Antenna, antenna array, and communications device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12062847-B2
Application number	US-202217687422-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 4, 2022
Priority date	Sep 5, 2019
Publication date	Aug 13, 2024
Grant date	Aug 13, 2024

Abstract

This application discloses an antenna, an antenna array, and a communications device. The antenna includes a radiation part and a feeding part. The feeding part is coupled to the radiation part and is configured to feed power to the radiation part, so that the radiation part radiates a low-frequency signal outward. The radiation part includes one or more frequency selection units with a bandpass characteristic, and the radiation part is a structure that is capable of exciting, when a high-frequency signal passes through, coupling currents. When the high-frequency signal passes through the radiation part, each pair of coupling currents excited on the radiation part appear in pairs and can cancel each other. This can reduce or even completely eliminate a high-frequency induced current with the same frequency as the high-frequency signal on the radiation part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An antenna, comprising:
a radiation part including one or more frequency selection units, each frequency selection unit having a bandpass characteristic, wherein each of the one or more frequency selection units comprises a conductive grid and a conductor located in the conductive grid, and wherein the conductor and the corresponding conductive grid are electrically coupled with a gap in between, so that the corresponding frequency selection unit has the bandpass characteristic; and
a feeding part, wherein the feeding part is coupled to the radiation part, and is configured to feed power to the radiation part; and
wherein the radiation part is to excite coupling currents that appear in a plurality of pairs when a high-frequency signal passes through, wherein each pair of coupling currents cancels each other, and wherein every two pairs of coupling currents excited on the radiation part are formed in one of the one or more frequency selection units, wherein in each pair of coupling currents, one current is formed in the conductor of the frequency selection unit, and the other current is formed in the conductive grid of the frequency selection unit.

2. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the feeding part is coupled to an outer side of the conductive grid in each of the one or more frequency selection units, and is configured to feed power to the conductive grid.

3. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein a width of a frame of the conductive grid is greater than or equal to 0.001 times a vacuum wavelength corresponding to a frequency of the high-frequency signal and less than or equal to 0.1 times the vacuum wavelength corresponding to the frequency of the high-frequency signal.

4. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein a width of the gap between the conductive grid and the corresponding conductor is greater than or equal to 0.001 times a vacuum wavelength corresponding to a frequency of the high-frequency signal and less than or equal to 0.1 times the vacuum wavelength corresponding to the frequency of the high-frequency signal.

5. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein the conductor comprises a plurality of sub-conductors arranged at an interval; and
a width of a gap between every two adjacent sub-conductors is greater than or equal to 0.001 times a vacuum wavelength corresponding to a frequency of the high-frequency signal and less than or equal to 0.1 times the vacuum wavelength corresponding to the frequency of the high-frequency signal.

6. The antenna according to claim 5 , wherein the width of the gap between every two adjacent sub-conductors is greater than or equal to 0.0025 times the vacuum wavelength corresponding to the frequency of the high-frequency signal and less than or equal to 0.05 times the vacuum wavelength corresponding to the frequency of the high-frequency signal.

7. The antenna according to claim 5 , wherein the radiation part further comprises a conductor connecting part; and
in at least some of the sub-conductors, a part of a side of each sub-conductor is electrically connected to a frame of the conductive grid through the conductor connecting part.

8. The antenna according to claim 7 , wherein a width of a part connecting the side of the sub-conductor and the conductor connecting part is greater than or equal to 0.001 times the vacuum wavelength corresponding to the frequency of the high-frequency signal and less than or equal to 0.1 times the vacuum wavelength corresponding to the frequency of the high-frequency signal.

9. The antenna according to claim 1 , wherein a shape of the conductive grid matches a shape of an outer contour of the corresponding conductor, so that a width of the gap between the conductive grid and the corresponding conductor is even.

10. The antenna according to claim 9 , wherein the antenna is a ±45° dual polarization dipole antenna.

11. The antenna according to claim 10 , wherein each of the conductive grids is a regular polygon with 3 or more sides, and a degree of each internal angle of the regular polygon is a divisor of 360°.

12. The antenna according to claim 11 , wherein in each radiation part, a shape of each conductive grid is square, and one or more conductive grids located in each radiation part are arranged in an n×n array, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1.

13. The antenna according to claim 12 , wherein the antenna further comprises a dielectric substrate, and the conductive grid and the conductor are both metal foil structures formed on a surface of the dielectric substrate.

14. The antenna according to claim 13 , wherein the dielectric substrate is a bakelite plate, a fiberglass board, or a plastic plate.

15. An antenna array, comprising:
a first antenna; and
a second antenna;
wherein the first antenna comprises:
a radiation part including one or more frequency selection units, each frequency selection unit having a bandpass characteristic, wherein each of the one or more frequency selection units comprises a conductive grid and a conductor located in the conductive grid, wherein the conductor and the corresponding conductive grid are electrically coupled with a gap in between, so that the corresponding frequency selection unit has the bandpass characteristic,
a feeding part, wherein the feeding part is coupled to the radiation part, and is configured to feed power to the radiation part, and
wherein the radiation part is to excite coupling currents that appear in a plurality of pairs when a high-frequency signal passes through, wherein each pair of coupling currents cancels each other;

where an operating frequency of the second antenna is a frequency of the high-frequency signal, an operating frequency of the first antenna is lower than the operating frequency of the second antenna, and a frequency selection unit in the first antenna has a bandpass characteristic to the operating frequency of the second antenna, and wherein every two pairs of coupling currents excited on the radiation part are formed in one of the one or more frequency selection units, wherein in each pair of coupling currents, one current is formed in the conductor of the frequency selection unit, and the other current is formed in the conductive grid of the frequency selection unit.

16. The antenna array according to claim 15 , wherein a minimum distance between a radiation part of the first antenna and at least a part of a radiation part of the second antenna is less than or equal to 0.5 times a vacuum wavelength corresponding to an operating band of the first antenna.

17. A communications device, comprising:
an antenna array, wherein the antenna array comprises:
at first antenna; and
at second antenna;
wherein at least one of first antenna or the second antenna comprises:
a radiation part including one or more frequency selection units, each frequency selection unit having a bandpass characteristic, wherein each of the one or more frequency selection units comprises a conductive grid and a conductor located in the conductive grid, wherein the conductor and the corresponding conductive grid are electrically coupled with a gap in between, so that the corresponding frequency selection unit has the bandpass characteristic,
a feeding part, wherein the feeding part is coupled to the radiation part, and is configured to feed power to the radiation part, and
wherein the radiation part is to excite coupling currents that appear in a plurality of pairs when a high-frequency signal passes through, wherein each pair of coupling currents cancels each other, wherein every two pair

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Luo Bing
• Li Jianping
• Qin Wenfei

Classifications

• H01Q21/30

  Combinations of separate antenna units operating in different wavebands and connected to a common feeder system · CPC title

• H01Q21/062

  using dipole aerials; (H01Q21/067, H01Q21/068 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01Q1/521

  reducing the coupling between adjacent antennas · CPC title

• H01Q9/285

  Planar dipole (H01Q9/065 takes precedence; patch antenna H01Q9/0407) · CPC title

• H01Q5/42

  using two or more imbricated arrays (H01Q5/49 takes precedence) · CPC title