Repeater system with transparent antenna integrated into a glass pane

• US 8,634,764 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2008
• Issued: 01/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Bouygues Telecom (Bouygues SA)
• Inventors: Cruz, Eduardo Motta, Hayart, Vincent, Himdi, Mohamed, Colombel, Franck, Dessarce, Jean-Philippe
• Primary Examiner(s): Pan, Yuwen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wang, Fanghwa
• Application Number:
  US12/148,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20090047900A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,098 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 455/7
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/007 specially adapted for indoor communication
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1271 for mounting on windscreens
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/44 using equipment having another main function to serve additionally as an antenna , e.g. means for giving an antenna an aesthetic aspectH01Q1/27 - H01Q1/34 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15 Active relay systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15528 Control of operation parameters of a relay station to exploit the physical medium

Abstract

The invention relates to a repeater system (1) for relaying the exchanges between a base station mobile telecommunication network and a user terminal, comprising an outside antenna (10) that can communicate with the base station, as well as retransmission means (20) connected to the outside antenna, wherein the retransmission means (20) are designed to act as the interface between the outside antenna (10) and an inside antenna (30) that can communicate with the user terminal to retransmit the signals received by either one of the antennae destined for the other antenna, characterized in that the outside antenna is an optically transparent planar antenna integrated into an optically transparent panel (2) used for the indoor lighting of a building.

Claims

1. Repeater system (1) for relaying the exchanges between a base station of a mobile telecommunication network and a user terminal, comprising an outside antenna (10) that can communicate with the base station, as well as retransmission means (20) connected to the outside antenna,

wherein the retransmission means (20) are designed to act as the interface between the outside antenna (10) and an inside antenna (30) that can communicate with the user terminal to retransmit the signals received by one of the antennae destined for the other antenna,

wherein the outside antenna is an optically transparent planar antenna integrated into an optically transparent panel (2) used for the indoor lighting of a space, the outside antenna comprising an earth plane (11) and a radiating plane in the form of one or several radiating elements (12-15), the earth plane (11) and the radiating element(s) (12-15) of the radiating plane are each formed by depositing an optically transparent conductive material, and

wherein the panel is part of a window type construction element having an opaque frame (6), inside which a power supply is fitted for electro-magnetically exciting for the one or several radiating elements of the outside antenna.

2. System according to claim 1, in which the panel comprises three layers made of glass:

a first layer (3) interposed between the earth plane (11) and the radiating plane (12-15) to form a dielectric substrate of the outside antenna; and

a second layer (5) on the earth plane and a third layer (4) on the radiating plane, the second layer and the third layer thereby sandwiching the earth plane, the first layer and the radiating plane.

3. System according to claim 1, in which said material is tin oxide doped with silver (AgHT) or indium-tin oxide (ITO).

4. System according to claim 1, in which the power supply (16) is in the form of a circuit (17) printed onto a dielectric substrate.

5. System according to claim 1, in which the power supply is in the form of a power supply by coaxial probe (16).

6. System according to claim 1, in which the inside antenna (30) is integrated into the frame.

7. System according to claim 1, in which the inside antenna (30) is an optically transparent planar antenna integrated into the panel (2).

8. Window type construction element having an optically transparent panel used for the indoor lighting of a space and an opaque frame, further comprising an outside antenna of a system according to claim 1 integrated in the optically transparent panel and power supply means for the outside antenna fitted inside the frame.

9. System according to claim 2, wherein the second layer (5) is made of athermal glass.

10. System according to claim 2, wherein the third layer (4) is made of radio electrically transparent glass.

11. Repeater system (1) for relaying the exchanges between a base station of a mobile telecommunication network and a user terminal, comprising an outside antenna (10) that can communicate with the base station, as well as retransmission means (20) connected to the outside antenna,

wherein the retransmission means (20) are designed to act as the interface between the outside antenna (10) and an inside antenna (30) that can communicate with the user terminal to retransmit the signals received by one of the antennae destined for the other antenna,

wherein the outside antenna is an optically transparent planar antenna integrated into an optically transparent panel (2) used for the indoor lighting of a space, the outside antenna comprising an earth plane (11) and a radiating plane in the form of one or several radiating elements (12-15), the earth plane (11) and the radiating element(s) (12-15) of the radiating plane are each formed by depositing an optically transparent conductive material, and

wherein the panel is part of a window type construction element having an opaque frame (6), inside which a power supply is fitted for electro-magnetically exciting one or several radiating elements of the outside antenna,

in which the panel comprises three layers made of glass:

a first layer (3) interposed between the earth plane (11) and the radiating plane (12-15) to form a dielectric substrate of the outside antenna; and

a second layer (5) on the earth plane and a third layer (4) on the radiating plane, the second layer and the third layer thereby sandwiching the earth plane, the first layer and the radiating plane,

in which the power supply (16) is in the form of a circuit (17) printed onto a dielectric substrate,

in which the inside antenna (30) is an optically transparent planar antenna integrated into the panel (2).