Plural Antennas Patents (Class 343/751)
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Patent number: 12191583Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing including a first side surface, a first conductive portion disposed between at least a first segmenting portion and a second segmenting portion formed in the first side surface, and including a first feeding point, a printed circuit board disposed inside the housing and including a ground, a first electronic component disposed adjacent to the first conductive portion, a first conductive connection member electrically connected to the first electronic component, a first wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the first feeding point, a processor electrically connected to the first wireless communication circuit, and a matching circuit electrically connected to the first conductive connection member and the ground, and configured to electrically connect or disconnect the first conductive connection member and the ground under control of the processor.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyoungmok Kim, Sungjun Lee, Sanggon Shin, Oleg Feygenson, Chaeup Yoo, Soonho Hwang
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Patent number: 11876285Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD.Inventors: Le Chang, Kunpeng Wei
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Patent number: 11171686Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Mohamed Cheikh, Frédéric Lathiere
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Patent number: 11101561Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahiro Izawa
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Patent number: 10680665Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: GOGO LLCInventors: Sean S. Cordone, Yong Liu, James P. Michels
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Patent number: 10381730Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaoxiong Gu, Duixian Liu, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Alberto Valdes Garcia
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Patent number: 10234493Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITEDInventors: Hironobu Matsumoto, Masahiro Yanagi, Kimihiro Maruyama, Tatsushi Shibuya
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Patent number: 9960874Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Zinwave, Ltd.Inventors: Matthew P. Pasulka, Andrew Robert Bell
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Patent number: 9945695Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Simmonds Precision Products, Inc.Inventor: Scott Fusare
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Patent number: 9912061Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaoxiong Gu, Duixian Liu, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Alberto Valdes Garcia
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Patent number: 9912043Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Airgain IncorporatedInventor: Simon Yang
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Patent number: 9831558Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaoxiong Gu, Duixian Liu, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Alberto Valdes Garcia
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Patent number: 9660345Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaoxiong Gu, Duixian Liu, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Alberto Valdes Garcia
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Patent number: 9406998Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Pulse Finland OYInventors: Heikki Korva, Petteri Annamaa, Ari Raappana
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Patent number: 9281555Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignees: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), ONERA (Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales)Inventor: Hervé Jeuland
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Patent number: 9246237Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Ole Jagielski, Simon Svendsen
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Publication number: 20150123855Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: EMW CO., LTD.Inventors: Byung Hoon Ryu, Won Mo Sung, Ui Sheon Kim, Yeon Sik Yu
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Patent number: 9014297Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Swiss Timing LtdInventor: Martin Bisig
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Patent number: 8988224Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Magnet Consulting, Inc.Inventors: Joshua K. Hoyt, Forrest S. Seitz
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Patent number: 8981940Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Magnet Consulting, Inc.Inventors: Joshua K. Hoyt, Forrest S. Seitz
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Patent number: 8981906Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Takeoka, Koji Shiroki
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Publication number: 20150054700Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Kawtar Belmkaddem, Lionel Rudant
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Publication number: 20150048982Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventor: Hanyang Wang
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Patent number: 8933854Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: ThalesInventors: Pierre-Henri Boutigny, Alain Le Fevre, Laurent Collin
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Patent number: 8933850Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: STI-CO Industries, Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Goetz, Richard W. Leach
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Patent number: 8830132Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan P. Doane, Bryan S. McCoy, David W. Cripe
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Patent number: 8818458Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: General Instrument CorporationInventor: James K. Rahm
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Publication number: 20140203982Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaemin SEO, Jaesun PARK, Wailing LEE
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Patent number: 8736501Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 20, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Takafumi Nishi, Yuji Sugimoto, Masayuki Nakabuchi, Ichiro Shigetomi
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Patent number: 8730084Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: King Abdulaziz City For Science and TechnologyInventors: Tariq A. Al-Khalefah, Khaled F. R. Almutairi, Arne V. Utsi
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Patent number: 8711047Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Allen Minh-Triet Tran
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Patent number: 8706165Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Ulf Skärby, Donald Staudte
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Patent number: 8669846Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 19, 2009Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Eigent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Robert Warner, James Wang, Jack Winters
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Patent number: 8625700Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: I-Shou UniversityInventors: Ching-Tai Chiang, Rong-Ching Wu, Chen-Sen Ouyang, Jong-Ian Tsai
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Patent number: 8610832Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: AT&T Mobility II, LLCInventor: Melvin Frerking
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Publication number: 20130321217Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Hyun LEE, Yong-Soo KWAK, Kyung-Kyun KANG, Cheol-Hong SON, Seong-Tae JEONG, Joon-Ho BYUN
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Patent number: 8600462Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Hisatomo Kato
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Patent number: 8588795Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang UniversityInventors: Jae-Hoon Lee, Seong-Taek Hwang, Won-Jin Sung, Ki-Suk Sung, In-Hong Shong
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Publication number: 20130187817Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: Molex IncorporatedInventors: Ole Jagielski, Simon Svendsen
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Patent number: 8483751Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Greg Black, Vijay Asrani, Nicholas Matthew McDonnell, Deven Mohan Patel
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Patent number: 8483623Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 15, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
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Patent number: 8432283Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Magnet Consulting, Inc.Inventors: Joshua K. Hoyt, Forrest S. Seitz
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Patent number: 8433368Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: General Instrument CorporationInventor: James K. Rahm
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Patent number: 8417295Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Deltenna LimitedInventor: Andrew Fox
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Patent number: 8395507Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 21, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Magnet Consulting, Inc.Inventors: Joshua K. Hoyt, Forrest S. Seitz
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Publication number: 20130057443Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Kenichi Asanuma, Atsushi Yamamoto, Tsutomu Sakata, Kenichi Kozaki
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Patent number: 8351849Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Zhinong Ying
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Patent number: 8319695Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
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Patent number: 8279121Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Ishizuka, Kazunari Kawahata, Nobuhito Tsubaki, Shigeyuki Fujieda, Shinichi Nakano
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Publication number: 20120200466Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: THALESInventors: Pierre-Henri Boutigny, Alain Le Fevre, Laurent Collin