Undersampled microstrip array using multilevel and space-filling shaped elements
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
H01Q-001/38
H01Q-021/00
H01Q-001/48
H01Q-001/00
출원번호
US-0036511
(2005-01-12)
등록번호
US-7310065
(2007-12-18)
발명자
/ 주소
Anguera Pros,Jaume
Puente Baliarda,Carles
Borja Borau,Maria Carmen
출원인 / 주소
Fractus, S.A.
대리인 / 주소
Winstead PC
인용정보
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18
초록▼
An undersampled microstrip array using multilevel and space-filling shaped patch elements based on a fractal geometry achieves within the same electrical area, the same directivity than can be obtained using conventional elements as square or circular-shaped patches. However, the number of elements
An undersampled microstrip array using multilevel and space-filling shaped patch elements based on a fractal geometry achieves within the same electrical area, the same directivity than can be obtained using conventional elements as square or circular-shaped patches. However, the number of elements for the fractal-based array is less, reducing the complexity of the feeding network and overall array. Mutual coupling can be reduced avoiding radiation pattern distortions. Higher gain than that obtained using classical patch elements within the same electrical can be achieved due to the less complexity in the feeding network.
대표청구항▼
The invention claimed is: 1. An antenna array comprising: patch antenna elements having one of the following shapes: multilevel, space-fillings, or multilevel and space-filling; the patch antenna elements being adapted to operate at a superior frequency mode, the superior frequency mode being at a
The invention claimed is: 1. An antenna array comprising: patch antenna elements having one of the following shapes: multilevel, space-fillings, or multilevel and space-filling; the patch antenna elements being adapted to operate at a superior frequency mode, the superior frequency mode being at a frequency of a fundamental mode of the patch antenna elements; the patch antenna elements featuring a higher directivity when operating at the superior frequency mode than the directivity obtained when the patch antenna elements operate at the fundamental mode; the patch antenna elements being larger than half of a wavelength, the wavelength being an operating wavelength of the antenna as measured in a dielectric located between at least one patch antenna element and its compounding groundplane; and the patch antenna elements being spaced in at least one direction at a distance larger than λ from closest neighbors, λ being a free-space operating wavelength of the antenna array. 2. The antenna array of claim 1, wherein the patch antenna elements are disposed along a line forming a linear array arrangement. 3. The antenna array of claim 1, wherein the patch antenna elements are arranged over a rectangular grid. 4. The antenna array of claim 1, wherein the patch antenna elements are arranged over a circular grid. 5. The antenna array of claim 1, wherein spacing between the patch antenna elements is non-uniform. 6. The antenna array of claim 1, wherein said antenna array operates at several frequencies where the minimum separation between the patch antenna elements is larger than λ at the lowest operating frequency, λ being the wavelength defined at said lowest free-space operating frequency. 7. The antenna array claim 1, wherein the number of patch multilevel or space-filling elements is smaller compared to patch arrays using classical Euclidean patches yet featuring a similar directivity. 8. The antenna array of claim 1, wherein the patch antenna elements are a combination of at least two different multilevel or space-filling shaped patch elements. 9. The antenna array of claim 1, wherein at least one element is a stacked structure formed by one active patch and at least one parasitic patch using multilevel or space-filling shaped geometries. 10. The antenna array of claim 1, wherein the patch antenna elements spacing is larger than λ in one direction but less than λ in the perpendicular direction, wherein said antenna array is formed by multilevel or space-filling shaped patches. 11. The antenna array of claim 1 disposed on a device configured to operate in a communications network. 12. The antenna array of claim 11, wherein the device is a satellite. 13. The antenna array of claim 1, wherein the dielectric is selected from the group consisting of: glass-fibre board, Teflon based substrates, other standard radio-frequency and microwave substrates, and air. 14. An antenna array comprising: patch antenna elements having one of the following shapes: multilevel, space-filling, or multilevel and space-filling; the patch antenna elements being larger than half of a wavelength, the wavelength being an operating wavelength of the antenna as measured in a dielectric located between at least one patch antenna element and its compounding groundplane; the patch antenna elements being spaced at a distance larger than λ from closest neighbors, λ being a free-space operating wavelength of the antenna array; and wherein the patch antenna elements spacing is larger than λ in one direction but less than λ in the perpendicular direction, wherein the antenna array is formed by multilevel or space-filling shaped patches.
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