Millimeter wave transceiving system and reflecting plate

• US 8,412,130 B2
• Filed: 11/10/2009
• Issued: 04/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Suematsu, Eiji, Yamamoto, Tohru, Sato, Keisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Minh D
• Application Number:
  US12/615,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20100119234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,239 Days
• Field of Search: 455/106, 455/25, 455/63.4, 455/74, 455/575.7, 381/160, 725/78
• US Class Current: 455/106
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 15/0013 said selective devices working as frequency-selective reflecting surfaces, e.g. FSS, dichroic plates, surfaces being partly transmissive and reflective
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 15/14 Reflecting surfaces; Equivalent structures electromagnetic shields H01Q1/526
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 19/104 using a substantially flat reflector for deflecting the radiated beam, e.g. periscopic antennas periscopic fed Cassegrain antennas H01Q19/191; passive relays H04B7/145
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 3/02 using mechanical movement of antenna or antenna system as a whole
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/90 Non-optical transmission systems, e.g. transmission systems employing non-photonic corpuscular radiation

Abstract

A millimeter wave transceiving system 100 for transmitting and receiving a millimeter wave includes a transmitting apparatus 1 for transmitting a millimeter wave, a reflecting plate 41 for reflecting a millimeter wave transmitted from the transmitting apparatus 1, and a receiving apparatus 2 for receiving a millimeter wave reflected by the reflecting plate 41. The reflecting plate 41 includes a metal plate, a metal sheet, or a metal film, as a reflecting surface 43 for reflecting a millimeter wave. This makes it possible to realize a millimeter wave transceiving system which allows an easy installation.

Claims

1. A millimeter wave transceiving system for transmitting and receiving a millimeter wave, comprising:

a transmitting apparatus configured to transmit a millimeter wave;

a reflecting plate configured to reflect a millimeter wave transmitted from the transmitting apparatus; and

a receiving apparatus configured to receive a millimeter wave reflected by the reflecting plate, the reflecting plate having a metal plate, a metal sheet, or a metal film, as a reflecting surface from which the millimeter wave is reflected, wherein

the reflecting plate further includes a first plate having the reflecting surface, and a second plate provided so as to be inclined with respect to the first plate.

2. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the reflecting plate further includes a spacer configured to maintain a constant distance between the first plate and the second plate.

3. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

the transmitting apparatus includes a directional transmitting antenna configured to transmit the millimeter wave; and

the receiving apparatus includes a directional receiving antenna configured to receive the millimeter wave reflected by the reflecting plate.

4. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 3, wherein an area of the reflecting surface of the reflecting plate is not less than a square of a half wavelength but not more than √

{square root over (2)}·

(2h·

tan θ

)·

(2h·

tan θ

),where h represents a distance between a surface on which the reflecting plate is provided and the receiving apparatus, and θ

represents a half bandwidth of the directional receiving antenna.

5. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 3, wherein the directional transmitting antenna has an angle of beam spread of not less than an angle of beam spread of the directional receiving antenna.

6. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 3, wherein a direction in which the directional receiving antenna has directivity is a vertical direction.

7. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 6, wherein the receiving apparatus is provided on a back surface side of a display apparatus, the back surface side being opposite to a side of a display screen of the display apparatus.

8. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 3, wherein the directional receiving antenna is a lens antenna made of a dielectric.

9. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 3, wherein:

the transmitting apparatus;

(i) includes a modulator configured to generate a modulated signal, by modulating a received wireless broadcast signal in accordance with a reference signal; and

(ii) upconverts the modulated signal generated by the modulator and the reference signal into a transmission signal, amplifies the transmission signal so as to obtain the millimeter wave, and transmits the transmission signal via the directional transmitting antenna, and

the receiving apparatus;

(I) receives, via the directional receiving antenna, the transmission signal transmitted via the directional transmitting antenna; and

(II) includes;

an amplifier configured to amplify a received transmission signal; and

a downconverter configured to demodulate a modulated signal, by downconverting a modulated signal in accordance with a reference signal contained in a transmission signal amplified by the amplifier.

10. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 9, wherein

the receiving apparatus further includes a detector configured to (i) obtain a part of the transmission signal transmitted from the transmitting apparatus, (ii) detect a signal level of the part of the transmission signal, and (iii) produce a sound which has a sound volume or a tone in accordance with the signal level thus detected.

11. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 3, wherein:

the transmitting apparatus;

(i) includes a modulator configured to generate a modulated signal, by modulating a received wireless broadcast signal in accordance with a reference signal; and

(ii) upconverts the modulated signal generated by the modulator and the reference signal into a transmission signal, amplifies the transmission signal so as to obtain the millimeter wave, and transmits the transmission signal via the directional transmitting antenna, and the receiving apparatus;

(I) receives, via the directional receiving antenna, the transmission signal transmitted via the directional transmitting antenna; and

(II) includes;

an amplifier configured to amplify the received transmission signal;

a first downconverter configured to downconvert the transmission signal amplified by the amplifier; and

a second downconverter configured to downconvert a modulated signal contained in the transmission signal in accordance with a reference signal contained in the transmission signal downconverted by the first downconverter.

12. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 3, wherein

the transmitting apparatus (i) receives a broadcast signal in which a plurality of broadcast signals are multiplexed, (ii) amplifies, so as to obtain a transmission signal as a millimeter wave, the plurality of broadcast signals thus received, and (iii) transmits the transmission signal via the directional transmitting antenna.

13. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the reflecting surface has a concave shape.

14. The millimeter wave transceiving system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the receiving apparatus is provided on a surface of an axial end of a rotary support shaft that supports a display apparatus.

15. A reflecting plate in a millimeter wave transceiving system, the millimeter wave transceiving system including a transmitting apparatus configured to transmit a millimeter wave, the reflecting plate configured to reflect a millimeter wave transmitted from the transmitting apparatus, and a receiving apparatus configured to receive a millimeter wave reflected by the reflecting plate, the reflecting plate comprising:

a first metal plate, metal sheet, or metal film, as a reflecting surface from which a millimeter wave is reflected; and

a second plate provided so as to be inclined with respect to the first plate.