Patents Examined by Quochien B. Vuong
  • Patent number: 11689225
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes: a transmission power amplifier that includes a plurality of amplifying elements that are cascaded; a reception low noise amplifier; and a module board on which the transmission power amplifier and the reception low noise amplifier are mounted. The plurality of amplifying elements include: an amplifying element disposed most downstream; and an amplifying element disposed upstream of the amplifying element, and in a plan view of the module board, a conductive member is physically disposed between the amplifying element and the reception low noise amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 11689248
    Abstract: Provided is a system for communication. The system includes: a basic function module; at least one extended function module; a first near-field communication transceiving unit and a first near-field communication antenna unit, located on the basic function module; and at least one second near-field communication transceiving unit and at least one second near-field communication antenna unit, located on each of the at least one extended function module. The first near-field communication antenna unit and the at least one second near-field communication antenna unit respectively comprise a first loop antenna and a second loop antenna which are printed on a printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Berthold Stelzig, Bo Xu, Chang Sen Chen
  • Patent number: 11683060
    Abstract: A radio frequency circuit with font routing to replace a resistor includes a routing layer and a ground layer. The routing layer includes a first pad, a second pad and a font routing unit. The second pad is corresponding to the first pad. The font routing unit is connected between the first pad and the second pad, and has a trace width. The trace width is less than a 50 ohm trace width. The ground layer is disposed below the routing layer and is separated from the routing layer by a height. The font routing unit has a second equivalent impedance at the radio frequency, the second equivalent impedance is determined according to the trace width, the height and the radio frequency, and the second equivalent impedance is the same or similar to a first equivalent impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: USI Science and Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen-Shuo Liu, Ji-Min Lin, Syuan-Ci Lin, Yu-An Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11683054
    Abstract: A multi-band radio frequency front-end device, a multi-band receiver, and a multi-band transmitter, the multi-band radio frequency front-end device including a first radio frequency front-end circuit, where the first radio frequency front-end circuit works on a first band, a second radio frequency front-end circuit, where the second radio frequency front-end circuit works on a second band, a first input/output matching network, and a second input/output matching network, where routing of the first input/output matching network and routing of the second input/output matching network on a layout are annular and nested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keji Cui, Di Li, Lei Lu
  • Patent number: 11677423
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and system related to wireless communications are disclosed. In one example aspect, a device for wireless communication includes a processor that is configured to determine an estimation of an interference signal for a connection between the device and a receiving device in a wireless communication system, construct an interference elimination signal based on the estimation of the interference signal, and perform a data transmission to the receiving device with the interference elimination signal to enable the receiving device to eliminate the interference signal in the data transmission. The estimation of the interference signal is determined by building a probabilistic model of the interference signal using at least an interference template associate with a characteristic of the device or one or more measurements of a channel condition collected within a predefined observation window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Muhammad Tawhidur Rahman
  • Patent number: 11671137
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an electronic device and a method for preventing interference between signals transmitted and received through first and second antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ihnsik Yang
  • Patent number: 11671147
    Abstract: A contactless integrated circuit (IC) card reader configured to communicate with a contactless IC card includes an antenna circuit, a variable amplifier that amplifies a carrier signal at an amplification gain and outputs the amplified carrier signal to the antenna circuit as a transmit signal, a variable attenuator that attenuates a receive signal received through the antenna circuit at an attenuation ratio, and a controller that controls the amplification gain and the attenuation ratio based on the attenuated receive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyunjae Kang
  • Patent number: 11671132
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes a module board, a transmission power amplifier, a first inductance element mounted on a first principal surface and connected to an output terminal of the transmission power amplifier, a reception low-noise amplifier, and a second inductance element mounted on a first principal surface connected to an input terminal of the reception low-noise amplifier. In a plan view of the module board, a conductive member mounted on the first principal surface is disposed between the first inductance element and the second inductance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 11664779
    Abstract: An acoustic impedance matching device can facilitate acoustic transmission across an interface formed by materials having a very large acoustic impedance mismatch (e.g. air-water, or air-elastic polymer). The device can include a first medium. The first medium can have a first acoustic impedance. The device can include a second medium. The second medium can have a second acoustic impedance. The second acoustic impedance can be substantially greater than the first acoustic impedance. Thus, the first acoustic impedance and the second acoustic impedance are substantially mismatched. An interface can be defined between the first medium and the second medium. A bubble can be located in the second medium or the interface. The bubble can act as a resonator and can enable efficient sound transmission despite the large impedance mismatch of the first medium and the second medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Taehwa Lee, Hideo Iizuka
  • Patent number: 11638210
    Abstract: Methods and circuits for reducing power dissipation in wireless transceivers and other electronic circuits and systems. Embodiments of the present invention use bias current reduction, impedance scaling, and gain changes either separately or in combination to reduce power dissipation. For example, bias currents are reduced in response to a need for reduced signal handling capability, impedances are scaled thus reducing required drive and other bias currents in response to a strong received signal, or gain is increased and impedances are scaled in response to a low received signal in the presence of no or weak interfering signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Theta IP, LLC
    Inventor: Yannis Tsividis
  • Patent number: 11637573
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a digital processing device configured to generate a digital transmission signal, a digital-to-analog converter connected to the digital processing device and configured to convert the digital transmission signal into an analog transmission signal, and a power amplifier connected to the digital-to-analog converter and configured to amplify the analog transmission signal. An antenna filter is connected to the power amplifier and configured to filter the amplified analog transmission signal; the antenna filter is configured to pass frequencies in at least one passband and to attenuate frequencies in at least one stopband. The digital processing device is configured to perform a process of reducing peak power in the digital transmission signal; in this process error components having different frequencies are produced. A frequency spectrum of the error components is manipulated such that a part of the error components is deposited in the stopband of the antenna filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Gunter Wolff, Radoslaw Ceszkiel, Grzegorz Haza, Björn Jelonnek, Michael Weber
  • Patent number: 11621733
    Abstract: A radio-frequency circuit is used in simultaneous transfer of a radio-frequency signal of 4G and a radio-frequency signal of 5G, and includes a first transfer circuit that selectively receives the 4G radio-frequency signal or the 5G radio-frequency signal, and transfers a radio-frequency signal of a first communication band including a first transmission band and a first reception band and a radio-frequency signal of a second communication band including a second transmission band and a second reception band. The first and second transmission bands at least partially overlap. The first transfer circuit includes a first power amplifier that amplifies transmission signals of the first and second communication bands, and a first transmission filter that has a first passband including the first and second transmission bands, and passes the transmission signals of the first and second communication bands output from the first power amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ono, Satoshi Tanaka, Hirotsugu Mori
  • Patent number: 11616865
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention can comprise: a foldable housing, which comprises a hinge structure, a first housing structure connected to the hinge structure and including a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, and a first side member that encompasses at least a portion of the space between the first and second surfaces and includes at least one first conductive part, and a second housing structure connected to the hinge structure, including a third surface facing a third direction, a fourth surface facing a fourth direction that is opposite to the third direction, and a second side member that encompasses at least a portion of the space between the third and fourth surfaces and includes at least one second conductive part, and which comes into contact with the first housing structure with the hinge structure as the center thereof, wherein the first surface faces the third su
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventors: Iiltaek Jeong, Myeongsu Oh
  • Patent number: 11616521
    Abstract: A radio-frequency module includes an integrated circuit (IC) device and an external inductor provided outside the IC device. The IC device includes a plurality of low-noise amplifiers, one or more inductors, and a switching circuit. The plurality of low-noise amplifiers includes a plurality of transistors in one to one correspondence. The one or more inductors are coupled to one or more of the plurality of transistors. Each inductor is coupled to the emitter or source of a corresponding one of the plurality of transistors. The switching circuit is coupled between the emitter or source of each of the plurality of transistors and the external inductor. The external inductor is coupled between the switching circuit and ground in series with each of the one or more inductors via the switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11616525
    Abstract: One variation of a device case includes a device case body: configured to accept and retain a mobile device; defining a strap receptacle; and including a first set of magnetic features arranged across a base surface of the strap receptacle. The device case further includes a strap: coupled to the device case body; configured to seat within the strap receptacle in a retracted position; configured to accept a finger of a user in a deployed position; and including a second set of magnetic features configured to transiently couple to the first set of magnetic features to drive the strap from the deployed position to the retracted position and to retain the strap within the strap receptacle in the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Peak Design
    Inventors: Joseph Cunningham, Robb Jankura, Matthew Thomas James, Peter Dering, Peter Lockett, Arthur Viger, Andrew Wheeler Gans, Kiran Malladi, Max A. Maloney, Dane Jones, Colin Maginnis, Rachel Roberts, Jaimee Erickson, Adrienne Rowell
  • Patent number: 11601096
    Abstract: A PA module includes: a multilayer substrate having a ground pattern layer connected to a ground of a power source; amplifier transistors disposed on the multilayer substrate; a bypass capacitor having one end connected to the collector of the amplifier transistor; a first wiring line connecting the emitter of the amplifier transistor and the ground pattern layer to each other; a second wiring line connecting the emitter of the amplifier transistor and the ground pattern layer to each other; a third wiring line connecting the other end of the bypass capacitor and the ground pattern layer to each other; and a fourth wiring line formed between the amplifier transistor and the ground pattern layer and between the bypass capacitor and the ground pattern layer and connecting the first wiring line and the third wiring line to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Isao Takenaka
  • Patent number: 11581963
    Abstract: An interference detection system comprises memory storing computer instructions to cause a processor to perform gathering a temporal snapshot of radio parameter values associated with a first site of a point-to-point radio system, the radio parameter values including at least a receive signal level (RSL) value and at least one other radio parameter value correlated with signal degradation; determining whether the RSL value is greater than an RSL threshold; determining whether the other radio parameter value indicates a threshold level of signal degradation; when the RSL is greater than the RSL threshold and the other parameter indicates a threshold level of signal degradation during the temporal snapshot, determining that external interference is present during the temporal snapshot; when the RSL is not greater than the RSL threshold, determining that the external interference is not present; and performing a responsive action to a determination of the external interference being likely present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Croke, Sergio Licardie, Robert Vilhar, Sreco Plevel, Marius Koegelenberg
  • Patent number: 11582592
    Abstract: A communication device may include a first type of interface and a second type of interface. The communication device may execute the communication of object data with a mobile device using the second type of interface after executing a specific process for causing the communication device to shift to a communication-enabled state, in a case where it is determined that the communication device is not currently in the communication-enabled state. Also, the communication device may execute the communication of the object data with the mobile device using the second type of interface without executing the specific process, in a case where it is determined that the communication device is currently in the communication-enabled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takanobu Suzuki, Hirotaka Asakura, Munehisa Matsuda, Satoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11574898
    Abstract: A radio-frequency module including a module substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface on opposite sides; a low-noise amplifier disposed on the second main surface; and a power amplifier circuit in a Doherty configuration. The power amplifier including a first phase circuit; a second phase circuit; a carrier amplifier disposed on the first main surface and including an input terminal connected to a first end of the first phase circuit and an output terminal connected to a first end of the second phase circuit; and a peaking amplifier disposed on the first main surface and including an input terminal connected to a second end of the first phase circuit and an output terminal connected to a second end of the second phase circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Goto, Kazuhito Nakai
  • Patent number: 11575400
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals using a radio system coupled to an external antenna via an additional combiner or diplexer, means for receiving one or more reference signals usable for measurement of passive intermodulation from one or more nodes provided in a signal path external to the radio system, a first one of said nodes being associated with a signal path between the additional combiner or diplexer and the external antenna, and means for performing passive intermodulation cancellation based on the received one or more reference signals, including a first reference signal from the first node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventor: Aaron Mullins