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US 2016/0240919 A1Published application
Base station antenna with dummy elements between subarrays
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorsBo WU, Fan LI, Ligang WU
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Abstract
Apparatus include two or more radiating elements connected to a feed network of an antenna, and one or more dummy elements positioned between the two or more radiating elements. The dummy elements are not connected to the feed network of the antenna. Such an arrangement may result in reduced mutual coupling of the two or more radiating elements, and increased antenna performance.
Claims20
An antenna comprising:
- two or more first-band radiating elements, configured to operate in a first frequency band and connected to a feed network of the antenna;
- and
- one or more dummy elements positioned between two of the two or more first-band radiating elements, wherein the one or more dummy elements are disconnected from the feed network.
A multi-band base station antenna comprising:
- two or more first-band radiating elements connected to a feed network of the antenna, the two or more first-band radiating elements being configured to operate in a first frequency band;
- at least one second band radiating element, the at least one second-band element configured to operate in a second frequency band;
- and
- one or more dummy elements positioned between two of the two or more first-band radiating elements, wherein the one or more dummy elements are disconnected from the feed network.
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A method comprising:
- connecting two or more first-band radiating elements, configured to operate in a first frequency band to a feed network of an antenna;
- and
- positioning one or more dummy elements between two of the two or more first-band radiating elements, the one or more dummy elements being disconnected from the feed network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.