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US 11,777,221 B2Granted
Antenna module
AssigneeMurata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsHideki Ueda, Kaoru Sudo, Kengo Onaka, Hirotsugu Mori, Takaki Murata
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Abstract
A plurality of multi-band antenna elements operable at a plurality of frequencies constitutes an array antenna. An antenna drive unit selects at least some of the multi-band antenna elements from the plurality of multi-band antenna elements in accordance with one operation frequency selected from the plurality of operation frequencies, and causes the selected multi-band antenna elements to operate.
Claims16
An antenna module comprising:
- an array antenna comprising a plurality of multi-band unit antennas, each multi-band unit antenna constituting a single array element of the array antenna, and the array antenna being configured to operate at a plurality of operation frequencies;
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- an antenna driver configured to select at least two multi-band unit antennas in accordance with a selected operation frequency, and to operate the selected multi-band unit antennas,
- wherein the antenna driver comprises a plurality of feed lines,
- wherein each of the plurality of multi-band unit antennas comprises a plurality of conductor patterns, and for each of the plurality of multi-band unit antennas, each of the plurality of conductor patterns are configured to radiate radio frequency signals at different frequencies, and
- wherein the conductor patterns of the selected multi-band unit antennas are configured to radiate a radio frequency signal at the selected operation frequency, and are coupled to one of the plurality of feed lines.
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