Millimeter wave antenna array
AssigneeTaoglas Group Holdings Limited
InventorsJeffrey Keith Shamblin, Vladimir Furlan, Patrick Carl Frank
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Abstract
An antenna array may include a plurality of printed circuit boards (PCBs) oriented in a stacked arrangement, parallel to and spaced apart from one another. Each of the PCBs may include a linear array of antenna elements, which cooperate with the linear arrays of antenna elements on other PCBs to form a two-dimensional array of antenna elements. The PCBs may be supported at one end by a common backplate in a cantilevered manner, with the linear arrays of antenna elements located near the free end of the PCBs. The PCBs may include a thicker portion and a thinner portion, and the thinner portion may include a heat sink or other thermal dissipation structure.
Claims19
(canceled)
An antenna array comprising a plurality of printed circuit boards, the plurality of printed circuit boards configured to cooperate with one another to form a two-dimensional array of antenna elements, each of the plurality of printed circuit boards comprising:
- a first section proximate a first edge of the printed circuit board, the printed circuit board configured to be supported at the first edge of the printed circuit board by a backplane;
- a second section proximate a second edge of the printed circuit board;
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- a thermal dissipation structure supported by the first section of the printed circuit board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.