Antenna

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11245199-B2
Application number	US-201916684054-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 14, 2019
Priority date	May 16, 2017
Publication date	Feb 8, 2022
Grant date	Feb 8, 2022

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to antennas. One example antenna includes a reflective device, at least two radiating arrays whose operating bands are in a first preset frequency band, and a plurality of parasitic radiators. Each radiating array of the at least two radiating arrays includes a plurality of radiating elements. Each radiating array of the at least two radiating arrays is electrically disposed on the reflective device along a length direction of the reflective device, and the plurality of parasitic radiators are disposed between two adjacent radiating arrays in the at least two radiating arrays.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An antenna, wherein the antenna comprises a reflective device, at least two radiating arrays whose operating bands are in a preset frequency band, and a plurality of transversal parasitic radiators;
wherein each radiating array comprises a plurality of radiating elements, and is electrically disposed on the reflective device along a length direction of the reflective device;
wherein the plurality of transversal parasitic radiators are disposed along a width direction of the reflective device, wherein a transversal parasitic radiator in the plurality of transversal parasitic radiators is disposed on one side of a radiating element pair, and wherein the radiating element pair comprises two radiating elements respectively in two adjacent radiating arrays of the at least two radiating arrays; and
wherein a distance between a midpoint of a vertical projection of each transversal parasitic radiator on a bottom surface of the reflective device and a line connecting a radiating element pair corresponding to the transversal parasitic radiator is a preset distance value, and wherein the vertical projection of each transversal parasitic radiator on the bottom surface of the reflective device is parallel to the line connecting the radiating element pair corresponding to the transversal parasitic radiator.

2. An antenna, wherein the antenna comprises a reflective device, at least two radiating arrays whose operating bands are in a preset frequency band, and a plurality of transversal parasitic radiators;
wherein each radiating array comprises a plurality of radiating elements, and is electrically disposed on the reflective device along a length direction of the reflective device;
wherein the plurality of transversal parasitic radiators are disposed along a width direction of the reflective device, wherein a transversal parasitic radiator in the plurality of transversal parasitic radiators is disposed on one side of a radiating element pair, and wherein the radiating element pair comprises two radiating elements respectively in two adjacent radiating arrays of the at least two radiating arrays; and
wherein a height from a vertex of each transversal parasitic radiator to a bottom surface of the reflective device is a value in a preset range comprising 0.25 times a wavelength, and wherein the wavelength is an average value of wavelengths of two adjacent radiating arrays corresponding to each transversal parasitic radiator.

3. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the transversal parasitic radiator in the plurality of transversal parasitic radiators is disposed between two adjacent radiating arrays of the at least two radiating arrays.

4. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the midpoint of the vertical projection of each transversal parasitic radiator on the bottom surface of the reflective device is on a line connecting midpoints of radiating element pairs corresponding to the transversal parasitic radiator.

5. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein a height from a vertex of each transversal parasitic radiator to a bottom surface of the reflective device is a value in a preset range comprising 0.25 times a wavelength, and wherein the wavelength is an average value of wavelengths of two adjacent radiating arrays corresponding to each transversal parasitic radiator.

6. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein an effective length of each transversal parasitic radiator is a value in a range of 0.8 times a wavelength to 2.5 times the wavelength, and wherein the wavelength is an average value of wavelengths of the two adjacent radiating arrays corresponding to each transversal parasitic radiator.

7. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the antenna further comprises a plurality of longitudinal parasitic radiators, wherein each of the plurality of longitudinal parasitic radiators is disposed along the length direction of the reflective device, and wherein the plurality of longitudinal parasitic radiators are separately disposed between two radiating elements comprised in each radiating element pair comprised in the two adjacent radiating arrays.

8. The antenna according to claim 7 , wherein a midpoint of a vertical projection of each longitudinal parasitic radiator on a bottom surface of the reflective device coincides with a midpoint of a line connecting a radiating element pair corresponding to the longitudinal parasitic radiator, and wherein the vertical projection of each longitudinal parasitic radiator on the bottom surface of the reflective device is perpendicular to the line connecting the radiating element pair corresponding to the longitudinal parasitic radiator.

9. The antenna according to claim 7 , wherein a height from a vertex of each longitudinal parasitic radiator to a bottom surface of the reflective device is a value in a preset range comprising 0.25 times a wavelength, and wherein the wavelength is an average value of wavelengths of two adjacent radiating arrays corresponding to each longitudinal parasitic radiator.

10. The antenna according to claim 7 , wherein an effective length of each longitudinal parasitic radiator is a value in a range of 0.8 times a wavelength to 2.5 times the wavelength, and wherein the wavelength is an average value of wavelengths of the two adjacent radiating arrays corresponding to each longitudinal parasitic radiator.

11. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein:
each radiating element comprised in each of the at least two radiating arrays is a dual-polarized dipole radiating element; or
each radiating element comprised in each of the at least two radiating arrays is a single-polarized dipole radiating element.

12. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the preset frequency band is a preset low-frequency band, or the preset frequency band is a preset high-frequency band.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Liu Wei
• Xiao Weihong
• Daojian Dingjiu

Classifications

• H01Q21/00

  Antenna arrays or systems (arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system H01Q3/00) · CPC title

• H01Q15/14

  Reflecting surfaces; Equivalent structures {(electromagnetic shields H01Q1/526)} · CPC title

• H01Q1/523 Primary

  between antennas of an array · CPC title

• H01Q1/36 Primary

  Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; {Particular materials used therewith}(H01Q1/08, H01Q1/14 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01Q5/48

  Combinations of two or more dipole type antennas · CPC title