Patents Examined by Dieu Hien T. Duong
  • Patent number: 12266867
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to multi-beam forming networks using an antenna array. A matrix circuit for feeding elements of an antenna array to produce multiple beams is provided. To address beam squint issues, beam squint is mitigated by using a series of phase shifters with specific phase-delay performances between the matrix circuit and the antenna array elements. A linearly increasing or decreasing phase difference in the signals fed into adjacent antenna array elements across the array mitigates or eliminates beam squint in the resulting multiple beams. The phase shifters are programmed to provide this increasing or decreasing phase differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Galtronics USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kejia Ding, Sadegh Farzaneh, Minya Gavrilovic
  • Patent number: 12261348
    Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna device having a contact structure, and the antenna device includes: a radiator formed on a carrier; a printed circuit board having a power supply module configured to supply a power supply signal to the radiator; and a first contact structure configured to electrically connect the radiator and the printed circuit board, wherein the first contact structure includes: a conductive gasket formed with a through hole therein, installed on the radiator to be fixed onto the radiator; a torsion suppression member inserted into the conductive gasket through the through hole to suppress the torsion of the conductive gasket; and a separation suppression member extending from the radiator along an outer wall of one side of the conductive gasket in a height direction of the conductive gasket to suppress the separation of the conductive gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: LS MTRON LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Lee, Yong Sung Yim
  • Patent number: 12261368
    Abstract: A ground plane is disposed on or in an inner layer of a dielectric substrate. Moreover, a feed line is disposed on or in the dielectric substrate. A first antenna element and a second antenna element are supported on the dielectric substrate. The first antenna element and the second antenna element include a first radiating element and a second radiating element connected to the feed line, respectively, and are disposed on a same side when seen from the ground plane. With a height of the ground plane being a reference, a top portion of the second antenna element is located higher than a top portion of the first antenna element. There is provided an antenna device of which the band can be expanded and of which the internal space of the casing can be effectively utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Yamaguchi, Takaya Nemoto
  • Patent number: 12261374
    Abstract: An antenna structure and an electronic device, are provided. The antenna structure includes a first antenna and a second antenna, the first antenna includes a first radiator, a second radiator, a first port, and a second port, and the second antenna includes a third radiator and a third port. The first radiator, the second radiator, and the third radiator jointly constitute a ring structure, and there is a first gap between the first radiator and the second radiator, a second gap between the first radiator and the third radiator, and a third gap between the second radiator and the third radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shen Wang
  • Patent number: 12255386
    Abstract: An antenna package according to an embodiment includes antenna units, and a circuit board electrically connected to the antenna units. The circuit board includes a core layer, antenna feeding lines distributed on a surface of the core layer and connected to the antenna units, power/data lines distributed on the surface of the core layer, power/data ports connected to end portions of the power/data lines, and antenna feeding ports connected to end portions of the antenna feeding lines and arranged to be closer to the antenna units than the power/data ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Jin Choi, Jae Hyun Lee, Hee Jun Park
  • Patent number: 12255396
    Abstract: Radio frequency (RF) reflectors for radio frequency identification (RFID) systems are disclosed. An example RF reflector includes a four-sided housing having an open end, an end, two sides, a top, and an open bottom. The RF reflector is configured to not be electrically coupled to an RFID tag reader. The open end is configured to admit RF signals emitted by the RFID tag reader into the RF reflector, and has a dimension greater than a quarter wavelength of the RF signals. The end, the two sides, and the top include a material that at least partially reflects the RF signals, and the end, the two sides, and the top are electrically connected. Another example RF reflector includes a five-sided housing having two ends, two sides, a top, and an open bottom. One of the ends includes an opening to admit RF signals into the RF reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventors: Rehan K. Jaffri, Amit Asthana, Jeffrey G. Kukkola
  • Patent number: 12249775
    Abstract: An ultra-wide band antenna is disclosed. The antenna generally includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface. A first radiator having a positive polarization is disposed at the top surface, and a second radiator and a third radiator, each having a negative polarization, are disposed at the bottom surface. The first, second, and third radiators each have a minor portion and a major portion which are parallel with respect to each other. Size of each radiator in descending order from largest to smallest radiator is the second radiator, the first radiator, and the third radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: 2J ANTENNAS USA, CORPORATION
    Inventor: Peter Tipul
  • Patent number: 12244054
    Abstract: An antenna package according to an exemplary embodiment includes an antenna unit, a printed circuit board including an antenna connection wiring electrically connected to the antenna unit, an antenna driving integrated circuit (IC) chip mounted on the printed circuit board and connected to the antenna connection wiring, and a touch sensor driving IC chip and a display driving IC chip mounted on the printed circuit board together with the antenna driving IC chip. The driving IC chips are integrated in a single printed circuit board to improve spatial and process efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Jin Choi, Ho Dong Yoon, Jae Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 12218434
    Abstract: An antenna assembly in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a stack patch antenna assembly defining a plurality of antenna cells made from a plurality of patches, wherein the stack patch antenna assembly includes a first patch layer separated from a second patch layer by a spacer; a beamformer lattice including one or more beamformers, wherein each beamformer corresponds to a subset of antenna cells of the plurality of antenna cells; and a PCB assembly made up from a plurality of layers, the PCB assembly having a feed structure from the stack patch antenna assembly to the beamformer lattice disposed in the PCB assembly, wherein the stack patch antenna assembly is external to the PCB assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Ersin Yetisir
  • Patent number: 12218438
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a radiating element, a coupling circuit, and a non-radiating resonant circuit. The coupling circuit includes first and second coupling elements, the first coupling element being connected between a feeder circuit and the radiating element, the second coupling element being coupled to the first coupling element. An end of the second coupling element is grounded, and another end of the second coupling element is connected to the non-radiating resonant circuit. A frequency characteristic of a return loss of the radiating element when seen from the feeder circuit is adjusted by a resonant frequency characteristic of the non-radiating resonant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Mikawa, Kenichi Ishizuka, Takafumi Nasu
  • Patent number: 12218436
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to multi-beam forming networks using an antenna array. A matrix circuit for feeding elements of an antenna array to produce multiple beams is provided. To address beam squint issues, beam squint is mitigated by using a series of phase shifters with specific phase-delay performances between the matrix circuit and the antenna array elements. A linearly increasing or decreasing phase difference in the signals fed into adjacent antenna array elements across the array mitigates or eliminates beam squint in the resulting multiple beams. The phase shifters are programmed to provide this increasing or decreasing phase differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: GALTRONICS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Kejia Ding, Sadegh Farzaneh, Minya Gavrilovic
  • Patent number: 12218414
    Abstract: A low-profile composite antenna device for vehicles includes a base plate, a circuit board, an antenna cover, a first element and a second element. The antenna cover has a ridgeline part whose longitudinal direction faces the vehicle traveling direction and a side surface part extending from both sides of the ridgeline part. The first element is arranged at the left side in the vehicle traveling direction, is inclined with respect to the base plate as viewed from the front side in the vehicle traveling direction and the upper end side thereof is arranged in a vicinity of the ridgeline part. The second element is arranged at the right side in the vehicle traveling direction, the upper end side thereof is arranged in the vicinity of the ridgeline part with a gap, and faces the first element from the ridgeline part toward the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HARADA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Sato, Hironobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12218440
    Abstract: An antenna structure includes a ground element, a feeding radiation element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a first coupling branch, and a dielectric substrate. The feeding radiation element has a feeding point. The first radiation element is coupled to the feeding radiation element. The second radiation element is coupled to the feeding radiation element. The second radiation element and the first radiation element substantially extend in opposite directions. The first coupling branch is coupled to a first grounding point on the ground element. The first coupling branch extends across the first radiation element. The first coupling branch includes a first coil portion and a first connection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORP.
    Inventors: Tzu-Min Wu, Kuo-Jen Lai, Kuang-Yuan Ku, Hung-Ying Lin, Wen-Tai Tseng
  • Patent number: 12212063
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic devices includes a housing at least partially including a conductive portion, an antenna structure including a printed circuit board including a plurality of insulating layers, at least one first conductive patch including a first feeding point, and a second feeding point, and at least one second conductive patch including a third feeding point, and a fourth feeding point, and an antenna module including a wireless communication circuit configured to transmit or receive a first signal through the at least one first conductive patch and to transmit or receive a second signal of a second frequency band through the at least one second conductive patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongjin Park, Dongyeon Kim, Hosaeng Kim, Sumin Yun, Woomin Jang, Myunghun Jeong, Jehun Jong, Jaehoon Jo
  • Patent number: 12199350
    Abstract: A phase shifter includes a signal line and a reference electrode respectively disposed on sides of different ones or both disposed on a same side of a same one of a first base plate and a second base plate proximal to a dielectric layer, and includes a straight unit and a bent unit along an extending direction of the signal line. The signal line includes a first signal sub-line corresponding to the straight unit and a second signal sub-line corresponding to the bent unit, and the reference electrode includes a first reference sub-electrode corresponding to the straight unit and a second reference sub-electrode corresponding to the bent unit. The second signal sub-line and the second reference sub-electrode which correspond to the bent unit are configured to make an impedance of the bent unit match to an impedance of the straight unit and/or an impedance of another adjacent bent unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Di Cao, Yan Wang, Haocheng Jia, Yan Lu, Guodong Feng, Zhifeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12199360
    Abstract: An antenna device includes: a patch conductor provided on a substrate; a GND conductor provided in the substrate in such a manner as to face the patch conductor; GND pins that are provided in the substrate and that connect the patch conductor and the GND conductor; and an RF circuit provided on a first face of the patch conductor opposite to a second face of the patch conductor, the second face being attached to the substrate, the RF circuit being provided in such a manner as to be surrounded by the GND pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi Ikeda, Kei Yokokawa, Narihiro Nakamoto, Akihito Hirai, Toru Fukasawa, Masataka Otsuka
  • Patent number: 12191564
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a substrate, a first antenna panel, a second antenna panel, and an antenna isolator. The first antenna panel is coupled on the substrate and includes an array of first antenna elements. The second antenna panel is coupled on the substrate and includes an array of second antenna elements. The antenna isolator is coupled on the substrate and including a plurality of walls extending outwardly from the substrate along a length of the substrate between the first antenna panel and the second antenna panel. The antenna isolator reduces reduce wave propagation between the array of first antenna elements and the array of second antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiantong Li, Xinguang Xu, Khurram Muhammad, Gang Xu
  • Patent number: 12191558
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device includes: a housing including a lateral member including a conductive member including an inner surface and an outer surface facing the inner surface, an antenna structure disposed in an inner space of the housing and including a substrate, and a plurality of antenna elements disposed at a first interval at the substrate, a plurality of through-holes penetrating the inner surface to at least a part of the outer surface and corresponding to the plurality of antenna elements, and a wireless communication circuit disposed in the inner space and configured to transmit or receive a radio signal in a specified frequency band through the antenna structure, wherein first opening portions of the plurality of through-holes formed in the inner surface are disposed at the first interval, and second opening portions of the plurality of through-holes formed in the outer surface are disposed at a second interval greater than the first interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 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: 12183973
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a ground plate which is a flat plate-shaped conductor member, an opposing conductive plate which is a flat plate-shaped conductor member installed at a predetermined distance from the ground plate and is electrically connected to a power supply line, and a plurality of short-circuit pins for electrically connecting the opposing conductive plate and the ground plate. One end of a plurality of short-circuit pins extends to a conductive plate plane, which is a plane including the opposing conductive plate, and the other end of the plurality of short-circuit pins extends to the ground plate plane, which is a plane including the ground plate. One or more of the plurality of short-circuit pins connect the opposing conductive plate and the ground plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuji Kakuya, Masakazu Ikeda, Kenichirou Sanji, Tomokazu Miyashita, Ryozou Fujii, Masashi Urabe, Hiromichi Naitoh
  • Patent number: 12183997
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of radio frequency circuit design, and in particular relates to a M×N millimeter wave and terahertz planar dipole end-fire array antenna. The M×N millimeter wave and terahertz planar dipole end-fire array antenna is composed of M paths of N× end-fire linear array antennas arranged at equal intervals, and the distance d between two adjacent N× end-fire linear array antennas is less than ?, where ? is the wavelength, and both M and N are integers greater than 1. By connecting linear type feed networks of the M paths of N× end-fire linear array antennas to M-path in-phase radio frequency signal transmitter and controlling the distance between two adjacent N× end-fire linear array antennas to be less than the effective wavelength, a higher gain and a higher half-power width can be realized, and the power consumption of the transmitter can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Zhejiang Normal University
    Inventors: Yanfei Mao, Chungeng Zhu, Junwu Kan, Shuyun Wang, Shiju E, Zhonghua Zhang, Zhen Chai, Annan Zhou, Yaxin Deng, Ruonan Na