Patent Application
20210194110
The present application is based on and claims the benefit of priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2019-0171644, filed on Dec. 20, 2019 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The disclosure relates to a vehicle, and more particularly, to an antenna system of the vehicle.
A vehicle is equipped with an antenna for communication and broadcast reception. The antenna of the vehicle includes, for example, a shark fin antenna or a poll type antenna installed in a roof, and a glass antenna installed in a strip form on a rear glass. In general, a loop antenna is provided with an antenna module for communication and an antenna module for digital broadcasting, and a glass antenna is provided with an antenna module for radio broadcasting.
The loop antenna is installed to protrude from the roof of the vehicle. Therefore, the loop antenna is limited in size because the loop antenna requires consideration of resistance and design factors while the vehicle is driving. That is, the size of the loop antenna should not be too large.
In the trend that more antenna modules need to be disposed on the vehicle due to the increase of vehicle connected service, a countermeasure is needed because of insufficient space for installing an additional antenna module due to the limitation of the size of the loop antenna.
The information disclosed in the Background section above is to aid in the understanding of the background of the present disclosure, and should not be taken as acknowledgement that this information forms any part of prior art.
Therefore, an aspect of the disclosure is to ensure a free space of a loop antenna by implementing an integrated glass antenna, and to install an additional antenna module in the free space of the loop antenna.
Additional aspects of the disclosure will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the disclosure.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, an antenna system of a vehicle includes a glass antenna disposed on a surface of a glass of the vehicle, configured to receive a first broadcast signal and a second broadcast signal; and a broadcasting receiver configured to receive the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal transmitted from the glass antenna, and to cancel and remove a harmonic components of the first broadcast signal from the second broadcast signal.
The first broadcast signal is a radio broadcast signal. The second broadcast signal is a digital broadcast signal. The harmonic component of the first broadcast signal is an FM harmonic component of the radio broadcast signal.
The broadcasting receiver may be configured to extract the harmonic component of the radio broadcast signal, to invert a phase of the extracted harmonic component; and to cancel and remove the harmonic component included in the digital broadcast signal by adding the harmonic component of which the phase is inverted to the digital broadcast signal.
The glass antenna may include a first glass antenna configured to receive signals of some channels of the first broadcast signal and some channels of the second broadcast signal; and a second glass antenna configured to receive signals of remaining channels of the first broadcast signal and remaining channels of the second broadcast signal.
The received signal of the first glass antenna may include an AM signal, a first FM signal, and a first DMB signal. The received signal of the second glass antenna may include a second FM signal and a second DMB signal.
In accordance with another aspect of the disclosure, an antenna system of a vehicle includes a glass antenna disposed on a surface of a glass of the vehicle, configured to receive a first broadcast signal and a second broadcast signal; and a broadcasting receiver configured to receive the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal transmitted from the glass antenna, to extract a harmonic component of the first broadcast signal from a transmission path of the first broadcast signal, to invert the extracted harmonic component, and to cancel and remove a harmonic component of the first broadcast signal from the second broadcast signal by adding the harmonic component of which the phase is inverted to a transmission path of the second broadcast signal.
The first broadcast signal is a radio broadcast signal. The second broadcast signal is a digital broadcast signal. The harmonic component of the first broadcast signal is an FM harmonic component of the radio broadcast signal.
The glass antenna may include a first glass antenna configured to receive signals of some channels of the first broadcast signal and some channels of the second broadcast signal; and a second glass antenna configured to receive signals of remaining channels of the first broadcast signal and remaining channels of the second broadcast signal.
The received signal of the first glass antenna may include an AM signal, a first FM signal, and a first DMB signal. The received signal of the second glass antenna may include a second FM signal and a second DMB signal.
The transmission path of the first broadcast signal may include a first preprocessor configured to preprocess the first broadcast signal. The transmission path of the second broadcast signal may include a second preprocessor configured to preprocess the second broadcast signal.
The broadcasting receiver may further include a band pass filter configured to extract a harmonic component from an output signal of the first preprocessor; a phase inverter configured to invert a phase of the harmonic component extracted by the band pass filter; and an adder configured to add the harmonic component of which the phase is inverted to the second broadcast signal input to the second preprocessor.
In accordance with another aspect of the disclosure, an antenna system of a vehicle includes a glass antenna disposed on a surface of a glass of the vehicle, configured to receive a first broadcast signal and a second broadcast signal; and a broadcasting receiver configured to receive the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal transmitted from the glass antenna, to perform a preprocessing of each of the first broadcast signal or the second broadcast signal through a single wideband signal preprocessor, and when receiving the second broadcast signal, to cancel and remove a harmonic component of the first broadcast signal from the second broadcast signal by adding a harmonic component of which the phase of the first broadcast signal is inverted to a transmission path of the second broadcast signal.
The first broadcast signal is a radio broadcast signal. The second broadcast signal is a digital broadcast signal. The harmonic component of the first broadcast signal is an FM harmonic component of the radio broadcast signal.
The glass antenna may include a first glass antenna configured to receive signals of some channels of the first broadcast signal and some channels of the second broadcast signal; and a second glass antenna configured to receive signals of remaining channels of the first broadcast signal and remaining channels of the second broadcast signal.
The received signal of the first glass antenna may include an AM signal, a first FM signal, and a first DMB signal. The received signal of the second glass antenna may include a second FM signal and a second DMB signal.
The broadcasting receiver may further include a channel selector configured to selectively receive one of the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal in response to a user's channel selection; and a tunable filter configured to selectively pass the broadcast signal of a channel selected by the user among the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal output from the wideband signal preprocessor.
The broadcast signal may be selected from the glass antenna, the channel selector, the wideband signal preprocessor, and the tunable filter according to a control command generated by the user's channel selection.
The user's channel selection may be performed through an operation of a head unit connected to the antenna system of the vehicle.
In accordance with another aspect of the disclosure, a vehicle includes a glass antenna disposed on a surface of a glass of the vehicle, configured to receive a first broadcast signal and a second broadcast signal; and a broadcasting receiver configured to receive the first broadcast signal and the second broadcast signal transmitted from the glass antenna, and to cancel and remove a harmonic components of the first broadcast signal from the second broadcast signal.
The first broadcast signal is a radio broadcast signal. The second broadcast signal is a digital broadcast signal. The harmonic component of the first broadcast signal is an FM harmonic component of the radio broadcast signal.
The broadcasting receiver may be configured to extract the harmonic component of the radio broadcast signal, to invert a phase of the extracted harmonic component; and to cancel and remove the harmonic component included in the digital broadcast signal by adding the harmonic component of which the phase is inverted to the digital broadcast signal.
The glass antenna may include a first glass antenna configured to receive signals of some channels of the first broadcast signal and some channels of the second broadcast signal; and a second glass antenna configured to receive signals of remaining channels of the first broadcast signal and remaining channels of the second broadcast signal.
The received signal of the first glass antenna may include an AM signal, a first FM signal, and a first DMB signal. The received signal of the second glass antenna may include a second FM signal and a second DMB signal.
The vehicle may further include a loop antenna installed on a roof of the vehicle and equipped with a plurality of antenna modules for communication; and a communication receiver configured to receive a communication signal through the plurality of antenna modules for communication.
These and/or other aspects of the disclosure will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:
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The digital broadcast signal and the radio broadcast signal received through the glass antenna 116 are transmitted to an integrated broadcasting receiver 210, and after passing through a series of signal processing processes in the integrated broadcasting receiver 210, are transmitted to a head unit 250. The head unit 250 may output the content of the broadcast signal through a speaker or a display.
In addition, as illustrated in
The GPS signals, the LTE signals, the 5G (MIMO) signals, and the V2X signals received through the loop antenna 122 are transmitted to an integrated communication receiver 230, and after passing through a series of signal processing processes in the integrated communication receiver 230, are transmitted to the head unit 250. The head unit 250 may output the content of the communication signal through the speaker or the display.
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In an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, by integrating the antenna module for radio broadcasting and the antenna module for digital broadcasting to implement a single integrated glass antenna 116 for broadcasting to secure the free space in the loop antenna 122. By installing the additional antenna module for communication, such as the 5G (MIMO) antenna module and the V2X antenna module, the 5G (MIMO) antenna module and the V2X antenna module for a new connected service of the vehicle 100 may be additionally installed in the loop antenna 122 without increasing a size of the loop antenna 122 (that is, maintaining an existing size), etc. In addition, by separately installing the antenna module for communication and the antenna module for broadcasting in each of the glass and the roof, it is easy to prepare an isolation measure and prevent the performance degradation due to mutual interference between the antenna module for communication and the antenna module for broadcasting in advance.
The glass antenna 116 may be integrated to receive both the radio broadcast signal and the digital broadcast signal because frequency bands on the radio broadcast signal and the digital broadcast are in a harmonic relationship with each other. That is, the frequency band of radio broadcasting is 88-108 MHz, and the frequency band of digital broadcasting is 174-240 MHz, and it has the harmonic relationship with each other. In addition, the radio broadcasting and the digital broadcasting are not simultaneously received. For this reason, the glass antenna 116 may be used jointly for the reception of the radio broadcast signal and the digital broadcast signal despite being a single integrated form.
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The duplexer 310 is for enabling the single integrated broadcast glass antenna 116 to be used jointly for transmission and reception. The glass antenna 116 may simultaneously transmit and receive signals of different frequency bands, and may also transmit signals of different frequency bands when receiving the signal of one frequency band. Among the signals received through the glass antenna 116, the broadcast signal is selected by the duplexer 310 and transmitted to the radio signal preprocessor 322 or the DMB signal preprocessor 342.
The radio signal preprocessor 322 may perform preprocessing such as noise removal and amplification of the radio broadcast signal (for example, an FM radio broadcast signal) among the received broadcast signals. In the radio signal preprocessor 322, the preprocessed signal by radio signal preprocessor 322 may be transmitted to a radio tuner 324 of the head unit 250.
The DMB signal preprocessor 342 may perform preprocessing such as noise removal and amplification of the digital broadcast signal (for example, the DMB broadcast signal or the DAB broadcast signal) among the received broadcast signals. The preprocessed signal by the DMB signal preprocessor 342 may be transmitted to a DMB tuner 344 of the head unit 250. In
In the integrated broadcasting receiver 210, the band pass filter 372, the phase inverter 374, and the adder 376 are devices (e.g., electronic circuits) for canceling interference and correcting gain attenuation that may occur when receiving radio broadcast signals and digital broadcast signals with a single integrated antenna. The glass antenna 116 may integrate the radio broadcasting antenna and the digital broadcasting antenna. In this case, mutual interference and gain attenuation may occur in a process of receiving signals of different bands.
The digital broadcast signal (DMB signal) received through the glass antenna 116 may include radio band harmonics (e.g., FM band harmonics) along with an original broadcast signal. The FM band harmonics may act as an interference to the DMB signal. The interference may also cause the gain attenuation in the DMB signal. Therefore, the integrated broadcasting receiver 210 may use the band pass filter 372, the phase inverter 374, and the adder 376 to reduce the mutual interference and the gain attenuation. The operation of the band pass filter 372, the phase inverter 374, and the adder 376 of the integrated broadcasting receiver 210 will be described in detail with reference to
The glass antenna 116 may receive the radio broadcast signal (FM signal) or the digital broadcast signal (DMB signal). When the FM signal is received, a secondary harmonic component of the FM signal may be extracted through the band pass filter 372 in a path through which the FM signal is transmitted, and the extracted secondary harmonic component may be inverted in phase through the phase inverter 374, and the secondary harmonic component of which phase is inverted may be transmitted to adder 376.
Subsequently, when the DMB signal is received, by adding the secondary harmonic component of the FM signal whose phase is inverted at the front end of the DMB signal preprocessor 342 with the DMB signal through the adder 376, the harmonic of the FM signal included in the DMB signal may be canceled out. The DMB signal preprocessor 342 may receive a signal from which the FM harmonic component is removed from the received DMB signal. As the FM harmonic component is removed from the DMB signal, the mutual interference and the gain attenuation that may be caused by the FM harmonic component may be reduced.
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The channel selector 412 may be provided to select one of a radio channel and a digital broadcast channel. When the user (driver) selects either radio listening or digital broadcasting viewing through the operation of the head unit 250, the controller (MCU) 460 of the head unit 250 may generate a control signal to cause the channel selector 412 to select the frequency of the broadcast selected by the user (driver).
In the integrated broadcasting receiver 210 of the digital method illustrated in
The digital broadcast signal (DMB signal) received through the glass antenna 116 may include radio band harmonics (e.g., FM band harmonics) along with the original broadcast signal. The FM band harmonics may act as the interference to the DMB signal. The interference may also cause the gain attenuation in the DMB signal. Therefore, the integrated broadcasting receiver 210 may use the radio band pass filter 430, the amplifier 432, the DMB band pass filter 434, the phase inverter 436, and the adder 438 to reduce the mutual interference and the gain attenuation. The operation of the radio band pass filter 430, the amplifier 432, the DMB band pass filter 434, the phase inverter 436, and the adder 438 of the integrated broadcasting receiver 210 will be described in detail with reference to
The glass antenna 116 may receive the radio broadcast signal (FM signal) or the digital broadcast signal (DMB signal). When the user (driver) selects the viewing of the digital broadcasting through the head unit 250 of
The tunable filter 418 may filter only the digital broadcast signal from the signal passing through the wideband signal preprocessor 414 and transmit the digital broadcast signal to the head unit 250.
In the head unit 250, a switch 458 may be operated under the control of the controller 460 to transmit a signal passing through the tunable filter 418 to either a radio tuner 424 or a DMB tuner 444.
The glass antenna 116 may receive the radio broadcast signal (FM signal) or the digital broadcast signal (DMB signal). When the FM signal is received, the secondary harmonic component of the FM signal may be extracted through the radio band pass filter 430, the amplifier 432, and the DMB band pass filter 434 in the path through which the FM signal is transmitted, and the extracted secondary harmonic component may be inverted in phase through the phase inverter 436, and the secondary harmonic component of which phase is inverted may be transmitted to the adder 438.
When the DMB signal is received, by adding the secondary harmonic component of the FM signal whose phase is inverted at the front end of the wideband signal preprocessor 414 with the DMB signal through the adder 376, the harmonic of the FM signal included in the DMB signal may be canceled out. The wideband signal preprocessor 414 may receive a signal from which the FM harmonic component is removed from the received DMB signal. As the FM harmonic component is removed from the DMB signal, the mutual interference and the gain attenuation that may be caused by the FM harmonic component may be reduced.
The glass antenna 116 may receive the radio broadcast signal (FM signal) or the digital broadcast signal (DMB signal). When the user (driver) selects the listening of the radio broadcasting through the head unit 250 of
The tunable filter 418 may filter only the radio broadcast signal from the signal passing through the wideband signal preprocessor 414 and transmit the radio broadcast signal to the head unit 250.
In the head unit 250, a switch 458 may be operated under the control of the controller 460 to transmit a signal passing through the tunable filter 418 to either a radio tuner 424 or a DMB tuner 444.
In case of the digital broadcasting reception of
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The glass antenna 892 located on the upper part of the rear glass 112 may be provided to receive radio signals such as AM/FM1/DMB1 and the DMB signals. The glass antenna 894 located on the lower part of the rear glass 112 may be provided to receive another radio signal such as FM2/DMB2 and the DMB signals. That is, an antenna diversity may be implemented by the two glass antennas 892 and 894, a signal separation block, and a diversity block, and both FM and DMB signals may be received through each of the two glass antennas 892 and 894, respectively (using a dual resonance method). When the antenna diversity is configured using the two glass antennas 892 and 894 as described above, since the two glass antennas 892 and 894 serve as both a glass antenna and a loop antenna, the roof 124 of the vehicle 100 does not need to be provided with the loop antenna.
In another exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, the two glass antennas 892 and 894 may be installed on the rear glass 112 of the vehicle 100 so as to be spaced apart by a distance of about 10 to 2λ. λ is a wavelength of the signal. Since signals received through the two glass antennas 892 and 894 have different phase shifts, the signals received through each of the two glass antennas 892 and 894 have low correlation with each other. The low correlation may mean that the signals received through each of the two glass antennas 892 and 894 are independent of each other in multipath fading, and thus, it is advantageous to transmit and receive a signal with low multipath fading.
The antenna diversity may be applied to both analog and digital methods. In particular, the antenna diversity may provide the effect of further improving signal reception performance.
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The two duplexers 1020 and 1040 jointly use each of the two integrated broadcast glass antennas 892 and 894 according to another embodiment of the disclosure for transmission and reception. That is, the broadcast signal among the signals received through the glass antenna 892 is selected by the duplexer 1020 and transmitted to the radio signal preprocessor 322 or the DMB signal preprocessor 342. Among the signals received through another glass antenna 894, the broadcast signal is selected by another duplexer 1040 and transmitted to the radio signal preprocessor 322 or the DMB signal preprocessor 342. Subsequent signal processing may be performed in the same manner as described above with reference to
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The channel selector 412 may be provided to select one of the radio channel and the digital broadcasting channel of the signal received through each of the two glass antennas 892 and 894. To this end, the signal received through each of the two glass antennas 892 and 894 may be transmitted to both the channel selector 412 and the radio band pass filter 430. Subsequent signal processing may be performed in the same manner as described above with reference to
The above signal preprocessors 322, 342, and 414, according to one aspect of the present disclosure, may be implemented with various electronic circuits to perform various functions, for example, noise filtering, A/D conversion, encoding/decoding and modulating.
According to the exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, the free space of the loop antenna may be secured by implementing the integrated glass antenna, and an additional antenna module may be installed in the free space of the loop antenna. Therefore, it is possible to install more antenna modules in the same space and further improve the isolation between the antenna modules.
The disclosed embodiments is merely illustrative of the technical idea, and those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, changes, and substitutions may be made without departing from the essential characteristics thereof. Therefore, the exemplary embodiments disclosed above and the accompanying drawings are not intended to limit the technical idea, but to describe the technical spirit, and the scope of the technical idea is not limited by the embodiments and the accompanying drawings. The scope of protection shall be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalent shall be interpreted as being included in the scope of rights.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2019-0171644 | Dec 2019 | KR | national |
