Antenna arrangement
AssigneeSignify Holding B.V.
InventorsMaurice Herman Johan Draaijer, Matthias Wendt, Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis
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Abstract
An antenna arrangement is disclosed. The antenna arrangement comprises: an elongated pipe shaped electrically conductive body; a plurality of slots formed in the conductive body and arranged to act as an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements, each antenna element comprising a slot, the plurality of antenna elements of the antenna array overall distributed along a longitudinal direction of the conductive body, and a feeding structure disposed within the conductive body, the feeding structure comprising a plurality of feeding elements each arranged to excite an antenna element of the antenna array.
Claims16
An antenna arrangement comprising:
- an elongated pipe shaped electrically conductive body;
- a plurality of slots formed in the conductive body and arranged to act as an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements, each antenna element comprising a slot, the plurality of antenna elements of the antenna array overall distributed along a longitudinal direction of the conductive body;
- a plurality of feeding structures disposed within the conductive body, each feeding structure of the plurality comprising a plurality of point sources and a plurality of feeding elements each arranged to excite two or more antenna elements of the antenna array via one or more of the plurality of point sources;
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- at least one additional device disposed on the feeding structure;
- wherein the at least one additional device is a lighting device for illumination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.