Antenna device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10879611-B2
Application number	US-201816143718-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2018
Priority date	Sep 29, 2017
Publication date	Dec 29, 2020
Grant date	Dec 29, 2020

Abstract

An antenna device includes a ground plate, a patch section parallel to, and spaced apart from, the ground plate, a first short circuit section having a plurality of first conductive elements that electrically connect the patch section and the ground plate, and a second short circuit section having a plurality of second conductive elements electrically connected at one end to the ground plate. The plurality of first conductive elements are arranged in a circle with a first radius from a patch center point and provide a preset inductance. The plurality of second conductive elements are arranged in a circle with a second radius from the patch center point and provide a preset inductance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An antenna device for receiving and transmitting a radio wave at a first frequency and a second frequency, the second frequency higher than the first frequency, the antenna device comprising:
a ground plate, wherein the ground plate is a first planar conductive member;
a single, continuous patch, wherein the patch is a second planar conductive member and disposed at a preset distance from and parallel to the ground plate, the patch having an edge part and a centrally disposed patch center point;
a plurality of first conductive elements configured to electrically connect the patch and the ground plate, the plurality of first conductive elements spaced at an equal distance from each other and arranged in a first circle with a first radius from the patch center point;
a plurality of second conductive elements configured to electrically connect the patch and the ground plate, the plurality of second conductive elements spaced at an equal distance from each other and arranged in a second circle with a second radius from the patch center point;
a plurality of capacitive elements of a preset capacitance disposed on an electric current path from the patch to the ground plate, a loop section, the loop section being a loop-shaped conductive member on a plane parallel to the ground plate and spaced apart from the edge part of the patch at a preset distance; and
a plurality of sub-patch sections, each of the plurality of sub-patch sections being a division of the patch, wherein the second radius is greater than the first radius, all of the plurality of the first and second conductive elements are connected to the patch, the antenna device causes a parallel resonance at a frequency f 1x determined by an equation:

f

1
⁢
x

=

1

2
⁢
π
⁢

L
1

⁡

(

C

p
⁢

⁢
1

+

NC
x

)

,

the loop section has a feeding point configured to electrically connect to a feeder line, each of the plurality of sub-patch sections is of an equal size to other sub-patch sections,
adjacent sub-patch sections are separated by a linear-shaped slit in the patch that extends a preset length from the edge part toward the patch center point, and
at least one of the plurality of the first conductive elements and at least one of the plurality of the second conductive elements are disposed in each of the plurality of sub-patch sections.

2. The antenna device of claim 1 further comprising:
a linear element, the linear element being a linear-shaped conductive member that extends along a center line of the slit for connecting the loop section to the patch.

3. The antenna device of claim 1 , wherein
the edge part of the patch has a feeding point configured to electrically connect to a feeder line.

4. The antenna device of claim 1 ,
wherein a quantity of the plurality of the first conductive elements is equal to a quantity of the plurality of the second conductive elements, and
wherein the plurality of the second conductive elements are angularly offset from the plurality of the first conductive elements so that a line extending radially from the patch center to the first circle and the second circle and intersecting one of the plurality of the first conductive elements does not intersect any of the plurality of the second conductive elements.

5. The antenna device of claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of the capacitive elements are capacitors, and wherein one end of each of the plurality of the second conductive elements is connected to the ground plate, and
wherein another end of each of the plurality of the second conductive elements is connected to the patch via one of the plurality of the capacitors.

6. The antenna device of claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of the capacitive elements are conductive plates, each of the plurality of the conductive plates having a predetermined size, disposed in between the ground plate and the patch, and facing the patch at a predetermined distance from the patch, and wherein
one end of each of the plurality of the second conductive elements is connected to the ground plate, and wherein
another end of each of the plurality of the second conductive elements is connected to one of the plurality of the conductive plates, and wherein
a capacitance formed between one of the plurality of the conductive plates and the patch is based on the predetermined size of the conductive plate and the predetermined distance of the conductive plate from the patch.

7. The antenna device of claim 1 , wherein
a quantity of the plurality of the first conductive elements is at least three, and wherein
a quantity of the plurality of the second conductive elements is at least three.

8. The antenna device of claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of the capacitive elements are configured to produce a resonant frequency that is determined by (i) the capacitance of the plurality of the capacitive elements and (ii) an inductance of the second conductive element higher than the first frequency.

9. The antenna device of claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of the capacitive elements includes at least one first capacitive element disposed on a first current path via the first conductive element from the patch to the ground plate to provide a first preset capacitance; and
a second capacitive element disposed on a second current path via the second conductive element from the patch to the ground plate to provide a second preset capacitance.

Assignees

• Denso Corp
• Nat Univ Corp Kyoto Inst Technology

Inventors

• Sugimoto Yuji
• Ikeda Masakazu
• Koide Shiro
• Ueda Tetsuya
• Terada Shuhei

Classifications

• H01Q9/0464

  Annular ring patch · CPC title

• H01Q9/0457

  electromagnetically coupled to the feed line · CPC title

• H01Q1/38

  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 title

• H01Q1/42

  Housings not intimately mechanically associated with radiating elements, e.g. radome · CPC title

• H01Q9/0407 Primary

  Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna (dipole H01Q9/285; monopole H01Q9/40) · CPC title