Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Analog beamformer used for array antenna and operating method thereof
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Application No.: US17545983Application Date: 2021-12-08
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Publication No.: US11750261B2Publication Date: 2023-09-05
- Inventor: Janne-Wha Wu , Tang-Yu Lee , Ming Jie Yu
- Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
- Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: JCIPRNET
- Priority: TW 0138217 2021.10.14
- Main IPC: H04B1/04
- IPC: H04B1/04 ; H04B7/06 ; H03F3/19 ; H03L7/08 ; H03L7/197 ; H04B1/06 ; H03B27/00

Abstract:
An analog beamformer used for array antenna and an operating method thereof are provided. The analog beamformer used for array antenna includes an intermediate-frequency amplifying circuit, multiple local oscillators, multiple mixers, multiple radio-frequency amplifying circuits, and a frequency locking circuit. The analog beamformer uses a master-oscillator and multiple slave-oscillators which embed a resonant network of frequency-and-phase-locking. The intermediate-frequency amplifying circuit receives a baseband signal to provide an intermediate-frequency signal. Power supplies or grounding ports of different local oscillators are connected together to provide multiple local-oscillating signals with consistent frequency but different phases. The mixers individually receive the intermediate-frequency signal and one of the local-oscillating signals to provide multiple mixed signals. The radio-frequency amplifying circuits receive the mixed signals to provide multiple radio-frequency signals with consistent frequency but different phases to each antenna. The frequency locking circuit only locks a frequency of one of the local-oscillating signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230123851A1 ANALOG BEAMFORMER USED FOR ARRAY ANTENNA AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2023-04-20
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