Patents by Inventor Fu-Ren Hsiao
Fu-Ren Hsiao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7705785Abstract: An antenna has a plurality of metallic patches and a feed network both being spaced apart from a ground plate at different levels to obtain better radiation pattern and gain effects. Each of the metallic patches has a body with an outer edge from which an inclined wing extends upwardly and outwardly. Furthermore, the metallic patches and the feed network are integrally formed by bending a single piece of metal plate, thus the antenna improves the design flexibility and also simplifies the production process.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2008Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Kuan-Wei Lee, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao, Po-Sheng Chen, Chih-Ren Hsiao
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Publication number: 20100079343Abstract: The present invention discloses an antenna conductor layout method and an antenna array fabricated thereby. The antenna array of the present invention comprises a first conductor array having a plurality of first conductors arranged on a substrate to have a rectangular layout and a second conductor array having a plurality of second conductors also arranged on the substrate to have a rectangular layout. The first and second conductor arrays are arranged to form a symmetric antenna array, wherein the conductors are space-efficiently disposed without interfering with the radiation pattern, whereby designing the mechanism and installing the antenna becomes easier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: ADVANCED CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: CHENG-HSUAN HSU, TSUNG-WEN CHIU, WEN-HIS LEE, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Patent number: 7683840Abstract: An integrated broadband antenna device with wide band function is disclosed. The antenna device comprises a ground plate, a feeding wire, a first metal radiator, a second metal radiator, a ground metal radiator and a parasitic metal radiator. The first metal radiator is connected with the positive ends of signals of the feeding wire for transmitting electric signals and producing a high frequency mode. The first metal radiator is coupled to and energizes the second metal radiator and the parasitic metal radiator, and then the two metal radiator producing a low frequency mode and a second high frequency mode along with the ground metal radiator obtains a wider bandwidth. The broadband antenna device integrating various kinds of antennas is able to have a enough bandwidth to meet the requirements of AMPS (824˜894 MHz), GSM (880˜960 MHz), GPS (1575 MHz), DCS (1710˜1880 MHz), PCS (1850˜1990 MHz), UMTS (1920˜2170 MHz) and Wi-Fi (2400˜2500 MHz).Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2007Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Advanced Connectek, Inc.Inventors: Yu-Ching Lin, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao, Chun-Ching Lan, Yun-Fan Bai
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Publication number: 20100060528Abstract: The present invention discloses a dual-frequency antenna, which comprises a radiation conductor, an extension conductor, a feeder member, a short-circuit member, and a ground plane. The radiation conductor has a first terminal and a second terminal, which are arranged close to each other but do not contact each other. The extension conductor is connected to the second terminal and disposed along the contour of the first terminal to have a gap between the extension conductor and the first terminal. The feeder member is connected to the radiation conductor. One end of the short-circuit member is connected to the radiation conductor, and the other end is connected to the ground plane. The radiation conductor generates a low-frequency resonant mode and a first high-frequency resonant mode. In the present invention, a single radiation conductor generates two resonant modes to form the operational frequency bands of the dual-frequency antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: ADVANCED CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Tsung-Wen Chiu, Hung-Chi Chang, Wen-His Lee, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Patent number: 7667663Abstract: A coupling antenna has a substrate, an inducting conductor, a ground plane, a first coupling member and a second coupling member. The inducting conductor is mounted on the substrate. The ground plane is formed on and protrudes from the inducting conductor and is mounted on the substrate. The first coupling member is mounted on the substrate and is connected to a feeding cable. The second coupling member is mounted on the substrate and is connected to the first coupling member. The coupling antenna with the first coupling member, the second coupling member and the inducting conductor has a wide bandwidth and a small size.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Advanced Connectek, Inc.Inventors: Chih-Jen Hsiao, Po-Yuan Liao, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Publication number: 20100039328Abstract: An annular antenna is composed of a ground plane, a short-circuit conductor, a radiation conductor and a parasitic conductor. The radiation conductor has a connection member and a feeder member. Two ends of the short-circuit member are respectively connected to the ground plane and connection member. The feeder member is close to the ground plane and has a notch. The short-circuit conductor and radiation conductor run along the ground plane defining an in-annular area. The radiation conductor has a first coupling edge beside the in-annular area. The parasitic conductor is inside the in-annular area with one end coupled to the ground plane and a second coupling edge along the first coupling edge. The first and second coupling edges have a gap therebetween. The radiation and parasitic conductors respectively excite low-frequency and high-frequency resonant modes. The annular antenna covers multiple frequency bands, has UWB features and simplified structure and favors mass-production.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2008Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: ADVANCED CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Tsung-Wen Chiu, SHENG-CHIH LIN, WEN-HIS LEE, Yi-Wei Tseng, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Patent number: 7659864Abstract: A broadband antenna has a substrate, a coupling conductor, a conductor string, a ground conductor and a ground plane. The coupling conductor has a first coupling member and a second coupling member being separated from each other. The conductor string and the ground conductor are connected to the second coupling member. The conductor string extends along a direction opposite to the second coupling member. The ground conductor is connected to the ground plane. The broadband antenna uses the coupling conductor and the ground conductor to adjust input impedance for impedance match. The conductor string functions as a multi level resonance circuit to increase impedance bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2008Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Wen-Shyang Chen, Yao-Yuan Chang, Chih-Ren Hsiao, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Patent number: 7616159Abstract: An antenna array has a ground plane, a plurality of spacers, a radiating patch array and a feeding member. The spacers are mounted on the ground plane. The radiating patch array is mounted on the spacers, is separated from the ground plane at an interval and has three pairs of radiating patches. Each radiating patch is parallel to the ground plane and has a sub radiating patch formed on and inclined away from the ground plane. The inclined sub radiating patches and the interval increase gain of the antenna array.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Kuo-Chan Fu, Po-Sheng Chen, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Patent number: 7605762Abstract: An antenna has a ground plane, a radiating member, a signal-feeding member and two grounding supports. The radiating member is suspended over and separated from the ground plane and has two opposite non-radiating edges. Each non-radiating edge has a middle section. Each grounding support is connected perpendicularly to the middle section of one non-radiating edge of the radiating member and the ground plane. The grounding supports connected between the radiating member and the ground plane excellently improve the combination of the radiating member and the ground plane to prevent the antenna from inadvertently disassembling.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2007Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Chen-Hsuan Hsu, Po-Sheng Chen, Fu-Ren Hsiao, Tsung-Wen Chiu
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Publication number: 20090231200Abstract: A multi-antenna module comprises a ground plane, a primary conductor, a secondary conductor and a plurality of coupling conductors, wherein the framework of the parallel primary radiation arm and secondary radiation arm can infinitely expand the number of antenna units in the same antenna structure. The capacitive coupling effect of parallel radiation arms and the inductance of the radiation arms themselves can effectively reduce the signal interference between antennae, whereby a plurality of antennae can be integrated to achieve antenna miniaturization. The primary conductor, the secondary conductor and the coupling conductors are all connected to the same ground plane, whereby the layout space is reduced, and the multi-antenna module is easy-to-assemble for various electronic devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2008Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: ADVANCED CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Tsung-Wen Chiu, Sheng-Chih Lin, Yi-Wei Tseng, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Patent number: 7567211Abstract: An antenna is formed integrally into one piece and has a ground plane, a feeding strip and two pairs of radiating patches. The feeding strip is connected integrally to the ground plane. The pairs of the radiating patches are formed symmetrically and integrally on the feeding strip. The antenna formed integrally into one piece simplifies the manufacture of the antenna lowers the manufacturing cost of the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2008Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Cheng-Hsuan Hsu, Chia-Wen Hsu, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Patent number: 7561108Abstract: An antenna array unit is provided by the present invention. The antenna array unit includes: a ground, a feeder cable, a first signal feeding member, a plurality of second signal feeding members, a plurality of third signal feeding members, a plurality of first rectangular radiating members and a plurality of second rectangular radiating members. The first rectangular radiating members have first and second non-radiating sides, two radiating sides able to generate a coupling effect with a radiating side adjacent thereto. The second rectangular radiating members have first and second non-radiating sides, two radiating sides and able to generate a coupling effect with a radiating side adjacent thereto. The present invention is characterized in that at least one current disturbing member is formed at each non-radiating second side of the plurality of the first and the second rectangular radiating members and adjacent to the nearest radiating side generating the coupling effect.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2007Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Kuo-Chan Fu, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Chen-Hsuan Hsu, Po-Sheng Chen, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Patent number: 7559777Abstract: An electrical connector includes a top plate, a first clamping plate extending integrally and downwardly from a first side of the top plate, and a second clamping plate extending integrally and downwardly from a second side of the top plate, and cooperating with the top plate and the first clamping plate to define a clamp for clamping a grounding plate. A connecting member extends integrally from the second side of the top plate and is connected electrically to a ground pattern provided on a circuit board of an antenna module.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Sheng-Chih Lin, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao, Sih-Ji Wang
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Publication number: 20090167611Abstract: An assembly antenna array comprises a ground plate, a pair of first radiation conductors, a first transmission member, first support rods, a pair of second conductors, a second transmission member, and second support rods. The ground plate has an upper surface and a lower surface. The layout size of the assembly antenna array is reduced via arranging the arrayed first radiation conductors and the arrayed second radiation conductors vertically to each other. The mutual interference between the transmission members is inhibited via respectively arranging the transmission members and the feeding ends of the two pairs of radiation conductors on different surfaces. A feeder cable is connected to an appropriate position of each transmission member to enable each pair of radiation conductors to have a phase difference of 180 degrees, whereby cross-polarization is reduced, and the gain are increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Cheng-Hsuan Hsu, Po-Sheng Chen, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Patent number: 7554503Abstract: A wide band antenna has a ground plane, a dielectric member and a radiating patch. The dielectric member is mounted on the ground plane. The radiating patch is held by the dielectric member, is mounted on the ground plane and has a main conductor, a feeding conductor, a coupling conductor, an extension conductor and a shorting conductor. The main conductor has a first resonant mode. The extension conductor has a second resonant mode. The coupling conductor is capable of feeding high frequency signals into the main conductor and the extension conductor by capacitive coupling effect. With the main conductor, the extension conductor and the coupling conductor, the size of the wide band antenna is effectively reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Cheng-Hsuan Hsu, Sheng-Chih Lin, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Patent number: 7538729Abstract: A coupling antenna has a ground plane, a main radiating assembly and a secondary radiating assembly. The main radiating assembly is mounted on the ground plane and has a substrate, a feeding-and-coupling assembly and a shorting member. The feeding-and-coupling assembly has a feeding member, a coupling member and an extension member. The second radiating assembly is mounted on the ground plane, is connected to the main radiating assembly and has a first radiating patch and a second radiating patch. With the extension member and the first and second radiating patches, operating bandwidth of the coupling antenna is improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2008Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Sheng-Chih Lin, Yi-Wei Tseng, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Publication number: 20090128419Abstract: The present invention discloses a multi-frequency antenna, which comprises a radiation conductor, a parasitic conductor, a feeder cable and a ground plane. The radiation conductor comprises a feeder member, a first radiation arm and a second radiation arm. The feeder cable comprises a central cable and an outer cable. The feeder member has a coupling side. The parasitic conductor is connected with the ground plane and has a coupling side arranged along the contour of the coupling side of the feeder member. The coupling side of the parasitic conductor and the coupling side of the feeder member have a gap there between. The first and second radiation arms excite a low-frequency resonant mode, and the parasitic conductor excites a high-frequency mode. Therefore, the multi-frequency antenna of the present invention not only covers several operational frequency bands and has a UWB feature, but also has a simplified structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: ADVANCED CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Yi-Wei Tseng, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao, Sheng-Chih Lin
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Patent number: 7528781Abstract: A circularly polarized antenna has a dielectric substrate, a feeding member, a coupling member, a ground plane, a support and a radiating patch. The feeding member is mounted on the dielectric substrate and has a first conductor, a second conductor, a connecting conductor and a third conductor. The second conductor is connected to the first conductor. The connecting conductor is connected to the first conductor. The third conductor is connected to the connecting conductor and is parallel to the second conductor. The coupling member is connected to the feeding member. The ground plane is mounted on the dielectric substrate. The support is mounted on the dielectric substrate. The radiating member is mounted on the support. The circularly polarized antenna generates the circularly polarized radiation being parallel to the ground plane so that portable wireless products with the circularly polarized antenna have an excellent gain.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Hsiao-Cheng Lin, Chih-Jen Hsiao, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao
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Publication number: 20090066580Abstract: The present invention discloses a multi-antenna integration module, which comprises a first antenna, a second antenna and a common unit. The first antenna further comprises a first feeder cable, a first feeder member, a coupling unit, which has a first and second coupling members, and an extension conductor. The second antenna further comprises a second feeder cable, a radiation conductor and a coupling conductor. The common unit further comprises a common conductor which has a first and second conductor, a common short-circuit member and a common ground member. In the present invention, the design of the common unit integrates the radiation conductors, short-circuit members and ground members of different antenna systems into a single structure, whereby the isolation effect is promoted, and the signal interference among different antennae is decreased, and the space occupied by the antenna layout is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.Inventors: Yi-Wei Tseng, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao, Sheng-Chih Lin, Yo-Chia Chang
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Publication number: 20090040113Abstract: An antenna module is provided. The antenna module comprises a first radiation conductor, a second radiation conductor, a short-circuit element (s/c element), a ground plane, a feed-in cable and a spurious radiation conductor. One terminal of the second radiation conductor is near the first radiation conductor with a gap. One terminal of the s/c element is connected to the second radiation conductor and the other side of the s/c element is connected to the ground plane. The feed-in cable comprises a centre conductor and an external conductor, wherein the centre conductor is connected to the first radiation conductor and the external conductor is connected to the ground plane. The spurious radiation conductor is connected to the second radiation conductor. The second radiation conductor comprises a spurious radiation plate, a first radiation piece and a second radiation piece within the two sides of the second radiation conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: ADVANCED CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Yi-Wei Tseng, Tsung-Wen Chiu, Fu-Ren Hsiao, Sheng-Chih Lin