Patent Grant
11245178
The present invention relates to the field of signal processing and, in particular, to a WIFI antenna and a wireless communication device.
With the rapid development of wireless communication technology, wireless communication devices (such as routers) have become an indispensable part in our daily lives now. An antenna, which is configured to emit and receive radio waves in order to transmit and exchange radio data signals, is undoubtedly one of the most important components in the wireless communication devices. Traditional antennas often have problems such as low gain and lack of capacity to fully cover a WIFI frequency band.
Therefore, there is an urgent need to propose an antenna that can fully cover the WIFI frequency band and has high gain.
In view of the problems of the low gain and the inability to fully cover the WIFI frequency band in the traditional antennas, the present invention provides a WIFI antenna and a wireless communication device that can both increase the gain and fully cover the WIFI frequency band.
A WIFI antenna, including:
a dipole including a first radiator and a second radiator that are opposite to and spaced apart from each other;
a feeding port provided at an end of the first radiator and an end of the second radiator that are adjacent to each other; and
a balun structure including a first access portion, a second access portion opposite to the first access portion, and an intermediate portion connecting the first access portion with the second access portion, wherein the intermediate portion has an annular structure,
the first access portion of the balun structure is connected to the first radiator at the feeding port, and the second access portion is connected to the second radiator at the feeding port.
As an improvement, the first radiator includes a first branch unit and a second branch unit, and the second radiator includes a third branch unit and a fourth branch unit; and
each of the first branch unit, the second branch unit, the third branch unit and the fourth branch unit has an L-shaped structure.
As an improvement, the first branch unit and the third branch unit are arranged in central symmetry or in axial symmetry, and the second branch unit and the fourth branch unit are arranged in axial symmetry.
As an improvement, a total length of the first branch unit is greater than a total length of the second branch unit, and a total length of the third branch unit is greater than a total length of the fourth branch unit; and
the first branch unit and the third branch unit form an antenna operating in a frequency band of 2.4 GHz-2.5 GHz, and the second branch unit and the fourth branch unit form an antenna operating in a frequency band of 5.15 GHz-5.85 GHz.
As an improvement, the first access portion and the second access portion of the balun structure are arranged in parallel to each other, and the intermediate portion includes: a first horizontal bar, a second horizontal bar and a first vertical bar, the first horizontal bar and the second horizontal bar are parallel to each other and are located on a same side of the first vertical bar, and one end of the first horizontal bar is perpendicularly connected to one end of the first vertical bar and one end of the second horizontal bar is perpendicularly connected to the other end of the first vertical bar, to form the annular structure; and
the other end of the first horizontal bar is perpendicularly connected to the first access portion, and the other end of the second horizontal bar is perpendicularly connected to the second access portion.
As an improvement, a length of the first horizontal bar is greater than a length of the second horizontal bar, and a length of the first access portion is greater than a length of the second access portion.
As an improvement, one end of the first branch unit is perpendicularly connected to one end of the second branch unit, and one end of the third branch unit is perpendicularly connected to one end of the fourth branch unit.
In order to achieve the object above, the present invention further provides a wireless communication device including the WIFI antenna above.
The WIFI antenna above includes: a dipole, the dipole including a first radiator and a second radiator that are opposite to and spaced apart from each other; a feeding port provided at an end of the first radiator and an end of the second radiator that are adjacent to each other; and a balun structure including a first access portion, a second access portion opposite to the first access portion, and an intermediate portion connecting the first access portion with the second access portion, wherein the intermediate portion has an annular structure. Setting of the WIFI antenna provides characteristics of omnidirectional radiation, high gain and high physical stability, which not only improves gain, but also fully covers a WIFI frequency band.
Many aspects of the exemplary embodiment can be better understood with reference to the following drawings. The components in the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale, the emphasis instead being placed upon clearly illustrating the principles of the present invention. Moreover, in the drawings, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments in order to make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of the present invention clearer. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are only used to explain the present invention but are not intended to limit the present invention.
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The balun refers to a balance-unbalance converter. The antenna composed of the first radiator and the second radiator is a dipole antenna, and the dipole antenna is a balanced antenna according to an antenna principle, while a coaxial cable connected to the antenna is an unbalanced transmission wire. If the dipole antenna is directly connected to the coaxial cable, then a high-frequency current will flow through a sheath of the coaxial cable, affecting radiation of the antenna, so a balun structure needs to be incorporated between the antenna and the ground. The balun structure in the present invention is a balun structure having an annular structure, and through adopting the balun structure, the WIFI antenna has characteristics of high gain, omnidirectional radiation and high physical stability.
In one embodiment, the balun structure is respectively connected to a middle portion of the first radiator and a middle portion of the second radiator. Shapes of the first radiator and the second radiator can be customized according to needs, for example, they can be in a bending shape.
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In another embodiment, the first branch unit 101 and the third branch unit 201 may also be axis-symmetrically arranged, which can be customized according to actual needs.
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Moreover, the total length refers to a sum of lengths of a vertical bar and a horizontal bar that constitute the “L”-shape structure of the branch unit. The WIFI frequency band involves two frequency bands, the first branch unit and the third branch unit form an antenna working in a frequency band of 2.4 GHz-2.5 GHz, and the second branch unit and the fourth branch unit form an antenna working in a frequency band of 5.15 GHz-5.85 GHz, thereby realizing omnidirectional radiation of the WIFI antenna.
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The other end of the first horizontal bar 3031 is perpendicularly connected to the first access portion 301, and the other end of the second horizontal bar 3032 is perpendicularly connected to the second access portion 302.
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In an embodiment, one end of the first branch unit is perpendicularly connected to one end of the second branch unit, and one end of the third branch unit is perpendicularly connected with one end of the fourth branch unit.
In an embodiment, according to needs of coverage scenarios, multiple WIFI antennas can be combined by different tilt angles, in order to increase a WIFI coverage range in the vertical direction.
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In an embodiment, a wireless communication device is also proposed, and the wireless communication device includes the above-mentioned WIFI antenna.
The various technical features of the above embodiments can be arbitrarily combined. To simplify the description, not all possible combinations of the various technical features in the above embodiments are described, but they should be regarded as falling within the scope of this description as long as there is no contradiction in the combination of these technical features.
The above embodiments only illustrate several implementation manners of the present invention, and the description is relatively specific and detailed, but it should not be understood as a limitation of the patent scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those of ordinary skill in the art, a number of modifications and improvements can also be made without departing from the concept of the present invention, and all these fall within the protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the appended claims.
| Number | Name | Date | Kind |
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| 20090284432 | Cozzolino | Nov 2009 | A1 |
| Number | Date | Country |
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| 104577308 | Apr 2015 | CN |
| Number | Date | Country | |
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| 20200411951 A1 | Dec 2020 | US |
| Number | Date | Country | |
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| Parent | PCT/CN2019/094080 | Jun 2019 | US |
| Child | 16996932 | US |
