Patents by Inventor Dou Yuanzhu

Dou Yuanzhu 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).

  • Publication number: 20060132362
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a plate-shaped conductor and a radiating conductor that extends outward from an end portion of the conductor and has a length corresponding to a quarter wavelength of a first frequency. A strip-shaped slot portion formed by removing a part of the plate-shaped conductor extending inward from the end portion has a length corresponding to a quarter wavelength of a second frequency. A feed portion is perpendicular to the slot portion and crosses over the slot portion. The feed portion feeds the same signals to the slot portion and the radiating conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Publication number: 20060132373
    Abstract: A pair of radiating slots open in a flat metal plate having a square shape to be line-symmetrically arranged with respect to a symmetry axis, and power feeding lines and ground lines are provided at power feeding positions of the respective radiating slots. The respective radiating slots have first slot portions and second slot portions that contact at 45 degrees and linearly extend, respectively. Both the radiating slots are arranged in a back-to-back manner that edges of the first slot portions face each other, and the second slot portions extend in a direction to be separated from each other along two sides of the flat metal plate. Further, a polarization direction of an electric wave to be generated by one radiating slot and a polarization direction of an electric wave to be generated by the other radiating slot are set to be perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Publication number: 20060126571
    Abstract: A smart antenna device includes: first and second weighting units provided to correspond to two antennas disposed apart from each other so as to weight received signals inputted from the antennas, respectively; an operating unit that obtains a ratio of a weight of the second weighting unit to a weight of the first weighting unit; an adding unit that adds a signal outputted from the first weighting unit and a signal outputted from the second weighting unit to each other; and a phase shifting unit that makes phases of the two signals equal to each other. When the magnitude of a signal component and the magnitude of a noise component of the signal inputted to the first weighting unit are assumed to be S1 and N1, respectively, and the magnitude of a signal component and the magnitude of a noise component of the signal inputted to the second weighting unit are assumed to be S2 and N2, respectively, the weight ratio is (S2/S1)×(N1/N2)2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Patent number: 7046203
    Abstract: A metal plate patch antenna 10 includes a ground conductor composed of a metal plate, a dielectric substrate placed on and fixed to the ground conductor, a radiating conductor plate composed of a metal plate arranged above the dielectric substrate with a predetermined gap therefrom, leg pieces formed by cutting and raising four places near the outer circumferential portion of the radiating conductor plate toward the dielectric substrate, and a feeding metal piece extending from a feeding point of the radiating conductor plate. Soldering lands are arranged at four corners of the top surface of the dielectric substrate so that lower ends of the leg pieces are respectively soldered to the soldering lands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Publication number: 20060077113
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a circuit board, an upper shield case, a lower shield case, and a power feeding member. The circuit board has high frequency circuits arranged thereon. The upper shield case and the lower shield case cover the circuit board. The power feeding member extends from an upper plate of the upper shield case. Radiation slots and are formed in the upper plate. The power feeding member includes a horizontal portion, a bent portion, and a drooping portion, and a front end of the drooping portion is mounted on a land of the circuit board and soldered thereto. The horizontal portion protrudes from a base end which is continuous to the upper plate in a horizontal direction. The bent portion is formed by bending a front end of the horizontal portion at a right angle. The drooping portion extends downward from the bent portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Patent number: 6982673
    Abstract: An inverted-F metal plate antenna is composed of a radiating conductor plate disposed opposing and substantially in parallel with a ground conductor surface, a power-feeding conductor plate extending substantially perpendicularly from an outer edge of the radiating conductor plate, and shorted conductor plates extending substantially perpendicularly from two points on outer edges of the radiating conductor plate and connected to the ground conductor surface. When a predetermined high-frequency electric power is supplied to the radiating conductor plate via the power-feeding conductor plate, a first resonance mode with a relatively long resonant length, in which one of the shorted conductor plate works as a shorted stub, and a second resonance mode with a relatively short resonant length, in which the other shorted conductor plate works as a shorted stub, are generated, causing excitation of the radiating conductor plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Patent number: 6977616
    Abstract: There is provided a dual-band antenna having small size and low height which has a characteristic of not affecting a bandwidth of signal waves of a low band in its miniaturized state. In a dual-band antenna 11, a first radiating conductive plate 13 is arranged to oppose a surface of a grounding conductor 12 in an approximately parallel manner, being excited at a first frequency. A feeding conductive plate 14 extends approximately orthogonally from an outer edge of the first radiating conductive plate 13 and is connected to a feeding circuit. A second radiating conductive plate 15 is stood downward the first radiating conductive plate 13, whose lower end is connected to the feeding conductive plate 14. The second radiating conductive plate 15 is excited at a second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Patent number: 6975272
    Abstract: A circularly polarized wave antenna device contains a dielectric substrate provided on a ground conductor 1, electrodes provided on the dielectric substrate to face the ground conductor. The electrodes form capacitors together with the ground conductor. A radiating conductor plate is made of a metal plate. Leg pieces are bent toward the dielectric substrate side at a plurality of locations on the radiating conductor plate. Two electric lengths on the radiating conductor plate that are generated in the directions passing the center of the radiating conductor plate and orthogonal to each other are equal to each other. Areas of the electrodes to which two leg pieces provided on a first line S3 are connected are different from those of the electrodes to which two leg pieces provided on a second line S4 are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: ALPS Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Patent number: 6958732
    Abstract: The antenna-integrated module contains a circuit board 1 on which a high frequency circuit is provided, a cover 2 that is composed of a metal plate and is mounted to the circuit board 1 so as to cover almost the entire surface of the circuit board 1, and a dedicated shield case 3 that is composed of a metal plate and is mounted to the circuit board 1 so as to cover a specific region on the circuit board 1. The high frequency circuit comprises a wiring pattern 4 and a ground pattern 5, and electronic parts 6, and the dedicated shield case 3 covers a portion of the high frequency circuit. Leg pieces 2b and 2c of the cover 2 are connected to the wiring pattern 4 and the ground pattern 5. In the cover 2, an upper plate 2a corresponding to a radiation conductor portion functions as both an inverted F-type antenna and a shield case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Patent number: 6952183
    Abstract: A circularly-polarized-wave patch antenna includes a main body having a patch electrode provided with two feeding points and a circuit for generating a phase difference of 90° between signals supplied to the feeding points. A Wilkinson distribution circuit is provided between the 90°-phase-difference generating circuit and a coaxial cable (feeder line) so as to improve a reflection characteristic. The patch antenna includes two feeding points, and thus a favorable axial ratio characteristic can be obtained in a wide band. Also, a favorable reflection characteristic can be obtained in a wide band because of the Wilkinson distribution circuit. Accordingly, the patch antenna can be used in a wider frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Patent number: 6946997
    Abstract: A radiating conductor having first and second meandering portions and capacitive conductor portions is provided on a surface of a dielectric substrate perpendicularly provided on a grounding conductor plate. The first meandering portion and one of the capacitive conductor portions are locally opposed to each other to form a capacitive coupling portion. The first meandering portion receives high-frequency power through its bottom end. The second meandering portion is formed to have a smaller pitch than the first meandering portion, and continues to the upper end of the first meandering portion. One capacitive conductor portion formed on a front surface continues to the upper end of the second meandering portion, while the other capacitive conductor portion is formed on a back surface and connected with the former capacitive conductor portion via through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Publication number: 20050168389
    Abstract: The present invention provides a slot antenna in which the radiation toward the zenith direction is not obstructed although it is arranged on an upper side of a ground conducting plate. The antenna device 11 operates as the slot antenna by providing a slot 14 in an upper plate portion 13 of a shield case 12. The shield case 12 is provided on a ground conducting plate 20. The slot 14 is composed of a first aperture 15 extending in a straight line, a second aperture 16 communicating with one end of the longitudinal direction of the first aperture 15, and a third aperture 17 communicating with the other end of the longitudinal direction of the aperture 15. The apertures 16 and 17 have the same triangular shapes which are point-symmetrical to the center of the aperture 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Dou Yuanzhu, Yoshio Saito
  • Publication number: 20050116863
    Abstract: A circularly polarized wave antenna device contains a dielectric substrate provided on a ground conductor 1, a electrodes provided on the dielectric substrate to face the ground conductor. The electrodes form capacitors together with the ground conductor. A radiating conductor plate is made of a metal plate. Leg pieces are bent toward the dielectric substrate side at a plurality of locations on the radiating conductor plate. Two electric lengths on the radiating conductor plate that are generated in the directions passing the center of the radiating conductor plate and orthogonal to each other are equal to each other. Areas of the electrodes to which two leg pieces provided on a first line S3 are connected are different from those of the electrodes to which two leg pieces provided on a second line S4 are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Publication number: 20050116875
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a ground conductor plate composed of a metal plate and a radiating conductor plate composed of a metal plate and arranged at a predetermined gap from the ground conductor plate. First extending portions are provided in the radiating conductor plate to extend toward the ground conductor plate, and/or second extending portions are provided in the ground conductor plate to extend toward the radiating conductor plate. Capacitance is formed between the first extending portions and the ground conductor plate, between the second extending portions and the radiating conductor plate, or the first extending portions and the second extending portions respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Dou Yuanzhu, Tomotaka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20050104793
    Abstract: A slot antenna apparatus 10 contains a circuit substrate having a high-frequency circuit arranged therein and a shield case accommodating the circuit substrates. A cross-shaped slot and a feeding pin are formed in an upper plate of the shield case. The cross-shaped slot is composed of a first and second slots. The lengths of the slots are different and the slots are perpendicular to each other. The shortest distances from the feeding pin to the first slots are approximately equal. When the power is fed to the upper plate through the feeding pin, the slots are excited to irradiate linearly polarized waves perpendicular to each other, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Publication number: 20050093748
    Abstract: A metal plate patch antenna 10 includes a ground conductor composed of a metal plate, a dielectric substrate placed on and fixed to the ground conductor, a radiating conductor plate composed of a metal plate arranged above the dielectric substrate with a predetermined gap therefrom, leg pieces formed by cutting and raising four places near the outer circumferential portion of the radiating conductor plate toward the dielectric substrate, and a feeding metal piece extending from a feeding point of the radiating conductor plate. Soldering lands are arranged at four corners of the top surface of the dielectric substrate so that lower ends of the leg pieces are respectively soldered to the soldering lands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Publication number: 20050090284
    Abstract: A wireless network card contains a card-shaped board on which an electronic circuit unit is arranged; radiating conductor patterns and feeding lines that are provided on one surface of the board; a ground conductor patterns, serving as a ground of the radiating conductor patterns, provided on the other surface of the board. Also, choking slits set to have a length that makes it difficult for a high-frequency current to flow through the electronic circuit unit are formed in a region of the ground conductor pattern that does not overlap the feeding lines, between the electronic circuit unit and the radiating conductor patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Patent number: 6879294
    Abstract: A direction of a power feed patch relative to a rod-shaped antenna is set so that a short axis thereof substantially orthogonally crosses a plane containing an intersection between the short axis and a long axis of the power feed patch of a patch antenna and an axis of the rod-shaped antenna. As a plane of polarization of a linearly polarized electromagnetic wave radiated from the rod-shaped antenna is thereby caused to substantially coincide with a direction of the long axis of the power feed patch and to substantially orthogonally cross a direction of the short axis, even if a powerful wave of a higher frequency than a desired frequency to be received by the patch antenna and difficult to be removed by a band pass filter of a low-noise amplifier circuit is radiated from the rod-shaped antenna, field components of the high frequency electromagnetic wave in the direction of the short axis will become virtually zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Publication number: 20050057416
    Abstract: The antenna device 1 contains a first radiating conductive plate 3 arranged above a grounding conductor 2 so as to be substantially parallel and opposite to the grounding conductor 2; a second radiating conductive plate 4 adjacent to the first radiating conductive plate 3 with a slit 5 interposed therebetween; a feeding conductive plate 6 that extends orthogonally from an outer edge of the first radiating conductive plate 3 adjacent to the slit 5, and a shorting conductive plate 7 that extends orthogonally from an outer edge of the second radiating conductive plate 4 adjacent to the slit 5. A lower end of the feeding conductive plate 6 is connected to a feeding circuit, and a lower end of the shorting conductive plate 7 is connected to the grounding conductor 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu
  • Publication number: 20050057401
    Abstract: The antenna device 11 contain a first radiating conductive plate 13 arranged above a grounding conductor 12 so as to be substantially parallel and opposite to the grounding conductor 12; a second radiating conductive plate 14 adjacent to the first radiating conductive plate 13 with a slit 15 interposed therebetween; a feeding conductive plate 16 and a first shorting conductive plate 17 that extends substantially orthogonally from an outer edge of the first radiating conductive plate 13 so as not to be opposite to the slit 15; and a second shorting conductive plate 18 that extends substantially orthogonally from an outer edge of the second radiating conductive plate 14 so as not to be opposite to the slit 15. The feeding conductive plate 16 is connected to a feeding circuit, and the first and second shorting conductive plates 17 and 18 are connected to the grounding conductor 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventor: Dou Yuanzhu