Patents Examined by Hoanganh Le
  • Patent number: 9601834
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure are related to an antenna system including radiating elements and reflectors. The reflectors can be disposed with respect to the radiating elements to reflect radiation from the radiating elements to generate a coverage area that exceeds the coverage area generated by the radiating elements without the reflectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventors: Stan Rankin, Brock Judd, Mark Edwards
  • Patent number: 9590289
    Abstract: Communications antennae suitable for operating in harsh environmental conditions and methods for providing such antennae are disclosed. Exemplary implementations of the communications antenna may provide an ability to transmit and receive radio frequency signals while being exposed to formidable conditions for many years. Such conditions may include one or more of shallow and deep ocean, radioactive, ultraviolet, ultra cold, ultra-high pressure, and/or other harsh environments. The antenna may be ruggedized to withstand attacks by marine mammals and fish, encounters with fishing equipment including nets and lines, entanglement with marine debris, abrasion (e.g., by coral, sand, rock, and/or other objects), collision with maritime vessels and submersibles, and/or other unpredictable events. The efficient radio frequency design and efficient form factor may provide users with a small, unobtrusive device with a capacity for extensive integration in the radio frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: MRV Systems, LLC
    Inventors: James Edward Dufour, Brian Kenneth Newville
  • Patent number: 9590293
    Abstract: A dipole antenna assembly for an electronic device includes a rear mount having electronic components exposed at one of its surfaces, an antenna, a printed circuit board, and a battery. The antenna may be adjacent the rear flexible mount. The antenna includes a first portion and a second portion. The second portion comprises a transmission line. The printed circuit board can be connected to the antenna and the battery can be connected to a portion of the rear flexible mount and the printed circuit board. A positive arm of the dipole antenna assembly can include the battery, and a negative arm of the dipole antenna assembly can include the outside surface of the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Bevelacqua
  • Patent number: 9583816
    Abstract: A wireless transceiver includes at least one antenna, a substrate, and a mechanical part on which the at least one antenna is disposed, wherein a relative position between the at least one antenna and the substrate is changed when an external force is applied to the mechanical part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Wistron NeWeb Corporation
    Inventors: Yung-Cheng Lin, Chien-Ming Peng
  • Patent number: 9583819
    Abstract: An antenna device includes an input/output portion for a high frequency signal to be input or output, a distributing portion for distributing the high frequency signal input to the input/output portion into a plurality of high frequency signals, a phase shifting portion for imparting the plurality of high frequency signals with a predetermined amount of phase shift, and a feeding portion for feeding a plurality of antenna elements with the plurality of high frequency signals imparted with the predetermined amount of phase shift to cause the plurality of antenna elements to radiate the plurality of high frequency signals. The feeding portion is configured as a triplate line with a center conductor placed between one pair of parallel plate shaped outer conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Iso, Nobuaki Kitano, Tomoyuki Ogawa, Yoshiaki Ishigami
  • Patent number: 9583823
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a foldable radome sub-assembly for an antenna reflector dish has flexible material connected to a plurality of rigid rim segments. Connection elements (e.g., inserts) are configured to interconnect two adjacent rim segments, such that, with the connection elements applied, the radome sub-assembly is configured as a radome connectable to the antenna reflector dish, and, without the connection elements applied, the radome sub-assembly is foldable between adjacent rim segments. The foldable radome sub-assembly can be folded up for efficient storage and shipping, yet is easy to configure in the field into a rigid radome for attachment to an antenna reflector dish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Allan M. Tasker, Junaid ul Islam Syed, John S. Curran, Brian J. Lawson
  • Patent number: 9577602
    Abstract: An antenna system including a signal source, at least one antenna coupled to the signal source, a matching circuit connected to the signal source at a first port and to the at least one antenna at a second port and operative to match the at least one antenna to the signal source, the matching circuit having a characteristic impedance with respect to the first port and the second port, real and imaginary parts of the characteristic impedance not being defined by the Hilbert transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: GALTRONICS CORPORATION, LTD.
    Inventor: Matti Martiskainen
  • Patent number: 9577301
    Abstract: A feeding network is realized by dielectric phase shifting module. The module includes a dielectric device into which interlayer space is defined, a first conductor and a second conductor disposed side by side into the interlayer space and a third conductor located outside of the interlayer space and connected, at different locations, to one end, located at a same side, of each of the first and second conductors. Another end of the first conductor is defined as an input end, while another end of the second conductor and any end of the third conductor are all defined as output ends. The dielectric device is configured to slide along a longitudinal direction of the first and second conductors under external force so as to change phase of signals fed in from the input end and fed out from the output ends. Two dielectric phase-shift modules constitute a phase-shift unit thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: COMBA TELECOM SYSTEM (CHINA) LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Cao, Peitao Liu, Shanqiu Sun
  • Patent number: 9570803
    Abstract: An antenna which operates in a plurality of frequency bands includes a feeding point, a first conductor which is connected to the feeding point, and at least two second conductors which are branched from the first conductor, have a linear shape, and include open ends as ends on a side opposite to the first conductor. The open ends of the two second conductors face in almost the same direction substantially parallel to a side closest to the feeding point out of the sides of an antenna region. The two second conductors include a part at which the distance between the two conductors at a portion parallel to the side is a first distance, and another part at which the distance is a second distance shorter than the first distance, and are electromagnetically coupled at, at least the other part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hajime Shimura
  • Patent number: 9553361
    Abstract: The invention relates to a balanced antenna system comprising a radiator connected via a matching circuit to a balun. In certain embodiments, the radiator comprises a first radiating element and a second radiating element and the matching circuit comprises a first impedance-matching circuit connected to the first radiating element and a second impedance-matching circuit connected to the second radiating element. The first and second matching circuits may be identical and are connected through the balun to a single port. To minimize the component count, the design of the matching circuit and balun is co-optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SMART ANTENNA TECHNOLOGIES LTD
    Inventors: Zhen Hua Sampson Hu, Peter Hall
  • Patent number: 9553476
    Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna assembly including a substrate, and a wireless charge antenna pattern on the substrate. The wireless charge antenna pattern has a sectional surface including a plurality of inner angles in which two inner angles are different from each other. The antenna assembly includes a wireless communication antenna pattern formed on the substrate and provided at an outside of the wireless charge antenna pattern. The wireless communication antenna pattern has a plurality of inner angles at a sectional surface thereof, and a plurality of angle values of the inner angles provided at the sectional surface of the wireless communication antenna pattern correspond to a plurality of angle values of the inner angles provided at the sectional surface of the wireless charge antenna pattern, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong Wook An, Jung Oh Lee, Yang Hyun Kim, Ki Min Lee, Hye Min Lee, Sung Hyun Leem, Ki Chul Chang
  • Patent number: 9547335
    Abstract: Embodiments describe a semi-transparent or transparent module antenna assembly disposed on a transparent portion of a user wearable device (e.g., a head wearable display or a smartwatch). Embodiments describe semi-transparent or transparent antenna assemblies disposed on portions of a wearable computing device not in direct contact with the user when the device is worn to increase the antenna's efficiency for receiving radio signals and to decrease the radiation absorbed by the user's body. Furthermore, the antenna is disposed on a transparent or semi-transparent surface to further increase the antenna's efficiency. For some embodiments utilized by head wearable displays, the portion of the device including the semi-transparent or transparent antenna assembly may be the optical system, which includes a transparent portion (e.g., a prism) for displaying CGI to a user; in other embodiments, the head wearable display including the semi-transparent or transparent antenna assembly is the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Bevelacqua, Joseph John Hebenstreit
  • Patent number: 9543640
    Abstract: Techniques, devices and systems use pseudo-conductor materials as antennas to receive or radiate electromagnetic energy for communications and other applications. Methods of configuring an antenna can include, in some implementations, selecting a pseudo-conductor material having an electromagnetic constitutive property, wherein the electromagnetic constitutive property comprises a real part of the electromagnetic constitutive property that is greater than a corresponding imaginary part of the electromagnetic constitutive property; and forming the pseudo-conductor material into an antenna shape configured, upon being excited, to radiate emissions that satisfy a predefined antenna performance, such that the pseudo-conductor material formed in the antenna shape weakly guides an electromagnetic wave on the pseudo-conductor material using a leaky mode that is below cutoff to establish a field structure to radiate the emissions from the pseudo-conductor material that satisfy the antenna performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: General Atomics
    Inventor: Rodolfo E. Diaz
  • Patent number: 9543655
    Abstract: Provided is an antenna structure which is capable of having sufficient antenna performance even in an antenna having a small cross-sectional area. The antenna of the present invention comprises: a ferrite sheet; and an antenna sheet (flexible printed circuit board) which has a spiral loop antenna pattern. The antenna sheet is folded and the ferrite sheet is inserted therein to form a folded antenna. The folded antenna is configured in such a manner that a longitudinal pattern of the spiral loop antenna pattern is disposed close to a longitudinal centerline portion of the ferrite sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: AQ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Hoon Lee, Kyung Jun Choi
  • Patent number: 9520650
    Abstract: A combined antenna device includes a coupled feed antenna including a first grounded coupling element and a millimeter wave phased array antenna having a ground plane structure including a portion of the first grounded coupling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Songnan Yang, Helen K. Pan, Manish A. Hiranandanl, Fan (Cherry) Xia, Ulun Karacaoglu
  • Patent number: 9520655
    Abstract: A dual-polarized patch antenna, an dual-polarized patch antenna array, and a method for forming the same are provided. The dual-polarized patch antenna comprises a radome, a horizontal feed and a vertical feed, a first cross-shaped patch, and a ground plane including a cross aperture. The dual-polarized patch antenna may include a cross patch and a cross aperture to increase the isolation in a cross-polarization between a horizontal polarized signal and a vertical polarized signal in a first principle plane and to decrease a mismatch in co-polarizations between the horizontal polarized signal and the vertical polarized signal in a second principle plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
    Inventor: Jorge Luis Salazar Cerreno
  • Patent number: 9515373
    Abstract: A method and system for communication with assemblies comprising shafts (e.g., drive shafts, or other rotating objects) comprising use of helical antenna based components. In this regard, a helical antenna based component may comprise one or more helical antennas surrounding or wound around a shaft, with the one or more helical antennas being electrically decoupled from the shaft, and with the helical antenna based component being configurable to communicate the signals when the shaft is stationary or rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Charles W. Manry, Jr., Manny S. Urcia
  • Patent number: 9515386
    Abstract: An antenna arrangement comprising at least a first and a second elongated structure, e.g., a coaxial cable, for guiding an electromagnetic wave is provided. Each of said structures comprises a plurality of radiation elements. The structures are positioned alongside each other in their longitudinal direction of extension forming a bundle. The elongated structures are arranged within the bundle such that the radial positions of said structures are alternated in the longitudinal direction of extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Henrik Asplund, Anders Derneryd, Jonas Medbo
  • Patent number: 9515389
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure are related to an antenna system including radiating elements and reflectors. The reflectors can be disposed with respect to the radiating elements to reflect radiation from the radiating elements to generate a coverage area that exceeds the coverage area generated by the radiating elements without the reflectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventors: Stan Rankin, Brock Judd, Mark Edwards
  • Patent number: 9509042
    Abstract: Antenna structures and methods of operating the same are described. One apparatus includes a metal cover having a first corner ground element, a second corner ground element, a first strip element, a second strip element, a radio frequency (RF) feed, and a RF circuit. The first strip element is physically separated from the first corner ground element by a first cutout in the metal cover. The first strip element is physically separated from the second strip element by a second cutout in the metal cover. The second strip element is physically separated from the second corner ground element by a third cutout in the metal cover. The RF circuitry is coupled to the RF feed, where the RF circuitry is operable to cause the first corner ground element and the first strip element as well as the second corner ground element and the second strip element to radiate electromagnetic energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Zheng, Adrian Napoles, Jerry Kuo, Khaled Obeidat