Broadband patch/slot antenna
First Claim
1. Broadband combination patch and slot coplanar microwave antenna apparatus comprising the combination of:
- an electrical conductor ground plane member disposed on an electrically insulating planar substrate member;
said ground plane member including a rectangular shaped electrical conductor aperture having orthogonally disposed shorter and longer aperture sides received in a ground plane interior portion;
a coplanar rectangularly shaped electrically conductive patch antenna member received in electrical isolation, with smaller and larger pairs of spacings respectively from said longer and said shorter aperture sides, within said ground plane conductor rectangular aperture on said electrically insulating planar substrate member;
said electrically conductive patch antenna member being characterized by first and second diametrically opposed radiating edge portions, of respective first and second patch antenna electrical resonance frequency characteristics and disposition adjacent respective ground plane conductor shorter aperture sides;
a first electrical slot resonator inclusive of said first electrically conductive patch antenna member first radiating edge, an adjacent ground plane aperture shorter side conductor and an intervening non-conducting exposed substrate area of said larger patch antenna member to ground plane conductor rectangular aperture spacing, said first electrical slot resonator having a first slot antenna electrical resonance frequency characteristic;
a second electrical slot resonator inclusive of said second electrically conductive patch antenna member second radiating edge, an adjacent ground plane aperture shorter side conductor and an intervening non-conducting exposed substrate area of said larger patch antenna member to ground plane conductor rectangular aperture spacing, said second electrical slot resonator having a second slot antenna electrical resonance frequency characteristic;
a transmission line conductor element received within an elongated ground plane void pathway and communicating radio frequency electrical energy among a region peripheral of said ground plane member and said electrically conductive patch antenna member in said rectangular shaped electrical conductor aperture.
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Abstract
A broadband microwave coplanar antenna suitable for use in singular antenna or antenna array dispositions in a plurality of military and other present day uses. The disclosed antenna combines desirable characteristic of the patch and slot antenna forms into an arrangement having both patch resonances and slot resonances. These resonances may be individually accessed and either combined in frequency location or dispersed in frequency to accomplish a broadband combination antenna characteristic. Broadband electrical impedance characteristics are also provided in the dispersed resonance arrangement. The antenna includes a coplanar ground plane member disposed surrounding the active patch/slot element with both physical dimensions of the active patch/slot element and spacings from the ground plane element determining the resonances.
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18 Claims
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1. Broadband combination patch and slot coplanar microwave antenna apparatus comprising the combination of:
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an electrical conductor ground plane member disposed on an electrically insulating planar substrate member;
said ground plane member including a rectangular shaped electrical conductor aperture having orthogonally disposed shorter and longer aperture sides received in a ground plane interior portion;
a coplanar rectangularly shaped electrically conductive patch antenna member received in electrical isolation, with smaller and larger pairs of spacings respectively from said longer and said shorter aperture sides, within said ground plane conductor rectangular aperture on said electrically insulating planar substrate member;
said electrically conductive patch antenna member being characterized by first and second diametrically opposed radiating edge portions, of respective first and second patch antenna electrical resonance frequency characteristics and disposition adjacent respective ground plane conductor shorter aperture sides;
a first electrical slot resonator inclusive of said first electrically conductive patch antenna member first radiating edge, an adjacent ground plane aperture shorter side conductor and an intervening non-conducting exposed substrate area of said larger patch antenna member to ground plane conductor rectangular aperture spacing, said first electrical slot resonator having a first slot antenna electrical resonance frequency characteristic;
a second electrical slot resonator inclusive of said second electrically conductive patch antenna member second radiating edge, an adjacent ground plane aperture shorter side conductor and an intervening non-conducting exposed substrate area of said larger patch antenna member to ground plane conductor rectangular aperture spacing, said second electrical slot resonator having a second slot antenna electrical resonance frequency characteristic;
a transmission line conductor element received within an elongated ground plane void pathway and communicating radio frequency electrical energy among a region peripheral of said ground plane member and said electrically conductive patch antenna member in said rectangular shaped electrical conductor aperture. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. The method of fabricating a broadband planar microwave antenna comprising the steps of:
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tuning physical dimensions of a coplanar ground plane-surrounded rectangular patch antenna element portion of said coplanar microwave antenna to resonate at patch antenna first resonant frequencies within an operating frequency band selected for said coplanar microwave antenna;
said tuning step achieving first and second rectangular patch antenna element radiating edge portions of tuning-selected length on opposed sides of said rectangular patch antenna element portion;
attuning different physical spacings, disposed coplanar with and intermediate each of said first and second rectangular patch antenna element radiating edge portions and paralleling adjacent ground plane edge portions, and forming two slot antenna having second and third resonant frequencies, frequencies within said operating frequency band selected for said coplanar microwave antenna;
connecting a transmission line radio frequency energy-conveyance conductor to a central portion of said ground plane-surrounded rectangular patch antenna element radiating edge portion. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. Combination patch element and slot element coplanar microwave antenna apparatus comprising the combination of:
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a patch antenna element of orthogonal sides, approximately half wavelength physical dimensions and dual opposed extremity radiating edges disposed on a coplanar element plane within a surrounding coplanar ground plane member void;
first and second slot antenna conductor-absence regions, also of approximately half wavelength physical dimension along a greatest length thereof, disposed intermediate each of said opposed extremity radiating edges of said patch antenna element and adjacent ground plane member edges on said co-planar element plane;
transmission line conductor and spacing elements of differing spacing element length from said first and second slot antenna conductor absence regions connecting with radio frequency energy input and radio frequency energy output sides of one patch antenna element radiating edge and communicating radio frequency energy to said first radiating edge and thence to said second radiating edge;
electric field vectors formed across said first and second slot antenna conductor-absence regions, extending orthogonal of said slot antenna half wavelength physical dimension, being vectorially additive and supportive of complementing radiation field patterns extending outward from said coplanar elements plane;
electric field vectors formed across said transmission line spacing elements intermediate said patch antenna element radiating edges being vectorially subtractive and non-radiating and non-contributive to said radiation field patterns. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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