Huber+suhner Ag

Markus Heiniger

Wolfgang Heyde

Eugen Spirig

Cenk Koparan

André Merten

Martin Köng

The invention relates to a dual polarised microstrip patch antenna comprising at least one individual element, each individual element comprising at least one rectangular, preferably quadratic, patch arranged on the upper face of a printed circuit board, having a feed network on the upper side thereof and being metallized on the entire surface of the lower face thereof. The aim of the invention is to improve the polarization isolation, while simultaneously simplifying the feed network. To this end, the feed network is embodied in such a way that the feed is only fed on two corners of the patch, and the at least one patch is modified in such a way that the isolation is improved between the polarizations of at least one antenna element and a plurality of individual antenna elements in relation to a non-modified patch.

Dual-polarized microstrip patch antenna

A phase-shifting system for electrically swiveling the direction of a beam of an antenna field includes several radiators with two planes of polarization. The phase-shifting system includes two jointly changeable phase shifters with microstrip lines associated therewith. The electrical length of each phase shifter can be changed by a dielectric which is slidable above the microstrip lines. Such a phase-shifting system offers a simplified design and added functional safety by arranging the microstrip lines of both phase shifters in parallel next to each other and by providing a common slidable dielectric in order to change the electrical length of the microstrip lines of both phase shifters.

Phase-shifting system using a displaceable dielectric and phase array antenna comprising such a phase-shifting system

A dual band antenna includes a first linear periodic array of first individual antennas for a first frequency band and a second linear periodic array of second individual antennas for a second frequency band. The period of the first linear periodic array is essentially twice as large as the period of the second linear periodic array. The second individual antennas are arranged alternately between the first and above the first individual antennas. The first individual antennas and the second individual antennas are embodied as patch radiators. The first and second individual antennas each include a printed-circuit board arranged in a rectangular, electrically conducting box which is open towards the top in addition to several patch plates which are arranged at a distance on top of each other above the printed-circuit board and parallel to the printed-circuit board.

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Herisau, Switzerland

Markus Heiniger