Qualcomm Incorporated

Julio Zegarra

Neil Burns

Darryl Sheldon Jessie

Mohammad Ali Tassoudji

Clinton James Wilber

Gurkanwal Singh Sahota

Seong Heon Jeong

Sang-June Park

Rajneesh Kumar

Kevin Hsi Huai Wang

Thomas Myers

Taesik Yang

Peter Han Lien

Jeong Il Kim

Jordan Szabo

Sean Oak

Tao Wang

Allen Minh-Triet Tran

Jorge Fabrega Sanchez

Alberto Cicalini

Guining Shi

Andrew Lejman

Marvin Leroy Vis

Joshua Britton

Thomas J Funk

Ali Morshedi

Larry D Flowers

Young Jun Song

Elizabeth Wyrwich

Erez Avigdor Falkenstein

Thanh Duong

An antenna module is described. The antenna module include a ground plane in a multilayer substrate. The antenna module also includes a mold on the multilayer substrate. The antenna module further includes a conductive wall separating a first portion of the mold from a second portion of the mold. The conductive wall is electrically coupled to the ground plane. A conformal shield may be placed on a surface of the second portion of the mold. The conformal shield is electrically coupled to the ground plane.

Antenna and device configurations

An integrated millimeter wave antenna module may include at least one antenna array connected to a wiring board with a flexible printed circuit without any additional connectors. The integrated module may include an antenna, a flexible printed circuit attached to the antenna on one end and a wiring board on the other end.

Integrated antenna module

An integrated millimeter wave antenna module may include at least one antenna array directly connected to a wiring board with a flexible printed circuit without any additional connectors. The integrated module may include an antenna, a flexible printed circuit attached to the antenna on one end and a wiring board on the other end.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for near field radio-frequency (RF) testing of devices, particularly user equipment (UEs) capable of millimeter-wave (mmWave) transmissions. An exemplary test apparatus is described that uses a transducer to facilitate near field over-the-air testing of UEs in the mmWave transmission band. The transducer may be an orthomode transducer and may include a dual-polarity port positioned in the reactive near field of an antenna of a device under test (DUT). For UE signal transmission tests, the orthomode transducer splits test signals received from the antenna of the DUT via the dual-polarity port into a pair of single-polarity RF signals. The single-polarity RF signals are separately fed through a pair of waveguide-to-coaxial adaptors into separate coaxial cables, which feed coaxial transmission versions of the single-polarity RF signals to test equipment for analysis. UE signal reception tests are also described that utilize the same or different orthomode transducer.

Near field wireless communication device testing using dual-polarity transducer

Antenna module configurations

An antenna system for transducing radio-frequency energy includes: a first antenna sub-system comprising a plurality of radiators and a ground conductor, each of the plurality of radiators being sized and shaped to transduce millimeter-wave energy between first wireless signals and first electrical current signals; and a second antenna sub-system comprising a first radiator configured to transduce sub-6 GHz energy between second wireless signals and second electrical current signals, wherein the first radiator comprises the ground conductor.

Multi-band wireless signaling

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Julio Zegarra