Patents by Inventor Maria Garcia Vigueras

Maria Garcia Vigueras 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: 20230335899
    Abstract: A device for controlling radiofrequency beams of a given polarization, the device includes a set of at least one cell, comprising a support frame and at least one interconnection internal to the frame. The frame is inscribed within a prism, having a given axis Z? and faces connected to one another by edges oriented along the axis Z?. The frame comprises corner elements, each having a rim coincident with an edge and being arranged such that the frame has, on each face, a slot (440-n) extending along the axis Z?. The interconnection comprises inductive rods, each comprising two ends of which a first end is connected to a rim, the second ends being connected to one another at a connection point positioned in the centre of the frame in a plane orthogonal to the axis Z?. Each cell is configured to carry out polarization-invariant transmission and/or reflection of beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hervé LEGAY, Charalampos STOUMPOS, Thierry PIERRE, Juan DURAN VENEGAS, Maria GARCIA VIGUERAS
  • Patent number: 11217896
    Abstract: A circularly polarized radiating element includes at least one excitation aperture for a wave that is linearly polarized with what is referred to as an excitation first polarization, a frequency selective surface and a metasurface comprising a two-dimensional and periodic array of metasurface cells, the excitation aperture opening onto the metasurface, the metasurface cells all being oriented identically with respect to the excitation polarization and configured to: reflect an incident wave having the excitation polarization in order to form a reflected wave polarized with the excitation polarization, and depolarize and reflect the incident wave in order to form a reflected wave polarized with the orthogonal polarization, having a phase difference substantially equal to ±90° with respect to the reflected wave polarized with the excitation polarization, and having an amplitude substantially equal to the amplitude of a wave radiated by the frequency selective surface, generated from the reflected wave polarized
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: THALES, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUES, UNIVERSITE DE RENNES 1, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Hervé Legay, Antoine Calleau, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Mauro Ettorre
  • Patent number: 11171396
    Abstract: A polarizing screen includes an arrangement of at least one, electrically conductive, polarizing cell, which at least one cell is frequency- and polarization-selective, for transforming the polarization of the electric component E of the transverse electromagnetic (TEM) wave, received with linear polarization, into an electromagnetic wave with circular polarization. The four lateral walls of each section of waveguide forming a polarizing cell are each open over their entire length due to a median continuous slot, parallel to the direction of propagation of the incident electromagnetic wave, so as to form four angled electrically conductive plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: THALES, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE RENNES
    Inventors: Hervé Legay, Carlos Molero Jimenez, Maria Garcia Vigueras
  • Publication number: 20200335842
    Abstract: A polarizing screen includes an arrangement of at least one, electrically conductive, polarizing cell, which at least one cell is frequency- and polarization-selective, for transforming the polarization of the electric component E of the transverse electromagnetic (TEM) wave, received with linear polarization, into an electromagnetic wave with circular polarization. The four lateral walls of each section of waveguide forming a polarizing cell are each open over their entire length due to a median continuous slot, parallel to the direction of propagation of the incident electromagnetic wave, so as to form four angled electrically conductive plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Hervé LEGAY, Carlos MOLERO JIMENEZ, Maria GARCIA VIGUERAS
  • Publication number: 20190305436
    Abstract: A circularly polarized radiating element includes at least one excitation aperture for a wave that is linearly polarized with what is referred to as an excitation first polarization, a frequency selective surface and a metasurface comprising a two-dimensional and periodic array of metasurface cells, the excitation aperture opening onto the metasurface, the metasurface cells all being oriented identically with respect to the excitation polarization and configured to: reflect an incident wave having the excitation polarization in order to form a reflected wave polarized with the excitation polarization, and depolarize and reflect the incident wave in order to form a reflected wave polarized with the orthogonal polarization, having a phase difference substantially equal to ±90° with respect to the reflected wave polarized with the excitation polarization, and having an amplitude substantially equal to the amplitude of a wave radiated by the frequency selective surface, generated from the reflected wave polarized
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Hervé Legay, Antoine Calleau, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Mauro Ettorre