US 12,469,943 B2
Radio frequency module
Kai Parow-Souchon, Oxfordshire (GB); and Manju Henry, Oxfordshire (GB)
Assigned to United Kingdom Research and Innovation, Swindon Wiltshire (GB)
Appl. No. 18/271,272
Filed by United Kingdom Research and Innovation, Swindon (GB)
PCT Filed Jan. 7, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/050260
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 7, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/148835, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 14, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2100255 (GB), filed on Jan. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0304973 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. H01P 3/08 (2006.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H01P 3/081 (2013.01) [H05K 1/0243 (2013.01); H05K 1/0277 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radio frequency module comprising:
a radio frequency circuit block having an inside and an outside, the radio frequency block comprising a stack of at least two metal plates and a plurality of radio frequency waveguides defined by channels in one or more of the at least two metal plates so as to carry radio frequency signals within the circuit block;
one or more radio frequency processing components arranged within the circuit block to interact with the signals carried by the waveguides; and
one or more flexible printed circuit boards extending from the outside to the inside of the radio frequency circuit block,
wherein each of the one or more radio frequency processing components is mounted on one of the one or more flexible printed circuit boards within the radio frequency circuit block.