EP3149801A1 - Antenna array - Google Patents
Antenna arrayInfo
- Publication number
- EP3149801A1 EP3149801A1 EP14729255.1A EP14729255A EP3149801A1 EP 3149801 A1 EP3149801 A1 EP 3149801A1 EP 14729255 A EP14729255 A EP 14729255A EP 3149801 A1 EP3149801 A1 EP 3149801A1
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- Prior art keywords
- antenna
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- antenna arrangement
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Classifications
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to an antenna arrangement for a measuring device according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
- the prior art discloses various antenna arrangements for measuring devices with an antenna, with an antenna front edge, an antenna holder for pivotally mounting the antenna to a fastening device for arranging the antenna arrangement on a container, wherein the antenna holder is connected to the fastening device by means of a clamping arrangement.
- Such arrangements are known, for example, from EP 1 615 007 B1 of the Applicant.
- Measuring devices for determining a fill level or a limit ⁇ conditions of a medium in a container is known from the prior art.
- Such an antenna arrangement which enables a pivotable attachment of a measuring device to the container, is disclosed in the patent mentioned above by the applicant.
- the emitted measurement ⁇ signals for example, to the maximum of a bulk cone o- or to the minimum of the deduction cone are aligned. It may also be necessary to pre-irradiate on any container installations. For this it is necessary to swing the device.
- a so-called ball socket is used, which is arranged in the region of a wave adapter on a waveguide for coupling a measuring signal into a parabolic antenna.
- An antenna arrangement according to the invention for a measuring device has an antenna with an antenna front edge, wherein an antenna holder for pivotally mounting the antenna is provided on a fastening device for arranging the antenna arrangement, for example on a container or on a holder, for example, above a bulk material pile and wherein the Antenna assembly is connected by means of a clamping arrangement with the fastening device.
- the antenna holder is designed as a spherical layer of a sphere, whereby the spherical layer has cover surfaces and bottom surfaces running parallel to one another, contains the center of the sphere and the emission surface is arranged within the sphere layer.
- a radiating surface of the antenna in the present application is meant an oriented perpendicularly to the main emission direction of the antenna surface dung, the geometric limits the antenna in Hauptab ⁇ beam direction toward the front.
- this is for example defined by a ⁇ rotate the edge of the antenna horn surface at a para- dish the area defined by the peripheral edge of the parabolic mirror and at a planar antenna, the plane of the radiating elements.
- a spherical layer in the sense of the present application is a section of a plane bounded by two plane-parallel surfaces
- Ball both surfaces, which are also referred to below as Deckflä ⁇ che and bottom surface intersect the ball.
- the antenna arrangement according to the invention Due to the above-mentioned embodiment, it is possible to pivot the antenna of the antenna arrangement according to the invention in the fastening device without requiring additional space inside the container. It is possible in this way, the antenna arrangement according to the invention univer- use rope and in particular to install in pipes or nozzles that do not provide lateral space for pivoting the antenna inside the container.
- a particularly simple attachment of the antenna arrangement to the fastening device results when the clamping arrangement is formed by the fastening tube direction and a preferably two-part clamping flange.
- a particularly simple embodiment of such a clamping arrangement is achieved if the fastening device and / or the clamping flange each have a recess for the antenna holder, the inner surface of which is designed to correspond, preferably at least in sections, to a conical or spherical segment.
- a conical or spherical segment-shaped configuration of the respective opening in the fastening device which may be configured, for example, as a clamping or screw-in for mounting the antenna assembly to a container and the clamping flange is achieved that the antenna holder sealingly and pivotally supported in the clamping arrangement and fixed by this can be.
- the antenna holder has a limit stop for limiting a maximum pivot angle of the antenna.
- a corresponding limit stop is preferably disposed exterior side to the antenna mount and can ⁇ example, as a circumferential, preferably be formed in the radial direction of the ball extending web.
- Such a limit stop in particular prevents the antenna mount from being displaced beyond a maximum permissible pivot angle.
- Such maximum allowable rotation angle can be preset, for example, in that a seal is no longer guaranteed when pivoting through the angle addition or Functionally ⁇ ness of the antenna would be impaired.
- Such an impairment of the functionality of the antenna can beispielswei ⁇ se characterized caused that a light emitted from the antenna measuring signal would then no longer radiated into the container interior son ⁇ countries in the direction of the fastening device.
- the maximum swing angle should not exceed 25 °. In particular, it may be useful to limit the maximum tilt angle to 15 °, preferably 10 °.
- a height of the ball layer is preferably between 4 and a diameter the ball.
- the center of the ball sits in the main direction of radiation of the antenna centered in the ball layer. It ensures a good clamping of the antenna mount in the Klemmanordnun and created a good adjustment.
- the radiating surface of the antenna is preferably located in the main emission direction of the antenna in front of the center, since in this way it is achieved that the antenna does not radiate into the material of the fastening device but rather into the container during a pivoting relative to the fastening device.
- the clamping arrangement on sealing devices which may be formed for example as a 0- ring.
- the sealing device may, for example, be arranged between the fastening device and the clamping flange and act on the antenna holder, so that a sealing effect is exerted both by the sealing device and by a clamping action.
- FIG. 1 shows a first exemplary embodiment of an antenna arrangement with a horn antenna
- FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment of an antenna impedance North ⁇ voltage with a planar antenna
- 3 shows an enlarged detail of FIGS. 1 and 2
- FIG. 4 shows a plan view from below of the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 2.
- FIG. 1 shows a first exemplary embodiment of an antenna arrangement 1 with an antenna 3, which according to the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 1 is designed as a horn antenna.
- An emitting surface 5 of the horn antenna 3 is defined in the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 1 by a front edge of the antenna horn and aligned perpendicular to a main emission direction A of the horn antenna 3.
- the horn antenna 3 is closed at the front by a lens 31, which however represents an optional component.
- the reverse side of the Hornan ⁇ antenna 3 is fed via a waveguide 30 having a generated in a measuring electronics 4 measurement signal.
- the waveguide may alternatively or additionally also be partially or completely filled with a dielectric (for example PP or PTFE).
- the horn antenna 3 is formed in the present embodiment, a ⁇ lumps with an antenna holder 7 which is formed in egg nem front in the main direction A region of the antenna.
- the antenna holder 7 is formed in the form of a spherical layer.
- the antenna holder 7 is supported via a clamping arrangement 11, which is formed in the present embodiment by the interaction of a clamping flange 13 with a fastening device 9.
- the fastening device 9 can, as illustrated here, be designed as a flange by means of which the antenna arrangement 1 can be fastened to a container.
- an embodiment as a screw-in flange or welding flange is also conceivable.
- the clamping flange 13 is connected in the present embodiment by means of clamping screws 14 with the fastening device 9.
- clamping screws 14 of the clamping flange 13 By tightening the clamping screws 14 of the clamping flange 13 is tensioned in the direction of the fastening device 9 and thus the antenna holder 7 fixed relative to this.
- Both the clamping flange 13 and the Fixed To ⁇ constriction device 9 have to correspond to the on Antennenhal ⁇ esterification 7 formed recesses in which it is attached ⁇ arranged.
- Decisive for the generation of a Klemmwir ⁇ kung is that both the clamping flange 13 and the fastening device 9 include the antenna holder 7.
- a maximum diameter of a recess formed by the clamping flange 13 and the fastening device 9 is within the arrangement.
- FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment of an antenna arrangement ⁇ 1, wherein the antenna is 3 in the dargestell ⁇ th in Figure 2 embodiment as a planar antenna with a plurality of juxtaposed patch elements 32 designed.
- the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 thus defines the emission surface 5 of the antenna 3 through the plane in which the patch elements 32 are arranged.
- the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 2 differs from the exemplary embodiment from FIG. 1 only in that corresponding design of the antenna 3 as a planar antenna does not feed the antenna 3 via a waveguide 30 but via a supply line 33 which carries the planar antenna 3 with it the measuring electronics 4 connects takes place.
- FIG. 3 shows a detail enlargement from FIGS. 1 and 2, in which the interaction of the clamping flange 13 with the fastening device 9 can be seen particularly well by the clamping effect achieved thereby on the antenna holder 7.
- the clamping flange 13 is connected via clamping screws 14 with the fastening device 9, so that a pivoting of the antenna holder 7 without releasing the fastening device 9 is made possible by the container.
- a limit stop 16 is Darge ⁇ represents the tion a maximum pivot angle of the Antennenhalte- 7 limits relative to the clamping arrangement.
- the limit stop 16 is formed in the present embodiment as an integrally formed on the antenna mount 7 and extending in the radial direction circumferential ridge.
- sealing device 18 showing ⁇ which is arranged between the clamping flange 13 and the fixing device 9 so that a sealing and
- the sealing device 18 which is formed in the present embodiment as an O-ring, is arranged to the antenna ⁇ holder 7 adjacent to a circumferential step of the fastening device 9.
- the clamping flange 13 has a web corresponding to this peripheral step, which exerts an additional pressure on the sealing device 18 and thus compresses it, so that a ver ⁇ improved sealing effect is achieved.
- FIG. 4 shows a plan view from below of the arrangement from FIG. 1 or FIG. 2.
- the individual patch elements 32 from FIG. 4 shows a plan view from below of the arrangement from FIG. 1 or FIG. 2.
- the individual patch elements 32 from FIG. 4 are identical to FIG. 4 in the illustration shown in FIG. 4, the individual patch elements 32 from FIG. 4 in the illustration shown in FIG. 4, the individual patch elements 32 from FIG. 4 in the illustration shown in FIG. 4, the individual patch elements 32 from FIG. 4
- FIG. 4 instead shows flushing nozzles 20 which are provided in the antenna mount 7.
- the rinsing nozzles 20 are configured and arranged such that they produce an air flow for cleaning and cooling the antenna 3, which is directed radially inwards from the rinsing nozzles 20.
- six individual rinsing nozzles 20 are shown, but embodiments with more or fewer rinsing nozzles or a circumferential rinsing channel are also conceivable for generating an air stream flowing through the antenna.
- the spray nozzles are arranged such that the lens 31 is open from soiling ⁇ purified. It should be noted at this point that in addition to the embodiment shown in Figure 1 and 2 with an antenna and a planar antenna and other antenna ⁇ forms, especially with and without interaction with a lens are possible without departing from the spirit of the present invention.
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