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- Patent Title: System and method for communicating with aircraft through cellular base station towers
- Patent Title (中): 通过蜂窝基站塔与飞机通信的系统和方法
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Application No.: US11383120Application Date: 2006-05-12
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Publication No.: US07801521B2Publication Date: 2010-09-21
- Inventor: Paul Wilkinson Dent
- Applicant: Paul Wilkinson Dent
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00

Abstract:
An antenna arrangement, method, and cellular communications system for transmitting and receiving signals between a base station tower, ground-based mobile subscribers, and an aircraft. The antenna arrangement includes a vertically oriented array of antenna elements, and a feedline arrangement that feeds the antenna elements with progressively phase-retarded signals, thereby generating an elevated antenna beam directed upward toward the aircraft and away from the ground-based mobile subscribers. In one embodiment, the antenna arrangement also generates a horizontal antenna beam for communicating with the ground-based subscribers. The horizontal beam and the elevated beam are sufficiently separated in elevation to prevent mutual interference when using the same frequency spectrum.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060264242A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING WITH AIRCRAFT THROUGH CELLULAR BASE STATION TOWERS Public/Granted day:2006-11-23
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