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US 2024/0258709 A1Published application
Base station antennas having an active antenna module(s) and related devices and methods
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorsPeter J. Bisiules, Haifeng Li, Samantha Merta
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Abstract
Base station antennas include an externally accessible active antenna module releasably coupled to a rear of the housing. The base station antenna housing has a passive antenna assembly that cooperates with the active antenna module.
Claims13
A base station antenna, comprising:
- a passive antenna assembly comprising a housing and a reflector, wherein the reflector comprises a longitudinally extending right side segment and a laterally spaced apart and longitudinally extending left side segment;
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- an active antenna module coupleable to or coupled to the housing of the passive antenna assembly and residing between the right side and left side segments of the reflector, wherein the reflector is capacitively or galvanically coupled to a conductive member(s) of the active antenna module to thereby have the reflector at a common ground plane with a component or components of the active antenna module.
A base station antenna comprising:
- a passive antenna assembly comprising a reflector;
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- an active antenna module detachably coupleable to the passive antenna assembly,
- wherein, when assembled, the active antenna module is capacitively or galvanically coupled to the reflector of the passive antenna assembly.
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A base station antenna comprising:
- a base station antenna housing comprising a passive antenna assembly with a reflector;
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- an active antenna module detachably coupleable to the base station antenna housing, wherein the active antenna module and/or base station antenna housing comprises a mounting interface configured to have a lock member that has a first recessed position and a second extended position, wherein, in the second extended position, the lock member locks the base station antenna housing and the active antenna module together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.