Abstract: A transportation apparatus includes: a window member; a first heating unit arranged to heat a first region of the window member; a second heating unit arranged to heat a second region of the window member; and a control unit configured to control driving of the first heating unit and the second heating unit. The first region and the second region are adjacent regions. The control unit performs first heating control of making a heating output of the first heating unit larger than a heating output of the second heating unit.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a printed circuit board that includes multiple antennas, and operates to support satellite communications, are disclosed. One apparatus includes a first flat panel element. The first flat panel element includes a multilayer PCB (printed circuit board). The multilayer PCB includes a first exterior layer comprising N antenna elements, and a second exterior layer comprising N RF (radio frequency) chains operative to process the RF signals, each of the N RF chains electrically connected to a one of the N antenna elements, and N metal patches arranged in a square, wherein an air gap is located between the N metal patches and the N antenna elements, wherein dimensions, orientation, and spacing between the N metal patches and the N antenna elements are selected based on a carrier frequency, bandwidth, and directionality of the propagated RF signals.

Abstract: A metrocell antenna includes a plurality of linear arrays of first frequency band radiating elements, a first enclosure that includes a first of the linear arrays of first frequency band radiating elements mounted therein, a second enclosure that includes a second of the linear arrays of first frequency band radiating elements mounted therein, a third of the linear arrays of first frequency band radiating elements mounted within one of the first and second enclosures, a first RF port that is mounted through the first enclosure and a first blind-mate connector that provides an electrical connection between the first enclosure and the second of the linear arrays of first frequency band radiating elements that is mounted in the second enclosure.

Abstract: A novel and useful radome suitable for use in an automotive radar system that employs patch antenna arrays. In one embodiment, the radome is a ‘U’ shaped half cylinder for patch antenna arrays such as on a printed circuit board (PCB). The patch antennas may or may not be situated in the same plane. Each array has its own half cylinder associated with it. Each array may have a different antenna pattern with different gain and side lobes. In this case, each patch antenna array has its own radome configured appropriately. Alternatively, the radome comprises a half sphere shape (or bubble shape) whereby each antenna port has its own individual half sphere shaped radome. This functions to improve the performance of the radome by increasing the number of curved dimensions from one to two.

Abstract: A structure includes first to a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, and a fourth conductor. The first conductor extends along a second plane including a second direction and a third direction intersecting with the second direction. The second conductor faces the first conductor along a first direction intersecting with the second plane and extends along the second plane. The third conductor capacitively connects the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth conductor is electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends along a first plane including the first direction and the third direction. The third conductor faces the fourth conductor via a base. The base includes a plurality of first fiber components and a first resin component that holds the first fiber components. Part of the first fiber components extends along the first direction.

Abstract: A complex curvature conformal antenna system that can include an RF antenna element, a radome housing the RF antenna element, and a contour matching conformal gasket sealed to the radome such that, when the contour matching conformal gasket is installed on an installation surface having a complex compound curvature and features, the contour matching conformal gasket can be configured to conform to the complex compound curvature and features to seal the contour matching conformal gasket to the installation surface and protect the RF antenna element from external moisture, dust, or unwanted elements.

Abstract: An antenna device includes a dielectric resonator antenna configured to transmit and/or receive a first RF signal, a patch antenna pattern configured to transmit and/or receive a second RF signal, and at least partially overlaps the dielectric resonator antenna in a vertical direction, a first feed via configured to feed to the dielectric resonator antenna, and a second feed via configured to feed to the patch antenna pattern, wherein a frequency of the first RF signal is lower than a frequency of the second RF signal.

Abstract: A radio-frequency device comprises a semiconductor package, which comprises a radio-frequency chip and a radio-frequency antenna. The semiconductor package is designed to be mechanically and electrically connected to a circuit board via at least one connecting element of the semiconductor package, with one surface of the semiconductor package facing the circuit board. The radio-frequency device also comprises a waveguide structure oriented in a direction parallel to the surface of the semiconductor package, the radio-frequency antenna being designed for at least one of the following: to emit radiation into the waveguide structure in the direction parallel to the surface of the semiconductor package, or to receive signals via the waveguide structure in the direction parallel to the surface of the semiconductor package.

Abstract: An antenna element having: a feed line for feeding in electrical power; and a first multiplicity of radiating elements situated on a first side of the feed line, and a second multiplicity of radiating elements situated on a second side of the feed line, the radiating elements being coupled in series to the feed line, being fed with electrical power by the feed line, and being designed to transmit electromagnetic radiation; the first multiplicity of radiating elements differing from the second multiplicity of radiating elements in a distribution of spatial dimensions of the radiating elements and/or in a distribution of distances of adjacent radiating elements.

Abstract: To provide a decorative member that has a small transmission loss of a millimeter wave and excellent metallic luster. The decorative member includes a base material made of a synthetic resin and a film body that made of an agglomeration of inorganic fine particles having at least a metal surface. An attenuation rate when a millimeter wave having a frequency of 18 to 300 GHz transmits is 0.001 to 2 dB, and an L* value (brightness) is 45 to 95.

Abstract: The size of a solid-state imaging device that captures images is reduced. The solid-state imaging device includes an array antenna. A plurality of rectifying antenna circuits is arranged in the array antenna. Each of the plurality of rectifying antenna circuits includes a rectifying antenna and a pixel signal generating unit. The pixel signal generating unit includes a floating diffusion layer, a transfer transistor that transfers charge from the rectifying antenna to the floating diffusion layer in accordance with a transfer signal, a reset transistor that initializes the amount of charge in the floating diffusion layer in accordance with a reset signal, an amplification transistor that amplifies a voltage corresponding to the amount of charge accumulated in the floating diffusion layer, and a selection transistor that outputs a signal of the amplified voltage as a pixel signal in accordance with a selection signal.

Abstract: An antenna system, a feeding network reconfiguration method, and an apparatus is disclosed. The antenna system may include an antenna array, a reconfigurable network unit, a control unit, and K radio frequency channels. The antenna array may include L antenna subarrays, and the reconfigurable network unit may divide the L antenna subarrays into M antenna subarray groups, and separately connect the M antenna subarray groups to the K radio frequency channels; any one of the K radio frequency channels may perform signal processing on a signal received by a connected antenna subarray group and/or a to-be-transmitted signal; and the control unit may control the reconfigurable network unit to adjust a mapping relationship between an antenna subarray group connected to each radio frequency channel and the antenna subarrays.

Abstract: A signal shielding and transmitting case with a length-adjustable antenna comprises a remote control part, a signal shielding case, and a PCB and an antenna driving part arranged in the signal shielding case, wherein a control line penetrates through the antenna driving part and is fixedly connected to a signal transmitting antenna, and the remote control part can control the length of the signal transmitting antenna stretching out of the signal shielding case based on the gear lever principle to allow users to adjust the intensity of signals transmitted by the signal transmitting antenna freely.

Abstract: A lighting system that includes a lighting device and a dimming controller. The lighting device has a support structure that supports multiple lighting zones. Each lighting zone including one or more lighting sources. The dimming controller is in communication with multiple dimmers supported by the lighting device. Each of the lighting sources is coupled to a corresponding dimmer from the multiple dimmers. The dimming controller is configured to communicate a controlled setting for one or more of the lighting zones to the multiple dimmers. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: A polarized wave shared array antenna 10A includes: planar antennas 11a and 11b, each of which generating two polarized waves of first and second polarized waves orthogonal to each other; feeding points 12a and 12b for generating the first polarized wave, which are provided in the planar antenna 11a, and feeding points 14a and 14b for generating the second polarized wave, which are provided in the planar antenna 11b; and an integrated circuit 20 including transmission and reception units 21a, 21b, 22a, and 22b connected to the respective feeding points 12a, 12b, 14a, and 14b via wirings, in which in a plan view, with respect to an axis A1, the feeding points 12a and 14a, respectively, are disposed symmetrical to the feeding points 12b and 14b, and the transmission and reception units 21a and 22a, respectively, are disposed symmetrical to the transmission and reception units 21b and 22b.

Abstract: A coupling device includes a plurality of couplers, a first coupled output port and a second coupled output port, wherein the plurality of couplers comprise a first coupler and a second coupler that are adjacent one another, and each of the first coupler and the second coupler comprises a main line and a subline, and for each of the first coupler and the second coupler: the subline includes a first section, a second section, and a third section, wherein the second section of the subline of the first coupler has a common segment with the first section of the subline of the second coupler.

Abstract: A packaging structure, where the packaging structure includes: a first radiation plate, a second radiation plate, and a feeding part, where the second radiation plate is disposed below the first radiation plate, where a slot is disposed on the second radiation plate, where the slot is in a ring shape, where the feeding part is disposed below the second radiation plate, and where the feeding part includes a first feeding stub and a second feeding stub that are disposed independently of each other. Additionally, the first feeding stub and the second feeding stub are perpendicular to each other and disposed on a substrate below the slot, and the first feeding stub and the second feeding stub feed the first radiation plate using the slot.

Abstract: A monopole-streetlight assembly includes: an elongate monopole having lower and upper ends; a module configured for mounting of telecommunications antennas; the module including an upper plate and a central spine having an upper end that extends above the upper plate; an adapter having a lower sleeve that receives the upper end of the spine and a flange that extends radially outwardly from the sleeve; and a luminaire unit having an arm having a base, the base being secured to the adapter flange, and further having a luminaire mounted opposite the base.

Abstract: A low-loss feeding network comprises a vertical switching structure, a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW), a 2N-way power divider, coupling slots, matching metal vias and parallel-plane waveguides, wherein the energy provided by a standard waveguide is coupled to the SIW through the vertical switching structure, and the energy outputted by the SIW is evenly split into 2N parts by the 2N-way power divider; the energy of each way outputted by the 2N-way power divider is coupled to parallel-plane waveguides through the coupling slots and the matching metal vias, and the electric field at the junction of two adjacent parallel-plane waveguides is zero, so that an ideal virtual electric wall is formed, thus the structure of the feeding network is simplified, and the metal loss at the junction is reduced; finally, the energy provided by the low-loss feeding network is radiated in phase through the symmetrical slot antenna array.

Abstract: Examples of a patch antenna are described herein. Some examples of the patch antenna include a parallelepipedal antenna holder. In some examples, a first excitation surface is situated on a first side of the antenna holder, where a second side opposite the first side is situated on a metal plane. A grounding surface is situated on a third side between the first side and the second side. An excitation radiator feed is situated to provide electromagnetic coupling between the excitation radiator feed and the first excitation surface.