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- Patent Title: Phase controller and phase controlling method for antenna array, and communication apparatus using the same
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Application No.: US15825338Application Date: 2017-11-29
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Publication No.: US10598778B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Chia-Yu Yao , Shao Chen , Chien-Te Yu
- Applicant: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Applicant Address: TW
- Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: TW
- Agency: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts, LLP
- Main IPC: G01S13/38
- IPC: G01S13/38 ; H01Q21/29 ; H01Q3/26 ; G01S7/35 ; H01Q3/38 ; H01Q3/42 ; H04B7/00 ; H04B7/06

Abstract:
A phase controller for an antenna array includes a determination circuit, determining a direction index of the antenna array, and calculating a phase index according to the direction index according to a congruence modulo equation; a switching box, selecting L first frequency signals with L different first phases among K first frequency signals with K different first phases according to the phase index, wherein L and K are integer larger than 1, and L is not larger than K; and a frequency synthesizing module, comprising L phase-coherent PLL frequency synthesizers for receiving the L first frequency signals with the L different first phases to generate L second frequency signals with L different second phases to L antennae of the antenna array, wherein a second frequency of the second frequency signals is larger than a first frequency of the first frequency signals.
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