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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1999
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A patch antenna apparatus with a simple structure can obtain an improved desired projection area in accordance with a projection space. The patch has a dielectric substrate with a grounding conductor on its bottom surface. On the dielectric substrate is formed at least one conductor patch having a first feeding point for producing resonance in parallel to the X-axis at a predetermined resonance frequency and a second feeding point for producing resonance in parallel to the Y-axis at the resonance frequency. A controller for a power distributing and combining circuit controls each of radio signals of the resonance frequency fed to the first and second feeding points so as to change at least one of the amplitude and phase thereof. When the radio signals of the resonance frequency are fed to the first and second feeding points, the patch antenna apparatus projects radio waves including two linear polarizations which are parallel to the X and Y axes and which cross each other to be perpendicular to each other in a projection directional pattern corresponding to the control for the radio signals by the controller of the power distributing and combining circuit.