This application claims the priority benefit of Chinese Patent Application Serial Number 202310559434.4, filed on May 17, 2023, the full disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of wireless communication, in particular to a dual-frequency antenna.
The antenna used to send and receive radio frequency signals is one of the most important components in a wireless communication device. In order to obtain better communication quality, the wireless communication device usually adopts a dipole antenna with the good antenna characteristic and an omnidirectional radiation pattern.
With the rapid development of radio frequency technology, the dipole antenna disposed in the wireless communication device needs to support multi-frequency applications. In order to have the dual-frequency operation characteristic, the structural design of most dipole antennas is usually relatively complicated, which results in the fact that the radiation pattern of the dipole antenna cannot achieve a good omnidirectional effect, or the overall size of the dipole antenna is large, which does not meet the development requirements of light, thin, short, and small for the wireless communication device.
Therefore, how to provide a miniaturized dual-frequency antenna with an omnidirectional radiation pattern is a problem that those skilled in the art need to solve.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a dual-frequency antenna, which can solve the problem that the existing dipole antenna with the dual-frequency operation characteristic cannot have a good omnidirectional radiation pattern or have larger overall size due to its complex structural design.
In order to solve the above-mentioned technical problems, the present disclosure is implemented as follows:
The present disclosure provides a dual-frequency antenna including a dielectric carrier plate, a first radiator, a second radiator, a coupling radiator and a coaxial cable. The dielectric carrier plate includes a first surface; the first radiator, the second radiator and the coupling radiator are disposed on the first surface; the coupling radiator is located between the first radiator and the second radiator, and the coupling radiator is spaced apart from the first radiator and the second radiator respectively on the first surface. The coaxial cable includes an inner conductor, a first insulating layer, an outer conductor and a second insulating layer. The first insulating layer covers a part of a surface of the inner conductor to make one end of the inner conductor exposed, and the inner conductor, which is exposed, is electrically connected to the first radiation. The outer conductor covers a part of a surface of the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer covers a part of a surface of the outer conductor to make a portion of the outer conductor exposed, and the outer conductor, which is exposed, is electrically connected to the second radiator. The inner conductor is electrically connected to the first radiator, and the outer conductor is electrically connected to the second radiator, so that the first radiator and the second radiator generate a first resonance mode, and the coupling radiator is coupled with the first radiator and the second radiator respectively to generate a second resonance mode, wherein a center frequency of the second resonance mode is greater than a center frequency of the first resonance mode.
In the dual-frequency antenna of the embodiment of the present disclosure, the first radiator, the second radiator and the coupling radiator are spaced apart on the first surface of the dielectric carrier plate, the coupling radiator is located between the first radiator and the second radiator, the inner conductor of the coaxial cable is electrically connected to the first radiator, and the outer conductor of the coaxial cable is electrically connected to the second radiator, so that the first radiator and the second radiator generate the first resonance mode, the coupling radiator is coupled with the first radiator and the second radiator respectively and generates a second resonance mode different from the first resonance mode. Therefore, the dual-frequency antenna of the embodiment of the present disclosure can achieve the omnidirectional radiation characteristic and meet the requirements of dual-frequency communication while reducing the overall size, and has a simple structure and the characteristic of easy processing, and can be applied to different wireless communication devices.
Accompanying drawings described herein are intended to provide a further understanding of the present disclosure and form a part of the present disclosure, and exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure and descriptions thereof are intended to explain the present disclosure but are not intended to unduly limit the present disclosure. In the drawings:
The embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below in conjunction with the relevant drawings. In the figures, the same reference numbers refer to the same or similar components or method flows.
It must be understood that the words “including”, “comprising” and the like used in this specification are used to indicate the existence of specific technical features, values, method steps, work processes, elements and/or components. However, it does not exclude that more technical features, values, method steps, work processes, elements, components, or any combination of the above can be added.
It must be understood that when an element is described as being “connected” or “coupled” to another element, it may be directly connected or coupled to another element, and intermediate elements therebetween may be present. In contrast, when an element is described as “directly connected” or “directly coupled” to another element, there is no intervening element therebetween.
In addition, although the terms such as “first”, “second”, etc., are used herein to describe different elements or operations, these terms are only used to distinguish elements or operations described with the same technical terms.
Besides, for convenience of description, spatially relative terms such as “below”, “under”, “above”, “over”, etc., may be used herein to describe the relationship between one element or feature and another (one or more) element(s) or feature(s) as shown in the figures.
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In this embodiment, the dielectric carrier plate 11 comprises a first surface 111 and a second surface 112 opposite to each other. The first radiator 12, the second radiator 13 and the coupling radiator 14 are disposed on the first surface 111. The coupling radiator 14 is located between the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13, and the coupling radiator 14 is spaced apart from the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13 on the first surface 111. That is to say, the first radiator 12, the second radiator 13 and the coupling radiator 14 are disposed on the same surface of the dielectric carrier plate 11 (i.e., the first surface 111). Therefore, the dielectric carrier plate 11 can be but not limited to a single-sided board, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost of the dual-frequency antenna 1; meanwhile, the dual-frequency antenna 1 can be disposed in a wireless communication device by setting an adhesive layer on the second surface 112, and the adhesive layer does not affect the radiation characteristic of the dual-frequency antenna 1.
In this embodiment, the coupling radiator 14, the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13 can be planar structures respectively. Specifically, the coupling radiator 14, the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13 may respectively be rectangular planar structures disposed on the first surface 111, but this embodiment is not intended to limit the present disclosure. For example, the coupling radiator 14, the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13 can be any geometric planar structures respectively arranged on the first surface 111; or, the coupling radiator 14, the first radiator 12 and/or the second radiator 13 can be three-dimensional structures respectively (that is, in addition to the planar structure disposed on the first surface 111, the coupling radiator 14, the first radiator 12 and/or the second radiator 13 can further comprise radiation branches extending away from the first surface 111).
The coupling radiator 14, the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13 can be planar structures respectively, the first radiator 12, the second radiator 13 and the coupling radiator 14 are disposed on the same surface of the dielectric carrier plate 11, and the first radiator 12, the second radiator 13 and the coupling radiator 14 can all be made of metal materials, so that the coupling radiator 14, the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13 can be disposed on the first surface 111 by patching or printing, and the processing is easy.
In this embodiment, the coaxial cable 15 comprises an inner conductor 151, a first insulating layer 152, an outer conductor 153 and a second insulating layer 154, wherein the first insulating layer 152 covers a part of the surface of the inner conductor 151 to make one end of the inner conductor 151 exposed, and the exposed inner conductor 151 is electrically connected to the first radiator 12; the outer conductor 153 covers a part of the surface of the first insulating layer 152; the second insulating layer 154 covers a part of the surface of the outer conductor 153 to make a portion of the outer conductor 153 exposed, and the exposed outer conductor 153 is electrically connected to the second radiator 13. The inner conductor 151 can be but not limited to a silver-plated copper conductor, the first insulating layer 152 can be but not limited to a polytetrafluoroethylene insulating layer, the outer conductor 153 can be but not limited to a silver-plated copper wrapping layer, and the second insulating layer 154 can be but not limited to a polyvinyl chloride insulating layer. The exposed outer conductor 153 and the exposed first insulating layer 152 can be separated by a distance. The exposed inner conductor 151 is electrically connected to the first radiator 12 by welding and the exposed outer conductor 153 is electrically connected to the second radiator 13 by welding (that is, the exposed inner conductor 151 is electrically connected to the first radiator 12 through the soldering metal 50, and the exposed outer conductor 153 is electrically connected to the second radiator 13 through the soldering metal 50).
In this embodiment, the inner conductor 151 is electrically connected to the first radiator 12, and the outer conductor 153 is electrically connected to the second radiator 13, so that the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13 generate a first resonance mode (that is, the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13 are excited by the coaxial cable 15 to generate the first resonance mode), the coupling radiator 14 is respectively coupled with the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13 to generate a second resonance mode, and the center frequency of the second resonance mode is greater than the center frequency of the first resonance mode. The center frequency of the first resonance mode may be but not limited to 2.45 GHz, and the center frequency of the second resonance mode may be but not limited to 5.5 GHz (that is, the operation frequency band of the dual-frequency antenna 1 may be but not limited to limited to 2.45G frequency band and 5.5G frequency band). The first resonance mode can be a half-wavelength resonance mode (that is, a length L between the end of the first radiator 12 away from the coupling radiator 14 and the end of the second radiator 13 away from the coupling radiator 14 on the first surface 111 is one-half of the first wavelength). Since the inner conductor 151 of the coaxial cable 15 generate an inductance effect, the length L1 of the first radiator 12 on the first surface 111 and the length L2 of the second radiator 13 on the first surface 111 can be reduced.
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It can be seen from the above that the dual-frequency antenna 1 can achieve the omnidirectional radiation characteristic and meet the requirements of dual-frequency communication while reducing the overall size compared to the dipole antenna 2, and has a simple structure and the characteristic of easy processing.
In one embodiment, the electrical connection between the inner conductor 151 and the first radiator 12 (i.e., the position of the soldering metal 50 in
In one embodiment, the central frequency of the first resonance mode can be adjusted by the length L between the end of the first radiator 12 away from the coupling radiator 14 and the end of the second radiator 13 away from the coupling radiator 14 on the first surface 111 (that is, the overall length of the dual-frequency antenna 1), and the center frequency of the second resonance mode can be adjusted by a size of a first gap G1 between the coupling radiator 14 and the first radiator 12 on the first surface 111 and a size of a second gap G2 between the coupling radiator 14 and the second radiator 13 on the first surface 111. Specifically, the first radiator 12 and the second radiator 13 can form a dipole antenna, and the operation frequency and center frequency of the first resonance mode can be adjusted by the length L; the first gap G1 and the second gap G2 can be used as two capacitors, and the operation frequency and center frequency of the second resonance mode can be adjusted by the size of the first gap G1 and the size of the second gap G2. That is to say, the operation frequency band of the dual-frequency antenna 1 (i.e., the frequency ratio of the operation frequency of the first resonance mode and the operation frequency of the second resonance mode) can be adjusted according to requirements, so that the dual-frequency antenna 1 can be applied to different wireless communications devices.
In one embodiment, the size of the first gap G1 between the coupling radiator 14 and the first radiator 12 on the first surface 111 can be equal to the second gap G2 between the coupling radiator 14 and the second radiator 13 on the first surface 111. In another embodiment, the size of the first gap G1 between the coupling radiator 14 and the first radiator 12 on the first surface 111 may be different from the size of the second gap G2 between the coupling radiator 14 and the second radiator 13 on the first surface 111. It should be noted that the size adjustments of the first gap G1 and the second gap G2 affect the impedance matching on the second resonance mode.
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In this embodiment, the second radiator 33 comprises an extension section 331 extending toward the first radiator 32, and the coupling radiator 34 comprises a first sub-radiator 341 and a second sub-radiator 342. The first sub-radiator 341 and the second sub-radiator 342 are disposed on the first surface 311, the extension section 331 is disposed between the first sub-radiator 341 and the second sub-radiator 342, and the extension section 331 is spaced apart from the first sub-radiator 341 and the second sub-radiator 342 respectively. The shape of the extension section 331 may be, but not limited to, a triangle, a rectangle or any geometric figure.
In this embodiment, the coaxial cable 35 comprises an inner conductor 351, a first insulating layer 352, an outer conductor 353 and a second insulating layer 354, and the first insulating layer 352 covers a part of the surface of the inner conductor 351 to make one end of the inner conductor 351 exposed, and the exposed inner conductor 351 is electrically connected to the first radiator 32; the outer conductor 353 covers a part of the surface of the first insulating layer 352; the second insulating layer 354 covers a part of the surface of the outer conductor 353 to make a portion of the outer conductor 353 exposed, and the exposed outer conductor 353 is electrically connected to the extension section 331 of the second radiator 33.
In this embodiment, the inner conductor 351 is electrically connected to the first radiator 32, and the outer conductor 353 is electrically connected to the extension section 331 of the second radiator 33, so that the first radiator 32 and the second radiator 33 generate a first resonance mode, the coupling radiator 34 is coupled with the first radiator 32 and the second radiator 33 respectively to generate a second resonance mode, and the center frequency of the second resonance mode is greater than the center frequency of the first resonance mode.
In one embodiment, the extension section 331 and the first radiator 32 are spaced apart from each other on the first surface 311, and the exposed outer conductor 353 is adjacent to the exposed first insulating layer 352. Specifically, the exposed outer conductor 153 of the coaxial cable 15 is separated from the exposed first insulating layer 152 by a distance in
In summary, in the dual-frequency antenna of the present disclosure, the first radiator, the second radiator and the coupling radiator are spaced apart on the first surface of the dielectric carrier plate, the coupling radiator is located between the first radiator and the second radiator, the inner conductor of the coaxial cable is electrically connected to the first radiator, and the outer conductor of the coaxial cable is electrically connected to the second radiator, so that the first radiator and the second radiator generate the first resonance mode, the coupling radiator is coupled with the first radiator and the second radiator respectively and generates a second resonance mode different from the first resonance mode. Therefore, the dual-frequency antenna of the present disclosure can achieve the omnidirectional radiation characteristic and meet the requirements of dual-frequency communication while reducing the overall size, and has a simple structure and the characteristic of easy processing, and can be applied to different wireless communication devices.
While the present disclosure is disclosed in the foregoing embodiments, it should be noted that these descriptions are not intended to limit the present disclosure. On the contrary, the present disclosure covers modifications and equivalent arrangements obvious to those skilled in the art. Therefore, the scope of the claims must be interpreted in the broadest manner to comprise all obvious modifications and equivalent arrangements.
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202310559434.4 | May 2023 | CN | national |