Patents Examined by Aladdin Abdulbaki
  • Patent number: 12261364
    Abstract: An antenna module, a metamaterial structure and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a glass material layer and an antenna module. The antenna module includes a substrate, at least one radiating element and a metamaterial structure. The metamaterial structure includes a metamaterial substrate, a plurality of first metal conductors, and a plurality of second metal conductors. The first metal conductors are disposed on the first surface of the metamaterial substrate and are spaced apart at intervals from each other, and the second metal conductors are disposed on the second surface of the metamaterial substrate and are spaced apart at intervals from each other. The first metal conductors respectively correspond to the second metal conductors. Shapes of the first metal conductors are different from shapes of the second metal conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Jin Chen, Tsun-Che Huang, Jia-Hung Su
  • Patent number: 12255389
    Abstract: Disclosed are a transparent antenna and a device. The transparent antenna includes: a first polymer layer; a first transparent antenna, wherein the first transparent antenna includes an antenna body and a partition region, and one side of the first polymer layer is provided with a grid-like conductive wire to form the antenna body; a second polymer layer, wherein the second polymer layer is provided at one side, where the first transparent antenna is provided, of the first polymer layer; and a second transparent antenna, wherein the second transparent antenna is provided at one side of the second polymer layer away from the first transparent antenna, the second transparent antenna includes an antenna body, and one side of the second polymer layer away from the first transparent antenna is provided with a grid-like conductive wire to form the antenna body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SHINE OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lidong Liu, Yulong Gao, Weiying Bao
  • Patent number: 12244055
    Abstract: A single feed antenna design is conducted on a radiator of a specific shape (for example, a strip radiator or a slot radiator) to excite a plurality of antenna modes. For example, performing a feed design on a strip radiator may excite a CM wire antenna mode and a DM wire antenna mode. For another example, performing a feed design on a slot radiator may feed a CM slot antenna mode and a DM slot antenna mode. The antenna design may be used to cover a plurality of frequency bands when an antenna is miniaturized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hanyang Wang, Yuanpeng Li, Dawei Zhou, Le Chang, Hai Zhou
  • Patent number: 12230880
    Abstract: A communications device may include an RF device, and an antenna coupled to the RF device. The antenna may have a conductive ground plane, a conductive support rod carried by the conductive ground plane and extending outwardly therefrom, and a conductive body coupled to and surrounding the conductive support rod. The conductive body has vertically spaced rhombus shaped slots therein to define a radiating antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventor: Francis E. Parsche
  • Patent number: 12224489
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a substrate including a capacitance sensing electrode, an antenna on the substrate, and a shield feature between the electrodes and the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Cirque Corporation
    Inventor: David Taylor
  • Patent number: 12218409
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing having a front surface and a rear surface, a first antenna, a second antenna, a printed circuit board, and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding sheet. The first antenna may be disposed inside the housing. The second antenna may be disposed in an area surrounded by a radiator of the first antenna when viewed from above the rear surface. The printed circuit board may include a wireless communication module for operating the first antenna and the second antenna, and may be electrically connected to the first antenna and the second antenna. The first antenna may be positioned between the rear surface and the EMI shielding sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taegyu Kim, Jesun Moon, Kyungbae Ko, Hanbin Lee, Donghwan Kim, Jinwoo Jung
  • Patent number: 12191578
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna structure, including a frame body, a first feed-in part, and a first connection part, where the frame body is at least partially made of a metal material, the frame body includes a first part and a second part, the second part is connected to one end of the first part, a length of the second part is greater than a length of the first part, a first slot is provided in the first part, a second slot is provided in the second part, a part of the frame body between the first slot and the second slot forms a first radiation part, the first feed-in part is disposed on the first radiation part and located on the first part of the frame body. The antenna structure can effectively improve low band radiation performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaotao Cai, Dawei Zhou, Yuanpeng Li, Tiezhu Liang
  • Patent number: 12191576
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, an antenna structure disposed in an inner space of the housing and including a substrate having a first substrate surface and a second substrate surface facing a direction opposite the first substrate surface, and configured to have a first dielectric constant, a plurality of antenna elements disposed on the substrate at a designated interval and forming a directional beam in a direction toward which the first substrate surface faces, and at least one dielectric disposed on the first substrate surface and configured to have a second dielectric constant, and a wireless communication circuit disposed in the inner space and configured to at least one of transmit or receive a wireless signal in at least one frequency band through the plurality of antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehoon Jo, Hosaeng Kim, Seongjin Park, Sumin Yun, Woomin Jang, Jehun Jong
  • Patent number: 12183985
    Abstract: A switchable antenna comprises an RF port, an antenna array that includes at least a first column of radiating elements, a second column of radiating elements and a third column of radiating elements, and a feed network coupled between the RF port and the antenna array. The feed network includes a first switch having a first output that is coupled to each of the columns of radiating elements and a second output and a second switch having a first input coupled to the first output of the first switch and a second input coupled to the second output of the first switch, and a first output coupled to the second column of radiating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ruckus IP Holdings LLC
    Inventor: James W. Jervis
  • Patent number: 12181500
    Abstract: One embodiment is a device, which comprises a cable attached at a first end to a radio module, the cable having a plurality of electro-magnetic interference (EMI) resistant elements connected at a plurality of positions, a radial board wherein the cable is attached thereto at a second end, and an antenna connected to the radial board, the antenna being configured to receive power from the radio module and to radiate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Kerrance Lynn Carpenter, Douglas Troy Collier
  • Patent number: 12176608
    Abstract: An antenna module, comprising: a first radiating element having a flat plate shape; a second radiating element having a flat plate-shape, disposed at a position different from a position of the first radiating element in a direction normal to the first radiating element, and having a resonant frequency different from a resonant frequency of the first radiating element; and a first feed line extending from a feed circuit, passing through the second radiating element, and configured to transmit a radio frequency signal to the first radiating element, wherein the first feed line includes, at a position different from a position of the second radiating element in a path from the feed circuit to the first radiating element, a shift region extending in a direction orthogonal to the direction normal to the first radiating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shun Sakaida
  • Patent number: 12149000
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a housing, a wireless communication module, and an antenna module operatively connected to the wireless communication module and disposed inside the housing, wherein the antenna module includes a first substrate comprising at least one feed line, a first surface disposed in a first direction, and a second surface disposed in a second direction opposite the first surface, a second substrate disposed on the first surface of the first substrate and having a first antenna array and a second antenna array disposed on the second substrate, and a third substrate disposed in a portion of the second surface of the first substrate and having a third antenna array and a fourth antenna array disposed on the third substrate, wherein the second substrate and/or the third substrate is formed of a material having a higher permittivity than the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Seongjin Park, Hosaeng Kim, Sumin Yun, Woomin Jang, Jaehoon Jo, Jinwoo Jung
  • Patent number: 12142851
    Abstract: Described herein is an apparatus and a method for a low-profile, circularly polarized antenna. The antenna comprises a first substrate having a first side and a second side; an antenna element on the first side of the first substrate; a first conductor on the second side of the first substrate proximity coupled to the antenna element; a second conductor on the second side of the first substrate proximity coupled to the antenna element and ±90 degrees out of phase with the first conductor; a second substrate under the first substrate having a least one air gap therein under the antenna element; a third substrate under the second substrate having a first side and a second side; and an electrical ground plane on the second side of the third substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: John E. Rogers
  • Patent number: 12136761
    Abstract: This antenna device is provided with: an antenna element disposed in a recessed portion of the exterior of a moving body; and a passive element which is disposed in a position higher than a flat surface in the recessed portion on which the antenna element is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Nishikido
  • Patent number: 12119565
    Abstract: An antenna substrate includes a body in which a plurality of insulating layers are stacked, a first antenna layer including a plurality of first pattern layers disposed on the plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of first conductive via layer penetrating through the plurality of insulating layers to connect the plurality of first pattern layers in a stacking direction of the plurality of insulating layers and having a bar shape, and a second antenna layer extending from at least one of an uppermost portion or a lowermost portion of the first antenna layer on the insulating layer of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Je Lee, Je Sang Park, Chang Gun Oh, Sang Ho Jeong, Hyun Kyung Park
  • Patent number: 12119548
    Abstract: A slot array antenna that includes radiation, base, and grating plates is disclosed. The radiation plate has a first surface having multiple slots to radiate radio waves, second and third surfaces forming a horn shape, and proximal and distal connecting members. The base plate has first, second, and third surfaces forming a U-shape, and notches. The connecting members of the radiation are removably insertable into the notches to assemble the slot array antenna for the radiation of the radio waves and to suppress noise signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihiro Hino
  • Patent number: 12113306
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dual-band antenna array with fan beam and pencil beam. The antenna comprises a substrate and an antenna array arranged on the surface of the substrate, a first antenna element and a second antenna element are cascaded in an x-axis direction by a filter phase-shift line so as to form a subarray. A pair of T-shaped monopoles are symmetrically placed along the x axis at a certain distance above and below each of the first and second antenna elements, respectively, and a rectangular slot is embedded in the upper edge of the second antenna element to achieve good impedance matching. The second antenna element generates a fan beam at one frequency point or frequency band to have the performance of a wide beam, and generates a pencil beam at another frequency point or frequency band to have the performance of a narrow beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: CHONGQING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mei Li, Lin Pu, Ming-Chun Tang, Lei Zhu
  • Patent number: 12100892
    Abstract: An optically transparent coplanar microwave slot antenna formed between a first glass layer and a second glass layer is provided including a metal oxide layer, a first slot element and a second slot element formed in a dipole arrangement within the metal oxide layer wherein the first slot element is formed by a first triangular slot, a first trapezoidal slot, and a first rectangular slot and the second slot element is formed by a second triangular slot, a second trapezoidal slot, and a second rectangular slot, and a waveguide feedline for carrying microwave signals to the first slot element and the second slot element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sara Kaffash, Farhad Sheikh Hosseini Lori, William Hsiahua Wang, Hongguang Sun
  • Patent number: 12095155
    Abstract: A radar sensor includes a housing, cover, and a plurality of transmit and receive antennas. The housing includes a cavity retaining a processing board. The cover defines a radome having a recess into the cavity with two separate and connected areas. The transmit and receive antennas are positioned on the processing board, adjacent to, and separated by a gap from, the recess. The transmit antennas are configured to transmit RF signals through the first area of the recess. The receive antennas are configured to receive RF signals returning through the second area of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Electronics, LLC
    Inventor: Majid Ahmadloo
  • Patent number: 12095179
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a metal back cover and an antenna module. The metal back cover includes a slit. The antenna module is separated from the metal back cover and disposed far away from the slit. The antenna module includes an antenna radiator, a first ground radiator, and a connection radiator. The antenna radiator includes a first section, a second section, and a third section that are sequentially connected and form bends, and the first section has a feeding end. A first slot is formed between the first ground radiator, the first section, the second section, and a part of the third section. A width and length of the first slot are associated with a center frequency and impedance matching of a high frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien-Yi Wu, Chao-Hsu Wu, Hau Yuen Tan, Cheng-Hsiung Wu, Chen-Kuang Wang, Tse-Hsuan Wang, Sheng-Chin Hsu, Shih-Keng Huang, Chia-Hung Chen