Abstract: An antenna device 1 is an antenna device 1 to be mounted on a vehicle including an inner panel 17 that is provided with a mounting hole, and a roof 16 in which a region facing the inner panel 17 on an upper side of the inner panel 17 is upraised to an upper side. The antenna device 1 includes a base 12 and a fixing portion (13, 14, and 15) that fixes the base 12 to the inner panel 17. At least a part of the antenna device 1 is contained in a space 16b formed between a region 16a of the roof 16 that is upraised and the inner panel 17, and there are a plurality of portions in which the base 12 and the inner panel 17 are fixed by the fixing portion.

Abstract: An antenna device includes an antenna surface provided with an antenna conductor, a ground surface opposed to the antenna surface and provided with a ground conductor, and a stub in which a plurality of transmission lines having different line widths are connected to each other in series. The stub is located in approximately the same plane as the antenna surface or between the antenna surface and the ground surface.

Abstract: The invention provides an antenna for multi-broadband and multi-polarization communication, which may include a plurality of radiators configured to jointly function as one or more dipoles, and a plurality of parasitic elements. Each radiator may be configured to contribute to resonances at two or more nonoverlapping bands, and may comprise an arm and a ground wall connecting the arm and a ground plane. The arm may comprise an arm plate and a folded arm. The ground wall may comprise a meandering portion causing a distance between the arm and the ground plane to be shorter than a length of a current conduction path along the ground wall between the arm and the ground plane. On a geometric reference surface, a projection of each parasitic element may extend between two gaps which clamp a projection of an associated one of the radiators.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, and a semiconductor chip including a communication circuit that is connected to the first antenna element and the second antenna element. The first antenna element and the second antenna element are disposed on opposite surfaces of the semiconductor chip. The first antenna element or the second antenna element to which a ground potential is applied has a grid-like pattern.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an antenna device and a terminal. The antenna device includes a first branch, a second branch, a third branch, a public branch, and a feed point. The first branch, the second branch, the third branch, a public branch and the feed point constitute a diversity antenna cooperatively. The first branch is configured as an earpiece metal mesh. The feed point is electrically connected to the first branch. The second branch and the third branch are electrically connected to an end of the public branch, respectively. An another end of the public branch is electrically connected to the feed point.

Abstract: A compact 5G MIMO antenna system includes at least two antenna assemblies. Each antenna assembly includes a first antenna unit and a second antenna unit, wherein the first antenna unit includes a first radiation assembly, a first feed branch and a ground branch; the second antenna unit includes a second radiation assembly, a second feed branch and the ground branch; the ground branch is located between the first radiation assembly and the second radiation assembly; the first feed branch is arranged close to an end, away from the ground branch, of the first radiation assembly; and the second feed branch is arranged close to an end, away from ground branch, of the second radiation assembly. The antenna system improves the isolation between the first antenna unit and the second antenna unit and compacts the overall structure of the antenna assembly, which has simple structure, high antenna efficiency, and convenient use.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing including a first plate disposed to be oriented in a first direction, a second plate disposed to be oriented in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a side member surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate and coupled to or integrally formed with the second plate; a display visible through at least part of the first plate; a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed in the space and including a ground; a first conductive pattern disposed between the PCB and the second plate and including a first portion and a second portion spaced apart from the first portion; a second conductive connection member disposed between the second portion and the PCB; and a radio frequency (RF) communication circuit electrically connected with the first conductive connection member and configured to transmit or receive at least one signal having a predetermined frequency.

Abstract: A dielectric resonator antenna and a dielectric resonator antenna array. The dielectric resonator antenna includes a ground plane, a dielectric resonator element operably coupled with the ground plane, and a feed network operably coupled with the dielectric resonator element for exciting the dielectric resonator antenna to provide a wideband omnidirectional response. The dielectric resonator element includes a plurality of portions, including, at least, an innermost portion and an outermost portion arranged around the innermost portion. The innermost portion has a first effective dielectric constant and outermost portion has a second, different effective dielectric constant.

Abstract: A TFT substrate includes a transmission and/or reception region including a plurality of antenna unit regions, and a non-transmission and/or reception region located in a region other than the transmission and/or reception region. Each of the antenna unit regions U includes a TFT and a patch electrode electrically connected to a drain electrode of the TFT. The TFT substrate includes a gate metal layer including a gate electrode of the TFT, a gate insulating layer, a source metal layer including a source electrode of the TFT and the drain electrode, a first insulating layer, a patch metal layer including the patch electrode, a second insulating layer, and an upper conductive layer. The upper conductive layer includes a patch drain connection section electrically connected to the patch electrode and the drain electrode.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a radiator having an antenna comprising a patch antenna layer and a first ground plane layer, wherein the antenna has a reactive field region of the radiator between the patch antenna layer and the first ground plane layer, and an integrated circuit located in the active region.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a flexible antenna structure and an electronic device having the same. The flexible antenna structure includes a flexible printed circuit board, a mm-Wave antenna disposed on the flexible printed circuit board and conformal with the flexible printed circuit board, and a non-mm-Wave antenna disposed on the flexible printed circuit board and conformal with the flexible printed circuit board. Compared with the existing art, by means of the flexible antenna structure provided with the mm-Wave antenna and the non-mm-Wave antenna on the flexible printed circuit board, the present disclosure realizes integration of the mm-Wave antenna and the non-mm-Wave antenna, solves a challenge of numerous antennas in the electronic device, and realizes conformation with a bent part of a shell 1, thereby increasing the space utilization rate in a limited space. Furthermore, the overall size and cost cannot be increased, thus improving the competitiveness of a product.

Abstract: A substrate equipped with an antenna of the present disclosure includes a circuit substrate and an antenna element. When viewed from a thickness direction, an area of one principal surface of the circuit substrate is larger than that of another principal surface thereof, and each of the one principal surface and the other principal surface of the circuit substrate is formed in a rectangular shape. When a maximum width between a first outer periphery of the other principal surface projected onto the one principal surface and a first outer periphery of the one principal surface is defined as W1, the antenna element is mounted in at least part of a region on the one principal surface of the circuit substrate, in which the region has the width W1 from the second outer periphery of the other principal surface projected onto the one principal surface toward the inner side.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor packaging structure having an antenna module, comprising: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a redistribution layer located on the first surface; a metal bump electrically connected with the redistribution layer; a semiconductor chip electrically connected with the redistribution layer; a plastic packaging material layer packaging the metal bump and the semiconductor chip; and an antenna module located on the second surface.

Abstract: A vehicle antenna arranged on a window glass for vehicle includes an element portion having a shape of a crank and being formed by a first element, a second element and a third element; and a feeding portion configured to feed power to the element portion. The first element has a first upper end portion and a first lower end portion, and extends in an up-down direction of the window glass. The second element has a second upper end portion and a second lower end portion, and extends in the up-down direction of the window glass. The third element extends between the first lower end portion and the second upper end portion. A first distance between the first lower end portion and the window glass is different from a second distance between the second upper end portion and the window glass.

Abstract: An RF antenna arrangement has the same or slightly larger footprint as the RF shield for radio chips on a printed circuit board. The apparatus includes a printed circuit board, a digital processor, a radio chip(s), a radio frequency shield, a lid, and an RF antenna arrangement(s). The lid has the same or slightly larger footprint as the RF shield, which enables the lid to fit on the RF shield. The RF antenna is formed as an integral part of the lid. The apparatus also includes an RF transmission coaxial cable(s) having a first end physically and electrically connected to the RF antenna arrangement(s) and the surface of the lid, and a second end electrically coupled to an RF connector. By forming the antenna arrangement(s) from the lid, this invention solves the space constraint problems of antenna placements for wireless device applications. Additionally, this invention is cost-effective and simple to manufacture.

Abstract: A radar assembly includes a monolithic-microwave-integrated-circuit (MMIC), an antenna-element, and a single printed-circuit-board (PCB). The MMIC includes an arrangement of solder-balls configured to couple radar-signals into or out of the MMIC. The antenna-element includes a ridge-air-waveguide configured to propagate radar-signals to or from one or more radiation-slots of the antenna-element. The PCB is directly attached to the MMIC. The PCB includes a transition-feature configured to couple radar-signals between the arrangement of solder-balls and the ridge-air-waveguide. The transition-feature is characterized as a slot that extends between the arrangement of solder-balls and the ridge-air-waveguide. The transition-feature may be an L-shaped-slot or a U-shaped-slot. The assembly is designed/configured to be compatible with known printed circuit board fabrication processes.

Abstract: An antenna unit includes a plate-shaped dielectric substrate, as well as an antenna element and a stub element. The dielectric substrate has a first edge extending along a longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate and a second edge extending along the longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate, and the second edge is opposite to the first edge. The antenna element is disposed along the longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate. The Antenna element has a first end containing a feedpoint and a second end containing an open end. The stub element is disposed between a section of the antenna element having a predetermined length containing the first end of the antenna element and the first edge of the dielectric substrate along the longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate. The stub element has a first end connected to a reference potential and a second end containing an open end.

Abstract: A communications terminal includes a multiple-input multiple-output antenna system. The multiple-input multiple-output antenna system includes a first antenna module, a second antenna module, and a first ground structure. The first antenna module includes a first radiator configured to form a first MIMO antenna and a second radiator configured to form a GPS antenna, and a first slit is provided between the first radiator and the second radiator. The second antenna module includes a third radiator configured to form a low frequency antenna and a fourth radiator configured to form a second MIMO antenna. The second radiator is connected to the third radiator. One end of the first ground structure is connected to the second radiator or the third radiator, and another end is connected to a ground plane of the communications terminal.

Abstract: A set-top box includes a housing including an interior having a base and a top and a first sidewall extending from a perimeter of the base to the top; an antenna coupled to the housing; one or more electric motors coupled the antenna; one or more orientation sensors coupled to the housing; a controller coupled to the housing and electrically coupled to the antenna, the one or more electric motors, and the one or more orientation sensors, the controller configured to receive information from the one or more orientation sensors, determine an orientation of the housing based on the information from the one or more orientation sensors, and actuate the one or more electric motors to change an orientation of the antenna based on the orientation of the housing; and a transmitter within the housing selectively connectable to the antenna.

Abstract: Antenna lens structures, and antenna systems including the lens structures. In one example, an antenna lens apparatus includes a shell made of a first material having a first dielectric constant, the shell defining an interior cavity, and a second material disposed within and at least partially filling the cavity, the second material having a second dielectric constant higher than the first dielectric constant. The shell defines a shape of the lens, and the second material may be a powder.