Quadri-polarized antenna radiator, quadri-polarized antenna and quadri-polarized multi-antenna array

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9698494-B2
Application number	US-201414588000-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 31, 2014
Priority date	Jul 5, 2012
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

A quadri-polarized antenna oscillator, a quadri-polarized antenna, and a quadri-polarized multi-antenna array are provided. The quadri-polarized antenna oscillator comprises four polarized oscillators, wherein midpoints of the four polarized oscillators are coincident; a polarization direction of a first polarized oscillator is a horizontal direction; a polarization direction of a second polarized oscillator is perpendicular to the horizontal direction; a polarization direction of a third polarized oscillator has a 45° angle with the horizontal direction; and a polarization direction of a fourth polarized oscillator has a −45° angle with the horizontal direction. By integrating four polarized oscillators having different polarization directions into one antenna oscillator, the width of the MIMO multi-antenna is reduced, and the horizontal space between two columns of dual-polarized antennas is not required any more, thus the deployment of LTE and 4G networks are favorably implemented without extra space requirement to the top surface of a base station.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A quadri-polarized antenna, comprising:
four linear polarized radiators having coincident midpoints, wherein
the four polarized radiators including a first polarized radiator, a second polarized radiator, a third polarized radiator, and a fourth polarized radiator, wherein:
a polarization direction of the first polarized radiator is a horizontal direction;
a polarization direction of the second polarized radiator is perpendicular to said horizontal direction;
a polarization direction of the third polarized radiator has a 45° angle with said horizontal direction; and
a polarization direction of the fourth polarized radiator has a −45° angle with said horizontal direction, and, wherein
said polarization directions of the first polarized radiator to the fourth polarized radiator correspond to four different polarization directions of said quadri-polarized antenna respectively,
wherein the quadri-polarized antenna is a downlink dual-transmitting multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO system) antenna, a priority level of said third polarized radiator and a priority level of said fourth polarized radiator are the highest and are higher than priority levels of said first and second polarized radiators, and a priority level of said first polarized radiator is the lowest among said four polarized radiators, the priority level of a respective polarized radiator indicating a priority at which the respective polarized radiator transmits data downlink.

2. The quadri-polarized antenna according to claim 1 , wherein:
for an uplink receiving system, each of said polarized radiators is used for uplink reception processing.

3. The quadri-polarized antenna according to claim 1 , wherein:
for a downlink single-transmitting system, the priority level of said second polarized radiator is the highest, and the priority level of said first polarized radiator is the lowest.

4. The quadri-polarized antenna according to claim 1 , wherein:
a spacing distance between two adjacent quadri-polarized antenna radiators is 0.5λ˜1λ when the quantity of said quadri-polarized antenna radiators is greater than 1, wherein λ is a wavelength of a centre frequency point of a frequency band of said antenna.

5. The quadri-polarized antenna according to claim 4 , wherein:
for an uplink receiving system, each of said polarized radiators is used for uplink reception processing.

6. The quadri-polarized antenna according to claim 4 , wherein:
for a downlink single-transmitting system, the priority level of said second polarized radiator is the highest among said polarized radiators, and the priority level of said first polarized antenna is the lowest among said polarized radiators.

7. A quadri-polarized multi-antenna array, comprising at least two horizontally-arranged quadri-polarized antennas, wherein:
each of said quadri-polarized antennas is the quadri-polarized antenna according to claim 1 ; and
a horizontal spacing distance between two adjacent quadri-polarized antennas in the quadri-polarized multi-antenna array is greater than 0.5λ, wherein λ is a wavelength of a centre frequency point of a frequency band of said antennas.

8. The quadri-polarized multi-antenna array according to claim 7 , wherein:
for an uplink receiving system, each of said polarized antennas in the quadri-polarized multi-antenna array is used for uplink reception processing.

9. The quadri-polarized multi-antenna array according to claim 7 , wherein:
for a downlink single-transmitting system, a priority level of said second polarized antenna is the highest among all polarized antennas in the quadri-polarized multi-antenna array, and a priority level of said first polarized antenna is the lowest among all polarized antennas in the quadri-polarized multi-antenna array, the priority level of a respective polarized antenna indicating a priority at which the respective polarized antenna transmits data downlink.

10. The quadri-polarized multi-antenna array according to claim 7 , wherein:
a spacing distance between two adjacent quadri-polarized radiators in each of said quadri-polarized antennas is 0.5λ˜1λ when the quantity of said quadri-polarized radiators in each of said quadri-polarized antennas is greater than 1, wherein λ is a wavelength of a centre frequency point of a frequency band of said antenna.

11. The quadri-polarized multi-antenna array according to claim 10 , wherein:
for an uplink receiving system, each of said polarized antennas is used for uplink reception processing.

12. The quadri-polarized multi-antenna array according to claim 10 , wherein:
for a downlink single-transmitting system, the priority level of said second polarized antenna is the highest among all polarized antennas in the quadri-polarized multi-antenna array, and the priority level of said first polarized antenna is the lowest among all polarized antennas in the quadri-polarized multi-antenna array.

13. The quadri-polarized multi-antenna array according to claim 7 , wherein:
said quadri-polarized antenna array is encapsulated into a physical antenna cover to form single one physical antenna.

Assignees

• China Telecom Co Ltd

Inventors

• Bi Qi
• Xie Weiliang

Classifications

• H01Q1/405

  Radome integrated radiating elements · CPC title

• H01Q1/246

  specially adapted for base stations · CPC title

• H01Q21/28 Primary

  Combinations of substantially independent non-interacting antenna units or systems {(multiple beam H01Q25/00)} · CPC title

• H01Q21/26

  Turnstile or like antennas comprising arrangements of three or more elongated elements disposed radially and symmetrically in a horizontal plane about a common centre · CPC title

• H01Q21/24 Primary

  Combinations of antenna units polarised in different directions for transmitting or receiving circularly and elliptically polarised waves or waves linearly polarised in any direction {(circularly polarised patch antennas H01Q9/0428; circularly polarised horns H01Q13/0241; cross-polarised horns H01Q13/0258; polarisation converters H01Q15/242; cross-polarised rear feeds H01Q19/136; crossed polarisation dual antenna H01Q25/001)} · CPC title