Patents by Inventor Paul K. W. Tom

Paul K. W. Tom 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).

  • Patent number: 5625365
    Abstract: An antenna system for a navigation satellite receiver tuned to dual-frequency transmissions from orbiting navigation satellites. Respective L1 and L2 microwave patch antennas are mounted flat and adjacent to one another on a common ceramic substrate and have their centers grounded to a groundplane on the opposite side of the substrate with vias. Each patch antenna is connected to a respective near-by low-noise amplifier. The low-noise amplifiers are both connected to a signal combiner and a final radio frequency amplifier for down feed to a navigation satellite receiver. A direct current signal from the navigation satellite receiver is used on the down-feed to selectively control which one of the two low-noise amplifiers is to operate. Thus one coaxial down-feed supplies power to the low-noise amplifiers and provides for the selection between the L1 and L2 carrier frequencies on the down-feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Trimble Navigation Limited
    Inventors: Paul K. W. Tom, Valentine L. Denninger