Patents by Inventor Jaume Anguera

Jaume Anguera 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).

  • Publication number: 20240356209
    Abstract: A device includes a radiating system comprising: at least one of a radiation booster or a radiating element; a ground plane layer having at least two connecting points; a radiofrequency system electrically connected to the radiation booster and/or the radiating element and comprising at least one matching network; at least one external port electrically connected to the radiofrequency system; and at least first and second electrically conductive elements each comprising one or more components and being adapted to electrically connect first and second connecting points, respectively, of the at least two connecting points to an electrically conductive body of an apparatus at a distance from the ground plane layer, the distance being less than ?/15, wherein ? is a free-space wavelength at a lowest frequency of operation of the radiating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA, Aurora ANDÚJAR
  • Publication number: 20240267067
    Abstract: A wireless device or wireless communications system comprises a transceiver module, a processor, an energy-supplying device, and a radiating system comprising a non-resonant element, a ground plane element, and a wireless matching core (WMC). The wireless device may further comprise an intelligent database or look-up table and at least one sensor. The database contains information about the environment where the device is going to work and/or about the material of the objects where the device can be mounted and/or form factors of the device, and it is used for configuring the operation mode of the device. The ground plane element may be a ground plane layer printed on a printed circuit board. The WMC can be a universal matching network, a self-adaptive matching network, or a self-adaptive universal matching network. The non-resonant element can be a radiation booster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA, Aurora ANDÚJAR, Carles PUENTE, Rosa Maria MATEOS, Jaap GROOT, José Luis LEIVA, Elena GARCÍA
  • Publication number: 20240222847
    Abstract: A radiating system of a wireless device transmits and receives electromagnetic wave signals in a frequency region and comprises an external port, a radiating structure, and a radiofrequency system. The radiating structure includes: a ground plane layer with a connection point; a radiation booster with a connection point and being smaller than 1/30 of a free-space wavelength corresponding to a lowest frequency of the frequency region; and an internal port between the radiation booster connection point and the ground plane layer connection point. The radiofrequency system includes: a first port connected to the radiating structure's internal port; and a second port connected to the external port. An input impedance at radiating structure's disconnected internal port has a non-zero imaginary part across the frequency region. The radiofrequency system modifies impedance of the radiating structure to provide impedance matching to the radiating system within the frequency region at the external port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Josep MUMBRU
  • Publication number: 20240162598
    Abstract: A wireless handheld or portable device includes an antenna system operable in a first frequency region and a higher, second frequency region. The antenna system comprises an antenna structure, a matching and tuning system, and an external input/output (I/O) port. The antenna structure comprises at least one radiating element including a connection point, a ground plane layer including at least one connection point, and at least one internal I/O port. At least one radiating element of the antenna structure protrudes beyond the ground plane layer. The antenna structure features at any of its internal I/O ports when disconnected from the matching and tuning system an input return loss curve having a minimum at a frequency outside the first frequency region of the antenna system. The matching and tuning system modifies the impedance of the antenna structure and provides impedance matching to the antenna system in the first and second regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Ivan SANZ, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Josep MUMBRU
  • Publication number: 20240162615
    Abstract: A wireless device using a radiating system able to operate in more than one communication system features compact dimensions and comprises a radiating structure that contains a compact booster arrangement that comprises first and second boosters, arranged in a configuration such that the boosters are not concatenated between them, i.e., not being placed one next to each other. One of the boosters comprises a slot or a gap in a ground plane layer and another of the boosters comprises at least a conductive part or element connected at a point to an additional conductive element that comprises a feeding point. The radiating structure also comprises the ground plane layer and a radiofrequency system. The radiating system also comprises one or two ports, each providing operation at least at one of the communication systems of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA, Aurora ANDÚJAR, Carles PUENTE
  • Publication number: 20240120644
    Abstract: A wireless device comprises a radiating system that comprises: an antenna system, a ground plane, and a matching network. The antenna system comprises an antenna component including a first multi-section antenna component comprising two sections, each comprising a conductive element. The matching network connected to the antenna system for impedance matching to a first frequency range. The radiating system operates in a frequency range of operation including the first frequency range, the first frequency range comprising a first highest frequency and a first lowest frequency. The first antenna component has a maximum size larger than 1/30 times and smaller than ? times a free-space wavelength corresponding to the lowest frequency of operation. The conductive elements in the different sections of the first antenna component are spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA, Aurora ANDUJAR, Carles PUENTE, Rosa E. MATEOS NAVARRO
  • Publication number: 20240048171
    Abstract: A wireless multi-band device comprises a radiating system comprising a ground plane layer, a boosting element, and a radiofrequency system, wherein the radiofrequency system comprises a tunable reactive element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES
  • Publication number: 20240047859
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an antenna element operable in multiple frequency bands and configured to be connected to a ground plane and to a radiofrequency system to provide impedance matching at the multiple frequency bands, where the radiofrequency system comprising at least a matching network. A maximum length of the antenna element is shorter than L/12 but longer than L/22, where L is the free-space wavelength corresponding to a lowest frequency related to a lowest frequency region of operation of the antenna element. A contour of the antenna element has a complexity factor F12 less than 1.25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES, Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA
  • Publication number: 20240047860
    Abstract: A wireless device includes at least one slim radiating system having a slim radiating structure and a radio-frequency system. The slim radiating structure includes one or more booster bars. The booster bar has slim width and height factors that facilitate its integration within the wireless device and the excitation of a resonant mode in the ground plane layer, and has a location factor that enables it to achieve the most favorable radio-frequency performance for the available space to allocate the booster bar. The at least one slim radiating system may be configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic wave signals in one or more frequency regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Norman TOPORCER, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES
  • Publication number: 20240039148
    Abstract: A device includes a radiating system comprising: at least one of a radiation booster or a radiating element; a ground plane layer having at least two connecting points; a radiofrequency system electrically connected to the radiation booster and/or the radiating element and comprising at least one matching network; at least one external port electrically connected to the radiofrequency system; and at least first and second electrically conductive elements each comprising one or more components and being adapted to electrically connect first and second connecting points, respectively, of the at least two connecting points to an electrically conductive body of an apparatus at a distance from the ground plane layer, the distance being less than ?/15, wherein K is a free-space wavelength at a lowest frequency of operation of the radiating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA, Aurora ANDÚJAR
  • Publication number: 20230369753
    Abstract: A wireless device operates in at least one frequency region and/or frequency band and comprises a radiating system that includes a radiating structure comprising a ground plane layer having a clearance area at a corner of a ground plane rectangle that encompasses the ground plane layer, an antenna element located in the clearance area, and two connections of the antenna element to the ground plane layer. The radiating system further comprises a radiofrequency system comprising a matching network and/or an electronic circuit. One of the antenna element to ground plane layer connections is connected to an input/output port of the radiating system and a second connection connects the antenna element to the ground plane layer through a short-circuit or an electronic circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA, Aurora ANDÚJAR, José Luis PINA
  • Publication number: 20230318169
    Abstract: A stand-alone component for a radiating system of a wireless device comprises a dielectric support and first and second surfaces respectively comprising first and a second conductive surface elements spaced by the dielectric support and electrically connected by a conductor. The stand-alone component features a parallelepiped shape, and the first and second surfaces are polygons. The first and second surfaces are the largest surfaces of the parallelepiped component. The stand-alone component has a maximum size smaller than a longest operating wavelength of the stand-alone component divided by 20 and is connected to a radiofrequency system and coupled to a ground plane within the radiating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA
  • Patent number: 11769941
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an antenna element operable in multiple frequency bands and configured to be connected to a ground plane and to a radiofrequency system to provide impedance matching at the multiple frequency bands, where the radiofrequency system comprising at least a matching network. A maximum length of the antenna element is shorter than L/12 but longer than L/22, where L is the free-space wavelength corresponding to a lowest frequency related to a lowest frequency region of operation of the antenna element. A contour of the antenna element has a complexity factor F12 less than 1.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: IGNION, S.L.
    Inventors: Aurora Andujar Linares, Jaume Anguera Pros, Carles Puente Baliarda
  • Publication number: 20230291108
    Abstract: A wireless device comprises a radiating system that comprises and a radiating structure that operates in at least two frequency regions. The radiating structure comprises: a ground plane layer having a first connection point; a single radiation booster having a first connection point; a radiofrequency system comprising a first input port, a plurality of external output ports, and a plurality of branches, at least some of the plurality of branches being connected to a common point connected to the first input port, wherein each of the plurality of external output ports provides operation in at least one of the at least two frequency regions of operation; and a first internal port defined between the first connection point of the radiation booster and the first connection point of the ground plane layer, the first internal port being connected to the first input port of the radiofrequency system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Cristina PICHER PLANELLAS, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA
  • Publication number: 20230282963
    Abstract: A radiating system comprises a radiating structure, first and second external ports, and a radiofrequency system. The radiating structure comprises a ground plane layer including a connection point, a single radiation booster including a connection point, and a first internal port defined between the connection points of the single radiation booster and the ground plane layer. The first and second external ports each provide operation in at least one frequency band. The radiofrequency system includes a first port connected to the first internal port of the radiating structure, and second and third ports respectively connected to the first and second external ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Josep MUMBRU
  • Publication number: 20230238999
    Abstract: A wireless multi-band device comprises a radiating system comprising a ground plane layer, a boosting element, and a radiofrequency system, wherein the radiofrequency system comprises a tunable reactive element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES
  • Patent number: 11705620
    Abstract: A wireless wearable device comprises a radiating system that contains at least a non-resonant element disposed in different arrangements within a radiating structure in the radiating system, featuring compact dimensions and an adequate performance when operating on a carrier living body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: IGNION, S.L.
    Inventors: Jaume Anguera Pros, Aurora Andujar Linares
  • Publication number: 20230208021
    Abstract: A device includes a radiating system comprising: at least one of a radiation booster or a radiating element; a ground plane layer having at least two connecting points; a radiofrequency system electrically connected to the radiation booster and/or the radiating element and comprising at least one matching network; at least one external port electrically connected to the radiofrequency system; and at least first and second electrically conductive elements each comprising one or more components and being adapted to electrically connect first and second connecting points, respectively, of the at least two connecting points to an electrically conductive body of an apparatus at a distance from the ground plane layer, the distance being less than ?/15, wherein ? is a free-space wavelength at a lowest frequency of operation of the radiating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA, Aurora ANDÚJAR
  • Publication number: 20230198127
    Abstract: A radiating system of a wireless device transmits and receives electromagnetic wave signals in a frequency region and comprises an external port, a radiating structure, and a radiofrequency system. The radiating structure includes: a ground plane layer with a connection point; a radiation booster with a connection point and being smaller than 1/30 of a free-space wavelength corresponding to a lowest frequency of the frequency region; and an internal port between the radiation booster connection point and the ground plane layer connection point. The radiofrequency system includes: a first port connected to the radiating structure's internal port; and a second port connected to the external port. An input impedance at radiating structure's disconnected internal port has a non-zero imaginary part across the frequency region. The radiofrequency system modifies impedance of the radiating structure to provide impedance matching to the radiating system within the frequency region at the external port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Jaume ANGUERA PROS, Aurora ANDUJAR LINARES, Carles PUENTE BALIARDA, Josep MUMBRU
  • Patent number: 11626665
    Abstract: A wireless device comprises a radiating system that comprises and a radiating structure that operates in at least two frequency regions. The radiating structure comprises: a ground plane layer having a first connection point; a single radiation booster having a first connection point; a radiofrequency system comprising a first input port, a plurality of external output ports, and a plurality of branches, at least some of the plurality of branches being connected to a common point connected to the first input port, wherein each of the plurality of external output ports provides operation in at least one of the at least two frequency regions of operation; and a first internal port defined between the first connection point of the radiation booster and the first connection point of the ground plane layer, the first internal port being connected to the first input port of the radiofrequency system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: IGNION, S.L.
    Inventors: Jaume Anguera Pros, Cristina Picher Planellas, Aurora Andujar Linares, Carles Puente Baliarda