Patents Examined by Stephen E. Jones
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Patent number: 11689175Abstract: A multicomponent network may be added to a transmission line in a high-frequency circuit to transform a first impedance of a downstream circuit element to second impedance that better matches the impedance of an upstream circuit element. The multicomponent network may be added at a distance more than one-quarter wavelength from the downstream circuit element, and can tighten a frequency response of the impedance-transforming circuit to maintain low Q values and low VSWR values over a broad range of frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Robert Sadler, David Runton
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Patent number: 11688920Abstract: The disclosure discloses a concave triple-mode cavity resonance structure and a filter with the resonance structure. The structure comprises a cavity and a cover plate, wherein the cavity is internally provided with a dielectric resonance block and a dielectric support frame; at least one end face of the cavity and/or the dielectric response block is concave; the dielectric resonance block and the dielectric support frame form a triple-mode dielectric resonance rod; one end or any end of the cube-like dielectric resonance block is connected with the dielectric support frame; the dielectric support frame is connected with an inner wall of the cavity; and the dielectric response block and the dielectric support frame form triple-mode resonance in three directions along the X, Y and Z axes of the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: HONGKONG FINGU DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Qingnan Meng
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Patent number: 11682817Abstract: A W-band E-plane waveguide bandpass filter includes a rectangular waveguide configured to feed a W-band signal, and a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate is inserted into the center of the waveguide. The dielectric substrate is provided with a spoof surface plasmon polariton (SSPP) array configured to transmit a TM-mode surface wave to achieve the bandpass filtering response.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityInventors: Kaida Xu, Yiqun Liu, Xiaoming Chen, Jianxing Li, Anxue Zhang
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Patent number: 11683753Abstract: A wireless transmission system comprises an antenna component, a wireless module including a processing unit and a power controlling unit, a tuner connected between the antenna component and the wireless module, and a sensor connected to the wireless module. The tuner is configured to adjust an output bad of the power controlling unit according to a received signal strength indication of the wireless transmission system being greater than a predetermined threshold value, such that multiple different load values are provided for the power controlling unit. The sensor is configured to detect and record a current consumption value corresponding to each load value. In response to the wireless module emitting signals via the antenna component, the processing unit selects the load value corresponding to the lowest of the current consumption values and applies the selected load value to the output load of the power controlling unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignees: INVENTEC APPLIANCES (PUDONG) CORPORATION, INVENTEC APPLIANCES CORP., INVENTEC APPLIANCES (SHANGHAI) CO. LTD.Inventors: Wen-Hsien Lee, Chih-Hsuan Hsiao
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Patent number: 11682819Abstract: A millimeter-wave resonator is produced by drilling a plurality of holes into a piece of metal. Each hole forms an evanescent tube having a lowest cutoff frequency. The holes spatially intersect to form a seamless three-dimensional cavity whose fundamental cavity mode has a resonant frequency that is less than the cutoff frequencies of all the evanescent tubes. Below cutoff, the fundamental cavity mode does not couple to the waveguide modes, and therefore has a high internal Q. Millimeter waves can be coupled into any of the tubes to excite an evanescent mode that couples to the fundamental cavity mode. The tubes also provide spatial and optical access for transporting atoms into the cavity, where they can be trapped while spatially overlapping the fundamental cavity mode. The piece of metal may be superconducting, allowing the resonator to be used in a cryogenic environment for quantum computing and information processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: The University of ChicagoInventors: David Schuster, Aziza Suleymanzade, Jonathan Simon, Alexander Anferov
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Patent number: 11677129Abstract: A microwave circulator including an integrated circuit having a number of ports and a respective ring segment coupled to each port to allow microwave frequency signals to be transferred between the port and the respective ring segment. The circulator includes multiple respective ring segments arranged to define multiple parallel circulator rings and at least one superconducting tunnel junction interconnecting each pair of adjacent ring segments and/or a plurality of superconducting tunnel junctions interconnecting each pair of adjacent ring segments to form a circulator ring. The ring segments are configured so that when a bias is applied to the tunnel junctions, signals undergo a phase shift as they traverse the tunnel junctions between ring segments, thereby propagating signals to an adjacent port in a propagation direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLANDInventors: Thomas Michael Stace, Clemens Wolfgang Müller
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Patent number: 11677130Abstract: A waveguide for receiving an incident electromagnetic wave (EMW) having an operating frequency ? includes an array of spaced apart unit cells arranged along the waveguide. The unit cells are configured to resonantly couple to the incident EMW and radiate an EMW at the operating frequency propagating inside and along the waveguide. Each unit cell is configured to couple to the incident EMW with a first coupling efficiency and includes a dielectric body configured to couple to the incident EMW with a second coupling efficiency and one or more metal layers disposed on and partially covering the dielectric body. The second coupling efficiency is substantially smaller than the first coupling efficiency. A communication system includes the waveguide and a transceiver configured to emit an EMW having the operating frequency ?.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Jaewon Kim, Dipankar Ghosh, Craig W. Lindsay, Matthew S. Stay
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Patent number: 11677128Abstract: A method includes receiving a radio frequency (RF) input signal using at least one non-reciprocal circulator. The method also includes generating an RF output signal using at least one of one or more reflective circuit elements. Each reflective circuit element is configured to receive an RF signal from the at least one non-reciprocal circulator and to provide a modified RF signal to the at least one non-reciprocal circulator. The RF output signal represents the RF input signal as modified by the at least one of the one or more reflective circuit elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Ajay Subramanian, Zhaoyang C. Wang, Jason C. Soric, Matthew A. Morton
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Patent number: 11670832Abstract: A resonance cavity comprising a first layer of dielectric material having a first dielectric constant and a first thickness, a second layer of dielectric material having a second dielectric constant different from the first dielectric constant and a second thickness, a metal patch arranged between the first and the second layer of dielectric material, and an electromagnetically shielded enclosure having at least one aperture, the electromagnetically shielded enclosure arranged to enclose part of the first and second layers of dielectric material and the metal patch.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)Inventors: Anatoli Deleniv, Ola Tageman
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Patent number: 11670828Abstract: A filter apparatus is disclosed. The filter apparatus may include a plurality of dielectric layers. The plurality of dielectric layers may include one or more first dielectric layers formed of a first dielectric material and one or more second dielectric layers formed of a second dielectric material. The second dielectric material of the one or more second dielectric layers being different than the first dielectric material of the one or more first dielectric layers. The filter apparatus may further include one or more thin-film metal layers arranged between at least one dielectric layer of the plurality of dielectric layers and an additional dielectric layer of the plurality of dielectric layers.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Orion Davies, Altin E. Pelteku, Jonathan A. Lovseth
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Patent number: 11672077Abstract: A zoned dielectric loss circuit board system includes a board. A first differential trace is included in the board. A dielectric layer is included the board and that includes a first dielectric layer zone that engages the first differential trace and that includes first dielectric loss characteristics, and a second dielectric layer zone that is located immediately adjacent the first dielectric layer zone and that includes second dielectric loss characteristics that are greater than the first dielectric loss characteristics. A second differential trace may be included in the board in engagement with the second dielectric layer zone, and may have a second trace length that is shorter than a first trace length of the first differential trace.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventor: Umesh Chandra
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Patent number: 11664563Abstract: Embodiments provide a filtering device, to effectively simplify assembly and tuning processes. The filtering device includes: a housing, including an inner cavity; a resonant conductor, having a resonance function, and disposed inside the inner cavity; and a pressing element, having one end disposed on the housing and another end suspended, and facing a position of an open-circuit end of the resonant conductor. A distance between the pressing element and the resonant conductor is changeable when the pressing element is pressed or drawn to adjust a resonant frequency. The filtering device provided in various embodiments is applicable to a plurality of communications devices for selecting a signal frequency.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Liangyong Deng, Dantao Cai
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Patent number: 11658422Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include a generator that facilitates generation of an electromagnetic wave, a core, and a waveguide that facilitates guiding the electromagnetic wave towards the core to induce a second electromagnetic wave that propagates along the core. The core and/or the waveguide can be configured to reduce radiation loss of the second electromagnetic wave, propagation loss of the second electromagnetic wave, or a combination thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Thomas M. Willis, III, Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel
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Patent number: 11658375Abstract: An electromagnetic bandgap structure includes a plurality of resonators. Each of the resonators includes a dielectric substrate, a patch conductor formed on an upper surface of the dielectric substrate, and a conductor layer formed on a lower surface of the dielectric substrate. The patch conductor and the conductor layer are electrically connected to each other by via holes penetrating the dielectric substrate. A plurality of long holes and are formed on the lower surface of the dielectric substrate. A long hole conductor layer is formed on an inner wall surface of the long holes and. The conductor layer and the long hole conductor layer are electrically connected to each other to thereby form an integral conductor surface. The via holes are electrically connected to the conductor surface in the long holes and.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Masaharu Ito
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Patent number: 11656407Abstract: A terahertz (THz) waveguide and method for production allows for THz waveguides to be used in or on a printed circuit board (PCB) such that the propagation of THz waves require less power, result in less signal loss due to radiation or dispersion, and propagate more efficiently. Additionally, the position and/or geometry of a waveguide, as well as any additional antenna or coupling element, may be adjusted on or in the PCB such that the electromagnetic field of the waveguide may more efficiently couple with the electromagnetic field of the PCB.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Lars Martin Otfried Brusberg, Alan Frank Evans, Michael John Yadlowsky
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Patent number: 11658377Abstract: An electromagnetic waveguide including conductive material on upper lower, and side surfaces of a dielectric is disclosed. A conductive excitation member is electrically coupled to the conductive material on the upper surface of the dielectric and extends to the lower surface of the dielectric at or near an end surface of the dielectric. The conductive excitation member includes a host interface flange separated and electrically isolated from the conductive material on the lower surface of the dielectric. The conductive material on the lower surface of the dielectric can be a ground plane and the waveguide can be a surface-mountable component.Type: GrantFiled: January 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Knowles Cazenovia, Inc.Inventors: Jared Burdick, Pierre Nadeau
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Patent number: 11646478Abstract: A meta-surface water load includes a waveguide section, a water load section and two meta-surface plates; the water load section is arranged at a rear end of the waveguide section; the two meta-surface plates are arranged opposite on inner walls of two narrow sides of the waveguide section; the water load section includes a metal casing, a ceramic partition, a water inlet and a water outlet; the metal casing is mounted at the rear end of the waveguide section; cooling liquid flows in the metal casing, entering from the water inlet and leaving from the water outlet; the ceramic partition is for separating interior of the waveguide section and interior of the metal casing; a relative permittivity of materials from front to rear of each meta-surface plate is progressively increased, so that microwave in the waveguide section is propagated to the water load section in one direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Sichuan UniversityInventors: Huacheng Zhu, Yang Yang
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Patent number: 11637355Abstract: An integrated circuit is disclosed. The integrated circuit includes a first resonator, a second resonator, and a coupling element. The first resonator has a first terminal and a second terminal, where the first resonator comprises a gain resistor, a gain capacitor, and a gain inductor in parallel and electrically coupling the first terminal with the second terminal. The second resonator has a third terminal and a fourth terminal, where the second resonator includes a loss resistor, a loss capacitor, and a loss inductor in parallel and electrically coupling the third terminal with the fourth terminal. The coupling element selectively couples the first terminal of the first resonator with the third terminal of the second resonator.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Washington UniversityInventors: Xuan Zhang, Lan Yang, Weidong Cao, Weijian Chen
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Patent number: 11637354Abstract: A method of fabricating and tuning a surface integrated waveguide (SIW) filter incudes covering upper and lower surfaces of a dielectric substrate with a metallic layer. The method includes drilling a plurality of vias on the dielectric substrate and covering the vias with the metallic layer, wherein a first group of vias forms one or more cavity resonators, a second group of vias defines coupling channels between the cavity resonators, a third group of vias defines an effective width and a fourth group of vias defines an effective length of the cavity resonators. The method includes varying a center frequency by increasing diameters of the second group of vias to decrease the width of the coupling channels and varying a roll-off by increasing diameters of the third and fourth groups of vias to decrease the effective width and the effective length of the resonators.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates, LLCInventors: Sidharth Balasubramanian, Salah Ud Din Tariq
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Patent number: 11626651Abstract: Provided is a filter capable of suppressing variation in characteristics. A filter has: a plurality of resonators each having a via electrode and a first strip line that is opposed to a first shielding conductor and connected to one end of the via electrode; a first coupling capacitive electrode that has a first comb-shaped electrode including a plurality of first electrodes and that is provided to the first resonator; and a second coupling capacitive electrode that is provided to the second resonator, that has a second comb-shaped electrode including a plurality of second electrodes, and that is formed on the same layer as that of the first coupling capacitive electrode, wherein the first and second electrodes are arranged so as to be adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Soshin Electric Co., LtdInventors: Keisuke Ogawa, Hitoshi Makino