EP1805848B1 - Mehrbandige bedruckte helixförmige schlitzantenne - Google Patents

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EP1805848B1
EP1805848B1 EP05801356.6A EP05801356A EP1805848B1 EP 1805848 B1 EP1805848 B1 EP 1805848B1 EP 05801356 A EP05801356 A EP 05801356A EP 1805848 B1 EP1805848 B1 EP 1805848B1
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Ala Sharaiha
Yoann Letestu
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    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/36—Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; Particular materials used therewith
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    • H01Q11/00—Electrically-long antennas having dimensions more than twice the shortest operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q11/02—Non-resonant antennas, e.g. travelling-wave antenna
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  • the field of the invention is that of antennas with a large bandwidth having a good left and / or right circular polarization in the useful band. More specifically, the invention relates to helical antennas of this type intended in particular and without limitation to equip different types of positioning systems and / or terrestrial and / or satellite communications requiring the use of separate frequency bands and therefore, the use of multiband antenna to cover all of these different systems and / or communication standards.
  • the printed quadrifilar helix antennas known from the prior art have characteristics very similar to those mentioned above. These antennas are formed of four radiating strands that can be made or not in printed technology. When made in such printed technology, the strands are printed on a thin dielectric substrate ( figure 1 ) and then wound on a radially transparent cylindrical support, as shown in FIG. figure 2 .
  • the antenna used requires a power supply circuit which can ensure the excitation of the different printed strands by means of signals of the same amplitude and which are in phase quadrature.
  • a function can be performed from 3dB-90 ° coupler structure and a hybrid ring.
  • This assembly can be made in printed circuit and can be positioned at the base of the antennas. This results in a simple but bulky power supply, which goes against the goal of miniaturization of both satellite positioning systems and mobile communication systems. Indeed, to be able to install this type of antenna in a portable terminal, it is imperative on the one hand that it is of small dimensions (weight, volume, etc.), and on the other hand that it has a lowest cost possible.
  • PCS personal communications systems
  • the very different incidences of signals received or emitted require the antennas to have a hemispherical or quasi-hemispherical coverage pattern.
  • the polarization must be circular (left or right) with a ratio of less than 5 dB in the useful band, while offering good performance on several bands that can be selected on an octave, so that the antenna according to the invention can answer indifferently to several standards of mobile communications, GSM, GPRS, UMTS for example.
  • the invention can find applications in all systems requiring the use of several bands and obtaining a polarization circular.
  • This antenna called printed quadrifilar helix antenna (HQI)
  • HQI printed quadrifilar helix antenna
  • Broadband or bi-band operation can be achieved using dual-layer HQI antennas.
  • These antennas are formed by the concentric "nesting" of two coaxial, electromagnetically coupled, quadrifilar resonant propellers. The assembly functions as two coupled resonant circuits, the coupling of which separates the resonance frequencies.
  • a two-layer resonant quadrifilar helix antenna is thus obtained, according to the technique described in FIG. FR - 89 14952 .
  • a quadrifilar antenna with strands of variable width.
  • a quadrifilar antenna is thus formed of four radiating strands.
  • An exemplary embodiment is described in detail in the document " Analysis of Quadrifilar Resonant Helical Antenna for Mobile Communications "(Analysis of Resonant Quadrifilar Helix Antenna for Mobile Communications), by A. Sharaiha and C. Terret (IEE - Proceedings H, Vol 140, No. 4, August 1993 ).
  • the invention particularly aims to overcome these various disadvantages of the state of the art.
  • an object of the invention is to provide a quadrilateral helical antenna with circular polarization having good performance on several bands of frequencies that can be selected on an octave and can cover the transmission and reception band of a set different communication and / or positioning systems, so as to respond to and / or adapt to several standards of communication and / or positioning systems.
  • an object of the invention is to provide such a helical antenna that is resonant in a wide frequency range over at least two distinct bands, with radiation patterns that remain constant.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide such an antenna whose dimensions, performance and cost are adapted (therefore at least similar) to the portable terminals of terrestrial cellular systems.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide such an antenna using a compact power supply system and not necessarily disposed at the base of the antenna.
  • the sub-strands adjacent to a slot have respectively different heights, so as to allow the resonance of the antenna in at least two distinct frequency bands.
  • the conductive strands are spaced apart on the substrate by intervals of predetermined width.
  • the dimensions of the conductive strands are determined so as to provide a relatively wide bandwidth spectrum, so as to be able to benefit from the multiband function in a band of width greater than 8% for a ROS less than 2.
  • the number of slots separating each of the conductive strands is determined according to the number of distinct frequency ranges in which the antenna must be able to operate, so as to provide a multiband operation.
  • the antenna thus obtained has a larger bandwidth (in one or more subbands) than the conventional antenna, with strands of constant width, hereinafter referred to as a reference antenna, without increasing the manufacturing complexity or the cost price.
  • Figures 1.a and 1.b have a conventional quadriliform helix antenna, as already discussed in the preamble, which comprises four strands 10 1 to 10 4 of length 12 and width d ( figure 1.a ). These radiating strands are printed on a dielectric substrate 11 of small thickness then wound on a radially transparent cylindrical support 12 ( figure 1.b ), of radius r, of circumference c and axial length 11, and description of the conventional current of an antenna HQI of length close to ⁇ (alpha) being the angle of winding or elevation of the antenna.
  • the antenna requires a power supply circuit which ensures the excitation of the different strands by signals of the same amplitude and in phase quadrature.
  • This function can be obtained from 3dB - 90 ° coupler structures and a hybrid ring, made in a printed circuit and placed at the base of the antennas. This gives a simple but bulky power supply.
  • the antenna is of small dimensions (weight, volume, ...) and moreover, that it has the lowest possible cost, in coherence with the constraints of the corresponding markets.
  • the bandwidth of this type of antenna is generally of the order of 6% to 8% for an ROS less than two.
  • the antenna configuration presenting on the Figures 11 and 12 minimizes the height of antennas to be developed and integrated into new generation mobile devices. Indeed, in such a geometrical configuration of the antenna, the sub-strands are folded over a predetermined height which may be more or less important. This trick offers another advantage of not impairing the quality of reception and / or transmission of the antenna in the targeted frequency bands. It is also simple and inexpensive to implement on a large scale in terms of manufacturing antennas according to the invention.
  • the invention particularly aims a circular polarization quadrifilar helix antenna with good performance on several bands that can be selected on an octave.
  • This antenna can in particular meet a multitude of standards in the field of positioning systems and / or mobile communications.
  • a multiband HQI antenna thus consists of 4 conductive strands (20 1 to 20 4 ) printed on a flexible dielectric substrate 21, regularly spaced, width Wa.
  • One or more slots 22 are placed from the high end to the maximum current 23 of each strand (20 1 to 20 4 ), of fixed or variable widths.
  • Each strand separated by the slot or slits 22 give rise to two or more sub-strands 24 of fixed or variable widths and different heights thus allowing the resonance at several frequencies.
  • the height 23 of the slot 22 must necessarily be placed at a current belly 30 to allow multi-band operation, as shown in FIG. figure 3 .
  • the antenna is then wrapped around a transparent support to obtain the antenna in its operating state.
  • the figures 2 and 3 represent an example of HQI antenna with a slot 22 corresponding to a dual-band operation. More specifically, the figure 3 gives a description of the conventional current of an HQI antenna of wavelength close to (3 ⁇ / 4). For example, for a given resonance frequency, the entire antenna can radiate on a single sub-strand.
  • the figure 4 represents the geometry of the antenna according to the invention for a multiband operation, in this case for a tri-band operation.
  • the Figures 5 to 10 give examples of multi-band operation of the antenna according to the invention.
  • Figures 5 to 9 show an example of dual-band operation of an antenna according to the invention, for an antenna designed according to a preferred embodiment and having a strand length 0.83 ⁇ 0 , diameter 0.18 ⁇ 0 .
  • the figure 5 presents a comparison between the evolution of the reflection coefficient measured at the entrance of one of the four conducting strands (20 1 to 20 4 , figure 2 ) as a function of frequency, the other strands being loaded at 50 ⁇ , for a split-band antenna according to the invention (solid line 51) and for a conventional HQI antenna according to the known techniques of the prior art (dotted line 52).
  • F1 1.3GHz
  • F2 1.45GHz
  • the HQI antenna according to the invention makes it possible to obtain radiation diagrams which are equivalent in the two bandwidths (53 and 54) to the diagrams obtained for a conventional antenna with a wide aperture and good Rejection of the reverse bias in the aperture.
  • This new approach according to the invention therefore advantageously makes it possible to extend the possibilities of using such antennas and to adapt the communication systems that they equip to several types of communication standards, which goes against prejudices of the person skilled in the art.
  • the figure 8 presents a tri-band operation of an antenna according to the invention and having the same geometrical parameters as in the aforementioned two-band embodiment, the strands always having a length of 0.83 ⁇ 0 and a diameter of 0.18 ⁇ 0 .
  • F1 1.22GHz
  • F2 1.48GHz
  • F3 1.68GHz
  • the radiation patterns are equivalent in bandwidths to the diagrams obtained for a conventional antenna with always a wide aperture and a good quality of polarization, as shown in the diagram.
  • figure 9 for the frequency values F1, F2 and F3 of the figure 8 .
  • the multi-band quadrupole slotted printed antenna antenna makes it possible to obtain in a wide frequency range one operating in two or more bandwidths with radiation diagrams that remain constants, which consequently allows a new adaptability of the communication systems covered by the invention to several standards, unlike the existing technical solutions of the prior art.
  • the technique of the invention therefore gives a significant increase in the number of bandwidth ranges made accessible. This produces a printed quadrifilar helix antenna operating in several bandwidths. By also varying the width of the strands, it also becomes possible to increase the bandwidth of the antenna without reducing strand lengths.
  • the strands, and / or the sub-strands, and / or the slits do not all have identical dimensions.
  • the antenna of the invention also lends itself to the realization of antenna arrays.

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  1. Mehrbandhelixantenne, die wenigstens einen Helix aufweist, der aus wenigstens zwei leitenden Strängen (201, 202) mit offenen oberen Enden gebildet ist, wobei
    - jeder der leitenden Stränge (201, 202) aus einem Hauptstrang (112) und wenigstens zwei parallelen Untersträngen (24) gebildet ist, die den Hauptstrang über sein oberes Ende (113) zu dem oberen Ende des Stranges (201 ,202) verlängert;
    - die wenigstens zwei Unterstränge (24) durch einen Spalt (22) getrennt sind, der sich parallel zu dem Strang (201, 202) von seinem oberen Ende erstreckt und jeweils verschiedene Höhen aufweist, derart, dass die Resonanz der Antenne in wenigstens zwei verschiedenen Frequenzbändern ermöglicht ist,
    - der Hauptstrang (112) eine Breite (wa) aufweist, die gleich der Summe der Breiten der Unterstränge und der Breite des wenigstens einen Spaltes ist,
    - der wenigstens eine Spalt (22) mit dem oberen Ende (113) des Hauptstranges (112) in wenigstens einem Punkt mit einem Strombauch (30) verbunden ist, wobei der Strombauch einem Ort entspricht, an dem der elektrische Versorgungsstrom (23) auf dem Strang maximal ist.
  2. Helixantenne nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass wenigstens einer der leitenden Stränge (201, 202) wenigstens drei Unterstränge aufweist, die von wenigstens zwei Spalten getrennt sind, die verschiedene Höhen und/oder Breiten aufweisen.
  3. Helixantenne nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die zwei an einen Spalt (22) angrenzenden Unterstränge (24) in einer vorbestimmten Höhe mit der gegenüberliegenden Seite des Spaltes verbunden sind.
  4. Helixantenne nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass wenigstens einer der Helizes ein quadrifilarer Helix ist, der vier leitende Stränge aufweist.
  5. Helixantenne nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die leitenden Stränge (201, 202) auf ein flexibles dielektrisches Substrat aufgedruckt sind.
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