US 12,132,505 B2
Antenna module performing inter-band carrier aggregation and electronic device including the same
Byongok Kwun, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/435,576
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
PCT Filed Aug. 31, 2021, PCT No. PCT/KR2021/011690
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 1, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/050660, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0111256 (KR), filed on Sep. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0329267 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 12/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/10 (2017.01)
CPC H04B 1/0057 (2013.01) [H04B 7/10 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
at least one communication processor;
an intermediate frequency integrated circuit (IFIC) including a first diplexer and a second diplexer,
wherein the first diplexer is configured to output, based on a baseband signal generated from the at least one communication processor, a first intermediate frequency (IF) signal including a first IF component and a second IF component which have a first polarization characteristic, the first IF component having a first frequency, the second IF component having a second frequency,
wherein the second diplexer is configured to output, based on a baseband signal generated from the at least one communication processor, a second IF signal including a third IF component and a fourth IF component which have a second polarization characteristic, the third IF component having the first frequency, the fourth IF component having the second frequency;
a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) configured to control at least one antenna element to generate a radio frequency (RF) signal, based on at least one of the first IF signal or the second IF signal; and
an antenna array including a first antenna element and a second antenna element,
wherein each of the first antenna element and the second antenna element includes a first sub-unit configured to generate and transmit a RF signal having the first polarization characteristic and a second sub-unit configured to generate and transmit a RF signal having the second polarization characteristic,
wherein the RFIC includes a third diplexer configured to receive the first IF signal from the first diplexer and a fourth diplexer configured to receive the second IF signal from the second diplexer,
wherein the third diplexer is configured to separate the first IF signal received from the first diplexer into the first IF component and the second IF component which have the first polarization characteristic,
wherein the fourth diplexer is configured to separate the second IF signal received from the second diplexer into the third IF component and the fourth IF component which have second first polarization characteristic, and
wherein the RFIC is configured to:
provide a first signal having the first polarization characteristic and generated based on the first IF component of the first IF signal to the first sub-unit of the first antenna element and the first sub-unit of the second antenna element,
provide a second signal having the first polarization characteristic and generated based on the second IF component of the first IF signal to the first sub-unit of the first antenna element and the first sub-unit of the second antenna element,
provide a third signal having second polarization characteristic and generated based on the third IF component of the second IF signal to the second sub-unit of the first antenna element and the second sub-unit of the second antenna element, and
provide a fourth signal having second polarization characteristic and generated based on the fourth IF component of the second IF signal to the second sub-unit of the first antenna element and the second sub-unit of the second antenna element.