Lensing systems for wireless communications

    公开(公告)号:US11764835B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-19

    申请号:US17470332

    申请日:2021-09-09

    CPC classification number: H04B7/0413 H01Q3/46 H01Q15/04 H04B7/0639 H04B7/0695

    Abstract: A communication device may include a millimeter wave (mm-wave) antenna array having antenna elements, a mm-wave element (e.g. lens), and one or more transceivers (e.g. first and second transceivers). The mm-wave lens may be configured to adjust the first beam and the second beam as the first and second beams pass through the mm-wave lens. The first transceiver can selectively couple to the antenna elements, the first transceiver being configured to drive a first selected antenna element of the antenna elements to transmit a beam from the selected first antenna element. The second transceiver may selectively couple to the antenna elements, the second transceiver being configured to drive a second selected antenna element of the antenna elements to transmit a second beam from the selected second antenna element.

    RECEIVER WITH REDUCED NOISE FIGURE USING SPLIT LNA AND DIGITAL COMBINING

    公开(公告)号:US20220190860A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17119543

    申请日:2020-12-11

    Abstract: Systems and methods of reducing SNR and increasing bandwidth of received signals are disclosed. LNAs receive signals from an antenna via a common input matching network. The amplified signals are downconverted, filtered and digitized before being coherently combined at a DSP. Depending on the LO frequencies used by mixers in the different receiver paths, the combined signals reduce the SNR when the LO frequencies are the same by reducing the non-correlated noise introduced by the LNAs or increase the bandwidth processed when the LO frequencies are different. The bandwidths are contiguous or non-contiguous.

    Low-profile single-chain beam-steerable MMW lens antenna

    公开(公告)号:US12218426B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-04

    申请号:US17118161

    申请日:2020-12-10

    Abstract: An antenna module and communication device containing the antenna module are disclosed. The antenna module is disposed in a metal cavity. The antenna module includes a switched beam mm-wave antenna array having radiating elements separated by less than a wavelength of the radiating elements. The array is fed by a single transceiver chain. The array is disposed at the focal length of a low-profile mm-wave lens configured to steer the beam. A sub-10 GHz antenna is disposed closer to the opening of the cavity than the lens. The lens is a Fresnel Zone Plate lens having a focal length of less than about the wavelength of the beam, or a Saucer lens having shells of different refractive indexes and having a profile that is more than 6 times smaller than a Luneburg lens with a same focal length.

    Methods and devices for mitigating pulling in a fractional local oscillator signal generation scheme

    公开(公告)号:US12021964B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-25

    申请号:US17641830

    申请日:2019-12-27

    CPC classification number: H04L7/0331

    Abstract: A radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) configured to generate a synthesized clock includes a phase locked loop (PLL) configured to divide down a clock to a non-harmonic frequency; a plurality of multi-phase injection locked clock multipliers (ILCM) directly connected to a plurality of transceiver chains; wherein the PLL is further configured to distribute a divided down clock to at least one of the plurality of multi-phase ILCMs; wherein the plurality of multiphase ILCMs are configured to select a phase of and multiply the divided down clock to synthesize a desired harmonic frequency of the clock and suppress an undesired harmonic frequency of the clock.

    APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATING A MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) TRANSMISSION WITH POLARIZATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220416444A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-29

    申请号:US17356210

    申请日:2021-06-23

    Abstract: For example, an apparatus may include a baseband controller configured to control a plurality of dual-polarization Radio Heads (RHs) to communicate a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission, the baseband controller configured to control a first dual-polarization RH of the plurality of dual-polarization RHs to communicate a first spatial stream of the MIMO transmission with a horizontal-polarization via one or more first dual-polarization antenna elements of the first dual-polarization RH, and to control a second dual-polarization RH of the plurality of dual-polarization RHs to communicate a second spatial stream of the MIMO transmission with a vertical-polarization via one or more second dual-polarization antenna elements of the second dual-polarization RH.

    Receiver with reduced noise figure using split LNA and digital combining

    公开(公告)号:US12107611B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-01

    申请号:US17119543

    申请日:2020-12-11

    CPC classification number: H04B1/18 H04B1/005 H04B1/12 H04B1/1607

    Abstract: Systems and methods of reducing SNR and increasing bandwidth of received signals are disclosed. LNAs receive signals from an antenna via a common input matching network. The amplified signals are downconverted, filtered and digitized before being coherently combined at a DSP. Depending on the LO frequencies used by mixers in the different receiver paths, the combined signals reduce the SNR when the LO frequencies are the same by reducing the non-correlated noise introduced by the LNAs or increase the bandwidth processed when the LO frequencies are different. The bandwidths are contiguous or non-contiguous.

    SWITCHED DIPLEXER FOR FREQUENCY SEPARATION
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240056105A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-15

    申请号:US17887886

    申请日:2022-08-15

    CPC classification number: H04B1/0057 H04B1/0483

    Abstract: An apparatus can include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry to transmit and receive radio-frequency signals in a first communications band and in a second communications band. The apparatus can further include a diplexer coupled to the radio-frequency transceiver circuitry. The diplexer can have terminals connected to a first path that conveys the radio-frequency signals in the first communications band and a second path that conveys the radio-frequency signals in the second communications band. The diplexer terminals can also connect to a first switch interposed in the first path and a second switch interposed in the second path.

    LENSING SYSTEMS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20220209829A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17470332

    申请日:2021-09-09

    Abstract: A communication device may include a millimeter wave (mm-wave) antenna array having antenna elements, a mm-wave element (e.g. lens), and one or more transceivers (e.g. first and second transceivers). The mm-wave lens may be configured to adjust the first beam and the second beam as the first and second beams pass through the mm-wave lens. The first transceiver can selectively couple to the antenna elements, the first transceiver being configured to drive a first selected antenna element of the antenna elements to transmit a beam from the selected first antenna element. The second transceiver may selectively couple to the antenna elements, the second transceiver being configured to drive a second selected antenna element of the antenna elements to transmit a second beam from the selected second antenna element.

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