Patents Assigned to KMW Inc.
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Publication number: 20250096451Abstract: The present invention relates to a clamping apparatus for an antenna, and particularly, an upper end of an antenna installation bracket is connected, on at least one point, to an upper support bracket part so as to be steered and rotated by means of a pair of tilting link members, a tilting driving unit, and a steering driving unit, and a lower end of the antenna installation bracket is connected, on at least one point, to a lower support bracket part so as to be steered and rotated, which may stably install an antenna device on a support pole and enable a miniaturization design of a product.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: KMW INC.Inventors: Dae Myung PARK, Young Ji HONG, Hee KIM
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Publication number: 20250098117Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat sink structure and a manufacturing method thereof, in which a plurality of heat radiation fin parts, which is configured to radiate heat, is fixed to a heat radiation surface of a heat sink main body part by laser welding, such that thicknesses of and intervals between the plurality of heat radiation fin parts may be minimized, heat dissipation performance may be improved, a weight may be greatly reduced, and production lead time and manufacturing costs may be significantly reduced by manufacturing only the heat sink main body part by casting.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: KMW INC.Inventors: Duk Yong KIM, Kyo Sung JI, Dong Won KIM, Kyu Tae HAN, Hwang Ju LEE, In Hwa CHOI
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Publication number: 20250096457Abstract: The present invention relates to a clamping apparatus for an antenna, the clamping apparatus including fixing bracket parts provided at upper and lower sides of a support pole to mediate installation of an antenna device on the support pole, an antenna installation bracket configured to mediate installation of the antenna device at a front side, a steering driving unit connected to the fixing bracket part and configured to operate to steer and rotate the antenna device, and a tilting driving unit having an upper end hingedly connected to the steering driving unit and a lower end hingedly connected to an upper end of a rear surface of the antenna installation bracket by means of a pair of tilting link members, the tilting driving unit being configured to tilt and rotate the antenna device, in which the clamping apparatus may further include a backlash reduction design shape for reducing the occurrence of mechanical backlash noise caused by an eccentric load of the antenna device, thereby suppressing the occurrType: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: KMW INC.Inventors: Dae Myung PARK, Young Ji HONG, Hee KIM
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Patent number: 12244053Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an antenna RF module, an RF module assembly including the antenna RF modules, and an antenna apparatus including the RF module assembly. Particularly, the antenna RF module includes an RF module, a radiation element module arranged on a first side of the RF filter, and an amplification unit board arranged on a second side of the RF filter, an analog amplification element being mounted on the amplification unit board. A plurality of antenna RF modules constitute the RF module assembly, and the RF module assembly and an antenna housing constitute the antenna apparatus. Accordingly, a radome that interrupts dissipation of heat to in front of an antenna is unnecessary, and heat generated from heat generating elements of the antenna apparatus is spatially separated. Thus, it is possible that the heat is dissipated in a distributed manner toward the front and rear directions of the antenna apparatus. The effect of greatly improving performance in heat dissipation can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: Duk Yong Kim, Young Chan Moon, Nam Shin Park, Sung Ho Jang, Jae Hong Kim, Joon Hyong Shim, Bae Mook Jeong, Min Seon Yun, Sung Hwan So, Yong Won Seo, Oh Seog Choi, Kyo Sung Ji, Chi Back Ryu, Seong Min Ahn, Jae Eun Kim
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Patent number: 12244367Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radio transmission or reception apparatus and a beam forming method thereof. The apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises: an array antenna for forming multiple beams having different directivities so as to transmit or receive signals through the multiple beams; a digital unit for synthesizing an orthogonal polarization pair so as to generate multi-beam signals for forming the multiple beams; and an RF unit for frequency-converting the multi-beam signals so as to output each of the frequency converted multi-beam signals to the array antenna.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: Duk Yong Kim, Young Chan Moon, Joon Hyong Shim, Min Seon Yun, Tea Youl Oh
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Patent number: 12237565Abstract: The present invention relates to a clamping device for a base station antenna and, more particularly, to a clamping device for a base station antenna, comprising: a guide arm unit which is arranged to extend horizontally to a side, so as to be perpendicular to a support pole arranged vertically; and a tilting unit which is arranged in the guide arm unit and adjusts the tilting angle with respect to the support pole by moving, based on a lower end portion of an antenna module having a fixed hinge position, an upper end portion of the antenna module in the horizontal direction in the guide arm unit. Thus, an advantage of improving the convenience of installation work and reliability of a product can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: Yong Hee Han, In Ho Kim, Hyoung Seok Yang, Seong Man Kang, Dae Myung Park
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Publication number: 20250063383Abstract: Disclosed herein are a small cell base station antenna apparatus and a connector for same. The small cell base station antenna apparatus comprises: a radio Unit (RU); at least one antenna module installed to be tiltable and steerable with respect to the a radio unit; and multifunction link configured to mediate the installation of each antenna module to the radio unit, wherein the multifunction link comprises: a center body; a first fixture connected between one end of the center body and the antenna module; and a second fixture connected between the other end of the center body and the radio unit, and wherein the first fixture and the second fixture are coupled via a ball joint to enable the antenna module to be installed to perform tilting rotation and steering rotation motions with respect to the radio unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: KMW INC.Inventors: Duk Yong KIM, Bae Mook JEONG, Kyo Sung JI, Chi Back RYU, Won Jun PARK
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Patent number: 12230852Abstract: The present invention relates to a waveguide filter particularly including a filter housing having a plurality of resonance blocks, a plurality of resonators configured by resonator posts respectively formed on the resonance blocks provided on the filter housing, and a resonator tunnel provided in the filter housing and configured to apply cross-coupling at least two resonance blocks among the plurality of resonance blocks, thereby providing very simple design for implementing coupling for forming a notch.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: Yeon Ho Shin, Kwon Won Lee
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Patent number: 12224477Abstract: A massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna apparatus and a heat dissipation device therefor are disclosed. The present disclosure according to at least one embodiment provides a massive MIMO antenna apparatus including a board, a first blowing unit, and a second blowing unit. The board has at least one board surface that holds a distributed arrangement of a plurality of heat-generating components, has a width and a length longer than the width, and includes a first section having a first amount of heat generation and a second section having a second amount of heat generation greater than the first amount of heat generation, the first section and the second section being partitioned along a length direction of the board.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: Duk Yong Kim, Kyo Sung Ji, Chi Back Ryu, Kyu Chul Choi, Hye Yeon Kim, In Hwa Choi, Jae Ho Jang, Jae Hyun Park, Youn Jun Cho, Jeong Hyun Choi
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Patent number: 12219728Abstract: A PCB assembly is disclosed herein. An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly on which a plurality of devices is mounted, including: a power supply area disposed at one side of a main printed circuit board; a first area positioned in another direction of the main printed circuit board from the power supply area and including the plurality of devices; a second area positioned in another direction of the main printed circuit board from the first area and including the plurality of devices; a third area positioned in another direction of the main printed circuit board from the second area and including the plurality of devices; and a bridge printed circuit board receiving power from the power supply area and disposed vertically to the main printed circuit board, wherein the bridge printed circuit board crosses the first area, the second area, and the third area, and transmits power and a signal to at least one area.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: Kyo Sung Ji, Chi Back Ryu, Bae Mook Jeong, Min Seon Yun
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Publication number: 20250023237Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a radiation element structure arranged on a reflective plate, comprising: a radiation unit including a dielectric portion made from plastic material and first to fourth radiation arms arranged in a four-sided symmetrical structure on one surface of the dielectric portion; and a plurality of balun units, including a balun body connecting the reflective plate and the radiation unit, a feed line disposed on the upper surface of the balun body to feed the radiation unit, and a ground disposed on the lower surface of the balun body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: KMW INC.Inventors: Young Chan MOON, Sung Hwan SO, Kwang Seok CHOI, Seong Man KANG, Hun Jung JUNG, Seung Han SON, Yong Sang LEE, Oh Seog CHOI
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Publication number: 20240429601Abstract: The present invention relates to a full analog phase shifter, and more particularly, comprises: a variable switch panel comprising a first conductive pattern terminal and a second conductive pattern terminal; and a pattern PCB on which a plurality of array antenna elements are arranged and a transmission line at which the first conductive pattern terminal and the second conductive pattern terminal come into contact is pattern-printed, wherein, assuming that two variable switch panels are disposed in the vertical direction, the two variable switch panels are provided as a slider type that slides in the vertical direction so that, due to a phase shift caused by the contact between the first conductive pattern terminal and the second conductive pattern terminal and the transmission line, phases of the plurality of array antenna elements are linearly distributed on a same reference phase plane, thereby providing the advantage of easily implementing a mirror symmetry structure having a linear phase distribution onType: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: KMW INC.Inventors: Sung Hwan SO, Eui Song CHOI, Seong Man KANG, Dong Hee SHIN, Hwa Yeol JANG, Yong Won SEO, Won Jun PARK, Gyo Jin JO
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Patent number: 12178015Abstract: A heat dissipation device for an electronic element includes a first chamber containing a printed circuit board with heating elements, and a second chamber for heat exchange. The second chamber contains a refrigerant injection part and supply part. A heat transfer part between the chambers receives heat from the heating elements and transfers it to the second chamber. A condensing part condenses injected refrigerant. The heat transfer part has evaporation-inducing ribs on its surface exposed to the second chamber, allowing injected liquid refrigerant to be adsorbed and flow downward in a zigzag pattern. This configuration enables efficient heat dissipation through phase changes of the refrigerant as it evaporates and condenses. The device may also include features like specially-shaped condensation ribs, a blower part to improve condensation, and a pressure regulator for the second chamber. This design provides improved heat dissipation performance without increasing device size.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: Duk Yong Kim, Jin Soo Yeo, Kyu Chul Choi, In Hwa Choi, Youn Jun Cho, Jeong Hyun Choi, Jae Hyun Park
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Patent number: 12170408Abstract: The present invention relates to a clamping apparatus for an antenna, the clamping apparatus including a rotation unit configured to rotate an antenna in a horizontal direction, a tilting unit configured to rotate the antenna in a vertical direction, and a rotation/vibration prevention unit configured to adjust a direction of the antenna by rotating at least one of the rotation unit and the tilting unit and prevent the antenna from arbitrarily rotating after the direction of the antenna is adjusted, in which the rotation/vibration prevention unit includes a rotation motor, a worm gear configured to be rotated by the rotation motor, a shaft configured to define at least one rotation center, and a worm wheel gear installed on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft and configured to rotate at least one of the rotation unit and the tilting unit while being rotated by the worm gear, thereby easily adjusting the direction of the antenna by controlling the rotation motor and preventing the antenna with the adjusteType: GrantFiled: February 11, 2024Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: In Ho Kim, Seong Man Kang
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Publication number: 20240405403Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: KMW INC.Inventors: Sung Hwan SO, Oh Seog CHOI, Seong Man KANG, Yong Won SEO, Yong Sang LEE, Jun Ho YUN
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Publication number: 20240396210Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna apparatus. In particular, the antenna apparatus comprises: a radiating element module including a plurality of antenna sub-arrays electrically connected to the front of an RF filter and arranged to implement antenna beamforming by building a predetermined number of RF chains; and a phase shifter which shifts a phase value by changing the length ratio of a physical transmission line to the plurality of antenna sub-arrays to a predetermined ratio, wherein each RF chain of the radiating element module is implemented such that the antenna sub-array is connected to one output terminal of two output terminals branching off from an input terminal of each RF chain and an additional antenna sub-array corresponding to the antenna sub-array is further arranged to be connected to the other output terminal. Accordingly, a beam with a narrow beam width and a high antenna gain may be radiated, thus providing advantages in production cost and process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: KMW INC.Inventors: Sung Hwan SO, Oh Seog CHOI, Yong Won SEO, Seong Man KANG, Hyoung Seok YANG
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Patent number: 12150278Abstract: Provided is a heat dissipating apparatus for electronic elements which has the minimum size but has improved heat dissipating performance. To this end, the heat dissipating apparatus for electronic elements, according to the present invention, comprises: a heat dissipating housing having an internal space; a shield case formed of a thermally conductive material, wherein the shield case is disposed in the heat dissipating housing and partitions the internal space into a first chamber which is a vacuum space to be filled with a refrigerant and a second chamber which is a non-vacuum space; and a printed circuit board which is disposed in the shield case and has a heat dissipating element. The shield case evaporates the refrigerant by using sensible heat transferred from the heat dissipating element to the shield case and latent heat transferred from the shield case to the first chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: Kyo Sung Ji, Bae Mook Jeong, In Hwa Choi
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Patent number: 12149006Abstract: Disclosed is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) type antenna device for implementing spatial-polarization separation of beams using a quad-polarized antenna module array. There is provided an antenna device including first radiating elements, second radiating elements, third radiating elements, and fourth radiating elements, a filter unit including first, second, third, and fourth filters that filter signals of first, second, third, and fourth signal paths, respectively, and a phase setting module configured to set phases of the filtered signals so that a first beam and a second beam radiated through the first and second radiating elements and the third and fourth radiating elements, respectively, are separated in space, wherein the first beam and the second beam have different polarization directions.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: Young Chan Moon, Sung Hwan So, Oh Seog Choi
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Patent number: 12148990Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna device, and especially, comprises: a printed board assembly (PBA hereinafter) which has a plurality of antenna-related components mounted to one surface, and has a plurality of filters mounted to the other surface; and an antenna board which is stacked and disposed on the one surface side of the PBA, has a plurality of antenna elements mounted to one surface, and is connected to the filters tightly adhering to the other surface, so as to establish an electrical signal line with the filters, wherein the filters are spaced apart from the other surface of the PBA and have clamshell parts integrally formed so as to prevent a signal leakage from the electrical signal line, and thus an advantage is provided of enabling the improvement of the overall heat dissipation performance and filter performance of the filters.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: KMW INC.Inventors: Kyo Sung Ji, Bae Mook Jeong, Joung Hoe Kim
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Publication number: 20240380110Abstract: The present invention relates to a small cell base station antenna apparatus, and more particularly, comprises: a radio unit (RU); one or more antenna modules installed on the radio unit so as to be capable of tilting and steering operations; and a multi-function link for mediating the installation of the one or more respective antenna modules on the radio unit, wherein the multi-function link includes male connectors that electrically connect female connectors included in the antenna modules and the radio unit, thus providing the benefits of improving the workability of indoor installation and facilitating the construction of a small cell base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicant: KMW INC.Inventors: Duk Yong KIM, Bae Mook JEONG, Seong Min AHN, Ki Hun PARK, Kyo Sung JI, Chi Back RYU, Won Jun PARK, Min Sik PARK, Hyoung Seok YANG, Yong Sang LEE, Sung Hwan SO, Yong Won SEO, In Ho KIM, Hee KIM