Abstract: One or more embodiments are directed to a multimode antenna structure for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals in a communications device. The communications device includes circuitry for processing signals communicated to and from the antenna structure. The antenna structure is configured for optimal operation in a given frequency range. The antenna structure includes a plurality of antenna ports operatively coupled to the circuitry, and a plurality of antenna elements, each operatively coupled to a different one of the antenna ports. Each of the plurality of antenna elements is configured to have an electrical length selected to provide optimal operation within the given frequency range. The antenna structure also includes one or more connecting elements electrically connecting the antenna elements such that electrical currents on one antenna element flow to a connected neighboring antenna element and generally bypass the antenna port coupled to the neighboring antenna element.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an antenna, in particular a mobile communication antenna, especially for a mobile communication base station, the antenna comprising an antenna control unit, a plurality of radiators and a plurality of functional elements, wherein the antenna control unit has a configuration function which can be accessed via an external control unit, wherein at least one functional element is deactivable and/or activable via the configuration function.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments including a modular base station that is, for example, easily deployable in emerging markets. The modular base station is designed to be easily transported and affixed, for example, to poles or trees. The modular base station is designed to withstand high temperatures caused by operating at high altitudes and to be easily configured, oriented, and serviced in the field. Its components (e.g., radio frequency (RF) circuit boards) are modular so as to interoperate with various third-party compatible devices.

Abstract: A mobile communication base station antenna includes: a reflecting plate; a first patch-type radiating element installed on the reflecting plate; a second dipole-type radiating element installed and stacked on the first radiating element; and a circuit board for feeding power installed on the same surface as a surface of the reflecting plate on which the first radiating element and the second radiating element are installed and having a conductive pattern formed thereon to provide a feeding signal to the first radiating element.

Abstract: A vehicle may include a conductive housing surrounding an antenna and defining an aperture having a size at least equal to a wavelength of signals radiated by the antenna. A controller may be configured to orient the conductive housing to direct the aperture at a direction of travel to guide electromagnetic radiation from the antenna. The controller may orient the conductive housing in response to receiving a cooperative adaptive cruise control signal from an established platoon of vehicles.

Abstract: An array antenna device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an array antenna, a core layer, and a first adhesive layer. The array antenna has a first surface on which one or more radiating elements are disposed. The core layer is disposed facing the first surface. The first adhesive layer is present between the array antenna and the core layer and bonds the array antenna and the core layer to each other. The first adhesive layer includes one or more first openings and one or more radiating elements are disposed inside the first opening.

Abstract: A small antenna operating at a plurality of frequency bands includes a first conductor plane in which a first split ring resonator and a second split ring resonator that have different resonant frequencies are formed and a feed line including a first branch line, a second branch line and a branch portion. Each of the split ring resonators includes a conductor region along an opening edge of an opening formed in the first conductor plane and a split portion cutting through a portion of the conductor region. One end of the first branch line is connected to the first split ring resonator and the other end extends to the branch portion across the conductor region; one end of the second branch line is connected to the second split ring resonator and the other end extends to the branch portion across the conductor region.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a carrier having a surface, a first antenna radiator configured to transmit and/or receive a signal of a specific frequency band, a second antenna radiator configured to transmit and/or receive a signal of the specific frequency band, a communication circuit electrically connected to the first antenna radiator and the second antenna radiator, and a processor configured to control the communication circuit. The first antenna radiator includes a first conductive pattern disposed at a portion of the surface of the carrier. The second antenna radiator includes a second conductive pattern disposed at another portion of the surface of the carrier. The first antenna radiator includes a first open stub extending from one point of the first conductive pattern and configured to provide a transmission coefficient between the first antenna radiator and the second antenna radiator that is lower than a specific value at the specific frequency band.

Abstract: A method involving providing a phased array antenna system having M antenna element pairs, each antenna element pair including a vertically oriented antenna element and a horizontally oriented antenna element; and with the phased array antenna system, generating n cross-polarized beams Bj, where j=1 . . . n, each cross-polarized beam Bj having either a +45° polarization or a ?45° polarization, wherein generating each cross-polarized beam Bj involves: with the vertically polarized antenna elements of Nj antenna element pairs among the M antenna element pairs, generating a vertically polarized beam BVj; and with the horizontally polarized antenna elements of the Nj antenna element pairs, generating a horizontally polarized beam BHj, wherein the vertically polarized beam BVj and the horizontally polarized beam BHj are identically shaped and directed and wherein a superposition of the beams BVj and BHj produces the cross-polarized beam Bj.

Abstract: A transceiver for a phased array antenna comprises a laser light source arranged to provide an optical spectrum comprising a plurality of spaced wavelengths. The transceiver further comprises a dispersion unit arranged to introduce a delay to a plurality of spectral components of the optical spectrum associated with the spaced wavelengths. The delay is dependent on the wavelength of the spectral components of the optical spectrum. The transceiver further comprises a first optical filter configured to select a plurality of spectral components received from the dispersion unit. The transceiver further comprises a first heterodyning device configured to generate a signal for transmission by the phased array antenna by heterodyning the selected spectral components associated with different ones of the spaced wavelengths of the laser light source. The transceiver is configured to receive signals from the phased array antenna.

Abstract: A dual resonator antenna device may include a ground plane positioned adjacent a substrate and may include a first aperture and a second aperture exposing the substrate therethrough. The device may also include an antenna feed positioned in the first aperture. A monopole resonator is coupled to the antenna feed and has a portion near at least one edge of the substrate proximate the second aperture and another portion near the substrate and the ground plane in a direction perpendicular to the ground plane. The device may also include a tunable loop resonator within the first aperture and coupled to the antenna feed and the ground plane.

Abstract: A near field communication (NFC) tag including an antenna having an inner loop portion coupled with an outer loop portion, and an integrated circuit chip attached to the inner loop portion or outer loop portion of the antenna; wherein the inner and outer loop portions of the antenna are arranged to increase a coupling range of the tag with an external tag reader.

Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a front side and a back side. A first conducting element disposed on the front side resonates over a first range of frequencies. A second conducting element disposed on the back side resonates over a second range of frequencies. A ground conducting element disposed on the front side where a first portion of the ground conducting element provides a ground reference for the first conducting element. A second portion of the ground conducting element provides a ground reference for the second conducting element. Resonance over the first range of frequencies is associated with a length of the first portion of the ground conducting element and a length of the first conducing element. Resonance over the second range of frequencies is associated with a length of the second portion of the ground conducting element and a length of the second conducting element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery having a positive terminal and a negative terminal and two electrical connection tongues, each tongue secured to one of the terminals thereof. The battery also includes at least one additional connection tongue secured to one of the terminals thereof, forming a radiating element with the electrical connection tongue secured to the same terminal of the battery.

Abstract: A method for achieving multiple beam radiation vertical orthogonal field coverage by means of multiple feed-in dish antenna, comprising using a total metallic disc and plural feed-in antenna components, wherein it is possible to generate multiple sets of radiation beams by applying multiple sets of feed-in antenna components, and the coverage ranges created by different radiation beams may uniformly distribute there between so as to generate multiple communication service coverage areas. Moreover, since the field formed by the reflection of the total metallic disc is characterized in vertical orthogonality, advantages such as effectively increased coverage, improved energy utilization and radiation beam switches or the like can be provided.

Abstract: A slot antenna device including a substrate, a metal layer and a feeding element is provided. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The metal layer is disposed on the first surface, and includes a slot extending along a first direction. The feeding element is disposed on the second surface, and extended along a second direction, where the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction. A length of the slot is a sum of each quarter wavelength of at least three frequency bands, so that the slot antenna device is operated at the at least three frequency bands. A projection of the feeding element on the first surface crosses the slot, so that the slot is divided into a first section and a second section, where a length of the first section is equal to a length of the second section.

Abstract: Described embodiments include an antenna system and method. The antenna system includes a surface scattering antenna that has an electromagnetic waveguide structure and a plurality of electromagnetic wave scattering elements. The plurality of electromagnetic wave scattering elements are distributed along the waveguide structure, have a respective activatable electromagnetic response to a propagating electromagnetic wave, and produce a controllable radiation pattern. A gain definition circuit defines a radiation pattern configured to acquire a possible interfering signal. The defined antenna radiation pattern has a field of view covering at least a portion of an undesired field of view of an associated antenna. An antenna controller establishes the defined radiation pattern in the surface scattering antenna by activating the respective electromagnetic response of selected electromagnetic wave scattering elements.

Abstract: The present invention provides a waveguide slot array antenna having an excitation slot arrangement radiating a signal corresponding to an operating frequency in a radiation plate, the waveguide slot array antenna comprising: a first auxiliary radiation plate installed on a main radiation plate and rotating a polarization plane of a signal radiated from the excitation slot arrangement of the main radiation plate; and a second auxiliary radiation plate installed on the first auxiliary radiation plate and distributing and radiating the signal, the polarization plane of which has been rotated in the first auxiliary radiation plate.

Abstract: A surface current suppression filter (1) is a bandstop filter that suppresses propagation of a surface current in a predetermined propagation direction on a dielectric substrate (2). The filter (1) is configured such that a plurality of electromagnetic band gap (EBG) rows (10, 20) are arrayed in an array direction. Each EBG row (10, 20) has at least one EBG (11, 21) that is arrayed in a perpendicular direction orthogonal to the array direction. Cutoff characteristics of a first EBG (11) in the first EBG row (10) differs from cutoff characteristics of a second EBG (12) in the second EBG row (20).

Abstract: A first waveguide guides a first radio wave whose electric field is vibrated in a first direction along a second direction. A second waveguide guides the first radio wave along the second direction and is cascade connected to the first waveguide. An input and output end multiplexes the first radio waves from the first and second waveguides and outputs the multiplexed radio wave, and outputs the first radio wave branched off from a radio wave from outside to the first and second waveguides. A first waveguide shift portion is shifted from the first waveguide in the first direction. A second waveguide shift portion is shifted from the second waveguide in the first direction. The vibration directions of electric fields of radio waves passing through the end parts of the first and second waveguide shift portions are rotated by 90° about a third direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) omnidirectional antenna comprising three or more column sets arranged in a centrosymmetricly. Each column set comprises two or more antenna columns, each having a plurality of radiators mounted thereon. Each antenna column receives no more than two signals to be transmitted, and is arranged axisymmetricly about a radially-directed axis created between the centre point of the antenna and a transverse cross-sectional midpoint on the antenna column. Therefore, each radiation pattern established by each of the three or more column sets is centrosymmetric about the centre point of the antenna and axisymmetric about the radially-directed axis. The MIMO omnidirectional antenna can fit within a radome of small diameter, while providing relatively uniform radiation plot coverage across a microcell where it is deployed. As no phase shifting is utilised, there is little ripple effect and all of the ports have a similar gain.

Abstract: A broadband dual linear cross polarization antenna is provided having a horizontally disposed ground plane on which a first dielectric notch antenna and a second dielectric notch antenna extend from engagements thereto. A pair of vertically ground planes are engaged with and extend from opposite ends of the horizontally disposed ground plane.

Abstract: A method is provided for preparing a wire for installation of a terminal. The method comprises removing an insulating layer from a conductor to expose a portion of a conductor. The method further includes attaching a conductive foil layer to a portion of the exposed portion of the conductor by applying pressure to the conductive foil layer. Terminated wires are also provided.

Abstract: A cover for an electrical connector comprises a cylindrical disc including a first cover surface, an opposite second cover surface, and a barrel surface extending between the first cover surface and the second cover surface. The first cover surface has a convex form. In a state in which the cover is mounted on the electrical connector, the first cover surface forms a portion of an outer surface of the electrical connector and the second cover surface faces an inner side of the electrical connector.

Abstract: A grounding spacer is provided. The grounding spacer comprising a circular body having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a central aperture, and a plurality of radially spaced penetration features, wherein at least one of the penetration features has at least a portion thereof extending from the top surface, and wherein at least one of the penetration features has at least a portion thereof extending from the bottom surface.

Abstract: A terminal device includes: a housing having at least one contact cavity; a contact part which is arranged in the at least one contact cavity and into which at least one electrical line can be plugged in order to make electrical contact with the contact part; and at least one busbar which is arranged on the housing, is electrically connected to the contact part, and a busbar portion of which extends along a height line. An end portion adjoins the busbar portion, which end portion extends in art oblique direction at an oblique angle to the height line and can be moved along the height line relative to the contact part.

Abstract: A power contacting device includes a contact pin (1) and at least one contact pin receptacle (2) penetrated by the contact pin in the operating state. To provide a power contact which permanently ensures high-quality contacting, even when the contacted components move relative to one another, the contact pin receptacle (2) has a first guide arrangement (3) which is fixed to a component in the operating state and a second guide arrangement (4) which is conductively connected to the first guide arrangement, the second guide arrangement (4) being arranged displaceably on the first guide arrangement (3) and the contact pin (1) conductively contacting at least the second guide arrangement (4) in the operating state.

Abstract: It is aimed to prevent a reduction of contact reliability. A card edge connector (A) includes a first housing (10) formed with a board accommodation space (16) open forward, terminal fittings (17) provided in the first housing (10) and formed with resilient contact portions (18) projecting toward the board accommodation space (16), a second housing (20) including a circuit board (23) to be inserted into the board accommodation space (16) from front of the first housing (10), and guide slopes (36) made of synthetic resin, provided to cover a leading edge of the circuit board (23) in an inserting direction into the board accommodation space (16) and inclined with respect to the inserting direction into the board accommodation space (16).

Abstract: According to exemplary embodiments, a tapered surface interconnect is formed on a printed circuit board (PCB). A compliant pin of an electrical connector may be coupled to the tapered surface interconnect and soldered thereto. The surface interconnect may be formed by drilling through one or more layers of the PCB. The depth of the surface interconnect may be shorter than a height or a thickness of the PCB. The surface interconnect may have a tapered side wall to allow for a better fit with a tapered compliant pin. The inclination of the side wall of the surface interconnect may be linear or concave. The intersection between the tapered sidewall and the bottom of the surface interconnect may be rounded to minimize pin insertion issues and may allow for easier solder flux evacuation. The compliant pin may be soldered into place upon being coupled to the tapered surface interconnect.

Abstract: The electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a module spacer. The electrical connector is installed on a circuit board and defines a mating space. The module spacer includes a cover covering on the mating space in a vertical direction and four side walls extending downwardly from the cover. The cover and the side walls defines a receiving space for retaining the electrical connector. The side walls are supported on the circuit board.

Abstract: A cable includes a line and a coupling housing. The line includes a plurality of cores and a sheath. The sheath is radially outwardly disposed relative to the cores. Each of the cores has a conductor and an insulation surrounding the conductor. Each of the conductors is stripped of the insulation at an end of the cores. A coupling housing including a coupling ring, a pin housing, and a sealing element. The coupling ring embraces the pin housing and the sheath and is fixed to the sheath. The pin housing surrounds the stripped ends of the conductors. The sealing element is disposed between the coupling ring and the pin housing. The conductors are formed of a solid and coated steel wire and the stripped ends of the conductors are useable as pin contacts.

Abstract: A contact stud is disclosed. The contact stud has a protector, a connection section, and a base section. The connection section is insertable into a terminal along an insertion direction. The connection section has a contact region protected by the protector from an insulative coating applied to a remainder of the connection section. The base section is mounted on a grounding surface.

Abstract: A power transmission device includes a first circuit board, a conductive base, a connection element, a second circuit board, and a fixing element. The conductive base is fixed on the first circuit board. The connection element is disposed on the conductive base. The second circuit board is fixed on the connection element. The fixing element is disposed on the second circuit board, and connected to the conductive base by penetrating through the second circuit board and the connection element. The first circuit board is electrically connected to the second circuit board via the conductive base and the connection element.

Abstract: A vertical spring contact that is constructed of a single piece of electrical conductor, having a central spine that acts as a spring and does not bulge horizontally during compression. This contact is also provided with a pair of arms extending downwards from a top member, flanking both sides of the central spine without being in contact with the central spine. The lower tips of the arms are bent inwards. The central spine structurally connects the top member to a bottom member. The bottom member is provided with recesses that are adapted to loosely receive the lower tips of the arms. In this way, when the contact is compressed, the lower tips of the arms are pressed into the recesses, thus establishing more contact points for a current to pass through.

Abstract: Having an advantage in user convenience, an electrical connector for connecting with an electrical cable under a do-it-yourself scenario is provided, where the cable has a knot at a cable end. The connector comprises a connector body and a cover. The connector body has an internal space for housing the knot, an opening for allowing the cable end to access the internal space, and an outlet for allowing the cable to run from the internal space to outside the connector body. The cover has a top plate for covering the opening. In particular, the cover includes two wings protruded from the top plate collectively for claiming the knot to secure the knot inside the internal space. A separation of the two wings is advantageously selected to be 2 times to 3 times of a cross-sectional width of the outlet for producing a clamping effect on the knot.

Abstract: An electrical connector having a highly reliable electric shock prevention mechanism. The electrical connector has a housing, tab terminals, and a slidable member. The slidable member has engagement arms. The engagement arms have on forward sides fixed ends joined to a front side wall extending forward from an abutting wall, extend rearward in the form of cantilevers, and have hook portions. The hook portions engage with a mating electrical connector and this engagement causes the hook portions to be pulled by the mating electrical connector when the mating electrical connector in a mating state is extracted, so that the slidable member slides to a forward position. In addition, the housing is provided with anti-deflection walls. The anti-deflection walls allow the engagement arms to deflect so that the mating electrical connector can climb over the hook portions when the slidable member is located in the forward position.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the field of electrical connectors, in particular phone connectors. The proposal concerns a socket for an electrical plug which comprises two or more electrical contacts being positioned along a longitudinal axis. The socket includes two or more corresponding contact elements. The socket is constructed in such a way that the corresponding contact elements are mounted at the socket along a curved line such that the electrical plug when inserted into the socket will be bent in the form of the curved line. The proposal further concerns a flexible electrical plug having two or more electrical contact elements positioned along a longitudinal axis wherein the contact elements are constructed in a flexible material.

Abstract: A connector includes a shell that has a cylindrical shape and includes a body portion and a leg portion, the body portion being connected to a shell of the other connector, a ground plate that is a conductor plate, a claw that has a structure in which part of the ground plate is raised in a connector connection direction so as to have a strip-shaped tip and the tip supports the leg portion of the shell, and a case made of an insulator, the case to which the shell and the ground plate are to be attached. The case includes a plate-like base portion, a slit that is provided in one surface of the base portion, the slit into which the leg portion is to be inserted, and a groove that is provided in the other surface of the base portion, the groove into which the claw is to be inserted.

Abstract: A protective case for a portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device has a device connector for transmission of data and/or power between the device connector and a data and/or power source via a reciprocal connector assembly. The case includes an aperture disposed proximate the device connector of the installed portable electronic device, the aperture passing between an outer surface and an inner surface of the case and defined by a surface between the outer and inner surfaces, the aperture having a circumference; and a compliant seal surrounding the circumference of the aperture, the compliant seal to interface with at least a portion of the backshell portion of the reciprocal connector assembly to seal the aperture when the reciprocal connector assembly is inserted through the aperture to interface with the device connector of the installed portable electronic device.

Abstract: An electrical plug connector pair includes a first plug connector part and a second plug connector part which can be interconnected by a plug connection such that an electrical contact provided in the first plug connector part can be galvanically contacted to an electrical contact provided in the second connector part. The first plug connector part includes a locking element having a locking hook that, in a locking state, can be brought into engagement with a hook receiving portion provided in the second plug connector part such that the locking hook that is brought into engagement with the hook receiving portion in the locking state prevents separation of the two plug connector parts, the locking element being mounted in the first plug connector part so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis such that the locking hook can be released.

Abstract: An electrical connector (1) including a male contact (5) and a female contact (10) movable between a non-inserted position, and an inserted position, wherein an electrically conductive insertable portion (12) of the male contact (5) is inserted along an insertion axis (D) into a housing (14) defined by the female contact, the female contact including: an electrically conductive body (22), a plurality of strips (26) protruding axially from the body and angularly distributed around the insertable portion in the inserted position, the strips being electrically conductive and radially flexible, the body and the strips defining the housing, and at least one annular contention member (28) positioned on radially external faces (30) of the strips and adapted for exerting a centripetal radial pressure on the strips in the inserted position, the strips having radially internal faces (42) flattened against the insertable portion in the inserted position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a connection structure and an apparatus unit that can avoid damage to connectors when the connectors are caused to be connected to each other. Through rotation of a first option unit towards an inverter body, the connection structure connects a first connector disposed in the inverter body and a second connector disposed in the first option unit, and the first connector and the second connector are floating connectors.

Abstract: Examples disclose an electrical connector comprising a first pin and a second pin. Each pin has a different length corresponding to a different data signaling rate.

Abstract: A shielded coaxial connector including a central conductor and a waveguide to shield the central conductor from RF signals.

Abstract: A connector assembly having a cover assembly housing a first electrical component and a second electrical component. The cover assembly includes a mating connector receiving recess, a first component receiving recess and a second component receiving recess. A separating wall mechanically and electrically separates the first component receiving recess from the second component receiving recess. Latches are positioned in the first and second component receiving recess proximate the mating connector receiving recess. The latches cooperate with the electrical components to maintain the electrical component in the component receiving recesses. A seal is provided about an inside perimeter of the mating connector receiving recess. Bus bars electrically connect the first electrical component to the second electrical component.

Abstract: The present invention provides a protective element including (i) a PTC element having an opening passing through in the thickness direction, and (ii) a first electrode and a second electrode positioned on both main surfaces of the PTC element, the protective element characterized in that the first electrode extends from a main surface of the PTC element over an edge thereof and into the opening. A protective element of the present invention does not prevent the PTC element from expanding even when secured by a screw or caulking.

Abstract: A connector includes an conductor engager, coupler-driver and a compressor-body. A coupler is disposed over and engages a grounding end of the conductor engager while a torque drive member rotationally drives the coupler to threadably engage an interface port. Threaded engagement of the coupler causes the conductor engager to move forwardly toward the interface port and the torque drive member to move rearwardly relative to the conductor engager. Rearward movement of the torque drive member causes a compressor to slide axially over plurality of radially compliant fingers of the compressor-body. The compliant fingers are displaced radially inward to compress a prepared end of the coaxial cable, i.e., an outer conductor and a radially compliant outer jacket, against a tubular-shaped retention end of the conductor engager. Compression of the prepared end connects the coaxial cable to the connector.

Abstract: Coaxial connector junctions include a first coaxial connector that has a first center conductor extension and a first outer conductor extension and a second coaxial connector that is mated with the first coaxial connector, the second coaxial connector including a second center conductor extension and a second outer conductor extension. A communications path between the first outer conductor extension and the second outer conductor extension includes a first capacitively coupled outer conductor communications path and a second galvanically coupled outer conductor communications path.

Abstract: An enhanced safety serial bus connector (100) is provided. The enhanced safety serial bus connector (100) includes a shell (110) with a first end (110a) and a second end (110b), the first end (110a) being a terminal end of the shell (110) and having a terminal centerline (CL), and the second end (110b) being the lead end of the shell (110). The enhanced safety serial bus connector (100) also includes an insulating body (120) disposed inside the shell (110) and extending from approximately the first end (110a) to the second end (110b) and a plurality of conductors (130) substantially disposed in the insulating body (120) and extending from the first end (110a) to the second end (110b).

Abstract: Power socket extension lead An extension lead having a body provided with at least one power socket area for receiving connecting plugs of the “Schuko” type, and having inside it electrical connection means, and a cable for connecting to the electrical power network with a connecting plug at its end that exits from the said body, characterised in that the body has externally two flexible covers, one upper cover and one lower cover, which form an internal cavity that encircles the said body and allows the electrical power network connecting cable to be housed in wound form.