Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tunable passive time-delay structure for adjusting a direction of a beamforming pattern
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Application No.: US16449357Application Date: 2019-06-22
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Publication No.: US10560166B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Gordon Michael Coutts
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agent Brian R. Short
- Main IPC: H04B7/06
- IPC: H04B7/06 ; H04W72/04 ; H01Q3/26 ; H01Q15/08 ; H01Q21/00 ; H01Q3/40 ; H04W16/28 ; H01Q1/24 ; H01Q21/24 ; H01Q25/00 ; H04B7/10

Abstract:
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for beamforming using tunable passive time-delay structures are disclosed. One apparatus includes a node, wherein the node includes a passive time-delay structure, wherein the passive time-delay structure is operative to generate a plurality of delayed signals, wherein each of the plurality of delayed signals is a delayed version of a communication signal, a tunable element, the tunable element operative to introduce a variable delay to the communication signal propagating through the passive time-delay structure, an antenna array, wherein the antenna array generates a beamforming pattern corresponding the passive time-delay structure, and a phase delay adjust control operative to adjust the tunable element of the passive time-delay structure, wherein a direction of the one or more beams of the beamforming pattern changes depending upon tuning of the tunable element.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190312620A1 TUNABLE PASSIVE TIME-DELAY STRUCTURE FOR ADJUSTING A DIRECTION OF A BEAMFORMING PATTERN Public/Granted day:2019-10-10
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