Antenna, information processing apparatus, and composite antenna apparatus
AssigneeYokowo Co., Ltd.
InventorsHirotoshi Mizuno, Masaya Imadate
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Abstract
An antenna includes a dielectric, and a patch electrode and a circuit substrate which are mounted on the dielectric, wherein the patch electrode has four feeding terminals, and wherein substrate-side feeding terminals which are electrically continuous respectively with the four feeding terminals in a one-to-one manner, a phase circuit which performs a phase shift for signals output from the substrate-side feeding terminals, a mixing circuit which mixes signals for which the phase shift is performed by the phase circuit, and an amplifier circuit which amplifies signals mixed by the mixing circuit are mounted on the circuit substrate.
Claims16
An antenna comprising:
- a dielectric;
- and
- a patch electrode and a circuit substrate which are mounted on the dielectric,
- wherein the patch electrode has four feeding terminals, and
- wherein substrate-side feeding terminals which are electrically connected respectively with the four feeding terminals in a one-to-one manner, a phase circuit which performs a phase shift for signals output from the substrate-side feeding terminals, a combining circuit which combines signals for which the phase shift is performed by the phase circuit, and an amplifier circuit which amplifies signals combined by the combining circuit are mounted on the circuit substrate.
An information processing apparatus being installed in a moving body, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- an antenna comprising:
- a dielectric;
- and
- a patch electrode and a circuit substrate which are mounted on the dielectric,
- wherein the patch electrode has four feeding terminals, and
- wherein substrate-side feeding terminals which are electrically connected respectively with the four feeding terminals in a one-to-one manner, a phase circuit which performs a phase shift for signals output from the substrate-side feeding terminals, a combining circuit which combines signals for which the phase shift is performed by the phase circuit, and an amplifier circuit which amplifies signals combined by the combining circuit are mounted on the circuit substrate;
- and
- a position information processing circuit which calculates position information of the moving body based on a signal output from the antenna.
An antenna comprising:
- a dielectric;
- a patch electrode which is mounted on the dielectric;
- and
- four feeding terminals which are mounted on the patch electrode, wherein feeding phases of the four feeding terminals are respectively different by 90 degrees from feeding phases of the other neighboring feeding terminals, and
- each of the four feeding terminals is made electrically connected with a substrate-side feeding terminal that is mounted on a circuit substrate which performs signal processing for a reception signal from the patch electrode,
- wherein, on the patch electrode, four slots are mounted in positions in line symmetry with respect to a symmetry axis, which passes through a center point of the patch electrode, and in point symmetry with respect to the center point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.