EP0484241A1 - Antenne in gedruckter Schaltungstechnik für eine zweifach polarisierte Gruppenantenne - Google Patents

Antenne in gedruckter Schaltungstechnik für eine zweifach polarisierte Gruppenantenne Download PDF

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EP0484241A1
EP0484241A1 EP91402915A EP91402915A EP0484241A1 EP 0484241 A1 EP0484241 A1 EP 0484241A1 EP 91402915 A EP91402915 A EP 91402915A EP 91402915 A EP91402915 A EP 91402915A EP 0484241 A1 EP0484241 A1 EP 0484241A1
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Patrice Brachat
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
    • H01Q21/06—Arrays of individually energised antenna units similarly polarised and spaced apart
    • H01Q21/061—Two dimensional planar arrays
    • H01Q21/065—Patch antenna array
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q25/00—Antennas or antenna systems providing at least two radiating patterns
    • H01Q25/001—Crossed polarisation dual antennas
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/0407—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna
    • H01Q9/045—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna with particular feeding means
    • H01Q9/0457—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna with particular feeding means electromagnetically coupled to the feed line

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  • the present invention relates to an elementary printed antenna in plated technology for a network for receiving and / or transmitting telecommunications signals, having a small footprint for boarding purposes in a machine, such as satellite.
  • the antenna comprises, in a known manner, a dielectric substrate, a ground conductor plane of a microwave power supply line disposed on one face of the substrate, and a radiating element disposed on another face of the substrate, said conductive plane having a coupling slot for coupling the supply line to the radiating element.
  • the radiating element is constituted by a metal plate printed on the face of the substrate opposite the slot made in the ground plane.
  • the supply line is for example a microstrip line.
  • the radiating plate is similar to an open resonator which is the seat of waves essentially polarized along the width of the underlying coupling slot.
  • the resonances mainly depend on the dimensions of the slot and of the plate.
  • the bandwidth is a function of the overvoltage coefficient of the resonator, which itself depends on the thickness and the electrical characteristics of the substrate.
  • the latter comprises a first sub-network comprising antennas subject to a first polarization, for example Ex, and a second sub-network comprising antennas subject to a second polarization Ey orthogonal to the first.
  • the antennas in the first and second subarrays are interleaved and are therefore relatively close to one another.
  • the two polarizations are obtained by perpendicular coupling slots.
  • the measurements show that the electromagnetic field is not perfectly polarized in the vicinity of an elementary antenna. Indeed, for example, the electric field lines curve in proportion to the distance from the center of the coupling slot, along the longitudinal axis of the latter. This curvature of the field line thus makes polarization imperfect, and consequently generates harmful couplings between elementary antennas in the same sub-array, but also between elementary antennas in the two sub-arrays. These couplings are all the more pronounced the closer the antennas are to each other.
  • the gain of such a network is therefore low.
  • the surface occupied by this one is all the greater as the gain is improved, to the detriment of the congestion of the network and therefore unlike the search for compactness for the materials on board in vehicles.
  • the present invention aims to provide an elementary printed antenna which generates an almost perfect polarization, that is to say almost rectilinear, which makes it possible to bring together such antennas having crossed polarizations and therefore to reduce the size of a network. antennas.
  • a printed antenna according to the invention and as defined in the introduction is characterized in that the radiating element consists of several narrow conductive strips extending perpendicular to the coupling slot.
  • the narrow bands maintain a polarization along their longitudinal direction and thus prevent excitation of the mode orthogonal to the polarization thus defined.
  • two elementary antennas having coplanar and perpendicular conductive bands between them offer an almost zero coupling, which makes it possible to bring them together, and therefore to increase the antenna density and the compactness in a dual polarization array.
  • the antenna 1a is supplied by a microwave microstrip line supported by a first dielectric substrate 2a of thickness d2 and of relative permittivity ⁇ r2 predetermined.
  • the substrate 2a is printed on both sides.
  • the underside of the substrate comprises a conductive strip 3a of predetermined width W3.
  • the upper face of the substrate 2a is covered with a ground conducting plane 4a.
  • a rectangular portion of the upper face of the substrate 2a is devoid of conductive material to form a coupling slot 5a.
  • the longitudinal axis of the slot 5a is perpendicular to the microstrip 3a, while the transverse axis of the slot 5a is parallel to and vertically aligned with the axis of the microstrip.
  • the length and width of the slot 5a are denoted by L5 and W5 in FIG. 1.
  • the elementary antenna 1a also comprises a conductive plate 6a ("patch" in English terminology) constituting the radiating element of the antenna.
  • the plate 6a is superimposed above the ground plane 4a, opposite the underside of the substrate 2a supporting the microstrip 3a, by means of a second dielectric substrate 7a.
  • the substrate 7a offers a thickness d7 and a relative permittivity ⁇ r7 generally different from d2 and ⁇ r2 respectively, the constant ⁇ r7 often being less than ⁇ r2 and close to unity to increase the bandwidth of the antenna.
  • the substrate 7a is fixed to the conducting plane 4a of the first substrate, for example with epoxy cement.
  • the plate 6a is full, unlike the openwork character of the ground plane 4a imparted by the presence of the slot 5a.
  • the plate 6a is rectangular and has predetermined width W6 and length L6 much larger than the dimensions of the slot 5a, as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the radiating plate can be square, circular, trapezoidal, polygonal or else elliptical as shown in FIG. 4.
  • the centers of the slot 5a and of the plate 6a are superimposed vertically, that is to say aligned perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the microstrip 3a.
  • the transverse and longitudinal axes of the slot 5a are here parallel to the transverse and longitudinal axes of the plate 6a, respectively.
  • a thin dielectric plate (not shown) serving as a protective cover can be glued to the upper face of the second substrate 7a supporting the printed plate 6a.
  • the two substrates possibly with the protective cover thus form a monolithic elementary antenna.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates electric field lines E in the antenna 1a which are seen in the vertical plane comprising the longitudinal axis of the microstrip 3a and the transverse axis of the slot 5a, and therefore which extend perpendicular to the slot 5a.
  • Fig. 3 shows surface current lines on the radiating plate 6a. These figures show, as already said, current lines which are curvilinear on either side of the transverse axis of the slit 5a and therefore field lines not perpendicular to the slit which disturbs any field polarization in the environment close to the antenna 1a, and in particular causes this antenna 1a to couple with any other neighboring elementary antenna in a flat antenna array.
  • FIG. 5 An elementary printed antenna 1b with coupling slot and microstrip microwave power supply line according to the invention is illustrated in FIG. 5.
  • This antenna 1b is therefore of the same type as the known antenna 1a described above and comprises elements 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b and 7b, identified with the index b, respectively analogous to those 2a, 3a, 4a , 5a and 7a of antenna 1a.
  • the antenna 1b comprises, in place of the metal plate 6a, several narrow parallel metal strips 8b forming the radiating element of the antenna 1b.
  • the strips 8b are printed on the upper face of the second substrate 7b.
  • the strips 8 thus extend parallel to the microstrip 3b and perpendicular to the slot 5b, and are distributed symmetrically on either side of the transverse axis of the slot 5b.
  • the contour formed by the ends of the strips 8b can be similar to that of the plate 6a, and is for example rectangular as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, or elliptical as shown in fig. 7, or even circular or polygonal.
  • FIG. 8 a double polarization array comprising two sub-arrays each having sixteen elementary antennas according to the invention is shown in FIG. 8.
  • the first sub-array includes sixteen 1X1 to 1X16 antennas with Ex polarization which are uniformly distributed in four parallel rows 1X1 to 1X4, 1X5 to 1X8, 1X9 to 1X12 and 1X13 to 1X16, forming linear networks.
  • the first antenna sub-network is supplied by a 9X microstrip line which ends in a tree line in the network by means of power dividers by two 10X in order to supply the four rows, then pairs of antennas and finally each of the elementary antennas of a pair.
  • the 1X1 to 1X16 antennas are thus regularly distributed in a square matrix.
  • the second sub-network also includes four linear antenna sub-networks 1Y1 to 1Y4, 1Y5 to 1Y8, 1Y9 to 1Y12 and 1Y13 to 1Y16 forming lines of a square matrix interleaved two by two with the lines of the first sub-network .
  • a microstrip line 9Y also arborescent through power dividers by two 10Y supplies the second sub-network.
  • Line 9Y is analogous to line 9X and originates on a side opposite line 9Y with respect to the array, and the antennas in the first subarray are staggered relative to the antennas in the second subarray, the subnetwork columns are also interleaved two by two.
  • the two sub-arrays have in common the two dielectric substrates 2b and 7b between which extends the ground plane 4b with slots 5X and 5Y associated with the antennas 1X1 to 1X16 and 1Y1 to 1Y16, and under the first 2b of which are printed the 3X and 3Y line microstrips associated with said antennas, respectively.
  • the radiating bands 8X and 8Y of the two sub-arrays are thus coplanar on the upper face of the substrate 7b.
  • the antennas 1X1 to 1X16 have their radiating bands 8X, extending in a direction Ex, while the antennas 1Y1 to 1Y16 have their radiating bands 8Y extend in a direction Ey perpendicular to the direction Ex.
  • the antennas according to the invention thus associated with orthogonal pure polarizations can be very close to one another, unlike networks according to the prior art, since the Ex and Ey polarizations are perfectly rectilinear and orthogonal, and therefore do not disturb each other.
  • a 1X, 1Y antenna is "framed" by four other 1Y, 1X antennas according to fig.8. This results in greater compactness which is particularly advantageous when the antenna network is embedded for example in a satellite, a missile or other device.
  • microstrip supply lines microstrip
  • triplate lines stripline
  • coaxial lines For a three-ply line, a third dielectric substrate is fixed under the underside of the first substrate 2b; a reflective ground conductor plane is printed under the underside of the third substrate.
  • the distribution of antennas in a network can be different from that shown in fig. 8.

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GB2266192A (en) * 1992-04-13 1993-10-20 Andrew Corp Slotted patch antenna array arrangement for selected polarisation
US5309164A (en) * 1992-04-13 1994-05-03 Andrew Corporation Patch-type microwave antenna having wide bandwidth and low cross-pol
EP0617480A1 (de) * 1993-03-26 1994-09-28 Alcatel Espace Strahlende Struktur mit variabler Richtcharakteristik
WO1999017403A1 (en) * 1997-09-26 1999-04-08 Raytheon Company Dual polarized microstrip patch antenna array for pcs base stations
US5923296A (en) * 1996-09-06 1999-07-13 Raytheon Company Dual polarized microstrip patch antenna array for PCS base stations
WO2001035491A1 (fr) * 1999-11-12 2001-05-17 France Telecom Antenne imprimee bi-bande
GB2549858A (en) * 2016-04-29 2017-11-01 Laird Technologies Inc Multiband WIFI directional antennas

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GB2266192A (en) * 1992-04-13 1993-10-20 Andrew Corp Slotted patch antenna array arrangement for selected polarisation
US5309164A (en) * 1992-04-13 1994-05-03 Andrew Corporation Patch-type microwave antenna having wide bandwidth and low cross-pol
GB2266192B (en) * 1992-04-13 1996-04-03 Andrew Corp Patch-type microwave antenna having wide bandwith and low cross-pol
EP0617480A1 (de) * 1993-03-26 1994-09-28 Alcatel Espace Strahlende Struktur mit variabler Richtcharakteristik
FR2703190A1 (fr) * 1993-03-26 1994-09-30 Alcatel Espace Structure rayonnante à directivité variable.
US5923296A (en) * 1996-09-06 1999-07-13 Raytheon Company Dual polarized microstrip patch antenna array for PCS base stations
WO1999017403A1 (en) * 1997-09-26 1999-04-08 Raytheon Company Dual polarized microstrip patch antenna array for pcs base stations
WO2001035491A1 (fr) * 1999-11-12 2001-05-17 France Telecom Antenne imprimee bi-bande
FR2801139A1 (fr) * 1999-11-12 2001-05-18 France Telecom Antenne imprimee bi-bande
US6741210B2 (en) 1999-11-12 2004-05-25 France Telecom Dual band printed antenna
GB2549858A (en) * 2016-04-29 2017-11-01 Laird Technologies Inc Multiband WIFI directional antennas
US10056701B2 (en) 2016-04-29 2018-08-21 Laird Technologies, Inc. Multiband WiFi directional antennas
GB2549858B (en) * 2016-04-29 2019-01-09 Laird Technologies Inc Multiband WIFI directional antennas

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