Patent ID: 9660345
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H01Q,H03F,H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A millimeter-wave (MMW) communication system, comprising: an antenna array structure operating within a MMW band, the antenna array structure having both a first antenna coupling point at a first location of the antenna array structure and a second antenna coupling point at a second location of the antenna array structure, the first and the second location of the antenna coupling points being within a coplanar surface on which the antenna array structure is formed; a single MMW transmitter device having a power splitter that splits a data modulated MMW signal into a first MMW data modulated signal and a second MMW data modulated signal identical to the first MMW data modulated signal, the first data modulated MMW signal coupled to the first antenna coupling point and the second data modulated MMW signal coupled to the second antenna coupling point; a first switch that receives the first MMW data modulated signal; a first antenna feed line having a first end that is coupled to the first switch, wherein the first switch switches the first MMW data modulated signal to the first end of the first antenna feed line; and a first antenna probe coupled to a second end of the first antenna feed line, the first antenna probe coupling the first MMW data modulated signal received from the second end of the first antenna feedline to the first antenna coupling point, wherein coupling the first data modulated MMW signal to the first antenna coupling point generates a first MMW radio signal transmitted at a first propagation direction by the antenna array structure, wherein coupling the second data modulated MMW signal to the second antenna coupling point generates a second MMW radio signal transmitted at a second propagation direction different to the first propagation direction by the antenna array structure, and wherein the first antenna feed line includes a length of nλ