US 12,300,897 B2
Antenna arrangement having unequally many physical antenna elements for transmission and reception
Niklas Wernersson, Kungsängen (SE); and Bo Göransson, Sollentuna (SE)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/792,436
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Feb. 11, 2020, PCT No. PCT/SE2020/050137
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/162592, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0028888 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H01Q 21/24 (2006.01); H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); H01Q 21/06 (2006.01); H01Q 21/28 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 21/24 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/246 (2013.01); H01Q 21/062 (2013.01); H01Q 21/28 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An antenna arrangement having unequally many physical antenna elements for transmission and reception, the antenna arrangement comprising:
physical antenna elements, wherein all physical antenna elements are connected to a receive chain but less than all of the physical antenna elements are connected to both a receive chain and a transmit chain, and
wherein a first portion of those physical antenna elements connected to both a receive chain and a transmit chain and a second portion of those physical antenna elements connected to both a receive chain and a transmit chain are in the antenna arrangement placed to, during operation of the antenna arrangement, be vertically separated by physical antenna elements not connected to a transmit chain.