Nec Corporation

Tomoaki Saryo

Kenichiro Suzuki

Tsunehisa Marumoto

Youichi Ara

Yasunori Yoshino

A phased-array antenna apparatus used in a microwave or milliwave band and having a high gain includes a multilayer structure. The multilayer structure is constituted by M radiating elements, M phase shifters, phase shifting control circuits, and a feeding unit. The phase shifters are respectively coupled to the radiating elements to shift the phase of a feeding signal supplied to each of the radiating elements in units of N (M and N are integers equal to or larger than two) bits. The phase shifting control circuits control phase shifting of the phase shifters. The feeding unit is arranged to be coupled to each of the radiating elements.

Phased-array antenna apparatus

In a radar of FM-CW system having a transmitting and a receiving unit 20 and 28 both connected to a transmitting/receiving antenna 26 via a circulator 24, a high frequency switch 22 for transmission, is inserted and turns on and off the path between the transmitting unit 20 and the circulator 24, and in the receiving operation of the receiving unit 28 the high frequency switch 22 for transmission is controlled according to a switch control signal 320a provided from a signal processing unit 30 such as to be held 'off' to hold the transmission output of the transmitting unit 20 'off' for a predetermined time, thus reducing sneak noise component between the transmission and reception. Thus it makes possible to reduce sneak noise between the transmission and reception, and readily realize cost reduction without need of separate antennas for the transmission and reception.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomoaki Saryo