DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA CONFIGURATION FOR TDD REPEATER

• US 20090135745A1
• Filed: 11/21/2008
• Published: 05/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Otto, James C., Gainey, Kenneth M., Proctor, James A. JR., Snyder, Christopher A.
• Application Number:
  US12/276,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20090135745A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/279
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/38 formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface H01Q15/142
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 19/10 using reflecting surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/1555 Selecting relay station antenna mode, e.g. selecting omnidirectional -, directional beams, selecting polarizations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

A wireless communication node, such as a repeater, including a frequency translating repeater, a physical layer (PHY) repeater, time divisional duplex repeater (TDD) and the like, is configured with a pair of directional patch antennae and an omni-directional antenna. The patch antennae can be selected depending on the orientation of the repeater package to communicate with a station such as an access point or a base station. The omni-directional antenna can be directed toward another station such as a client. The patch antennae and the omni-directional antenna can be orthogonally polarized to increase isolation and reduce electromagnetic coupling. Multiple antennae can be used in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) configurations.

Claims

1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising:

a receiver portion;

a transmitter portion;

a substantially omni-directional antenna coupled to the receiver portion and the transmitter portion, wherein the wireless apparatus is configured to use the transmitter portion to transmit wireless signals from the omni-directional antenna during a first interval; and

a pair of directional antenna coupled to the receiver portion and the transmitter portion, the wireless apparatus configured to receive wireless signals using the pair of directional antenna during at least a portion of the first interval.