公开(公告)号：US20170331528A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-16

申请号：US15590665

申请日：2017-05-09

Applicant: NXP B.V.

Inventor： Patrice Gamand ,  Philippe Descamps

IPC: H04B7/0408 ,  H01Q3/40 ,  H01Q3/36 ,  H04B1/44 ,  H01Q3/26

CPC classification number: H04B7/0408 ,  H01Q3/2694 ,  H01Q3/36 ,  H01Q3/40 ,  H01Q25/00 ,  H04B1/44

Abstract: A multi-beam-former for an antenna array is described, the multi-beam former comprises N transceiver terminals for connecting a transmitter and/or receiver and N antenna terminals for connecting to a respective antenna and a plurality of couplers and matrix phase shifters arranged in an N×N Butler matrix configuration between the N transceiver terminals and the N antenna terminals. At least some of the matrix phase shifters include a switchable matrix phase shifter configured to switch between a respective first phase shift value and a respective second phase shift value; a plurality of bypassable phase shifters arranged between at least some of the couplers and the antenna terminals and configured to switch between a respective further phase shift value and a zero phase shift. The multi-beam former is operable to select one of M different beam angles for a signal, wherein M is greater than N.