Patents Examined by HoangAnh T. Le
  • Patent number: 7876281
    Abstract: A magnetic material used for an antenna module of an RFID (radio frequency identification) system that uses a communication frequency of 13.56 MHz, includes an Fe alloy magnetic material containing Fe as a primary component, and Si and Al added thereto, and phosphorous of 0.2 to 0.5 wt % added to the Fe alloy magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiraku Akiho
  • Patent number: 7876284
    Abstract: An antenna substrate for a non-contact communication apparatus includes a support substrate and an antenna coil provided on or inside of the support substrate. The antenna coil has a first opening and an auxiliary coil. The auxiliary coil has a second opening which has an opening area smaller than the first opening. The auxiliary coil is insulated and isolated from the antenna coil, and arranged so that the second opening is opposed to a part of the first opening when viewed from a direction orthogonal to a surface of the support substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Mizoroki, Kohei Mori
  • Patent number: 7876272
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to antenna designs that may improve the performance of a mobile computing device. Some embodiments are directed to a mobile computing device assembly comprising accessory incorporating a supplemental antenna designed to be adjacent to at least one internal antenna of a mobile computing device when the accessory is attached to the mobile computing device. The supplemental antenna and the internal antenna may cooperatively form an antenna system for the mobile computing device resulting in improved performance. In various implementations, the use of the supplemental antenna in conjunction with the internal antenna may enhance antenna performance and/or increase antenna efficiency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Palm, Inc.
    Inventors: Weiping Dou, Avi Kopelman, Yomi Matsuoka, Mark Babella
  • Patent number: 7872611
    Abstract: The invention relates to a leaky coaxial antenna (10) comprising an inner conductor (1), a dielectric (2) around the inner conductor (1), and a first shield conductor (4) disposed around the dielectric (2), the first shield conductor having openings (41) distributed in longitudinal direction of the inner conductor (1) and being adapted in that electromagnetic energy passes through the openings (41). A second shield conductor (5) is disposed around or underneath the first shield conductor (4), the second shield conductor (5) being adapted to cover or mask at least a number of the openings (41) of the first shield conductor in a shielded section (S1-S12). The second shield conductor (5) is arranged discontinuously In the longitudinal direction of the antenna (10) defining uncovered or unmasked portions (AS1-AS12) of the first shield conductor (4) in the longitudinal direction of the antenna which are adapted in that electromagnetic energy passes through the uncovered portions (AS1-AS12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Inventor: Joachim Müller
  • Patent number: 7872608
    Abstract: An antenna system includes first, second and third antennas that are arranged on a substrate. The first, second and third antennas include an arc-shaped element having a concave side and a convex side and a conducting element that extends substantially radially from a center of said concave side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: James Li, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 7872606
    Abstract: An Ultra Wide Band (UWB) antenna includes a base substrate that includes a signal feed and two or more antenna substrates communicatively coupled with the signal feed. Each antenna substrate includes a plurality of microstrip resonating lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventor: Dajun Cheng
  • Patent number: 7868827
    Abstract: Device comprising a patch antenna, and coupling means for connecting the antenna to an electronic component, wherein the patch antenna is arranged on one side of an antenna plate, and the electronic component can be mounted on the other side of the antenna plate, wherein the coupling means comprise a metal passage through the antenna plate. This passage thus ensures the transmission of signals between the antenna and the electronic component. Such a passage is mechanically very robust and not susceptible to ageing, whereby this passage is suitable for automotive applications. This passage is generally not ideal, since it does not have the same characteristic impedance as the antenna and the electronic component, but the dimensions of the passage can be kept sufficiently small so that no disruption is encountered from this impedance mismatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Stiching Noble House
    Inventor: Patrick Walter Joseph Dijkstra
  • Patent number: 7864115
    Abstract: The invention provides a wireless chip which can secure the safety of consumers while being small in size, favorable in communication property, and inexpensive, and the invention also provides an application thereof. Further, the invention provides a wireless chip which can be recycled after being used for managing the manufacture, circulation, and retail. A wireless chip includes a layer including a semiconductor element, and an antenna. The antenna includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a dielectric layer sandwiched between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, and has a spherical shape, an ovoid shape, an oval spherical shape like a go stone, an oval spherical shape like a rugby ball, or a disc shape, or has a cylindrical shape or a polygonal prism shape in which an outer edge portion thereof has a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Konami Izumi
  • Patent number: 7859480
    Abstract: A portable electronic device having an RFID function has an RFID antenna having a planar coil formed by winding a conductor. The RFID antenna is a loop antenna having a loop diameter corresponding to RFID with a strong electromagnetic field characteristic, and has an antenna pattern where a part of its coil turn which is other than an innermost coil turn is placed inward of the innermost coil turn. The antenna pattern can be provided by bending or branching a part of a coil turn of the conductor which is other than the innermost coil turn in such a way that the part of the coil turn is laced inward of the innermost coil turn, thereby ensuring compensation for the magnetic field strength at the center portion of the antenna and achieving excellent communications without a non-communicatable area even with the RFID having a slight electromagnetic field characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7852277
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a circularly polarized horn antenna may include a circular polarizer having a step shape. In some embodiments, a circularly polarized horn antenna may include a choke that is offset in position with respect to the antenna aperture. Such antennas may have a relatively constant beamwidth with respect to frequency, compact size, and/or low weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Tommyhing-K H. Lam
  • Patent number: 7852282
    Abstract: A module for receiving one or more electromagnetic waves moving along a path in a direction of propagation. The module includes a first electrically conductive strip disposed in a first pattern and a second substantially electrically conductive strip disposed in a second pattern. The first and second strips are positioned substantially parallel to each other and spaced apart, and are electrically connected to each other. The first and second patterns are substantially opposite to each other, so that current passing through the first and second strips generates respective electromagnetic fields which are substantially opposed to each other. The first strip is positionable in the path of the electromagnetic wave and substantially transverse to the direction of propagation, to provide a protected region from which said at least one electromagnetic wave is substantially excluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Inventor: Zbigniew Malecki
  • Patent number: 7847749
    Abstract: An integrated antenna and reflector feed is provided which is structured as a waveguide cavity antenna or array having a curved reflector coupled to a sidewall of the waveguide cavity. A radiation source is situated facing the curved reflector and one or more radiating elements are provided on a top surface of the waveguide cavity. Several curved reflector feeds may be used, operating in the same or different frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Wavebender, Inc.
    Inventor: Dedi David Haziza
  • Patent number: 7847753
    Abstract: A transparent antenna for a display, for example, a portable telephone, the transparent antenna performing good transmission and reception, not bulky, and not impairing design of an apparatus. The transparent antenna for a display has an insulating sheet-like transparent substrate and has a planar antenna pattern formed on the surface of the transparent substrate. An electrically conductive section of the antenna pattern is constructed from an electrically conductive thin film of a mesh structure, outlines of each mesh are constituted from extra fine bands with substantially the same width, and the light transmittance of the section where the antenna pattern is formed is equal to or more than 70%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Ishibashi, Shuzo Okumura, Yuki Matsui, Yoshitaka Yamaoka, Takayuki Takagi, Hiromitsu Muko, Ryomei Omote
  • Patent number: 7847741
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display unit. A display portion is provided in the display unit. Antennas are provided in the display unit. The antennas include a first antenna which serves as a transmitting antenna and a second antenna which serves as a receiving antenna. An antenna switching unit makes, when the display unit is used in a state where the first antenna is located in a side of the display unit which side is closest to a user, the first antenna serve as the receiving antenna, and the second antenna serve as the transmitting antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Hirota
  • Patent number: 7843395
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus has a touch pen. The touch pen includes a pen tube and an antenna. The pen tube has a hollow tube body and a touch end. The tube body is used to accommodate the antenna. Further, the antenna has a fixed tube body and a telescopic tube body. The interior of the fixed tube body is provided with electronic circuit and is electrically connected with the telescopic tube body. Therefore, when the touch pen is accommodated in the electronic device and is electrically connected with the electronic device, the electronic device can receive the wireless signals via the antenna within the touch pen. Alternatively, the antenna is provided within the electronic device directly and is electrically connected thereto, so that the electronic device can be kept to have a function of receiving the wireless signals during the use of the touch pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignees: Giga-Byte Communications Inc., Giga-Byte Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li-Ying Chen, Ju-Wen Teng
  • Patent number: 7839334
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a package substrate, a die, and an antenna structure. The die includes a functional circuit module and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver that processes inbound and outbound RF signals. The antenna structure is coupled to the RF transceiver and is on the die and/or the package substrate. The antenna structure receives the inbound RF signal within a frequency band of approximately 55 GHz to 64 GHz and transmits the outbound RF signal within the frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 7839352
    Abstract: A resonant tag for use with a radio-wave detection system for the prevention of shoplifting or the like, which has a coil and capacitor circuit formed on opposite sides of an extremely thin substrate of a biaxially-oriented polypropylene, with one of the capacitor plates formed on one side of the substrate and the coil and other capacitor plate formed on the other side of the substrate, and paper layers on both sides of the tag, whereby the circuit is destroyed when the tag is washed in water or dry cleaned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Checkpoint Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Strauser, Charles Iacono
  • Patent number: 7839344
    Abstract: A linear antenna for operation in the HF frequency range, particularly for naval communications is disclosed, comprising a radiating arrangement (H1, H2, H3, W1, W2), adapted to be operatively associated with a ground conductor (20) and at least one electrical impedance device (Z1-Z4), characterized in that it includes: a plurality of wire radiating elements with a predominantly vertical extension, forming a first and a second conducting branch (H1, H2) adapted to be operatively coupled to a feed circuit, and a return conducting branch (H3) adapted to be operatively coupled to a ground conductor (20); and a plurality of wire radiating elements with a predominantly transverse extension, forming connecting conducting branches (W1, W2) for connecting the conducting branches (H1, H2) adapted to be coupled to the feed circuit (12), to the conducting branch (H3) adapted to be coupled to the ground conductor (20), the radiating elements being positioned in such a way as to form, in a plane in which the antenna lies,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Selex Communications S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gaetano Marrocco, Fernando Bardati, Manlio Proia, Piero Tognolatti, Lorenzo Mattioni, Raffaele Perelli, Giampiero Colasanti, Giovanni Falcione
  • Patent number: 7834808
    Abstract: Multilayer electronic component systems and methods of manufacture are provided. In this regard, an exemplary system comprises a first layer of liquid crystal polymer (LCP), first electronic components supported by the first layer, and a second layer of LCP. The first layer is attached to the second layer by thermal bonds. Additionally, at least a portion of the first electronic components are located between the first layer and the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Dane Thompson, Guoan Wang, Nickolas D. Kingsley, Ioannis Papapolymerou, Emmanouil M. Tentzeris, Ramanan Bairavasubramanian, Gerald DeJean, RongLin Li
  • Patent number: 7830311
    Abstract: A wireless IC device includes a wireless IC chip for processing a transmission/reception signal, a printed wiring circuit board on which the wireless IC chip is mounted, a ground electrode disposed on the circuit board, and a substantially loop-shaped electrode that is electrically conducted to the wireless IC chip and disposed on the circuit board so as to be coupled to the ground electrode by an electromagnetic field. The ground electrode is coupled to the wireless IC chip via the substantially loop-shaped electrode to transmit/receive a radio frequency signal. A feeder circuit board including a resonant circuit and/or a matching circuit may be interposed between the wireless IC chip and the substantially loop-shaped electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kataya, Noboru Kato, Satoshi Ishino, Nobuo Ikemoto, Ikuhei Kimura