US 12,327,923 B2
Mixed element beam forming antenna
Lin-Ping Shen, Ontario (CA); Nasrin Hojjat, Ottawa (CA); Hua Wang, Ontario (CA); Erik Willis, Ontario (CA); and Liviu Negru, Quebec (CA)
Assigned to Communication Components Antenna Inc., Kanata (CA)
Filed by Communication Components Antenna Inc., Kanata (CA)
Filed on Jun. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/832,324.
Prior Publication US 2023/0395974 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/24 (2006.01); H01Q 3/32 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 3/32 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/246 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A single band dual polarized beamforming cellular antenna comprising:
a plurality of dual polarized patch elements working in the single band;
a plurality of dual polarized dipole elements working at the same single band as said plurality of patch elements;
wherein said plurality of patch elements and dipole elements are arranged as a patch dipole sub-array on a planar array of said antenna into a plurality of rows and columns of elements,
wherein each column of elements forms said sub-array connected to a plurality of signal input ports, and wherein each column sub-array includes a plurality of both patch elements, and a plurality of dipole elements.