The utility model content
For addressing the above problem, the purpose of this utility model is to provide a kind of combisweep technique that adopts to realize in movement satellite is carried out novel " communication in moving " low profile plate aerial system to star and tracking.
The technical scheme that the invention for solving the technical problem adopts is:
A kind of novel " communication in moving " low profile plate aerial system is characterized in that comprising:
The aerial radiation system is used for receiving or sending the satellite radiation signal, the satellite radiation signal is merged to receive or disperse send; Described aerial radiation system comprises the first plate aerial and the second plate aerial, described the first plate aerial is used for sending and receiving satellite radiation signal, the second plate aerial only is used for receiving the satellite radiation signal, and wherein first, second plate aerial includes for the horizontal polarization signal transmission passage of transmit level polarized signal with for the perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage that transmits the perpendicular polarization signal;
The radio frequency polarization system, system is connected with aerial radiation, for generation of polarized radiation signal or to the radiation signal coupling that polarizes, converts the high frequency radiation signal to analog signal;
The antenna terminal mechanical drive system is used for driven antenna radiating system, control antenna radiating system championship is put on pitching face and azimuth plane;
Satellite points to, catches, tracking system, for detection of the terminal position, and by control antenna terminal mechanical drive system, the aerial radiation system is controlled and regulates;
Indoor unit be used for to receive after treatment satellite-signal data, sets the operation to star parameter and control antenna system, and described indoor unit is connected with satellite with the radio frequency polarization system respectively, catches, tracking system is connected.
the utility model a kind of novel " communication in moving " low profile plate aerial system, adopt the two-band Working concepts, wherein intrasystem the first plate aerial of aerial radiation can transmit and receive the satellite radiation signal simultaneously, separate the antenna of work compares with complete independence, the size of antenna is obviously reduced, be provided with the second plate aerial that only is used for receiving the satellite radiation signal on the basis of the first plate aerial, can not only effectively improve the gain of antenna, and the height of day line profile is increased, wherein only have the first plate aerial to be used for transmitting, can not cause because two plate aerials transmit simultaneously like this signal to disturb, and when receiving signal, by two plate aerials, signal is received, can improve the intensity of receiving efficiency and the reception signal of signal.First, second plate aerial comprises for the horizontal polarization signal transmission passage of transmit level polarized signal with for the perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage that transmits the perpendicular polarization signal, this allows the aerial radiation system have simultaneously the ability that receives and send horizontal polarization signal, perpendicular polarization signal, two-band, dual-polarized diplex operation pattern have been realized on two plate aerials, greatly reduced the volume and weight of antenna system when guaranteeing the antenna system function, extremely be adapted at using in the carrier that travels at a high speed such as Vehicular satellite mobile communication system.And the utility model is realized and hybrid electric motor and electronic scanning by radio frequency polarization system and antenna terminal mechanical system, it is mixed sweep, can effectively reduce the cost of low profile plate aerial system, can guarantee again the precision to star, and the utility model points to via satellite, catches, tracking system detects the mobile terminal position, and accurately control by control antenna terminal mechanical drive system, allow plate aerial accurately to star, improved widely antenna system to star, with the star precision, keep under steam the unimpeded of communication.
Further, described the first plate aerial is placed in the place ahead of the second plate aerial.Such advantage is that when the plate aerial run-off the straight, the electromagnetic beam of described the first plate aerial emission can not decayed because of being blocked, and can guarantee the quality that antenna system transmits.
Further, the normal direction of the signal transmitting/receiving of described first, second plate aerial and the angle of horizontal plane are α, and α determines according to the beam scanning scope of pitching face.plate aerial can be adjusted the angle that signal transmits and receives by signal being carried out the phase in-migration, realize the electric scanning of plate aerial, therefore the utility model is regulated the phase place of radiation signal by the radio frequency polarization system, can be able to control the direction of transmitting/receiving signal, realize pre-tilt, its angle is determined according to the beam scanning scope of pitching face, because most of satellites are arranged at the equator, and belong to the Northern Hemisphere in CHINESE REGION, satellite is in the scope of 20 ° to 70 ° of pitching face mostly, in order to allow plate aerial can scan more quickly this scope, just adopt the method for electric scanning to carry out pre-tilt to transmitting of antenna, the angle that by mechanical rotation, plate aerial is rotated like this will reduce, the profile of antenna rotation simultaneously will be lower.Therefore, making normal direction and the plane included angle of the transmitting/receiving signal of plate aerial is α, has just realized pre-tilt, thereby can effectively reduce the height of antenna system, and accelerated antenna to the sweep speed of star.
Preferably, the angle of the normal direction of the signal transmitting/receiving of described first, second plate aerial and horizontal plane is 41 °.For scanning center, realize above-mentioned sweep limits by pre-tilt and machinery rotation, when 45 spent, its profile was minimum when the angle of pre-tilt, yet when adopting the plate aerials of 45 degree pre-tilts to scan, minor level can increase, especially true for perpendicular polarization, for this reason, 41 degree tilt angles are adopted in angle of pitch scanning of the present utility model, low profile can be satisfied, the accuracy of sweep limits and scanning can be guaranteed again.
Further, the radio frequency polarization system comprises corresponding with the second plate aerial with the first plate aerial respectively two reception polarizers, transmission polarizer, horizontal phase shifter, vertical phase shifter, time delays module, low-converter and a high power amplifier; Be respectively arranged with horizontal low noise amplifier and vertical low noise amplifier in described the first plate aerial and the second plate aerial, described horizontal polarization signal transmission passage and perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage are connected with the signal input part of reception polarizer by horizontal low noise amplifier and the low noise amplifier of being connected respectively, the output of two reception polarizers is connected with the input of time delays module, and the output of described time delays module is connected to the signal input part of indoor unit through low-converter; The signal output part of described indoor unit is connected to the transmission polarizer, the input of horizontal phase shifter and vertical phase shifter is connected to the output that sends polarizer, and the output of horizontal phase shifter and vertical phase shifter is connected to respectively on the horizontal polarization signal transmission passage and perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage of the first plate aerial.When transmitting, the signal of the signal output part output of indoor unit transfers to the polarization that polarizer carries out signal after high power amplifier amplifies, and producing horizontal polarization signal and perpendicular polarization signal by horizontal phase shifter with vertical phase shifter respectively, described horizontal polarization signal and perpendicular polarization signal pass through respectively horizontal polarization signal transmission passage and perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage to external radiation.when receiving signal, the horizontal polarization signal transmission passage of plate aerial and perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage receive respectively from the horizontal polarization signal of satellite and perpendicular polarization signal, and filter with vertical low noise amplifier by horizontal low noise amplifier respectively and signal is connected to the reception polarizer after amplifying, described reception polarizer is processed merging to horizontal polarization signal and perpendicular polarization signal, combined signal is transferred to the time delays module, described time delays module is used for the signal transmission of two plate aerials is carried out further merging processing, described combined signal is that general analog signal transmission is to indoor unit by the low-converter frequency reducing.
Further, the horizontal polarization signal transmission passage in described the first plate aerial and the second plate aerial and perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage are respectively arranged with for selecting plate aerial to send, receive the duplexer of operating state.Described duplexer is the channel selector switch that controlled by indoor unit, be used for selecting described plate aerial still to receive operating state for the emission operating state, one end of the duplexer in the first plate aerial is connected with signal transmission passage in plate aerial, the other end connects respectively reception polarizer or phase shifter, when transmitting, duplexer selects signal transmission passage to be connected with phase shifter, and when receiving signal, duplexer selects signal transmission passage to be connected with the reception polarizer; Wherein the signal transmission passage in the second plate aerial also is provided with duplexer, described duplexer is connected with the reception polarizer, because the second plate aerial only is used for receiving signal, therefore whether this duplexer receives signal for controlling the second plate aerial, when the first plate aerial transmits, the duplexer cut-off signal transmission that the second plate aerial is interior, when two plate aerials received signal, the duplexer in the second plate aerial coupled together signal transmission passage and reception polarizer.
Further, described radio frequency polarization system also comprises the binary system power detector, and the test side of described binary system power detector is connected with low-converter, and output is connected with the data input pin of indoor unit.Described binary system power detector is for detection of the power transfer information of low-converter, and forms binary digital signal and transfer to indoor unit, and this design allows indoor unit know the reception condition of satellite radiation signal, and according to RST, system is adjusted.
further, described first, the second plate aerial adopts multi-layer compound structure, comprise the aerial radiation layer that is formed by a plurality of radiating elements, adopt floating strip line to carry out the first power signal configuration layer of power division or merging and the second power signal configuration layer that adopts waveguide to carry out power division or merging, described aerial radiation layer, the first power signal configuration layer be connected the power signal configuration layer and in succession connect successively, wherein the first power signal configuration layer comprises one deck floating strip line configuration layer at least, described the second power signal configuration layer comprises one deck waveguide arrangement layer at least.the floating strip line configuration layer merges by floating strip line the radiation signal that each radiating element receives, the waveguide arrangement layer merges further by the combined signal of waveguide to the floating strip line configuration layer, final one road signal that forms exports the radio frequency polarization system to, floating strip line has good flexibility, thickness is very little, can greatly reduce the thickness of aerial radiation plate, realize the low profile of antenna, radiofrequency signal has realized distribution or merging to signal by rectangular waveguide, waveguide has low-loss characteristics, adopt waveguide that signal is distributed or merge and form the wave beam network, can effectively reduce the loss of signal, the precision of aerial radiation plate is improved greatly, the utility model is configured radiation signal or merges by floating strip line configuration layer and waveguide arrangement layer, adopt dull and stereotyped hierarchy, compare with traditional parabola teledish that not only profile is low, volume is little, lightweight, and combine floating strip line and two kinds of technology of waveguide, can not only effectively reduce the thickness of antenna, realize low profile, and can guarantee the precision of antenna, the performance of raising system.Adopt the aerial radiation array, the radiating element that this structure allows system have grid-shaped, the distance between these radiating elements is very little, thereby larger to the angle of star, power loss is smaller, section height is lower, and sidelobe performance is also relatively good, is particularly suitable at vehicle-mounted (or boat-carrying) satellite mobile communication system, namely use in " communication in moving ", can keep under transport condition to satellite sensing, catch and follow the tracks of, effectively improve emission, the receiving efficiency of antenna terminal, that guarantees to communicate by letter is unimpeded.
Further, interconnect by excitation probe between the floating strip line configuration layer of described adjacent two layers.Described excitation probe is the TEM coaxial conversion equipment, it act as and connects adjacent two layers floating strip line configuration layer, because floating strip line distributes signal on pitching face or merges, need to connect two-layer floating strip line at azimuth plane, connect by excitation probe, can effectively improve EIRP and the G/T value of system, because compare with the power distributing network of other type, the power loss of this implementation is minimum, can improve the precision of aerial radiation plate.
Further, described antenna terminal mechanical drive system comprises fixed platform, be used for to drive that first, second plate aerial rotates on azimuth plane horizontally rotate system and raise the pitching face drive system of screed aerial angle at pitching face, described aerial radiation system respectively with horizontally rotate system and be connected with pitching face drive system.
Further, described fixed platform is arranged on mobile device, horizontally rotating system is fixed on fixed platform, describedly horizontally rotate system and comprise rotatable platform bearing, rotational support platform, be used for driving horizontal transmission component that the rotatable platform bearing rotates, be used for controlling horizontally rotating motor and horizontally rotating electric machine controller of horizontal transmission component, described plate aerial is arranged on the rotational support platform, describedly horizontally rotates electric machine controller, horizontally rotates motor, horizontal transmission component is connected with the rotatable platform bearing and connects; Described pitching face drive system comprises that described angle of pitch electric machine controller, angle of pitch rotary electric machine, angle of pitch rotating mechanism connect in succession for driving angle of pitch rotating mechanism that plate aerial rotates in angle of pitch direction, being used for driving angle of pitch rotary electric machine and the angle of pitch electric machine controller of controlling the motion of angle of pitch rotating mechanism.Above-mentionedly horizontally rotate electric machine controller and angle of pitch electric machine controller and be controlled by directly that satellite points to, catches, tracking system, control horizontally rotating system and horizontally rotating system by horizontally rotating electric machine controller and angle of pitch electric machine controller in mobile process, control plate aerial rotational angle in the horizontal direction and the angle of angle of pitch rotation, thereby realize allowing plate aerial accurately to satelloid.
Further; also comprise the antenna casing for the protection of the low profile satellite antenna; described antenna terminal equipment, fixed platform, horizontally rotate system and pitching face drive system is arranged in antenna casing; described antenna casing comprises that the pedestal box of being made by ABS plastic and the radome that is arranged on the pedestal box, described radome comprise the outer paper honeycomb layer with being arranged at the radome internal layer of the radome that uses glass fibre to make.The effect of radome is that whole antenna terminal is shielded, and makes it in the normal operation of Ku frequency range, and is little to the decay of signal on the one hand, can improve cross-polarization performance on the other hand, and can be complementary with other parts of whole antenna system.
Further, described the first plate aerial, the second plate aerial are arranged on pitching face drive system by rolling bearing respectively, and wherein the rotation axis on the second plate aerial is higher than the rotation axis of the first plate aerial.When this design can allow two plate aerials point to the high elevation angle, the distance between two plates was more approaching, and when the elevation angle was low, the distance between two plates became farther.Like this, when plate aerial pointed to the high elevation angle, minor level was lower, and when plate aerial pointed to the low elevation angle, header board can be smaller to blocking of rear plate, thereby can improve receiving gain.
Further, described aerial radiation system and radio frequency polarization system all are arranged on the antenna terminal mechanical drive system.Wherein the radio frequency polarization system is arranged at and horizontally rotates in system, when the antenna terminal is rotated on azimuth plane, aerial radiation system and radio frequency polarization system synchronization are rotated, the aerial radiation system can be fixedly connected with by waveguide with the radio frequency polarization system, cable and connecting line have been exempted, not only save material, and reduced the systematic error that causes due to transmission.
Further, described angle of pitch rotating mechanism comprises the first belt pulley and the second belt pulley that is separately positioned on two plate aerial axle sides, with be arranged on the epitrochanterian driving wheel of angle of pitch rotary electric machine, described the first belt pulley, the second belt pulley are connected on driving wheel by belt respectively simultaneously, driving wheel drives the first belt pulley by belt and the second belt pulley rotates, and the rotating ratio of the first belt pulley and the second belt pulley is 1:1.The rotating ratio of the first belt pulley and the second belt pulley is 1:1, can allow two plate aerials synchronously rotate, and makes the sensing of antenna more accurate.
further, satellite points to, catch, tracking system comprises be used to the gps system that the current GPS geographical location information of antenna terminal and GPS course information are provided, be used for providing the Inertial Measurement Unit of motion carrier inertia information, power detector and CPU for detection of the satellite power signal magnitude, described CPU respectively with gps system, Inertial Measurement Unit, power detector is connected with indoor unit, described CPU also is connected to respectively drive motors in the antenna terminal mechanical drive system by data/address bus, by obtaining the GPS geographical location information, the GPS course information, the accurate location of motion carrier inertia information and satellite power acquisition of information satellite, and by control antenna terminal mechanical drive system, the aerial radiation system is regulated, allow first, the second plate aerial can be accurately to star.CPU is obtained GPS geographical location information, GPS course information, motion carrier inertia information and satellite power information by gps system, Inertial Measurement Unit, power detector, and realize the accurate sensing of satellite according to these information control antennas, be specially adapted to the low profile antenna terminal that hybrid electric motor is combined with electronic scanning, can not only effectively reduce costs, and accuracy is high, can keep under the state that travels to satellite sensing, catch and follow the tracks of, effectively improve emission, the receiving efficiency of antenna terminal, that guarantees to communicate by letter is unimpeded.
Further, described satellite points to, catches, tracking system also comprises be used to the magnetic compass that the current course information of antenna is provided, and described magnetic compass is connected the course signal that provides lasting with CPU.When gps system can't detect the GPS course information of current motion carrier, obtain course information by magnetic compass, and according to this information, the position of satellite is estimated, allow antenna still can point to satellite, reduce system deviation, when the GPS course information is recovered, system's state of resuming work rapidly.
Embodiment
With reference to shown in Figure 1, a kind of novel " communication in moving " of the present utility model low profile plate aerial system, antenna system is received/sent out to the two arrays that are a kind of realization " communication in moving " on the Ku wave band, mainly formed by following subsystem, with reference to shown in Figure 1, comprise that aerial radiation system 1, radio frequency polarization system 3, antenna terminal mechanical drive system 4, satellite point to, catch, tracking system 5 and indoor unit 6.Described aerial radiation system 1 is connected with radio frequency polarization system 3, radio frequency polarization system 3 is by aerial radiation system's 1 reception or send the satellite radiation signal, aerial radiation system 1 and radio frequency polarization system 3 are arranged on antenna terminal mechanical drive system 4, antenna terminal mechanical drive system 4 is used for driven antenna radiating system 1 and points to the satellite position, described antenna terminal mechanical drive system 4 is arranged on mobile terminal, as be arranged at automobile, the surface of ship or aircraft.Indoor unit 6 is connected with radio frequency polarization system 3, radio frequency polarization system 3 is used for the aerial radiation signal of high frequency is received down conversion process, and transfer to indoor unit 6, and indoor unit 6 also produces the radio frequency polarization signals by radio frequency polarization system 3, and carries out radiation by aerial radiation system 1 and send.
In order to allow aerial radiation system 1 exactly to star, need to carry out accurate machinery to aerial radiation system 1 controls, and regulate radio frequency polarization system 3, make it receive or send signal better, be provided with also that satellite points to, catches, tracking system 5, described satellite points to, catches, tracking system 5 is connected with the antenna terminal mechanical drive system with radio frequency polarization system 3 respectively and is connected, by detecting course, the inertia information of current mobile terminal, radio-frequency radiation system and antenna terminal mechanical drive system 4 are controlled and adjust, make it accurately to star.
Below subsystems is described in detail:
With reference to shown in Figure 1, in the utility model, aerial radiation system 1 is provided with two plate aerials, be respectively the first plate aerial 11 and the second plate aerial 12, be provided with gain that two plate aerials can effectively improve antenna, improve the receiving efficiency of signal, and in order to guarantee to transmit, signal can not be interfered, and wherein the first plate aerial 11 has the ability of sending and receiving satellite radiation signal, and 12 of the second plate aerials have the ability that receives the satellite radiation signal.The utility model can be realized reception and the transmission of signal on the one flat plate antenna, separate the antenna of work compares with complete independence, can effectively reduce the quantity of plate aerial, reduce the volume of antenna system, and adopt plate aerial to have advantages of low profile, be suitable for using on mobile terminal.although the function of the first plate aerial 11 and the second plate aerial 12 is incomplete same, but for simplified design and cut down finished cost, the first plate aerial 11 and the second plate aerial 12 have identical structure, and in order to realize the two-band of antenna system, dual-polarized duplex operation pattern, with reference to shown in Figure 2, be the structured flowchart of one flat plate antenna wherein, described the first plate aerial 11 and the second plate aerial 12 include for the horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22 of transmit level polarized signal with for the perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23 that transmits the perpendicular polarization signal, allow first, the second plate aerial 11, 12 have transmit level, the ability of perpendicular polarization satellite radiation signal, greatly expanded antenna transmission, and the ability of transmitted signal, improved the practicality of antenna system.
more specifically, with reference to shown in Figure 2, described plate aerial is for to be formed by the tabular structure composite of multilayer, this arranges the volume that can effectively reduce plate aerial, reduce the profile height of antenna system, wherein plate aerial comprises aerial radiation layer 21, horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22, perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23, wherein aerial radiation layer 21 is for arranging by a plurality of radiating elements 211 the aerial radiation array that forms, described horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22 is connected with the perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage and is connected with described radiating element 211 respectively, each radiating element 211 can receive the satellite radiation signal, wherein receive the horizontal polarization signal and transfer to horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22, the perpendicular polarization signal that receives transfers to perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23, and when sending, give off separately signal by horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22 or perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23 to radiating element 211, wherein horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22 is identical with the structure of perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23, be used for the reception to a plurality of radiating elements 211, transmitted signal merges or distributes, difference is that radiating element 211 is provided with different resonance ports, what be connected to horizontal polarization resonance port is horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22, what be connected to perpendicular polarization resonance port is perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23, because two channel designs are identical, therefore following is described for a signal transmission passage.
described horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22 or perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23 comprise the first power signal configuration layer 24 that is comprised of an above floating strip line configuration layer 241, the the second power signal configuration layer 25 that is formed by an above waveguide arrangement layer 251, duplexer 26 and low noise amplifier, wherein be arranged at the horizontal low noise amplifier 27 that is in horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22, be arranged at the vertical low noise amplifier 28 that is in perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23, described aerial radiation layer 21, the first power signal configuration layer 24, the second power signal configuration layer 25, duplexer 26 is connected with low noise amplifier and is in succession connected, the signal output part of described low noise amplifier is connected to radio frequency polarization system 3.Described low noise amplifier is used for that output signal is carried out low noise amplification to be processed, and signal is carried out filtering, draws purer signal.Described duplexer 26 is equivalent to a hilted broadsword double-gate switch, be used for to select plate aerial to be in and sends or accepting state, and its specific works process will be hereinafter be illustrated in conjunction with radio frequency polarization system 3.
the number of plies of described floating strip line configuration layer 241 and waveguide arrangement layer 251 can be regulated according to the quantity of radiating element 211, this design can improve the efficient of aerial radiation system 1 production and assembly and improve the efficient that satellite-signal merges/distributes, floating strip line configuration layer 241 merges by floating strip line the radiation signal that each radiating element 211 receives, waveguide arrangement layer 251 merges further by the combined signal of waveguide to floating strip line configuration layer 241, final one road signal that forms exports radio frequency polarization system 3 to, floating strip line has good flexibility, thickness is very little, can greatly reduce the thickness of aerial radiation plate, realize the low profile of antenna, realize distribution or merging to signal by rectangular waveguide in waveguide arrangement layer 251, waveguide has low-loss characteristics, adopt waveguide that signal is distributed or merge and form the wave beam network, can effectively reduce the loss of signal, the precision of aerial radiation plate is increased greatly, the utility model is configured or merges by floating strip line configuration layer 241 and 251 pairs of radiation signal of waveguide arrangement layer, adopt dull and stereotyped hierarchy, compare with traditional parabola teledish that not only profile is low, volume is little, lightweight, and combine floating strip line and two kinds of technology of waveguide, can not only effectively reduce the thickness of antenna, realize low profile, and can guarantee the precision of antenna, the performance of raising system.Adopt the aerial radiation array, this structure allows system have the radiating element 211 of grid-shaped, distance between these radiating elements 211 is very little, thereby larger to the angle of star, power loss is smaller, section height is lower, sidelobe performance is also relatively good, be particularly suitable at vehicle-mounted (or boat-carrying) satellite mobile communication system, namely use in " communication in moving ", can keep under transport condition to satellite sensing, catch and follow the tracks of, that guarantees to communicate by letter is unimpeded, effectively improve emission, the receiving efficiency of antenna terminal, keep the unimpeded of communication.
As above-mentioned further improvement, interconnect by excitation probe between the floating strip line configuration layer 241 of described adjacent two layers.Described excitation probe is the TEM coaxial conversion equipment, it act as and connects adjacent two layers floating strip line configuration layer 241, because floating strip line distributes signal on pitching face or merges, need to connect two-layer floating strip line at azimuth plane, connect by excitation probe, can effectively improve EIRP and the G/T value of system, because compare with the power distributing network of other type, the power loss of this implementation is minimum, can improve the precision of aerial radiation plate.
with reference to shown in Figure 3, radio frequency polarization system 3 is used for receiving from the satellite polarized radiation signal of aerial radiation system 1 or to aerial radiation system 1 and sends the satellite polarized radiation signal, it comprises polarization receiver module and polarization sending module, the receiver module that wherein polarizes comprises respectively and the first plate aerial 11, two reception polarizers 31 of the second plate aerial 12 correspondences, the time delays module 32 and the low-converter 33 that in succession connect successively, the output of low-converter 33 is connected to indoor unit 6, described two reception polarizers 31 are placed in respectively the orlop of the first plate aerial 11 and the second plate aerial 12, its output is connected to the input of time delays module 32, also comprise binary system power detector 56, described binary system power detector 56 is connected with low-converter 33, the input of described reception polarizer 31 is connected with the polarized signal output of horizontal low noise amplifier 27 and vertical low noise amplifier 28 respectively, when receiving signal, the horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22 of plate aerial and perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23 receive respectively from the horizontal polarization signal of satellite and perpendicular polarization signal, respectively the reception signal from radiating element 211 is merged layer by layer, and filter with vertical low noise amplifier 28 by horizontal low noise amplifier 27 respectively and signal is connected to after amplifying and receives polarizer 31, 31 pairs of horizontal polarization signals of described reception polarizer and perpendicular polarization signal are processed merging, combined signal is transferred to time delays module 32, described time delays module 32 is used for first, the second plate aerial 11, 12 output signal transmission carries out further merging processing, described combined signal is that general analog signal transmission is to the signal input part of indoor unit 6 by low-converter 33 frequency reducings.
described polarization sending module comprises high power amplifier 34, send polarizer 35, horizontal phase shifter 36 and vertical phase shifter 37, the signal output part of described indoor unit 6, high power amplifier 34, sending polarizer 35 connects successively in succession, the output that wherein sends polarizer 35 is connected with respectively horizontal phase shifter 36 and vertical phase shifter 37, described horizontal phase shifter 36 is respectively used to transmit level polarized signal and perpendicular polarization signal with vertical phase shifter 37, wherein the signal output part of horizontal phase shifter 36 is connected on the interior duplexer 26 of the first interior horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22 of plate aerial 11, described vertical phase shifter 37 is connected on the duplexer 26 of the first interior perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23 of plate aerial 11, take the duplexer 26 of the first interior horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22 of plate aerial 11 as example, one end of described duplexer 26 is connected with the second power signal configuration layer 25, and the other end respectively with horizontal phase shifter 36 be connected low noise amplifier 27 and be connected, when transmitting, duplexer 26 selects signal transmission passage to be connected with phase shifter, when receiving signal, duplexer 26 selects signal transmission passage to be connected with reception polarizer 31, wherein the duplexer 26 in the second plate aerial 12 is connected with reception polarizer 31, because 12 of the second plate aerials are used for receiving signal, therefore whether this duplexer 26 receives signal for controlling the second plate aerial 12, when the first plate aerial 11 transmits, duplexer 26 cut-off signal transmission in the second plate aerial 12, when receiving signal, the duplexer 26 in the second plate aerial 12 connects signal transmission passage and receives polarizer 31.
when transmitted signal, duplexer 26 in horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22 and perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23 selects respectively to be communicated with horizontal phase shifter 36, vertical phase shifter 37, the signal of the signal output part output of indoor unit 6 transfers to the polarization that polarizer carries out signal after high power amplifier 34 amplifies, and produce horizontal polarization signal and perpendicular polarization signal by horizontal phase shifter 36 with vertical phase shifter 37 respectively, described horizontal polarization signal and perpendicular polarization signal transfer to aerial radiation layer 21 by horizontal polarization signal transmission passage 22 and perpendicular polarization signal transmission passage 23 respectively and carry out radiation, wherein said high power amplifier 34 is controlled by high power amplification controller 341.
Further, with reference to shown in Figure 4, described transmission polarizer 35 is rectangular waveguide aperture-type polarizer, adopt the rectangular waveguide aperture-type polarizer of Waveguide polarization technology, its compact conformation, firm has fabulous electrical property, and described transmission polarizer 35 is connected with polarizing control motor 351, described polarizing control motor 351 is used for controlling the anglec of rotation of polarizer, thereby polarized signal is controlled.Described reception polarizer 31 is the electronic polarization device, and employing electronic polarization device can effectively reduce the volume of plate aerial and reduce the profile height of antenna system.
In the emission polarized signal, phase control to polarized signal is very important, it needs to compensate the horizontal polarization signal that caused by radome 71 and the phase difference between the perpendicular polarization signal at least, therefore, described vertical phase shifter 37 is variable phase shifter, horizontal phase shifter 36 is fixed phase shifter, described variable phase shifter is comprised of phase control motor 371 and slip waveguide, the position of described phase control motor 371 control slip waveguides in transmission waveguide, thereby the phase place to the perpendicular polarization signal is regulated, the phase difference that compensation is caused by radome 71.
extremely shown in Figure 11 with reference to Fig. 5, described antenna terminal mechanical drive system 4 is used for driving and control antenna radiating system 1 championship is put on pitching face and azimuth plane, comprising the fixed platform 43 that is fixed on mobile terminal, be arranged on fixed platform 43, be used for driving first, the second plate aerial 11, 12 rotate on azimuth plane horizontally rotate system 41 and raise the pitching face drive system 42 of screed aerial angle at pitching face, describedly horizontally rotate system 41 and comprise rotatable platform bearing 411, rotational support platform 412, be used for driving the horizontal transmission component 413 that rotatable platform bearing 411 rotates, be used for controlling horizontally rotating motor 414 and horizontally rotating electric machine controller 415 of horizontal transmission component 413, described plate aerial is arranged on rotational support platform 412, describedly horizontally rotate electric machine controller 415, horizontally rotate motor 414, horizontal transmission component 413 is connected with the rotatable platform bearing in succession and is connected, described pitching face drive system 42 comprises that described angle of pitch electric machine controller 423, angle of pitch rotary electric machine 422, angle of pitch rotating mechanism 421 connect in succession for driving angle of pitch rotating mechanism 421 that plate aerial rotates in angle of pitch direction, being used for driving angle of pitch rotary electric machine 422 and the angle of pitch electric machine controller 423 of controlling 421 motions of angle of pitch rotating mechanism.Above-mentionedly horizontally rotate electric machine controller 415 and angle of pitch electric machine controller 423 and be controlled by directly that satellite points to, catches, tracking system 5.
Preferably, described aerial radiation system 1 and radio frequency polarization system 3 all are arranged on antenna terminal mechanical drive system 4.Wherein radio frequency polarization system 3 is arranged at and horizontally rotates in system 41, when the antenna terminal is rotated on azimuth plane, aerial radiation system 1 and radio frequency polarization system 3 synchronously rotate, aerial radiation system 1 can be fixedly connected with by waveguide with radio frequency polarization system 3, cable and connecting line have been exempted, not only save material, and reduced the systematic error that causes due to transmission, improved the accuracy of system.
More specifically, described rotatable platform bearing 411 is for being arranged on the rotation becket on fixed platform 43, the lateral surface of described becket is provided with the gear teeth 400, described horizontal transmission component 413 comprises belt wheel 401 and driving belt 402, one end of described driving belt 402 is arranged on belt wheel 401, the other end is connected on the rotor that horizontally rotates motor 414, be provided with on described belt wheel 401 and synchronize the travelling gear 403 that rotates with belt wheel 401, described travelling gear 403 is connected with a joggle with the gear teeth 400 of becket.When horizontally rotating motor 414 rotation, rotor by motor drives driving belt 402 rotations, driving belt 402 band movable belt pulleys 401 rotate, and allow the travelling gear 403 on belt wheel 401 control the rotation of beckets, thereby realize controlling rotatable platform bearing 411 rotation in the horizontal direction.This arranges, and not only it is stressed average when rotating, and moves more stablely, and by distinctive drive system, the rotational angle of becket is controlled, and to compare its corresponding speed fast with general control mode, and accuracy is high.
More specifically, with reference to shown in Figure 11, first, second plate aerial 11,12 is arranged on rotational support platform 412 by two aluminium matter supports 416 respectively, is provided with ball bearing on aluminium matter support 416, and the rotation axis of plate aerial is arranged on aluminium matter support 416 by ball bearing; Described angle of pitch rotating mechanism 421 comprises the first belt pulley 111 and the second belt pulley 121 that is separately positioned on two plate aerial axle sides, with be arranged on the epitrochanterian driving wheel 424 of angle of pitch rotary electric machine 422, described the first belt pulley 111, the second belt pulley 121 are connected on driving wheel 424 simultaneously by belt respectively, driving wheel 424 drives the first belt pulley 111 by belt and the second belt pulley 121 rotates, the rotating ratio of the first belt pulley 111 and the second belt pulley 121 is 1:1, this arranges and can allow two plate aerials synchronously rotate, and makes the sensing of antenna more accurate.
With reference to shown in Figure 10, described the first plate aerial 11 is placed in the place ahead of the second plate aerial 12.Such advantage is that when the plate aerial run-off the straight, the electromagnetic beam of described the first plate aerial 11 emissions can not decayed because of being blocked, and can guarantee the quality that antenna system transmits.Rotation axis on described the second plate aerial 12 is higher than the rotation axis of the first plate aerial 11, and namely the position at the second belt pulley 121 to the first belt pulley 111 places is high.When this design can allow two plate aerials point to the high elevation angle, make the distance between two plates more approaching, and when the elevation angle was low, the distance between two plates became farther.Like this, when plate aerial pointed to the high elevation angle, minor level was lower, and when plate aerial pointed to the low elevation angle, header board can be smaller to blocking of rear plate, thereby can improve receiving gain.
Further, the normal direction of described first, second plate aerial 11,12 signal transmitting/receiving and the angle of horizontal plane are α, and α determines according to the beam scanning scope of pitching face.plate aerial can be adjusted the angle that signal transmits and receives by signal being carried out the phase in-migration, realize the electric scanning of plate aerial, therefore the utility model is regulated by the phase place of 3 pairs of radiation signals of radio frequency polarization system, can control the direction of transmitting/receiving signal, realize pre-tilt, its angle is determined according to the beam scanning scope of pitching face, because most of satellites are arranged at the equator, and belong to the Northern Hemisphere in CHINESE REGION, satellite is in the scope of 20 ° to 70 ° of pitching face mostly, in order to allow plate aerial can scan more quickly this scope, just adopt the method for electric scanning to carry out pre-tilt to transmitting of antenna, the angle that by mechanical rotation, plate aerial is rotated like this will reduce, the profile of antenna rotation simultaneously will be lower.Therefore, making normal direction and the plane included angle of the transmitting/receiving signal of plate aerial is α, has just realized pre-tilt, thereby can effectively reduce the height of antenna system, and accelerated antenna to the sweep speed of star.。
Preferably, the normal direction of described first, second plate aerial 11,12 signal transmitting/receiving and the angle of horizontal plane are 41 °.For scanning center, realize above-mentioned sweep limits by pre-tilt and machinery rotation, when 45 spent, its profile was minimum when the angle of pre-tilt, yet when the plate aerial of the pre-tilts that adopt 45 degree scans, minor level can increase, especially true for perpendicular polarization, for this reason, 41 degree tilt angles are adopted in angle of pitch scanning of the present utility model, low profile can be satisfied, the accuracy of sweep limits and scanning can be guaranteed again.
with reference to shown in Figure 12, the utility model low profile plate aerial system also comprises for to plate aerial, the antenna casing 7 that radio frequency polarization system 3 and antenna terminal mechanical drive system 4 are protected, described aerial radiation system 1, radio frequency polarization system 3, fixed platform 43, horizontally rotating system 41 and pitching face drive system 42 is arranged in antenna casing 7, described antenna casing 7 comprises the pedestal box 72 of being made by ABS plastic and the radome 71 that is arranged on pedestal box 72, described radome 71 comprises the outer paper honeycomb layer with being arranged at radome 71 internal layers of radome 71 that uses glass fibre to make.The effect of radome 71 is that whole antenna terminal is shielded, and makes it in the normal operation of Ku frequency range, and is little to the decay of signal on the one hand, can improve cross-polarization performance on the other hand, and can be complementary with other parts of whole antenna system.
the utility model low profile plate aerial system is owing to being applied on mobile terminal, therefore need satellite to point to when mobile, catch, tracking system 5 is constantly controlled antenna system, can be accurately to star, this need to be to the mechanical rotation direction of system, the power of output polarization signal, phase place is carried out adaptive control, wherein antenna terminal mechanical drive system 4 need to be controlled the pitching face of aerial radiation system 1 and the sensing on azimuth plane, motor 414 and angle of pitch rotary electric machine 422 realize by horizontally rotating respectively for it, and in polar system, by high power amplification controller 341, the power of polarizing control motor 351 and 371 pairs of polarized signals of phase control motor, phase place is controlled, according to the position of mobile terminal, the aerial radiation signal is adjusted.
with reference to shown in Figure 13, the utility model satellite points to, catch, tracking system 5 comprises be used to the gps system 52 that the current GPS geographical location information of antenna terminal and GPS course information are provided, be used for providing the Inertial Measurement Unit 54 of motion carrier inertia information, for detection of power detector 56 and the CPU 51 of satellite power signal magnitude, described CPU 51 respectively with gps system 52, Inertial Measurement Unit 54, power detector 56 is connected connection with indoor unit, described CPU 51 also by data/address bus respectively the electric machine controller by separately connect and horizontally rotate motor 414, angle of pitch rotary electric machine 422, polarizing control motor 351, phase control motor 371 connects high power amplification controller 341 by microcomputerized controller, and antenna system is controlled, and satellite points to, catch, during tracking system 5 work, by obtaining the GPS geographical location information, the GPS course information, the accurate location of motion carrier inertia information and satellite power acquisition of information satellite, and regulate by 4 pairs of control antenna terminal mechanical drive systems aerial radiation system 1, allow first, the second plate aerial 11, 12 can be accurately to star.CPU 51 is obtained GPS geographical location information, GPS course information, motion carrier inertia information and satellite power information by gps system 52, Inertial Measurement Unit 54, power detector 56, and realize the accurate sensing of satellite according to these information control antennas, be specially adapted to the low profile antenna terminal that hybrid electric motor is combined with electronic scanning, can not only effectively reduce costs, and accuracy is high, can keep under the state that travels to satellite sensing, catch and follow the tracks of, effectively improve emission, the receiving efficiency of antenna terminal, that guarantees to communicate by letter is unimpeded.
Further, described satellite points to, catches, tracking system 5 comprises that also be used to the magnetic compass 53 that the current course information of antenna is provided, described magnetic compass 53 is connected with CPU 51 course signal that provides lasting.When gps system 52 can't detect the GPS course information of current motion carrier, obtain course information by magnetic compass 53, and according to this information, the position of satellite is estimated, allow antenna still can point to satellite, reduce system deviation, when the GPS course information is recovered, system's state of resuming work rapidly.
With reference to shown in Figure 14, satellite points to, catches, the specific operation process of tracking system 5 is as follows: satellite points to, catches, tracking system 5 is obtained GPS geographical location information and the GPS course information at mobile terminal place by gps system 52, obtain the motion carrier inertia information of current mobile terminal by Inertial Measurement Unit 54, calculate the accurate course information that obtains antenna by Kalman filter, described Kalman filter is one group of formula of mathematical, it estimates a kind of status of processes by iterative calculation method, makes mean square deviation minimum.In the iterative process each time of filter, according to the measured value from gps system 52 and Inertial Measurement Unit 54, state is once estimated again, the frequency of reading from gps system 52 and Inertial Measurement Unit 54 has a great difference, gps system 52 is 1Hz, and 54 of Inertial Measurement Units are 100Hz.Since Kalman filter has adopted higher frequency 100Hz, so filter just carries out 100 times interative computation each second.Due to the data that do not obtain reading from gps system 52, thereby just think that the course value that is provided by Inertial Measurement Unit 54 just is provided this numerical value when upper once iteration in these iterative process.This process constantly continues, until read new gps data.
after obtaining accurately course information, CPU 51 is passed through respectively antenna terminal mechanical drive system 4 by bus interface 58, each motor controller controls aerial radiation system 1 in aerial radiation system 1 turns to power with the aerial radiation signal, the signal parameters such as phase place, can be accurately to star, aerial radiation system 1 is accurately to after star, satellite points to, catch, tracking system 5 is finely tuned by maximum power algorithm estimation error in pointing and to antenna and is realized catching and following the tracks of satellite, wherein every 10 milliseconds of position and the polarization to the satellite of antenna coordinate of CPU 51 are once calculated, and data are delivered to electric machine controller, get final product the sensing of control antenna, and inertia motion is compensated, when inertia motion is compensated, calculate error by the maximum power computational methods, particularly, described maximum power computational methods are for being offset on a small quantity near pointing to location point at satellite theory, measuring the power that causes thus changes, and estimation error in pointing, sensing position according to error fine setting antenna, finally can realize accurate sensing.Need in the process of travelling due to motion carrier constantly the position of antenna to be adjusted, the error that therefore produces in processing procedure will constantly accumulate, and consequently cause antenna can only point near the theoretical position of satellite, and can not point to exactly satellite.the maximum power computational methods are the errors in pointing that produce according to the signal power level correction that receives, namely carry out a small amount of offset variation on each axis of orientation, then the power signal of observation post's detection is to increase or reduce, not only be offset on a small quantity on azimuth and the angle of pitch, and also carry out a small amount of skew in the phase shifter of antenna, can greatly improve reception like this, by changing a little the phase place of phase shifter, plate aerial receives the also corresponding change of electric phase place of signal simultaneously, can estimate the error of antenna by the power error of its detection, revise, allow antenna aim at all the time satellite-signal prominent orientation, thereby realize pointing to accurately and catching satellite, follow the tracks of.
Also comprise the user interface 8 that operates for the user, described user interface 8 by indoor unit 6 point to satellite, catch, tracking system 5 is connected, the user can obtain by user interface 8 control information of system, CPU 51 is connected with user side by local area network (LAN), and the user controls setting with parameter by local area network (LAN) to system.The user can directly input the relevant parameter of the satellite of required sensing, the sensing of control antenna radiating system 1 by user interface.
Further, when antenna points to satellite, the satellite power information that power detector 56 detects is during higher than the predetermined threshold value of being determined by experiment and locking satellite, just think that antenna has been positioned at safe emitting area, at this moment just open the switch of radio-frequency power amplifier, allow the antenna transmission signal, otherwise forbid emission.This design can effectively avoid antenna on the impact of adjacent satellite, improves Systems balanth and practicality.
Further, also comprise beacon detector 57 continuous for detection of the simulation of certain satellite, narrow band signal power, described beacon detector 57 outputs are connected with CPU 51.Beacon detector 57 is for detection of the power signal of specified satellite, and after to the satellite locking, the satellite power signal that carries out adopting beacon detector 57 to detect when maximum power is calculated can allow antenna more accurately to satelloid.
Further, also comprise the modulator-demodulator 55 that locking signal, power output, state information are provided, described modulator-demodulator 55 is connected with CPU 51.Carry out demodulation by 55 pairs of satellite power signals of modulator-demodulator, can realize the fast processing of fast detecting satellite-signal, and can conveniently realize the locking to satellite.
The above is preferred embodiment of the present utility model, and the utility model is not limited to above-mentioned execution mode, as long as it reaches technique effect of the present utility model with identical means, all should belong to protection range of the present utility model.