Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Directional antenna module and method
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Application No.: US15456200Application Date: 2017-03-10
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Publication No.: US10790584B2Publication Date: 2020-09-29
- Inventor: Markus Neinhues
- Applicant: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
- Applicant Address: DE Munich
- Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
- Current Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
- Current Assignee Address: DE Munich
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@179dad2d
- Main IPC: H01Q3/24
- IPC: H01Q3/24 ; G01S3/40 ; G01S3/22 ; H01Q1/48 ; H01Q7/00 ; H01Q15/14 ; H01Q21/06 ; H01Q25/02 ; H01Q9/06 ; H01Q9/28 ; H01Q3/02 ; H01Q3/40

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a directional antenna module comprising: at least one antenna array having at least two antenna elements connected to a 180-degree hybrid providing an inphase summation signal and an out-of-phase summation signal of the antenna signals received from the antenna elements and a switching element adapted to switch between the inphase summation signal and the out-of-phase summation signal output by said 180-degree hybrid in response to a direction finding mode control signal (DFM-CRTL) to provide an antenna output signal at an antenna module output of said directional antenna module. The present invention further relates to a method for direction finding of a signal source.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170310003A1 DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA MODULE AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2017-10-26
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