Patents Examined by Amal Patel
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Patent number: 11962069Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed, including: a housing including a nonconductive area, a first printed circuit board (PCB) including a cavity and a fill-cut area, overlapping the nonconductive area, a first antenna module including at least one antenna array disposed in the cavity of the first PCB, a support frame coupled to one surface of the first PCB, supporting the first antenna module, a grip sensing pad surrounding the cavity and overlapping the fill-cut area, and a sensing circuit unit electrically connected to the grip sensing pad, configured to control an output power of the first antenna module based on inputs received via the grip sensing pad.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seokwoo Lee, Yeonghun Gu, Youngho Park, Jiwoo Lee, Kio Jung, Ko Choi, Woojin Choi
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Patent number: 11929562Abstract: According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are provided of antenna assemblies. In an exemplary embodiment, an antenna assembly generally includes at least one antenna element configured to be operable for receiving high definition television signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Antennas Direct, Inc.Inventors: Richard E. Schneider, John Edwin Ross, III
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Patent number: 11923608Abstract: An artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) antenna apparatus includes a ground plane and a flexible antenna element layer above the ground plane. The ground plane includes a conductive base surface, a plurality of memory metal wires, and a frequency selective surface (FSS) layer above the base surface, where the FSS layer includes a plurality of conductive patches separated from one another. Each of the memory metal wires electrically connects one of the conductive patches to the base surface. Each of the memory metal wires is rigid in a memory-shaped state, causing the FSS layer to be fixedly spaced from the base surface during operation of the AMC antenna apparatus. The memory metal wires are each flexible in a non-memory-shaped state, enabling the FSS layer to be collapsed towards the base surface when the antenna apparatus is stowed.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: VIASAT, INC.Inventors: David D. Greenidge, David C. Wittwer, Michael T. Kretsch, Kevin D. House, Mark D. Vossler
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Patent number: 11916292Abstract: According to the present disclosure, an antenna apparatus which includes a hollow pillar shaped waveguide extending in a first direction and at least one ridge protruding from an inner circumferential surface of the waveguide and extending in the first direction, wherein the ridge has at least one recessed groove formed in the first direction; and an antenna apparatus which includes the waveguide, the ridge and the iris structure protruding from the inner circumferential surface of the waveguide along a plane intersecting the first direction, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENTInventors: Byung Chul Park, Kun Sup Kwon, Jong Wan Heo
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Patent number: 11901613Abstract: A low frequency band radiating element for a multiple frequency band cellular base station antenna comprises a dipole arm including a radiating portion and a first coupling portion and a dipole leg that includes a leg and a second coupling portion located at one end of the leg. The first coupling portion is removably connected to the second coupling portion. A thin metal sheet with a suitable electrical performance can be selected for the dipole arm, and a thick metal plate can be selected for a dipole leg so as to achieve mechanical strength.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Bin Ai, Cheng Xue, Fusheng Lv, Lei Yang
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Patent number: 11901628Abstract: A Luneberg lens antenna with a position-electrically adjustable feed includes: a reflecting plate, a feed, a Luneberg lens, and a position adjusting mechanism. The position adjusting mechanism includes a mounting plate, a motor, a guide rail, a sliding block, a connecting base, a screw and a moving base. A position of the mounting plate is relatively fixed to a position of the Luneberg lens. The guide rail is mounted on the mounting plate. Both ends of the screw are rotationally mounted on the mounting plate. The motor is fixed on the mounting plate and configured for driving the screw to rotate. The moving base is provided with a screw hole, and the screw hole of the moving base is in threaded connection with the screw. The present disclosure has characteristics of good stability in adjusting a feed position, convenient assembly and low production cost.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: FOSHAN EAHISON COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventors: Chongxuan Deng, Qiang Zhu, Chunhui Shang, Liming Gao, Youjun Kang, Haibo Yang, Zhibin Liang
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Patent number: 11888213Abstract: A mobile terminal comprises: a terminal body; and a first antenna device and a second antenna device disposed at one side of the terminal body in an adjacent manner, and formed to operate at different frequency bands, wherein the first antenna device and the second antenna device are provided with conductive members each having a slit at one side thereof, and wherein the conductive members form part of an appearance of the terminal body.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Yunmo Kang, Kangjae Jung, Sungjoon Hong, Byungwoon Jung, Sungjung Rho
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Patent number: 11876279Abstract: A communication device includes a metal chassis, a printed circuit board positioned within the metal chassis, and a hybrid cavity mode antenna. The hybrid cavity mode antenna includes a conductive wall defining at least a portion of a cavity, wherein the cavity is further defined by one or more surfaces of the metal chassis and the printed circuit board, and an electrically-fed antenna configured to radiate a first radiofrequency signal in a first frequency range. The electrically-fed antenna is electrically driven from the printed circuit board of the communication device. The electrically-fed antenna is positioned within the cavity to drive the cavity to radiate a second radiofrequency signal in a second frequency range.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Marc Harper
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Patent number: 11870152Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device that includes a first radiating element configured to radiate a first electromagnetic wave and a second radiating element configured to radiate a second electromagnetic wave. A first radiation pattern of the first electromagnetic wave is configured to be adjusted, and a second radiation pattern of the second electromagnetic wave is configured to be fixed.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.Inventor: Shih-Wen Lu
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Patent number: 11862852Abstract: A cable antenna an end part of which is connected to an oscillator that supplies a high-frequency current is disclosed. The cable antenna includes: an inner conductor; an insulating layer covering the inner conductor; and an outer conductor covering the insulating layer, wherein only one exposed part is formed in a middle part of the cable antenna in a longitudinal direction, the exposed part formed by removing at least the outer conductor, a distance L between a tip end of the cable antenna and an end of the exposed part on a side closer to the tip end is an odd multiple of a quarter of a wavelength ?, of the high-frequency current, the multiplier being three or greater, and a length G of the exposed part in the longitudinal direction satisfies the following formula (1): ?/20?G<?/4??(1) ?: wavelength (mm) of the high-frequency current.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Yometel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinobu Okano, Koji Wada, Shin Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11862870Abstract: Antenna arrays with three-dimensional (3D) conformal radiating elements are provided, as well as methods of manufacturing and methods of using the same. An array can include a ground plane and a plurality of unit cells disposed thereon. Each unit cell can include a 3D conformal radiating element. The 3D conformal radiating elements can be, for example, patches (e.g., circular 3D patches), dipoles, or loops, and each radiating element is conformal on a hemispherical shape.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEESInventors: Abdul-Sattar Kaddour, Stavros Georgakopoulos
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Patent number: 11831074Abstract: The embodiments generally relate to an antenna device that includes a cover having a specific shape to suppress a sidelobe of an elevation angle gain pattern which is caused by a radio-frequency (RF) device regardless of an avoidance area.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENTInventors: Seung Ho Kim, Byung Chul Park, Kun Sup Kwon, Jong Wan Heo, Sung Jae Lee, Ki Min Hwang
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Patent number: 11811134Abstract: An apparatus for exchanging liquid crystal (LC) between two areas of an antenna array and method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises an antenna element array having a plurality of radiating radio-frequency (RF) antenna elements formed using portions of first and second substrates with a liquid crystal (LC) therebetween, and a structure between the first and second substrates and outside the area of the RF antenna elements to collect LC from an area between the first and second substrates forming the RF antenna elements due to LC expansion.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Steven Howard Linn, Cagdas Varel, Felix Chen
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Patent number: 11804652Abstract: An apparatus including a dielectric lens and a feeding array having feeding elements at different positions. The apparatus also including circuitry configured to simultaneously operate one feeding element of a first group of feeding elements and one feeding element of a second group of feeding elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OYInventors: Dmitry Kozlov, Senad Bulja, Jack Millist
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Patent number: 11799208Abstract: A patch antenna includes: a radiating element having a flat-plate shape; and a parasitic element provided at a position spaced away from the radiating element in planar view in which the radiating element is seen from a direction perpendicular to a plate surface of the radiating element. A longitudinal direction of the parasitic element is oriented along a direction of a line segment connecting a center of the radiating element and a feeding point in the planar view.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: YOKOWO CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi Sampo
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Patent number: 11791559Abstract: A broadband solar cell antenna includes a first solar cell layer, a first dielectric supporting layer, an antenna layer, a second dielectric supporting layer, and a second solar cell layer sequentially from top to bottom. The first and second solar cell layers are structurally identical; the first and second dielectric supporting layers are structurally identical; a monopole is a metal base copper-clad laminate in a shovel-shaped structure; a trumpet-shaped grounded coplanar waveguide (GCPW) feeding line is used; and a solar cell array forms a meta-surface structure. The broadband solar cell antenna has the features of broadband, miniaturization and low profile. The antenna layer is provided between the two solar cell layers. Solar cells on an upper surface and a back surface of the antenna can collect light in different angles. The antenna has desired radiation performance and can function as both an antenna and a solar cell.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Anhui UniversityInventors: Qian Chen, Zilin Qiao, Juliang Lu, Songlin Yan, Jian Chen, Zhixiang Huang, Lixia Yang
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Patent number: 11777225Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electromagnetic wave reflecting structure includes the steps of presetting an operating frequency, a reflected wave pointing angle, an incident wave pointing angle, and an incident distance of an electromagnetic wave; obtaining an electromagnetic wave reflecting structure phase distribution of an electromagnetic wave reflecting structure according to the operating frequency, the reflected wave pointing angle, the incident wave pointing angle, and the incident distance; and arranging a plurality of reflecting elements on a substrate according to the electromagnetic wave reflecting structure phase distribution and a reflecting element phase curve of any one of the reflecting elements at the operating frequency.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: National Chung Cheng UniversityInventors: Sheng-Fuh Chang, Chia-Chan Chang, Shih-Cheng Lin, Wei-Yang Chen, Yu-Cheng Lin
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Patent number: 11777211Abstract: An impedance matching method for a low-profile ultra-wideband array antenna is provided. The method includes: connecting an arm of a balanced end of a hyperbolic microstrip balun in series with an open circuit line; directly coupling the open circuit line to a radiator layer; connecting another arm of the balanced end of the hyperbolic microstrip balun to the radiator layer via a metallized via hole, and welding an unbalanced end of the hyperbolic microstrip balun to a coaxial line, so that the coaxial line feeds a power to the antenna via the hyperbolic microstrip balun. In this method, the open circuit line is integrated between the hyperbolic microstrip balun and the radiator layer of the antenna to achieve an impedance matching of the ultra-wideband antenna and to simplify a structure of a matching circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityInventors: Zhiqun Cheng, Peng Gao, Ruoyu He, Zhen Wang
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Patent number: 11757197Abstract: A method and apparatus for electrical addressing for an antenna (e.g., a metamaterial radio-frequency (RF) antenna are described. In one embodiment antenna comprising: a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements located in a plurality of rings; and matrix drive circuitry coupled to the plurality of RF radiating antenna elements to drive the antenna elements, wherein the matrix drive circuitry to uniquely address each of the antenna elements using a matrix of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns with a non-grid-based addressing structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Kymeta CorporationInventors: Cagdas Varel, Steven Howard Linn
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Patent number: 11757202Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a pillar-shaped luneberg lens antenna and a pillar-shaped luneberg lens antenna array, and relate to the field of communications technologies, so that the pillar-shaped luneberg lens antenna can support dual polarization and improve a capacity of a communications system. The pillar-shaped luneberg lens antenna includes two metal plates that are parallel to each other and a pillar-shaped luneberg lens disposed between the two metal plates, the pillar-shaped luneberg lens includes a main layer and a compensation layer that are of the pillar-shaped luneberg lens, and the compensation layer is configured to compensate for equivalent dielectric constants of the main layer of the pillar-shaped luneberg lens in a TEM mode and/or a TE10 mode, so that distribution of equivalent dielectric constants of the pillar-shaped luneberg lens in the TEM mode and the TE10 mode is consistent with distribution of preset dielectric constants.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xin Feng, Keli Zou, Guolong Huang