Abstract: An EBG structure-attached glass plate includes a vehicle roof glass for attachment to a metal frame of a vehicle body, an EBG structure that is disposed on a first main face of the roof glass, that has a predetermined conductor pattern periodically disposed thereon, and that is formed in a frame shape, and a radio wave transmitting and receiving region surrounded by the EBG structure.

Abstract: A low band dipole assembly has four dipole arms. Each of the dipole arms has an upper body, a plurality of cloaking tabs that protrude downward from either side of the upper body, and an end tab that extends downward from the upper body. Each of the dipole arms also has two mounting tabs that extend laterally from the dipole arm. The upper body has a plurality of cloaking slots, which provide for capacitive and inductive cloaking. Each of the four dipole arms may be formed of a single piece of sheet metal, such as aluminum. Each of the four dipole arms is configured to be transparent to RF (Radio Frequency) energy in the C-Band or Mid Band frequencies.

Abstract: An antenna device includes: an antenna housing in which a hollow portion is formed; an antenna located inside the antenna housing and configured to perform at least one of transmission and reception of electric waves; and a scatterer configured to scatter the electric waves propagating through the hollow portion at a predetermined position of the antenna housing.

Abstract: This disclosure includes, and results in the creation of, a printed carbon nanotube and/or graphene hybrid antenna and/or EMI shield, comprised of a conductive layer that comprises a metal mesh (MM) layer or a nanowire layer on a substrate, with a printed Signal Enhancement Layer (SEL) on the conductive layer. The SEL includes an ink that includes one or both of carbon nanotube (CNT) and graphene. The circuit pattern results after the “exposed” conductive layer (i.e., the regions where the CNT/graphene ink is not printed) is removed via chemical etching or mechanical cutting. The structure (the antenna/EMI shield) is preferably but not necessarily transparent.

Abstract: Systems and methods for differential antenna driving are provided. In one aspect, a front end system includes at least one power amplifier configured to receive a first transmit radio frequency signal from a baseband processor, amplify the first transmit radio frequency signal, and output the amplified first transmit radio frequency signal. The front end system further includes at least one balun configured to receive the amplified first transmit radio frequency signal. The at least one balun includes a positive output coupled to a first monopole of at least one antenna and a negative output coupled to a second monopole of the at least one antenna.

Abstract: A microelectronic package includes a waveguide radiation receiver formed in a first conductor layer of a multilayer package substrate, the multilayer package substrate comprising the first conductor layer spaced from a second conductor layer by a dielectric layer. The microelectronic package further includes a tubular waveguide mounted to the multilayer package substrate such that a central aperture of the tubular waveguide is over the waveguide radiation receiver, and a feed line coupling the waveguide radiation receiver to a transmitter-receiver, the feed line including a conductive via traversing the dielectric layer electrically coupling a first portion of the feed line in the first conductor layer to a second portion of the feed line in the second conductor layer, the first portion adjacent the waveguide radiation receiver, and the second portion adjacent the transmitter-receiver.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a patch antenna including stacked first and second insulating medium substrates, and a radiating patch is provided on the second insulating medium substrate. The patch antenna further includes a plurality of strip-shaped metal structures, each passing through the first and second insulating medium substrates, a first end thereof being electrically connected with the metal layer and a second end thereof being attached to a metal sheet. At least two strip-shaped metal structures are located at a first side of the radiating patch, and at least two strip-shaped metal structures are located at an opposite second side. Metal sheets attached to two strip-shaped metal structures that are farthest apart from each other and located at a same side are bent toward each other. Furthermore, the present disclosure also relates to an omnidirectional antenna array and a coplanar radiating antenna array including the patch antenna.

Abstract: A communications device may include an RF device, and a circular cylindrical antenna coupled to the RF device. The circular cylindrical antenna may include a conductive ground plane, a conductive feed associated with the conductive ground plane, and a conductive sinusoidal element coupled to the conductive feed and extending outwardly from the conductive ground plane along a circular cylinder.

Abstract: The present disclosure presents a portable terminal which has antennas connected to first and second transmission ends of an NFC chipset, respectively, to enable short-range communication from the top and the back of the portable terminal. The presented portable terminal comprises: the NFC chipset having the first transmission end and the second transmission end; a first antenna connected to the first transmission end and having a region disposed parallel to the top of the portable terminal; and a second antenna connected to the second transmission end and having a loop disposed parallel to the back of the portable terminal.

Abstract: The electromagnetic wave reflecting device includes: a reflection panel that reflects a radio wave of a desired band selected from a frequency band between 1 GHz and 170 GHz; and a frame that holds the reflection panel. The frame has a conductive portion. The reflection panel is held by the frame so that an edge of the reflection panel is not exposed to an outside of the frame. At least a part of the conductive portion of the frame is covered with a non-conductive protecting member or protective coating.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable media provide an access point antenna with an antenna radome comprising frequency selective surface elements. At least one first antenna element mounted on a first location of an antenna support structure and at least one second antenna element mounted on a second location of the antenna support structure. The antenna radome covers the access point antenna and comprises frequency selective surface components on an interior surface. The frequency selective surfaces comprise first and second frequency selective surface components that are responsive to filter unwanted radio frequency (RF) emissions that affect the first and second antenna elements. The frequency selective surfaces comprising the antenna radome may be selected based on the location and frequencies of other antennas operating near the access point antenna.

Abstract: A four-port omnidirectional antenna comprising a dielectric resonator, a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate comprising two sets of feed lines adapted for providing two transverse magnetic (TM) modes, one of which is provided in a higher order. The second substrate also comprises two sets of feed lines adapted for providing two transverse electric (TE) modes, one of which is provided in higher order. The dielectric resonator, the first substrate and the second substrate are stacked with each other to form a double-layer printed circuit board (PCB), and the feed lines are configured to isolate fields excited by each of the two TM modes and the two TE modes, thereby enabling independent operation between each of the two TM modes and the two TE modes.

Abstract: An unitary one-piece construction feed for a high frequency band antenna, the feed including: a feed horn; and a polarizer comprising a void and multiple sets of ridges disposed in the void, wherein the polarizer is in direct contact with the feed horn and the unitary one-piece construction feed is capable of operating with a carrier signal ranging across one or two consecutive bands selected from Ku, K, Ka and Q bands, for example, from 17.3 GHz to 31 GHz.

Abstract: A window glass for a vehicle including a glass plate, a light shielding layer on the glass plate and a planar antenna including a planar conductor with a hollowed-out portion with at least one hole, wherein, when a region including the light shielding layer is assumed as a light shielding region; and a region including no light shielding layer is assumed as a transmission region, the planar antenna is arranged to lie across a boundary between the light shielding region and the transmission region, and has a first conductor part overlapping the light shielding region and a second conductor part overlapping the transmission region, and, wherein, when an area of overlap of the planar antenna with the light shielding region is assumed as a first overlap area; an area of overlap of the planar antenna with the transmission region is assumed as a second overlap area.

Abstract: A dual-band antenna includes: first and second overlaying patch radiators configured to operate at first and second frequency bands and first and second polarizations that are orthogonal, wherein the first frequency band is lower than the second frequency band; a first ground plane between the patch radiators; a first energy coupler having a first signal path and a second signal path electrically coupled to a first coupling portion of the first patch radiator; a second energy coupler having a third signal path and a fourth signal path electrically coupled to a second coupling portion of the second patch radiator; and a conductive wall in electrical proximity to the first patch radiator, the first signal path, and the second signal path.

Abstract: An antenna includes a radiating element on a forward-facing surface of an underlying reflector, and a lens extending in front of and within a radio frequency (RF) transmission path of the radiating element. The lens includes a two-dimensional array of lens elements having at least three rows and at least three columns therein. The array includes: a first row of equivalently-sized lens elements having geometric centers that are collinear with each other, a last row of equivalently-sized lens elements having geometric centers that are collinear with each other, and an intermediate row of lens elements having geometric centers that are collinear with each other. Each of the lens elements in the intermediate row includes a respective forward-facing metal surface having a respective metal opening therein.

Abstract: A transparent antenna assembly and flexible transparent antenna. In one embodiment, the transparent antenna assembly includes a flexible transparent antenna having a transparent flexible substrate, the flexible transparent antenna being configured to operate according to a desired frequency band, the flexible transparent antenna including a portion that is configured to connect with a transparent substrate interface assembly; and a connector subassembly having a printed circuit board (PCB) mount connector, the PCB mount connector is configured to interface with the transparent flexible substrate via the transparent substrate interface assembly, the connector subassembly further including a radio frequency (RF) connector, the RF connector being in signal communication with the PCB mount connector.

Abstract: An antenna includes a convex structure and a concave structure that are formed on a side of a wide microstrip line in the antenna. A shape and a size of the convex structure and/or a shape and a size of the concave structure, a distance between convex structures, a distance between concave structures, and/or a distance between the convex structure and the concave structure are designed to enable the convex structure and the concave structure to resonate at different frequencies in order to support radiation of signals on different frequency bands.

Abstract: An antenna assembly can include a cover, an internal ground plane, and a multi-band antenna. The cover can comprise one or more walls. The internal ground plane can comprise a base of the antenna assembly and can be coupled to the cover. The multi-band antenna can comprise one or more radiating elements comprising a first radiating element formed on a first PCB portion, the first radiating element comprising a first upright radiating portion and a first head radiating portion. The first radiating element can be configured to move from a first configuration prior to engagement with the cover to a second configuration when the cover is coupled to the internal ground plane. In the first configuration, the first upright radiating portion is coplanar to the first head radiating portion. In the second configuration, the first upright radiating portion is at an angle relative to the first head radiating portion.