Buried patch antenna for low cost mmwave phased array design
OwnerIan Jeffery Timmins, Babak Zarrin Rafie +2inventors
InventorsIan Jeffery Timmins, Babak Zarrin Rafie, Youssef Faltone, John Finnell
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Abstract
A mmWAVE phased array antenna that has particular application to be used in a 5G radio. The antenna includes a POCB structure having a plurality of dielectric layers and conductive layers. A beamforming IC is formed on one side of the PCB structure and a patch antenna radiating element is formed at an opposite side of the POCB structure from the beamforming IC, where one of the dielectric layers is formed over the radiating element so that the radiating element is curried.
Claims13
An antenna containing structure comprising:
- a printed circuit board (PCB) structure including a plurality of dielectric layers and conductive layers sandwiched between opposing first and second major surfaces;
- a beamforming integrated circuit (IC) positioned on the first major surface of the PCB structure;
- a patch antenna radiating element positioned on the second major surface of the PCB structure, wherein one of the dielectric layers is positioned on the second major surface and over the radiating element burying the radiating element in the sandwiched layers;
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- a via through the sandwiched layers and coupling the beamforming IC to the antenna radiating element.
A phased array antenna containing structure comprising:
- a printed circuit board (PCB) structure including a plurality of dielectric layers and conductive layers sandwiched between opposing first and second major surfaces;
- a beamforming integrated circuit (IC) positioned on the first major surface of the PCB structure;
- a patch antenna radiating element positioned on the second major surface of the PCB structure, wherein one of the dielectric layers is positioned on the second major surface and over the radiating element burying the radiating element in the sandwiched layers and another one of the dielectric layers is positioned over the one dielectric layer positioned on the second major surface and over radiating element, said another one of the dielectric layers having an aperture in front of the patch antenna radiating element;
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- a via through the sandwiched layers and coupling the beamforming IC to the radiating element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.