Communications: radio wave antennas – Antennas – Spiral or helical type
Reexamination Certificate
1998-07-20
2001-10-09
Ho, Tan (Department: 2821)
Communications: radio wave antennas
Antennas
Spiral or helical type
C343S893000, C343S897000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06300916
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a transmission device with omnidirectional antenna.
The device proposed by the invention advantageously finds application in particular to transmission on terrestrial mobiles or on satellites.
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY
One of the problems encountered in the operational implementation of a near-nondirectional aerial is the modification of its radiation diagram due to reflection effects (multiple paths).
Antennas with the purest possible circular polarization are customarily used to solve this type of problem.
An objective of the invention is to propose a device which allows at the same time pure circularly polarized transmission and omnidirectional coverage.
Numerous types of omnidirectional antennas are already known.
Mention may be made in particular of slot antennas arranged on cylinders, and more particularly two-cone antennas, as well as conical spiral antennas, or alternatively antennas of dipole type, for example those which have been described in the publications:
Brown and Woodward, “Circularly polarized omnidirectional antenna”, R.C.A. Rev. June 1947;
K. Sakaguchi and N. Hasebe “Acriculary polarized omnidirectional antenna”, IEEE Trans. on Antennas and propagation.
These various types of antennas allow toric radiation such as illustrated in
FIG. 1
, but do not allow the production of satisfactory circular polarization.
For its part, the invention proposes a novel type of transmission device with toric-radiation antenna exhibiting better polarization performance than the toric-radiation antennas of the prior art.
Helical antennas are known for their circularly polarized transmission properties.
In this regard, reference may advantageously be made to the publication:
Harold A. Wheeler “A helical Antenna for circular polarisation”, Proceedings of I.R.E., December 1947.
An omnidirectional antenna with four helical aerial wires has already been proposed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,450,093. These various aerial wires are fed therein out of phase with one another.
However, the radiation diagrams of this type of antenna are still not fully satisfactory.
For its part, the invention proposes a transmission device whose antenna is of the type with helical aerial wires and which exhibits an improved transmission diagram as compared with that of an antenna of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,450,093.
SUMMARY
More particularly, the transmission device proposed by the invention comprises an antenna having a plurality of aerial wires distributed regularly in a helix about one and the same cylindrical generatrix, as well as means for feeding the said aerial wires with a radiofrequency signal, and is characterized in that these feed means produce an equi-phase and equi-amplitude feed of the said aerial wires.
Advantageously, the feed means comprise a coaxial cable which runs coaxially inside the antenna and which feeds the various aerial wires of the latter in a bifilar manner.
Preferably, the coaxial cable common to the various aerial wires (which is of small size so as to avoid the stray reflections which would destroy the quality of the polarization) is protected by a ferrite sheath.
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Blakely & Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
Chen Shih-Chao
Ho Tan
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