CN212011281U

CN212011281U - Circularly polarized positioning antenna device and wearable equipment

Info

Publication number: CN212011281U
Application number: CN202020961665.XU
Authority: CN
Inventors: 江清华; 梅波
Original assignee: Guangdong Genius Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Genius Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-05-28
Filing date: 2020-05-28
Publication date: 2020-11-24
Anticipated expiration: 2030-05-28

Abstract

A circularly polarized positioning antenna device and a wearable device, the circularly polarized positioning antenna device comprising: the circuit is divided to the merit, the first antenna and the second antenna that the quadrature was arranged, the whole structure that circular polarized antenna has been simplified through carrying out the feed to two antennas to the merit, realize more easily on wearable product, thereby make positioning antenna can receive navigation satellite signal better, the produced dextrorotation circular polarization radiation of annular radiator also can filter the levogyration circular polarization navigation satellite signal of reflection through high building or ground simultaneously, in order to reduce multipath interference, thereby effectively improve wearable equipment's positioning antenna's positioning accuracy.

Description

Circularly polarized positioning antenna device and wearable equipment

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of antennas, and particularly relates to a circularly polarized positioning antenna device and wearable equipment.

Background

In intelligent wrist-watch or bracelet field, positioning accuracy is the pain point that people were concerned about always. Traditional smart watch or bracelet positioning antenna are mostly linear polarization antenna, but the signal that the navigation satellite sent is dextrorotation circular polarization signal behind the ionosphere, therefore the unable whole signals of receiving the navigation satellite of positioning antenna of smart watch or bracelet, and the signal of navigation satellite is by after ground, high building, trees etc. odd number reflection again, can become levogyration circular polarization signal, the multipath interference that will produce seriously influences the location effect of complete machine.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the application is to provide a circular polarization positioning antenna device and wearable equipment, aim at solving the lower problem of antenna positioning accuracy of current wearable equipment.

A first aspect of an embodiment of the present application provides a circularly polarized positioning antenna apparatus, including:

the power dividing circuit is provided with a first output end and a second output end, the first output end and the second output end output a first feeding signal, the second output end outputs a second feeding signal, and the first feeding signal and the second feeding signal have equal amplitude and have a phase difference of 90 degrees;

the first inverted-F antenna is connected with the first output end and is connected with the first feed signal;

the second inverted-F antenna is connected with the second output end and is connected with the second feed signal, the head end of the second inverted-F antenna is arranged on one side of the tail end of the first inverted-F antenna at intervals, and the first inverted-F antenna and the second inverted-F antenna are at an angle to form excitation of two orthogonal modes.

The circularly polarized positioning antenna device forms the excitation of two orthogonal modes by setting the position relation of two linearly polarized inverted-F antennas, the two orthogonal modes are matched with a power dividing circuit to realize feed with equal amplitude and 90-degree phase difference, so that a circularly polarized antenna is formed, the axial ratio in an effective bandwidth is ensured to be within 3dB, the realization of circular polarization is ensured, the field shape of a receiver antenna in each direction on a radiation surface is ensured to be round, circularly polarized hemispherical beams with excellent performance are obtained, and an ideal satellite searching effect is achieved; therefore, the radiation characteristic of right-hand circular polarization of the antenna can be realized by controlling the placing positions and the power supply phases of the two antennas, the interference of a left-hand circular polarization signal can be reduced by the right-hand circular polarization receiving antenna, and the effect of inhibiting multipath reflection can be achieved in engineering, so that the positioning precision is effectively improved.

In one embodiment, the first antenna is a first inverted-F antenna, the first antenna has a first long side, a first end portion, and a second end portion, one end of the first long side connected to the first end portion is used as a head end of the first inverted-F antenna, the other end of the first long side is used as a tail end of the first inverted-F antenna, one of the first end portion and the second end portion is connected to the first output end, and the other end portion is used for grounding.

In one embodiment, the second antenna is a second inverted-F antenna, the second antenna has a second long side, a third end and a fourth end, one end of the second long side connected to the third end is used as a head end of the second inverted-F antenna, the other end of the second long side is used as a tail end of the second inverted-F antenna, one of the third end and the fourth end is connected to the second output end, and the other is used for grounding.

In one embodiment, the lengths of the first long side and the second long side correspond to an operating wavelength of the circularly polarized positioning antenna device.

In one embodiment, the antenna further comprises a dielectric substrate, and the first antenna and the second antenna are vertically arranged on the same surface of the dielectric substrate.

In one embodiment, the power dividing circuit is a wilkinson power divider or a T-type power divider; or

The power dividing circuit comprises a first input end, a second input end, a first output end and a second output end, wherein two first capacitors are connected between the first input end and the second input end in series, two second capacitors are connected between the first output end and the second output end in series, a first inductor is connected between the first input end and the first output end in series, a second inductor is connected between the second input end and the second output end in series, and a third inductor is connected between the common connection end of the two first capacitors and the common connection end of the two second capacitors.

In one embodiment, the first and second antennas are symmetrically coupled CHIP antennas; or the first antenna and the second antenna are symmetric linearly polarized PATCH antennas respectively

In one embodiment, the angle is in the range of 75 ° to 105 °.

In one embodiment, an inductive device is loaded on the first inverted-F antenna and/or the second inverted-F antenna.

A second aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a wearable device, including a circuit board and the circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus as described above, wherein an input end of the power dividing circuit is connected to a radio frequency port of the circuit board, and a feeding signal of the power dividing circuit provided according to the radio frequency port is divided into the first feeding signal and the second feeding signal.

The wearable device adopts all embodiments of the circularly polarized positioning antenna device, so that at least all the beneficial effects of the embodiments are achieved, and the details are not repeated herein.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a top view of a circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a circuit diagram of a power dividing circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of an S parameter of a circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a three-dimensional directional diagram of a circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a two-dimensional four-axis ratio simulation diagram of a phi-0 ° and 90 ° section of the circularly polarized positioning antenna apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a right-hand circular polarization gain two-dimensional pattern of a 0 ° and 90 ° section of phi of the circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus provided by the embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantageous effects to be solved by the present application clearer, the present application is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the present application and are not intended to limit the present application.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or be indirectly on the other element. When an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or be indirectly connected to the other element.

It will be understood that the terms "length," "width," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like, refer to an orientation or positional relationship illustrated in the drawings for convenience in describing the present application and to simplify description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present application.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

Referring to fig. 1, the circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus for a wearable device according to the embodiment of the present application includes a power dividing circuit 10, a first antenna 11, and a second antenna 12.

The power dividing circuit 10 has a first output terminal 3 and a second output terminal 4, the first output terminal 3 outputs a first feeding signal, the second output terminal 4 outputs a second feeding signal, and the first feeding signal and the second feeding signal have equal amplitude and have a phase difference of 90 degrees; the first antenna 11 is connected with the first output end 3 of the power dividing circuit 10 and is connected with a first feeding signal; the second antenna 12 is connected with the second output end 4 of the power dividing circuit 10, a second feed signal is accessed, the head end 121A of the second antenna 12 is arranged at one side of the tail end 111B of the first antenna at intervals, and the first antenna 11 and the second antenna 12 form an angle α, so that excitation of two orthogonal modes is formed, amplitude equality of distributed current on a required working frequency point can be realized, phase difference is 90 °, specifically, the phase of the distributed current can be sequentially delayed by 90 ° according to a counterclockwise phase on the front surface of the dielectric substrate 100, the polarization mode of the positioning antenna is right-hand circular polarization, an axial ratio in an effective bandwidth is guaranteed to be within 3dB, realization of circular polarization is realized, field shape roundness of the receiver antenna in each direction on a radiation surface is guaranteed, a circular polarization hemisphere wave beam with excellent performance is obtained, and an ideal star searching effect is achieved.

In one embodiment, the included angle α between the first antenna 11 and the second antenna 12 on the front surface of the dielectric substrate 100 is in a range of 70 ° to 110 °, and experiments prove that the first antenna and the second antenna can still radiate circularly polarized waves with good radiation performance, and the included angle α may preferably be in a range of 75 ° to 105 °.

In one embodiment, the first antenna 11 is arranged along a first direction x and the second antenna 12 is arranged along a second direction y perpendicular to the first direction x, i.e. the first inverted-F antenna 11 and the second inverted-F antenna 12 have an angle α of 90 °. As shown in fig. 1, when looking down the front surface of the dielectric substrate 100, the second antenna 12 needs to be located clockwise (i.e. right side) of the first antenna 11, so as to ensure that when the first antenna 11 and the second antenna 12 resonate near the working frequency point, for example, at a frequency band 1.575GHz of a GPS (Global Positioning System) L1 or a frequency band 1.176GHz of an L5, current amplitudes of the first antenna 11 and the second antenna 12 are equal, and a current phase of the first antenna 11 is 90 ° earlier than a current phase of the second antenna 12, so that right-hand circular polarization radiation can be implemented. In other embodiments, the included angle α can be between 75 ° and 105 °.

Referring to fig. 2, in some embodiments, the first antenna 11 and the second antenna 12 are vertically disposed on the same surface (front surface) of the dielectric substrate 100, for example, the first antenna 11 and the second antenna 12 are perpendicular to the dielectric substrate 100, and the dielectric substrate 100 is a ground plate for grounding the circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus.

In one embodiment, the first antenna 11 is a (first) inverted F antenna, the first antenna 11 has a first long side 111, a first end portion 112 and a second end portion 113, one end of the first long side 111 connected to the first end portion 112 is a head end 111A of the first antenna 11, the other end of the first long side 111 is a tail end 111B of the first antenna 11, one of the first end portion 112 and the second end portion 113 is connected to the first output end 3 of the power dividing circuit 10 for receiving a first feeding signal, and the other is used for grounding. That is, in this embodiment, the two

end portions

112 and 113 of the first antenna 11 connected to the side of the first long side 111 may have excellent current distribution, size or performance, and one of the two end portions may be used as a ground end for grounding and the other as a feeding end for feeding.

Similarly, the second antenna 12 is a (second) inverted-F antenna, the second antenna 12 has a second long side 121, a third end 122, and a fourth end 123, one end of the second long side 121 connected to the third end 122 is a head end 121A of the second antenna 12, the other end of the second long side 121 is a tail end 121B of the second antenna 12, one of the third end 122 and the fourth end 123 is connected to the second output end 4 of the power dividing circuit 10 for receiving the second feeding signal, and the other is used for grounding. That is, in the second inverted-F antenna 12 of the present embodiment, the two

end portions

122 and 123 connected to the side of the second long side 121 may have excellent current distribution, size, or performance, one of the two end portions may be used as a ground terminal for grounding, and the other end portion may be used as a feeding terminal for feeding.

In the example of fig. 1, the first end portion 112 is connected to the head end 111A of the first antenna 11, the second end portion 113 is close to the tail end 111B of the first antenna 11 from the head end 111A, the third end portion 122 is connected to the head end 121A of the second antenna 12, and the fourth end portion 123 is close to the tail end 121B of the second antenna 12 from the head end 121A, it is understood that this is only an example of one embodiment, and in other embodiments, the first end portion 112, the second end portion 113 are connected to the first long side 111, and the positions where the third end portion 122, the fourth end portion 123 are connected to the second long side 121 may be adjusted according to the radiation performance and the requirement of the equipment space, and the example of fig. 1 is not a limitation of the present application.

In the present application, a coupling gap is formed between the tail end 111B of the first inverted-F antenna 11 and the head end 121A of the second antenna 12, and the coupling gap is adjusted to adjust the coupling degree between the first antenna 11 and the second inverted-F antenna 12. And the coupling and the feed are easier to match and tune by utilizing the gap coupling, and the coupling degree can be adjusted by adjusting the distance of the coupling gap, so that the matching and tuning of the antenna are realized.

The lengths of the first long side 111 and the second long side 121 correspond to the operating wavelength of the circular polarization positioning antenna device. For example, the equivalent lengths of the first long side 111 and the second long side 121 are substantially equal to the operating wavelength of the circular polarization positioning antenna device, or the equivalent lengths of the first long side 111 and the second long side 121 are substantially equal to the 1/4 wavelength of the operating wavelength of the circular polarization positioning antenna device, so as to ensure that the antenna resonates at a required frequency point. It should be noted that, although the equivalent lengths of the first long side 111 and the second long side 121 are both substantially equal to each other at 1 or 1/4 operating wavelengths, the lengths of the first long side 111 and the second long side 121 are different in order to ensure that the degenerate modes are separated.

In one embodiment, the first long side 111 and the second long side 121 are straight bars. In other embodiments, the first long side 111 and/or the second long side 121 may be curved in a certain arc in practical arrangement, but not affect that it is arranged along one direction, due to the space limitation of the device. In addition, the first long side 111 and/or the second long side 121 may also be provided with other branches extending outside the main body thereof to contribute to increasing the performance of the antenna, such as gain, axial ratio, etc., for example, the branches are provided in a direction perpendicular to the dielectric substrate 100, and the branches are provided in a direction parallel to the dielectric substrate 100.

In one embodiment, the first antenna 11 and/or the second antenna 12 are loaded with an inductive device (not shown), which is a lumped inductance or a distributed inductance. The inductance device is arranged in the embodiment and mainly used for extending the equivalent length of the first antenna so as to reduce the size of the positioning antenna and effectively realize miniaturization of the antenna. Alternatively, the inductive device may be a lumped inductance, i.e. an inductor, in general, but also a serpentine meandering track. The first antenna 11 and the second antenna 12 are stereo antennas, patch ceramic antennas or microstrip antennas. It can be understood that, in addition to the branch antenna form of the inverted-F antenna that has been presented, the branch antenna form that has been successfully tested may be: a symmetric coupled CHIP (CHIP) antenna or a symmetric linearly polarized PATCH (PATCH) antenna can be freely selected and adapted according to a placeable space and an achievable environment, compared with a fixed form of a conventional circularly polarized antenna, the CHIP antenna is generally made of ceramic as a substrate, and a radiation structure of the antenna is also diversified, such as one line (metal strip) or one surface (metal plane); and the circular or square PATCH antenna has a novel structure and various forms.

Referring to fig. 1 and fig. 3, in one embodiment, the power dividing circuit 10 is a wilkinson power divider or a T-type power divider; or a more inexpensive discrete circuit is used, the power division circuit of the discrete circuit comprises a first input end 1, a second input end 2, a first output end 3 and a second output end 4, wherein two first capacitors C1 and C2 are connected between the first input end 1 and the second input end 2 in series, two second capacitors C3 and C4 are connected between the first output end 1 and the second output end 2 in series, a first inductor L1 is connected between the first input end 1 and the first output end 3 in series, a second inductor L2 is connected between the second input end 2 and the second output end 4 in series, and a third inductor L3 is connected between the common connection end of the two first capacitors C1 and C2 and the common connection end of the two second capacitors C3 and C4. The first input end 1 of the power dividing circuit 10 is connected to the rf port of the GPS module of the circuit board, the power dividing circuit 10 performs power distribution according to a feeding signal provided by the rf port of the GPS module, and outputs a first feeding signal at the first output end 3 and a second feeding signal at the second output end 4.

The circularly polarized positioning antenna device adopts the antennas with the same structural form as branches, so that debugging and practical application are facilitated, the form of the branch antenna can be flexibly selected according to the internal environment of the wearable device, but the forms of the two branch antennas are required to be the same; the 90-degree phase difference power supply of the two antennas can be well guaranteed through the power distribution network.

As can be seen from FIG. 4, the circularly polarized positioning antenna device generates resonance at 1.575GHz in the GPSL1 frequency band, and the impedance bandwidth (S11 < -6dB) can completely cover the whole GPS-L1 frequency band (1575 +/-2 MHz), which indicates that the positioning antenna effectively realizes right-hand circularly polarized radiation and has good signal reception for navigation satellites.

As can be seen from fig. 5, when the positioning antenna operates in the L1 frequency band 1.575GHz of the GPS, the positioning antenna can achieve the best circular polarization performance (i.e., the axial ratio is the smallest) at a specific spatial angle (phi is 0 ° and theta is 0 °), and in the L1 frequency band of the GPS, the axial ratio is less than 5dB, which indicates that the axial ratio of the positioning antenna is good, and the performance requirement of the positioning antenna is met.

As can be seen from fig. 6 and 7, when the positioning antenna operates in the GPS-L1 frequency band of 1.575GHz, the maximum right-handed circularly polarized directivity coefficient achieved by the top of the positioning antenna (phi is 0 °, theta is 0 °) is 2.71dB, and in the case of the same directivity coefficient, the satellite signal received by the circularly polarized antenna is 3dB higher than that received by the linearly polarized antenna, and meanwhile, the positioning antenna has a function of suppressing an interference signal, so that the positioning effect of the positioning antenna is better than that of a conventional linearly polarized antenna.

A second aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a wearable device, including a circuit board and the above circularly polarized positioning antenna apparatus, wherein an input end of the power dividing circuit 10 is connected to a radio frequency port of the circuit board, and a feeding signal provided by the radio frequency port of the power dividing circuit is divided into a first feeding signal and a second feeding signal

The wearable device adopts all embodiments of the circularly polarized positioning antenna device, so that at least all the beneficial effects of the embodiments are achieved, and the details are not repeated herein. The wearable equipment positioning antenna can better receive navigation satellite signals, and generated right-hand circularly polarized radiation can also filter left-hand circularly polarized navigation satellite signals reflected by a high-rise building or the ground so as to reduce multipath interference, thereby effectively improving the positioning accuracy of the wearable equipment positioning antenna.

The above-mentioned embodiments are only used for illustrating the technical solutions of the present application, and not for limiting the same; although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; such modifications and substitutions do not substantially depart from the spirit and scope of the embodiments of the present application and are intended to be included within the scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A circularly polarized positioning antenna assembly, comprising:

a first antenna coupled to the first output terminal and connected to the first feeding signal;

and the second antenna is coupled with the second output end and is connected into the second feed signal, the head end of the second antenna is arranged at one side of the tail end of the first antenna at intervals, and an angle is formed between the first antenna and the second antenna so as to form excitation of two orthogonal modes.

2. The circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first antenna is a first inverted-F antenna, the first antenna has a first long side, a first end portion and a second end portion, one end of the first long side connected to the first end portion is a head end of the first inverted-F antenna, the other end of the first long side is a tail end of the first inverted-F antenna, one of the first end portion and the second end portion is connected to the first output end, and the other end portion is used for grounding.

3. The circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus of claim 2, wherein the second antenna is a second inverted-F antenna, the second antenna has a second long side, a third end and a fourth end, one end of the second long side connected to the third end is a head end of the second inverted-F antenna, the other end of the second long side is a tail end of the second inverted-F antenna, and one of the third end and the fourth end is connected to the second output end, and the other is used for grounding.

4. The circularly polarized positioning antenna assembly of claim 3, wherein the lengths of the first long side and the second long side correspond to an operating wavelength of the circularly polarized positioning antenna assembly.

5. The circularly polarized positioning antenna apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a dielectric substrate, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna are erected on the same surface of the dielectric substrate.

6. The circularly polarized positioning antenna apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the power dividing circuit is a Wilkinson power divider or a T-type power divider; or

The power dividing circuit comprises a first input end, a second input end, a first output end and a second output end, wherein two first capacitors are connected between the first input end and the second input end in series, two second capacitors are connected between the first output end and the second output end in series, a first inductor is connected between the first input end and the first output end in series, a second inductor is connected between the second input end and the second output end in series, and a third inductor is connected between the common end of the two first capacitors and the common end of the two second capacitors.

7. The circularly polarized positioning antenna apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna are each a symmetrical coupled CHIP antenna; or the first antenna and the second antenna are symmetric linearly polarized PATCH antennas respectively.

8. The circularly polarized positioning antenna apparatus of claim 1, wherein said angle is in the range of 75 ° to 105 °.

9. The circularly polarized positioning antenna apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein an inductive device is loaded on the first antenna and/or the second antenna.

10. A wearable device, characterized by: the circular polarization positioning antenna apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 9, comprising a circuit board, wherein an input terminal of the power dividing circuit is connected to a radio frequency port of the circuit board, and the power dividing circuit outputs the first feeding signal at the first output terminal and the second feeding signal at the second output terminal according to a feeding signal provided by the radio frequency port.