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US 8,509,709 B2Granted
Consumer electronic device having a distributed form factor millimeter wave receiver and transmitter
AssigneeWilocity, Ltd.
InventorsDaniel Rettig, Eli Yona, Jorge Myszne
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Abstract
A consumer electronic device having distributed form factor millimeter wave receiver and transmitter comprising a first motherboard part including a baseband module; a second motherboard part including a receive (RX) active antenna, wherein the RX active antenna is connected to the baseband module using a pair of cables; and a third motherboard part including a transmit (TX) active antenna, wherein the TX active antenna is connected to the baseband module using a pair of cables.
Claims11
A distributed form factor millimeter wave radio apparatus, comprising:
- a first motherboard part including a baseband module, wherein the first motherboard part is mounted on a first plane of a portable computing device;
- a second motherboard part including only a receive (RX) active antenna, wherein the second motherboard part is mounted on a second plane of the portable computing device;
- a third motherboard part including only a transmit (TX) active antenna, wherein the third motherboard part is mounted on the second plane of the portable computing device, and wherein the second and third motherboard are physically decoupled;
- a first cable for connecting the baseband module to the second motherboard part;
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- a second cable for connecting the baseband module to the third motherboard part, wherein over the first cable and second cable intermediate frequency (IF) signals, a local oscillator frequency signal, a control signal, and a power signal are simultaneously transferred.
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