Antenna apparatus for performing wireless communication or broadcasting by selecting one of two types of linearly polarized waves

• US 6,664,928 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2002
• Issued: 12/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ikuma, Yoshiyuki, Inagaki, Satoru, Ogawa, Takaya
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Tan
• Application Number:
  US10/102,661
• Publication Number:
  US 20030052830A1
• Time in Patent Office: 634 Days
• Field of Search: 343/700.MS, 343/702, 343/872, 343/890, 343/891, 343/892
• US Class Current: 343/700.0MS
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/002 Protection against seismic waves, thermal radiation or other disturbances, e.g. nuclear explosion; Arrangements for improving the power handling capability of an antenna
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/02 Arrangements for de-icing; Arrangements for drying-out ; Arrangements for cooling; Arrangements for preventing corrosion

Abstract

An antenna for linearly polarized wave is accommodated in a case in which a heat sink is provided. By rotating the case depending on the vertically polarized wave or the horizontally polarized wave, wireless communication or broadcasting using the vertically polarized wave or the horizontally polarized wave can be selectively realized with high precision.

Claims

1. An antenna apparatus comprising:

an antenna main body for transmitting or receiving a linearly polarized wave

a case which houses said antenna body in accordance with a direction of polarization of a radio wave to be used; and

a heat sink which is disposed at a surface of said case which serves as a radio emission/receiving surface of said antenna main body when said case is fixed, said heat sink including a row of radiating fins protruded in a direction where the radio wave is incident onto the surface of said case or emitted from the surface of said case,

wherein the radiating fins of said heat sink e shaped such that upper ends of grooves between the radiation fins in a vertical direction are open, when the ease is fixed.

2. The antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said heat sink is configured such that radiating fins are provided so as to form an acute angle with respect to the direction of gravity in any one of the direction of vertically polarized wave governed by said antenna main body and the direction of horizontally polarized wave governed by said antenna main body.

3. The antenna apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said antenna main body is provided with an external connector which is protruded so as to form an acute angle with respect to the direction of gravity in any one of the direction of said vertically polarized wave and the direction of said horizontally polarized wave.

4. The antenna apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said antenna main body is provided with the external connector which is protruded so as to be substantially parallel to The direction that said radiating fins of said heat sink are protruded.

5. The antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said heat sink is configured such that said radiating fins are arranged in two direction which are substantially perpendicular to each other.

6. The antenna apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said antenna main body is provided with an external connector which is protruded so as to form an acute angle with respect to the direction of gravity in any one of the direction of said vertically polarized wave and the direction of said horizontally polarized wave.

7. The antenna apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said antenna main body is provided with the external connector which is protruded so as to be substantially parallel to the direction that said radiating fins of said heat sink are protruded.

8. The antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said heat sink is configured such that said radiating fins are arranged substantially circularly.

9. The antenna apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said antenna main body is provided with an external connector which is protruded so as to form an acute angle with respect to the direction of gravity in any one of the direction of said vertically polarized wave and the direction of said horizontally polarized wave.

10. The antenna apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said antenna main body is provided with the external connector which is protruded so as to be substantially parallel to the direction that said radiating fins of said heat sink are protruded.

11. The antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said antenna main body is provided with an external connector which is protruded so as to form an acute angle with respect to the direction of gravity in any one of the direction of said vertically polarized wave and the direction of said horizontally polarized wave.

12. The antenna apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said antenna main body is provided with the external connector which is protruded so as to be substantially parallel to a direction that said radiating fins of said heat sink are protruded.

13. An antenna apparatus comprising:

an antenna main body for transmitting or receiving a linearly polarized wave; and

a heat sink which is disposed at a surface of said antenna main body which serves as a radio emission/receiving surface of said antenna main body when the antenna apparatus is fixed, said heat sink including a row of radiating fins protruded in a direction where a radio wave is incident onto the surface of said antenna main body or emitted from the surface of said antenna main body,

wherein the radiating fins of said heat sink are shaped such that upper ends of grooves between the radiation fins in a vertical direction are open, when the antenna apparatus is fixed.

14. The antenna apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said heat sink is configured such that radiating fins are provided so as to form an acute angle with respect to the direction of gravity in any one of the direction of vertically polarized wave governed by said antenna main body and the direction of horizontally polarized wave governed by said antenna main body.

15. The antenna apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said antenna main body is provided with an external connector which is protruded so as to form an acute angle with respect to the direction of gravity in any one of the direction of said vertically polarized wave and the direction of said horizontally polarized wave.

16. The antenna apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said antenna main body is provided with the external connector which is protruded so as to be substantially parallel to the direction that said radiating fins of said heat sink are protruded.

17. The antenna apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said heat sink is configured such that said radiating fins are arranged in two direction which are substantially perpendicular to each other.

18. The antenna apparatus according to claim 17, wherein said antenna main body is provided with an external connector which is protruded so as to form an acute angle with respect to the direction of gravity in any one of the direction of said vertically polarized wave and the direction of said horizontally polarized wave.

19. The antenna apparatus according to claim 17, wherein said antenna main body is provided with the external connector which is protruded so as to be substantially parallel to the direction that said radiating fins of said heat sink are protruded.

20. The antenna apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said heat sink is configured such that said radiating fins are arranged substantially circularly.

21. The antenna apparatus according to claim 20, wherein said antenna main body is provided with an external connector which is protruded so as to form an acute angle with respect to the direction of gravity in any one of the direction of said vertically polarized wave and the direction of said horizontally polarized wave.

22. The antenna apparatus according to claim 20, wherein said antenna main body is provided with the external connector which is protruded so as to be substantially parallel to the direction that said radiating fins of said heat sink are protruded.

23. The antenna apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said antenna main body is provided with an external connector which is protruded so as to form an acute angle with respect to the direction of gravity in any one of the direction of said vertically polarized wave and the direction of said horizontally polarized wave.

24. The antenna apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said antenna main body is provided with the external connector which is protruded so as to be substantially parallel to a direction that said radiating fins of said heat sink are protruded.