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US 10,854,982 B2Granted
Broadband multiple layer dielectric resonator antenna and method of making the same
AssigneeRogers Corporation
InventorsKristi Pance, Karl E. Sprentall, Shawn P. Williams
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Abstract
A dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) includes: an electrically conductive ground structure; at least one volume of a dielectric material disposed on the ground structure; a signal feed disposed and structured to be electromagnetically coupled to the at least one volume of a dielectric material; and an electrically conductive fence disposed circumferentially around the at least one volume of a dielectric material, and electrically connected with and forming part of the electrically conductive ground structure.
Claims18
A dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), comprising:
- an electrically conductive ground structure;
- at least one volume of a dielectric material disposed on the ground structure;
- a signal feed disposed and structured to be electromagnetically coupled to the at least one volume of a dielectric material;
- an electrically conductive fence disposed circumferentially around the at least one volume of a dielectric material, and electrically connected with and forming part of the electrically conductive ground structure;
- a plurality of the at least one volume of the dielectric material arranged in an array;
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- a plurality of the electrically conductive fence, each one of the plurality of the electrically conductive fence disposed substantially surrounding a corresponding one of the plurality of the at least one volume of the dielectric material.
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A dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), comprising:
- an electrically conductive ground structure;
- at least one volume of a dielectric material disposed on the ground structure;
- a signal feed disposed and structured to be electromagnetically coupled to the at least one volume of the dielectric material;
- an electrically conductive fence disposed circumferentially around the at least one volume of the dielectric material, and electrically connected with and forming part of the electrically conductive ground structure;
- wherein the electrically conductive fence has a non-uniform interior shape that provides at least one alignment feature;
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- wherein the at least one volume of the dielectric material has a complementary exterior shape that complements the non-uniform interior shape and the at least one alignment feature of the electrically conductive fence, such that the electrically conductive fence and the at least one volume of the dielectric material have a defined and fixed alignment relative to each other via the at least one alignment feature.
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A dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), comprising:
- an electrically conductive ground structure;
- at least one volume of a dielectric material disposed on the ground structure;
- a signal feed disposed and structured to be electromagnetically coupled to the at least one volume of the dielectric material;
- and
- an electrically conductive fence disposed circumferentially around the at least one volume of the dielectric material, and electrically connected with and forming part of the electrically conductive ground structure;
- wherein the at least one volume of the dielectric material comprises a plurality of volumes of dielectric materials comprising N volumes, N being an integer equal to or greater than 3, disposed to form successive and sequential layered volumes V(i), i being an integer from 1 to N, wherein volume V(1) forms an innermost volume, wherein a successive volume V(i+1) forms a layered shell disposed over and at least partially embedding volume V(i), wherein volume V(N) at least partially embeds all volumes V(1) to V(N−1);
- wherein volume V(1) comprises air, volume V(2) comprises a dielectric material other than air, and volume V(3) comprises air.
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A dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), comprising:
- an electrically conductive ground structure;
- at least one volume of a dielectric material disposed on the ground structure;
- a signal feed disposed and structured to be electromagnetically coupled to the at least one volume of the dielectric material;
- and
- an electrically conductive fence disposed circumferentially around the at least one volume of the dielectric material, and electrically connected with and forming part of the electrically conductive ground structure;
- wherein volume V(1) comprises air, volume V(2) comprises a dielectric material other than air, and volume V(3) comprises a dielectric material other than air.
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A dielectric resonator antenna (DRA), comprising:
- an electrically conductive ground structure;
- at least one volume of a dielectric material disposed on the ground structure;
- a signal feed disposed and structured to be electromagnetically coupled to the at least one volume of the dielectric material;
- and
- an electrically conductive fence disposed circumferentially around the at least one volume of the dielectric material, and electrically connected with and forming part of the electrically conductive ground structure;
- wherein each volume of the plurality of volumes N of dielectric materials comprises a dielectric material other than air.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.