Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Modular antenna array with RF and baseband beamforming
- Patent Title (中): 具有RF和基带波束成形的模块化天线阵列
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Application No.: US13994223Application Date: 2012-12-10
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Publication No.: US09397740B2Publication Date: 2016-07-19
- Inventor: Alexander Maltsev , Ali S. Sadri , Richard B. Nicholls , Reza Arefi , Alexei Davydov , Vadim Sergeyev
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/IB2012/003075 WO 20121210
- International Announcement: WO2014/091274 WO 20140619
- Main IPC: H04B1/00
- IPC: H04B1/00 ; H04B7/06 ; H01Q3/40 ; H01Q1/24 ; H01Q21/00 ; H01Q21/20 ; H01Q25/00 ; H04L27/18 ; H04W16/28

Abstract:
Generally, this disclosure provides systems and methods for a modular antenna array using radio frequency (RF) and baseband (BB) beamforming. A system may include a plurality of antenna modules, each of the antenna modules further including an array of antenna elements coupled to an RF beamforming circuit, the RF beamforming circuit to adjust phase shifts associated with the antenna elements to generate an antenna beam associated with the antenna module; and a central beamforming module coupled to each of the antenna modules, the central beamforming module to control the antenna beam associated with each of the antenna modules and to generate signal adjustments relative to each of the antenna modules, wherein the arrays of antenna elements of the antenna modules combine to operate as a composite antenna beamforming array.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150288438A1 MODULAR ANTENNA ARRAY WITH RF AND BASEBAND BEAMFORMING Public/Granted day:2015-10-08
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