Patents by Inventor Carles Puente Baliarda
Carles Puente Baliarda 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).
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Publication number: 20200227830Abstract: A radiating system of a wireless device transmits and receives electromagnetic wave signals in a frequency region and comprises an external port, a radiating structure, and a radiofrequency system. The radiating structure includes: a ground plane layer with a connection point; a radiation booster with a connection point and being smaller than 1/30 of a free-space wavelength corresponding to a lowest frequency of the frequency region; and an internal port between the radiation booster connection point and the ground plane layer connection point. The radiofrequency system includes: a first port connected to the radiating structure's internal port; and a second port connected to the external port. An input impedance at radiating structure's disconnected internal port has a non-zero imaginary part across the frequency region. The radiofrequency system modifies impedance of the radiating structure to provide impedance matching to the radiating system within the frequency region at the external port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Josep MUMBRU
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Publication number: 20200144700Abstract: An apparatus comprises an antenna element operable in multiple frequency bands and configured to be connected to a ground plane and to a radiofrequency system to provide impedance matching at the multiple frequency bands, where the radiofrequency system comprising at least a matching network. A maximum length of the antenna element is shorter than L/12 but longer than L/22, where L is the free-space wavelength corresponding to a lowest frequency related to a lowest frequency region of operation of the antenna element. A contour of the antenna element has a complexity factor F12 less than 1.25.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES, Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA
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Patent number: 10644380Abstract: A multifunction wireless device having at least one of multimedia functionality and smartphone functionality, the multifunction wireless device including an upper body and a lower body, the upper body and the lower body being adapted to move relative to each other in at least one of a clamshell, a slide, and a twist manner. The multifunction wireless device further includes an antenna system disposed within at least one of the upper body and the lower body and having a shape with a level of complexity of an antenna contour defined by complexity factors F21 having a value of at least 1.05 and not greater than 1.80 and F32 having a value of at least 1.10 and not greater than 1.90.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Josep Mumbru, Jordi Ilaro
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Patent number: 10644405Abstract: 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: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Jordi Soler Castany, Jaume Anguera Pros, Carles Puente Baliarda, Carmen Borja Borau
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Publication number: 20200099133Abstract: An antenna includes at least two radiating arm structures made of or limited by a conductor, superconductor or semiconductor material. The two arms are coupled through a region on first and second superconducting arms such that the combined structure forms a small antenna with broadband behavior, multiband behavior or a combination thereof. The coupling between the two radiating arms is obtained via the shape and spatial arrangement thereof, in which at least one portion on each arm is placed in close proximity to each other (e.g., at a distance smaller than 1/10 of the longest free-space operating wavelength) to allow electromagnetic fields in one arm to be transferred to the other through close proximity regions. The proximity regions are spaced from the feeding port of the antenna (e.g., greater than 1/40 of the free-space longest operating wavelength) and specifically exclude the feeding port of the antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Jordi SOLER CASTANY, Antonio CONDES MARTINEZ
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Patent number: 10601110Abstract: A wireless device comprises a radiating structure that comprises a ground plane layer etched on a PCB, including a clearance area nearby one edge of the PCB, and an antenna element mounted on the clearance area. The radiating structure is included in a radiating system that also includes a radiofrequency system comprising at least a matching network, including more than three components. The radiofrequency system connects the antenna element to a feeding line connected at its end to an external port. The antenna element features a maximum length within the 22-30 mm range to match the radiating system in the multiple frequency bands of operation. In general, a radiating system features extended bandwidth, typically including LTE700 bands or below. The antenna element may include two conductive adjacent surfaces with a convex shape connected between them.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Fractus Antennas, S.L.Inventors: Aurora Andujar Linares, Jaume Anguera Pros, Carles Puente Baliarda
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Publication number: 20200044317Abstract: A wireless handheld or portable device includes an antenna system operable in a first frequency region and a higher, second frequency region. The antenna system comprises an antenna structure, a matching and tuning system, and an external input/output (I/O) port. The antenna structure comprises at least one radiating element including a connection point, a ground plane layer including at least one connection point, and at least one internal I/O port. At least one radiating element of the antenna structure protrudes beyond the ground plane layer. The antenna structure features at any of its internal I/O ports when disconnected from the matching and tuning system an input return loss curve having a minimum at a frequency outside the first frequency region of the antenna system. The matching and tuning system modifies the impedance of the antenna structure and provides impedance matching to the antenna system in the first and second regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Ivan SANZ, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Josep MUMBRU
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Publication number: 20200028264Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Jordi SOLER CASTANY, Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Carmen BORJA BORAU
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Patent number: 10476134Abstract: A wireless handheld or portable device includes an antenna system operable in a first frequency region and a higher, second frequency region. The antenna system comprises an antenna structure, a matching and tuning system, and an external input/output (I/O) port. The antenna structure comprises at least one radiating element including a connection point, a ground plane layer including at least one connection point, and at least one internal I/O port. At least one radiating element of the antenna structure protrudes beyond the ground plane layer. The antenna structure features at any of its internal I/O ports when disconnected from the matching and tuning system an input return loss curve having a minimum at a frequency outside the first frequency region of the antenna system. The matching and tuning system modifies the impedance of the antenna structure and provides impedance matching to the antenna system in the first and second regions.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Jaume Anguera Pros, Ivan Sanz, Carles Puente Baliarda, Josep Mumbru
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Patent number: 10468770Abstract: An antenna includes at least two radiating arm structures made of or limited by a conductor, superconductor or semiconductor material. The two arms are coupled through a region on first and second superconducting arms such that the combined structure forms a small antenna with broadband behavior, multiband behavior or a combination thereof. The coupling between the two radiating arms is obtained via the shape and spatial arrangement thereof, in which at least one portion on each arm is placed in close proximity to each other (e.g., at a distance smaller than 1/10 of the longest free-space operating wavelength) to allow electromagnetic fields in one arm to be transferred to the other through close proximity regions. The proximity regions are spaced from the feeding port of the antenna (e.g., greater than 1/40 of the free-space longest operating wavelength) and specifically exclude the feeding port of the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Jaume Anguera Pros, Jordi Soler Castany, Antonio Condes Martinez
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Publication number: 20190312343Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Edouard JEAN LOUIS ROZAN, Jaume ANGUERA PROS
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Publication number: 20190288393Abstract: An antenna includes at least two radiating arm structures made of or limited by a conductor, superconductor or semiconductor material. The two arms are coupled through a region on first and second superconducting arms such that the combined structure forms a small antenna with broadband behavior, multiband behavior or a combination thereof. The coupling between the two radiating arms is obtained via the shape and spatial arrangement thereof, in which at least one portion on each arm is placed in close proximity to each other (e.g., at a distance smaller than 1/10 of the longest free-space operating wavelength) to allow electromagnetic fields in one arm to be transferred to the other through close proximity regions. The proximity regions are spaced from the feeding port of the antenna (e.g., greater than 1/40 of the free-space longest operating wavelength) and specifically exclude the feeding port of the antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2018Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Jordi SOLER CASTANY, Antonio CONDES MARTINEZ
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Patent number: 10411364Abstract: A wireless handheld device comprises an internal antenna system that operates in first and second non-overlapping frequency bands with respective bandwidths. The antenna system includes: a ground plane; first and second antenna elements connected to a common input/output port, wherein a bandwidth of each of the antenna elements is less than at least one of the first and second operating frequency bandwidths and less than a frequency bandwidth for the antenna system; a combining structure to couple first and second signal transmission paths from the antenna elements to the common input/output port; and a phase shifting element on the first signal transmission path that imparts a phase delay to signals on the first signal transmission path. The phase delay minimizes a sum of reflection coefficients of the antenna elements to cause the frequency bandwidth for the antenna system to include at least the first and second operating frequency bands.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Fractus Antennas, S.L.Inventors: Jaume Anguera Pros, Carles Puente Baliarda
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Publication number: 20190252779Abstract: The present invention refers to an antenna less wireless handheld or portable device comprising a 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. The radiating system comprising a radiating structure and at least one internal port, wherein the input impedance of the radiating structure at the/each internal port when disconnected from the radiofrequency system has an imaginary part not equal to zero for any frequency of the first frequency region; and wherein said radiofrequency system modifies the impedance of the radiating structure, providing impedance matching to the radiating system in the at least two frequency regions of operation of the radiating system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Josep MUMBRU
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Patent number: 10355346Abstract: 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: March 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Edouard Jean Louis Rozan, Jaume Anguera Pros
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Publication number: 20190181540Abstract: A radiating system for transmitting and receiving signals in first and second frequency regions includes a radiating structure, a radiofrequency system, and an external port. The radiating structure has first and second isolated radiation boosters coupled to a ground plane layer. A first internal port of the radiating structure is between the first radiation booster and the ground plane layer, and a second internal port is between the second radiation booster and the ground plane layer. A distance between the two internal ports is less than 0.06 times a wavelength of the lowest frequency. The maximum size of the first and second radiation boosters is smaller than 1/30 times the wavelength of the lowest frequency. The radiofrequency system includes two ports connected respectively to the first and the second internal ports of the radiating structure, and a port connected to the external port of the radiating system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA
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Patent number: 10320079Abstract: 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: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Jordi Soler Castany, Jaume Anguera Pros, Carles Puente Baliarda, Carmen Borja Borau
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Patent number: 10249952Abstract: The present invention refers to an antenna less wireless handheld or portable device comprising a 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. The radiating system comprising a radiating structure and at least one internal port, wherein the input impedance of the radiating structure at the/each internal port when disconnected from the radiofrequency system has an imaginary part not equal to zero for any frequency of the first frequency region; and wherein said radiofrequency system modifies the impedance of the radiating structure, providing impedance matching to the radiating system in the at least two frequency regions of operation of the radiating system.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Fractus Antennas, S.L.Inventors: Jaume Anguera Pros, Aurora Andujar Linares, Carles Puente Baliarda, Josep Mumbru
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Publication number: 20190020125Abstract: A wireless handheld device comprises an internal antenna system that operates in first and second non-overlapping frequency bands with respective bandwidths. The antenna system includes: a ground plane; first and second antenna elements connected to a common input/output port, wherein a bandwidth of each of the antenna elements is less than at least one of the first and second operating frequency bandwidths and less than a frequency bandwidth for the antenna system; a combining structure to couple first and second signal transmission paths from the antenna elements to the common input/output port; and a phase shifting element on the first signal transmission path that imparts a phase delay to signals on the first signal transmission path. The phase delay minimizes a sum of reflection coefficients of the antenna elements to cause the frequency bandwidth for the antenna system to include at least the first and second operating frequency bands.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA
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Patent number: 10135138Abstract: An antenna includes at least two radiating arm structures made of or limited by a conductor, superconductor or semiconductor material. The two arms are coupled through a region on first and second superconducting arms such that the combined structure forms a small antenna with broadband behavior, multiband behavior or a combination thereof. The coupling between the two radiating arms is obtained via the shape and spatial arrangement thereof, in which at least one portion on each arm is placed in close proximity to each other (e.g., at a distance smaller than 1/10 of the longest free-space operating wavelength) to allow electromagnetic fields in one arm to be transferred to the other through close proximity regions. The proximity regions are spaced from the feeding port of the antenna (e.g., greater than 1/40 of the free-space longest operating wavelength) and specifically exclude the feeding port of the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Fractus, S.A.Inventors: Carles Puente Baliarda, Jaume Anguera Pros, Jordi Soler Castany, Antonio Condes Martinez