Patents Examined by Shawn Buchanan
  • Patent number: 8022880
    Abstract: A coupling device for transmitting a wireless signal is provided. The coupling device includes a substrate, a ground layer and a feed conductor. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The ground layer is disposed on the second surface having a circular opening, and the circular opening has an opening edge and an opening center. The feed conductor extends on the first surface, including a conductive portion and a feed portion connected thereto. The feed portion corresponds to the circular opening, wherein the opening center is on a base line, a radial line is formed between the opening center and the opening edge, a radial distance is formed on the radial line between the opening edge and the feed portion, and a length of the radial distance varies with an angle between the radial line and the base line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Kuo-Fong Hung, Yi-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 8009112
    Abstract: A Ka/Ku-band transmitter-receiver comprises a tri-band feed of a Ka-band transceiver, in conjunction with an array of phase combined patch receiving, antennas that operate at the Ku-band frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth V. Buer, Dean Cook, Richard Torkington, Friedhelm Wachter
  • Patent number: 8009115
    Abstract: An antenna made up of small addressable conductive segments, or pixel elements, located in a dielectric space positioned over a two-dimensional pixel element actuator is presented. The small pixel elements can be actuated in less than a millisecond by the actuator to form patterns that create an array of patch antennas and associated transmission lines on the upper surface of the dielectric space. The pixel elements can be formed using small movable conductive particles such as metal flakes or metal chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignees: The Ohio State University Research Foundation, Syntonics LLC
    Inventors: Eric K. Walton, Bruce G. Montgomery
  • Patent number: 7994988
    Abstract: A dual-band antenna adapted for an Ultra-mobile Personal Computer has a grounding element including a first grounding portion of elongated plate shape and a second grounding portion extending substantially perpendicular to the first grounding portion from a long edge of the first grounding portion. A connecting element is connected with the second grounding portion. An installing element is connected with the second grounding portion and spaced away from the connecting portion. A radiating element includes a low frequency resonator extending from the connecting element, a high frequency resonator extending opposite to the low frequency resonator and towards the installing element from the connecting element, and an enhancing frequency resonator extending from an edge of the installing element back to the high frequency resonator. The low, high and enhancing frequency resonators are substantially aligned with each other and parallel to the second grounding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Tsung Wu, Kai Shih, Yu-Yuan Wu
  • Patent number: 7969370
    Abstract: A fluidic antenna is described, using an electromagnetic energy coupler, a non-metallic container coupled to the electromagnetic energy coupler, a fluid having charged particles moving through the non-metallic container at a predetermined rate, and a charge focuser disposed about the non-metallic container, wherein the electromagnetic energy coupler is configured to couple energy between the fluid and at least one of a transmitter and receiver, and the charge focuser is configured to adjust a cross sectional area of charged particles in the fluid to result in a fluid characteristic impedance that approaches that of a surrounding medium, thereby enabling at least one of launching and receiving electromagnetic energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as repesented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Vincent V. Dinh, Eric W. Hendricks