The present application is based on and claims the benefit of priority to Chinese patent application No. 202010542874.5, filed on Jun. 15, 2020, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of wireless communications, and in particular to an ultra-wideband antenna and a device.
In recent years, ultra-wideband technology is gradually applied, which raises a higher requirement for antenna technology. The traditional loop antenna has poor standing wave at some frequency ranges, and thus it is hard to widen the working frequency band thereof.
Embodiments of the present disclosure aim to provide an ultra-wideband antenna and a device, so as to solve the problem that a loop antenna is poor in standing wave at some frequency ranges and it is hard to widen the working frequency band thereof.
In view of the above, the embodiments of the disclosure provide an ultra-wideband antenna and a device. The ultra-wideband antenna includes: a dielectric substrate, a main radiation unit and a feed unit. The feed unit includes a microstrip line feed unit and a grounding plate. The dielectric substrate includes a front surface and a back surface opposite to each other. The main radiation unit and the microstrip line feed unit are arranged on the front surface, and the microstrip line feed unit is electrically connected to the main radiation unit. The grounding plate is arranged on the back surface. At least a part of the feed unit is configured to expand from a preset location to a terminal end of the microstrip line feed unit or a tail part of the grounding plate.
In order to solve the above technical problem, the embodiments of the disclosure also provide a device including the ultra-wideband antenna.
In order to make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of the disclosure clearer, various embodiments of the disclosure are further illustrated in details below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, those of ordinary skills in the art would appreciate that many technical details are provided in the various embodiments of the disclosure in order to enable a reader to better understand the disclosure. However, the technical solution claimed by the disclosure can also be realized even without these technical details and various changes and modifications based on the following embodiments.
It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely used to explain the disclosure and are not intended to limit the disclosure.
In the subsequent description, postfixes such as “module”, “part” or “unit” for representing elements are used merely for facilitating the description of the disclosure, and themselves do not have specified meanings. Therefore, “module”, “part” or “unit” may be used in a mixed manner.
An embodiment of the disclosure provides an ultra-wideband antenna, including a dielectric substrate, a main radiation unit and a feed unit. The feed unit includes a microstrip line feed unit and a grounding plate. The dielectric substrate includes a front surface and a back surface opposite to each other. The main radiation unit and the microstrip line feed unit are arranged on the front surface, and the microstrip line feed unit is electrically connected to the main radiation unit. The grounding plate is arranged on the back surface. At least a part of the feed unit is configured to expand from a preset location to a terminal end of the microstrip line feed unit or a tail part of the grounding plate.
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In some embodiments, the microstrip line feed unit includes a microstrip line, and the grounding plate is a reference ground of the microstrip line.
In some embodiments, the dielectric substrate is a printed circuit board, and the main radiation unit is configured to transmit/receive an electromagnetic wave signal.
In some embodiments, the main radiation unit includes, but not limited to an annulus main radiation unit as shown in
In some embodiments, the preset location may be located on at least one of the microstrip line feed unit and the grounding plate, and the ultra-wideband antenna is constructed in at least one of the following manners: the microstrip line feed unit is configured to expand from the preset location to the bottom; and the grounding plate is configured to expand from the preset location to the bottom.
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In some embodiments, the first location is within the projection region, on the back surface, of a preset length of the microstrip line feed unit in a direction from the initial end to the terminal end, and the preset length includes one third of the length of the microstrip line feed unit.
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It should be noted that those skilled in the art would configure, according to requirements, the structure of the grounding plate to be another structure that gradually expands from the first location to the tail part according to an exponential function.
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According to the ultra-wideband antenna of the embodiments of the disclosure, at least a part of the feed unit is configured to expand and extend toward the bottom, that is, at least one of the grounding plate and the microstrip line feed unit is configured to expand and extend, such that the standing wave ratio within the band and the radiation pattern of the antenna can be improved, thereby widening the working bandwidth of the antenna.
In some embodiments, the microstrip line feed unit includes a first feed-in part and a second feed-in part. An initial end of the first feed-in part is electrically connected to the main radiation unit, a first connection end of the first feed-in part is electrically connected to a second connection end of the second feed-in part, and the preset location includes the second connection end. The second feed-in part is configured to expand from the second connection end to the terminal end.
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In some embodiments, the first feed-in part is a small segment of feed line, and is used for realizing a connection between the main radiation unit and the second feed-in part.
In some embodiments, a cross section of the first connection end is the same as that of the second connection end in shape and size, and the first feed-in part and the second feed-in part are integrally formed.
In some embodiments, the terminal end of the second feed-in part is a radio frequency signal feed-in point.
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It should be noted that the projection of the second feed-in part on the front surface may be either symmetric or asymmetric, which would have been configured by those skilled in the art according to requirements.
In some embodiments, in the projection region of the second feed-in part on the front surface, the contour lines from two sides of the second connection end to two sides of the terminal end are straight lines.
In some embodiments, the projection of the axis of the grounding plate on the front surface coincides with the projection of the axis of the microstrip line feed unit on the front surface. The standing wave ratio in the band and the radiation pattern of an antenna can be improved, thereby widening the working bandwidth of the antenna.
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In the ultra-wideband antenna provided in the embodiments of the disclosure, the grounding plate in the feed unit is configured in such a way that at least a part of the grounding plate expands from a preset location to the bottom, the size of the grounding plate can be configured to be smaller than the size of the grounding plate in the related art. The structure of the grounding plate is simple, and the corresponding microstrip line feed unit can be easily machined.
In some embodiments, the ultra-wideband antenna is manufactured by using an integrally forming technique.
According to the ultra-wideband antenna provided in the embodiments, the main radiation unit and the microstrip line feed unit are arranged on the front surface of the dielectric substrate, the initial end of the microstrip line feed unit is electrically connected to the main radiation unit, and the terminal end of the microstrip line feed unit extends to the bottom of the dielectric substrate. The grounding plate is arranged on the back surface of the dielectric substrate that is opposite to the front surface, and the grounding plate serves as a reference ground of the microstrip line feed unit. The grounding plate is located below the projection region of the main radiation unit on the back surface, at least a part of the projection region of the microstrip line feed unit on the back surface coincides with the region where the grounding plate is located, and the projection region of the terminal end on the back surface is located within the region where the grounding plate is located. At least a part of the feed unit is configured to expand from a preset location to the bottom. By configuring at least a part of the feed unit to expand and extend toward the bottom, that is, configuring at least one of the grounding plate and the microstrip line feed unit to expand and extend, the passband standing wave ratio and radiation pattern of the antenna can be improved, thereby widening the working bandwidth of the antenna. Moreover, in the ultra-wideband antenna provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, when the grounding plate in the feed unit is configured in such a way that at least a part of the grounding plate expands from the preset location to the bottom, the size of the grounding plate can be configured to be smaller than the size of the grounding plate in the related art, the structure is simple, and the corresponding microstrip line feed unit can be easily machined.
The implementation of the technical solution in the embodiments will be further described in details below by using one specific application example.
The dielectric constant of the dielectric substrate 1 is 4.4, and the dimension of the dielectric substrate 1 is: a length L of 100 mil, a width W of 800 mil and a thickness of 60 mil.
The main radiation unit 2 has an annulus structure printed on the front surface of the dielectric substrate 1, and a radius r1 of the annulus structure is 250 mil, and a radius r2 of the annulus structure is 120 mil.
The first feed-in part 10 has an initial end connected to the main radiation unit 2 and a first connection end connected to the second feed-in part 11. The length Lm2 of the first feed-in part 10 is 40 mil, and the width Wm2 of the first feed-in part 10 is 28 mil.
The second feed-in part 11 has a second connection end connected to the first connection end of the first feed-in part 10, and a terminal end of the second feed-in part 11 is located at the bottom of the dielectric substrate, i.e. at an edge of the dielectric substrate. The terminal end of the second feed-in part is a radio frequency signal feed-in point. The length Lm1 of the second feed-in part is 400 mil, the width of the second connection end is the same as the width of the first connection end and is Wm2, and the width of the terminal end Wm1 is 100 mil.
The grounding plate 4, which is printed on the back surface of the dielectric substrate and located directly below the second feed-in part 11, is a reference ground of the second feed-in part 11, and is bilaterally symmetric, where the width thereof from bottom to top exponentially changes gradually, the width W of the lower part is the same as that of the dielectric substrate 1, and the length Lm1 of the grounding plate is the same as that of the second feed-in part 11.
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It should be noted that the above size of the ultra-wideband antenna is merely for illustration, those skilled in the art would have been able to select a suitable size according to requirements, and the size of each component is not limited herein.
By configuring the shape of the grounding plate to change gradually according an exponential function, the passband standing wave ratio and radiation pattern of an antenna can be improved, thereby widening the working bandwidth of the antenna. Moreover, such grounding plate has a simpler structure and a smaller size, and can be easily machined. The second feed-in part is also configured to expand gradually from the second connection end to the terminal end according to an exponential function, which can also improve the standing wave ratio in the band and the radiation pattern of the antenna, thereby widening the working bandwidth of the antenna; and the second feed-in part has a simpler structure, and can thus be easily machined.
An embodiment of the disclosure provides a device including the ultra-wideband antenna according to any one of the embodiments described above.
In some embodiments, the device includes any one of a mobile phone, a router, a wearable device, a positioning device and an ultra-wideband communication device.
In some embodiments, the device can be used for positioning, but not limited thereto.
It should be noted that, in order to avoid redundancy of description, not all the examples in the embodiments are completely illustrated herein, and it should be understood that all the examples in the embodiments are applicable to this embodiment.
By configuring the shape of the grounding plate of the ultra-wideband antenna in the device to gradually change according to an exponential function, the standing wave ratio in the band and the radiation pattern of an antenna can be improved, thereby widening the working bandwidth of the antenna. Moreover, such grounding plate has a simpler structure and a smaller size, and can be easily machined. The second feed-in part is also configured to gradually expand from the second connection end to the terminal end according to an exponential function, which can also improve the standing wave ratio in the band and radiation pattern of the antenna, thereby widening the working bandwidth of the antenna; and the second feed-in part has a simpler structure, and can thus be easily machined, thereby reducing the positional occupancy of the ultra-wideband antenna in the device.
Some embodiments of the disclosure are described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, and the scope of the claims of the disclosure is not limited thereby. Any modifications, equivalent replacements and improvements made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and essence of the disclosure shall be within the scope of the claims of the disclosure.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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202010542874.5 | Jun 2020 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2021/099426 | 6/10/2021 | WO |