Antenna device including reflector and primary radiator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9312606-B2
Application number	US-201214239529-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 17, 2012
Priority date	Aug 26, 2011
Publication date	Apr 12, 2016
Grant date	Apr 12, 2016

Abstract

An antenna device includes a reflector which forms an offset antenna with a portion of a rotational paraboloid being cut out, and a primary radiator which radiates a beam having an elliptical cone shape to an aperture plane of the reflector. A reflector contour of the aperture plane of the reflector is formed in an elliptical shape along an isolux line of an elliptical beam radiated from the primary radiator. Accordingly, a loss due to spillover of the reflector is compensated for in a space in which the reflector contour of the present embodiment protrudes from a general reflector contour having a virtual elliptical shape formed to be perpendicular to an axis of a beam incident on an aperture plane of the reflector. In a space in which the general reflector contour protrudes from the reflector contour of the present embodiment, degradation of illuminance efficiency of the reflector is compensated.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An antenna device of a single beam scheme, comprising:
a reflector configured to form an offset antenna with a portion of a rotational paraboloid being cut out; and
a primary radiator configured to radiate a beam having an elliptical cone shape to an aperture plane of the reflector,
wherein a contour of the aperture plane of the reflector is formed along an isolux line of the beam having the elliptical cone shape radiated from the primary radiator,
wherein:
when a contour formed in the aperture plane of the reflector along the isolux line of the beam having an elliptical cone shape radiated from the primary radiator is a first contour, and a virtual elliptical contour formed to be perpendicular to an axis of the beam incident on the aperture plane of the reflector is a second contour,
a space in which the first contour protrudes from the second contour is a space which compensates for a loss due to spillover of the reflector.

2. An antenna device of a single beam scheme, comprising:
a reflector configured to form an offset antenna with a portion of a rotational paraboloid being cut out;
a sub-reflector configured to radiate a beam having an elliptical cone shape to an aperture plane of the reflector; and
a primary radiator configured to radiate a beam having any shape to the sub-reflector,
wherein a contour of the aperture plane of the reflector is formed along an isolux line of the beam having an elliptical cone shape radiated from the sub-reflector,

wherein:
when a contour formed in the aperture plane of the reflector along the isolux line of the beam having an elliptical cone shape radiated from the primary radiator is a first contour, and a virtual elliptical contour formed to be perpendicular to an axis of the beam incident on the aperture plane of the reflector is a second contour,
a space in which the first contour protrudes from the second contour is a space which compensates for a loss due to spillover of the reflector.

3. The antenna device according to claim 2 , wherein:
the primary radiator radiates the beam having an elliptical cone shape to the sub-reflector, and
a contour of the aperture plane of the sub-reflector is formed along an isolux line of the beam having an elliptical cone shape radiated from the primary radiator.

4. The antenna device claim 1 , wherein the contour of the aperture plane of the reflector is formed along an isolux line of −12 dB when an illuminance of a central portion of the beam having an elliptical cone shape radiated from the primary radiator is 0 dB.

5. The antenna device according to claim 1 , wherein a space in which the second contour protrudes from the first contour is a space which compensates for degradation of illuminance efficiency of the reflector.

6. The antenna device according to claim 1 , wherein, in each of an ellipse of the first contour and an ellipse of the second contour, a ratio of a horizontal width and a vertical width is substantially 2:1.

7. The antenna device according to claim 1 , wherein a central axis of the beam having an elliptical cone shape radiated from the primary radiator to the aperture plane of the reflector forms a predetermined angle with a rotational axis of the rotational paraboloid.

8. The antenna device according to claim 1 , wherein the beam having an elliptical cone shape radiated from the primary radiator to the aperture plane of the reflector exhibits an ideal Gaussian distribution characteristic.

9. The antenna device according to claim 1 , being used for a point-to-point communication system including a mobile backhaul.

Assignees

• Tanabe Kosuke
• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Tanabe Kosuke

Classifications

• H01Q19/192

  with dual offset reflectors · CPC title

• H01Q15/16 Primary

  curved in two dimensions [2D], e.g. paraboloidal · CPC title

• H01Q19/13

  the primary radiating source being a single radiating element, e.g. a dipole, a slot, a waveguide termination (H01Q19/15 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01Q19/026

  for reducing the primary feed spill-over · CPC title

• H01Q19/132

  Horn reflector antennas; Off-set feeding · CPC title