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公开(公告)号:US11627477B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-11
申请号:US17684453
申请日:2022-03-02
Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC
Inventor: Martin L. Zimmerman , Shirley Forsythe , Dale R. Moore , Deepali Limaye
Abstract: A method of configuring an antenna that includes a plurality of RET units that are associated with respective ones of a plurality of arrays of radiating elements is provided in which, for each array in a subset that includes at least one of the arrays, setting an output of the RET unit associated with the array to a position that corresponds to a pre-selected electronic downtilt for the array. A first RET unit configuration file is loaded into a memory of the antenna, where the first RET unit configuration file does not include configuration data for the RET units associated with the arrays that are included in the subset. A second RET unit configuration file is provided that includes configuration data for all of the RET units.
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公开(公告)号:US11355830B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-07
申请号:US16908867
申请日:2020-06-23
Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC
Inventor: Guomin Ding , Martin L. Zimmerman
Abstract: A tilt adapter configured to facilitate a desired tilt of a first radio frequency (RF) band and a second RF band of an antenna is disclosed. The antenna supports two or more frequency bands, in which the vertical tilt of each of the supported frequency bands is separately controlled by a coarse level of phase shifting, but commonly controlled by a fine level of phase shifting.
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公开(公告)号:US20220158362A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-19
申请号:US17525208
申请日:2021-11-12
Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC.
Inventor: Martin L. Zimmerman
Abstract: Base station antennas include a first array that has a plurality of columns of radiating elements. All of the columns in the first array except for a first column and a second column are spaced apart from adjacent of the columns of the first array by a first distance. The first and second columns of the first array are spaced apart from each other a second, larger distance (e.g., twice the first distance) to define a first column-shaped open space within the first array. A column of a second array may be positioned in the first column-shaped open space within the first array.
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公开(公告)号:US11309629B2
公开(公告)日:2022-04-19
申请号:US16913105
申请日:2020-06-26
Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC
Inventor: Martin L. Zimmerman
Abstract: Base station antennas include a plurality of multiplexer filters and a multi-column array of radiating elements that includes a plurality of sub-arrays. Each filter may have a first and second ports that are configured to pass RF signals in respective first and second frequency bands and a third common port that is coupled to a respective one of a plurality of sub-arrays. These antennas also include first frequency band ports that are coupled to the first ports of respective subsets of the multiplexer filters and second frequency band ports that are coupled to the second ports of at least some of the multiplexer filters. The antenna may operate as a MIMO sector antenna in the first frequency band and as a sector-splitting antenna in the second frequency band.
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公开(公告)号:US20220116790A1
公开(公告)日:2022-04-14
申请号:US17149816
申请日:2021-01-15
Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC
Inventor: Farid Firouzbakht , Martin L. Zimmerman
Abstract: Base station antennas are provided that include a first array of radiating elements that is configured to form a first antenna beam that has a first downtilt angle in response to a first RF signal that is input at the first RF port and a second array of radiating elements that is configured to form a second antenna beam that has a second downtilt angle in response to a second RF signal that is input at the second RF port. The second downtilt angle is less than the first downtilt angle. The first antenna beam is configured to only provide coverage to users within a first portion of a coverage area of the base station antenna that is close to the base station antenna and the second antenna beam is configured to provide coverage to users within a second portion of the coverage area that extends farther from the base station antenna than does the first portion.
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公开(公告)号:US11271327B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-08
申请号:US16609356
申请日:2018-06-11
Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC
Inventor: Long Shan , Jinchun He , YueMin Li , Yunzhe Li , Martin L. Zimmerman
IPC: H01Q21/24 , H01Q5/48 , H01Q9/16 , H01Q15/14 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q5/321 , H01Q1/52 , H01Q9/06 , H01Q19/10 , H01Q21/28 , H01Q21/06
Abstract: A dipole antenna includes a planar reflector and a radiating element. The radiating element includes first and second pairs of dipoles on a surface of the planar reflector. The first and second pairs of dipoles respectively include arm segments arranged around a central region in a box dipole arrangement. The arm segments may be printed circuit board portions having respective metal segments and respective inductor-capacitor circuits thereon. The inductor-capacitor circuits define a filter aligned to a frequency range higher than an operating frequency range of the first and second pairs of dipoles.
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公开(公告)号:US11264727B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-01
申请号:US17266860
申请日:2019-08-21
Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC
Inventor: Martin L. Zimmerman , Michel Dembinski
Abstract: A lensed base station antenna includes a first array that includes a plurality of first radiating elements that are configured to transmit respective sub-components of a first RF signal, a second array that includes a plurality of second radiating elements that are configured to transmit respective sub-components of a second RF signal and an RF lens structure positioned to receive electromagnetic radiation from a first of the first radiating elements and from a first of the second radiating elements. A first subset of the first radiating elements are aligned along a first vertical axis and a second subset of the first radiating elements are aligned along a second vertical axis that is spaced apart from the first vertical axis. The first and second arrays each include a single radiating element per horizontal row.
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公开(公告)号:US11201388B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-14
申请号:US16357449
申请日:2019-03-19
Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC
Inventor: Martin L. Zimmerman , Björn Lindmark
Abstract: A base station antenna (BSA) system includes a radio-frequency (RF) generator having a plurality of power-amplifying circuits therein, and an antenna, which includes a plurality of columns of radiating elements. These radiating elements are electrically coupled by RF signal routing to a corresponding plurality of ports of the antenna that receive a corresponding plurality of RF input signals. These RF input signals have respective amplitudes and phases that support the concurrent generation of three spaced-apart RF beams by the antenna and are derived from respective RF signals generated by the plurality of power-amplifying circuits. The RF input signals including: (i) a first RF input signal defined by at least two linearly superposed RF signals of equivalent frequency having unequal combinations of amplitude and phase weighting, and (ii) a second RF input signal defined by at least two linearly superposed RF signals of equivalent frequency having unequal combinations of amplitude and phase weighting.
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公开(公告)号:US20210227684A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-22
申请号:US17151846
申请日:2021-01-19
Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC
Inventor: Xiaotuo Wang , Hangsheng Wen , Shuguang Shao , Nengbin Liu , Martin L. Zimmerman
Abstract: Printed circuit boards for a base station antenna include a substrate layer, and a first conductive trace and a second conductive trace which are printed on the substrate layer and cross each other. The first conductive trace has two trace sections separated by the second conductive trace. Adjacent ends of the two trace sections separated by the second conductive trace are connected electrically by a jumper. The jumper has an electrical conductor, is isolated electrically from the second conductive trace and is fixed on the printed circuit board. The electrical conductor and the two trace sections are connected electrically at adjacent ends. The printed circuit board allows flexible wiring of the conductive traces on the printed circuit board.
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公开(公告)号:US11018416B2
公开(公告)日:2021-05-25
申请号:US15875555
申请日:2018-01-19
Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC
Inventor: Peter J. Bisiules , Jonathon C. Veihl , Xiangyang Ai , Martin L. Zimmerman
Abstract: A base station antenna includes a first set of radiating elements that are configured to generate a first antenna beam that has a first peanut-shaped antenna pattern in an azimuth plane and a second set of radiating elements that are configured to generate a second antenna beam that has a second peanut-shaped antenna pattern in the azimuth plane. A longitudinal axis of the first peanut-shaped antenna pattern in the azimuth plane is rotated approximately ninety degrees from a longitudinal axis of the second peanut-shaped antenna pattern in the azimuth plane.
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