Method and apparatus for insuring integrity of a connectorized antenna
First Claim
1. An antenna integrity device, comprising:
- a measurement device configured to determine at least one value of an antenna;
at least one electronic device connectable to the antenna; and
a controller configured to prevent operation of the electronic device based on the determined antenna value;
wherein;
said measurement device is configured to read the antenna value from a set of pins connected to the antenna; and
said pins are shorted or open at the antenna, the antenna value comprising a binary pattern based on a pin being open or shorted.
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Abstract
An antenna is provided with an electronic component or circuit that has a value corresponding to properties of the antenna. A read mechanism reads the value and sets an operational status of a transceiver based on the value. In one embodiment, electronic component is a resistor having a value that identifies the antenna properties. A table may be used to correlate resistor values to different types of antennas or sets of antenna properties. Alternatively, the circuit can be embodied in a microchip that provides a response to a challenge sent by the read mechanism. The response encodes the properties of the antenna. The encoding scheme includes values from the challenge. Alternatively, the response is a code that is indexed into a table of antenna properties. In one embodiment, the antenna is connectorized.
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33 Claims
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1. An antenna integrity device, comprising:
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a measurement device configured to determine at least one value of an antenna;
at least one electronic device connectable to the antenna; and
a controller configured to prevent operation of the electronic device based on the determined antenna value;
wherein;
said measurement device is configured to read the antenna value from a set of pins connected to the antenna; and
said pins are shorted or open at the antenna, the antenna value comprising a binary pattern based on a pin being open or shorted. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of checking integrity of an antenna, comprising the steps of:
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determining at least one property of the antenna;
enabling an electronic device connected to the antenna if the antenna property is within a valid range;
wherein said step of determining at least one property of the antenna comprises reading an encoded pattern on a set of pins attached to said antenna. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. An antenna integrity device, comprising:
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a measurement device configured to measure a resistivity between at least two terminals of an antenna; and
a controller configured to determine at least one characteristic of the antenna based on the measured resistivity;
wherein; the characteristic comprises at least one of antenna type, antenna application, range, beam characteristics, resonant frequency, frequency range, and gain; and
the determination of the at least one characteristic is based on a resistivity to characteristics encoding scheme similar to;
Resistor Antenna Type Features 900 ohm 5.15-5.35GHz, co-ax 1.5dBi, 50 Ohm impedance 6k ohm 5.15-5.35GHz, dual element 6dBi, 50 Ohm impedance 11k ohm 5.725-5.825GHz, co-ax 20dBi, 50 Ohm 25k ohm 5.725-5.825GHz, planar 20dBi, 75 Ohm dual-element >
40k ohmInvalid —
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