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US 12,003,038 B2Granted
Array of patch antennas
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorHeikki Tapani Korva
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Abstract
An apparatus comprising: a ground plane; an array of antennas, wherein the array comprises antennas arranged in parallel rows and parallel columns; for one or more columns of the antennas in the array, there is an aligned arrangement of coupling elements comprising coupling elements between the antennas in the respective column, wherein the coupling elements are separate from the antennas and are electrically floating.
Claims16
An apparatus comprising:
- a ground plane;
- an array of antennas, wherein the array comprises antennas arranged in parallel rows and parallel columns, wherein each of the antennas in the array of antennas comprises a radiator and feeds for a first polarization and a second polarization orthogonal to the first polarization;
- wherein for one or more columns of the antennas in the array, there is an aligned arrangement of coupling elements comprising coupling elements between the antennas in the respective column,
- wherein the coupling elements are separate from the antennas and are electrically floating,
- wherein the coupling elements are closer to adjacent antennas in a column of the array, in a column direction, for a column towards a center of the array of antennas than for a column towards a periphery of the array of antennas, such that a length of the coupling elements decreases with distance in a first direction from a center of the array of antennas, and a size of a gap in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction increases with distance in the first direction from the center of the array of antennas.
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