Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Phase shifter, communication device, and phase shifting method
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Application No.: US16491653Application Date: 2018-02-02
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Publication No.: US10797772B2Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Toshihide Kuwabara
- Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Minato-ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Minato-ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@6872a431
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/003661 WO 20180202
- International Announcement: WO2018/163682 WO 20180913
- Main IPC: H04K1/10
- IPC: H04K1/10 ; H04L27/28 ; H04B7/06 ; H01Q3/34 ; H04B7/08

Abstract:
A phase shifter (60) is provided corresponding to an antenna element constituting an array antenna and is configured to change a phase of a radio frequency signal to be transmitted or received by a corresponding antenna element. The phase shifter (60) includes a first distributor (61) configured to distribute the radio frequency signal input thereto into a plurality of first distributed signals having mutually different phases; second distributors (62) provided corresponding to the first distributed signals, the second distributors each being configured to distribute a corresponding one of the first distributed signals into a plurality of second distributed signals having mutually different amplitudes; a controller (63) configured to control on/off of the second distributed signals; and a combiner (64) configured to combine the second distributed signals that are controlled on by the controller (63).
Public/Granted literature
- US20200014443A1 PHASE SHIFTER, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND PHASE SHIFTING METHOD Public/Granted day:2020-01-09
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