Antenna with ferromagnetic rods wound and coupled together

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10903573-B2
Application number	US-201716335492-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 25, 2017
Priority date	Sep 26, 2016
Publication date	Jan 26, 2021
Grant date	Jan 26, 2021

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a ferrite antenna comprising at least one main contour, comprising at least one first winding referred to as main winding, at least one first ferromagnetic rod referred to as main ferromagnetic rod and a tuning system, each main winding being wound around a main ferromagnetic rod and connected to the tuning system comprising a capacitor connected in parallel with the main winding. The ferrite antenna further comprises a non-resonant secondary contour, comprising a secondary winding separated electrically from each main winding and a secondary ferromagnetic rod around which the secondary winding is wound, and each main ferromagnetic rod and the secondary ferromagnetic rod are arranged parallel to one another so as to make it possible for a magnetic coupling of each main winding with the secondary winding.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A ferrite antenna for transmitting and/or receiving kilometric, hectometric or decametric frequency waves, comprising:
at least one first resonant contour, referred to as main contour, comprising at least one first winding referred to as main winding at least one first ferromagnetic rod referred to as main ferromagnetic rod and a tuning system, each main winding being wound around a main ferromagnetic rod and connected to the tuning system comprising a capacitor connected in parallel with the main winding, so as to create a first resonance frequency, referred to as tuning frequency;
a second contour, referred to as secondary contour, comprising a secondary winding separated electrically from each main winding and a secondary ferromagnetic rod around which the secondary winding is wound,
wherein,
said secondary contour is non-resonant in that it does not comprise any capacitor so that the secondary contour does not form a resonant LC circuit, and
each main ferromagnetic rod and the secondary ferromagnetic rod are arranged parallel to one another so as to make it possible for a magnetic coupling of each main winding with the secondary winding, so as to create a second resonance frequency which is different from the tuning frequency.

2. The ferrite antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the main ferromagnetic rod and the secondary ferromagnetic rod are configured to be able to be moved in translation with respect to one another along the main directions thereof.

3. The ferrite antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the capacitor is a variable capacitor.

4. The ferrite antenna according to claim 1 , comprising at least one second main contour, referred to as additional contour, and arranged in parallel to the main contour and to the secondary contour.

5. The ferrite antenna according to claim 4 , wherein at least one of the additional contours is configured to be able to be moved in translation with respect to the main contour, in a direction transverse to the main direction of the main ferromagnetic rod of the main contour.

6. An antenna system, comprising two ferrite antennas according to claim 1 , a first ferrite antenna and a second ferrite antenna of which the main and secondary ferromagnetic rods extend along a direction perpendicular to the direction of the main and secondary ferromagnetic rods of the first ferrite antenna, and the second ferrite antenna having an electrical phase shift of ±π/2 with respect to the first ferrite antenna.

7. A system for transmitting/receiving kilometric, hectometric or decametric frequency waves, comprising a ferrite antenna according to claim 1 .

8. A system for transmitting/receiving kilometric, hectometric or decametric frequency waves, comprising an antenna system according to claim 6 .

9. An electronic communication terminal for receiving and/or transmitting kilometric, hectometric or decametric frequency waves, comprising an antenna according to claim 1 , and a device for transmitting/receiving connected to the antenna and adapted for processing the signals received by the antenna and/or transmitting to the antenna, signals to be transmitted.

10. The electronic communication terminal according to claim 9 , comprising means for electronically and/or mechanically adjusting the main tuning frequency of the antenna.

Assignees

• TDF
• Univ Rennes

Inventors

• Kaverine Evgueni
• Palud Sébastien
• Himdi Mohamed
• Colombel Franck

Classifications

• H01Q7/08 Primary

  Ferrite rod or like elongated core · CPC title

• H01B1/08

  oxides · CPC title

• H01B1/04

  mainly consisting of carbon-silicon compounds, carbon or silicon · CPC title

• H01Q7/005

  with variable reactance for tuning the antenna · CPC title

• H04B1/40

  Circuits · CPC title