Patents Assigned to Antone Wireless Corporation
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Patent number: 7983649Abstract: A RF device such as a tower mounted amplifier (TMA), mast-head amplifier (MHA), or Tower Mounted Boosters (TMB) includes a housing having a plurality of cavities and an input and an output, the input being coupled to the antenna and the output being coupled to a base station. The housing includes a transmission path holding multiple coaxial resonators. The housing further includes multiple receive paths including at least one path having a plurality of cavities, each cavity containing a dielectric resonator. The metallic transmit resonator nearest the antenna input is coupled to the first dielectric resonator via a common resonant wire. The last dielectric resonator in the receive path is coupled to a first metallic resonator of a downstream clean-up filter via another common resonant wire.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Antone Wireless CorporationInventors: Michael M. Eddy, Gregory L. Hey-Shipton
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Patent number: 7738853Abstract: A RF device such as a tower mounted amplifier (TMA), mast-head amplifier (MHA), or Tower Mounted Boosters (TMB) includes a housing having a plurality of cavities and an input and an output, the input being coupled to the antenna and the output being coupled to a base station. The housing includes a transmission path holding multiple coaxial resonators. The housing further includes multiple receive paths including at least one path having a plurality of cavities, each cavity containing a dielectric resonator. The metallic transmit resonator nearest the antenna input is coupled to the first dielectric resonator via a common resonant wire. The last dielectric resonator in the receive path is coupled to a first metallic resonator of a downstream clean-up filter via another common resonant wire.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2007Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Antone Wireless CorporationInventors: Michael M. Eddy, Gregory L. Hey-Shipton
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Patent number: 7457640Abstract: A dielectric-based RF device such as a tower mounted amplifier (TMA), mast-head amplifier (MHA), or Tower Mounted Boosters (TMB) includes a housing having a plurality of cavities and an input and an output, the input being coupled to the antenna and the output being coupled to a base station. The housing includes a transmission path with a transmit filter. The housing further includes a receive path with at least one receive filter and a low noise amplifier. The receive filter includes a plurality of cavities with a dielectric-based resonator disposed in at least some of the plurality of cavities. In one aspect, the RF device has a volume of less than about 155 in3. The RF device including the dielectric-based resonators has excellent out-of-band signal rejection with low loss. In addition, the RF device described herein is small enough to mount close to the antenna. The dielectric-based RF device has superior performance characteristics and a smaller footprint than conventional air cavity-based TMAs.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2005Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Antone Wireless CorporationInventor: Michael Eddy
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Publication number: 20070202920Abstract: A RF device such as a tower mounted amplifier (TMA), mast-head amplifier (MHA), or Tower Mounted Boosters (TMB) includes a housing having a plurality of cavities and an input and an output, the input being coupled to the antenna and the output being coupled to a base station. The housing includes a transmission path holding multiple coaxial resonators. The housing further includes multiple receive paths including at least one path having a plurality of cavities, each cavity containing a dielectric resonator. The metallic transmit resonator nearest the antenna input is coupled to the first dielectric resonator via a common resonant wire. The last dielectric resonator in the receive path is coupled to a first metallic resonator of a downstream clean-up filter via another common resonant wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2007Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicant: ANTONE WIRELESS CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Eddy, Gregory Hey-Shipton
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Patent number: 7250833Abstract: A dielectric-based filter includes a thermally insulated housing, at least one filter formed from a dielectric material disposed inside the insulated housing, and a temperature maintenance device having a heating component and a cooling component for maintaining the temperature of the filter inside of the insulated housing within a temperature range. In a preferred aspect of the invention, the temperature maintenance device includes a thermoelectric cooler. The device permits the use of temperature-dependent low loss, high dielectric constant materials in filtering/resonator applications. During operation of the device, the dielectric-based filter is maintained at substantially room temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2005Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Antone Wireless CorporationInventor: Michael Eddy