Patents by Inventor Zhiqiang LIAO

Zhiqiang LIAO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10446926
    Abstract: The present invention provides a base station antenna, including power dividers, network calibration modules, and connectors. The base station antenna further includes at least two phase shifters. At least one phase shifter is integrated with a combiner, the connectors are connected to the network calibration modules, and the network calibration modules are connected to the phase shifters. The one phase shifter integrated with the combiner is connected to the power divider, and at least one output port of the at least one other phase shifter is connected to the phase shifter integrated with the combiner. The base station antenna has an integrated design of phase shifters and combiners, which allows cables in different bands to be shared, reduces a quantity of used cables, is easy to implement in an actual layout and production, facilitates the layout and heat dissipation on the whole, satisfies user requirements, and reduces costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weihong Xiao, Zhiqiang Liao, Wei Su
  • Patent number: 10411347
    Abstract: A phase shifter may include a cavity body, and a fixed circuit board and a phase shift unit that are located inside the cavity body, and the phase shift unit being capable of moving relative to the fixed circuit board. A power division circuit is disposed on the fixed circuit board. The power division circuit includes an input end, a main feeder, a node, at least two output ends, a filtering stub, and at least two output circuits. The main feeder is electrically connected between the input end and the node. The filtering stub is electrically connected to the main feeder, and the filtering stub is in an open-circuit state. The at least two output circuits are respectively electrically connected between the node and the at least two output ends. The phase shift unit is disposed in correspondence with the at least two output circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Liao, Qiyi Lu, Xinneng Luo, Junfeng Lu
  • Patent number: 10199702
    Abstract: A phase shifter includes a cavity (100) and a first fixed transmission line (301), a second fixed transmission line (302), and a slidable transmission line (201) that are located in the cavity (100). The first fixed transmission line (301) is provided with a first open slot (3011), the second fixed transmission line (302) is provided with a second open slot (3021), and opening directions of the first open slot (3011) and the second open slot (3021) are opposite to each other. Two ends of the slidable transmission line (201) are respectively clamped in the first open slot (3011) and the second open slot (3021), so that the slidable transmission line (201) is electrically connected to the first fixed transmission line (301) and the second fixed transmission line (302). The slidable transmission line (201) slides relative to the first fixed transmission line (301) and the second fixed transmission line (302).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Liao, Lei Chen, Huifan Lin, Xinneng Luo
  • Publication number: 20180316075
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a phase shifter, an antenna, and a radio communications device. One example phase shifter includes a cavity, a rotating shaft, a main printed circuit board (PCB), a first slidable part, and a second slidable part. The first slidable part is located on a front side of the main PCB and coupled to the main PCB. The second slidable part is located on a rear side of the main PCB and coupled to the main PCB. The rotating shaft is inserted into the cavity and connected to the first slidable part and the second slidable part. The first arc-shaped phase delay line and the second arc-shaped phase delay line are distributed on a circle with a center that is the same as a center of the rotating shaft, and are located on an outer side of a primary central coupling section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Zhiqiang LIAO, Zheng LIN, Qiyi LU, Xionghui FAN
  • Publication number: 20180294577
    Abstract: A feeding network of a dual-beam antenna and a dual-beam antenna are disclosed. The feeding network includes: a cavity, including an upper grounding metal plate and a lower grounding metal plate; a printed circuit board PCB, disposed inside the cavity, where a splitting network circuit and a phase-shift circuit in the feeding network are integrated into the PCB, and arrangement of the PCB and the cavity enables a wire on the PCB to have a strip line structure as a whole; and at least two radio-frequency signal input ports, where the at least two radio-frequency signal input ports are connected to the splitting network circuit on the PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiguang SHI, Zhiqiang LIAO, Xinneng LUO, Tao GUAN
  • Publication number: 20180248256
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies and discloses an antenna system, and the antenna system includes: a radiating element, at least one strip line ground plane and signal cavity, and at least one inner conductor, where the radiating element includes radiation arms, radiation baluns, and feeding inner cores; the strip line ground plane is used as a reflective surface of the radiating element; the baluns of the radiating element are electrically connected to the strip line ground plane, and all of at least two feeding inner cores of the radiating element are electrically connected to one inner conductor. Therefore, a feeding manner of an existing array antenna can be optimized very conveniently, assembly time is greatly reduced, quantities of welding points and cables are reduced, and consistency and reliability are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Weihong XIAO, Zhiqiang LIAO
  • Publication number: 20180192307
    Abstract: A phase shifter, an antenna, and a base station are provided. The phase shifter in the present invention includes a feed unit, a tapping element, a conductor section, and a ground element, and the feed unit is electrically connected to the tapping element. The tapping element is electrically connected to the ground element when being shifted by a preset angle by using a port of the conductor section as a start position, so that a transmit signal is reflected to an input port of the feed unit, and whether a cable is correctly connected is determined according to the signal of the input port, thereby signal transmission accuracy of an antenna is ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Weihong XIAO, Zhiqiang LIAO
  • Publication number: 20180123240
    Abstract: A phase shifter may include a cavity body, and a fixed circuit board and a phase shift unit that are located inside the cavity body, and the phase shift unit being capable of moving relative to the fixed circuit board. A power division circuit is disposed on the fixed circuit board. The power division circuit includes an input end, a main feeder, a node, at least two output ends, a filtering stub, and at least two output circuits. The main feeder is electrically connected between the input end and the node. The filtering stub is electrically connected to the main feeder, and the filtering stub is in an open-circuit state. The at least two output circuits are respectively electrically connected between the node and the at least two output ends. The phase shift unit is disposed in correspondence with the at least two output circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang LIAO, Qiyi LU, Xinneng LUO, Junfeng LU
  • Publication number: 20180090838
    Abstract: A phase shifter and an antenna, in the field of communications technologies. The phase shifter includes a cavity, and a fixed component, a sliding component, a control rod configured to control sliding of the sliding component, and a dielectric portion in the cavity. A first strip group is disposed in the fixed component, where the first strip group includes two strips. The sliding component is located above the fixed component, and a second strip group is disposed in the sliding component. The second strip group includes two strips, and the two strips of the second strip group are electrically coupled to the two strips of the first strip group respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Liao, Qiyi Lu, Xinneng Luo, Tiejun Yang
  • Publication number: 20180083335
    Abstract: A cable and a high-frequency device are provided to reduce passive intermodulation interference. The cable includes a strip line and a coaxial line. The strip line includes (in an outer-to-inner sequence) a strip-line outer conductor, a strip-line signal cavity, and a strip-line inner conductor. The coaxial line includes (in an outer to inner sequence) a coaxial-line outer conductor, a first insulation medium, and a coaxial-line inner conductor. The cable further includes a coupling ground plane provided with a coupling aperture portion. The coaxial line is disposed in the coupling aperture portion, the coaxial-line outer conductor is coupled to the coupling ground plane, the strip-line outer conductor is connected to the coupling ground plane, and the strip-line inner conductor is connected to the coaxial-line inner conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Zhiqiang LIAO, Weihong XIAO, Qiyi LU, Zhuozhen XU
  • Publication number: 20170179594
    Abstract: A phase shifter includes a cavity (100) and a first fixed transmission line (301), a second fixed transmission line (302), and a slidable transmission line (201) that are located in the cavity (100). The first fixed transmission line (301) is provided with a first open slot (3011), the second fixed transmission line (302) is provided with a second open slot (3021), and opening directions of the first open slot (3011) and the second open slot (3021) are opposite to each other. Two ends of the slidable transmission line (201) are respectively clamped in the first open slot (3011) and the second open slot (3021), so that the slidable transmission line (201) is electrically connected to the first fixed transmission line (301) and the second fixed transmission line (302). The slidable transmission line (201) slides relative to the first fixed transmission line (301) and the second fixed transmission line (302).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Zhiqiang LIAO, Lei CHEN, Huifan LIN, Xinneng LUO
  • Patent number: 9614281
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a phase shifting apparatus, including a first conductor section, a first tapping element, a feeder unit, and a dielectric element, where: the feeder unit is electrically connected to the first tapping element; the first tapping element is electrically connected to the first conductor section; the first tapping element is capable of moving along the first conductor section to change a phase of a signal that flows through the feeder unit, the first tapping element, and the first conductor section; and the dielectric element is disposed at a position near the first conductor section. With the phase shifting apparatus in the embodiments of the present invention, the dielectric element is disposed in order to increase an electrical length of a conductor, which correspondingly reduces a physical length of the conductor, so that the size of the phase shifting apparatus is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongwei Peng, Zhiqiang Liao, Shaodong Liu, Xinming Liu
  • Publication number: 20160248156
    Abstract: The present invention provides a base station antenna, including power dividers, network calibration modules, and connectors. The base station antenna further includes at least two phase shifters. At least one phase shifter is integrated with a combiner, the connectors are connected to the network calibration modules, and the network calibration modules are connected to the phase shifters. The one phase shifter integrated with the combiner is connected to the power divider, and at least one output port of the at least one other phase shifter is connected to the phase shifter integrated with the combiner. The base station antenna has an integrated design of phase shifters and combiners, which allows cables in different bands to be shared, reduces a quantity of used cables, is easy to implement in an actual layout and production, facilitates the layout and heat dissipation on the whole, satisfies user requirements, and reduces costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Weihong Xiao, Zhiqiang Liao, Wei Su
  • Patent number: 9419833
    Abstract: A phase control method in the present disclosure includes dividing, by a power divider, the high frequency current into at least two current branches, and separately feeding the at least two current branches into corresponding radio frequency input ports on a digital phase shifter, determining, by the switch controller according to the digital control flow, radio frequency paths that are in the digital phase shifter and for the at least two current branches fed into the digital phase shifter, and controlling the drive voltage to act on the digital phase shifter, and separately establishing, by the digital phase shifter according to the drive voltage and for the at least two current branches, radio frequency paths for currents to flow through, and controlling duration of phase delays for the at least two current branches by controlling lengths of the radio frequency paths through which the at least two current branches flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiang Wang, Zhiqiang Liao, Bin Wang, Ruiming Ding
  • Publication number: 20160056982
    Abstract: A phase control method in the present disclosure includes dividing, by a power divider, the high frequency current into at least two current branches, and separately feeding the at least two current branches into corresponding radio frequency input ports on a digital phase shifter, determining, by the switch controller according to the digital control flow, radio frequency paths that are in the digital phase shifter and for the at least two current branches fed into the digital phase shifter, and controlling the drive voltage to act on the digital phase shifter, and separately establishing, by the digital phase shifter according to the drive voltage and for the at least two current branches, radio frequency paths for currents to flow through, and controlling duration of phase delays for the at least two current branches by controlling lengths of the radio frequency paths through which the at least two current branches flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Qiang Wang, Zhiqiang Liao, Bin Wang, Ruiming Ding
  • Publication number: 20140139401
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a phase shifting apparatus, including a first conductor section, a first tapping element, a feeder unit, and a dielectric element, where: the feeder unit is electrically connected to the first tapping element; the first tapping element is electrically connected to the first conductor section; the first tapping element is capable of moving along the first conductor section to change a phase of a signal that flows through the feeder unit, the first tapping element, and the first conductor section; and the dielectric element is disposed at a position near the first conductor section. With the phase shifting apparatus in the embodiments of the present invention, the dielectric element is disposed in order to increase an electrical length of a conductor, which correspondingly reduces a physical length of the conductor, so that the size of the phase shifting apparatus is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Technologeis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongwei PENG, Zhiqiang LIAO, Shaodong LIU, Xinming LIU