SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at providing a ridge waveguide power distribution combiner, it designs to ridge waveguide power distribution combination to can realize reducing the mesh of synthesizer volume, be favorable to realizing the miniaturization.
The embodiment of the utility model discloses a realize through following technical scheme:
the ridge waveguide power distribution combiner comprises a cavity and a coaxial connector fixed with the cavity, wherein a linear ridge waveguide is arranged in the cavity, a transition structure for impedance transformation is arranged on the upper end face of the ridge waveguide, and the transition structure is symmetrically arranged at two ends of the ridge waveguide.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the transition structure is configured as a pair of impedance transformation slopes, and the pair of impedance transformation slopes is disposed in a V-shape.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the transition structure is configured as a pair of impedance transformation steps, and the pair of impedance transformation steps is arranged in a V shape.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the ridge waveguide side end surface is configured with a circular surface transition structure.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the coaxial connector includes a signal output coaxial connector and a pair of signal input coaxial connectors; the two ends of the ridge waveguide are symmetrically provided with a pair of first connecting holes for connecting the signal input coaxial connectors, and the ridge waveguide is also provided with a second connecting hole for connecting the signal output coaxial connectors, and the second connecting hole is positioned at the midpoint of the ridge waveguide.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the coaxial connector is connected to the ridge waveguide through a conductive adhesive.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the ridge waveguide is integrally formed with a contact pin, and the contact pin is used for plugging with the coaxial connector.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the inner wall of the cavity is configured to have a transition step.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the cavity includes an upper cavity and a lower cavity joined together, and the ridge waveguide is disposed on the inner wall of the lower cavity.
The utility model discloses technical scheme has following advantage and beneficial effect at least:
the embodiment of the utility model provides a through the ridge waveguide that sets up the word form and set up the impedance transformation inclined plane on the ridge waveguide and set up the disc transition structure on the conductor ridge, realized 6-18 GHz's single ridge waveguide power combiner, realized the transmission line transform of single ridge waveguide-coaxial line transmission, realized reducing the volume size's purpose. And the more common coaxial connector is adopted as an input/output interface, so that the module can be easily interconnected with other standard modules.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it should be understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present invention, and therefore should not be considered as limiting the scope, and for those skilled in the art, other related drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without inventive efforts.
Fig. 1 is an external view of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a power dividing and combining component of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of an upper cover plate of the middle power dividing and combining assembly of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a simulation result of return loss without a transition step in the lower cavity of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a simulation result of voltage standing wave ratio without transition step in the lower cavity of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a simulation result of return loss of the middle lower cavity of the present invention with a transition step;
fig. 7 is a simulation result of voltage standing wave ratio of the transition step in the middle lower cavity of the present invention.
Icon: 1-cavity, 11-upper cavity, 12-lower cavity, 121-transition step, 2-coaxial connector, 21-signal output coaxial connector, 21, 22-signal input coaxial connector, 3-ridge waveguide, 31-transition structure, 32-first connecting hole, 33-second connecting hole and 34-circular surface transition structure.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. The components of embodiments of the present invention, as generally described and illustrated in the figures herein, may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.
Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, presented in the accompanying drawings, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that if the directions or positional relationships indicated by the terms "inside" and "outside" are based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the drawings, or the directions or positional relationships that the products of the present invention are usually placed when used, the description is only for convenience of description and simplification, but the indication or suggestion that the indicated device or element must have a specific direction, be constructed and operated in a specific direction, and therefore, should not be interpreted as a limitation of the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, it should be further noted that unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited, the terms "disposed," "mounted," "configured," and "connected" should be interpreted broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.
Referring to fig. 1 to 3, a ridge waveguide power distribution combiner includes a cavity 1 and a coaxial connector 2 fixed to the cavity 1, a linear ridge waveguide 3 is disposed in the cavity 1, a transition structure 31 for impedance transformation is disposed on an upper end surface of the ridge waveguide 3, and the transition structure 31 is symmetrically disposed at two ends of the ridge waveguide 3.
In order to reduce the size of the synthesizer and realize miniaturization, the technical scheme is provided with a ridge waveguide power distribution synthesizer which comprises a cavity 1, a coaxial connector 2, a ridge waveguide 3 and the like, wherein the cavity 1 comprises an upper cavity 11 and a lower cavity 12 which are spliced into a whole, and the ridge waveguide 3 is arranged on the inner wall of the lower cavity 12. The ridge waveguide 3 is arranged in a straight line shape, the ridge waveguide 3 comprises a standard ridge waveguide in a cube shape and a transition structure 31 configured on the upper end surface of the standard ridge waveguide, the transition structure 31 is used for impedance transformation, the transition structure 31 can be a pair of impedance transformation inclined planes, the pair of impedance transformation inclined planes are respectively arranged at two ends of the ridge waveguide 3 and are symmetrically arranged about the midpoint of the ridge waveguide 3, and the pair of impedance transformation inclined planes are arranged in a V shape. The middle point of the ridge waveguide 3 is provided with a second connecting hole 33, the second connecting hole 33 penetrates through the ridge waveguide 3, two ends of the ridge waveguide 3 are respectively provided with a first connecting hole 32, the coaxial connector 2 comprises a signal output coaxial connector 21 and a pair of signal input coaxial connectors 22, a metal probe of the signal output coaxial connector 21 is inserted into the second connecting hole 33, a metal probe of the signal input coaxial connectors 22 is inserted into the first connecting hole 32 to realize the connection between the coaxial connector 2 and the ridge waveguide 3, in order to ensure the close contact between the ridge waveguide 3 and the metal probe, before the metal probe is inserted into the corresponding hole, the front end of the metal probe is coated with a proper amount of conductive adhesive, and then the metal probe is inserted into the corresponding hole. In order to mount the coaxial connector 2, a pair of first insertion holes corresponding to the first connection holes 32 are formed in the upper cavity 11, and a second insertion hole corresponding to the second connection hole 33 is formed in the lower cavity 12. During installation, a proper amount of conductive adhesive is coated at the front ends of the metal probes of the signal output coaxial connector 21 and the signal input coaxial connector 22, the signal output coaxial connector 21 passes through the second jack and is inserted into the second connecting hole 33, the metal probes are firmly bonded with the ridge waveguide 3 through the conductive adhesive, the signal input coaxial connector 22 passes through the first jack and is inserted into the first connecting hole 32, the metal probes are firmly bonded with the ridge waveguide 3 through the conductive adhesive, the signal output coaxial connector 21 is fixed with the lower cavity 12 through screws, the signal input coaxial connector 22 is fixed with the upper cavity 11 through screws, and finally the assembled ridge waveguide power distribution combiner is put into an oven for heating and curing.
It should be noted that, the end surfaces on both sides of the ridge waveguide 3 are configured with circular surface transition structures, and when a signal is input between the coaxial connector 22 and the ridge waveguide for signal transmission, transmission line conversion of single ridge waveguide-coaxial line transmission is realized through the circular surface transition structures, so that the whole synthesizer has a smaller volume.
It should be noted that the standard ridge waveguide has a cubic structure with a rectangular longitudinal section.
The working process of the utility model is that when the utility model is used as a power combiner, two initial electromagnetic wave signals are respectively through two signal input coaxial connector 22 input ridge waveguide 3, realize the transmission line transformation of single ridge waveguide-coaxial line transmission through disc transition structure, in order to realize that electromagnetic wave signal transmits to ridge waveguide 3 from signal input coaxial connector 22's metal probe, the signal at 3 both ends of ridge waveguide is along impedance transformation inclined plane to ridge waveguide 3 mid point department transmission, and accomplish impedance transformation when impedance transformation inclined plane on ridge waveguide 3, finally assemble in 3 mid point departments of ridge waveguide and accomplish signal power synthesis, signal after the synthesis of signal output coaxial connector 21 output power through second connecting hole 33.
It should be noted that, when the present invention is used as a power divider, the initial electromagnetic wave signal is input from the signal output coaxial connector 21, and the signal after power division is output from the two signal input coaxial connectors 22, and the working process is opposite to the power combining.
Compared with the prior art, the synthesizer realizes the 6-18GHz single-ridge waveguide power synthesizer by arranging the linear ridge waveguide, arranging the impedance transformation inclined plane on the ridge waveguide and arranging the circular surface transition structure on the conductor ridge, realizes the transmission line transformation of single-ridge waveguide-coaxial line transmission and realizes the purpose of reducing the volume and size. And the more common coaxial connector is adopted as an input/output interface, so that the module can be easily interconnected with other standard modules. Conductive adhesive is coated at the connecting part of the coaxial connector and the synthesizer cavity, so that the reliability is better.
In some embodiments, the transition structure 31 may also be a pair of impedance transformation ladders. The transition structure 31 may be an impedance conversion ladder structure, and may be a multi-stage impedance conversion ladder structure. But compared with two structures of an impedance transformation inclined plane and an impedance transformation ladder, the structure of the impedance transformation inclined plane is more convenient to process and more beneficial to ensuring the precision of processing the impedance transformation inclined plane. If adopt the impedance transformation ladder, because this ridge waveguide power distribution synthesizer self volume is less, the interval between the adjacent two-stage ladder is very little in the impedance transformation ladder, and during machining, it is great to ensure that the interval between the adjacent two-stage ladder satisfies the machining precision degree of difficulty of design, and the processing cost is high, and during processing impedance transformation inclined plane structure, then processing is simple relatively, and the machining precision is guaranteed easily, has reduced the processing cost.
In some embodiments, the ridge waveguide 3 is integrally configured with a pin for mating with the coaxial connector 2.
In some embodiments, the inner wall of the chamber 1 is configured to have a transition step 121. In order to improve the performance of the ridge waveguide power distribution combiner and optimize the return loss and the voltage standing wave ratio of the ridge waveguide power distribution combiner, the inner wall of a cavity 1 is provided with a transition step 121, the cavity 1 comprises an upper cavity 11 and a lower cavity 12 which are spliced into a whole, and the transition step 121 and a ridge waveguide 3 are arranged on the inner wall of the lower cavity 12 together. Generally, the evaluation index of the power divider is that the return loss is below-15 dB, or the VSWR standing wave ratio is within 1.4, which is a relatively good performance index. As shown in fig. 4 to 5, the transition step 121 is not formed in the lower cavity 12, the ridge waveguide 3 is in a slope transition to complete impedance matching, the semicircular structures at the two ends of the ridge waveguide 3 are transmission mode conversion, and according to the HFSS simulation result, the maximum value of the return loss S11 is-11.8543 dB at 18GHz, and the minimum value thereof is-29.4009 dB at 12.5 GHz; the voltage standing wave ratio VSWR has a maximum value of 1.6861 at 18GHz and a minimum value of 1.0701 at 12.5 GHz. Obviously, under the condition that no transition step exists at two ends, the high-frequency end effect of the ridge waveguide power distribution combiner is not ideal, but the index in the range of 6-17GHz is good, and the ridge waveguide power distribution combiner can be used for the working frequency band within 6-17 GHz.
As shown in fig. 6 to 7, a transition step 121 is formed in the lower cavity 12, the ridge waveguide 3 is in slope transition to complete impedance matching, the semicircular structures at the two ends of the ridge waveguide 3 are transmission mode conversion, and according to the HFSS simulation result, the maximum value of the return loss S11 is-17.9791 dB at 7.7GHz, and the minimum value thereof is-31.2153 dB at 17.7 GHz; the voltage standing wave ratio VSWR has a maximum value of 7.7GHz, which is 1.2888, and a minimum value of 17.7GHz, which is 1.0565. According to simulation results of two structures without the transition step 121 in the cavity 1, the transition step 121 is arranged in the cavity 1, so that the performance of the ridge waveguide power distribution combiner can be improved, and the return loss and the voltage standing wave ratio of the ridge waveguide power distribution combiner are optimized.
The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes will occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.