Self-calibration of feeders for array antennas
US6466160B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 21, 2001 |
| Grant date | Oct 15, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 21, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01Q3/2605
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The receive part of an array antenna of base station system may be interpreted as self-calibrating. However the transmit direction of the array antenna may not coincide with the receive direction due to the difference in receive and transmit frequency. The present application teaches how a correction be performed for the transmitting direction by using the same phase compensations of the receiving direction also in the transmitting direction with a proportional correction for the difference in transmit frequency. A Frequency Domain Duplex (FDD) system is foreseen as the prerequisite for the applicability of present invention, but it will also work for a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system. By calculating during reception a first feed cable weight set by means of an adaptive algorithm at the receive frequency a corresponding second cable weight set for a transmit frequency can be calculated. Applying the corresponding second cable weight set then forming a proportional phase correction for the array antenna feed cables at transmit frequency will facilitate a continuous beam steering with coinciding receive and transmit directions. No sensors at the antenna connector level at the top o…
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