Leaky Lines Patents (Class 333/237)
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Patent number: 12224492Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wide beam radiation leakage coaxial cable, which includes an inner conductor, an insulating layer, an outer conductor and a sheath coaxially nested from inside to outside in sequence, at least two columns of slot groups are provided on the outer conductor, the columns of slot groups are distributed at different angles in the circumferential direction of the outer conductor, the included angle between two adjacent columns of slot groups is ?=?/n, where ? is the target radiation width, n is the number of columns of slot groups, each column of slot groups includes a plurality of slot arrays periodically arranged in the axial direction of the outer conductor, the pitch of each column of slot groups is the same, the pitch phase of each column of slot groups on the same leakage cable section is consistent, and each slot array includes a plurality of slots.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Jiangsu Hengxin Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haiyan Song, Zhonghua Liu, Jianghua Shen, Huibing Wang, Chao Wu, Xuezi Xu, Yi Zhou, Cenjia Lv, Lingfeng Wang, Yuanjing Li
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Patent number: 12144538Abstract: An ablation probe (1; 100; 200), comprising: an applicator (2; 102; 202) arranged to apply radiation to heat surrounding tissue; a feeding cable (4; 104; 204) arranged to supply electromagnetic energy to the applicator. The feeding cable comprises a distal portion (2a, 202a) and a proximal portion (2b; 202b). The distal portion of the feeding cable has a distal cross sectional size and the proximal portion of the feeding cable has a proximal cross sectional size, wherein the distal cross sectional size is less that the proximal cross sectional size. The ablation probe further comprises a connector (24; 224) arranged to mechanically and electrically couple the distal portion (2a, 202a) of the feeding cable (2; 202) to the proximal portion (2b; 202b) of the feeding cable (2; 202).Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAYInventors: Jimmy Eaton-Evans, Giuseppe Ruvio, Jonathan Bouchier-Hayes, Martin O'Halloran, Mark Bruzzi
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Patent number: 12074370Abstract: A multi-frequency wireless access device including a first waveguide having a pair of parallel metal plates with open sides and a slot in one of the metal plates, the slot permitting radiation to leak out, the leaked radiation illuminating a range of angles depending on frequency.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignees: Brown University, William Marsh Rice UniversityInventors: Daniel Mittleman, Edward Knightly
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Patent number: 12057629Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of antenna technologies, and provide an antenna and an antenna processing method, to reduce structural complexity and assembly difficulty of an antenna, thereby ensuring performance of the antenna. The antenna includes a feeding base plate and a plurality of radiation apparatuses disposed on the feeding base plate, where the feeding base plate is configured to feed power to the plurality of radiation apparatuses; and each of the plurality of radiation apparatuses includes a first insulating base and a first metal conducting layer attached to the first insulating base, the feeding base plate includes a plate-shaped second insulating base and a second metal conducting layer attached to the second insulating base, and first insulating bases and the second insulating base are integrated together. The antenna provided in the embodiments of this application may be used for a multiple-input multiple-output communications system.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Runxiao Zhang, Zihui Liu, Yuanhong Zhang, Xiaolin Zhou, Lei Li
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Patent number: 11962281Abstract: A slot antenna is disclosed. The slot antenna structure includes a dielectric substrate, a grounding plate and a resonator. The grounding plate is disposed over a first side of the dielectric substrate and defines a slot. The feeding strip is disposed over a second side of the dielectric substrate and opposite to the grounding plate. The resonator is coupled to the grounding plate and is disposed horizontally within the slot.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ACHERNARTEK INC.Inventor: Colan Ryan
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Patent number: 11914067Abstract: Waveguides and related assemblies for use, for example, in RADAR sensor assemblies and the like. In some embodiments, the waveguide may comprise a conductive member having a first plurality of posts arranged in a first row thereon. A second plurality of posts may be arranged in a second row on the conductive member to define a waveguide between the first plurality of posts and the second plurality of posts. One or more platforms may be provided to project at least a subset of the first plurality of posts and the second plurality of posts beyond at least a portion of the conductive member adjacent to the one or more platforms. A second conductive member, such as a cover, may be coupled to the conductive member such that the first and second pluralities of posts extend between the conductive member and the cover.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Veoneer US, LLCInventors: Angelos Alexanian, Arnold Mobius
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Patent number: 11870137Abstract: Disclosed is a slot antenna provided in a radar, the antenna comprising a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) having a plurality of a plurality of slots, wherein each of the plurality of slots includes a first elongated opening, a second elongated opening, and a connecting opening connecting the first and second elongated openings, wherein a first center axis of the first elongated opening is offset from a second center axis of the second elongated opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sungjoo Kim, Heuideok Lee, Yongchul Yoon, Byeongrim Jo
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Patent number: 11862852Abstract: A cable antenna an end part of which is connected to an oscillator that supplies a high-frequency current is disclosed. The cable antenna includes: an inner conductor; an insulating layer covering the inner conductor; and an outer conductor covering the insulating layer, wherein only one exposed part is formed in a middle part of the cable antenna in a longitudinal direction, the exposed part formed by removing at least the outer conductor, a distance L between a tip end of the cable antenna and an end of the exposed part on a side closer to the tip end is an odd multiple of a quarter of a wavelength ?, of the high-frequency current, the multiplier being three or greater, and a length G of the exposed part in the longitudinal direction satisfies the following formula (1): ?/20?G<?/4??(1) ?: wavelength (mm) of the high-frequency current.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Yometel Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinobu Okano, Koji Wada, Shin Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 11721650Abstract: Embodiments include semiconductor packages and method of forming the semiconductor packages. A semiconductor package includes first waveguides over a package substrate. The first waveguides include first angled conductive layers, first transmission lines, and first cavities. The semiconductor package also includes a first dielectric over the first waveguides and package substrate, second waveguides over the first dielectric and first waveguides, and a second dielectric over the second waveguides and first dielectric. The second waveguides include second angled conductive layers, second transmission lines, and second cavities. The first angled conductive layers are positioned over the first transmission lines and package substrate having a first pattern of first triangular structures.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Brandon C. Marin, Aleksandar Aleksov, Georgios Dogiamis, Jeremy D. Ecton, Suddhasattwa Nad, Mohammad Mamunur Rahman
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Patent number: 11467278Abstract: Object detection systems and methods are provided. An object detection system comprises a plurality of nodes, each node having a transmitter configured to transmit a radar signal as a beam, and one or more receivers configured to receive a reflected radar signal. The nodes and transmitters are arranged such that the radar beam of one transmitter at least partly overlaps with the radar beam from the transmitter at an adjacent one of the nodes. The object detection system comprises a processor configured to receive a digitised signal from each node, process the digitised signal to detect characteristics of any Doppler effects created by the movement of an object through one or more of the radar beams, compare the Doppler characteristics with Doppler signatures associated with known objects, and thereby classify the object.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SENSING MANAGEMENT PTY LIMITEDInventors: Graham Brooker, David Johnson, Javier Martinez
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Patent number: 11469513Abstract: Example proximity sensors are described. The proximity sensor can include a transceiver unit, and a leaky coaxial cable operably coupled to the transceiver unit. The proximity sensor described herein can be used with a steering wheel. For example, the leaky coaxial cable can be embedded in the steering wheel.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATIONInventors: Robert Lee, Zhenyu Wang, Asimina Kiourti
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Patent number: 11380972Abstract: This microwave component (10) comprises a waveguide (12) comprising an upper layer, a lower layer, and a central layer (18) intermediate between the upper layer and the lower layer, said layers defining a zone (19) of propagation of an electromagnetic wave, the propagation zone (19) extending along a propagation axis, and comprising a cavity (32) bounded by the upper layer, the lower layer, and, laterally, by two opposite lateral edges (36) of the central layer (18). The waveguide (12) comprises at least one dielectric strip (28) placed in the propagation zone (19), the dielectric strip (28) being defined in one of the upper layer and the lower layer or being placed in the cavity (32) away from the lateral edges (36) of the cavity (32).Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUX, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALESInventors: Anthony Ghiotto, Frédéric Parment
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Patent number: 11189935Abstract: A cavity slotted-waveguide antenna array has several waveguide columns disposed in parallel in a housing. Several of the waveguide columns being provided with cavity slots on the front side of the housing. The housing includes a front part secured to a rear part, with a rear portion of the waveguide columns being formed in the rear part, and with a front portion of the waveguide columns being formed in said front part. The waveguide columns can have a rectangular cross-section, with the columns defined by two opposing wide inner surfaces, a narrow inner back surface, and a narrow inner front surface, with the plurality of cavity slots extending from the front side of the housing to said narrow inner front surface. A signal probe is disposed in the columns. Conductive parallel plate blinds are conductively secured to the front side of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Robin Radar Facilities BVInventors: Siete Hamminga, Rob Van Der Meer
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Patent number: 11146325Abstract: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) based vehicle-mounted system may include a first plurality of antennas and a second plurality of antennas, with an antenna of the first plurality having different polarization than an antenna of the second plurality, an antenna of the first plurality and an antenna of the second plurality having antenna patterns in a different direction relative to at least another antenna of the first plurality and another antenna of the second plurality, and an antenna pattern of one antenna of the first plurality and an antenna pattern of one antenna of the second plurality being directed at least approximately parallel to the path. A corresponding MIMO-based stationary system may include at least a first plurality of antennas and a second plurality of antennas, with radiation patterns of the first and second pluralities being configured to overlap within an area between the first and second pluralities.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Inventor: Nima Jamaly
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Patent number: 10855114Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless power transmission system including a microstrip patch antenna. More particularly, a microstrip patch antenna according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate, a patch disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of protrusions with a conical shape disposed on the patch.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITYInventors: Bom Son Lee, Sang Woong Yoon, Ju Hwan Lim, Gun Young Kim
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Patent number: 10825328Abstract: A communication system (100) provides a body wearable garment (102) having a single transmission line (104) for interfacing a main control device (110) to a variety of supplemental devices (108). The single transmission line (104) provides a series of couplers (106) integrated along the line to wirelessly couple the plurality of supplemental devices (108) with the main control device (110). The plurality of supplemental devices (108) are insertable and removable to pouches (114) within the garment, the pouches providing alignment of each supplemental device with a corresponding coupler of the single transmission line (104). Near field wireless power transfer coupling and/or RF signaling are provided. A wide variety of devices can be optimally located along the single transmission line (104) within the garment allowing for considerable improvement of in hands-free portability.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: William J. Wingfield, Antonio Faraone
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Patent number: 10804961Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by each of a plurality of receivers, one of a plurality of electromagnetic waves, each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves guided by a different one of a plurality of twin-lead transmission lines, each twin-lead transmission line sharing a wire, and each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves including a different one of a plurality of communication signals, and obtaining, by each of the plurality of receivers, one of the plurality of communication signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Robert Bennett, Paul Shala Henry, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
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Patent number: 10784584Abstract: A coaxial cable may include a center conductor having a first resistance, and dielectric material may be formed around the center conductor. An outer conductor may be coaxially formed around the center conductor and the dielectric material. The outer conductor may have a second resistance substantially equal to the first resistance, and at least one slot may be formed through the outer conductor. A jacket may be formed around the outer conductor.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Superior Essex International LPInventor: Christopher W. McNutt
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Patent number: 10651560Abstract: A waveguide radiator includes a slotted waveguide with a plurality of transverse or longitudinal slots provided in the waveguide and an additional inner conductor provided in the waveguide. The inner conductor is formed, depending on the alignment of the slots in such a manner that the result is a feed according to the traveling wave principle, wherein all slots of the waveguide can be excited with identical phase.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS DS GMBHInventors: Christian Roemer, Alexander Herschlein
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Patent number: 10566701Abstract: An example folded radiation slot for short wall waveguide radiation is disclosed. In one aspect, the radiating structure includes a waveguide layer configured to propagate electromagnetic energy via a waveguide. The waveguide may have a height dimension and a width dimension. The radiating structure also includes a radiating layer coupled to the waveguide layer, such that the radiating layer is parallel to the height dimension of the waveguide. The radiating layer may include a radiating element. The radiating element may be a slot defined by an angular or curved path, and the radiating element may be coupled to the waveguide layer. The radiating element may have an effective length greater than the height dimension of waveguide, wherein the effective length is measured along the angular or curved path of the slot.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Waymo LLCInventor: Jamal Izadian
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Patent number: 10553923Abstract: A pipe has a longitudinal axis. A flex board extends along the longitudinal axis within the pipe and curls around the longitudinal axis. A cross-section of the flex board perpendicular to the longitudinal axis has a flex-board curve shape that has a first section on a first side of a line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and a second section on a second side of the line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The first section has a first section shape and the second section has a second section shape. A first conductive stripe is coupled to the flex board, extends along the longitudinal axis, and follows the contour of the first section of the flex board. A second conductive stripe is coupled to the flex board, extends along the longitudinal axis, and follows the contour of the second section of the flex board.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Etienne Marcel Samson, John Laureto Maida, Jr., David Andrew Barfoot, Wolfgang Hartmut Nitsche
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Patent number: 10478905Abstract: A system for forming a radiating cable includes radiating machine tool having a cable receiving channel and a carriage. The carriage includes an aperture configured to align with the cable receiving channel, and a milling motor having a milling cutter. A radiating machine tool also includes a carriage receiving structure. A radiating machine is in communication with one or more controllers that receives a feeding speed associated with feeding a coaxial cable into the cable receiving channel, receives a pattern, determines a speed of rotation of the carriage by analyzing the feeding speed and the pattern, causes the carriage to rotate about the axis at the determined speed, and causes the milling cutter to perform one or more cutting actions to create one or more slots forming at least a portion of the pattern in an outer conductor of the coaxial cable.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Trilogy Communications, Inc.Inventors: Chris A. Eitel, Erwin Scott Cook, Craig L. Tetrick, R. Ryan Cole
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Patent number: 10443763Abstract: Pipeline segments can contain cables, such as communication cables (e.g., fiber optic cables) within insulation material surrounding the pipeline segments. Cables can be embedded within the insulation material, run through conduits embedded within the insulation material, placed in channels formed in the insulation material, or otherwise. Channels containing one or more cables can be filled with supplemental insulation material, thus securing the cables within the channels. Pipelines created as disclosed herein can enable data transfer between distant points without the need to lay fiber optic cable in addition to the pipeline. Further, fiber optic cable embedded thusly can be used to sense conditions in the pipeline, such as leaks, seismic activity, strain, and temperature information.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Todd J. Green, Alexis Wachtel, William Markus, John L. Maida
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Patent number: 10326496Abstract: A composite cable (4) houses a plurality of leaky coaxial cables having mutually different radiation characteristics. The leaky coaxial cable (2a, 2b) includes therein an inner conductor and an outer conductor, and has a plurality of leakage slots. The plurality of leakage slots have different slot periods relative to the axial direction or arranged in different slot patterns. The digital wireless communication device feeds a high-frequency signal from an end of the composite cable (4) and performs MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) communication.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignees: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Tsukamoto, Takahiro Maeda, Yafei Hou, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Fumio Suzuki, Atsuhiko Niwa
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Patent number: 10277273Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by each of a plurality of receivers, one of a plurality of electromagnetic waves, each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves guided by a different one of a plurality of twin-lead transmission lines, each twin-lead transmission line sharing a wire, and each electromagnetic wave of the plurality of electromagnetic waves including a different one of a plurality of communication signals, and obtaining, by each of the plurality of receivers, one of the plurality of communication signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Robert Bennett, Paul Shala Henry, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
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Patent number: 10263465Abstract: A wireless power transmission system (100) includes a conductive waveguide (110) at least partially filled with a dielectric material (115), the waveguide extending along a first direction (e.g., z-axis) from a first end (111a) to an opposing end (111b) thereof, the waveguide having a bottom face (112), a top face (114) and a pair of side faces (116a, 116b) that together form a substantially rectangular cross-section of the waveguide, the top face having a plurality of slots (118) oriented substantially orthogonal to the first direction and distributed between the first end and the opposing end, the slots separated from each other by a first distance (l1) measured along the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: WiTricity CorporationInventors: Andre B. Kurs, Marin Soljacic, Arunanshu Mohan Roy, Damiano Patron, Erika Ye
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Patent number: 10256550Abstract: Systems and methods are described for operating a waveguide device having multiple slots, each slot having one or more switches. The waveguide device receives, from a circuit controller, an instruction to dynamically deactivate one or more switches to open selected ones of the multiple slots at determined locations in the waveguide device and to dynamically activate one or more switches to close selected ones of the multiple slots at determined locations in the waveguide device, wherein the circuit controller is communicatively coupled to each of the switches on the waveguide device. The waveguide device transmits a wave in a target direction based at least in part on the locations of the open selected ones of the multiple slots at the determined locations in the waveguide device.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Ossia Inc.Inventors: Hatem Ibrahim Zeine, Seyed Ali Malek Abadi, Alireza Pourghorban Saghati, Prithvi Shylendra
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Patent number: 10103419Abstract: The present disclosure enhances flexibility, enables the transmission of power, and improves reliability using a simple, low-cost, easy-to-manufacture configuration by disposing a pair of power supplying lines on the outside in the longitudinal direction of the rectangular cross-section of a dielectric. Here, a waveguide is provided with a solid dielectric, a pair of power supplying lines and an external conductor surrounding the dielectric. The solid dielectric has a rectangular cross-section. The pair of power supplying lines are disposed on the outside in the longitudinal direction of the cross-section of the dielectric. The outer surface of the dielectric is slidably in close contact with the inner surface of the external conductor.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Takeshi Tsukahara, Shigeyuki Hoshikawa, Mio Tanaka
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Patent number: 10037834Abstract: A cable (210) includes a center conductor (220). An insulating material in the form of a layer (225) surrounds the center conductor. A sparse shield (232) partially surrounds the insulating material. The sparse shield may include a plurality of conductors, which are grouped adjacent to one another within a space around the insulating layer that has a length that is less than 25% of the total circumference of the insulating layer. An insulating jacket (227) covers the sparse shield and the remainder of the cable. The cable may be used in a cable assembly (10).Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: CREGANNA UNLIMITED COMPANYInventors: Arthur G. Buck, Yevgeniy Mayevskiy, Malai H. Khamphilavong, Thuong A. Huynh, Paul C. Sprunger
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Patent number: 9985332Abstract: The waveguide is composed of a solid dielectric, and an outer conductor covering the periphery of the dielectric, the transverse section of the dielectric being rectangular and having a shape bulging outward on the pair of long sides, and the inner surface of the outer conductor adhering closely to the outer surface of the dielectric.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Takeshi Tsukahara, Shigeyuki Hoshikawa, Mikiji Tanaka, Mio Tanaka
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Patent number: 9979094Abstract: The radar system include a plurality of radiating elements arranged in a linear array configured to radiate electromagnetic energy. The radar system also includes a waveguide configured to guide electromagnetic energy between (i) each of the plurality of radiating elements and (ii) a waveguide feed. The radiating elements are coupled to a first side of the waveguide. The radar system additionally includes a waveguide feed configured to couple the electromagnetic energy between the waveguide and a component external to the waveguide. The waveguide feed is coupled to the second side of the waveguide at a position between two of the radiating elements. Further, the radar system includes a power dividing network defined by the waveguide and configured to divide the electromagnetic energy injected by the waveguide feed based on a taper profile.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Jamal Izadian, Russell Smith
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Patent number: 9912377Abstract: The disclosure relates to an arrangement 100; 200 comprising a network node 3 and one or more leaky cables 2 connected at a first end 6 thereof to a respective antenna port of a first set of antenna ports of the network node 3. The network node 3 is configured to provide wireless communication for a communication device 4.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Jonas Medbo
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Patent number: 9875845Abstract: A coupling device serves for the contact-free transmission of data signals between signal conductors of two signal lines with the aid of a coupling structure. At least one signal conductor is a signal core of a signal cable. Coupling portions of the two signal conductors are positioned parallel in relation to one another in a defined way with the aid of the coupling structure. At least a first signal conductor preferably being free from galvanically connected coupling elements lies in a coupling aid. The contact-free coupling dispenses with connecting additional coupling elements at the ends to a signal cable in an electrically conducting manner. By obviating the need for special connector fabrication, this achieves the effect of simplifying assembly and at the same time also improving data transmission reliability, since faults that occur for example in a crimping or soldering process are ruled out.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: LEONI Kabel Holding GmbHInventor: Rainer Poehmerer
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Patent number: 9871498Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) interference choke device includes a planar dielectric board formed with two first slots and two second slots that extend in a lengthwise direction of the dielectric board. The first/second slots are arranged symmetrically about a central line of the dielectric board parallel to the lengthwise direction, and have a first/second length associated with a first/second frequency band. A metal layer is attached to the dielectric board, and has a U-shaped first pattern surrounding the first slots, a U-shaped second pattern surrounding the second slots, and a strip-shaped third pattern extending along the central line and interconnecting the first and second patterns.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Jabil Circuit (Singapore) Pte., Ltd.Inventors: Tze-Meng Ooi, Khai-Siang Chua
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Patent number: 9865931Abstract: An antenna capable of being joined to an antenna feed and being positioned perpendicular to a ground plane includes a conductive cylinder having a longitudinal slot. The antenna feed is connected across the slot. A plurality of dielectric rods are provided parallel to the slot with rod being positioned much less than one wavelength of the maximum operating frequency away from adjacent rods. The rods each have a length of at least 25 times its mean diameter is made from a material having a dielectric constant greater than 30. The combination of the conductive cylinder and dielectric rods provides increased bandwidth. A kit for modifying existing antennas is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: David A Tonn, Susan M Safford
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Patent number: 9653801Abstract: An antenna array employing continuous transverse stubs as radiating elements includes a first conductive plate structure including a first set of continuous transverse stubs arranged on a first surface, and a second set of continuous transverse stubs arranged on the first surface, wherein a geometry of the first set of continuous transverse stubs is different from a geometry of the second set of continuous transverse stubs. A second conductive plate structure is disposed in a spaced relationship relative to the first conductive plate structure, the second conductive plate structure having a surface parallel to the first surface. A relative rotation apparatus imparts relative rotational movement between the first conductive plate structure and the second conductive plate structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: THINKOM SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventor: William Milroy
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Patent number: 9620860Abstract: An antenna arrangement 30 comprising a leaky cable 31 is disclosed. The leaky cable 31 includes subsections 32, 33, 34 and each subsection exhibits a longitudinal direction of extension L32, L33, L34 and a radiation pattern. The longitudinal directions of adjacent subsections are oriented in different directions to create a predetermined radiation pattern by superpositioning of the radiation pattern of each subsection. Additionally, a method of creating a predetermined radiation pattern of such an antenna arrangement 30 is described.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Henrik Asplund, Jonas Medbo
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Patent number: 9320141Abstract: The present invention provides a wiring structure that easily achieves a wiring part having a three-dimensional shape with high connection reliability and high signal quality. A wiring structure (10) according to the present invention includes one or a plurality of cables (18), a fiber (12) forming a mesh-like braiding fabric together with the cable (18), cable connectors (13, 17) formed at ends of the cable (18), and modules (14, 15) connected to the cable connectors (13, 17), the modules receiving or outputting signals through the cable.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hisashi Ishida
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Patent number: 9300029Abstract: A filter is provided and includes potting material formed into a body defining a through-hole. The body includes first and second opposing faces and a sidewall extending between the first and second opposing faces. The sidewall is formed to define first and second openings at opposite ends of the through-hole, first angles at an interface between the sidewall and the first face and second angles, which complement the first angles, at an interface between the sidewall and the second face.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David W. Abraham, Antonio D. Corcoles Gonzalez, James R. Rozen
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Patent number: 9214260Abstract: A differential signal transmission cable includes first and second signal lines arranged parallel to each other, a conductive layer made of a conductor in which a current is induced when signals propagate through the first and second signal lines, and a dielectric disposed between the first and second signal lines and the conductive layer. The conductive layer has a signal attenuating structure including a non-continuous section in which the conductor is non-continuous, the non-continuous section being located such that, among differential signal components and common-mode signal components included in the signals propagating through the first and second signal lines, the common-mode signal components are attenuated by an attenuation factor greater than an attenuation factor of the differential signal components.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Takahiro Sugiyama, Takashi Kumakura
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Publication number: 20150091673Abstract: A leaky co-axial cable arrangement, including a co-axial cable, a plurality of radiation slots arranged on the co-axial cable and an activation arrangement configured for affecting predetermined regions on the cable to selectively activate or deactivate at least one of the plurality of radiation slots to provide the leaky co-axial cable arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Henrik Asplund, Jan-Erik Berg, Jonas Medbo
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Publication number: 20150061795Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) device includes an RF transmission line structure having opposing boundary walls with a non-rectilinear form factor, and a feed structure configured to introduce RF energy into an area between the opposing boundary walls to illuminate the RF transmission line structure with the RF energy across the non-rectilinear form factor. The feed structure includes a plurality of traveling-waveguide-fed leaky line-segment structures, each configured to launch the RF energy into the area with a propagation direction having an oblique angle relative to an axis of the line-segment structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: ThinKom Solutions, Inc.Inventors: William MILROY, Alan C. LEMONS, James SOR
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Publication number: 20140197907Abstract: A transmission line structure includes a first transition element, a second transition element, and an active element. The first transition element has a radio frequency injection port and the second transition element, which is spaced from the first transition element, has a radio frequency termination port. An active element is in electrical communication with the first transition element and the second transition element. The active element includes a first and second connection region where the active element is attached to the first and second transition elements. The connection regions are configured to reduce reflection of electromagnetic energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventor: Richard William Kautz
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Publication number: 20130221833Abstract: A transmission line RF applicator apparatus and method for coupling RF power to a plasma in a plasma chamber. The apparatus comprises an inner conductor and one or two outer conductors. The main portion of each of the one or two outer conductors includes a plurality of apertures that extend between an inner surface and an outer surface of the outer conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Jozef Kudela, Tsutomu Tanaka, Carl A. Sorensen, Suhail Anwar, John M. White, Ranjit Indrajit Shinde, Seon-Mee Cho, Douglas D. Truong
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Patent number: 8446436Abstract: An overdrive topology structure for transmission of a RGB signal includes a signal sending terminal, a signal receiving terminal, and a transmission line to transmit the RGB signal from the signal sending terminal to the signal receiving terminal. The transmission line is divided into a number of section transmission lines. A node is formed between every two section transmission lines. An impedance of a first section transmission line approaching to the signal sending terminal is less than an impedance of a second section transmission line approaching to the first section transmission line to overdrive the RGB signal at a first node between the first and second section transmission lines. At least one node except the first node is grounded via a resistor. An equivalent resistance of the resistor is equal to a resistance of the first resistor.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shou-Kuo Hsu, Yu-Chang Pai, Cheng-Shien Li, Jia-Chi Chen
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Patent number: 8384499Abstract: A leaky cable with a central conductor, and an outer conductor having a rectangular cross section surrounding the central conductor. The outer conductor has a first and a second surface parallel to each other, and at least one slot row formed in at least one of the first and second surface. The slot row is formed in a first direction of the outer conductor and includes a plurality of slots each configured to form a leaky electromagnetic field. An insulator is disposed between the central conductor and the outer conductor. The width of the rectangular cross section in a direction parallel to the first and second surfaces is less than half of a wavelength of an electric signal transmitted through the leaky cable.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Suzuki, Kazuhiko Takano
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Patent number: 8378764Abstract: Provided is a leaky coaxial cable in which a plurality of slots 1 for forming a leak electromagnetic field are arranged in a string shape in an outer conductor of the coaxial cable. The pitch interval of the slots 1 is periodically changed in the axial direction. The periodical change of the pitch interval of a slot portion changes according to a sinusoidal function, a quadratic function, or other functions.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignees: Fujikura Ltd., NHK Integrated Technology Inc.Inventors: Fumio Suzuki, Kazuhiko Takano, Nobunao Ishii, Junjii Kumada, Yasuki Ozaki, Yoshihiko Nasu, Kazuhisa Satou
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Publication number: 20120326592Abstract: A transmission line RF applicator apparatus and method for coupling RF power to a plasma in a plasma chamber. The apparatus comprises an inner conductor and one or two outer conductors. The main portion of each of the one or two outer conductors includes a plurality of apertures that extend between an inner surface and an outer surface of the outer conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Jozef Kudela, Tsutomu Tanaka, Carl A. Sorensen, Suhail Anwar, John M. White, Ranjit Indrajit Shinde, Seon-Mee Cho, Douglas D. Truong
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Publication number: 20120056794Abstract: A waveguide includes a dielectric substrate having first and second opposed surfaces defining a longitudinal wave propagation path therebetween; and a conductive grid on the first surface of the substrate and comprising a plurality of substantially parallel metal strips, each defining an axis. The grid renders the first surface of the substrate opaque to a longitudinal electromagnetic wave propagating along the longitudinal wave propagation path and polarized in a direction substantially parallel to the axes of the strips. The grid allows the first surface of the substrate to be transparent to a transverse electromagnetic wave having a transverse propagation path that intersects the first and second surfaces of the substrate and having a polarization in a direction substantially normal to the plurality of metal strips. A diffraction grating on the second surface allows the waveguide to function as an antenna element that may be employed in a beam-steering antenna system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Vladimir Manasson, Victor Khodos, Lev Sadovnik, Aramais Avakian, Vladimir Litvinov, Dexin Jia, Mikhail Felman, Mark Aretskin
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Publication number: 20110234338Abstract: A bundled leaky transmission line includes a transmission line inside which a signal is transmitted, wherein multiple leaky transmission lines which exchange a radio wave mainly via a slit provided on an outer circumference of the transmission line are bundled, and the leaky transmission lines are bundled together such that the slit which is provided to each of the leaky transmission lines and which gives radio wave directionality to the leaky transmission line is directed in a direction different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Takahashi