Array antenna of mobile terminal and implementing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9099784-B2
Application number	US-201113976700-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 13, 2011
Priority date	Dec 27, 2010
Publication date	Aug 4, 2015
Grant date	Aug 4, 2015

Abstract

An antenna array of a mobile terminal and an implementing method thereof are disclosed in this document. The antenna array includes: a mobile terminal floorboard, configured to act as a radiation body to radiate antenna energy coupled by multiple pairs of coupling units, and multiple pairs of coupling units corresponding to multiple antennas, each of which are fixed at two ends of the mobile terminal floorboard and are configured to inspire a waveguide mode of the mobile terminal floorboard to radiate the coupled antenna energy through feed points of feed lines of each coupling unit therein, located at the same side of a dielectric material plate; and a matching circuit located at the other side of the dielectric material plate, connected with the feed points located at the opposite side of the dielectric material plate and configured to implement impedance matching of a micro-strip feed line of each coupling unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An antenna array of a mobile terminal, comprising a mobile terminal floorboard and multiple pairs of coupling units corresponding to multiple antennas located at a same side of a dielectric material plate, and a matching circuit located at another side of the dielectric material plate, wherein:
the mobile terminal floorboard is configured to: act as a radiation body to radiate antenna energy coupled by multiple coupling units;
each pair of coupling units include two coupling units, the two coupling units are respectively fixed at two ends of the mobile terminal floorboard, and each coupling unit is configured to: inspire a waveguide mode of the mobile terminal floorboard to radiate the coupled antenna energy through feed points of feed lines of each coupling unit; and
the matching circuit is connected with the feed points located at the other side of the dielectric material plate, and the matching circuit is configured to: implement impedance matching of the feed lines of each coupling unit.

2. The antenna array according to claim 1 , wherein, each pair of coupling units are fixed at front and rear ends and/or top and bottom ends of the mobile terminal floorboard through the feed points of the feed lines of each of the two coupling units contained by each pair of coupling units, each coupling unit is a vertically folded metal patch, and the two coupling units in each pair of coupling units are in a same frequency range, corresponding to a low-frequency range or a high-frequency range, and are placed in diagonal positions of the mobile terminal floorboard.

3. The antenna array according to claim 2 , further comprising: a decoupling structure with a polygon shape corroded from a surface of the mobile terminal floorboard close to a coupling unit corresponding to the high-frequency range.

4. The antenna array according to claim 3 , wherein, the decoupling structure has a rectangle polygon shape, the rectangle polygon comprises a third long side, a third wide side, an inner long side, an inner wide side and a spacing between the rectangle polygon shape and the mobile terminal floorboard formed by the rectangle polygon shape, and further comprises an outer long side, an outer wide side, and a horizontal distance and a longitudinal distance located at the mobile terminal floorboard with a positional relation in regard to the mobile terminal floorboard.

5. The antenna array according to claim 4 , wherein,
a matching circuit of the coupling unit corresponding to the low-frequency range comprises lumped elements: a first capacitance, a first inductance and a third inductance connected serially with an input port introduced by the feed points of the feed lines of the coupling unit itself, a second inductance is connected in parallel between a connection point of the first inductance and the third inductance and the coupling unit, 5 and another end of the third inductance is connected with the coupling unit;
a matching circuit of the coupling unit corresponding to the high-frequency range comprises lumped elements: a second capacitance, a fourth inductance and a third capacitance connected serially with an input port introduced by the feed points of the feed lines of the coupling unit itself, a fifth inductance is connected in parallel between a connection point of the fourth inductance and the third capacitance and the coupling unit, and another end of the third capacitance is connected with the coupling unit.

6. The antenna array according to claim 3 , wherein,
a matching circuit of the coupling unit corresponding to the low-frequency range comprises lumped elements: a first capacitance, a first inductance and a third Inductance connected serially with an input port introduced by the feed points of the feed lines of the coupling unit itself, a second inductance is connected in parallel between a connection point of the first inductance and the third inductance and the coupling unit, and another end of the third inductance is connected with the coupling unit:
a matching circuit of the coupling unit corresponding to the high-frequency range comprises lumped elements: a second capacitance, a fourth inductance and a third capacitance connected serially with an input port introduced by the feed points of the feed lines of the coupling unit itself, a fifth inductance is connected in parallel between a connection point of the fourth inductance and the third capacitance and the coupling unit, and another end of the third capacitance is connected with the coupling unit.

7. The antenna array according to claim 2 , wherein, each coupling unit is a vertically folded rectangle metal patch;
a coupling unit corresponding to the low-frequency range is a first coupling unit, and the first coupling unit comprises a first long side, a first short side, a first broadside and a first horizontal spacing of the first coupling unit exceeding the mobile terminal floorboard; a coupling unit corresponding to the high-frequency range is a second coupling unit, and the second coupling unit comprises a second long side, a second short side, a second broadside and a second horizontal spacing of the second coupling unit exceeding the mobile terminal floorboard; a spacing exists between the first coupling unit and 5 the second coupling unit located at the same side; feed points of feed lines of the first coupling unit and feed points of feed lines of the second coupling unit are respectively located at the dielectric material plate.

8. The antenna array according to claim 7 , wherein,
a matching circuit of the coupling unit corresponding to the low-frequency range comprises lumped elements: a first capacitance, a first inductance and a third inductance connected serially with an input port introduced by the feed points of the feed lines of the coupling unit itself, a second inductance is connected in parallel between a connection point of the first inductance and the third inductance and the coupling unit, and another end of the third inductance is connected with the coupling unit;
a matching circuit of the coupling unit corresponding to the high-frequency range comprises lumped elements: a second capacitance, a fourth inductance and a third capacitance connected serially with an input port introduced by the feed points of the feed lines of the coupling unit itself, a fifth inductance is connected in parallel between a connection point of the fourth inductance and the third capacitance and the coupling unit, and another end of the third capacitance is connected with the coupling unit.

9. The antenna array according to claim 2 , wherein,
a matching circuit of the coupling unit corresponding to the low-frequency range comprises lumped elements: a first capacitance, a first inductance and a third inductance connected serially with an input port introduced by the feed points of the feed lines of the coupling unit itself, a second inductance is connected in parallel between a connection point of the first inductance and the third inductance and the coupling unit, and another end of the third inductance is connected with the coupling unit;
a matching circuit of the coupling unit corresponding to the high-frequency range comprises lumped elements: a second capacitance, a fourth inductance and a third capacitance connected serially with an input port introduced by the feed points of the feed lines of the coupling unit itself, a fifth inductance is connected in parallel between a connection point of the fourth inductance and the third capacitance and the coupling unit, and another end of the third capacitance is connected with the coupling unit.

10. A method for implementing the antenna array of the mobile terminal according to claim 1 , comprising

Assignees

• Jiang Hui
• Ai Hao
• Zhang Lu
• Liu Ying
• Li Chao
• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Jiang Hui
• Ai Hao
• Zhang Lu
• Liu Ying
• Li Chao

Classifications

• H01Q9/0407

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• H01Q21/29

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• Y10T29/49016

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• H01Q1/243 Primary

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