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US 12,625,277 B1Granted
Antenna systems for circularly polarized radio signals
AssigneeSeescan, Inc.
InventorsStephanie M. Bench, Mark S. Olsson, Ray Merewether
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Abstract
Antenna systems for receiving right and left hand circularly polarized signals are disclosed. An antenna system embodiment includes a top printed circuit board (PCB), a ground plane, and an antenna array including four conductive antenna elements positioned at relative zero, 90, 180, and 270 degree increments radially about a shared center point on the PCB, with each antenna element sloping upward in a left-handed direction from the ground plane towards the top PCB and connected to the ground plane and top PCB.
Claims18
An antenna system, comprising:
- an antenna array having multiple antenna elements generating input signals successively 90 degrees out of phase such that the input signals have a relative phase of zero, 90, 180, and 270 degrees, wherein the antenna array comprises four conductive elongate antenna elements
- positioned at relative zero, 90, 180, and 270 degree increments radially about a shared center point on a printed circuit board (PCB), with each antenna element sloping upward in a left-handed direction from a ground plane towards the PCB and connected to the ground plane and the PCB.
An antenna system, comprising:
- an antenna array having multiple antenna elements generating input signals successively 90 degrees out of phase such that the input signals have a relative phase of zero, 90, 180, and 270 degrees;
- a pair of 90 degree phase shifting elements wherein each phase shifting element is coupled to a pair of antenna elements in the antenna array to receive their associate input signals, shift the phase on one signal 90 degree to match that of its paired antenna element's signal, and output a combined signal 180 degree out of phase to that of the output signal of the other 90 degree phase shifting element;
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- a pair of low noise amplifiers, each coupled to a corresponding 90 degree phase shifting element to amplify the combined output signal of the corresponding phase shifting element and to isolate impedance differences the two 180 degree out of phase combined output signals.
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