Unmanned aerial vehicle built-in antenna and unmanned aerial vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11223110-B2
Application number	US-202016993610-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 14, 2020
Priority date	Feb 14, 2018
Publication date	Jan 11, 2022
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022

Abstract

The present invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle built-in antenna. The unmanned aerial vehicle built-in antenna includes a substrate and a microstrip antenna disposed on the substrate. The substrate is provided with a first surface and a second surface disposed opposite to each other. The microstrip antenna includes a microstrip feeder, an antenna element arm, a grounding wire and a first grounding terminal that are disposed on the first surface of the substrate, a second grounding terminal disposed on the second surface of the substrate and a feeding coaxial line. A feed terminal of the feeding coaxial line is connected to a first terminal of the microstrip feeder, and a grounding terminal of the feeding coaxial line is connected to the first grounding terminal. A first end of the grounding wire is connected to a first terminal of the antenna element arm, and a second end of the grounding wire is connected to the first grounding terminal. The first grounding terminal is connected to the second grounding terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An unmanned aerial vehicle built-in antenna, comprising:
a substrate and a microstrip antenna disposed on the substrate, the substrate being provided with a first surface and a second surface disposed opposite to each other; and
the microstrip antenna comprising a microstrip feeder, an antenna element arm, a grounding wire and a first grounding terminal that are disposed on the first surface of the substrate, a second grounding terminal disposed on the second surface of the substrate and a feeding coaxial line, wherein
a feed terminal of the feeding coaxial line is connected to a first terminal of the microstrip feeder, and a grounding terminal of the feeding coaxial line is connected to the first grounding terminal;
a first end of the grounding wire is connected to a first terminal of the antenna element arm, and a second end of the grounding wire is connected to the first grounding terminal;
the first grounding terminal is connected to the second grounding terminal; and
a second terminal of the microstrip feeder is connected to the antenna element arm.

2. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein
the grounding wire and the microstrip feeder are parallel to each other;
the antenna element arm is perpendicular to the grounding wire and the microstrip feeder; or
the grounding wire and the microstrip feeder form a U shape and the antenna element arm is perpendicular to the microstrip feeder.

3. The antenna according to claim 2 , wherein
the antenna element arm is disposed on an edge of the substrate along a length direction of the substrate.

4. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein
the first grounding terminal is disposed on the first surface of the substrate along the length direction of the substrate.

5. The antenna according to claim 4 , wherein
the second grounding terminal is disposed in the middle of the second surface of the substrate along the length direction of the substrate, and a projection area of the second grounding terminal on the substrate falls within a projection area of the first grounding terminal on the substrate.

6. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein
the second grounding terminal is disposed on the substrate along the length direction of the substrate, and a projection area of the second grounding terminal on the substrate is greater than or equal to a projection area of motor wires and lamp panel wires in an arm of the unmanned aerial vehicle on the substrate.

7. The antenna according to claim 1 , further comprising at least one through hole provided on the substrate,
the first grounding terminal being connected to the second grounding terminal through the at least one through hole.

8. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein
the substrate is made of an FR-4 grade material.

9. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein
the microstrip antenna is a microstrip antenna of 900 MHz.

10. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the substrate is disposed in an arm of an unmanned aerial vehicle.

11. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein an end of the grounding wire may further be vertically extended to the second terminal of the microstrip feeder.

12. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the grounding wire comprises two parts that are perpendicular to each other; a first part is parallel to the microstrip feeder, a second part is perpendicular to the microstrip feeder, and the two parts are respectively connected to the second terminal of the microstrip feeder and the first terminal of the antenna element arm.

13. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the feed terminal of the feeding coaxial line is connected to the first terminal of the microstrip feeder, the grounding terminal of the feeding coaxial line is connected to a front grounding terminal of the substrate, and the feeding coaxial line is connected to a radio frequency board of an unmanned aerial vehicle.

14. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein an overall size of the antenna substrate is 87×18×0.6 mm 3 . That is, a length of the substrate is 87 mm, a width of the substrate is 18 mm, and a thickness of the substrate is 0.6 mm.

15. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the built-in antenna adopts a form of an inverted F antenna.

16. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein an antenna structure is a monopole, a dipole or an annular antenna.

17. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein a projection area of the second grounding terminal on the substrate may overlap a part of a projection area of the first grounding terminal on the substrate.

18. An unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising an arm, and further comprising the unmanned aerial vehicle built-in antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle built-in antenna is disposed in the arm.

Assignees

• Autel Robotics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sun Yiye
• Xiang Shengzhao
• Sun Xuefeng

Classifications

• B64U20/83

  Electronic components structurally integrated with aircraft elements, e.g. circuit boards carrying loads · CPC title

• H01Q1/48

  Earthing means; Earth screens; Counterpoises · CPC title

• H01Q1/285

  Aircraft wire antennas (means for trailing H01Q1/30) · CPC title

• B64C25/001

  Devices not provided for in the groups B64C25/02 - B64C25/68 · CPC title

• H01Q9/065

  Microstrip dipole antennas (patch antenna H01Q9/0407) · CPC title