US 12,040,554 B2
Wireless communication device and wireless communication method
Atsushi Ota, Musashino (JP); Naoki Kita, Musashino (JP); Yushi Shirato, Musashino (JP); Kazuto Goto, Musashino (JP); Kota Ito, Musashino (JP); and Chunhsiang Huang, Musashino (JP)
Assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/043,264
Filed by NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 19, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/011343
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 29, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/188548, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-065958 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0050668 A1, Feb. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. H01Q 3/36 (2006.01); H01Q 21/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/0417 (2017.01); H04B 7/0426 (2017.01)
CPC H01Q 3/36 (2013.01) [H01Q 21/061 (2013.01); H04B 7/0417 (2013.01); H04B 7/043 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless communication device having a plurality of antenna elements, the wireless communication device comprising:
a high-frequency circuit configured to perform signal processing including frequency conversion between a signal in a radio frequency band and a signal in a baseband band or an intermediate frequency band; and
an analog signal processing circuit configured to perform gain adjustment through analog signal processing by using a phase shifter such that a gain for each of the plurality of antenna elements, in case of a signal transmission or in case of a signal reception, is a predetermined value being dependent on a position of a given antenna element,
wherein the analog signal processing circuit includes
a first splitter/combiner configured to establish 1-to-(N×M) connection by performing splitting or combining between the high-frequency circuit and the plurality of antenna elements for an integer N of 2 or more corresponding to a number of antenna elements and an integer M of two or more,
for each antenna element in the plurality of antenna elements, a second splitter/combiner is coupled to a particular antenna element in the plurality of antenna elements and performs 1-to-M splitting or combining, and
for each antenna element in the plurality of antenna elements, two or more phase shifters of a given M system connected in parallel with each other and coupled between the first splitter/combiner and a corresponding second splitter/combiner,
wherein a direction of a directional beam formed when one phase shifter among the two or more phase shifters of the given M systems for each of the plurality of antenna elements is combined for all of the plurality of antenna elements in a vicinity of an azimuth of a target to which a directivity is to be directed and is pointing in a direction that is different from the azimuth of the target, and an average of directions of M kinds of formed directional beams is set to be a direction of the azimuth of the target to which the directivity is to be directed.