Patents Examined by Jae K Kim
  • Patent number: 11271282
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display area, in which an image is displayed, and a non-display area, in which no image is displayed. A window overlaps the display panel. An antenna sheet is disposed between the display panel and the window. The antenna sheet includes a first antenna portion having a mesh shape, and a second antenna portion integrally connected to the first antenna portion and having a frame shape. The first antenna portion corresponds to the display area and the second antenna portion corresponds to the non-display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nam Jin Jang
  • Patent number: 11264725
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus and a terminal, where the antenna apparatus includes an antenna body and at least one stub, where a feed terminal is disposed on the antenna body, one end of the stub is electrically coupled to a coupling point between the feed terminal and a first open-circuit end of the antenna body, and the other end of the stub is an open-circuit end, and an antenna body length between the coupling point and the feed terminal is a half of a wavelength corresponding to a specified operating frequency, and a length of the stub is one quarter of the wavelength corresponding to the specified operating frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hanyang Wang, Chien-Ming Lee, Xuefei Zhang, Lijun Ying, Liang Xue, Jiaqing You, Lei Wang, Yue Shi, Dong Yu, Guoping Wu, Bo Huang
  • Patent number: 11264722
    Abstract: An antenna is provided, including: a first substrate, having has a first and a second surfaces parallel to each other and having a dielectric; a second substrate, having a third and a fourth surfaces parallel to each other, the third surface being disposed to face and abut the second surface, having a dielectric; a first radiation conductor, formed on the first surface; a second radiation conductor, formed on the third surface; and a power supply, supplying power to the first and second radiation conductors. A position of the power supply is disposed from centers of the first and second radiation conductors by distance d. A distance between a position where a reflection loss with respect to the second high-frequency signal becomes the smallest and the centers is d0, d/d0 is equal to or larger than 4/3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soichiro Etani
  • Patent number: 11264724
    Abstract: An antenna includes a feed element, a ground element, and a slot therebetween. The feed element includes a feed end wall and first and second feed side walls extending from the feed end wall at first and second corners. The ground element includes a ground end wall and first and second ground side walls at first and second corners. The slot includes a first slot portion between the first feed and ground side walls, a second slot portion between the second feed and ground side walls, and a third slot portion between the feed and ground end walls. The third slot portion is continuous between the first slot portion and the second slot portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: Alan W. Miller
  • Patent number: 11264731
    Abstract: An antenna array and a wireless communications device are disclosed. The antenna array includes at least two directional antennas in different directions. Each directional antenna includes an antenna element, a reflector, a feed line coupled to the antenna element, and a switch for controlling the feed line. The antenna element is a microstrip dipole antenna element. The reflector is a parasitic microstrip antenna element. A length of the reflector is greater than a length the antenna element. Two ends of the reflector are bent toward the antenna element. A distance between midpoints of reflectors of any two directional antennas is less than a distance between midpoints of antenna elements thereof. Because the reflectors of the antenna array are located on an inner side of a pattern enclosed by the antenna elements of directional antennas, a size of the antenna array is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Maomao Zhu, Bo Yuan, Rui Hua
  • Patent number: 11258171
    Abstract: An antenna includes a dielectric substrate, a radiating element, a parasitic element, and a ground conductor. The dielectric substrate has a plate-like shape having a top face and a back face opposite to each other. The radiating element is placed between the top face and the back face of the dielectric substrate and transmits and receives a radio frequency signal of a first frequency. The parasitic element is placed on the top face of the dielectric substrate and transmits and receives a radio frequency signal of a second frequency. The ground conductor is placed on the back face of the dielectric substrate. The second frequency is a lower frequency than the first frequency. The dielectric substrate has an electric field boundary plane that reflects a radio frequency signal of the second frequency at an intermediate position in a thickness direction orthogonal to the top face and the back face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Izawa, Yoshiki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11251521
    Abstract: An antenna structure includes a substrate, a feeding radiation element, a first grounding radiation element, a second grounding radiation element, and a first circuit element. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other. The feeding radiation element includes a body portion, a bridging portion, and an extension portion. The body portion has a feeding point. The bridging portion is coupled between the body portion and the extension portion. The first grounding radiation element is coupled to a ground voltage. The first circuit element is coupled between the first grounding radiation element and the second grounding radiation element. The bridging portion of the feeding radiation element is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The first circuit element is disposed on the second surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORP.
    Inventors: Tzu-Min Wu, Kuo-Jen Lai, Kuang-Yuan Ku
  • Patent number: 11251526
    Abstract: An antenna device is enclosed in a housing. The antenna device includes a dielectric substrate in which a plurality of layers including a ground layer is stacked on top of one another, a feed element, a parasitic element, a feed line, and a conductive member placed in or on the dielectric substrate. The feed element is placed within or on a surface of the housing, and the parasitic element is placed in the dielectric substrate. The feed line is placed, in the dielectric substrate, in a layer between a layer in which the parasitic element is placed and the ground layer and sends a radio frequency signal. When the dielectric substrate is attached to the housing, the conductive member electrically connects the feed line and the feed element and supplies a radio frequency signal to the feed element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Onaka, Kaoru Sudo, Hirotsugu Mori
  • Patent number: 11251534
    Abstract: An antenna radiates signals in Band41 whose center frequency is ?1 and Band42 whose center frequency is ?2. A medium substrate is used as a carrier of a top radiating element, a phase inversion unit, and a bottom radiating element; an end of the top radiating element is connected to an end of the phase inversion unit; the other end of the phase inversion unit is connected to an end of the bottom radiating element, a length of the phase inversion unit is 3?2/2, and the length of the phase inversion unit is greater than ?1/2; and the phase inversion unit includes at least two current phase inversion points, a part between the at least two current phase inversion points does not produce radiation, and the top radiating element and the bottom radiating element horizontally radiate the signal in the Band41 and the signal in the Band42 omnidirectionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junhong Zhang, Zhenghao Li, Shuhui Sun
  • Patent number: 11245184
    Abstract: An antenna device includes: a first conductor layer; a second conductor layer located opposite to the first conductor layer; and a third conductor layer located opposite to the second conductor layer. The first conductor layer includes: a feed element; a first grounding element located next to the feed element in a first direction and grounded; and a parasitic element located along the feed element and the first grounding element and insulated from the feed element and the first grounding element. The second conductor layer includes: a floating element located opposite to the feed element and insulated from the first conductor layer; and a second grounding element located opposite to the first grounding element and next to the floating element and grounded. The third conductor layer includes a third grounding element grounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takai, Taichi Hamabe, Kazuhiro Imai
  • Patent number: 11211711
    Abstract: A RF transmitting device and method for transmitting digital information wherein the device is connected to or connectable with an antenna, the RF transmitting device having an RF source or transmitter, an electronic switch, a plurality electromechanical resonators each connected to the electronic switch. The electronic switch connects a selected one or selected ones of the electromechanical resonators between the RF source or transmitter and the antenna. Alternatively, the electronic switch connects a selected one or selected ones of the electromechanical resonators between different portions of the antenna. The electronic switch is controlled by a digital control unit for causing the electronic switch to couple RF energy produced by the RF source or transmitter to the antenna via the selected one or selected ones of the plurality of electromechanical resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Walter S. Wall, Randall L. Kubena, Harris P. Moyer
  • Patent number: 11211708
    Abstract: An antenna structure includes a ground plane, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, and a dielectric substrate. The ground plane provides a ground voltage. The first radiation element includes a connection branch, a first branch, and a second branch. The connection branch has a feeding point. The first branch and the second branch substantially extend in opposite directions. The second radiation element is coupled to the feeding point. The second radiation element substantially surrounds a non-metal region, and is further coupled to the ground voltage. The third radiation element is coupled to the ground voltage. The third radiation element is adjacent to the first radiation element. The first radiation element, the second radiation element, and the third radiation element are all disposed on the dielectric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC
    Inventors: Chung-Hung Lo, Ying-Cong Deng, Kuan-Hsien Lee, Yi-Ling Tseng, Chung-Ting Hung, Chin-Lung Tsai
  • Patent number: 11211692
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an antenna structure and an electronic device having the same. The antenna structure comprises a first antenna, a second antenna and a three-dimensional decoupling structure located on at least two planes, wherein the three-dimensional decoupling structure comprises a conductor, and at least part of the three-dimensional decoupling structure is located in a space between the first antenna and the second antenna. Compared with the prior art, the antenna structure and the electronic device having the same disclosed by the present disclosure can effectively achieve the antenna decoupling effect through the three-dimensional decoupling structure, so that the degradation degree of antenna performance due to coupling can be reduced, and meanwhile, the three-dimensional space of the system can be better utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Huan-Chu Huang, Zhixing Qi, Dasong Gao, Hong Lin, Yanchao Zhou
  • Patent number: 11205834
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a conductive housing and an antenna. The antenna may include an arm formed from a first segment of the housing. A gap may separate the first segment from a second segment. The antenna may include a feed coupled to a transmission line having a signal conductor. The feed may include first and second positive terminals on the first segment and a third positive terminal on the second segment. An adjustable component may be coupled between the first and third terminals. The signal conductor may be coupled to the first terminal. A wide conductive trace may be coupled between the signal conductor and the second terminal. A switch may be interposed on the signal conductor. The second terminal may cover a cellular low band when the switch is open. The first terminal may cover the cellular low band and higher bands when the switch is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Hongfei Hu, Mattia Pascolini, Nanbo Jin, Kevin M. Froese, Erica J. Tong, Xu Han
  • Patent number: 11178785
    Abstract: A metal enclosure of a mobile device, a production method for the metal enclosure, and a mobile device are disclosed. The metal enclosure of a mobile device includes a housing, where at least one gap is disposed on the housing, and the at least one gap divides the housing into at least two electrically insulated parts. The metal enclosure further includes an insulation film attached to a surface of the housing. In the foregoing embodiments, the gap is provided on the housing, so that the housing is divided into the at least two electrically insulated parts. Each gap is filled with an insulation object, and the gap on the surface of the housing and the insulation object in the gap form a partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenming Shi, Wangchun Lv, Yongxiang Wang, Kaiwen Huang
  • Patent number: 11165171
    Abstract: An optically transparent antenna stack includes at least two stacked optically transparent antennas. Each antenna includes an electrically conductive metal mesh including a plurality of interconnected electrically conductive metal traces defining a plurality of enclosed open areas. The metal mesh of each antenna and each lead has a percent open area greater than about 50%. The at least two stacked optically transparent antennas includes a first antenna configured to operate over a first, but not a second, frequency band and a second antenna configured to operate over the second, but not the first, frequency band. The optically transparent antenna stack has an optical transmission of at least about 50% for at least one wavelength in a wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 600 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Stephen P. LeBlanc, Jeffrey A. Tostenrude, Gregory L. Abraham, Vicki L. Richmond
  • Patent number: 11152713
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods in which antenna elements are positioned together as an array at a corner of a mobile device, at least two of the antenna elements being oriented to provide beams in different directions with respect to the corner of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: WISPRY, INC.
    Inventors: Rocío Rodríguez-Cano, Shuai Zhang, Gert Frølund Pedersen
  • Patent number: 11145982
    Abstract: An antenna system having at least one active element with a first end thereof for connection to a radio receiver, transmitter or transceiver and at least one electromechanical resonator connected in series with (i) at least portion of said at least one active element and at least another portion of said at least one active element or (ii) said at least one active element and said radio receiver, transmitter or transceiver. The at least one active element exhibits capacitive reactance at an intended frequency of operation and the at least one electromechanical resonator exhibits inductive reactance at the intended frequency of operation, the inductive reactance of the at least one electromechanical resonator offsetting or partially offsetting the capacitive reactance of the at least one antenna element at the intended frequency of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Walter S. Wall, Hyok J. Song, Randall L. Kubena, Carson R. White
  • Patent number: 11133595
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a metal bezel including a bezel patch separated through a bezel slit, a printed circuit board including a first conductive pattern and a second conductive pattern, which are separated through a substrate slit and a communication module transmitting or receiving an antenna signal, using an antenna element including the bezel patch, the first conductive pattern, and the second conductive pattern. The first conductive pattern is connected to a part of the metal bezel. The bezel patch and the second conductive pattern is arranged to be aligned vertically. A bezel cavity is formed between the bezel patch and the second conductive pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungchul Park, Wonjoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11133594
    Abstract: A waveguide antenna apparatus includes a lower laminate layer of non-radio-frequency (RF) material and a first layer of conductive material formed on a top surface of the lower laminate layer of non-RF material. A middle layer of non-RF material formed over the first layer of conductive material, the middle layer of non-RF material comprising a waveguide cavity formed through the middle layer of non-RF material, such that air forms a propagation medium for radiation in the waveguide cavity. An upper layer of non-RF material is formed over the middle layer of non-RF material, and a second layer of conductive material is formed on a top surface of the upper layer of non-RF material, the first and second layers of conductive material and the waveguide cavity being part of a waveguide antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: VEONEER US, INC.
    Inventor: Majid Ahmadloo