Patents Assigned to Kathrein-Werke KG
  • Patent number: 10734711
    Abstract: A shaft antenna system for mobile communication comprises an antenna housing into which at least one antenna is introduced or can be introduced. A support frame has an insertion opening and a circumferential wall by which a receptacle space is bounded. The receptacle space is accessible from the insertion opening, and the antenna housing is arranged in the receptacle space. A termination cover assembly closes off the insertion opening. The termination cover assembly is supported at its edge region at least indirectly on the support frame. An underside of the termination cover assembly covers an upper side of the antenna housing. The antenna housing is supported at least indirectly on the support frame via at least one force storage device. The force storage device comprises at least one foam module which has elastic, resilient and damping properties, to hold the upper side of the antenna housing is pressed against the underside of the termination cover assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventor: Maximilian Schlosser
  • Patent number: 10673480
    Abstract: A device for transmitting and receiving signals for a radio network comprises an air interface; a MIMO antenna; and an antenna-side frequency conversion device provided between the air interface and a home distribution network. The antenna-side frequency conversion device comprises at least one frequency converter via which the receive signals obtained via the at least one polarization of the dual-polarized antenna or via at least one of the at least two antennae can be converted into an intermediate frequency range that is unused and/or free in the home distribution network. At least one receive-side frequency back-conversion device is provided between the home distribution network and a receiver. The receive-side frequency back-conversion device is configured in such a way that a frequency back-conversion of the frequencies converted into an unused frequency range can be fed back into the received frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Roland Gabriel, Georg Schell, Michael Heisenberg
  • Patent number: 10651529
    Abstract: A high-frequency filter with a coaxial design has at least one resonator with a first inner conductor and an outer conductor housing. The outer conductor housing comprises a housing base, a housing cover which is arranged at a distance from the housing base, and a peripheral housing wall between the housing base and the housing cover. The first inner conductor is galvanically connected to the housing base and extends axially from the housing base in the direction of the housing cover. The resonator comprises a second internal conductor which is galvanically connected to the housing cover and extends axially from the housing cover in the direction of the housing base. The first and/or second inner conductor has an inner conductor bore, and a tuning element is arranged in one inner conductor bore in a thread-free axially movable manner. The tuning element is arranged in a sleeve or bushing and optionally or in addition thereto has an enlarged elastic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Maximilian Obermayer, Franz Rottmoser, Michael Spunt
  • Patent number: 10644376
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved high-frequency filter having at least one coaxial resonator is characterized by, among other things, the following features: the coaxial resonator comprises an outer conductor housing (1), an outer conductor (1?) thus being formed; an inner conductor (3) is arranged in the outer conductor housing (1), which inner conductor is mechanically and galvanically connected to the outer conductor housing at one end of the inner conductor and ends in the direction of the outer conductor housing (1) or a housing cover (7) provided there that belongs to the outer conductor housing (1) at the opposite end of the inner conductor; the outer conductor housing (1) and the inner conductor (3) are made of electrically conductive material or are covered with an electrically conductive material; the end face (3a) of the inner conductor (3) and/or the additional surface (23) of the inner conductor (3) adjacent thereto is completely or partially covered with an encasing material (21), which enca
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Jens Nita, Martin Skiebe
  • Patent number: 10620319
    Abstract: Individual pieces of position information are used to determine a location using a processor and multiple local position transmitters. The processor is supplied with at least four different navigation signals, each of which corresponds to a satellite signal on the basis of the global navigation satellite system. Each navigation signal contains information on the transmission time and the transmission location. The processor generates at least four modified navigation signals by temporally shifting navigation signals relative to one another such that the target location coordinates which can be obtained therefrom correspond to a target location on the basis of the global navigation satellite system. An analyzer then superimposes the at least four modified navigation signals in order to form a modified summation navigation signal and transmits same to the local position transmitters. The summation navigation signal is calculated individually for each local position transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Robert Bieber, Markus Mohr
  • Patent number: 10591613
    Abstract: Relative GPS antenna alignment uses a phase shifter electrically connected to a first GPS antenna. A combiner is electrically connected to the phase shifter, the second GPS antenna and to a GPS receiver. A GPS reception signal (Sig1) emitted by the first GPS antenna is phase-shifted by the phase shifter by a phase shift (?) that can be set by way of a controller and is added by the combiner to a second GPS reception signal (Sig2) emitted by the second GPS antenna. The composite signal (Sum) thus produced is determined for at least three different phase shifts (?). On the basis of these data, the profile of the composite signal (Sum) and the relative alignment of the two GPS antennas in relation to one another is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventor: Robert Bieber
  • Patent number: 10297948
    Abstract: An anti-kink protection assembly is proposed that is configured for being situated on a connector housing that is mounted on a cable for anti-kink protection, comprising a cylindrical base part that is formed in one piece from a top part and a bottom part. The bottom part includes multiple locking arms that are separated from one another by a distance in the radial direction, and locking tabs are in each case situated on the lower end areas of the locking arms facing away from the top part, in the direction of the inner area of the cylindrical base part. The bottom part has a defined internal cross section in the area of the locking arms without the locking tabs. Tt least one upper end element is situated at the upper outer edge of the top part facing away from the locking arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KATHREIN WERKE KG
    Inventors: Thomas Haunberger, Mario Günther, Sebastian Stohn, Andreas Scheyer
  • Publication number: 20190036195
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved high-frequency filter having at least one coaxial resonator is characterized by, among other things, the following features: the coaxial resonator comprises an outer conductor housing (1), an outer conductor (1?) thus being formed; an inner conductor (3) is arranged in the outer conductor housing (1), which inner conductor is mechanically and galvanically connected to the outer conductor housing at one end of the inner conductor and ends in the direction of the outer conductor housing (1) or a housing cover (7) provided there that belongs to the outer conductor housing (1) at the opposite end of the inner conductor; the outer conductor housing (1) and the inner conductor (3) are made of electrically conductive material or are covered with an electrically conductive material; the end face (3a) of the inner conductor (3) and/or the additional surface (23) of the inner conductor (3) adjacent thereto is completely or partially covered with an encasing material (21), which enca
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Jens NITA, Martin SKIEBE
  • Patent number: 10148015
    Abstract: A dipole-shaped antenna element arrangement comprises two pairs of radiator halves which are arranged so as to be rotated by 90° to one another and are oriented in a radiator plane at a distance in front of a reflector and in parallel therewith. The radiator halves are arranged on a balancing and/or support arrangement. There is a passive beam-shaping frame which is arranged at a distance from the radiator halves towards the reflector. The passive beam-shaping frame has at the corners thereof a broadening of the peripheral frame web thereof, said broadening of the frame web extending in parallel with the radiator plane and/or transversely to the radiator plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Heyde, Markus Quitt, Johannes Kellerer
  • Patent number: 10128586
    Abstract: A plug connector has an outer conductor socket to receive a coaxial cable. An inner conductor receiving element receives an inner conductor of the coaxial cable and is arranged in a centered manner within the outer conductor socket. The outer conductor socket has at least one contact-making area which makes electrical contact with an outer conductor of the coaxial cable. At least one separating element is arranged within the outer conductor socket in such a way that making electrical contact with the end of the outer conductor of a coaxial cable that can be or is inserted into the outer conductor socket and the outer conductor socket is prevented or suppressed. In the plugged-in state, the contact-making area is arranged in the outer conductor socket in such a way that electrical contact can be or is made radially with the circumferential wall adjoining the end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Maximilian Göttl, Manfred Stolle, Thomas Haunberger
  • Patent number: 10122075
    Abstract: An antenna system for motor vehicles includes a surface that comprises an electrically conductive medium. A recess is located inside the electrically conductive surface, with the electrically conductive surface being a periphery of the recess. At least one electrically conductive crosspiece is electrically conductively connected to the periphery and protrudes into the recess and extends in the direction of a second side, facing the first side, of the periphery and there ends, forming a gap with the periphery. This crosspiece divides the recess into first and second parts with a gap connecting the two parts. At least one electrical line in a part of the recess originates at a feed point, located on the crosspiece but is electrically separate from it. The electrical line extends in the part of the recess in the direction of the periphery and is capacitively coupled to the periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Thomas Lankes, Frank Mierke, Adrian Sigg
  • Patent number: 10122077
    Abstract: A mobile radio antenna includes a complete reflector is formed as one piece or by or connected to the at least one or more reflectors, or comprises at least one or more reflectors. The complete reflector comprises on the two outer longitudinal sides thereof extending in the longitudinal direction a first shield wall which shields the first and/or passive component space and/or distribution space, and a second shield wall connects directly or indirectly to the first shield wall. The two second shield walls extending on the longitudinal sides of the complete reflector protrude in the backwards direction of the antenna across a mounting plane or a section plane along which plane the first or passive component space and/or distribution space is separated or divided from the second or active component space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Christian Fröhler, Christoph Staita, Tobias Krasny, Peter Feistl, Maximilian Göttl
  • Patent number: 10116376
    Abstract: The present invention describes a method and system for relaying telecommunication signals. The system comprises: a central hub connectable to one or more base stations; a plurality of remote units for relaying the telecommunication signals; and a plurality of expansion units digitally connected to the central hub and connectable to the plurality of remote units. At least one of the plurality of expansion units is provided with a plurality of coverage area modules, wherein one or more of the plurality of remote units is connected to a selected one of the plurality of coverage area modules, the selected one of the coverage area modules being adapted to relay the same signals to the connected one or more of the plurality of remote units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Martin Weckerle, Johannes Schlee, Christoph Kutscher
  • Patent number: 10116048
    Abstract: The invention teaches a telecommunications antenna with a housing comprising a radome (12) and a radiator (70) arranged in the housing, wherein the radiator (70) is mounted to a support structure (30) that is conductive in the electromagnetic sense, said support structure so engaging the housing that it is in either one of a rotatable fashion or a rotatably fixed fashion about and axis, in that at least one body (80) that is non-conductive in the electromagnetic sense is tensionable in a direction parallel to the axis in such a fashion that a transition from the rotatable fashion to the rotatably fixed fashion is permitted by forming a frictional engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Manuel Mielke, Josef Fahrenschon, Manfred Stolle, Andreas Plötz
  • Patent number: 10102983
    Abstract: What is provided is an arrangement for electrically contacting electrically conductive elements, comprising a first element, at least a portion of which is electrically conductive, at least one second element, at least a portion of which is electrically conductive, for electrically contacting the first element, comprising a contact area in at least one end region thereof, the contact area having a radius at least at predefined contact points. The first electrically conductive element has at least one area that is designed to receive at least a portion of the contact area of the second electrically conductive element such that an electrical contact is created between the first electrically conductive element and the contact points of the second electrically conductive element. Furthermore, a corresponding first and second element is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein Werke KG
    Inventors: Christian Steininger, Thomas Haunberger
  • Patent number: 10103483
    Abstract: A coaxial plug-in connector arrangement is provided having an electrically conductive outer sleeve, and an electrically conductive inner sleeve which is insertable into the outer sleeve in the axial direction and is electrically connectable to the outer sleeve. A first contact pin is insertable into the outer sleeve from a side facing away from the inner sleeve. A second contact pin is insertable into the inner sleeve from a side facing away from the outer sleeve. An insulating part in which an inner conductor part is mounted is located in the inner sleeve. The two contact pins are connectable to one another in an electrically conductive manner via the inner conductor part. An arresting element is mountable on one of the two sleeves before insertion of the inner sleeve into the outer sleeve. The inner sleeve is detachably fixable in the outer sleeve by means of the arresting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: KATHREIN-Werke KG
    Inventors: Werner Haegele, Erik Baechle, Guenter Waeller, Stefan Berger, Thomas Haunberger, Mario Guenther, Manfred Stolle
  • Patent number: 10090573
    Abstract: An improved high-frequency shielded housing is characterized by the following features, among others: multiple contact sections (K; KG; KD) are formed or provided arranged offset to one another between the housing cover (17) and the housing (3), galvanic separating sections (T; TG; TD) are formed or provided between the contact sections (KG; KD), the housing cover (17) and the housing (3) are galvanically separated in the regions of the galvanic separating sections, and screw connections (25) are provided in the contact sections (K; KG; KD), the housing cover (17) and the housing (3) being galvanically contacted in the regions of the screw connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Maximilian Göttl, Thomas Haunberger, Manfred Stolle
  • Patent number: 10056661
    Abstract: Positioned above the actual pointer head of the pointer-shaped feed element, through which the centre axis or swivel axis passes, is an additional capacitor coupling device or coupling disc that is arranged at a distance from said pointer head and is electrically isolated therefrom. This additional coupling device or disc is separated from the electrically conductive pointer head by a disc-shaped insulator which is inserted therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Stephan Dandlberger, Georg Tischler
  • Patent number: 10027036
    Abstract: An antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements is disclosed. The antenna array comprises: a plurality of transceiver modules; an active antenna element subset of the plurality of antenna elements, wherein the active antenna element subset comprises at least one active antenna element being actively coupled to an associated transceiver module of the plurality of transceiver modules; and at least one passively combined sub-array of at least two antenna elements of the plurality of antenna elements. A method for generating antenna patterns with the antenna array is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Georg Schmidt, Martin Weckerle
  • Patent number: 10008768
    Abstract: An electrically capacitively shielded component housing for a mobile radio antenna has an opening region which is shielded with respect to HF radiation by a shielding cover or plate. The contact or anchoring cover segments of the shielding cover or plate are arranged against the component and/or reflector housing immediately adjacent to and in parallel with the contact or anchoring housing segments. An insulating layer is interposed, and the planar contact or anchoring housing segments and the planar contact or anchoring cover segments are oriented parallel to or at an angle to an insertion or mounting direction (E) and/or a central axis (Z) extending through the component and/or reflector housing, at an angle ? where 0°??<90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Mathias Markof, Anian Gasteiger, Klaus Rothbächer, Andreas Jürgens, Christoph Staita, Philipp Ponn