Including Hybrid-type Network Patents (Class 333/117)
  • Patent number: 11962056
    Abstract: An enhanced bandwidth interconnect circuit. In some embodiments the circuit includes a two-terminal device and a network for forming a connection to the two-terminal device. The network may include a first set of coupled transmission lines and a second set of coupled transmission lines. A second end of the first set of coupled transmission lines may be connected to a first end of the second set of coupled transmission lines, and a second end of the second set of coupled transmission lines may be connected to the two-terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rockley Photonics Limited
    Inventor: David Arlo Nelson
  • Patent number: 11539132
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power divider includes a first transmission line, a first input transmission line, a second input transmission line, and the plurality of output transmission lines. The first transmission line has a closed structure. The first input transmission line and the second input transmission line are connected to the first transmission line at locations away from each other along the first transmission line by approximately a quarter of a length of the first transmission line. The plurality of output transmission lines are connected to the first transmission line at locations dividing the length of the first transmission line substantially evenly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Makoto Sano
  • Patent number: 11177547
    Abstract: A branchline coupler structure having a pair of main transmission lines disposed on different horizontal levels of a support structure and a pair of shunt transmission lines, vertically disposed and laterally spaced, and disposed in the support structure. A first one of the pair of shunt transmission lines is coupled between: one region of a first one of the pair of main transmission lines and a first end of a second one of the pair of main transmission line. A second one of the pair of shunt transmission lines is coupled between a second region of the first one of the pair of main transmission lines, laterally spaced from the first region, and a second end of the second one of the main transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Elicia K. Harper, Christopher M. Laighton, Francois Y. Colomb
  • Patent number: 11171406
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes, an antenna structure including a printed circuit board including first and second surfaces, at least one conductive patch interposed between the first second surfaces or is disposed on the first surface, the conductive patch including first to fourth areas placed in a clockwise direction with respect to a first imaginary axis extended in a first direction on the conductive patch and a second imaginary axis intersecting the first imaginary axis and perpendicular to the first imaginary axis, and at least one wireless communication circuit that transmits and/or receives a first signal having a frequency between 3 and 100 GHz. The wireless communication circuit includes a first port electrically connected to a first position of the first area, and a second port electrically connected to a second position placed on an opposite side to the first position with respect to the first imaginary axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sumin Yun, Dongyeon Kim, Seongjin Park, Sehyun Park, Myunghun Jeong, Jehun Jong, Jaehoon Jo
  • Patent number: 11139578
    Abstract: The present invent discloses an electrically-controlled switching multi-polarization horn antenna, which relates to the technical field of communication antennas. The horn antenna includes a horn antenna body, a polarization controller and a polarization switching apparatus. The horn antenna's control module controls a linear polarization control generation module, a circular polarization control generation module and a polarization selection module to cause the horn antenna to operate in a horizontal polarization mode, a vertical polarization mode, a left-hand circular polarization mode or a right-hand circular polarization mode. The antenna can realize a quick switch between different polarization modes, and the switch is electrically controlled rather than performed by manually replacing the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: Nan Hu
  • Patent number: 11075458
    Abstract: An antenna system includes at least one antenna array. The antenna array includes a dielectric substrate, a ground plane, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, a fourth radiation element, a first feeding element, and a second feeding element. The second radiation element is adjacent to the first radiation element. The first radiation element is positioned between the second radiation element and the ground plane. The fourth radiation element is adjacent to the third radiation element. The third radiation element is positioned between the fourth radiation element and the ground plane. The first feeding element is coupled to a first connection point on the first radiation element and a second connection point on the third radiation element. The second feeding element is coupled to a third connection point on the first radiation element and a fourth connection point on the third radiation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORP.
    Inventors: Cheng-Geng Jan, Chieh-Sheng Hsu
  • Patent number: 10892537
    Abstract: A waveguide-coupling device (14) for a hydraulic cylinder (10) has an outer conductor element (22) to which a microwave signal can be supplied, an inner conductor element (24) for coupling a waveguide mode into a liquid-filled inner chamber (16) of the hydraulic cylinder (10) and a dielectric insulating element (22) arranged between the inner conductor element (24) and the outer conductor element (20), wherein the inner conductor element (24) and the dielectric insulating element (22) as well as the dielectric insulating element (22) and the outer conducting element (20) are each connected to each other in a liquid-tight manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: BALLUFF GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Hofherr, Stephan Bleil
  • Patent number: 10852390
    Abstract: Example embodiments present radar units capable of operating in multiple polarizations. An example radar unit may include a set of transmission antennas and a set of reception antennas. Particularly, the transmission antennas may each be configured to transmit radar signals that radiate in one or more of four potential polarizations. The four polarizations can correspond to horizontal linear, vertical linear and slanted polarizations at approximately positive forty-five degrees and negative forty-five degrees from the horizontal plane. As such, the reception antennas of the radar unit may each be configured to receive reflected radar signals that are radiating in one of the four potential polarizations. The radar unit may further include an amplifier configured to cause one or multiple transmission antennas to selectively transmit between two or more of the four polarization channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Jamal Izadian, Philip Ma
  • Patent number: 10818996
    Abstract: A power sampler may include a sampling circuit interposed in one leg of a differential-signal circuit. An input balun may convert a single-ended signal from a signal source into a differential signal on first and second differential-signal input ports. An output balun may convert an output differential signal to a single-ended output signal to a signal load. The sampling circuit may include an inductance and a coupling circuit. The inductance may be an inductor and have an impedance higher than a source impedance. The coupling circuit, which may be a balun, is connected to the inductance and outputs a single-ended sample signal having a magnitude proportional to the inductance impedance at the design frequency. A second coupling-circuit output conducts an output differential signal and may be connected to the output balun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Werlatone, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen F. Podell, Philip M. Robertson, Carl G. Schuster, Bernard J. Werlau, Ky-Hien Do
  • Patent number: 10735045
    Abstract: A diplexer circuit is provided. The diplexer circuit, which includes a pair of hybrid couplers and a filter circuit, can be configured to support dual-connect (DC) communications on a pair of signal bands separated by a narrower transition band (e.g., ?200 MHz). In examples discussed herein, one of the signal bands is associated with a narrower fractional bandwidth (e.g., <13%) than the other signal band. In this regard, the filter circuit can be opportunistically configured to operate based on the narrower fractional bandwidth. By configuring the filter circuit to operate based on the narrower fractional bandwidth, it is possible to eliminate the need for supporting the wider fractional bandwidth in the diplexer circuit. As a result, it may be possible to implement the diplexer circuit using conventional filters to support DC communications on signal bands associated with a wider fractional bandwidth(s) and separated by a narrower transition band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Nadim Khlat, Marcus Granger-Jones
  • Patent number: 10686236
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a quadrature hybrid coupler included as part of a phase shifter is used to provide variable phase shift to an input signal. The quadrature hybrid coupler includes an input port, an output port, and two terminated ports. The phase shifter includes one or more static lumped elements connected to the QHC to reduce at least one electrical dimension of the QHC to substantially less than a quarter wavelength. The phase shifter also include one or more variable lumped elements connected to the QHC to provide a variable phase shift to the input signal between the input port and the output port of the QHC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Arnitz, Joseph Hagerty, Russell J. Hannigan, Guy S. Lipworth, Matthew S. Reynolds, Yaroslav A. Urhumov
  • Patent number: 10686115
    Abstract: A technique relates to a superconducting device. A first mixing device has a first mixing port and a second mixing port. A second mixing device has another first mixing port and another second mixing port. The first and second mixing devices are superconducting nondegenerate three-wave mixing devices. The first mixing port and the another first mixing port are configured to couple to a first coupler. The second mixing port and the another second mixing port are configured to couple to a second coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Baleegh Abdo
  • Patent number: 10673117
    Abstract: A waveguide circuit (1) includes a first waveguide tube (10), a second waveguide tube (20), and a third waveguide tube (30). The first waveguide tube (10), the second waveguide tube (20), and the third waveguide tube (30) have cross-sectional shapes to allow propagation of TE modes. The tube axis of the second waveguide tube (20) is parallel to the tube axis of the first waveguide tube (10). One of the narrow sidewalls of the second waveguide tube (20) faces a narrow sidewall (10s) of the first waveguide tube (10). The third waveguide tube (30) includes a coupler that connects a hollow guide of the third waveguide tube (30) to a hollow guide of the first waveguide tube (10) and a hollow guide of the second waveguide tube (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akimichi Hirota, Takeshi Oshima, Naofumi Yoneda, Jun Nishihara, Hiroyuki Nonomura
  • Patent number: 10673118
    Abstract: A compact bipolarization is provided power dividers for a radiofrequency power source. The divider according to the invention includes four identical orthomode transducers, eight identical waveguides, each waveguide comprising two bends, four identical T-shaped junctions, four identical twists and two power distributors; the four orthomode transducers being of parallelepipedal shape with a square base, each transducer comprising, on each of two adjacent lateral faces, a waveguide connected to the lower face of the transducer; the four transducers being positioned so as to form a square, each transducer being connected to two junctions that are perpendicular to one another, the set of four junctions forming a Greek cross; each pair of junctions that are situated in one and the same plane being connected, by way of two twists, to the two outputs of a power distributor comprising a single input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Fraysse, Hervé Legay, Ségolène Tubau
  • Patent number: 10586752
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a three dimensional microstrip branchline coupler and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a plurality of through silicon vias and conductive lines electrically connected to a first end and a second end of respective ones of the plurality of through silicon vias. A first through silicon via of the plurality of through silicon vias forms a first port of a three dimensional (3D) branchline coupler. A second through silicon via of the plurality of through silicon vias forms a second port of the 3D branchline coupler. A third through silicon via of the plurality of through silicon vias forms a third port of the 3D branchline coupler. A fourth through silicon via of the plurality of through silicon vias forms a fourth port of the 3D branchline coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barbara S. DeWitt, Essam Mina, B M Farid Rahman, Guoan Wang
  • Patent number: 10581136
    Abstract: An input waveguide (6) having one end connected between an L-shaped waveguide (1a) and an L-shaped waveguide (1f) and another end connected to the PORT (1); an output waveguide (7) having one end connected between the L-shaped waveguide (1a) and a flat waveguide (1b) and another end connected to the PORT (2); an output waveguide (8) having one end connected between the flat waveguide (1b) and an L-shaped waveguide (1c) and another end connected to the PORT (3); an output waveguide (9) having one end connected between the L-shaped waveguide (1c) and an L-shaped waveguide (1d) and another end connected to the PORT (4); and a plurality of branching waveguides (10) each having one end connected to the output waveguide (7) and another end connected to the output waveguide (8) are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Ushijima, Hidenori Yukawa, Motomi Watanabe, Naofumi Yoneda
  • Patent number: 10530323
    Abstract: In some examples, a delay apparatus includes a controllable delay line comprising a plurality of delay elements selectively connected in a signal path to vary a delay of a signal passing through the delay line, and a controllable phase shifter comprising reflective loads adjustable to vary a phase shift applied to the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Chen, Robert Morawski, Tho Le-Ngoc, James Gary Griffiths
  • Patent number: 10381699
    Abstract: An excitation assembly comprises a symmetrical OMT and two splitters respectively connected to two pathways of the OMT. The OMT comprises a cross junction comprising a central waveguide parallel to an axis Z and four lateral ports oriented in two directions X, Y, the first splitter consisting of an input waveguide and of two output ports coupled to two lateral ports, oriented in the direction X, by respective connection waveguides. The first splitter is located on a lateral side of the OMT, orthogonally to the direction X, and its two output ports are formed one above the other in a lateral wall of the input waveguide, the upper output port being placed facing a first lateral port of the OMT to which it is connected by the first connection waveguide. The difference in electrical length between the two connection waveguides is equal to ?/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Fraysse, Ségolène Tubau, François Doucet, Hervé Legay, Renaud Chiniard
  • Patent number: 10236845
    Abstract: A distributed active transformer includes an input transformer set and an output transformer set. Active stages are coupled between a transformer in the input transformer set and a transformer in the output transformer set. The input and output transformer sets are each configured as a slab transformer. The input slab transformer includes a single primary slab and many secondary slabs. The output slab transformer includes many primary slabs and a single secondary slab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Luca Larcher, Andrea Pallotta
  • Patent number: 10186892
    Abstract: A receiver device including a housing that defines (i) a first gap within a first half of the housing and (ii) a second gap within a second half of the housing, where the housing includes a radio-frequency-reflective material, and the gaps are filled with a radio-frequency-transparent material. The receiver device further includes two antennas housed in the housing, each of the two antennas being configured to receive radio frequency (RF) wireless charging signals transmitted by a transmitter that enter the housing via the gaps. A first of the two antennas is positioned adjacent to and substantially within the first gap, and a second of the two antennas is positioned adjacent to and substantially within the second gap. The receiver device further includes circuitry housed in the housing and electrically coupled with the two antennas, the circuitry being configured to rectify the received RF wireless signals to produce a rectified signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Energous Corporation
    Inventors: Alister Hosseini, Michael A. Leabman
  • Patent number: 10141647
    Abstract: An antenna comprising: a ground plane having a center; six receive ports mounted to the ground plane in a circular configuration around the center and separated from each other by approximately 60 degrees; three conductive half-loops, disposed in mutually orthogonal planes, wherein each half-loop has two ends that are connected to separate receive ports; and three 180° hybrids, each 180° hybrid having two input ports, a delta output port, and a sum output port, wherein the two input ports of each 180° hybrid are connected to the two receive ports of one of the half-loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: John W. Rockway, John H. Meloling, Michael P. Daly
  • Patent number: 10069212
    Abstract: An antenna array includes a first patch antenna and a second patch antenna which are oriented mutually in parallel. Each patch antenna includes a linear array of radiation elements. Adjacent radiation elements within each patch antenna are equidistantly spaced apart and are interconnected. In addition, a connecting line between adjacent first ends of the two patch antennas is provided, and the two second ends of the patch antennas are each adapted for transfer of an electrical oscillation. The spacings between the adjacent radiation elements of the first patch antenna are greater than the spacings between the adjacent radiation elements of the second patch antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Raphael Hellinger, Klaus Baur, Marcel Mayer
  • Patent number: 9885777
    Abstract: A radar system for detecting stealth vehicles, e.g., stealth aircraft. Relatively long-wavelength very high frequency (VHF) or ultra high frequency (UHF) radar radiation is used to reduce the ability of the stealth vehicle to direct the reflected radar radiation away from the radar receiver. The radar is operated with two or more transmitting beams. The beams are separately modulated and misaligned relative to each other. When the stealth vehicle is nearer to a first beam than to a second beam of the transmitting beams, the vehicle reflects more of the first beam radar radiation, and more of the corresponding modulation, back toward the receiver. The receiver measures the magnitudes of the modulations in the reflected radar radiation and infers, from the difference between these magnitudes, the direction to the stealth vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventor: Benjamin Dolgin
  • Patent number: 9876284
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multibeam source for a multibeam antenna, the source comprising a plurality of identical basic sources, such that the basic sources are combined into identical subnetworks around a central basic source, each subnetwork forming a beam, and such that two adjacent subnetworks comprise at least one common basic source, wherein the source includes: a supply and polarization stage for supplying power to the central basic sources and polarizing the electromagnetic field at the accesses of the central basic sources; and a stage for distributing the power from the central basic sources among the basic sources of the corresponding subnetwork and those common to a plurality of subnetworks according to a predetermined amplitude law.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
    Inventor: Maxime Romier
  • Patent number: 9753118
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication. More particularly, aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for wireless communications by a first apparatus comprising a first interface for obtaining, via at least one receive antenna, first and second training signals transmitted from a second apparatus via at least first and second transmit antennas having different polarizations, and a processing system configured to determine, based on the first and second training signals, one or more characteristics for different transmit-receive antenna pairs, each pair comprising one of the first and second transmit antennas and the at least one receive antenna, and generate, based on the one or more characteristics, a parameter indicative of a rotation of the first apparatus relative to the second apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amichai Sanderovich, Iddo Diukman
  • Patent number: 9627770
    Abstract: An antenna module for wireless communication comprises an antenna element, a first port and a second port. The antenna element comprises a first resonance frequency and a second resonance frequency. The first port is configured to receive or provide a first radio frequency signal with a first frequency range and the second port is configured to receive or provide a second radio frequency signal with a second frequency range. The first frequency range is different from the second frequency range. Further, the first resonance frequency is located in the first frequency range and the second resonance frequency is located in the second frequency range. The antenna element is configured to transmit or receive the first radio frequency signal and the second radio frequency signal simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Svendsen, Ole Jagielski, Finn Hausager
  • Patent number: 9577683
    Abstract: Example apparatuses and methods for cancellation of transmitter self-interference leakage in a transceiver are described. An example transceiver includes a multiport transformer that may be used as a part of the impedance matching network on the receiver side of the transceiver. One primary port of the multiport transformer may form a portion of a cancellation circuit that, along with other components in a cancellation path, provide amplitude and/or phase modulation to a cancellation signal. The cancellation circuit may tunable and may include only reactive components in some examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: University of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization
    Inventors: Jacques Christophe Rudell, Tong Zhang, Apsara Ravish Suvarna
  • Patent number: 9571133
    Abstract: A duplexer having good insulation, small geometric dimensions and good decoupling of the transmit signal path from an antenna which may have poor matching is specified. To that end, the duplexer comprises two transmit filters, a receive filter and two 90° hybrids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Edgar Schmidhammer, Juha Ellae
  • Patent number: 9553617
    Abstract: Provided herein are apparatus and methods for reconfigurable directional couplers in an RF transceiver. Reconfigurable directional couplers can be reconfigured and designed to provide high directivity using configurable capacitors to effect a mutual coupling and using lumped components or delay lines to effect a phase shift. Depending on the embodiment, the reconfigurable directional coupler can include capacitors, inductors, and switching components. The coupler can be designed for multi-band operation with an adjustable coupling factor conducive to semiconductor process integration. The coupler can have configurable coupling capacitors and phase shifters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Nuttapong Srirattana, David Scott Whitefield, David Ryan Story
  • Patent number: 9444151
    Abstract: A multi-band antenna system includes an array of wide-band radiating elements and a multi-band electrical tilt circuit. The multi-band electrical tilt circuit includes a plurality of combiners, a first RF band variable phase shifter and a second RF band variable phase shifter implemented in a common medium. The common medium may comprise a PCB, a stripline circuit, or the like. Each combiner includes a combined port, a first RF band port, and a second RF band port. The combined ports are coupled to the radiating elements. The first RF band phase shifter has a first plurality of variably phase shifted ports connected to the first RF band ports of the combiners via transmission line, and the second RF band phase shifter has a second plurality of variably phase-shifted ports connected to the second RF band ports of the combiners via transmission line. The phase shifters are independently configurable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Morgan C. Kurk, Martin L. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 9419322
    Abstract: A multi-port waveguide is provided having a rectangular waveguide that includes a Y-shape structure with first top arm having a first rectangular waveguide port, a second top arm with second rectangular waveguide port, and a base arm with a third rectangular waveguide port for supporting a TE10 mode and a TE20 mode, where the end of the third rectangular waveguide port includes rounded edges that are parallel to a z-axis of the waveguide, a circular waveguide having a circular waveguide port for supporting a left hand and a right hand circular polarization TE11 mode and is coupled to a base arm broad wall, and a matching feature disposed on the base arm broad wall opposite of the circular waveguide for terminating the third rectangular waveguide port, where the first rectangular waveguide port, the second rectangular waveguide port and the circular waveguide port are capable of supporting 4-modes of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: The Borad of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventor: Sami G. Tantawi
  • Patent number: 9356332
    Abstract: An integrated-circuit module includes a package molding compound layer, a radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuit embedded within the package molding compound layer and having an RF port, a waveguide transition structure embedded within the package molding compound layer, and a redistribution layer. The waveguide transition structure includes a transmission line interface section, a waveguide interface section configured for coupling to a rectangular waveguide housing, and a transformer section configured to provide a mode transition between the transmission line interface section and the waveguide interface section. The redistribution layer includes at least one insulating layer and at least one metallization layer, extending between the RF integrated circuit and the waveguide transition structure across a surface of the package molding compound layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Ernst Seler, Maciej Wojnowski, Walter Hartner
  • Patent number: 9310410
    Abstract: A load pull measurement setup allows independent impedance tuning at RF frequencies at the output of the DUT as well as independent tuning at RF and baseband frequencies of the modulated signal at the input of the DUT. This allows optimizing baseband frequency impedances for nonlinear amplifier performance when processing modulated signal, such as IMD, ACPR etc. Baseband tuning is done using a low frequency programmable impedance tuner, which is connected through the input bias tee, which acts as a frequency separator (diplexer). The input bias tee may be an LC based network or a 3 dB matched coupler based network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Inventor: Christos Tsironis
  • Patent number: 9300020
    Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide isolation between transmit and receive portions of a broadband transceiver of a wireless communication system. filterless isolation technique is performed via a directional Phase shifting arrangement that includes an isolating hybrid device coupled to a non-reciprocal phase shifting combiner/splitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ashkan Naeini, Stefan Herzinger
  • Patent number: 9287615
    Abstract: A multimode radiation source is disclosed. One embodiment includes a waveguide radiator and an orthomode transducer coupled to the waveguide radiator to provide a first signal to the waveguide radiator. The waveguide radiator is configured to receive the first signal and to radiate the first signal at a first location as a first spherical wave signal with a first phase center. The multimode source also includes transmission medium coupled to the waveguide radiator and configured to radiate a second signal and a third signal from the first location as a second spherical wave and a third spherical wave with substantially the first phase center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: David C. Cook, Patrick L. McCarthy, John Okerson Crawford, David A. Faulkner, Dylan William Rohyans Martin, Nicholas D. Trail
  • Patent number: 9214715
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hybrid coupler device that includes a first transmission line structure and a second transmission line structure. The first transmission line structure is interdigitally coupled with the second transmission line structure such that each transmission line in the second transmission line structure is disposed adjacent to a transmission line in the first transmission line structure. The coupling or the mutual capacitance Cd between the transmission lines of the present invention need not be equal; in fact, they all can be different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Anaren, Inc.
    Inventors: Chong Mei, Halid Mustacoglu
  • Patent number: 9203161
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus 1 includes a high-frequency output portion 2 for outputting a high-frequency signal, an antenna 5 including a first excitation unit 3 and a second excitation unit 4, the first excitation unit 3 emitting a first linearly polarized wave according to the high-frequency signal output from the high-frequency output portion 2, the second excitation unit 4 emitting a second linearly polarized wave that is orthogonal to the first linearly polarized wave at the same time with the first linearly polarized wave according to the high-frequency signal output from the high-frequency output portion, and a phase adjustment portion 6 for adjusting a phase of at least one of the high-frequency signal to be input to the first excitation unit 3 and the high-frequency signal to be input to the second excitation unit 4 in a range of change from 0 to 270 or more degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Orihashi, Kenichi Maruhashi
  • Patent number: 9172127
    Abstract: A coupler comprises a first line and a second line which is broadside coupled to the first line in a first and a second section. The capacitance between the first and the second line per length unit of the first line is larger in the first section in comparison to the second section. The first and the second line form a first turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Bart Balm, Boudewijn Charite, Tomas Fric
  • Patent number: 9088063
    Abstract: A hybrid coupler may include first, second, third, and fourth ports, and first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth transmission lines. Each of the transmission lines may include a signal conductor inductively coupled to a signal-return conductor. The first, second, third, and fourth transmission lines may be connected together to form a loop with the first, second, and third transmission lines in series and the fourth transmission line twisted. The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth transmission lines may respectively connect respective junctions of the loop to the first, second, third, and fourth ports. A junction of the signal-return conductors of the first, fourth, and fifth transmission lines may not be directly connected to ground. Similarly, a junction of the signal conductor of the fourth transmission line and the signal-return conductors of the third and eighth transmission lines may not be directly connected to ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Werlatone, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen F. Podell, Harishankar Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 9088325
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an array antenna apparatus includes a distributor, transmission phase shifters, transmission amplifiers, transmission filters, transmission/reception switches, limiters, reception filters, low-noise amplifiers, reception phase shifters, a combiner, a vacuum vessel, a refrigerating unit, and a cooling plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kumamoto, Hiroyuki Kayano, Tamio Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 9035719
    Abstract: A three dimensional (3D) branchline coupler using through silicon vias (TSV), methods of manufacturing the same and design structures are disclosed. The method includes forming a first waveguide structure in a first dielectric material. The method further includes forming a second waveguide structure in a second dielectric material. The method further includes forming through silicon vias through a substrate formed between the first dielectric material and the second dielectric material, which connects the first waveguide structure to the second waveguide structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Barbara S. Dewitt, Essam Mina, BM Farid Rahman, Guoan Wang, Wayne H. Woods, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9013246
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein can provide improved signal feeding between hybrid couplers and associated transistors. As such, these embodiments can improve the performance of amplifiers and other such RF devices that utilize these components. In one embodiment a device includes a distribution network and a compensation resonator. The distribution network is configured to output a signal through a relatively wide output feedline. This relatively wide output feedline provides distributed signal feeding that can improve signal distribution and performance. The output feedline is coupled to the compensation resonator. In general, the compensation resonator is configured to resonate with the distribution network at the frequency band of the signal. Thus, the distribution network and compensation resonator together can provide improved signal distribution while maintaining performance at the frequencies of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Damon G. Holmes, Jeffrey K. Jones, Joseph Staudinger, Michael E. Watts
  • Publication number: 20150054595
    Abstract: A three dimensional (3D) branchline coupler using through silicon vias (TSV), methods of manufacturing the same and design structures are disclosed. The method includes forming a first waveguide structure in a first dielectric material. The method further includes forming a second waveguide structure in a second dielectric material. The method further includes forming through silicon vias through a substrate formed between the first dielectric material and the second dielectric material, which connects the first waveguide structure to the second waveguide structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicants: University of South Carolina, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barbara S. DEWITT, Essam MINA, BM Farid RAHMAN, Guoan WANG, Wayne H. WOODS, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150035616
    Abstract: A coupling structure for crossing three transmission lines millimeter-wave or centimeter-wave signals a signal conductor layer of a circuit substrate, the coupling structure comprising three planar cross-couplers, and from each of the three cross-couplers two input/output points of the cross-coupler being connected clockwise in succession in the plane of the cross-coupler, to respectively one input/output point of a respective other of the three cross-couplers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Oliver Brueggemann, Matthias Steinhauer, Juan Pontes
  • Publication number: 20150035604
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein can provide improved signal feeding between hybrid couplers and associated transistors. As such, these embodiments can improve the performance of amplifiers and other such RF devices that utilize these components. In one embodiment a device includes a distribution network and a compensation resonator. The distribution network is configured to output a signal through a relatively wide output feedline. This relatively wide output feedline provides distributed signal feeding that can improve signal distribution and performance. The output feedline is coupled to the compensation resonator. In general, the compensation resonator is configured to resonate with the distribution network at the frequency band of the signal. Thus, the distribution network and compensation resonator together can provide improved signal distribution while maintaining performance at the frequencies of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Damon G. HOLMES, Jeffrey K. JONES, Joseph STAUDINGER, Michael E. WATTS
  • Patent number: 8947160
    Abstract: A Lange coupler having a first plurality of lines on a first level and a second plurality of lines on a second level. At least one line on the first level is cross-coupled to a respective line on the second level via electromagnetic waves traveling through the first and second plurality of lines. The first and second plurality of lines may be made of metal, and the first level may be higher than the second level. A substrate may be provided into which the first and second plurality of lines are etched so as to define an on-chip Lange coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hanyi Ding, Kwan Him Lam
  • Patent number: 8928543
    Abstract: A gyrotropic metamaterial structure that include a plurality of chiral metamaterials forming one or more pairs of dipole structures. A plurality of lumped circuits are positioned between the one or more pairs of dipole structures. The lumped circuits have a plurality of subwavelengths antennas that are combined to change the polarization states of an incident polarized wave by producing Faraday-like rotation allowing for nomeciprocal propagation of the incident polarized wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Zheng Wang, Marin Soljacic, Zhiyu Wang, John D. Joannopoulos, Lixin Ran
  • Patent number: 8902019
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes: a first resistor having a first terminal and a second terminal; a first transmission line that is coupled to the first terminal of the first resistor, has a first terminal to which a first input signal is input, and has a second terminal outputting a first output signal having a phase difference with respect to the first input signal; and a second transmission line that is coupled to the second terminal of the first resistor, has a first terminal to which a second input signal having a phase difference with respect to the first input signal is input, and has a second terminal outputting a second output signal having a phase difference with respect to the second input signal and having, the phase difference being smaller than a phase difference between the first input signal and the second input signal with respect to the first output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Anegawa
  • Patent number: 8878629
    Abstract: A diplexer for a reflector antenna includes a common circular signal waveguide to transmit and receive signals. The signal waveguide includes first and second ends with a common port provided at the first end. A waveguide arrangement is disposed coaxially relative to the signal waveguide in the region of the second end of the signal waveguide. A cylindrical coupler section is disposed between the first and second ends of the signal waveguide, and connects the waveguide arrangement to the common signal waveguide. In order to create a first and second coaxial waveguide port, the waveguide arrangement includes a first circular waveguide, an inner conductor is disposed inside, in which a first signal can propagate when the diplexer is operating, and a second circular waveguide, surrounding the first waveguide, in which a second signal can propagate at a lower frequency than the first signal when the diplexer is operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Astrium GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Gehring, Christian Hartwanger, Un Pyo Hong, Enrico Reiche, Michael Schneider, Ernst Sommer, Helmut Wolf
  • Publication number: 20140285284
    Abstract: A broadband butler matrix device includes a 90° branch-line hybrid coupler having an input terminal provided at one side thereof and configured to receive an input signal through the input terminal, and distribute and output the received signal such that the distributed signals have a phase difference of 90°. Further, the broadband butler matrix device includes a 45° broadband phase shifter configured to change the phases of the signals outputted through the 90° branch-line hybrid coupler, using an open and short stub having an electrical length of 45°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Joung Myoun KIM