WO1998049750A1 - Antenne torsade a reflecteur - Google Patents

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WO1998049750A1
WO1998049750A1 PCT/GB1998/000829 GB9800829W WO9849750A1 WO 1998049750 A1 WO1998049750 A1 WO 1998049750A1 GB 9800829 W GB9800829 W GB 9800829W WO 9849750 A1 WO9849750 A1 WO 9849750A1
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twist
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Neil Williams
Robert Pearson
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Era Patents Limited
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q15/00—Devices for reflection, refraction, diffraction or polarisation of waves radiated from an antenna, e.g. quasi-optical devices
    • H01Q15/24—Polarising devices; Polarisation filters 
    • H01Q15/242—Polarisation converters
    • H01Q15/246—Polarisation converters rotating the plane of polarisation of a linear polarised wave
    • H01Q15/248—Polarisation converters rotating the plane of polarisation of a linear polarised wave using a reflecting surface, e.g. twist reflector

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  • Twist reflector antennas have been known for at least 60 years, and are referred to in the paper "Microwave Antennas Derived from the Cassegrain Telescope” , Peter Hannan, IRE Transactions Antennas Propagat, Col AP-9, pp 140-153, March 1961.
  • These antennas comprise a main reflector in front of which is provided a gridded radome which forms a polarisation sensitive sub-reflector together with a feed system provided at the virtual focus of the main reflector.
  • the main reflector comprises a generally parabolic metal dish on the surface of which is provided a layer of foam, and a plurality of wires overlying the foam and extending in parallel to each other across the dish.
  • the radome comprises a dielectric material having a plurality of parallel conductor strips extending across one surface, and arranged at an angle of about 45° to the wires extending across the reflector.
  • signals radiated from the feed horn having a polarisation parallel to the gridded radome are reflected back towards the main reflector which twists the polarisation of the signals by about 90° so that the signals pass through the gridded radome with almost perfect transmission.
  • the application of known twist reflector antennas has been limited due to the high manufacturing cost of such antennas. This high cost is due primarily to the difficulty in providing the wires across the reflector.
  • a twist reflector antenna comprises a metallised plastics reflector including a reflective surface having a plurality of generally parallel corrugated projections extending across the reflective surface, and a sub-reflector comprising a dielectric substrate having a plurality of generally parallel conductors extending across the substrate, the conductors extending at an angle of approximately 45° to that of the projections on the reflective surface.
  • the antenna according to the present invention is much less expensive than conventional twist reflector antennas, both as the material cost is lower, and as it is much easier to form a metallised plastics reflector with projections than to provide individual wires extending over an insulator on a parabolic dish.
  • the antenna can be used for a far wider range of applications than the prior art.
  • the antenna is lighter, and is more robust, not having exposed wires extending across the parabolic dish.
  • the plastics reflector is preferably formed by moulding.
  • the metal layer on the reflector may be formed by sputtering or plating the plastics substrate, or by applying a metal coating to the mould tool prior to moulding the plastics reflector.
  • the reflector may be parabolic, or may have some other generally concave shape, which may include a generally flat rear portion with a surrounding ridge.
  • the sub-reflector is preferably planar, though in the case of a shaped reflector, the sub- reflector will usually require reshaping accordingly.
  • the sub-reflector includes a multiple layer grid comprising a single or multi-layer segmented grid in front of a single continuous grid, the segmented grid being analogous to an array of dipoles on an aperiodic lattice.
  • the reflector can have any desired peripheral shape and in particular may be circular, elliptical, or have a diamond shape.
  • a diamond shaped reflector is beneficial in that it gives low principal plane sidelobes.
  • the sub-reflector may be formed from a plastics sheet on which parallel conductors are formed by an electro- forming or other deposition method, or may be formed from a metallised dielectric, in which case the conductors may be formed by etching the metal layer.
  • a plurality of plastics layers may be used to form a sandwich construction. By passing an electric current through the conductors to heat the wires and the material of the radome, the antenna may be de-iced.
  • the sizing and spacing of elements of the antenna is preferably determined by the wavelength of the signals to be transmitted and received.
  • the height of each of the projections is an odd multiple of quarter the wavelength of the signals, and it is particularly preferred that the projections have a height approximately equal to quarter of the wavelength. This ensures that reflections from the top of the projections are in anti-phase with reflections from the bottom of the projections. This cancels co-polarized reflected fields.
  • the conductors on the sub-reflector advantageously have a thickness of less than one tenth of the wavelength of the signals to be transmitted or received. This reduces reflections from the grid when this is illuminated by the fields scattered from the reflector. Adjacent conductors on the sub-reflector are preferably spaced from each other by less than half of the wavelength of the signals to be transmitted. This ensures that there is negligible transmission of signals which are polarised parallel to the grid.
  • the sub-reflector has an electrical thickness substantially equal to a multiple of half the wavelength of the signal to be transmitted or received by the antenna.
  • the electrical thickness of the sub-reflector is preferably tuned by the conductors provided on the sub-reflector.
  • the antenna includes a feed system such as a horn radiator or a printed or wire element such as a dipole. Where the feed system is a horn radiator, this may be formed integrally with the reflector, or may be in the form of a separate component which is inserted into the reflector.
  • the antenna may have a plurality of feed horns, or be in the form of a line array feed. A line array feed is particularly suitable for a cylindrical reflector arrangement .
  • the antenna By moulding the antenna from a plastics material, it is possible to form a plurality of reflectors in a single piece of material. In this case, a single sub-reflector may be provided for all reflectors. By providing multiple reflectors, it is possible for the antenna to receive and transmit, or to handle multiple receptions and transmissions, simultaneously.
  • Figure 1 shows a general view of an antenna according to the present invention
  • Figure 2 shows a cross-sectional side view of the antenna of Figure 1;
  • Figure 3 shows an enlarged view of the surface of the reflector of Figure 2 ;
  • Figure 4 shows a front view of an alternative antenna according to the present invention
  • Figure 5 shows a cross-sectional side view of a further alternative antenna
  • Figure 6 shows a side cross-sectional view of a still further example of the present invention
  • Figure 7 shows an enlarged view of the sub-reflector of Figure 6.
  • a twist reflector antenna includes a moulded metallised plastics reflector 1, and a gridded sub- reflector or radome 2.
  • the reflector 1 includes a dish portion including a central feed horn 3 which may be formed integrally with the reflector 1, or may be a separate insert.
  • the dish reflector includes a plurality of projections which extend across the reflector surface, each of the projections being parallel to the other projections. These projections can be seen in greater detail in Figure 3 in which the plane of the projections is at 45° to the plane of the paper.
  • the metallised plastics reflector is formed by moulding.
  • the moulding tool is first coated with a thin metal layer, then plastics material is introduced to the mould. This produces a metal coating over the surface of the moulded plastics reflector.
  • Each of the projections provided on the reflector have a height equal to a quarter of the wavelength of the signals to be received or transmitted.
  • each of the projections should have a height of 7.5mm.
  • the radome 2 is formed of a dielectric substrate on which parallel electric conductors 4 are provided. This may be formed by making the radome 2 from a metallised plastics material and etching the metal layer to form the conductors, or by depositing metal strips onto the dielectric substrate.
  • the conductors on the radome are spaced by less than half the wavelength of the signals to be transmitted or received by the antenna, and in the case of a signal of 10GHz, the spacing is therefore less than 15mm.
  • the width of each of the conductors is less than one tenth of the wavelength and the case of a 10GHz signal each strip therefore has a thickness of less than 3mm.
  • the effective electrical thickness of the radome 2 is half the wavelength of the RF signals to be transmitted or received to give ideal transmission, and in the case of signals of 10GHz, the radome 2 has an electrical thickness of 15mm.
  • the physical thickness of the radome 2 is generally less, and depends on the characteristics of the material, such as its permitivity, and by the grid formed on the radome, which can be used to tune the effective electrical thickness of the material for maximum transmission.
  • the radome 2 can be constructed as a standard A-sandwich with two thin skins surrounding a low permittivity core.
  • the metallised plastics reflector and gridded radome 2 are arranged with respect to each other so that the projections extend at an angle of approximately 45° to the conductors on the radome 2. This is best seen in Figures 1 and 4 of the present application.
  • the gridded radome is shown over only half of the antenna for clarity.
  • the antenna shown is horizontally polarised, although the entire antenna can be rotated to give different polarization.
  • the polarization of the RF signals is twisted by 90° by the projections on the reflector. Due to the quarter wavelength height of the projections, reflections from the top and bottom of the projections are in antiphase thereby fully cancelling out co-polarized reflected fields at the primary frequency for which the antenna is used.
  • the twist in the polarization of the signals allows these to be transmitted through the gridded radome 2. Whilst the peripheral shape of the reflector shown in Figure 1 is circular, the reflector may have an elliptical or, as shown in Figure 4 diamond shape.
  • Figure 5 shows an alternative antenna according to the present invention.
  • the reflector is not a parabolic reflector as shown in Figures 1 and 2, and is shaped.
  • the radome 2 is not planar as in the case with the arrangement with respect to Figures 1 and 2.
  • Figure 6 shows a further embodiment which the reflector is generally planar with a surrounding ridge for supporting the radome 2.
  • the radome 2 is a multi-layer grid comprising an external continuous grid 6, and internal dipole grid 8, and a central di-electric or plastics substrate 7.
  • the dipole grid is analogous to an array of dipoles on an aperiodic lattice arranged to produce or receive a collimated pencil beam or other prescribed shaped pattern.
  • the angle and spacing of the dipole elements and the lengths of the dipoles determines the reflection phase of the structure at any particular point.
  • the continuous grid ensures all of the incident field is reflected, and can be used as a de- icing grid by passing an electric current through the conductors .

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L'invention concerne une antenne torsade à réflecteur comportant un réflecteur (1) en matière plastique métallisée, de préférence moulé, et un sous-réflecteur (2). La surface réfléchissante du réflecteur (1) comporte de multiples parties saillantes ondulées, généralement parallèles, s'étendant en travers de la surface réfléchissante (1). Le sous-réflecteur (2) comporte un substrat diélectrique pourvu de multiples conducteurs (4) généralement parallèles s'étendant en travers du substrat. Les conducteurs (4) sur le sous-réflecteur (2) s'étendent à un angle d'environ 45° par rapport à celui des parties saillantes (5) sur la surface réfléchissante (1).
PCT/GB1998/000829 1997-04-29 1998-03-19 Antenne torsade a reflecteur WO1998049750A1 (fr)

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WO2000028622A1 (fr) * 1998-11-12 2000-05-18 Raytheon Company Antenne cassegrain a balayage electronique avec reflecteur secondaire/radome pleine ouverture
FR2803694A1 (fr) * 2000-01-12 2001-07-13 Univ Rennes Antenne a cavite resonante ayant un faisceau conforme selon un diagramme de rayonnement predetermine
DE10112893A1 (de) * 2001-03-15 2002-10-02 Eads Deutschland Gmbh Bifokale gefaltete Reflektorantenne
US7053859B2 (en) 2000-12-19 2006-05-30 Radiant Networks Plc Support structure for antennas, transceiver apparatus and rotary coupling
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US5319379A (en) * 1984-08-24 1994-06-07 Hercules Defense Electronics Systems, Inc. Parabolic dual reflector antenna with offset feed

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WO2000028622A1 (fr) * 1998-11-12 2000-05-18 Raytheon Company Antenne cassegrain a balayage electronique avec reflecteur secondaire/radome pleine ouverture
US6150991A (en) * 1998-11-12 2000-11-21 Raytheon Company Electronically scanned cassegrain antenna with full aperture secondary/radome
FR2803694A1 (fr) * 2000-01-12 2001-07-13 Univ Rennes Antenne a cavite resonante ayant un faisceau conforme selon un diagramme de rayonnement predetermine
WO2001052356A1 (fr) * 2000-01-12 2001-07-19 Universite De Rennes 1 Antenne a cavite resonante ayant un faisceau conforme selon un diagramme de rayonnement predetermine
US7053859B2 (en) 2000-12-19 2006-05-30 Radiant Networks Plc Support structure for antennas, transceiver apparatus and rotary coupling
DE10112893A1 (de) * 2001-03-15 2002-10-02 Eads Deutschland Gmbh Bifokale gefaltete Reflektorantenne
DE10112893C2 (de) * 2001-03-15 2003-10-09 Eads Deutschland Gmbh Gefaltete Reflektorantenne
CN104319489A (zh) * 2014-11-03 2015-01-28 中国工程物理研究院应用电子学研究所 一种在近场具有扁平带状波束的毫米波天线
CN104319489B (zh) * 2014-11-03 2017-02-22 中国工程物理研究院应用电子学研究所 一种在近场具有扁平带状波束的毫米波天线
WO2018098698A1 (fr) * 2016-11-30 2018-06-07 华为技术有限公司 Antenne de réseau réfléchissante et dispositif de communication

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