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US 2003/0227409 A1Published application
Antenna pointing method and device
OwnerGerard Augerinventor
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Method and antenna system used to point at least an antenna with respect to one or more other antennas, one of the antennas being a transmission antenna with an opening beam θe associated with a rotation speed Re, to cover an angular sector Se transmitting a signal every Tb seconds and another antenna being a reception antenna with an opening beam θr associated with a rotation speed Rr to cover an angular sector Sr, comprising at least the following steps select the parameters θr/Rr>Tb, θe/Re>Tb, Rr greater than Re or Re greater than Rr determine the maximum power representative of the best antenna reception for various positions of the transmission antenna or of the reception antenna, and deduce the optimum positioning angular value of the transmission antenna with respect to the reception antenna. FIG. 5 to be published
1- Method to point at least an antenna with respect to one or more other antennas, one of the antennas being a transmission antenna AE with an opening beam θe associated with a rotation speed Re, to cover an angular sector Se transmitting a signal every Tb seconds and another antenna being a reception antenna AR with an opening beam θr associated with a rotation speed Rr to cover an angular sector Sr, wherein it comprises at least the following steps
2- method according to claim 1, wherein the parameter representative of the best reception is the received power, preferably the maximum power.
3- Method according to claim 1, wherein the following is chosen:
4- Method according to claim 1, wherein the following is chosen:
5- Method according to one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the beacon signal transmitted includes a parameter used to identify a station equipped with the transmission antenna.
6- Method according to one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the transmission and reception antenna(s) are separate and their beams pointed mechanically.
7- Method according to claim 6, wherein the beams are rotated alternately in the forward direction and in the backward direction.
8- Method according to one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the transmission and reception antenna(s) are combined and their beams pointed electronically.
9- Method according to one of claims 1 to 8, wherein it comprises a sector scanning step, scanning synchronized on a time frame, the synchronization referring to a different pair of angular positions of the reception and transmission antenna beams.
10- Method according to one of claims 1 to 9, wherein it comprises a step to align the transmission antenna beam on the best position determined using the reception antenna.
11- Method according to one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the transmission frequency is greater than 1 GHz, preferably within the 4.4-5 GHz band, or in the 40 GHz band.
12- Method according to one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the data transmission rate lies between 10 and 50 Mbits/s.
13- System to position an antenna with respect to another antenna comprising at least a transmission antenna with an opening beam θe associated with a rotation speed Re, to cover an angular sector Se, the transmission antenna transmitting a signal every Tb seconds and a reception antenna with an opening beam θr associated with a rotation speed Rr to cover an angular sector Sr, said antennas being linked with a device designed to vary the beam rotation speeds, wherein it comprises at least:
14- System according to claim 13, wherein the transmission and reception antennas are connected to mechanical means used to point the beams.
15- System according to claim 13, wherein the transmission and reception antennas are electronically-scanned antennas and wherein it comprises a device to point the beams electronically.
16- System according to claim 13, wherein the transmission and reception antennas are located in the same station and wherein it comprises a device to align the two antennas.