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US 7,042,417 B2Granted
Ultra-wideband antenna array
AssigneePulse-LINK, Inc.
InventorsJohn H. Santhoff, Henning F. Harmuth
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Abstract
An ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna array is provided. One embodiment of the present invention employs a multi-element antenna for UWB beam forming and also for time-of-arrival vector processing to resolve multi-path problems in an UWB communication system. Another embodiment of the present invention recovers the energy contained in the multi-path reflections to increase signal-to-noise ratios of received UWB pulses.
Claims6
An ultra-wideband antenna array, comprising:
- a first antenna element;
- a second antenna element positioned at an angle relative to the first antenna element;
- a third antenna element positioned at an angle relative to the second antenna element;
- a fourth antenna element positioned at an angle relative to the third antenna element;
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- a correlator communicating with at least one of the antenna elements, the correlator structured to determine a direction of a received ultra-wideband signal.
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