Plural Antennas Patents (Class 343/751)
  • Patent number: 11876285
    Abstract: A terminal comprises a printed circuit board (PCB), a PCB floor, and a rear cover. The metal frame is disposed at edges of the PCB floor. The PCB floor is disposed between the PCB and the rear cover, and the PCB floor is used to ground electronic components. The antenna apparatus may include a split antenna formed by a split provided on the metal frame, and a slot antenna formed by a slot connecting to the split. The slot may be connected to the split at a middle position on one side of the slot, and the slot may be provided on the metal frame of the terminal or on a PCB floor of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Le Chang, Kunpeng Wei
  • Patent number: 11171686
    Abstract: A device for near-field communication with a portable user apparatus, includes: a first communication antenna located on a first carrier; a first device for activating the first antenna located on a second carrier, which is facing the first carrier and mechanically connected to the first carrier by pads. The pads are made of conductive metal and the device also includes: a second antenna, a first winding portion of which is located on one end of the first carrier and a second winding portion of which is located on one end of the second carrier, the two ends facing one another. The first portion and second portion of each winding electrically connected by a pad, the second antenna emitting an electromagnetic field, a main component of which is perpendicular to a main component of the electromagnetic field emitted by the first antenna; and a second device for activating said second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Mohamed Cheikh, Frédéric Lathiere
  • Patent number: 11101561
    Abstract: A dual band compatible antenna device includes a first branch electrode having a first electrode portion connected to a common electrode with a first adjustment element interposed between the first electrode portion and the common electrode and a second branch electrode having a second electrode portion connected to the common electrode with a second adjustment element interposed between the second electrode portion and the common electrode. The first electrode portion and the second electrode portion are provided on a line to have a length equal to or longer than ? of an electrical length of the first branch electrode and the second branch electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Izawa
  • Patent number: 10680665
    Abstract: Systems and method are provided to facilitate predictive mitigation of noise. A vehicle may measure noise floor levels and transmit a noise floor signal to a noise signal aggregator. Based on the noise signal, the noise signal aggregator may update a noise floor map database. The noise floor map database may associate a plurality of geographic locations with a plurality of noise floor levels. Accordingly, the noise signal aggregator may update a noise floor level in the noise floor map database that corresponds to the location associated with the transmitted noise signal. The noise floor map database may then be queried to retrieve noise floor levels for locations further along a route traversed by a vehicle such that the vehicle may predictively tune one or more antennas to mitigate interference associated with the noise floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: GOGO LLC
    Inventors: Sean S. Cordone, Yong Liu, James P. Michels
  • Patent number: 10381730
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave (MMW) communication system may include an antenna array structure operating within a MMW band, having both a first antenna coupling point and a second antenna coupling point, whereby the first and the second location of the antenna coupling points are within a coplanar surface on which the antenna array structure is formed. The system may further include a first MMW transmitter that couples a first data modulated MMW signal to the first antenna coupling point and a second MMW transmitter that couples a second data modulated MMW signal to the second antenna coupling point. Coupling the first data modulated MMW signal to the first antenna coupling point generates a first MMW radio signal transmitted at a first propagation direction and coupling the second data modulated MMW signal to the second antenna coupling point generates a second MMW radio signal transmitted at a second propagation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaoxiong Gu, Duixian Liu, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Alberto Valdes Garcia
  • Patent number: 10234493
    Abstract: A wireless module includes a substrate, an antenna provided on a surface of the substrate, and a circuit, provided on the substrate, and configured to transmit and receive signals through the antenna. The antenna includes a terminal provided on a tip end part thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Hironobu Matsumoto, Masahiro Yanagi, Kimihiro Maruyama, Tatsushi Shibuya
  • Patent number: 9960874
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for managing interference across multiple transceivers in an access point in a network environment. A wireless networking system can include various access points. These access points may each include multiple transceivers. However, with multiple transceivers in close proximity, signals transmitted by one transceiver may interfere with another transceiver through crosstalk, adjacent channel interference, or other form of interference. Each access point may include an interference manager which can use an interference model to modify a signal transmitted by one transceiver to be used to cancel corresponding interference caused in a second transceiver. Interference can be modeled prior to deployment and/or at deployment using a series of test signals transmitted by one transceiver while the corresponding interference is monitored on a second transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Zinwave, Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthew P. Pasulka, Andrew Robert Bell
  • Patent number: 9945695
    Abstract: A proximity sensor includes an active sensor, a passive target, and a measurement circuit. The active sensor includes an active resonant tank circuit that includes an excitation source, a first capacitor, and a first inductor. The passive target includes a passive resonant tank circuit that includes a second capacitor and a second inductor, where magnetic coupling between the first inductor and the second inductor varies as a function of physical displacement of the first inductor and the second inductor with respect to one another. The measurement circuit is configured to measure a coupled resonant frequency response in the active resonant tank circuit and provide a measured distance output based on the coupled resonant frequency response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Simmonds Precision Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Fusare
  • Patent number: 9912061
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave (MMW) communication system may include an antenna array structure operating within a MMW band, having both a first antenna coupling point and a second antenna coupling point, whereby the first and the second location of the antenna coupling points are within a coplanar surface on which the antenna array structure is formed. The system may further include a first MMW transmitter that couples a first data modulated MMW signal to the first antenna coupling point and a second MMW transmitter that couples a second data modulated MMW signal to the second antenna coupling point. Coupling the first data modulated MMW signal to the first antenna coupling point generates a first MMW radio signal transmitted at a first propagation direction and coupling the second data modulated MMW signal to the second antenna coupling point generates a second MMW radio signal transmitted at a second propagation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaoxiong Gu, Duixian Liu, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Alberto Valdes Garcia
  • Patent number: 9912043
    Abstract: An antenna system for a large appliance is disclosed herein. The antenna system comprises a large appliance having a front surface and a rear surface, a first antenna mounted on the rear surface, a second antenna mounted on the rear surface, a combiner in communication with the first antenna and the second antenna, a radio, a processor, and a wireless access point. The combiner selects the strongest signal of the first antenna and the second antenna to receive a wireless signal from the wireless access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Airgain Incorporated
    Inventor: Simon Yang
  • Patent number: 9831558
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave (MMW) communication system may include an antenna array structure operating within a MMW band, having both a first antenna coupling point and a second antenna coupling point, whereby the first and the second location of the antenna coupling points are within a coplanar surface on which the antenna array structure is formed. The system may further include a single MMW transmitter device having a power splitter that splits a data modulated MMW signal into a first MMW data modulated signal and a second MMW data modulated signal identical to the first MMW data modulated signal, such that the first data modulated MMW signal is coupled to the first antenna coupling point for radio propagation at a first direction, and the second data modulated MMW signal is coupled to the second antenna coupling point for radio propagation at a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaoxiong Gu, Duixian Liu, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Alberto Valdes Garcia
  • Patent number: 9660345
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave (MMW) communication system may include an antenna array structure operating within a MMW band, having both a first antenna coupling point and a second antenna coupling point, whereby the first and the second location of the antenna coupling points are within a coplanar surface on which the antenna array structure is formed. The system may further include a single MMW transmitter device having a power splitter that splits a data modulated MMW signal into a first MMW data modulated signal and a second MMW data modulated signal identical to the first MMW data modulated signal, such that the first data modulated MMW signal is coupled to the first antenna coupling point for radio propagation at a first direction, and the second data modulated MMW signal is coupled to the second antenna coupling point for radio propagation at a second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaoxiong Gu, Duixian Liu, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Alberto Valdes Garcia
  • Patent number: 9406998
    Abstract: A distributed multiband antenna intended for radio devices, and methods for designing manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, a planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) configured to operate in a high-frequency band, and a matched monopole configured to operate in a low-frequency band, are used within a handheld mobile device (e.g., cellular telephone). The two antennas are placed on substantially opposing regions of the portable device. The use of a separate low-frequency antenna element facilitates frequency-specific antenna matching, and therefore improves the overall performance of the multiband antenna. The use of high-band PIFA reduces antenna volume, and enables a smaller device housing structure while also reducing signal losses in the high frequency band. These attributes also advantageously facilitate compliance with specific absorption rate (SAR) tests; e.g., in the immediate proximity of hand and head “phantoms” as mandated under CTIA regulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Pulse Finland OY
    Inventors: Heikki Korva, Petteri Annamaa, Ari Raappana
  • Patent number: 9281555
    Abstract: Method and monopole antenna for making uniform the radiation of the antenna, when disposed inside a radome. According to the invention, on the surface of the monopole antenna is formed a protruding longitudinal ridge which is disposed at least approximately opposite an area of the radiating pattern of the assembly radome (1)-monopole antenna having a reduced gain in comparison with the radiating pattern of said monopole antenna alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), ONERA (Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales)
    Inventor: Hervé Jeuland
  • Patent number: 9246237
    Abstract: An antenna system includes a low-band antenna configured for low-band frequencies and a high-band antenna configured for high-band frequencies. The low-band antenna is configured so that high-band frequencies have a high impedance while the high-band antenna is configured so that low-band frequencies have a high impedance. A transmission line can be used to couple both antennas together and the transmission line can be used to add phase delay to the impedance of the low-band and high-band antennas so that the corresponding frequencies that the antennas are not configured for are shifted toward an infinite impedance point on a Smith chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Ole Jagielski, Simon Svendsen
  • Publication number: 20150123855
    Abstract: Disclosed are an antenna and a communication device including the same. The antenna includes a feeder, a first loop antenna that has an end connected to the feeder and the other end connected to a ground, and a second loop antenna that has an end connected to the feeder and the other end connected to the ground, and has an electrical length different from that of the first loop antenna, wherein an impedance matching line having a discontinuously different line width is formed in a partial area of the first loop antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: EMW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Hoon Ryu, Won Mo Sung, Ui Sheon Kim, Yeon Sik Yu
  • Patent number: 9014297
    Abstract: The data and/or command signal transmission device includes a first signal generator connected to a first antenna arrangement, a second signal generator connected to a second antenna arrangement, a third signal generator connected to a third antenna arrangement, and a synchronization circuit. The synchronization circuit performs data amplitude modulation by combining the signals transmitted by the antenna arrangements. The signals transmitted by the first and third antenna arrangements are in-phase in a first stable modulation state and 180° out of phase in a second stable modulation state. In a modulation state transition phase, the first and third signals delivered by the first and third generators are at a different frequency from the carrier frequency of the signals delivered by the second generator. The resonance frequency of the first and third antenna arrangements is also adapted in the transition phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Swiss Timing Ltd
    Inventor: Martin Bisig
  • Patent number: 8988224
    Abstract: In one embodiment the present invention includes an RFID gaming token with a ferrite core. When the RFID gaming tokens are stacked, the ferrite cores steer the flux field from the excitation antenna through the center of the annular antennas in each token. The resulting flux field increases the efficiency of the energy transfer from the excitation antenna to the passive tags. This increased efficiency also improves the data transfer to and from the passive tags. This increased efficiency allows for reading RFID gaming tokens at a higher stack height (or at a better error rate for a given stack height) as compared to existing air core gaming tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Magnet Consulting, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua K. Hoyt, Forrest S. Seitz
  • Patent number: 8981940
    Abstract: In one embodiment the present invention includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) system with a shorting loop. The shorting loop at least partially surrounds the antenna. The shorting loop distorts the electromagnetic field generated by the antenna to improve the definition of the border of the read region of the antenna. In this manner, the RFID system provides more accurate discrimination between RFID tags inside the read region versus RFID tags outside the read region (i.e., improves the accuracy of determining that a particular RFID tag is inside the read region).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Magnet Consulting, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua K. Hoyt, Forrest S. Seitz
  • Patent number: 8981906
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a circuit substrate on which sheets are laminated, a wireless IC element provided on the sheet, a radiator provided on the sheet, and a loop-shaped electrode defined by first planar conductors, via hole conductors, and one side of the radiator, coupled to the wireless IC element. The first planar conductors are coupled to the radiator and the second planar conductors by auxiliary electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Takeoka, Koji Shiroki
  • Publication number: 20150054700
    Abstract: This antenna array includes at least one primary antenna, at least one secondary antenna and at least one load coupled to a secondary antenna. The load includes two separate components, a first component being a resistor and a second component being selected from an inductor or a capacitor. The antenna array can include one or more of the following characteristic features, taken into consideration individually or in accordance with any technically possible combinations: the first component has negative resistance; the second component has negative inductance or a negative capacitance; at least one load has an adjustable impedance. The antenna array may be used in a system, such as a vehicle, a terminal, a mobile telephone, a wireless network access point, a base station, or a radio frequency excitation probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Kawtar Belmkaddem, Lionel Rudant
  • Publication number: 20150048982
    Abstract: A printed circuit board antenna includes a printed circuit board and a feedpoint that is disposed on the printed circuit board. A copper coating is disposed on the printed circuit board. A split is disposed on the copper coating on the printed circuit board. The split is connected to a board edge of the printed circuit board. A slot perpendicular to the split is disposed on the copper coating on the printed circuit board. The slot is connected to the split. The copper coating at two sides of the split forms a first antenna and a second antenna. The feedpoint is configured to, together with the first antenna and the second antenna, form a first resonance loop and a second resonance loop. Resonance frequencies of the first resonance loop and the second resonance loop are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventor: Hanyang Wang
  • Patent number: 8933850
    Abstract: A tri-band antenna (10) is provided having a pair of antenna elements (12, 14), in which the first antenna element (14) operates in a first UHF frequency band, and the second antenna element (12) operates in a second VHF band and a third cellular frequency band. The bottom end (12a, 14a) of each of the antenna elements (12, 14) is fixed into a first member (16) from which the antenna elements extend parallel and spaced apart from each other to their different respective heights. A second member (13) couples the antenna elements (12, 14) to each other at a distance from the first member (16) to adjust the operation of the tri-band antenna (10) in at least the UHF band. A base member (19) is provided for mounting the tri-band antenna (10) along a surface of a vehicle. A signal feed member (20) extends through the base member (19) and has one end (20a) attached to the first member (16) and another end (20b) providing a RF connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: STI-CO Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher John Goetz, Richard W. Leach
  • Patent number: 8933854
    Abstract: A dual-polarization communication antenna for satellite mobile links comprising a number of radiant elements etched on a substrate, a connector enabling the antenna elements to be connected to a power source, said antenna including one or more subantennas, each of said subantennas including: N dual-polarization antenna elements mounted in series with one another and linked together by means of a portion of a first conduction line C1; K dual-polarization antenna elements linked together by means of a portion of a second conduction line C3, said K antenna elements being arranged relative to one another in parallel; wherein said lines C1, C3 are electrically linked and linked to the connector; and the set formed by the N antenna elements is mounted in series with the set of the K antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Pierre-Henri Boutigny, Alain Le Fevre, Laurent Collin
  • Patent number: 8830132
    Abstract: The present invention is load circuit for a parasitic antenna element of a parasitic antenna array. The load circuit may include a DC bias current source, a resistor connected to the DC bias current source, one or more capacitors connected to the resistor, and multiple (ex. —two) diodes connected to the parasitic antenna element. The first diode may be configured for directly connecting the parasitic element to a ground plane of the parasitic antenna array. The second diode may be configured for connecting the parasitic element to the ground plane via the one or more capacitors. The load circuit may be configured for providing a variable (ex. —adjustable) impedance to the parasitic antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Doane, Bryan S. McCoy, David W. Cripe
  • Patent number: 8818458
    Abstract: An active link wireless cable mesh network and a method for transmitting data in a wireless cable mesh network are provided. A plurality of end devices are connected in a mesh configuration. A data message is transmitted to a first end device via one of a plurality of antennas radiating elements which form a phased array antenna. If the message is not successfully received, the antenna radiating elements is steered to another transceiver in the mesh network to complete the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventor: James K. Rahm
  • Publication number: 20140203982
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus and a portable device having the same are provided. The antenna apparatus includes a main antenna having a first radiator pattern, and an auxiliary antenna separated from the main antenna by a metal surface adjacent to the main antenna. The auxiliary antenna is resonant at a resonant frequency which is a function of at least one capacitor provided in a cut-out area of a printed circuit board (PCB) adjacent to the metal surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaemin SEO, Jaesun PARK, Wailing LEE
  • Patent number: 8736501
    Abstract: A multi-band antenna includes two conductive wirings and unit circuits cascaded along the conductive wirings. Each unit circuit includes a communication unit, a first capacitor and a second inductor. The communication unit connects between the conductive wirings through a first inductor and a second capacitor connected in series with the first inductor. The first capacitor and the second inductor are inserted in at least one of the conductive wirings. The second inductor is connected in parallel with the first capacitor. Alternatively, the unit circuit includes a communication unit connecting between the conductive wirings through a first inductor, and a first capacitor inserted in at least one of the conductive wirings. The first inductor, the first capacitor, a third capacitor disposed between the conductive wirings, and a third inductor disposed on at least one of the conductive wirings satisfy a relationship expressed by the expression 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Takafumi Nishi, Yuji Sugimoto, Masayuki Nakabuchi, Ichiro Shigetomi
  • Patent number: 8730084
    Abstract: A dual mode ground penetrating radar includes an enclosure which houses radar electronics. The dual mode ground penetrating radar includes an enclosure housing radar electronics. The dual mode ground penetrating radar further includes a first antenna feed having ferrite loading and extending outside of the enclosure. The dual mode ground penetrating radar further includes a second antenna feed spaced apart from the first antenna feed, the second antenna feed having ferrite loading and extending outside of the enclosure. An RF signal is provided in at least one of the first and second antenna feeds by the radar electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz City For Science and Technology
    Inventors: Tariq A. Al-Khalefah, Khaled F. R. Almutairi, Arne V. Utsi
  • Patent number: 8711047
    Abstract: A multi-band antenna array for use in wireless communication devices with up to three simultaneous operating modes with improved antenna efficiency and reduced antenna coupling across a broad range of operative frequency bands with reduced physical size is described. The multi-band antenna array includes at least two loop antenna elements, each of which is orthogonal to, and arranged in an embedded manner, relative to each other. Each loop antenna in the multi-band antenna array may include a corresponding tuning element for tuning to a desired resonant frequency, and be comprised of an upper and lower half with the corresponding tuning element coupled therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Allen Minh-Triet Tran
  • Patent number: 8706165
    Abstract: An omni-radio base station with multiple sector antenna units uses frequency division of sector signals to achieve increased coverage or capacity at reduced cost. Each sector antenna unit has an antenna for receiving a carrier signal associated with an antenna frequency in an available frequency band. At least one of the antenna units has an associated frequency converter that converts the carrier signal received by that antenna unit from the antenna frequency to a different respective frequency. Even though each sector receives the same carrier signal, an output carrier signal associated with each sector is at a different frequency band. A combiner combines the antenna unit carrier signals at different frequencies to create a composite signal for communication to the omni-radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ulf Skärby, Donald Staudte
  • Patent number: 8669846
    Abstract: The present invention provides one or more powered wireless transceivers and/or one or more passive wireless transceivers, a reader and interrogator with variable power, one or more antennas connected to a human or robotic hand and/or foot, a method for making same and the method of using these devices for process automation and verification involving one or more items in addition to locating, tracking and identifying these items in a supply chain. In one embodiment, a proximity sensing wireless system is provided which can be used to step the handler or operator through the step of a process and verify that each step in the process has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Eigent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Warner, James Wang, Jack Winters
  • Patent number: 8625700
    Abstract: An evaluation device provides a transceiver system with performance information. The transceiver system models channels between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device includes a setting module, a computing module and an output module. The computing module is operable, based upon the fading parameter, an average SNR of the channels, a number of transmit antennas and a number of receive antennas, to estimate an average output SNR, a bit error rate and an outage probability related to signals received by the receiver. The output module is operable to provide the transceiver system with the average SNR and the estimated information as the performance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: I-Shou University
    Inventors: Ching-Tai Chiang, Rong-Ching Wu, Chen-Sen Ouyang, Jong-Ian Tsai
  • Patent number: 8610832
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for broadcasting signals. The system includes a supplemental antenna at a first location co-located with a main antenna transmitting a main signal. The supplemental antenna is physically separate from a main antenna at the same location and transmits a supplementary signal adjacent to the main signal which matches or corresponds to a remote signal transmitted from an antenna at a remote location. The system transmits the supplemental signal at sufficient power to overcome interference in a coverage hole of the remote signal caused by the main signal. A supplemental antenna co-located with the main antenna can transmit the supplemental signal. The system can receive a supplemental signal that matches a remote signal, pass the supplemental signal through a same power amplifier and filter as a local main signal, and broadcast via an antenna both the main signal and the supplemental signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II, LLC
    Inventor: Melvin Frerking
  • Publication number: 20130321217
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus for an electronic device is provided. The antenna apparatus includes a broadcasting antenna apparatus for receiving broadcasting, and a communicating antenna radiator arranged near the broadcasting antenna apparatus and fed simultaneously from a feed part of the broadcasting antenna apparatus. The communicating antenna radiator is able to maintain the same performance irrespective of an operation of the broadcasting antenna apparatus, thereby improving a reliability and usability of the device and making a contribution to the minimizing of a size of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Hyun LEE, Yong-Soo KWAK, Kyung-Kyun KANG, Cheol-Hong SON, Seong-Tae JEONG, Joon-Ho BYUN
  • Patent number: 8600462
    Abstract: A complex antenna has a first antenna element and a second antenna element each connected at one end to a different feed point and connected to each other at the other end through a parallel resonant circuit. Each antenna element has the same resonant frequency as the parallel resonant circuit. A mobile phone has an antenna switch with a first port connected to the first antenna element, a second port connected to the second antenna element, and a third port that can be connected to one of the first port and the second port and switched therebetween. A signal processing unit causes the antenna switch to connect the third port to the first port or to the second port and detects a signal captured by one of the antenna elements from the output of the third port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hisatomo Kato
  • Patent number: 8588795
    Abstract: A scheduling method in a distributed antenna system is provided. Each of a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs), respectively corresponding to each subchannel, are classified as a Single Transmission (ST) MS or a Cooperative Transmission (CT) MS according to a CT criterion. An MS with a maximum channel capacity is selected from among the classified MSs. Resources are allocated to a corresponding subchannel when the selected MS is the ST MS, and resources are allocated using a CT scheduling technique when the selected MS is the CT MS. The classifying, selecting and allocating steps are repeated until allocation of resources is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon Lee, Seong-Taek Hwang, Won-Jin Sung, Ki-Suk Sung, In-Hong Shong
  • Publication number: 20130187817
    Abstract: An antenna system includes a low-band antenna configured for low-band frequencies and a high-band antenna configured for high-band frequencies. The low-band antenna is configured so that high-band frequencies have a high impedance while the high-band antenna is configured so that low-band frequencies have a high impedance. A transmission line can be used to couple both antennas together and the transmission line can be used to add phase delay to the impedance of the low-band and high-band antennas so that the corresponding frequencies that the antennas are not configured for are shifted toward an infinite impedance point on a Smith chart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Ole Jagielski, Simon Svendsen
  • Patent number: 8483623
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for frequency-shift based PCB-to-PCB communications may include, in a PCB comprising one or more receivers and one or more transmitters, adjusting one or more modulation frequencies and utilizing the adjusted modulation frequencies to generate transmit signals by the one or more transmitters based on received and/or generated modulation control information. One or more demodulation frequencies may be adjusted and utilized to generate intermediate frequency signals by the one or more receivers based on received and/or generated demodulation control information. The modulation control information and the demodulation control information may be received via a communication device comprising the PCB. The modulation control information and demodulation control information may be received on a link operating in a frequency band different from the transmit frequencies and the receive frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8483751
    Abstract: A wireless communication device or a split band diversity antenna arrangement (10, 20, 30 or 41) has a first multi-band antenna (22 or 14) located at a bottom portion (11) of the wireless communication device and selectively coupled to a diversity receiver (26), a second multi-band antenna (24 or 12) located at a top portion (13) of the wireless communication device and selectively coupled to a dual band transceiver (28), a band splitter (25) splitting an input from the first antenna into a first output and a second output where the first output serves as an input to the diversity receiver, and a band combiner (27) that combines the second output of the band splitter with a signal from the second antenna to provide an input signal to the dual band transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Greg Black, Vijay Asrani, Nicholas Matthew McDonnell, Deven Mohan Patel
  • Patent number: 8433368
    Abstract: An active link wireless cable mesh network and a method for transmitting data in a wireless cable mesh network are provided. A plurality of end devices are connected in a mesh configuration. A data message is transmitted to a first end device via one of a plurality of antennas radiating elements which form a phased array antenna. If the message is not successfully received, the antenna radiating elements is steered to another transceiver in the mesh network to complete the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventor: James K. Rahm
  • Patent number: 8432283
    Abstract: In one embodiment the present invention includes an RFID gaming token with a ferrite core. When the RFID gaming tokens are stacked, the ferrite cores steer the flux field from the excitation antenna through the center of the annular antennas in each token. The resulting flux field increases the efficiency of the energy transfer from the excitation antenna to the passive tags. This increased efficiency also improves the data transfer to and from the passive tags. This increased efficiency allows for reading RFID gaming tokens at a higher stack height (or at a better error rate for a given stack height) as compared to existing air core gaming tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Magnet Consulting, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua K. Hoyt, Forrest S. Seitz
  • Patent number: 8417295
    Abstract: An antenna system has multiple antenna elements, and multiple connection points allowing multiple users to connect to the antenna system. Each connection point is connected to each of the antenna elements through respective amplitude control circuitry, with the beam shape for each user being controlled by the amplitude control circuitry in the paths between that user's connection point and the antenna elements. The beam shapes for the different users are then independently controllable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Deltenna Limited
    Inventor: Andrew Fox
  • Patent number: 8395507
    Abstract: In one embodiment the present invention includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) system with a shorting loop. The shorting loop at least partially surrounds the antenna. The shorting loop distorts the electromagnetic field generated by the antenna to improve the definition of the border of the read region of the antenna. In this manner, the RFID system provides more accurate discrimination between RFID tags inside the read region versus RFID tags outside the read region (i.e., improves the accuracy of determining that a particular RFID tag is inside the read region).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Magnet Consulting, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua K. Hoyt, Forrest S. Seitz
  • Publication number: 20130057443
    Abstract: A radiators has looped radiation conductors, an inductor, a capacitor, a feed point on the radiation conductor. The capacitor is formed by a capacitance between the radiation conductors, and the capacitance varies depending on positions on the radiation conductors within a portion where the radiation conductors are close to each other. The radiators is configured to: resonate along a portion of the radiator at a low-band resonance frequency, the portion including the inductor and the capacitor and being along the loop of the radiation conductor, and resonate along a portion of the radiator at a high-band resonance frequency, the portion including a section along the loop of the radiation conductor, the section including at least one of the at least one capacitor, not including the inductor, and extending between the feed point and the inductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventors: Kenichi Asanuma, Atsushi Yamamoto, Tsutomu Sakata, Kenichi Kozaki
  • Patent number: 8351849
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a transceiver configured for communication using multiple radio access technologies. An antenna array is coupled to the transceiver, and includes a first antenna element and a second antenna element. A control circuit is operable to detect an available one of the radio access technologies based on a wireless signal received at the antenna array, and is operable to automatically alter a configuration of the antenna array by switching the first and/or second antenna elements between active and inactive states responsive to detection of the available one of the radio access technologies. Related methods of operation are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Zhinong Ying
  • Patent number: 8319695
    Abstract: An adjustable integrated circuit antenna structure includes an antenna, a ground plane, a plurality of transmission line circuit elements and a coupling circuit. The coupling circuit is operable to couple at least one of the plurality of transmission line circuit elements into a transmission line circuit based on a transmission line characteristic signal. The transmission line circuit has at least one of a bandwidth, an impedance, a quality factor, and a frequency band in accordance with the transmission line circuit characteristic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8279121
    Abstract: A compact and low-cost antenna device in which no interference occurs even when many antenna units corresponding to various systems are mounted close together in a small area, and a wireless communication apparatus including the antenna device. An antenna device includes plural antenna units mounted on a single dielectric base. A first antenna unit having a lowest fundamental frequency is disposed at a left end of a non-ground region, a second antenna unit having a highest fundamental frequency of the plurality of the antenna units is disposed at a right end of the non-ground region, and a third antenna unit having a fundamental frequency between those of the first antenna unit and the second antenna unit is disposed between the first and second antenna units. A current-density control coil is connected between a first radiation electrode and a power feeder of the first antenna unit, while a reactance circuit is disposed in the middle of the first radiation electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ishizuka, Kazunari Kawahata, Nobuhito Tsubaki, Shigeyuki Fujieda, Shinichi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20120200466
    Abstract: A dual-polarization communication antenna for satellite mobile links comprising a number of radiant elements etched on a substrate, a connector enabling the antenna elements to be connected to a power source, said antenna including one or more subantennas, each of said subantennas including: N dual-polarization antenna elements mounted in series with one another and linked together by means of a portion of a first conduction line C1; K dual-polarization antenna elements linked together by means of a portion of a second conduction line C3, said K antenna elements being arranged relative to one another in parallel; wherein said lines C1, C3 are electrically linked and linked to the connector; and the set formed by the N antenna elements is mounted in series with the set of the K antenna elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Pierre-Henri Boutigny, Alain Le Fevre, Laurent Collin
  • Patent number: 8185162
    Abstract: An electrically tilted antenna system with polarization diversity has a dual polarized, tilt adjustable antenna (32). The antenna (32) has dipoles (34, 36) of two orthogonal polarizations associated with independently adjustable electrical tilt angles. The tilt angles are implemented by relative delays between corporate feed input or output signals, the delays being introduced by an antenna tilt assembly (54). Two signal feeders (F21, F22) associated with different antenna polarizations connect the antenna tilt assembly (54) to a base station filter assembly (50): the base station filter assembly 50 routes transmit signals from base stations (BS21, BS22) to different antenna polarizations via respective feeders (F21, F22) and the antenna tilt assembly (54). This assembly also divides receive signals from feeders (F21, F22) between both base stations (BS21, BS22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Quintel Technology Limited
    Inventors: Philip Edward Haskell, Louis David Thomas, Stephen Thomas Newbold, David Edwin Barker