Patents Examined by Hoang V. Nguyen
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Patent number: 11605903Abstract: Waveguide slot array antennas each having slots, that transmit or receive electromagnetic waves and that are formed in a front surface of a waveguide and waveguide slot array antennas each having slots that transmit or receive electromagnetic waves and that are formed in a front surface of a waveguide, and the waveguide slot array antennas and the waveguide slot array antennas are alternately arranged, the waveguide is a ridge waveguide having a ridge formed inside the waveguide, and the waveguide is a ridge waveguide having ridges, formed inside the waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hikaru Watanabe, Takashi Maruyama, Masataka Otsuka, Yu Ushijima, Kazunari Kihira
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Patent number: 11605895Abstract: An active biconical antenna and a receive array comprising a combination of active biconical and Vivaldi antennas. In one configuration, the active biconical antenna includes upper and lower cones. Each cone has a respective truncated apex. First and second feed points are respectively connected to the truncated apexes of the upper and lower cones and to first and second conductors. The active biconical antenna further includes a buffer amplifier having respective input terminals connected to the first and second conductors. The buffer amplifier has an input impedance that is impedance matched to an antenna impedance at and above but not below a frequency fc and is higher than the antenna impedance at frequencies substantially less than fc. The buffer amplifier also has an output impedance that is impedance matched to a system impedance at frequencies both above and below fc. A length of the first and second conductors is less than a wavelength at the frequency fc.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Carson R. White, Ignacio Ramos, Hyok J. Song, Nathan R. Brooks, Todd Rork
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Patent number: 11605885Abstract: A radio assembly is provided. The radio assembly includes at least one radio module and a radome. The radio module has a heatsink disposed on one side and a radio module base on the other side thereof. The radio module base is disposed between the heatsink and the radome. The heatsink defines a cable channel for routing at least one power cable and at least one data cable.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Brian Lehman, Thomas Burn, Scott Mason, David Pell, Jianjun An, MÃ¥rten Skoger
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Patent number: 11605875Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for two-way satellite communication and an asymmetric-aperture antenna for two-way satellite communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a beam pattern for an asymmetric-aperture antenna is offset in a narrow beamwidth direction, and the offset beam pattern is directed by a mechanical gimbal, with the beam pattern offset made to reduce interference with an adjacent satellite. In additional embodiments, operational areas near the equator are identified for a given offset beam pattern, or a beam pattern offset may be adjusted over time to compensate for movement of the asymmetric-aperture antenna when attached to an airplane, boat, or other mobile vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Viasat, Inc.Inventor: David H. Irvine
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Patent number: 11605886Abstract: An antenna assembly is provided having passive cooling elements that enable compact design. In one example, an antenna assembly is provided that includes a heat sink assembly having an interior side and an exterior side, an antenna array, an antenna circuit board, and a radome. The antenna circuit board includes at least one integrated circuit (IC) die. The IC die has a conductive primary heat dissipation path to the interior side of the heat sink assembly. The radome is coupled to the heat sink assembly and encloses the antenna circuit board and the antenna array between the radome and the heat sink assembly. The heat sink assembly includes a metal base plate and at least a first heat pipe embedded with the metal base plate. The first heat pipe is disposed between the metal base plate and the IC die.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: XILINX, INC.Inventors: Gamal Refai-Ahmed, Chi-Yi Chao, Lik Tsang, Jens Weis, Brendan Farley, Anthony Torza, Suresh Ramalingam
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Patent number: 11600897Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device including a housing comprising a front plate which faces a first direction, a back plate which faces a second direction opposite from the first direction, and a lateral member which surrounds a space between the front plate and the back plate and has at least one part formed from a metal material, a display seen through a first part of the front plate, an antenna module positioned inside the space, and a wireless communication circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Heecheul Moon, Sangyoup Seok, Kwonho Son
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Patent number: 11600907Abstract: A portable computing device includes an antenna within its housing structure for wireless connectivity, where an upper partition of the housing structure is used to construct an antenna plane, and a ground plane is incorporated into a lower partition of the housing structure. In some cases, the antenna is capable of maintaining wireless connectivity over a wide frequency band. Some embodiments include a device mount external to the upper partition and the lower partition of the housing structure that enables mounting the portable computing device to another entity, such as a user. In some cases, the device mount is external to the antenna used by the portable computing device, and does not include any portions of the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Katherine Coles, Michael Russell, Robert DeGroot, Eric Krenz
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Patent number: 11594816Abstract: An antenna includes a piezoelectric disc. The antenna further includes a first electrode disposed on a first surface of the piezoelectric disc and a second electrode disposed on a second surface of the piezoelectric disc that is opposite to the first surface. The first electrode and the second electrode are to receive a time-varying voltage to excite a mechanical vibration in the piezoelectric disc, and the piezoelectric disc is to radiate electromagnetic energy at a particular frequency responsive to the mechanical vibration.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Ahmed Hassanien, Michael Breen, Ming-Huang Li, Songbin Gong
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Patent number: 11588233Abstract: A method for tuning an antenna may include depositing multiple portions of an antenna structure onto a substrate. The method may further include electrically coupling each of the portions of the antenna structure. The method may also include severing an electrical connection between two of the portions of the antenna structure to tune the antenna structure for use with a transmission device.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: John F. Kaeding, Owen R. Fay
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Patent number: 11588231Abstract: A radar sensor. The radar sensor includes a high-frequency component situated on a circuit board and a waveguide structure, which is connected via a coupling structure to the high-frequency component. The waveguide structure is formed in a mold, which is injection molded to a part of the circuit board supporting the high-frequency component.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Alexander Fischer, Andreas Kugler, Armin Himmelstoss, Corinne Grevent, Isabel Zander, Torsten Maenz, Christian Silber
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Patent number: 11588232Abstract: An antenna structure includes a radiator element configured for operation at a first microwave frequency range and at a second microwave frequency range that is higher than the first microwave frequency range, and a reflector including the radiator element attached thereto. The reflector includes an enclosure that houses the radiator element and a radiating aperture. The antenna structure further includes a radome assembly adjacent the radiating aperture. The radome assembly includes a flexible radome having a thickness that is less than a wavelength corresponding to the first or second microwave frequency ranges, and a tensioning member that extends along a perimeter of the flexible radome and maintains tension in a surface of the flexible radome.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Thomas C. Tulloch, Griogair Whyte, Donald B. Gardner, Matthew Lewry, Craig Mitchelson, Steven William Bell
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Patent number: 11581664Abstract: An antenna is described. The antenna includes a first plurality of first elements. Each of the first elements is dual polarized and configured to support a first set of bands and a second set of bands that is mutually exclusive from the first set of bands. The antenna also includes a second plurality of second elements. Each of the second elements is dual polarized and configured to support the second set of bands. The second plurality of second elements is interleaved with the first plurality of first elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Jorge Fabrega Sanchez, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Assaf Aviv, Taesik Yang, Jeongil Jay Kim, Kevin Hsi-Huai Wang
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Patent number: 11581648Abstract: A multiport planar antenna system with digital reconfigurability to adjust a beam-steering function of the system is described herein. A substrate is provided and a grid of parasitic elements is printed on a surface of the substrate. One or more driven, radiating elements such as monopole or dipole antennas are printed on the substrate proximate the parasitic elements. Switching elements between adjacent parasitic elements are then configured to steer the radiation direction in a particular direction in the azimuth plane. The small form factor of the planar antenna system can be used in a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) application used by fifth generation (5G) devices such as mobile phones, internet of things (IoT) devices, and vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Ross David Murch, Chi Yuk Chiu, Wei Xie, Yujie Zhang, Shanpu Shen
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Patent number: 11575207Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a plug-in antenna device arranged to be received in a waveguide section. The plug-in antenna device includes one or more dielectric elements arranged in series and spaced apart by connecting members, a top-most dielectric element being arranged as antenna element. When the plug-in antenna device is received in the waveguide section, the dielectric elements are arranged electromagnetically coupled, whereby a radio frequency signal included in a radio frequency band passing to or from the antenna element via the dielectric elements is arranged to be electromagnetically filtered.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventor: Anatoli Deleniv
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Patent number: 11575214Abstract: A reflectarray antenna system includes an antenna feed configured to at least one of transmit and receive a wireless signal occupying a frequency band. The system also includes a reflector having a reflectarray. The reflectarray includes a plurality of reflectarray elements, where each of the reflectarray elements includes a dipole element. The dipole element of at least a portion of the plurality of reflectarray elements comprises a crossed-dipole portion and a looped-dipole portion. The plurality of reflectarray elements can be configured to selectively phase-delay the wireless signal to provide the wireless signal as a coherent beam.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas H. Hand, Michael E. Cooley, David Sall, Gary L. Kempic
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Patent number: 11563262Abstract: An integrated heatsink and antenna structure that is suitable for inclusion in small and midsized computing devices. The integrated heatsink and antenna structure may include heatsink portions and radio frequency antenna portions. The heatsink portions may provide a path for dissipating thermal energy or heat generated by the components in the device (e.g., printed circuit boards, processors, voltage amplifiers, etc.), and the radio frequency (RF) antenna portions may allow the device to send and receive wireless communications. The integrated heatsink and antenna structure may be formed so that radio frequency antenna portions operate to improve the thermal performance of the heatsink portions and/or so that the heatsink portions operate to improve the antenna properties (e.g., radiation patterns, radiation efficiency, bandwidth, input impedance, polarization, directivity, gain, beam-width, voltage standing wave ratio, etc.) of the radio frequency antenna portions.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: VEEA Inc.Inventors: Shaun Joseph Greaney, Michael Liccone, Michael Mirabella, Theodore Lubbe, Dave Doyle, Bob Migliorino, Perry Wintner, Clint Smith
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Patent number: 11557840Abstract: Antenna feed chains and methods are disclosed. An antenna feed chain, include a feed horn having a first cross-polarization performance over a solid angle of interest and a frequency band of interest and a polarizer having a second cross-polarization performance over the solid angle of interest and the frequency band of interest. The polarizer is coupled to the feed horn. The first cross-polarization performance of the feed horn compensates for the second cross-polarization performance of the polarizer over the solid angle of interest and the frequency band of interest.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: VIASAT, INC.Inventor: Martin Gimersky
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Patent number: 11557824Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an antenna mounting device and a base station antenna system. The antenna mounting device includes a hinge device and an adjustment arm. The hinge device is configured to be mounted to a pole by a clamp and configured to pivotally connect a base station antenna arrangement. The adjustment arm is configured to be mounted to the pole by a clamp and configured to connect the base station antenna arrangement. The connection of the hinge device with the base station antenna arrangement is located in a middle region of a longitudinal extension of the base station antenna arrangement [having a longitudinal extension] of a maximum of ? of the longitudinal extension of the base station antenna arrangement. A connection of the adjustment arm with the base station antenna arrangement is located in one of two end regions of the base station antenna arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Zhigang Wang, PuLiang Tang, Ruixin Su, Maosheng Liu, Nengbin Liu
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Patent number: 11552386Abstract: The disclosed invention provides a distributed directional aperture (DDA) system that is installed in a vertical lift aircraft that comprises a fuselage and a rotor system including rotary wings rotatably coupled to the fuselage. The DDA system provides capability to receive and/or transmit signals in one or more frequency bands, and provides communications, signals intelligence (SIGNINT), positional sensing, jamming, and offensive cyber on the vertical lift aircraft. The DDA system of the vertical lift aircraft includes a sensor and emitter array subsystem that includes a plurality of sensors and emitters distributed in the rotary wings, a beamformer subsystem that processes the sensor signals and emitter signals, and a telemetry subsystem that conveys signals between the sensor and emitter array subsystem and the beamformer subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Peter B. Houser, Andrew S. Cardes
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Patent number: 11545747Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed herein for a cylindrically fed antenna and method for using the same. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises an antenna feed to input a cylindrical feed wave and a tunable slotted array coupled to the antenna feed.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Adam Bily, Nathan Kundtz, Mikala Johnson