board, wherein the antenna group comprises at least one antenna unit according to claim 1, wherein the antenna conductor comprises a main element used for connecting to a feeder, and a director used to enhance a radio wave on a radio side, wherein both the main element and the director are conductor wires attached to the dielectric substrate, and the dielectric reflection board and a director of each antenna unit are separately located on two sides of a main element of a corresponding antenna unit.

13. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 12, wherein the multi-antenna assembly comprises a first antenna group and a second antenna group that have a same quantity of antenna units, and antenna units of the first antenna group are spaced apart by antenna units of the second antenna group, wherein the first antenna group and the second antenna group comprise their respective same antenna units, and their respective antenna units are evenly distributed on the dielectric reflection board in an angular array manner, wherein the first antenna group and the second antenna group each comprise three antenna units.

14. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 12, wherein the multi-antenna assembly comprises a reflector with the dielectric reflection surface and at least one antenna unit array disposed on the dielectric reflection surface, the antenna unit array comprises two antenna groups which are a first antenna group and a second antenna group, the first antenna group comprises multiple first antenna units with a first operating band, the second antenna group comprises at least one second antenna unit with a second operating band, the multiple first antenna units form a circle around, and the second antenna unit is located in the circle of the first antenna units, wherein both the first antenna units and the second antenna unit have a dielectric substrate that is vertically fixed on a side of the same reflection surface, and a main element and a director that are formed on the dielectric substrate.

15. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 14, wherein the number of first antenna units is three, midperpendicular planes that are of dielectric substrates of the three first antenna units and vertical to the reflection surface converge on a line, and an angle between every two adjacent midperpendicular planes is 120°

; and

a dielectric substrate of the second antenna unit is vertical to a dielectric substrate of one of the first antenna units.

16. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 15, wherein among medial surfaces of the dielectric substrates of the three first antenna units, a straight-line distance between center points of every two medial surfaces falls within a range of 30-40 mm.

17. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 16, wherein other two dielectric substrates among the dielectric substrates of the three first antenna units are disposed in a mirrored relation to the dielectric substrate of the second antenna unit.

18. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 17, wherein each main element is formed of a first conductor and a second conductor that are spaced apart on a same straight line, and both the directors of the first antenna units and the director of the second antenna unit are formed of at least one linear-shaped conductor;

in a same antenna unit, each linear-shaped conductor is parallel to the first conductor and the second conductor in the same antenna unit and located on a same side of a main element in the same antenna unit, wherein the director of the first antenna unit and the director of the second antenna unit are formed of 2-16 conductors;

in the same antenna unit, all linear-shaped conductors are spaced apart along a direction vertical to the first conductor and the second conductor in the same antenna unit, wherein the number of linear-shaped conductors that form the directors in the first antenna unit is greater than the number of linear-shaped conductors that form the directors in the second antenna unit.

19. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 18, wherein each linear-shaped conductor in the first antenna unit is the same, and a total length of the main element in the first antenna unit is greater than a length of each linear-shaped conductor in the first antenna unit, wherein a midperpendicular that is of each linear-shaped conductor and vertical to a length direction thereof in the first antenna unit is on a same straight line, and passes through a center location of the total length of the main element in the first antenna unit.

20. The multi-antenna assembly according to claim 18, wherein each linear-shaped conductor in the second antenna unit is the same, and a total length of the main element in the second antenna unit is greater than a length of each linear-shaped conductor in the second antenna unit, wherein a midperpendicular that is of each linear-shaped conductor and vertical to a length direction thereof in the second antenna unit is on a same straight line, and passes through a center location of the total length of the main element in the second antenna unit.