SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING RF PHASE IN A DISTRIBUTED MOBILE PLATFORM ENSEMBLE UTILIZING A FREE SPACE OPTICAL SYSTEM TO IMPROVE RF PHASE ALIGNMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20230420837A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-28

    申请号:US18328689

    申请日:2023-06-02

    CPC classification number: H01Q3/01 H04B10/118 H04B7/18506

    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for communicating between platforms, comprising the steps of initializing a first platform and a second platform; optically tracking a movement of the second platform by the first platform; and optically communicating bi-directionally between the first platform and the second platform. Disclosed herein is an optical communication device comprising various elements including but not limited to: a processor configured to provide at least a tracking mode and a communications mode; an input-output interface coupled to the processor; an electro-optic controller coupled to the input-output interface; an acquisition-tracking portion coupled to the electro-optic controller; and a communication portion coupled to the electro-optic controller. Disclosed herein is a method for communicating between platforms, comprising forming a phase array antenna, wherein the phase array antenna comprises a plurality of platforms arranged in a platform community; and synchronizing a time measurement at each of the platforms, wherein each platform comprises an optical communication device.

    Airborne mesh network forming phase array antenna

    公开(公告)号:US11855360B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-26

    申请号:US16779943

    申请日:2020-02-03

    CPC classification number: H01Q3/01 H04B7/18506 H04B10/118

    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for communicating between platforms, comprising the steps of initializing a first platform and a second platform; optically tracking a movement of the second platform by the first platform; and optically communicating bi-directionally between the first platform and the second platform. Disclosed herein is an optical communication device comprising various elements including but not limited to: a processor configured to provide at least a tracking mode and a communications mode; an input-output interface coupled to the processor; an electro-optic controller coupled to the input-output interface; an acquisition-tracking portion coupled to the electro-optic controller; and a communication portion coupled to the electro-optic controller. Disclosed herein is a method for communicating between platforms, comprising forming a phase array antenna, wherein the phase array antenna comprises a plurality of platforms arranged in a platform community; and synchronizing a time measurement at each of the platforms, wherein each platform comprises an optical communication device.

    ADJUSTABLE SLOT ANTENNAS
    6.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220320711A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17633624

    申请日:2019-10-04

    Abstract: Example electronic devices with adjustable antennas as disclosed. In an example, the electronic device includes a housing, and an antenna disposed within the housing. The antenna includes a slot extending between a first conductive surface and a second conductive surface, and a contact clip coupled to the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface so that the first conductive surface is coupled to the second conductive surface through the contact clip. The contact clip is to move along the slot to adjust an operating frequency of the antenna.

    Antenna
    7.
    发明授权
    Antenna 有权

    公开(公告)号:US11462825B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-04

    申请号:US17051214

    申请日:2019-03-25

    Applicant: Fujikura Ltd.

    Abstract: To widen a range of an angle in which the directivity of an antenna is controllable to be high. An antenna includes a sheet-shaped laminated body that includes a conductive pattern layer, a first dielectric layer, a conductive ground layer, and an antenna pattern layer, the antenna pattern layer including element rows arranged in parallel, the element rows each including even-numbered radiation elements that are connected in series and linearly aligned at an interval in a direction orthogonal to a parallel alignment direction of the element rows, the conductive pattern layer including feed lines for feeding power to the center of each or the element rows, the element rows being divided into groups using a bending line as a boundary, by bending the laminated body along the bending line.

    Reconfigurable metasurface with tunable antennas formed from arrays of pixels of an optically tunable material

    公开(公告)号:US11314108B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-26

    申请号:US16541860

    申请日:2019-08-15

    Abstract: An apparatus includes two or more tunable antennas providing a reconfigurable metasurface, each of the tunable antennas including a plurality of pixels of optically tunable material, and a control circuit including switches providing current sources and a ground voltage, the switches being coupled to respective ones of the pixels of optically tunable material in each of the tunable antennas via first electrodes, the ground voltage being coupled to respective ones of the pixels of optically tunable material in each of the tunable antennas via second electrodes. The control circuit is configured to modify states of respective ones of the plurality of pixels of optically tunable material in the tunable antennas utilizing current supplied between the first electrodes and the second electrodes to adjust reflectivity of the plurality of pixels of optically tunable material in each of the tunable antennas to dynamically reconfigure respective antenna shape configurations of the tunable antennas.

    ANTENNA APPARATUS AND RADIO BASE STATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220077562A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-10

    申请号:US17455353

    申请日:2021-11-17

    Abstract: An antenna apparatus is disclosed including an antenna element; an installation base being a base where the antenna element is installed; a container including an upper surface that opens and housing the antenna element and the installation base, the upper surface being a surface closest to a ground surface when the container is installed in a ground; and a cover being formed of FRP (Fiber-Reinforced Plastics) and covering an opening of the container, wherein the installation base includes a height adjustment mechanism that adjusts a distance from the antenna element to the cover. In other aspects, a radio base station is also disclosed.

    Multibeam antenna with adjustable pointing

    公开(公告)号:US11264695B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-01

    申请号:US16727625

    申请日:2019-12-26

    Applicant: Thales

    Abstract: This invention concerns a multibeam antenna with adjustable pointing, comprising a single reflection arrangement and a plurality of radiating sources arranged opposite the reflection arrangement and suited to emit and/or receive radiofrequency (RF) signals, the reflection arrangement defining a centre, a focal plane, and a focal point located on the focal plane.
    The antenna is characterised in that at least one of the radiating sources (‘mobile source’) is movable substantially independently of the or each other radiating source on a scanning surface to adjust the pointing of the antenna, wherein the scanning surface coincides with the focal plane or is tangential to it at the focal point.

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