Patents Assigned to Fractus S.A.
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Publication number: 20120249380Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrated circuit package comprising at least one substrate, each substrate including at least one layer, at least one semiconductor die, at least one terminal, and an antenna located in the integrated circuit package, but not on said at least one semiconductor die. The conducting pattern comprises a curve having at least five sections or segments, at least three of the sections or segments being shorter than one-tenth of the longest free-space operating wavelength of the antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Jordi SOLER CASTANY, Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Carmen BORJA BORAU
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Publication number: 20120242557Abstract: The invention refer to an antennaless wireless handset or portable device that may include a user interface module, a processing module, a memory module, a communication module, and a power management module. The communication module may include a radiating system capable of transmitting and receiving electromagnetic wave signals in a first frequency region. The radiating system may include a radiating structure comprising or consisting of at least one ground plane layer including a connection point, at least one radiation booster including a connection point, and an internal port wherein the internal port is defined between the connection point of the at least one radiation booster and the connection point of the at least one ground layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA, Aurora Andujar, Carles Puente, Josep Mumbru
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Patent number: 8259016Abstract: A multi-band monopole antenna for a mobile communications device includes a common conductor coupled to both a first radiating arm and a second radiating arm. The common conductor includes a feeding port for coupling the antenna to communications circuitry in a mobile communications device. In one embodiment, the first radiating arm includes a space-filling curve. In another embodiment, the first radiating arm includes a meandering section extending from the common conductor in a first direction and a contiguous extended section extending from the meandering section in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Alfonso Sanz, Carles Puente Baliarda
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Patent number: 8253633Abstract: A multi-band monopole antenna for a mobile communications device includes a common conductor coupled to both a first radiating arm and a second radiating arm. The common conductor includes a feeding port for coupling the antenna to communications circuitry in a mobile communications device. In one embodiment, the first radiating arm includes a space-filling curve. In another embodiment, the first radiating arm includes a meandering section extending from the common conductor in a first direction and a contiguous extended section extending from the meandering section in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Alfonso Sanz, Carles Puente Baliarda
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Patent number: 8237615Abstract: The present invention refers to an antennaless wireless handheld or portable device comprising: a user interface module, a processing module, a memory module, a communication module and a power management module. The communication module including a radiating system capable of transmitting and receiving electromagnetic wave signals in a first frequency region and in a second frequency region, wherein the highest frequency of the first frequency region is lower than the lowest frequency of the second frequency region.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Jaume Anguera, Aurora Andujar, Carles Puente, Josep Mumbru
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Patent number: 8228256Abstract: Antenna arrays which can work simultaneously in various frequency bands thanks to the physical disposition of the elements which constitute them, and also the multiband behavior of some elements situated strategically in the array. The configuration of the array is described based on the juxtaposition or interleaving of various conventional mono-band arrays working in the different bands of interest. In those positions in which elements of different multiband arrays come together, a multiband antenna is employed which covers the different working frequency bands. The advantages with respect to the classic configuration of using one array for each frequency band are: saving in cost of the global radiating system and its installation (one array replaces several), and its size and visual and environmental impact are reduced in the case of base stations and repeater stations for communication systems.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Jordi Romeu Robert, Sebastian Blanch Boris
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Patent number: 8228245Abstract: A multiband antenna includes at least two polygons. The at least two polygons are spaced by means of a non-straight gap shaped as a space-filling curve, in such a way that the whole gap length is increased yet keeping its size and the same overall antenna size allowing for an effective tuning of frequency bands of the anenna.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Ramiro Quintero Illera, Carles Puerlte Baliarda
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Patent number: 8207893Abstract: A novel geometry, the geometry of Space-Filling Curves (SFC) is defined in the present invention and it is used to shape a part of an antenna. By means of this novel technique, the size of the antenna can be reduced with respect to prior art, or alternatively, given a fixed size the antenna can operate at a lower frequency with respect to a conventional antenna of the same size.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2009Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Edouard Jean Louis Rozan, Jaime Anguera Pros
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Publication number: 20120154244Abstract: An apparatus including a wireless communications device has an internal antenna system located within the wireless communications device. The internal antenna system includes a passive antenna set comprising at least one antenna element having at least one multilevel structure, a feeding point to the at least one antenna element and a ground plane. The feeding point and a point on the ground plane define an input/output port for said passive antenna set. The passive antenna set provides a similar impedance level and radiation pattern at two or more frequency bands such that the passive antenna set is capable of both transmitting and receiving wireless signals on selected channels. The selected channels are selectable from a plurality of channels throughout an entire frequency range within each of said two or more frequency bands.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: FRACTUS, S.A.Inventors: CARLES PUENTE BALIARDA, CARMEN BORJA BORAU, JAUME ANGUERA PROS, JORDI SOLER CASTANY
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Patent number: 8203492Abstract: The invention refer to an antennaless wireless handset or portable device that may include a user interface module, a processing module, a memory module, a communication module, and a power management module. The communication module may include a radiating system capable of transmitting and receiving electromagnetic wave signals in a first frequency region. The radiating system may include a radiating structure comprising or consisting of at least one ground plane layer including a connection point, at least one radiation booster including a connection point, and an internal port wherein the internal port is defined between the connection point of the at least one radiation booster and the connection point of the at least one ground layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Jaume Anguera, Aurora Andujar, Carles Puente, Josep Mumbru
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Patent number: 8203488Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrated circuit package comprising at least one substrate, each substrate including at least one layer, at least one semiconductor die, at least one terminal, and an antenna located in the integrated circuit package, but not on said at least one semiconductor die. The conducting pattern comprises a curve having at least five sections or segments, at least three of the sections or segments being shorter than one-tenth of the longest free-space operating wavelength of the antenna, each of the five sections or segments forming a pair of angles with each adjacent segment or section, wherein the smaller angle of each of the four pairs of angles between sections or segments is less than 180° (i.e.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Jordi Soler Castany, Jaume Anguera Pros, Carles Puente Baliarda, Carmen Borja Borau
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Patent number: 8196829Abstract: The invention refers to a chip module comprising at least one memory and/or microprocessor chip and at least one antenna element connected to said chip. Further the invention relates to a SIM card comprising a dielectric substrate, eight or more contact pads provided on one side of said dielectric substrate, at least one memory and/or microprocessor chip provided on the other side of the substrate and connected to said contact pads, a first antenna element provided on the same side of the dielectric substrate as the chip, wherein the first antenna element has at least one driving point and at least one termination point, a second antenna element provided on the same side of the dielectric substrate as the first antenna element, wherein the first antenna element is given in an area different from the area where the contact pads are arranged, and the chip can be accessed by a wireless communication link with help of the antenna operating at a frequency of more than 800 MHz.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2007Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Jordi Soler Castany
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Patent number: 8193998Abstract: This invention refers to an antenna contacting assembly which allows electrical connection of an antenna element to the RF module of a wireless device when very little space is available on the side of the PCB underneath the antenna element. The antenna contacting assembly provides electrical contact between a first conducting surface and a second conducting surface by engaging in traction mode said first conducting surface with said second conducting surface. Further the invention refers to an antenna system provided with such antenna contacting assembly and the corresponding wireless device with an antenna system provided with such antenna contacting assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2006Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Eloy Hinojo
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Patent number: 8154462Abstract: An apparatus including a wireless communications device has an internal antenna system located within the wireless communications device. The internal antenna system includes a passive antenna set comprising at least one antenna element having at least one multilevel structure, a feeding point to the at least one antenna element and a ground plane. The feeding point and a point on the ground plane define an input/output port for said passive antenna set. The passive antenna set provides a similar impedance level and radiation pattern at two or more frequency bands such that the passive antenna set is capable of both transmitting and receiving wireless signals on selected channels. The selected channels are selectable from a plurality of channels throughout an entire frequency range within each of said two or more frequency bands.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Carmen Borja Borau, Jaume Anguera Pros, Jordi Soler Castany
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Patent number: 8154463Abstract: An apparatus including a wireless communications device has an internal antenna system located within the wireless communications device. The internal antenna system includes a passive antenna set comprising at least one antenna element having at least one multilevel structure, a feeding point to the at least one antenna element and a ground plane. The feeding point and a point on the ground plane define an input/output port for said passive antenna set. The passive antenna set provides a similar impedance level and radiation pattern at two or more frequency bands such that the passive antenna set is capable of both transmitting and receiving wireless signals on selected channels. The selected channels are selectable from a plurality of channels throughout an entire frequency range within each of said two or more frequency bands.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Carmen Borja Borau, Jaume Anguera Pros, Jordi Soler Castany
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Patent number: 8149171Abstract: A miniature antenna includes a radiating arm that defines a grid dimension curve. In one embodiment, the radiating arm includes a planar portion and at least one extruded portion. The planar portion of the radiating arm defines the grid dimension curve. The extruded portion of the radiating arm extends from the planar portion of the radiating arm to define a three-dimensional structure. In one embodiment, the miniature antenna includes a first radiating arm that defines a first grid dimension curve within a first plane and a second radiating arm that defines a second grid dimension curve within a second plane. In one embodiment, the miniature antenna includes a radiating arm that forms a non-planar structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Jordi Soler-Castany, Juan Ignacio Ortigosa-Vallejo, Jaume Anguera-Pros
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Patent number: 8138981Abstract: An antenna set comprising at least one antenna element and a ground plane, is complemented by a conductive element coupled to the ground plane, so as to modify the frequency performance of the antenna set, adding an operating band to the antenna set, and/or increasing the bandwidth of one operating band of the antenna set, and/or enhancing voltage standing wave ration, efficiency and/or gain of the antenna set. Thus, the conductive element can be used to tune the antenna set in accordance with specific requirements concerning, for example, compatibility with different wireless services.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Jaume Anguera, Antonio Condes
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Patent number: 8115686Abstract: The invention relates to a handheld device comprising a first antenna (401, 701, 901, 931, 961, 1101, 1151, 1301, 1501) arranged to operate in at least a first frequency band, and a second antenna (402, 702, 902, 1102, 1302, 1502, 2210) arranged to operate in at least a second frequency band, wherein said second frequency band is different from said first frequency band. According to the invention, the second antenna comprises a slot antenna comprising at least one slot in at least one conductive layer. The invention also relates to enhancement of the isolation between first and second antennas in a handheld device.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Josep Mumbru, Jaume Anguera, Jordi Soler, Carles Puente
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Patent number: 8111199Abstract: A wireless device includes a ground plane with at least two portions. On each of the at least two portions at least one connecting means is provided. The two connecting means are connected with an electric component for connecting the at least two portions of the ground plane. The ground plane is partially covered with an insulating material and the connecting means are given by a part of the ground plane which is not covered by any insulating material.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Jaime Anguera Pros
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Patent number: 8077110Abstract: This invention refers to an antenna structure for a wireless device comprising a ground plane and an antenna element, wherein the ground plane has the shape of an open loop. The invention further refers to an antenna structure for a wireless device, such as alight switch or a wristsensor or wristwatch, comprising an open loop ground plane having a first end portion and a second end portion, the open loop ground plane defining an opening between the first end portion and the second end portion; and an antenna component positioned within the opening defined between the first end portion and the second end portion and overlapping at least one of the first end portion or the second end portion. Further the invention refers to a corresponding wireless device and to a method for integrating such an antenna structure in a wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2010Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Jordi Soler Castany, Carles Puente Baliarda