With Impedance Patents (Class 343/913)
  • Patent number: 10749274
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to separate antennae. In one example, separate antennae can include an antenna system having a first antenna to receive and transmit signals in a first frequency band, a second antenna to receive signals in a second frequency band and transmit and receive signals in a third frequency band, and a third antenna to receive signals in a fourth frequency band, where each of the first antenna, the second antenna, and the third antenna are physically separate and distinct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sung Oh, Tianji Zheng, Philip Wright
  • Patent number: 10431862
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for causing a phase-shift in reflected signals that are a reflection of surface-traveling wave signals of a select signal frequency. The apparatus comprises a conductive strip having a plurality of slots therein alternatingly arranged orthogonal to each other, each slot having an effective length that is a fraction between 9/16 and ? of the wavelength associated with the select signal frequency, and a plurality of conductive enclosures respectively disposed under each of the plurality of slots. Each of the conductive enclosure have a width and length sufficient to enclose a respective corresponding slot, and a depth that is a fraction of between ? and ? of the wavelength associated with the select signal frequency when transmitted in the dielectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Garrett L. Gilchrist, Richard W. Burns, Michael P. Hurst
  • Patent number: 10116023
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for causing a phase-shift in reflected signals that are a reflection of surface-traveling wave signals of a select signal frequency. The apparatus comprises a conductive strip having a plurality of slots therein alternatingly arranged orthogonal to each other, each slot having an effective length that is a fraction between 9/16 and ? of the wavelength associated with the select signal frequency, and a plurality of conductive enclosures respectively disposed under each of the plurality of slots. Each of the conductive enclosure have a width and length sufficient to enclose a respective corresponding slot, and a depth that is a fraction of between ? and ? of the wavelength associated with the select signal frequency when transmitted in the dielectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Garrett L. Gilchrist, Richard W. Burns, Michael P. Hurst
  • Patent number: 9331740
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device for suppressing common-mode radiation comprising: at least one resonator embedded into a plate, wherein the at least one resonator defines a plane having a normal direction parallel and perpendicular, respectively, to a longitudinal direction and a thickness direction of the plate. The embedment of the resonator into the plate enables a magnetic field, which is generated by a cable conductor when the device for suppressing common-mode radiation wraps the cable conductor therein, to perpendicularly pass through the plane so that the magnetic field and the resonator resonate together to generate a strong diamagnetism and thereby to suppress the common-mode radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tzong-Lin Wu, Chung-Hao Tsai, Hui-Ling Ting
  • Publication number: 20150009084
    Abstract: An electromagnetic band gap device is disclosed that includes a dielectric support of which one face is metallized and of which a second face includes a plurality of non-adjoining conducting elements. Several conducting elements are linked together pairwise by a resistive element in the electromagnetic band gap device. At least two of the conducting elements are electrically insulated from one another and at least two resistive elements exhibit a different resistance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Yonnec'h Coupa, Michel Jousset, Stephane Mallegol
  • Patent number: 8861646
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal according to the embodiment includes a communication module including a circuit board having a plurality of pins; a shield case antenna overlapping with one side of the circuit board, electrically connected to a part of the pins and including a signal receiving unit; and a signal processing unit for processing the received signals. An antenna matching unit for matching impedance between the signal processing unit and an antenna unit, a phase shifter for controlling a phase of the received signal and an amplitude regulator for adjusting amplitude of the received signal are provided between the signal processing unit and the antenna unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Guk Kim, Ja Kwon Ku, Kyung Suk Kim, Seung Taek Woo, Jong Chang Lee, Jeong Hoon Cho
  • Patent number: 8791875
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for avoiding pattern blockage due to scatter from an object in which an artificial surface directs the energy from the antenna prior to arriving at a blocking structure such that either the wave fronts of the energy are linear when they arrive at the blocking structure or the phase of the energy incident on the object is adjusted such that the energy reflected from the object is in phase with energy directly from the antenna radiating elsewhere in the far field pattern, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronics Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: John T. Apostolos, David P. Charette, Roland A. Gilbert
  • Publication number: 20130278481
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of antennas and specifically to broadband antennas. Planar low-profile antennas over high-impedance surfaces show improved performance compared to that over metal ground planes, but these high-impedance surfaces often operate over narrow bandwidths because current approaches to the design of high-impedance substrates typically employ identical unit cells with the same resonant frequency to produce high-impedance behavior over a relatively narrow frequency range. The present invention provides improved antenna performance over a broader bandwidth through the use of electromagnetic bandgap cells having a size and related resonant frequency that varies with position to the antenna radiating element in order to match the resonance of the element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: David R. Voltmer, Eric R. Wandel, Edward Dean Wheeler
  • Publication number: 20130214984
    Abstract: An electromagnetic bandgap structure comprising a progressive cascade of a plurality of patterns of cells. The cells of each pattern are dimensioned so that each pattern has a reflection phase response centered at a different, but closely-spaced, frequency compared with the reflection phase response of an adjacently positioned pattern, so that the combined reflection phase response of the plurality of patterns provides a continuous wideband operational range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I
    Inventor: U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I
  • Publication number: 20130194161
    Abstract: An artificial magnetic minor (AMM) cell includes a conductive element and an impedance element. The conductive element forms a lumped resistor-inductor-capacitor (RLC) circuit. The impedance element is coupled to the conductive element. The impedance of the impedance element and the impedance of the RLC circuit establish an electromagnetic property for the AMM cell within a given frequency range that contributes to the AMC. The AMM cell along with other AMM cells collectively produce an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) having a geometric shape for an electromagnetic signal in the given frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos
  • Patent number: 8436615
    Abstract: A waveguide antenna assembly for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, particularly a waveguide antenna assembly that can be detuned for an operation with local coils, is composed of multiple metal surfaces connected by diodes respectively located between the metal surfaces. Only when the diodes are through-connected between these metal surfaces are the surfaces connected with one another in terms of RF signals via these diodes, so the assembly operates as a waveguide antenna. When the diodes are disabled between these metal surfaces, the surfaces are unconnected with one another for RF signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Renz, Karsten Wicklow
  • Patent number: 8432706
    Abstract: A printed circuit board and an electronic product are disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the printed circuit board includes a first board, which has an electronic component mounted thereon, and a second board, which is positioned on an upper side of the first board and covers at least a portion of an upper surface of the first board and in which an EBG structure is inserted into the second board such that a noise radiating upwards from the first board is shielded. Thus, the printed circuit board can readily absorb various frequencies, be easily applied without any antenna effect and be cost-effective in manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Kim, Chang-Sup Ryu
  • Patent number: 8354975
    Abstract: Conductor pieces 102 that are periodically arrayed, a conductor plane 103 that has openings 104 periodically arrayed so as to correspond to the conductor pieces 102, and a dielectric 108 that is arranged between the conductor pieces 102 and the conductor plane 103, are included. Island electrodes 105 and planar inductance elements 106 are arranged in the openings 104 of the conductor plane 103. The island electrodes 105 and the conductor pieces 102 are connected by conductor posts 107. The island electrodes 105 and the conductor plane 103 are connected through the planar inductance elements 106.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Ando, Tsuneo Tsukagoshi, Koichi Takemura
  • Patent number: 8319698
    Abstract: A reflector array comprises a plurality of individual radiating elements forming a reflecting surface with no abrupt transitions wherein each radiating element of the reflecting surface is selected from a set of predetermined consecutive radiating elements, called the pattern, the first and last elements of the pattern correspond to one and the same phase, modulo 360°, and are identical, and the radiating elements of the pattern have a radiating structure, of metal patch type and/or of radiating aperture type, that progressively changes from one radiating element to another adjacent radiating element, the change in the radiating structure comprising a succession of progressive growths of at least one metal patch and/or at least one aperture and appearances of at least one metal patch in an aperture and/or at least one aperture in a metal patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Hervé Legay, Danièle Bresciani, Renaud Chiniard, Etienne Girard
  • Publication number: 20110248901
    Abstract: A multiple frequency projected artificial magnetic mirror (PAMM) includes a plurality of metal traces, a metal backing, and a dielectric material. The plurality of metal traces is on one or more layers of a substrate and the metal backing is on another layer of the substrate. The dielectric material is between the metal backing and the plurality of metal traces, which is electrically coupled to the metal backing. At least some of the plurality of metal traces is of various sizes and of various positioning and spacing to create a distributed inductor-capacitor network having a first frequency band of operation and a second frequency band of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, Chryssoula A. Kyriazidou
  • Publication number: 20110248897
    Abstract: A flat dish antenna includes a plurality of concentric coils, a plurality of eccentric coils, a metal backing, a dielectric material, and an antenna structure. The pluralities of concentric coils and eccentric coils are on a layer of a substrate. A concentric coil has a radiation pattern that is substantially normal to a plane of the concentric coil and an eccentric coil has a radiation pattern that's is offset from normal to a plane of the eccentric coil. The metal backing is on another layer of the substrate and the dielectric material is between the layer and the other layer of the substrate. The concentric coils and the eccentric coils are electrically coupled to the metal backing to produce a distributed inductor-capacitor networking that provides a focal point based on a combination of their radiation patterns. The antenna structure is located proximal to the focal point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, Chryssoula A. Kyriazidou
  • Patent number: 8018375
    Abstract: A projected artificial magnetic mirror (PAMM) radar device includes a transceiver module, a shaping module, and an antenna structure. The antenna structure includes a plurality of metal patches, a metal backing, a dielectric material, and one or more antennas. The metal patches are electrically coupled to the metal backing to form an inductive-capacitive network that, for the one or more antennas and within a given frequency band, substantially reduces surface waves to obtain a detectable angle of incidence of approximately ninety degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos, Chryssoula A. Kyriazidou
  • Patent number: 7907101
    Abstract: A configurable bipolarization reflector comprises intersecting first and second sets of parallel composite lines (LHi, LVj), a line segment between two consecutive intersection points (Iij) of the two sets containing a component (12) having conductivity that can be switched by a switching signal (V). The components are disposed on the line segments so that a switching signal applied at a point of intersection (P1k, P1k?, P1k?) of said sets switches the conductivity of the components of a group of segments defining a reflector area (Z) of given reflectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Philippe Ratajczak, Patrice Brachat, Jean-Marc Fargeas
  • Publication number: 20110012810
    Abstract: A waveguide antenna assembly for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus, particularly a waveguide antenna assembly that can be detuned for an operation with local coils, is composed of multiple metal surfaces connected by diodes respectively located between the metal surfaces. Only when the diodes are through-connected between these metal surfaces are the surfaces connected with one another in terms of RF signals via these diodes, so the assembly operates as a waveguide antenna. When the diodes are disabled between these metal surfaces, the surfaces are unconnected with one another for RF signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Wolfgang Renz, Karsten Wicklow
  • Publication number: 20100328186
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave filter apparatus includes: a shield conductor; a shield aperture provided in the shield conductor; a plurality of strip conductors, each of which is connected to the shield conductor at both ends thereof, and which divide the shield conductor into a plurality of apertures; and a plurality of stub conductors provided at intervals on each of the strip conductors. Each of the stub conductors prevents a current with a predetermined frequency from flowing through a corresponding strip conductor due to an electromagnetic wave with the predetermined frequency passing through the electromagnetic wave filter apparatus, and thus, the electromagnetic wave filter apparatus passes the electromagnetic wave with the predetermined frequency without exerting substantial influence on radiation of the electromagnetic wave with the predetermined frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kanno
  • Patent number: 7859387
    Abstract: A backscatter transponder for an HF communication system with modulated reradiation, is provided that includes an antenna for receiving high-frequency carrier signals, wherein the antenna has reflective characteristics, a control unit for providing transponder-specific parameters, and a modulator that can be driven by the control unit. The modulator altering the reflective characteristics of the antenna in accordance with at least one transponder-specific parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Atmel Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Friedrich
  • Publication number: 20100265159
    Abstract: Conductor pieces 102 that are periodically arrayed, a conductor plane 103 that has openings 104 periodically arrayed so as to correspond to the conductor pieces 102, and a dielectric 108 that is arranged between the conductor pieces 102 and the conductor plane 103, are included. Island electrodes 105 and planar inductance elements 106 are arranged in the openings 104 of the conductor plane 103. The island electrodes 105 and the conductor pieces 102 are connected by conductor posts 107. The island electrodes 105 and the conductor plane 103 are connected through the planar inductance elements 106.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Noriaki Ando, Tsuneo Tsukagoshi, Koichi Takemura
  • Publication number: 20100085272
    Abstract: A reflector array comprises a plurality of individual radiating elements forming a reflecting surface with no abrupt transitions wherein each radiating element of the reflecting surface is selected from a set of predetermined consecutive radiating elements, called the pattern, the first and last elements of the pattern correspond to one and the same phase, modulo 360°, and are identical, and the radiating elements of the pattern have a radiating structure, of metal patch type and/or of radiating aperture type, that progressively changes from one radiating element to another adjacent radiating element, the change in the radiating structure comprising a succession of progressive growths of at least one metal patch and/or at least one aperture and appearances of at least one metal patch in an aperture and/or at least one aperture in a metal patch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Thales
    Inventors: Hervé Legay, Danièle Bresciani, Renaud Chiniard, Etienne Girard
  • Patent number: 7173519
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement for phase modulation in an input circuit of a backscattering transponder includes a varactor and at most one capacitor connected in series between two antenna terminals, as well as a varactor control arrangement applying a control voltage to the varactor to selectively vary the capacitance thereof. One of the antenna terminals is connected directly to one of the varactor terminals without a capacitor therebetween. The other antenna terminal is connected either directly or through a capacitor to the other varactor terminal. One antenna terminal and/or one varactor terminal can be grounded. A DC-decoupling capacitor can be connected between a transponder circuit unit or a circuit ground and the common junction of the antenna terminal with the varactor terminal. The circuit arrangement is simple, economical, and uses minimal chip area by omitting further capacitors between the antenna terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Atmel Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Friedrich, Martin Fischer
  • Patent number: 7023909
    Abstract: A RF wireless modem with an integral antenna. The antenna is a compact, horizontally-polarized, balanced, multi-element, directional antenna with integral balun, constructed on one end of a printed wire board (PWB) and radiating preferably away from the modem circuitry on the remaining portions of PWB. The antenna includes a matching network for matching an impedance of the antenna with an impedance of an unbalanced connection and a balun for transforming a RF transmit signal received from the unbalanced connection into a balanced RF transmit signal. The antenna also includes a radiator for transmitting the balanced RF transmit signal and a reflector for reflecting at least some of the energy of the transmitted signal away from the modem circuitry. The antenna can also include a director for directing the RF transmit signal in a desired direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Novatel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Adams, Ronald R Reeves
  • Patent number: 6920315
    Abstract: A multiple antenna mobile communication device, such as a cellular telephone, having multiple radios and multiple antennas located in close proximity to each other uses a parallel tuning circuit to optimize the isolation between the antennas. The parallel tuning circuit can include multiple impedance matching circuits to match the impedance in multiple frequency bands or isolating antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Ericsson Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Emerson Wilcox, Mark Gordon Douglas
  • Publication number: 20040095291
    Abstract: An electromagnetic coupling characteristic adjustment method for adjusting an electromagnetic coupling characteristic between a reader/writer device and an IC card which are used in a non-contact communication system in which a power transmission antenna coil provided in the reader/writer device and a power receiving antenna coil provided in the IC card are electromagnetically coupled so that the reader/writer device supplies power to the IC card without contact with the IC card. The power supply device includes adjustment impedance elements respectively connected in series and in parallel with the power transmission antenna coil. Impedances of these adjustment impedance elements are determined so that the semiconductor device receives greatest power when a power supply distance, which is a distance between the power transmission antenna coil and the power receiving antenna coil, has a predetermined value not less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Haruhiko Shigemasa, Yoshihiro Nakao
  • Patent number: 6693883
    Abstract: A TDMA radio terminal comprises a transmitter portion and a receiver portion. A reference signal is launched in the transmitter portion while tuning the receiver portion. At the same time, an internal delay counter is started. The counter counts clock pulses till the reference signal returns through the receiver portion. Letting this pulse count be Nd, a transmission wait time is Nt−Nd. Nt is a transmit timing at the antenna. The Nd counting operation may be triggered by a power on or a signal from a controller. A corresponding method for determining the transmission wait time in the production side is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Abe, Makoto Hasegawa, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6388620
    Abstract: An antenna element, an antenna system, and a method for producing a signal using slot-coupled antenna elements are disclosed. The antenna element comprises an electrically conductive strip, a patch element, overlaying the electrically conductive strip, and a ground plane. The ground plane is coupled between the patch element and the electrically conductive strip and comprises an opening, at least a portion of the opening overlapping with at least a portion of the electrically conductive strip, wherein the opening and the electrically conductive strip can reflect incident radio frequency (RF) energy in a desired radiation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Arun Bhattacharyya
  • Publication number: 20010045917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for shielding an edge of a satellite antenna from a surface of a vehicle on which the satellite antenna is installed. The system includes a signal reflecting device including a satellite antenna having an edge portion. The edge portion includes a substantially straight edge segment and an edge guard structured to surround the edge segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Publication date: November 29, 2001
    Inventors: Ronald L. Fedder, Timothy B. Crowson
  • Publication number: 20010026246
    Abstract: A reflective panel for deflecting electromagnetic waves comprised of a resistive material varying in resistivity across the panel; a center portion on the panel, having a predetermined resistivity; a periphery portion on the panel having a higher resistivity than the center portion; and wherein the center portion of the panel is adapted to reflect the electromagnetic waves and wherein the periphery portion is adapted to minimize diffractions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventors: Walter D. Burnside, David Steinberger, Chiwei Chuang
  • Patent number: 5543809
    Abstract: A dual-polarized antenna includes a planar line or surface array of reradiating elements of two different polarizations. Each reradiating element in one embodiment is a short-circuited vertical or horizontal dipole. The vertical and horizontal dipoles may be collocated on the array to form crossed short-circuited dipoles. The elements of each polarization form an array separate from the elements of the other polarization. Within each of the two separate arrays, the 1/.lambda. of each reradiator is adjusted to provide a phase shift which causes a collimated beam incident on the array to result in reradiation or "reflection" of energy in the form of a beam converging at a focal point. Therefore, each planar reradiator array acts as a parabolic reflector with a particular focal point. The focal points for the vertical and horizontal arrays are different, and a feed of the appropriate polarization is located at each of the two focal points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Martin Marietta Corp.
    Inventor: Charles E. Profera, Jr.