CO-LINEAR MM-WAVE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA WITH END-FIRE RADIATION PATTERN

• US 20150303587A1
• Filed: 11/14/2011
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Pan, Helen K.
• Application Number:
  US13/994,789
• Publication Number:
  US 20150303587A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01P 11/001 Manufacturing waveguides or transmission lines of the waveguide type
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/20 Resilient mountings
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2266 disposed inside the computer
• 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 13/085 Slot-line radiating ends
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 13/16 Folded slot antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/0087 Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing antenna arrays manufacturing waveguides H01P11/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/064 using horn or slot aerials slotted waveguides arrays H01Q21/005
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/067 using endfire radiating aerial units transverse to the plane of the array
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/24 Combinations of antenna units polarised in different directions for transmitting or receiving circularly and elliptically polarised waves or waves linearly polarised in any direction circularly polarised patch antennas H01Q9/0428; circularly polarised horns H01Q13/0241; cross-polarised horns H01Q13/0258; polarisation converters H01Q15/242; cross-polarised rear feeds H01Q19/136; crossed polarisation dual antenna H01Q25/001
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 25/00 Antennas or antenna systems providing at least two radiating patterns arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern H01Q3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 3/34 by electrical means active lenses or reflecting arrays H01Q3/46
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 3/36 with variable phase-shifters
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/10 Polarisation diversity; Directional diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 999/99 dummy group
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49016 Antenna or wave energy "plumbing" making
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49018 with other electrical component

Abstract

A system according to one embodiment includes a plurality of phased array antennas, each of the plurality of phased array antennas comprising a plurality of antenna elements, the plurality of antenna elements configured in a linear array, wherein each of the plurality of antenna elements generates an end-fire beam pattern; and driver circuitry coupled to each of the plurality of phased array antennas, the driver circuitry configured to provide a phase offset between each of the plurality of phased array antennas.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a plurality of phased array antennas, each of said plurality of phased array antennas comprising a plurality of antenna elements, said plurality of antenna elements configured in a linear array, wherein each of said plurality of antenna elements generates an end-fire beam pattern; and

driver circuitry coupled to each of said plurality of phased array antennas, said driver circuitry configured to provide a phase offset between each of said plurality of phased array antennas.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said system is configured to operate in a millimeter wave frequency range.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of antenna elements are taper slot antennas.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of phased array antennas is disposed on one of a plurality of printed circuit board layers.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said driver circuitry further comprises a plurality of transceivers, said plurality of transceivers configured to provide independently adjustable phase delay to each of said plurality of antenna elements.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein said plurality of transceivers implement phased array beam scanning by controlling said adjustable phase delay to each of said plurality of antenna elements.

7. The system of claim 4, further comprising a broadside phased array antenna disposed on one of said plurality of printed-circuit board layers, said broadside phased array antenna coupled to said driver circuitry.

8. A method, comprising:

configuring a plurality of antenna elements in a linear array, wherein said linear array is a phased array antenna and each of said plurality of antenna dements generates an end-fire beam pattern;

configuring a plurality of said phased array antennas into a plurality of parallel layers; and

coupling driver circuitry to each of said plurality of phased array antennas, said driver circuitry configured to provide a phase offset between each of said plurality of phased array antennas.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising configuring said plurality of phased array antennas and said driver circuitry to operate in a millimeter wave frequency range.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein each of said plurality of antenna elements are taper slot antennas.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising disposing each of said plurality of phased array antennas on one of a plurality of printed circuit board layers.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising configuring a plurality of transceivers associated with said driver circuitry to provide independently adjustable phase delay to each of said plurality of antenna elements.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising implementing phased array beam scanning by controlling said adjustable phase delay to each of said plurality of antenna elements.

14. An apparatus, comprising:

a plurality of phased array antennas, each of said plurality of phased array antennas comprising a plurality of antenna elements, said plurality of antenna elements configured in a linear array, wherein each of said plurality of antenna elements generates an end-fire beam pattern; and

driver circuitry coupled to each of said plurality of phased array antennas, said driver circuitry configured to provide a phase offset between each of said plurality of phased array antennas.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein said system is configured to operate in a millimeter wave frequency range.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein each of said plurality of antenna elements are taper slot antennas.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein each of said plurality of phased array antennas is disposed on one of a plurality of printed circuit board layers.

18. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein said driver circuitry further comprises a plurality of transceivers, said plurality of transceivers configured to provide independently adjustable phase delay to each of said plurality of antenna elements.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein said plurality of transceivers implement phased array beam scanning by controlling said adjustable phase delay to each of said plurality of antenna elements.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, further comprising a broadside phased array antenna disposed on one of said plurality of printed circuit board layers, said broadside phased away antenna coupled to said driver circuitry.