Consumer electronic device having a distributed form factor millimeter wave receiver and transmitter

Abstract

A consumer electronic device having distributed form factor millimeter wave receiver and transmitter comprising a first motherboard part including a baseband module; a second motherboard part including a receive (RX) active antenna, wherein the RX active antenna is connected to the baseband module using a pair of cables; and a third motherboard part including a transmit (TX) active antenna, wherein the TX active antenna is connected to the baseband module using a pair of cables.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A distributed form factor millimeter wave radio apparatus, comprising:
 a first motherboard part including a baseband module, wherein the first motherboard part is mounted on a first plane of a portable computing device;   a second motherboard part including a first millimeter wave radio module configured to receive (RX) and transmit (TX) millimeter wave signals; and   a third motherboard part including a second millimeter wave radio module configured to receive (RX) and transmit (TX) millimeter wave signals, wherein each of the second motherboard part and the third motherboard part is mounted on a second plane of the portable computing device which is distributed from the first plane, wherein the second motherboard part is connected to the baseband module through a first cable, and the third motherboard part is connected to the baseband module through a second cable, wherein each of the first and second cables is coupled at each of its ends to a resistor-capacitor (RC) network.   
     
     
         2 . The radio apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein each of the first cable and the second cable includes a pair of wires for simultaneously transferring signals that include at least: an I-baseband signal, a Q-baseband signal, a control signal, a local oscillator signal, and a power signal. 
     
     
         3 . The radio apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the  1 -baseband signal, the Q-baseband signal and the local oscillator signal are characterized as low frequency. 
     
     
         4 . The radio apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the portable computing device comprises at least a laptop computer. 
     
     
         5 . The radio apparatus of  claim 4 , wherein the first plane is a base plane of the laptop computer and the second plane is the plane of the laptop computer. 
     
     
         6 . The radio apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the millimeter wave is the 60 GHz frequency band. 
     
     
         7 . The radio apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein each of the first and second cables is coupled at each of its ends to a diplexer. 
     
     
         8 . The radio apparatus of  claim 7 , wherein the diplexer is utilized to multiplex and de-multiplex the I-baseband signal, the Q-baseband signal, and the local oscillator signal. 
     
     
         9 . The radio apparatus of  claim 8 , wherein the RC network is utilized to multiplex and de-multiplex the power signal and the control signal.