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Antenna unit and radio base station therewith

US7587174B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 9, 2007
Grant dateSep 8, 2009
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Expiry dateMar 9, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W16/28
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A radio base station apparatus provided with an array antenna having a plurality of antenna elements for calibrating a phase difference among the array antenna elements. The base station has a probe signal adding unit which divides one probe signal and adds the divided probe signals to each receive signals received by the plurality of antenna elements. A probe data extracting unit extracts the probe data from the receive signals added with the probe signal. A phase calibration calculation unit calculates correlating phase calibration values required for calibrating a phase of each receive signal based on the probe data extracted by the probe signal extracting unit. A phase calibration unit calibrates a phase difference among the array antenna elements by calibrating the phase of the each receive signal based on the phase calibration from the phase calibration calculation unit.

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