Patents Examined by Ricardo I Magallanes
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Patent number: 11705617Abstract: In some embodiments, a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag system includes a first strap mounting pad of an RFID antenna component, and a second strap mounting pad of the RFID antenna component, the second strap mounting pad being electrically coupled to the first RFID strap mounting pad. At least one of the first strap mounting pad and the second strap mounting pad may extend diagonally with respect to a wide edge direction of the antenna component, thus making the RFID antenna component configured to receive both a strap that is parallel to a wide edge direction of the antenna component and a strap that is perpendicular to a wide edge direction of the antenna component.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, LLCInventor: Ian J. Forster
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Patent number: 11705616Abstract: The present disclosure describes an antenna mount. The antenna mount may include a base plate having a plurality of mounting apertures configured to secure an antenna thereto, wherein the base plate includes a plurality of arm sections extending radially outwardly therefrom, each arm section comprising an elongated slot, a plurality of fasteners, each fastener configured to slide within a respective slot, and a plurality of brackets, each bracket secured to the base plate by a respective fastener extending through each slot, wherein the position of the brackets are adjustable relative to the base plate by sliding the fasteners within each slot, thereby allowing the antenna mount to be secured to different diameter mounting structures. Antenna mount assemblies are also described herein.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Matthew Severin, Dale R. Heath, Jacob L. Adams, Michael Carnes, Brian D. Cross, Jared D. Haines, Eric Sarellana
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Patent number: 11699854Abstract: An antenna includes: a first antenna portion and a second antenna portion arranged adjacently. The first antenna portion includes a first antenna branch and a first parasitic branch, and the second antenna portion includes a second antenna branch. The first parasitic branch is positioned between the first antenna branch and the second antenna branch. The first parasitic branch is L-shaped, and includes a first branch segment and a second branch segment. A first end of the first branch segment is in contact to a ground region, a second end of the first branch segment is joined to a first end of the second branch segment, and a second end of the second branch segment points towards the second antenna branch.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Yali Wang
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Patent number: 11688936Abstract: An antenna module, including a first antenna, a second antenna, a first ground, a third antenna, and a second ground, is provided. The first ground is located between the first antenna and the second antenna and is connected to the first antenna and the second antenna. The first ground has a first slot near the first antenna. The second antenna is located between the first antenna and the third antenna. An extension direction of the first antenna is not parallel to an extension direction of the second antenna. The extension direction of the second antenna is not parallel to an extension direction of the third antenna. The second ground is located between the second antenna and the third antenna and is connected to the third antenna. The second ground is separated from the first ground and the second antenna, and has a second slot.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATIONInventors: Chien-Yi Wu, Shih-Keng Huang, Chao-Hsu Wu, Sheng-Chin Hsu, Chien-Chih Huang
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Patent number: 11682824Abstract: An antenna assembly according to the present disclosure includes a dielectric substrate, and antenna elements configured as conductive patterns on the dielectric substrate to radiate radio signals. The antenna elements may include a first radiation structure and a second radiation structure. The first radiation structure includes a first conductive pattern electrically connected a first feeding portion, a second conductive pattern and a third conductive pattern electrically connected a ground. The second radiation structure includes a fourth conductive pattern electrically connected a second feeding portion and a fifth conductive pattern and a sixth conductive pattern electrically connected the ground. The first conductive pattern may be disposed between the second conductive pattern and the third conductive pattern.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Dongjin Kim, Kangjae Jung, Byeongyong Park, Youngtaek Hong, Ilnam Cho
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Patent number: 11682844Abstract: The invention relates to a heatsink antenna array structure, which includes a fin-shaped metal heatsink, a metal bottom base of heatsink, and a substrate. The upper surface of substrate is connected with the metal bottom base of heatsink, the lower surface is connected with a chip. The chip works as heat source. There is a rectangular through-cavity array in the bottom base as radiation aperture. The substrate contains multiple metal layers and dielectric layers. The top metal layer has rectangular apertures corresponding to the rectangular through-cavity array in the bottom base. The dielectric layers contain metallic vias to construct a substrate integrated waveguide structure. The metallic vias effectively reduce the thermal resistance between the fin-shaped metal heatsink and the chip, and form the substrate integrated waveguide structure as the feeding network of heatsink antenna array.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITYInventors: Min Tang, Jiawei Qian, Yueping Zhang, Junfa Mao
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Patent number: 11677144Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna array which includes a structure in the form of a hexagonal pyramid with a flat top surface/facet. According to preferred aspects, the pedestal support of the present invention preferably further includes six side facets which are preferably disposed 60 degrees from each other. Preferably, each side facet preferably supports a patch antenna and the top facet supports a top/zenith antenna. According to a preferred embodiment, the azimuth antennas may be offset from the ground plane by an angle between 20 and 60 degrees. The zenith antenna is preferably substantially parallel to the ground plane.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: ORBCOMM INC.Inventors: Phil Lafleur, Vadim Volinski
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Patent number: 11677133Abstract: A deployable structure for use in establishing a reflectarray antenna is provided that includes a flexible reflectarray and a deployment structure that includes an endless pantograph for deploying the flexible reflectarray from a folded, undeployed state towards a deployed state in which the flexible reflectarray is substantially planar. In a particular embodiment, the deployment structure includes a plurality of tapes that engage the endless pantograph and are used to establish a positional relationship between the deployed reflectarray and another component of the reflectarray antenna.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: M.M.A. Design, LLCInventors: Thomas J. Harvey, Toby J. Harvey, Mitchell T. Wiens, Mark A. Bailey, Shane E. Stamm, Christopher A. Pelzmann
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Patent number: 11670860Abstract: Provided herein are various enhanced antenna structures for radio frequency communications. In one example, an antenna includes a single-arm spiral antenna having an antenna element configured to couple to a radio frequency link at a central node of the spiral. A ground element is disposed proximate to the central node of the spiral and configured to couple to a ground reference for the radio frequency link.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Thomas Patrick Cencich, W. Neill Kefauver
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Patent number: 11664584Abstract: A monopole antenna assembly includes a cable having a cable inner conductor and a cable outer conductor. The monopole antenna assembly includes an antenna base including a ground plane. The ground plane is electrically connected to the cable outer conductor using a compression connection. The monopole antenna assembly includes a monopole radiator having a radiating element and a cable connection element extending from the radiating element. The crimp element is coupled to the cable inner conductor at a compression connection.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventor: Xing Yun
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Patent number: 11652297Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system having a plurality of transmitters for launching, according to a signal, instances of first electromagnetic waves having different phases to induce propagation of a second electromagnetic wave at an interface of a transmission medium, the second electromagnetic wave having a non-fundamental wave mode and a non-optical operating frequency, wherein the plurality of transmitters has a corresponding plurality of antennas. A reflective plate is spaced a distance behind the plurality of antennas relative to a direction of the propagation of the second electromagnetic wave. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
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Patent number: 11652295Abstract: An antenna element includes an outer conductor and an inner conductor. The outer conductor forms a perimeter of the antenna element. The inner conductor is physically and electrically connected to the outer conductor only at an intermediate connection at an inner portion of the outer conductor. The outer conductor and the inner conductor are arranged to form a slot therebetween. The slot extends around the inner conductor such that each end of the slot is adjacent to the intermediate connection.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: PLUME DESIGN, INC.Inventors: Miroslav Samardzija, Arthur Tung, Brian Nam, Liem Hieu Dinh Vo, William J. McFarland
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Patent number: 11652282Abstract: A liquid crystal antenna is provided. The liquid crystal antenna includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of transmission electrodes including a first transmission electrode and a second transmission electrode, a plurality of signal lines including a first signal line and a second signal line, a plurality of signal terminals including a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal, and a ground electrode. A transmission electrode is electrically connected to a signal terminal through at least one signal line. The first transmission electrode is connected to the first signal terminal through the first signal line, and the second transmission electrode is connected to the second signal terminal through the second signal line. A resistance of the first signal line is A, and a resistance of the second signal line is B, where A/B is less than 10.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: CHENGDU TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Zuocai Yang, Qinyi Duan, Ning He, Donghua Wang, Yingru Hu, Kerui Xi, Zhenyu Jia, Jinhao Shen
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Patent number: 11652284Abstract: A nozzle cap assembly includes a body with a first curved side wall, the body defining a top end and a bottom end positioned opposite from the top end; a nut, the top end of the body positioned between the nut and the bottom end of the body; a spacer comprising a hollow body, the hollow body defining a curved outer surface, the spacer positioned between the nut and the bottom end of the body; and an antenna assembly coupled to the curved outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Mueller International, LLCInventors: Jorge Isaac Ortiz, David James Carlos Dunn, Yanlong Li, Jesse Alvin Faunce
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Patent number: 11648889Abstract: A vehicle decorative part includes a decorative main body and a heater. The decorative main body is configured to be attached to a vehicle at a front side in a transmission direction of millimeter waves from a millimeter wave radar and has a millimeter wave transparency. The heater has a heating element that emits heat when energized. At least a part of the heating element is located in an irradiation region of the millimeter waves in the heater. As a millimeter wave attenuation reducing configuration that reduces attenuation of the millimeter waves passing through the heater, the heating element is incorporated in the heater in a condition where an area proportion of an area of a section of the heating element that occupies the irradiation region to an area of the irradiation region is set such that an attenuation amount of the millimeter waves is less than or equal to a permissible value.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Okumura, Hideto Maeda
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Patent number: 11641061Abstract: An electronic device may include a millimeter wave antenna having a ground plane, resonating element, feed, and parasitic element. The resonating element may include first, second, and third layer of traces that are shorted together. The second traces may be interposed between the first and third traces and the third traces may be interposed between the second traces and the parasitic. The third traces may have a width that is less than the widths of the second and third traces. The third traces and the parasitic may define a constrained volume having an associated cavity resonance that lies outside of a frequency band of interest. If desired, the resonating element may include a single layer of conductive traces having a grid of openings that disrupt impedance in a transverse direction, thereby mitigating the trapping of energy within the frequency band of interest between the resonating element and the parasitic.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Simone Paulotto, Basim H. Noori, Matthew A. Mow
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Patent number: 11634089Abstract: An emblem (30) (vehicle decorative part) includes a decorative main body (31) and a heater (55). The decorative main body (31) is configured to be attached to a vehicle at a front side in a transmission direction of millimeter waves from a millimeter wave radar to decorate the vehicle and has a millimeter wave transparency. The heater (55) has a heating element (57) that emits heat when energized. At least a part of the heating element (57) is located in a irradiation region (Z1) of the millimeter waves in the heater (55). As a millimeter wave attenuation reducing configuration that reduces attenuation of the millimeter waves passing through the heater (55), the heating element (57) is incorporated in the heater (55) in a condition where an area proportion of an area of a section of the heating element (57) that occupies the irradiation region (Z1) to an area of the irradiation region (Z1) is set such that an attenuation amount of the millimeter waves is less than or equal to a permissible value.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Okumura, Hideto Maeda
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Patent number: 11621483Abstract: A nozzle cap assembly includes a body with a first curved side wall, the body defining a top end and a bottom end positioned opposite from the top end; a nut, the top end of the body positioned between the nut and the bottom end of the body; a spacer comprising a hollow body, the hollow body defining a curved outer surface, the spacer positioned between the nut and the bottom end of the body; and an antenna assembly coupled to the curved outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Mueller International, LLCInventors: Jorge Isaac Ortiz, David James Carlos Dunn, Yanlong Li, Jesse Alvin Faunce
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Patent number: 11611145Abstract: An antenna structure includes an asymmetric antenna, an antenna feed and a ground plane connected to the asymmetric antenna via the antenna feed. The ground plane includes radials which radiate from the antenna feed. Each of the radials includes: a first conductive element having a first end and a second end, the first end being conductively connected to the antenna feed, a second conductive element conductively unconnected to the first conductive element and to the antenna feed, and a resistor connecting the second end of the first conductive element to the second conductive element.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Infinidome Ltd.Inventor: Moshe Kaplan
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Patent number: 11594805Abstract: An antenna assembly for a portable information handling system. The antenna assembly includes an antenna bounding component, the antenna bounding component being electrically and physically connected to a top cover portion of the portable information handling system; and, an antenna, the antenna being mounted to the antenna bounding portion, radio frequency (RF) radiation radiating via an RF radiation path, the RF radiation path being provided by a radiation slot, the radiation slot being located within a bottom cover portion of the portable information handling system.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Mark Andrew Schwager, Sumana Pallampati, Kai-Yuan Cheng, Nicholas G. DiLoreto, Zhong-Chao Lee, Changsoo Kim, Ching Cheng Hsu, Yu-Feng Huang