Abstract:
An antenna array according to an embodiment includes a conductive member having a first and second slots adjacent to each other. The conductive surface on a front side of the conductive member is shaped so as to define a first and second horns respectively communicating with the first and second slots. The respective E planes of slots are on the same plane, or on a plurality of planes which are substantially parallel to each other. In an E-plane cross section of the first horn, a length from one of two intersections between the E plane and an edge of the first slot to one of two intersections between the E plane and an edge of the aperture plane of the first horn is longer than a length from the other intersection between the E plane and the edge of the first slot to the other intersection between the E plane and the edge of the aperture plane of the first horn, the lengths extending along an inner wall surface of the first horn.
Abstract:
A microwave IC waveguide device module includes: a substrate having a throughhole; a microwave IC provided on or above the first face of the substrate; a waveguide member provided below the second face of the substrate opposite from the first face, the waveguide member having an electrically conductive waveguide face which opposes the throughhole; an electrically conductive member covering at least a portion of the second face that extends in a manner of following along the waveguide face; and an artificial magnetic conductor on both sides of the waveguide member. The substrate includes an inner-wall electrically conductive portion covering an inner wall of the throughhole and being electrically connected with the electrically conductive member. The signal terminal and the ground terminal of the IC are electrically connected respectively with two portions of the inner-wall electrically conductive portion opposing each other with the throughhole interposed therebetween.
Abstract:
There is provided a mounting substrate and the like which allows losses in a waveguide from a microwave IC to a transmission/reception antenna to be reduced. A waveguide device module includes: a waveguide device including an electrically conductive member having an electrically conductive surface, a waveguide member extending alongside the electrically conductive surface and having an electrically-conductive waveguide face, and a first artificial magnetic conductor extending on both sides of the waveguide member; a coupler including a first face having a groove, a second face opposite to the first face, and a throughhole extending from the first face through to the second face, the groove being connected at one end to the throughhole and defined by a first metal side face and a second metal side face opposing each other and a metal bottom face connecting between the first metal side face and the second metal side face; and a second artificial magnetic conductor at least opposing the groove. The first metal side face, the second metal side face, and the metal bottom face constitute a 1/2 rectangular hollow-waveguide. The 1/2 rectangular hollow-waveguide and the waveguide device are connected via the throughhole.
Abstract:
A mounting substrate or the like is provided that can reduce losses in a waveguide extending from a microwave IC to a transmission/reception antenna. A mounting substrate includes a circuit board and a coupler. The circuit board has a mounting surface on which a microwave integrated circuit element is to be mounted, the microwave integrated circuit element having a plurality of terminals including first and second antenna I/O terminals. The coupler connects the first and second antenna I/O terminals to a waveguide device. The coupler includes: a first electrical conductor portion to be connected to the first antenna I/O terminal; a second electrical conductor portion to be connected to the second antenna I/O terminal; and an elongated gap in which an end face of the first electrical conductor portion and an end face of the second electrical conductor portion oppose each other. The elongated gap has a narrow portion at which the distance between the end face of the first electrical conductor portion and the end face of the second electrical conductor portion is locally decreased. The coupler couples an electromagnetic field being produced at the narrow portion to a waveguide in the waveguide device.
Abstract:
A slot antenna includes: a first electrically conductive member having a first electrically conductive surface; a second electrically conductive member having a second electrically conductive surface opposing the first electrically conductive surface; a waveguide member between the first electrically conductive member and the second electrically conductive member, the waveguide member having an electrically conductive waveguide face of a stripe shape opposing the first electrically conductive surface, the waveguide member extending in a first direction along the first electrically conductive surface; and an artificial magnetic conductor extending on both sides of the waveguide member, between the first electrically conductive member and the second electrically conductive member. The first electrically conductive member has one or more slots. At least one of the slot or slots is a complex slot having a pair of vertical portions and a lateral portion that interconnects the pair of vertical portions. The lateral portion of the complex slot opposes the waveguide face, and intersects the first direction.
Abstract:
A multicopter having a radar mounted therein is provided. A multicopter includes: a plurality of motors to respectively rotate three or more rotors; and a radar system to transmit and receive a signal wave and detect a target by using the signal wave. An object detection apparatus in the radar system transmits and receives a signal wave to perform a target detecting process. An antenna element is in a position to receive the transmission wave reflected off a rotor (a rotor-originated reflected wave). The signal wave received at the antenna element is inclusive of a target-originated reflected wave reflected off a target and a rotor-originated reflected wave. The object detection apparatus determines whether or not a frequency band satisfying a predefined condition for identifying a frequency peak is contained in a frequency spectrum of the signal wave as received by the antenna element, and determines a peak of a frequency band satisfying the predefined condition to be a frequency of the target-originated reflected wave.
Abstract:
A slot array antenna includes: an electrically conductive member having an electrically conductive surface and slots therein, the slots being arrayed in a first direction which extends along the conductive surface; a waveguide member having an electrically conductive waveguide face which opposes the slots and extends along the first direction; and an artificial magnetic conductor extending on both sides of the waveguide member. At least one of the conductive member and the waveguide member includes dents on the conductive surface and/or the waveguide face, the dents each serving to broaden a spacing between the conductive surface and the waveguide face relative to any adjacent site. The dents include a first, second, and third dents which are adjacent to one another and consecutively follow along the first direction. A distance between centers of the first and second dents is different from a distance between centers of the second and third dents.
Abstract:
An antenna array according to an embodiment performs at least one of transmission and reception of an electromagnetic wave with a plurality of radiating elements. The antenna array includes a plurality of stacked waveguide components. Each waveguide component includes: an electrically conductive member having an electrically conductive surface; at least one waveguide member having an electrically-conductive waveguide face opposing the electrically conductive surface; and an artificial magnetic conductor extending on both sides of the waveguide member. A waveguiding gap between the waveguide face and the electrically conductive surface is open to an external space at an end of the waveguide face, and defines one of the plurality of radiating elements.
Abstract:
A waveguide device for use in propagating an electromagnetic wave of a band having a shortest wavelength λm in free space includes: a first electrically conductive member having an electrically conductive surface and a first throughhole; a second electrically conductive member including a plurality of electrically conductive rods each having a leading end opposing the electrically conductive surface, the second electrically conductive member having a second throughhole which overlaps the first throughhole as viewed along an axial direction of the first throughhole; and an electrically-conductive waveguiding wall at least partially surrounding a space between the first throughhole and the second throughhole and being surrounded by the plurality of electrically conductive rods, the waveguiding wall allowing the electromagnetic wave to propagate between the first throughhole and the second throughhole. The height of the waveguiding wall is less than λm/2. The distance between an electrically conductive rod among the plurality of electrically conductive rods that is adjacent to the waveguiding wall and the outer periphery of the waveguiding wall is less than λm/2.