Connector device and communication device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10283833-B2
Application number	US-201615752937-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 29, 2016
Priority date	Aug 26, 2015
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

A connector device of the present disclosure includes a waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion and adapted to transmit a high-frequency signal while an open end is arranged in a state contacting or placed close to another waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion. Additionally, the coupling portion of the waveguide tube has a metallic tube and a dielectric substance provided inside at least a part of the metallic tube. Furthermore, a communication device of the present disclosure includes the waveguide tube having, at the distal end portion, the coupling portion configured as described above, and the communication device is coupled to another communication device including a waveguide tube and transmits a high-frequency signal thereto in a state where open ends of both of the waveguide tubes contact each other or are located close to each other.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A connector device comprising a waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion and configured to transmit a high-frequency signal while an open end of the coupling portion is arranged in a state contacting or placed close to another waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion,
wherein the coupling portion of the waveguide tube includes a metallic tube and a dielectric substance provided inside at least a part of the metallic tube, and wherein the metallic tube has an open end surface covered with an insulation layer.

2. The connector device according to claim 1 , wherein the insulation layer includes a coating of an insulation material.

3. The connector device according to claim 1 , wherein the waveguide tube has a structure in which an inside is filled with a dielectric substance.

4. The connector device according to claim 3 , wherein the dielectric substance for the waveguide tube is polytetrafluoroethylene, a liquid crystal polymer, a cycloolefin polymer, or polyimide.

5. The connector device according to claim 3 , wherein the dielectric substance for the coupling portion is polytetrafluoroethylene, a liquid crystal polymer, a cycloolefin polymer, polyimide, polyether ether ketone, polyphenylene sulfide, a thermosetting resin, or an ultraviolet curing resin.

6. The connector device according to claim 1 , wherein the coupling portion has a choke structure around the open end.

7. A connector device comprising a waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion and configured to transmit a high-frequency signal while an open end of the coupling portion is arranged in a state contacting or placed close to another waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion,
wherein the coupling portion of the waveguide tube includes a metallic tube and a dielectric substance provided inside at least a part of the metallic tube, wherein the coupling portion has a choke structure around the open end of the coupling portion, and wherein a depth of a groove of the choke structure is ¼ of a wavelength of a high frequency transmitted by the two waveguide tubes.

8. A connector device comprising a waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion and configured to transmit a high-frequency signal while an open end of the coupling portion is arranged in a state contacting or placed close to another waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion,
wherein the coupling portion of the waveguide tube includes a metallic tube and a dielectric substance provided inside at least a part of the metallic tube, wherein the coupling portion has a choke structure around the open end of the coupling portion, and wherein a groove of the choke structure is filled with the dielectric substance.

9. The connector device according to claim 8 , wherein the dielectric substance for the choke structure is polytetrafluoroethylene, a liquid crystal polymer, a cycloolefin polymer, polyimide, polyether ether ketone, polyphenylene sulfide, a thermosetting resin, an ultraviolet curing resin, plastic, engineering plastic, or super engineering plastic.

10. A connector device comprising a waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion and configured to transmit a high-frequency signal while an open end of the coupling portion is arranged in a state contacting or placed close to another waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion,
wherein the coupling portion of the waveguide tube includes a metallic tube and a dielectric substance provided inside at least a part of the metallic tube, wherein the coupling portion has a choke structure around the open end of the coupling portion, and wherein a depth of a groove of the choke structure is different between in a partial groove portion and in another partial groove portion.

11. The connector device according to claim 10 , wherein two or more partial groove portions are provided.

12. The connector device according to claim 10 , wherein the partial groove portion is provided in a groove portion along a direction of an electric field generated when the waveguide officialdom transmits a high-frequency signal.

13. The connector device according to claim 1 , wherein the waveguide tube has a rectangular cross-sectional shape.

14. The connector device according to claim 13 , wherein a dimensional ratio between a long side and a short side of the cross section of the waveguide tube is 2:1.

15. The connector device according to claim 14 , wherein the waveguide tube has a pair of structural bodies each including a transmission path portion and a coupling portion, and has a structure capable of performing bi-directional communication.

16. The connector device according to claim 15 , wherein the pair of structural bodies is integrally formed.

17. A connector device comprising a waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion and configured to transmit a high-frequency signal while an open end of the coupling portion is arranged in a state contacting or placed close to another waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion,
wherein the coupling portion of the waveguide tube includes a metallic tube and a dielectric substance provided inside at least a part of the metallic tube, and wherein the waveguide tube has a quadrate or circular cross-sectional-shape.

18. The connector device according to claim 17 ,
wherein when the waveguide tube has a quadrate cross-sectional shape, bi-directional communication by a horizontally polarized wave and a vertically polarized wave can be performed, and when the waveguide has a circular cross-sectional shape, bi-directional communication by a clockwise polarized wave and an anti-clockwise polarized wave can be performed.

19. The connector device recited in claim 1 , wherein the high-frequency signal is a millimeter-waveband signal.

20. A communication device comprising a waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion and configured to transmit a high-frequency signal while an open end of the coupling portion is arranged in a state contacting or placed close to another waveguide tube having a coupling portion at a distal end portion,
wherein the coupling portion of the waveguide tube includes a metallic tube and a dielectric substance provided inside at least a part of the metallic tube, wherein the metallic tube has an open end surface covered with an insulation layer; and
the communication device is coupled to another communication device including the other waveguide tube, and transmits the high-frequency signal to the other communication device in the state where open ends of both of the waveguide tubes contact each other or are placed close to each other.

21. The communication device according to claim 20 , wherein the high-frequency signal is a millimeter-waveband signal.

Assignees

• Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp

Inventors

• Okada Yasuhiro

Classifications

• H04B7/24

  for communication between two or more posts (wireless communication networks H04W) · CPC title

• H01P1/042 Primary

  Hollow waveguide joints · CPC title

• H01P5/02 Primary

  with invariable factor of coupling (H01P5/12 takes precedence {choke joints H01P1/04, H01P1/06}) · CPC title