Patents Examined by Trinh Dinh
  • Patent number: 9640870
    Abstract: The invention relates to an array antenna (1), comprising a first plate (2), which has means for distributing an electromagnetic signal to be emitted by the array antenna (1), a second plate (3), which has first openings (7) for conducting the electromagnetic signal to be emitted therethrough, and a third plate (4), which has means (12) used to emit the electromagnetic signal. The second plate (3) is arranged between the first plate and the third plate (2, 4) and is operatively connected to same. The second plate (3) has substantially plane-parallel, smooth lateral surfaces (5, 6), in which the first openings (7) are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Huber+Suhner AG
    Inventors: Frank Klefenz, Ulf Huegel
  • Patent number: 9634635
    Abstract: A device includes a thermally conductive and electrically insulative substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface. A coupling structure is configured to reduce the RF input signal by substantially a predetermined amount of attenuation power. A tuning circuit is characterized by a tuning reactance substantially matched to a predetermined system impedance. A resistor is disposed on a majority of the first major surface and is characterized by a parasitic capacitance that is substantially negated by the tuning reactance. The resistor includes a first resistive portion and a second resistive portion; each of the first resistive portion and the second resistive portion being configured to direct approximately one-half of the attenuation power to the ground portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: ANAREN, INC.
    Inventors: Chong Mei, Bo Jensen
  • Patent number: 9627747
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to dual-polarized magnetic antennas that may be used in various applications and are particularly suited for use in mobile devices and systems. In one exemplary embodiment, a dual-polarized antenna has a ferrite substrate that provides for the use of small antenna elements and also provides broad bandwidth and good impedance matching and isolation making the antenna attractive for use in mobile applications. Such antenna also has nearly omnidirectional radiation patterns and orthogonal polarizations. Further, the radiator type may be selected depending on the desired effective permeability in order to control return loss, isolation, and fractional bandwidth (FBW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama for and on behalf of the University of Alabama
    Inventors: Yang-Ki Hong, Woncheo Lee
  • Patent number: 9620862
    Abstract: A reflectarray reflects an incident wave in a desired direction, and the reflectarray includes a plurality of elements arranged in a first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The elements reflect the incident wave. A phase of a reflected wave by one element among the plurality of elements differs from a phase of the reflected wave by an element adjacent to the one element in the first direction by a predetermined value, and the phase of the reflected wave by the one element is equal to a phase of the reflected wave by an element adjacent to the one element in the second direction. Gap sizes between patches of a predetermined plural number of elements arranged in the first direction vary from a smallest value to a largest value. Here, an oblique TM incidence is utilized at a spurious resonance frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tamami Maruyama, Yasuhiro Oda, Jiyun Shen, Ngoc Hao Tran
  • Patent number: 9614278
    Abstract: A ladder filter includes a plurality of series-arm resonators and parallel-arm resonators including surface acoustic wave resonators. A metallization ratio of the series-arm resonator having the smallest electrostatic capacity among the plurality of series-arm resonators is the smallest among the plurality of series-arm resonators and an electrode finger pitch of the series-arm resonator having the smallest electrostatic capacity is the largest among electrode finger pitches of the plurality of series-arm resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Takata
  • Patent number: 9614286
    Abstract: A dual-band dipole antenna includes a substrate, grounding area, main radiator, grounding point and a feed-in point. The grounding point may be disposed on the substrate. The main radiator may be disposed on the substrate and in the vicinity of the grounding point; the main radiator may comprises a first radiator and a second radiator, wherein the first radiator may be connected to the second radiator, and there may be a groove between the first radiator and the second radiator; besides the size of the main radiator is disproportional to the size of the grounding area. The grounding point may be disposed on the substrate and connected to the grounding area. The feed-in point may be disposed on the substrate and connected to the main radiator; the grounding point may be in the vicinity of the feed-in point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: ARCADYAN TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jian-Jhih Du, Chih-Yung Huang, Kuo-Chang Lo
  • Patent number: 9608336
    Abstract: An omni-directional triband antenna operates without ground radials with gain commensurate with a half wavelength vertical on each band. The triband antenna includes a dual-band twinlead J-pole providing half wavelength radiators for UHF and VHF, and an impedance transformer defining feedpoints to which a length Lc of coaxial cable is attached. The Lc lower end is the triband antenna connector port. Intermediate band radiators are first and second wire elements that collectively are a half-wavelength at the intermediate band. The first element is wound helically about the impedance transformer, with upper end floating and lower end connected to a first feedpoint. The second element is wound helically about the Lc upper portion of coaxial cable, with upper end connected to the remaining feedpoint, and lower end of the element floating. The helical windings radiate vertically and there is no cross-interference between antenna radiation in any of the three bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Inventor: Edison Fong
  • Patent number: 9608306
    Abstract: An antenna mount for mounting radio antennas on a communications tower is described. The antenna mount includes a ring structure that encircles the tower and includes a channel disposed about its outer perimeter. The channel is configured to receive a plurality of antenna carriages upon which antennas are mounted on a first end. A second end of the antenna carriage is disposed in the channel and is slideably movable along the length of the channel about the perimeter of the ring structure. The antenna is thus aimable in any desired azimuthal direction by moving the antenna along the ring structure. Bands for communication of data, power, control signaling, and propulsion of the antenna carriages about the ring structure are disposed in the channel. The ring structure may include a junction that allows reorientation of antennas with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Nicholas David Caola Kullman, Andrew Mark Wurtenberger
  • Patent number: 9601824
    Abstract: An electronic device case includes a conductive cap section and a conductive bezel section forming a perimeter outside the conductive cap section and separated from the conductive cap section by a bezel gap. A conductive ground plane section forms a perimeter and is positioned opposite the conductive cap section and the conductive bezel section. The conductive ground plane section is separated from the conductive bezel section by a perimeter gap. One or more components reside between the conductive cap section and the conductive ground plane section forming a resonant cavity including a ground plane resonant cavity portion between the one or more components and the conductive ground plane section and a substantially annular resonant cavity portion between the one or more components and the perimeters of the conductive bezel section and the conductive ground plane section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nil Apaydin, Paul O'Brien, Javier R. De Luis, Ben Shewan, Alireza Mahanfar, Sidharath Jain
  • Patent number: 9601832
    Abstract: According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are provided of bow tie antennas and antenna assemblies that include the same. In an exemplary embodiment, a bow tie antenna includes a pair of antenna elements. Each antenna element includes spaced apart end portions defining an open portion such that the antenna element has an open shape. The open shape is closed by dielectric material disposed between the spaced apart end portions and extending across a gap separating the spaced apart end portions, whereby the dielectric material and pair of antenna elements cooperatively define a closed bow tie shape for the bow tie antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Antennas Direct, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Schneider, John Edwin Ross, III, Corey Feit
  • Patent number: 9595756
    Abstract: An antenna includes three metallization layers having metallic dipoles organized into two clusters. Each of the two clusters includes metallic dipoles generally elongated along a common axis to produce signals of specific polarization. Each of the two clusters is oriented orthogonal to the other to produce two separate, orthogonally polarized signals. Each of the two clusters is associated with a dedicated vertical probe, positioned to maximize gain of the radiating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Buckley
  • Patent number: 9595758
    Abstract: A planar monopole antenna for dual-band Wi-Fi application is disclosed. The antenna has a ground copper and a radiation copper. The radiation copper is adhered to a substrate and has a conductive layer attached to a first surface of the substrate wherein the conductive layer further comprises a first radiation control section operating at a first bandwidth and connected in series via a central post with a second radiation control section operating at a second bandwidth different than the first bandwidth, and a ground section having a rectangularly-shaped pattern with a U-shaped opening at one end thereof positioned around a portion of the second radiation control section, wherein the planar antenna has a current distribution that is higher along the central post and a squared end of the rectangularly shaped ground section. Reception of the radiation copper into the opening of the ground copper forms an U-shaped separation that is approximately 0.6 mm wide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: TAOGLAS GROUP HOLDINGS
    Inventor: Javier Ruben Flores-Cuadras
  • Patent number: 9590316
    Abstract: The two twin-reflector antennas comprise a common support on which they are mounted, with each twin-reflector antenna comprising a main reflector, a secondary reflector and at least one radiating source placed in front of the corresponding secondary reflector, and optical paths of beams produced by the two twin-reflector antennas crisscrossing one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Erwan Cartaillac, Stephane Pouyez, Daniel Medici, Stephane Boffelli, Alain Gerard
  • Patent number: 9590304
    Abstract: A broadband antenna includes a substrate; a grounding unit; a first radiating element, including a first segment and a second segment substantially perpendicular to each other, wherein the first segment is electrically connected to the grounding unit and the second segment extends toward a direction; a second radiating element, coupled to the first radiating element; a third radiating element having a terminal coupled to or electrically connected to the second radiating element and another terminal electrically connected to the grounding unit; and a signal feed-in element electrically connected to the third radiating element for transmitting or receiving a radio signal; where the first, the second and the third radiating elements are disposed on the substrate along the direction defined by an order of the first segment of the first radiating element, the second radiating element and the third radiating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Wistron NeWeb Corporation
    Inventors: Shang-Sian You, Chien-Ting Huang, Chih-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 9577335
    Abstract: An antenna includes antenna coil having a magnetic-material core and a coil conductor. The antenna coil is arranged toward a side of a planar conductor, such as a circuit board. Of the coil conductor, a first conductor part close to a first main face of the magnetic-material core and a second conductor part close to a second main face of the magnetic-material core are provided such that the first conductor part is not over the second conductor part in view from a line in a direction normal to the first main face or the second main face of the magnetic-material core. In addition, a coil axis of the coil conductor is orthogonal to the side of the planar conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Hiroyuki Kubo, Hiromitsu Ito
  • Patent number: 9570811
    Abstract: A device includes a dielectric, wherein a front and a back of the dielectric for reflecting and transmitting an electromagnetic wave are defined by a first surface and a second surface, the first or second surface forming a half mirror, the first surface has a height that changes in spiral as leaving from the second surface, and the second surface has a height that changes in spiral as leaving from the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takenori Ohshima, Yoji Ohashi, Yukio Takeda, Kazumi Kasai
  • Patent number: 9558384
    Abstract: In an antenna apparatus, a power feed antenna includes a coil conductor and connected to a power feed circuit, a first booster conductor coupled to the coil conductor of the power feed antenna through an electromagnetic field, the first booster conductor having a planar plate shape, and a second booster conductor coupled to the first booster conductor through an electromagnetic field and coupled to the power feed antenna through an electromagnetic field. Thus, the antenna apparatus is much less influenced by nearby metallic objects and a shape of an included radiation plate may be more freely determined without requiring a highly accurate positional relationship between the radiation plate and the coil conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 9559413
    Abstract: An antenna feed circuit includes: a first hybrid circuit having a reference phase second terminal and 90° lagging phase third terminal; second hybrid circuit having a first terminal connecting to first hybrid circuit second terminal, reference phase second terminal, and 90° lagging phase third terminal; a first polarization converter/second polarization converter pair outputting at second hybrid circuit second terminal phase; third polarization converter/fourth polarization converter pair outputting at second hybrid circuit third terminal phase; third hybrid circuit having a first terminal connecting to first hybrid circuit third terminal, reference phase second terminal, and 90° lagging phase third terminal; fifth polarization converter/sixth polarization converter pair outputting at third hybrid circuit third terminal phase; and seventh polarization converter/eighth polarization converter pair outputting at third hybrid circuit second terminal phase rotated by 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Katase, Shuji Nuimura, Tomohiro Mizuno
  • Patent number: 9559428
    Abstract: A waveguide architecture for a dual-polarized antenna including multiple antenna elements. Aspects are directed to dual-polarized antenna architectures where each antenna element includes a polarizer having an individual waveguide with dual-polarization signal propagation and divided waveguides associated with each basis polarization. The waveguide architecture may include unit cells having corporate waveguide networks associated with each basis polarization connecting each divided waveguide of the polarizers of each antenna element in the unit cell with a respective common waveguide. The waveguide networks may have waveguide elements located within the unit-cell boundary with a small or minimized inter-element distance. Thus, unit cells may be positioned adjacent to each other in a waveguide device assembly for a dual-polarized antenna array without increased inter-element distance between antenna elements of adjacent unit cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Anders Jensen, Dominic Q. Nguyen, Donald L. Runyon
  • Patent number: 9537225
    Abstract: A method for use with a reflectarray antenna for wireless telecommunication is described. The method involves providing a reflectarray antenna, and adjusting a phase of a scattered field of the reflectarray antenna for generating different radiation patterns for angular mode-based multiplexing. The reflectarray antenna includes a ground plane, a dielectric substrate attached on the ground plane; and a first antenna patch formed on one side of the dielectric substrate. Further, the reflectarray antenna includes a second antenna patch formed adjacent to the first antenna patch with a separation area therebetween; and a phase adjustment member disposed in the separation area. The phase of the scattered field of the antenna is adjusted by changing a DC voltage of the phase adjustment member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Woo Jin Byun, Yong Heui Cho, Min Soo Kang, Kwang Seon Kim, Bong-Su Kim