POLARIZATION UNIQUENESS MANIPULATION APPARATUS (PUMA)

• US 20200136271A1
• Filed: 10/25/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Original Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Inventors: Dabrowski, Ted R., Smith, Robert A.
• Granted Patent: US 11,139,589 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10316 using at least one antenna particularly designed for interrogating the wireless record carriers antennas in general H01Q1/22
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 15/246 rotating the plane of polarisation of a linear polarised wave guided wave H01P1/165
• 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 21/245 provided with means for varying the polarisation polarising devices H01Q15/24; tracking by comparing linear polarisation compounds G01S3/146; reducing depolarisation effects H04B7/00; polarisation diversity H04B7/10
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/28 Combinations of substantially independent non-interacting antenna units or systems multiple beam H01Q25/00
• 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 25/001 Crossed polarisation dual antennas orthomode horns H01Q13/0258; cross-polarised rear feeds H01Q19/136; orthomode transducers H01P1/161
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/0407 Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna dipole H01Q9/285; monopole H01Q9/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/10 Polarisation diversity; Directional diversity

Abstract

Systems, methods, and apparatus for a polarization uniqueness manipulation apparatus (PUMA) are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, an antenna apparatus (e.g., a PUMA) comprises a receive antenna to receive a signal with a first polarization. In one or more embodiments, the antenna apparatus is configured to passively modify the first polarization of the signal to a second polarization. The antenna apparatus further comprises a transmit antenna to transmit the signal with the second polarization. In at least one embodiment, the receive antenna is communicatively coupled to the transmit antenna. In one or more embodiments, the receive antenna and the transmit antenna are each separate patch antennas that are mounted on a substrate of the antenna apparatus at different orientations from one another. In at least one embodiment, the second polarization is dependent upon the different orientations of the receive antenna and the transmit antenna.

Claims

1. An antenna apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

a receive antenna to receive a signal with a first polarization,

wherein the antenna apparatus is configured to passively modify the first polarization of the signal to a second polarization; and

a transmit antenna to transmit the signal with the second polarization,

wherein the receive antenna is communicatively coupled to the transmit antenna.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the signal is an electromagnetic signal.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the receive antenna and the transmit antenna are each separate patch antennas.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the apparatus further comprises a substrate, and wherein the patch antennas are mounted on the substrate at different orientations from one another.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the second polarization is dependent upon the different orientations.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the patch antennas are impedance matched.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first polarization is orthogonal to the second polarization.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein one of the first polarization and the second polarization is horizontal polarization, and another of the first polarization and the second polarization is vertical polarization.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the antenna apparatus is a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag.

10. A method for operating an antenna apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving, by a receive antenna of the antenna apparatus, a signal with a first polarization;

passively modifying, by the antenna apparatus, the first polarization of the signal to a second polarization; and

transmitting, by a transmit antenna of the antenna apparatus, the signal with the second polarization,

wherein the receive antenna is communicatively coupled to the transmit antenna.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the signal is an electromagnetic signal.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the receive antenna and the transmit antenna are each separate patch antennas.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the patch antennas are mounted on a substrate of the antenna apparatus at different orientations from one another.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second polarization is dependent upon the different orientations.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the patch antennas are impedance matched.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the first polarization is orthogonal to the second polarization.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein one of the first polarization and the second polarization is horizontal polarization, and another of the first polarization and the second polarization is vertical polarization.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the antenna apparatus is a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag.

19. A reader apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

a transmit antenna to transmit a signal with a first polarization;

a receive antenna to receive the signal with a second polarization; and

a processor to determine whether the second polarization is different than the first polarization, and to process the signal, when the processor determines that the second polarization is different than the first polarization.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the apparatus is a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader.