US 11,909,102 B2
Base station antennas having partially-shared wideband beamforming arrays
Chengcheng Tang, Murphy, TX (US); Rongrong Zhang, Suzhou (CN); and HongHui Chen, Suzhou (CN)
Assigned to CommScope Technologies LLC, Claremont, NC (US)
Filed by CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/524,778.
Claims priority of application No. 202011306605.5 (CN), filed on Nov. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0166129 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); H01Q 21/26 (2006.01); H01Q 3/36 (2006.01); H01Q 5/42 (2015.01); H01Q 5/48 (2015.01)
CPC H01Q 1/246 (2013.01) [H01Q 3/36 (2013.01); H01Q 5/42 (2015.01); H01Q 5/48 (2015.01); H01Q 21/26 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base station antenna, comprising:
a multi-column, multiband, longitudinally-extending beamforming array comprising a first sub-array of first radiating elements, a second sub-array of second radiating elements and a third sub-array of third radiating elements,
wherein the first radiating elements are configured to operate in a first frequency band, wherein the second radiating elements are configured to operate in a second frequency band that is different from the first frequency band,
wherein the third radiating elements are configured to operate in both the first frequency band and the second frequency band,
wherein each of the first through third sub-arrays has a same number of columns,
wherein a width of the first sub-array exceeds a width of the third sub-array, and
wherein the width of the third sub-array exceeds a width of the second sub-array.