Galtronics Usa, Inc.

Farid Jolani

Minya Gavrilovic

Sadegh Farzaneh

Des Bromley

Amir Vaezi

Mehdi Dadgarpour

Jacco Van Beek

Michael Moy

Systems relating to antennas. Antenna elements are coupled to adjacent other antenna elements by way of a coupler. The coupled antenna elements may be part of the same antenna array. The coupler may take the form of a substrate with conductive traces and the antenna elements may be dipoles or crossed dipole antennas. The coupled antenna elements may have similar polarizations. The capacitive coupling allows for physically smaller reflectors for antenna arrays.

Antenna array with coupled antenna elements

An antenna array is provided which may include different levels of antenna elements on the array. A first set of antenna elements are arranged on a first set of reflectors with the reflectors being arranged in a shape having corners. A second set of reflectors with a second set of antenna elements are mounted on the corners of the first set of reflectors. A third set of reflectors is arranged in another shape with a third set of antenna elements being on the faces of the third set of reflectors. The first and second set of reflectors and antenna elements are on a first level of the array and the third set of reflectors and antenna elements are on a second level of the array. The third set of reflectors and antenna elements are between the first level and the base plate of the array.

Antenna array

An antenna array is provided which may include, but is not limited to, a first plurality of reflectors having a face, a first edge and a second edge, wherein the first edge of each of the first plurality of reflectors is coupled to the second edge of another of the first plurality of reflectors, a first plurality of antenna elements arranged on the face of at least one of the first plurality of reflectors, a second plurality of antenna elements arranged at a corner of at least two of the first plurality of reflectors, a second plurality of reflectors, the second plurality of reflectors mounted to an end of the first plurality of reflectors, and a third plurality of antenna elements arranged on a face of at least one of the second plurality of reflectors.

An antenna array is provided which may include, but is not limited to, a plurality of reflectors, each of the plurality of reflectors having a face, a first edge and a second edge, wherein the first edge of each of the plurality of reflectors is coupled to the second edge of another of the plurality of reflectors, a first plurality of antenna elements arranged on the face of at least one of the plurality of reflectors, and a second plurality of antenna elements arranged at a corner of at least two of the plurality of reflectors, the corner comprising an area where the first edge of one of the plurality of reflectors is coupled to the second edge of another one of the plurality of reflectors.

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