The disclosure relates to a dish antenna, and more particularly, to a multiple polarized dish antenna.
At present, a common dish antenna is mainly formed by a single polarized antenna or a dual polarized antenna. With the development of science and technology, a user's requirements on performance of communication devices are gradually increasing. How to further improve the antenna performance of the communication device is one of the directions that researchers in the art are striving for.
The disclosure provides a multiple polarized dish antenna, which may have multiple polarization directions, so that the multiple polarized dish antenna in the disclosure may receive signals from different directions, thereby improving antenna performance.
A multiple polarized dish antenna in the disclosure includes a main dish reflector and a multiple polarized antenna source. The main dish reflector includes an inner concave surface. The multiple polarized antenna source is at least partially disposed beside the inner concave surface. The inner concave surface of the main dish reflector reflects a radiation energy emitted by the multiple polarized antenna source. The multiple polarized antenna source includes a carrier, at least one radiator, and multiple feeding portions. The carrier has a conductive layer. The at least one radiator is disposed above the carrier, and a resonance gap is between the at least one radiator and the conductive layer. The feeding portions are disposed beside the at least one radiator. A projection of each of the feeding portions on a plane where the corresponding radiator is located is at least partially overlapped with the radiator. Each of the feeding portions is insulated from the conductive layer. A number of the feeding portions is greater than 2.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the at least one radiator is one radiator. The feeding portions are disposed below the radiator. Each of the feeding portions is at least partially shielded below the radiator. The multiple polarized dish antenna includes at least one ground portion disposed on the carrier and electrically connected to the conductive layer.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the at least one radiator includes multiple radiators disposed perpendicular to the carrier. A number of the radiators is greater than 2. The feeding portions correspond to the radiators respectively. Each of the feeding portions includes a microstrip line. The multiple polarized dish antenna resonates at an antenna frequency band. Each of the radiators is a dipole antenna. A length of each of the radiators is 0.5 times a wavelength of the antenna frequency band, and a height is between 0.25 times the wavelength and 0.5 times the wavelength.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the multiple polarized dish antenna resonates at an antenna frequency band, and a distance between the carrier and the at least one radiator is 0.08 times a wavelength to 0.5 times the wavelength of the antenna frequency band.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the multiple polarized dish antenna resonates at an antenna frequency band. A diameter of the main dish reflector is between 5 times a wavelength and 10 times the wavelength of the antenna frequency band, and a height of the main dish reflector on an axis passing through a center of the inner concave surface is between 1 times a wavelength and 5 times the wavelength of the antenna frequency band.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the multiple polarized dish antenna further includes a secondary reflector disposed beside the inner concave surface. The at least one radiator faces the secondary reflector, and the radiation energy emitted by the multiple polarized antenna source is reflected by the secondary reflector to the inner concave surface, and is reflected by the inner concave surface.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the main dish reflector includes an axis passing through a center of the inner concave surface. The multiple polarized antenna source is located at the center of the inner concave surface, and the secondary reflector is located on the axis.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the secondary reflector includes a reflective convex surface, and the reflective convex surface faces the inner concave surface and the multiple polarized antenna source.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the secondary reflector includes a reflective concave surface, and the reflective concave surface faces the inner concave surface and the multiple polarized antenna source.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the multiple polarized dish antenna resonates at an antenna frequency band, and a farthest distance between the secondary reflector and a center of the inner concave surface of the main dish reflector is a square of a diameter of the main dish reflector/(16*a height of the main dish reflector on an axis passing through the center).
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the multiple polarized dish antenna further includes a hollow waveguide member surrounding at least a portion of the multiple polarized antenna source, and a height of the hollow waveguide member protruding from the inner concave surface is greater than a height of the at least one radiator protruding from the inner concave surface.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the multiple polarized dish antenna resonates at an antenna frequency band. A diameter of the hollow waveguide member is between 0.5 times a wavelength and 5 times the wavelength of the antenna frequency band. A height of the hollow waveguide member is between 0.5 times the wavelength and 5 times the wavelength of the antenna frequency band.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the multiple polarized antenna source is located on a focal point of the inner concave surface, and the at least one radiator faces the inner concave surface.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the main dish reflector includes an axis passing through a center of the inner concave surface. The multiple polarized antenna source is located on the axis.
In an embodiment of the disclosure, the multiple polarized dish antenna further includes a hollow waveguide member at least surrounding the at least one radiator. The multiple polarized dish antenna resonates at an antenna frequency band. A diameter of the hollow waveguide member is between 0.5 times a wavelength and 5 times the wavelength of the antenna frequency band. A height of the hollow waveguide is between 0.5 times the wavelength and 5 times the wavelength of the antenna frequency band.
Based on the above, the multiple polarized antenna source of the multiple polarized dish antenna in the disclosure is at least partially disposed beside the inner concave surface of the main dish reflector. The inner concave surface of the main dish reflector reflects the radiation energy emitted by the multiple polarized antenna source. The resonance gap is between the radiator of the multiple polarized antenna source and the conductive layer. The projection of the feeding portion on the plane where the corresponding radiator is located is at least partially overlapped with the radiator, and the number of the feeding portions is greater than two. Through the above configuration, the multiple polarized dish antenna in the disclosure may have the multiple polarized performance to receive the signals from different directions, thereby improving the antenna performance.
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The multiple polarized dish antenna 100 in this embodiment includes the main dish reflector 110 and a multiple polarized antenna source 120. The main dish reflector 110 includes an inner concave surface 111 and an axis L passing through a center C of the inner concave surface 111. The inner concave surface 111 is configured to reflect a radiation energy emitted by the multiple polarized antenna source 120.
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The multiple polarized antenna source 120 includes a carrier 121, at least one radiator 122, and multiple feeding portions 123. The carrier 121 has a conductive layer 1211, and the carrier 121 is located behind the main dish reflector 110. Specifically, the carrier 121 is not located in a direction facing the inner concave surface 111 (for example, a Z-axis direction in
In addition, the carrier 121 may be a casing, an internal structure, or other suitable parts of a communication device, so as to provide the radiator 122 and the feeding portion 123. A material of the carrier 121 is, for example, an insulating substrate material of a printed circuit board, plastic, a ceramic material, or other suitable materials, but the disclosure is not limited thereto.
The at least one radiator 122 is one radiator 122, and is disposed above the carrier 121 (with the Z-axis in the drawing as the top). A resonance gap G (
The feeding portions 123 are disposed beside the at least one radiator 122, and a projection of each of the feeding portions 123 on a plane where the corresponding radiator 122 is located is at least partially overlapped with the radiator 122. Specifically, as shown in
Each of the feeding portions 123 is insulated from the conductive layer 1211. The number of the feeding portions 123 is greater than two. In this embodiment, the number of the feeding portions 123 is four, and as shown in
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In addition, the multiple polarized dish antenna 100 in this embodiment includes at least one ground portion 130 disposed on the carrier 121 and electrically connected to the conductive layer 1211. Specifically, the at least one ground portion 130 in this embodiment is four columnar ground portions 130, and each of the ground portions 130 is disposed corresponding to the feeding portion 123. The ground portions 130 of the multiple polarized dish antenna 100 in this embodiment may be used as an isolation mechanism between the feeding portions 123 to reduce resonance interference between the four feeding portions 123 and the radiator 122 respectively, thereby improving isolation between the four feeding portions 123.
The multiple polarized dish antenna 100 in this embodiment further includes a secondary reflector 140. The secondary reflector 140 includes a reflective convex surface 141. Referring to
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The multiple polarized dish antenna 100 in this embodiment further includes the hollow waveguide member 150 surrounding at least a portion of the multiple polarized antenna source 120. As shown in
In addition, a diameter d of the hollow waveguide member 150 in this embodiment is between 0.5 times the wavelength and 5 times the wavelength of the antenna frequency band, and a height h of the hollow waveguide member 150 is between 0.5 times the wavelength and 5 times the wavelength of the antenna frequency band.
Through experiments, the multiple polarized dish antenna 100 in this embodiment has characteristics such as a good bandwidth ratio (greater than 40%), high gain, small beam pointing deviation (a deviation angle less than 1 degree), and good antenna isolation (the isolation greater than 10 dB) in the same frequency band. Therefore, the multiple polarized dish antenna 100 in this embodiment has good antenna performance.
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The multiple polarized antenna source 120a of the multiple polarized dish antenna 100a in this embodiment includes a carrier 121a, at least one radiator 122a, and multiple feeding portions 123a. The carrier 121a has a conductive layer 1211a. The at least one radiator 122a includes multiple radiators and is disposed on the carrier 121a. The radiators 122a may be disposed perpendicular to the carrier 121a, and the radiators 122a are disposed on multiple printed circuit boards 124a. In addition, the number of the radiators is greater than two. In this embodiment, the number of the radiators 122a is, for example, four, but the disclosure is not limited thereto.
Each of the radiators 122a is a dipole antenna and includes two symmetrical sub-radiators 122a′. The two sub-radiators 122a′ are located on the same plane, so that each of the radiators 122a has a T-shaped appearance. A length d′ (
The feeding portions 123a are disposed beside the radiators 122a corresponding to the radiators 122a, and a projection of each of the feeding portions 123a on a plane where the corresponding radiator 122a is located is at least partially overlapped with the radiator 122a. The number of the feeding portions 123a is also, for example, four, but the disclosure is not limited thereto. It should be noted that the feeding portion 123a is adapted to feed signals into the radiator 122a, but the feeding portion 123a is not connected to the radiator 122a.
In addition, the feeding portions 123a include a microstrip line 1231a. The multiple polarized dish antenna 100a in this embodiment is fed through the microstrip line 1231a for antenna impedance matching. In other embodiments, coplanar waveguide or grounded coplanar waveguide (CPW or CPWG) may also be used as antenna impedance matching. However, the disclosure is not limited thereto.
Through the above configuration, the multiple polarized dish antenna 100a in this embodiment may also have the multiple polarized performance to receive the signals from different directions, thereby improving the antenna performance.
In addition, through the experiments, the multiple polarized dish antenna 100a in this embodiment also has the characteristics such as the good bandwidth ratio (greater than 40%), high gain, and small beam pointing deviation (the deviation angle less than 1 degree) in the same frequency band, and has the good antenna performance.
In addition, it should be noted that the multiple polarized antenna source in the disclosure is not limited to the structures of the multiple polarized antenna source 120 in the first embodiment and the multiple polarized antenna source 120a in the second embodiment. That is, in other embodiments, the structure of the multiple polarized antenna source may be different from the structures of the multiple polarized antenna sources 120 and 120a, as long as the multiple polarized antenna source has a structure that may generate a multiple polarized mode.
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Both the multiple polarized dish antennas 100c and 100d in the fourth embodiment and the fifth embodiment do not have the secondary reflector, and the radiators 122 both face the inner concave surface 111. When the multiple polarized antenna source 120 in the fourth embodiment and the fifth embodiment emits the radiation energy toward the inner concave surface 111, the radiation energy is directly reflected by the inner concave surface 111 to the outside.
It should be supplemented that the multiple polarized dish antennas 100, 100b, 100c, and 100d in the first embodiment, the third embodiment, the fourth embodiment, and the fifth embodiment all have good antenna performance. The Cassegrain antenna of the multiple polarized dish antenna 100 in the first embodiment has the least beam pointing deviation.
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Based on the above, the multiple polarized antenna source of the multiple polarized dish antenna in the disclosure is at least partially disposed beside the inner concave surface of the main dish reflector. The inner concave surface of the main dish reflector reflects the radiation energy emitted by the multiple polarized antenna source. The resonance gap is between the radiator of the multiple polarized antenna source and the conductive layer. The projection of the feeding portion on the plane where the corresponding radiator is located is at least partially overlapped with the radiator, and the number of the feeding portions is greater than two. Through the above configuration, the multiple polarized dish antenna in the disclosure may have the multiple polarized performance to receive the signals from different directions, thereby improving the antenna performance. In addition, the multiple polarized dish antenna in the disclosure has the characteristics such as the good bandwidth ratio, high gain, small beam pointing deviation, and good antenna isolation.
This application claims the priority benefit of U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 63/435,809, filed on Dec. 29, 2022. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.
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63435809 | Dec 2022 | US |