公开(公告)号：US11362411B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US16472800

申请日：2017-12-20

Applicant: SOFANT TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

Inventor： Nakul Raghavanand Haridas ,  David Michael Wither ,  Victor Steel ,  Wei Zhou ,  Tonio Idda ,  Admed Osman El-Rayis

IPC: H01Q1/22 ,  B81B7/00 ,  B81C1/00 ,  H01Q3/30 ,  H01Q21/06 ,  H01Q23/00 ,  H03H7/01 ,  H04B1/38

Abstract: The invention relates to antenna apparatus comprising: an antenna, a signal conductor and one or more RF MEMS switches, the antenna being conductively connected to the signal conductor, the MEMS switches and at least a portion of the signal conductor being supported by a crystalline MEMS substrate; and a capping substrate comprising a capping portion, wherein an enclosed volume is formed around the said MEMS switches between the capping portion and at least a portion of the crystalline MEMS substrate, and wherein the capping substrate comprises the said antenna.

公开(公告)号：US10862196B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-08

申请号：US16472819

申请日：2017-12-21

Applicant: SOFANT TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

Inventor： Nakul Raghavanand Haridas ,  David Michael Wither ,  Victor Steel ,  Wei Zhou ,  Tonio Idda ,  Admed Osman El-Rayis

IPC: H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q3/26 ,  H01Q21/00

Abstract: The invention provides an antenna array comprising: a plurality of antenna modules, each of the antenna modules comprising an antenna, a signal conductor and one or more microelectromechanical (MEMS) switches, the antenna being conductively connected to the signal conductor, the MEMS switches and at least a portion of the signal conductor being supported by a MEMS substrate; and one or more integrated circuits comprising MEMS control circuitry configured to control the said one or more MEMS switches and/or signal processing circuitry configured to process signals received and/or to be transmitted by the antennas of the antenna modules, wherein the antenna modules and integrated circuits are supported by a common carrier substrate comprising the antennas of the antenna modules, the MEMS switches; or the said one or more integrated circuits. A hierarchy of MEMS controllers includes a master MEMS controller and local MEMS controllers which send control signals to a plurality of MEMS switches.