Including Magnetic Material Patents (Class 343/787)
  • Publication number: 20120293385
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an antenna device, which comprises an array antenna and a power divider. The array antenna comprises a plurality of antenna units, and each of the antenna units comprises a conductive sheet engraved with a groove topology pattern, conductive feeding points and a feeder line. The power divider is adapted to divide a baseband signal into a plurality of weighted signals and then transmit the weighted signals to the antenna units arranged in an array via the conductive feeding points respectively. By arraying the antenna units and using the beam forming method, the directionality of the antenna can be designed as needed through phase superposition between the antenna units; and then, a reflective metal plate is provided on the back side of the antenna so that a back lobe of the antenna is compressed. In this way, the miniaturized antenna array can obtain a high directionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Ruopeng Liu, Guanxiong Xu, Songtao Yang, Yuefeng Li
  • Publication number: 20120280877
    Abstract: An antenna for radio frequency (RF) applications comprising: a dielectric element including a dielectric material; an active element attached to a first external surface of the dielectric element; a cavity in the dielectric element; a radio device deposited in the cavity and adapted for coupling to the active element; and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield positioned in the cavity and between the radio device and the dielectric element, the EMI shield configured for inhibiting EMI between the radio device and the active element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: PSION INC.
    Inventor: Laurian Petru Chirila
  • Patent number: 8305281
    Abstract: The present invention provides a core-shell magnetic material having an excellent characteristic in a high frequency band, particularly, in a GHz band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomohiro Suetsuna, Kouichi Harada, Maki Yonetsu, Seiichi Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20120268335
    Abstract: An antenna includes a base body, an antenna radiator and a ferrite core. The base body includes a laser direct structuring material. The antenna radiator is formed by selectively activating a portion of the base body with a laser and by plating the activated portion. The ferrite core is fixed to the antenna radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicants: FIH (HONG KONG) LIMITED, SHENZHEN FUTAIHONG PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: XUE-LI ZHANG, YONG YAN, YONG-FA FAN, ZHAO-YI WU, QI-YUAN LI, LI LIU
  • Publication number: 20120262357
    Abstract: In antenna device, a coil conductor of an antenna coil module and a conductor layer at least partially overlap. A current flows in the conductor layer and blocks a magnetic field generated by a current flowing in the coil conductor. A current, which flows around the periphery of an opening of the conductor layer, flows along the periphery of a slit and around the periphery of the conductor layer due to a cut-edge effect. Since magnetic flux does not pass through the conductor layer, magnetic flux attempts to bypass the conductor layer along a path in which the conductor opening of the conductor layer is on the inside and the outer edge of the conductor layer is on the outside. Accordingly, the magnetic flux generates relatively large loops linking the inside and the outside of a coil conductor of an antenna on a reader/writer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru KATO, Katsumi TANIGUCHI, Jun SASAKI, Naoki GOCHI
  • Patent number: 8289222
    Abstract: The present invention provides a core-shell magnetic material having an excellent characteristic in a high frequency band, particularly, in a GHz band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomohiro Suetsuna, Kouichi Harada, Maki Yonetsu, Seiichi Suenaga, Naoto Ito, Akihiro Tsujimura
  • Patent number: 8269678
    Abstract: An antenna module for a tablet personal computer is disclosed. The tablet personal computer comprises a main body and a housing with a screen, and the housing is pivotally connected to the main body. The tablet personal computer is capable of being switched to a tablet mode. The antenna module comprises an antenna device, a first magnetic element, and a second magnetic element. The antenna device is located concealably in the housing. The first magnetic element is coupled to an end of the antenna device. The second magnetic element is located in the main body. The second magnetic element is positioned corresponding to the first magnetic element in the tablet mode such that an end of the antenna device can be moved outside the housing due to a magnetic force between the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Rong-Cheng Sun
  • Publication number: 20120229354
    Abstract: A magnetic material for antennas including: an M-type hexagonal ferrite represented by the following general formula (1) as a main phase, MA.Fe12-x.MBx.O19 (wherein MA is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Sr and Ba, MB is MC or MD, MC is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Al, Cr, Sc and In, MD is an equivalent mixture of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Ti, Sn and Zr and at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Ni, Zn, Mn, Mg, Cu and Co, X is a number from 1 to 5), and an average crystal particle diameter is equal to or greater than 5 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu ISHIKURA, Michihiro MURAMOTO, Akihiro HARADA, Katsumi KAWASAKI, Tomofumi KURODA
  • Patent number: 8259024
    Abstract: A radio wave receiver comprising an antenna structure placed within a case. The antenna structure has a rod-like core around which a coil is wound. A pair of opposite external magnetic members are each provided in a respective one of a pair of cavities provided so as to extend along the inner periphery of the case from adjacent the respective ends of the rod-like core toward the end points of an inner diameter of the case parallel to the axis of the rod-like core. The pair of external magnetic members is substantially the same permeability as the core. Thus, the antenna core is magnetically coupled to the pair of external magnetic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Abe
  • Patent number: 8259023
    Abstract: An antenna coil is obtained by winding a flexible substrate around a magnetic core. Conductors are provided on the flexible substrate, whereby a first coil portion and a second coil portion are provided on either side of the magnetic core except for in a middle portion. A non-winding portion including no conductors is provided between the first coil portion and the second coil portion on a main surface of the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kubo, Hiromitsu Ito, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Publication number: 20120218161
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for a configurable antenna in an integrated circuit package are provided. In a hybrid circuit comprising an integrated circuit bonded to a multi-layer package, one or more antenna parameters may be adjusted by configuring a plurality of antenna elements via one or more switching elements. In this regard, the antenna elements and/or the switching elements may be within and/or on the multi-layer package and/or within the integrated circuit. The switching elements may be MEMS switches on and/or within the IC and/or the multi-layer package. The IC may be bonded or mounted to the underside of the package and signals may be communicated between the IC and the package via one or more solder balls. The IC may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, and/or code for configuring the antenna elements. The antenna elements may be configured based on desired polarization, antenna gain, and/or frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8253643
    Abstract: A chip antenna comprising a magnetic substrate comprising Z-type ferrite or Y-type ferrite as a main phase and having a through-hole extending linearly along a center axis, and a conductor penetrating the through-hole, the magnetic phase having a c-axis substantially parallel or perpendicular to the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomotsugu Kato, Masayuki Gonda, Hiroyuki Aoyama, Hideto Mikami
  • Patent number: 8253631
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain high radiation efficiency by strengthening electromagnetic coupling in an antenna device that supplies a radiation current by the electromagnetic coupling. An antenna device includes a substrate 110 and a conductor pattern that includes a radiation conductor 121, a feed conductor 122, and a coupling conductor 123 formed on the substrate 110. Both the feed conductor 122 and the coupling conductor 123 are formed on a side surface 115 of the substrate 110. One end 122a of the feed conductor 122 is connected to a feed line, and other end 122b is connected to a ground pattern. A coupling portion 122b of the feed conductor 122 is substantially U-shaped, and the coupling conductor 123 is electromagnetically coupled to the coupling portion 122b of the feed conductor 122. Because the feed conductor 122 is gently curved, an electric filed concentration can hardly occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Yasumasa Harihara
  • Publication number: 20120176288
    Abstract: The objective is realizing downsizing of an antenna, suppressing the decrease in radiation efficiency, and suppressing narrowing of band. A magnetic dielectric antenna 10 is provided with a L-shaped electrode 12 having a meander shape, and a magnetic dielectric body base portion 11 provided to cover at least a part of the electrode 12, wherein the electrode 12 comprises an electrode portion 12a arranged so that the extending direction of electrode portion 12a is parallel with a ground portion with a predetermined gap therefrom, and an electrode portion 12b connected to the electrode portion 12a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Kota Furuya, Hiroki Yoshioka, Koki Sato
  • Publication number: 20120154235
    Abstract: A circularly polarised patch antenna includes: an antenna electrode; a ground section; a substrate, which is sandwiched between the antenna electrode and the ground section and which has insulating properties, a predetermined dielectric constant and single-axis magnetic anisotropy for a plurality of different magnetization directions; and a power feed pin which is electrically connected to the antenna electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nakamura, Hiroki Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20120154234
    Abstract: A broadband integrated circulator antenna (BICA) module for receiving and transmitting signals with high efficiency and high gain. The BICA can have a bandwidth of over 70% of a radar band and can operate in frequencies from UHF to S-band and above. The BICA has a stack configuration that includes a low profile antenna, a reflecting layer or a metamaterial substrate layer, and a circulator. The circulator is placed proximal to antenna, which greatly reduces the size of the BICA. The circulator can be a stripline Y-junction ferrite circulator and the antenna can be a coaxial center fed bow-tie antenna. The reflecting layer or metamaterial substrate layer can comprise electronic bandgap metamaterial and a high permeability ferrite substrate. The high permeability ferrite substrate can be cobalt substituted Z-type barium hexaferrite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Anton L. Geiler, Carmine Vittoria, Vincent G. Harris
  • Patent number: 8193992
    Abstract: An apparatus including: a conductive antenna; a conductive object; a connection having a complex electrical impedance between the antenna and the conductive object; and an element having a complex magnetic permeability located adjacent the conductive antenna, wherein, when the conductive antenna is energized, the connection and the element substantially reduce a phase difference between an electric current flowing in the conductive antenna and an induced electric current flowing in the conductive object. Methods and other apparatus are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Pekka Martti Tapio Ikonen
  • Publication number: 20120119964
    Abstract: A compact dual-channel antenna operating at least in two frequency bands, comprises at least the following elements: a coaxial cable connected to a reference ground, an antenna element designed to operate in the high-frequency band, having a length Linf, a counter-skirt with a length roughly corresponding to Linf and arranged around said antenna element, said duly surrounded antenna element being placed between the ground plane and an antenna element designed to operate in the low-frequency band, the assembly having a length Lsup designed to operate in the low-frequency band and consisting of the antenna element and the counter-skirt, fed via the core of said coaxial surrounding a magnetic element to form a winding, said antenna element being fed via a braid of the sheath of said coaxial.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventor: Frédéric Ngo Bui Hung
  • Patent number: 8179332
    Abstract: An antenna device is constructed such that an antenna coil including a magnetic core and a flexible substrate is mounted to a circuit board. A first coil portion having a coil axis parallel or substantially parallel with a main surface of the magnetic core includes a first coil and a third coil. A second coil portion includes a second coil and a fourth coil. A conductor-free portion is located between the first and second coil portions. The flexible substrate includes a projection, and first to fourth coil connections are drawn out at the projection. The antenna device is constructed such that each of the coils is connected on the circuit board by connecting to a conductor pattern on the circuit board at the projection of the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kubo, Hiromitsu Ito, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 8164534
    Abstract: A multi-band antenna comprising a conductive structure and a plurality of current probes coupled around the conductive structure is disclosed. An existing antenna capable of generating H fields having a first signal line is converted into a multi-signal line antenna with increased frequency capabilities, by mounting a first current probe having a designated frequency range about a periphery of the existing antenna; coupling a second signal line to the first current probe; and performing at least one of transmitting and receiving via at least one of the first and second signal lines, wherein the mounting of the first current probe to the existing antenna improves a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) of the existing antenna and the second signal line operates as an independent signal line for signal reception/transmission within the designated frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Daniel W. S. Tam
  • Publication number: 20120086615
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and apparatus for an integrated antenna are provided. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a substrate may comprise one or more metal traces thereon and/or embedded therein. The substrate may be sufficiently flexible to be bent or molded into a shape that corresponds to the outer dimensions of a battery. When the substrate is bent into the shape corresponding to the outer dimensions of the battery, the one or more metal traces may form an antenna. A ferromagnetic laminate may be affixed to a first side of the substrate, and a dielectric laminate may be affixed to a second side of the substrate. The substrate may be wrapped around a battery and the battery and substrate may be integrated into a smartcard or other wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventor: John Peter Norair
  • Patent number: 8154464
    Abstract: A magnetic material antenna using a ferrite sintered body comprising one or more conductors disposed at least on a surface or in internal portion of the ferrite sintered body, wherein the ferrite sintered body is a sintered body of Y-type ferrite containing BaO, CoO, and Fe2O3 as main components and wherein the ferrite sintered body contains Cu and, in a cross section for the sintered body, an area rate of a cubic Co-rich phase, which has a ration of an amount of Co being higher than a Y-type ferrite phase being a mother phase, is 1% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Gonda, Shigeo Fujii, Hiroyuki Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20120062435
    Abstract: A magnetic sheet for use with an antenna module is provided. The magnetic sheet may have a magnetically permeable layer having a plurality of randomly shaped pieces such that the magnetic sheet is configured to affect a resonance frequency of the antenna module. At least one of the randomly shaped pieces of the magnetic sheet does not have a rectangular or triangular shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kato, Shinichi Fukuda, Kenichi Kabasawa, Yoshito Ikeda, Keisuke Matsunami
  • Patent number: 8134521
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of a structured surface are described which can efficiently reflect, steer or focus incident electromagnetic radiation. The surface impedance may be adjustable and can impart a phase shift to the incident wave using tunable electrical components of the surface. An array of electrodes interconnected by variable capacitors may be used for beam steering and phase modulation. In an exemplary embodiment, the electrodes have a circular configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Paul R. Herz, Daniel Sievenpiper
  • Publication number: 20120056795
    Abstract: A switching function and multiband compatibility and a function handling deviation of matching caused by the influence of the human body are configured in a single matching circuit. An antenna matching circuit is formed by a reactance changing section and a matching section. The matching section is formed by a parallel circuit of an inductor and a capacitor, and the LC parallel circuit is shunt-connected between a feed section and the ground. The reactance changing section changes the resonant frequency to be compatible with a plurality of bands, and performs fine adjustment of the resonant frequency changed by the influence of the human body. The parallel inductor causes the locus of input impedance of the antenna matching circuit to draw a small circle locus in the first quadrant of a Smith chart. The parallel capacitor is adjustable to move the small circle locus to the center on the Smith chart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji NAGUMO, Hiromasa KOYAMA, Noriyuki UEKI
  • Patent number: 8125401
    Abstract: An antenna device having a magnetic core to be surface-mounted on a circuit substrate includes a pair of coil portions spaced apart from each other at a predetermined interval. The coil portions are connected by a connecting conductor. An end of the magnetic core includes a curved or bent portion curved toward the circuit substrate. This structure defines an RFID antenna device having an improved receiving sensitivity that can be surface-mounted without increasing the thickness of a casing of a mobile electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Ito, Hiroyuki Kubo, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Publication number: 20120038531
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus having a device carrier made of a magneto-dielectric material is provided. The antenna apparatus includes a device carrier having a magnetic carrier made of a magneto-dielectric material, and an antenna device connectable to a power source through a feeding point of one end portion and extended from the feeding point to pass through a surface of the magnetic carrier and operable in a resonant frequency band when power is supplied through the feeding point. Therefore, by forming at least a portion of the device carrier with a magnetic carrier, an operating performance of the antenna apparatus can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Joong Hee LEE, Jung Yub LEE, Ju Hyang LEE
  • Publication number: 20120038532
    Abstract: A core-shell magnetic material having an excellent characteristic in a high-frequency band, in particular a GHz-band and a high environment resistance is provided. The core-shell magnetic material includes: a magnetic member in which plural core-shell magnetic particles are bound by a binder made of a first resin; and a coating layer that is made of a second resin different from the first resin, a surface of the magnetic member being covered with the coating layer. The core-shell magnetic material is characterized in that the core-shell magnetic particle includes a magnetic metallic particle and a covering layer that covers at least part of a surface of the magnetic metallic particle, the magnetic metallic particle contains at least one magnetic metal selected from a group consisting of Fe, Co, and Ni, and the covering layer is made of an oxide, a nitride, or a carbide that contains at least one magnetic metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Maki Yonetsu, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Koichi Harada, Seiichi Suenaga, Shinji Murai, Yasuyuki Hotta, Toshihide Takahashi, Tomoko Eguchi, Noritsugu Shiokawa
  • Patent number: 8106844
    Abstract: A magnetic member is interposed and arranged between an antenna element and a printed circuit board, and an air member or a dielectric member is interposed between the antenna element and the magnetic member. The magnetic member is constituted of a nanogranular structure in which magnetic nanoparticles with ferromagnetism are three-dimensionally dispersed and arranged in an insulating matrix substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akihiro Tsujimura, Koichi Sato, Takashi Amano, Hiroyuki Hotta
  • Patent number: 8077105
    Abstract: Disclosed is a directional bar-type antenna which comprising a plurality of bar-shaped antenna elements including a core and a coil wound around the core. The first bar-shaped antenna element is disposed at a position of a mirror image of the second bar-shaped antenna element with respect to the core of the third bar-shaped antenna element. The first and second bar-shaped antenna elements is positioned such that one end of each of the first and second bar-shaped antenna elements is close to the third bar-shaped antenna element, and the other end is far from the third bar-shaped antenna element. In the present invention, a winding direction of the coil of the first bar-shaped antenna element is preferably identical to that of the coil of the second bar-shaped antenna element, and is opposite to that of the coil of the third bar-shaped antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Toko Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Takahashi, Shuichi Ogata, Masanori Eiri, Kinya Kishita, Satoru Kimura
  • Patent number: 8077106
    Abstract: The present invention provides a receiving antenna coil capable of realizing both improvement in the reception characteristic and miniaturization. In a receiving antenna coil, at least one of an X-axis winding core part and a Y-axis winding core part is formed in a plurality of bars. While increasing occupancy of the winding core parts (the X-axis winding core part and the Y-axis winding core part) in a region in the XY plane surrounded by a Z-axis receiving coil, the length of the winding core parts can be assured long. Further, since the X-axis winding core part and the Y-axis winding core part are provided in the same plane, the height of the core is suppressed, and the dimension of the entire receiving antenna coil can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sumida Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Sato
  • Patent number: 8063843
    Abstract: Antenna structures made of bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys and methods of making antenna structures from such bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys are described. The bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys providing form and shape durability, excellent resistance to chemical and environmental effects, and low-cost net-shape fabrication for the highly intricate antenna shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventors: Yun-Seung Choi, James Kang
  • Publication number: 20110273319
    Abstract: Negative permeability metamaterials and devices based on negative permeability metamaterials are described. The invention presents a new paradigm for realizing electromagnetic devices utilizing naturally available magnetic materials operating in their negative permeability spectrum. The superior advantages of negative permeability materials are utilized for providing unique electromagnetic devices including, for example, small antennas, array sensors and imaging devices. Since the property of the magnetic materials can be tuned by applying a DC magnetic field, the materials and devices of the present invention can be tunable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventor: Hossein Mossallael
  • Patent number: 8054235
    Abstract: An active magnetic antenna with a ferrite core having a winding is provided, forming a frame magnetic antenna which is connected with a low-noise transistor, to amplify a signal of the frame magnetic antenna. A base of the transistor is connected directly to one contact of the winding, and a second contact of the winding is capable of shifting a voltage of the base of the transistor. The impedance of the frame magnetic antenna is adjusted as a complex conjugate with an impedance of the base of the transistor of the low-noise amplifier, and the winding eliminates its own resonances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sang-Ha Lee, Yong-Jin Kim, Jae-Ho Lee, Seung-Hwen Kim, S. Konstantin Krylov
  • Patent number: 8040287
    Abstract: A radio wave receiving device includes at least one magnetic drive unit and an antenna structure having a narrow core formed of magnetic material and a coil wound around the central part of the core. The device further includes two external magnetic members, each having a connecting part connected magnetically to one end part of the core. One magnetic member has a magnetism collecting part expanded in one side of the antenna structure from the connecting part to exclude the antenna structure, and the other magnetic member has a magnetism collecting part expanded in the other side of the antenna structure from the connecting part to exclude the antenna structure. These external magnetic members cover the drive unit in the both sides and shut off magnetic flux of external magnetic field from the both sides and collect magnetic flux of radio wave on the one end part of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Soh Kimura
  • Publication number: 20110248819
    Abstract: An antenna core includes a laminate of a plurality of Co-based amorphous magnetic alloy thin strips in which a length ratio of a long axis to a short axis is greater than 1. 60% or more of the Co-based amorphous magnetic alloy thin strips in terms of the number of the thin strips as percentage have a line-shaped mark formed along the long axis on at least one surface thereof. An antenna includes the antenna core and a winding wound around the antenna core along the long axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicants: TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadao SAITO, Katsuhiko YAMADA, Kazumi SAKAI
  • Patent number: 8035568
    Abstract: An electromagnetic reactive edge treatment including an array of capacitively-loaded loops is disposed at or near an edge of a conductive wedge. The axes of the loops are oriented parallel to the edge of the wedge. This edge treatment may enhance or suppress the hard diffraction coefficient, depending on the resonant frequency fo of the array of loaded loops. Diffraction of incident waves that are lower (higher) in frequency than fo may be enhanced (suppressed) due to the increase (decrease) in effective permeability of the volume occupied by the array of loops. Applications include controlling antenna patterns, side lobe levels, and backlobe levels for antennas mounted on conductive surfaces near edges or corners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Wemtec, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodolfo E. Diaz, William E. McKinzie, III
  • Patent number: 8035569
    Abstract: An antenna core produced by shaping a soft magnetic metal powder with the use of a resin as a binder, wherein the soft magnetic metal powder is an amorphous soft magnetic metal powder or a nanocrystal-containing amorphous soft magnetic metal powder, of the general formula (1): (Fe1-x-yCoxNiy)100-a-b-cSiaBbMc (1), and wherein the resin as a binder is a thermosetting resin. In the formula, M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Mo, Zr, W, Ta, Hf, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Y, Pd, Ru, Ga, Ge, C, P, Al, Cu, Au, Ag, Sn and Sb. Each of x and y is an atomic ratio and each of a, b and c an atomic %, satisfying the relationships: 0?x?1.0, 0?y?0.5, 0?x+y?1.0, 0?a?24, 1?b?30, 0?c?30 and 2?a+b?30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Maruko, Kunihiro Inada, Takehiko Omi, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20110240744
    Abstract: An antenna substrate is provided with a conductor layer, a soft magnetic layer, a patch layer, and a dielectric layer. The soft magnetic layer is disposed on the conductor layer. The patch layer includes a plurality of electromagnetic band gap electrodes which are two-dimensionally arranged on the soft magnetic layer. The dielectric layer is disposed on the patch layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Nagahisa FURUTANI
  • Patent number: 8026859
    Abstract: A dual- or quad-ridged horn antenna with an embedded impedance matching network is provided herein. According to one embodiment, the horn antenna may include at least one pair of ridges arranged opposite one another for guiding an electromagnetic wave there between. A transmission line is coupled to a first one of the ridges for supplying power to, or receiving a signal from, a feed region of the horn antenna. To reduce impedance mismatches between the transmission line and the ridges, an impedance matching network is embedded within a second one of the ridges at the feed point. The impedance matching network reduces impedance mismatch and extends the operational frequency range of the horn antenna by providing a sufficient amount of series capacitance between the transmission line and the ridges at the feed region. As set forth herein, the impedance matching network is preferably implemented as an open-circuit transmission line stub or capacitive stub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: James S. McLean
  • Patent number: 7999751
    Abstract: An improved magnetically coupling near-field RFID antenna is embodied as a magnetic H-field coupler, and the near-field RFID antenna is embodied as a looped and/or frame-shaped antenna. The looped and/or frame-shaped antenna comprises a looped or frame-shaped strip conductor. The strip conductor is arranged set apart from a ground surface parallel thereto. A dielectric is interposed. The start and the end of the strip conductor end close to each other forms a gap or spacing. The start of the strip conductor is fed to ground. The end of the strip conductor is terminated by a terminating resistor. The terminating resistor is connected between the end of the strip conductor and a ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Stoyan Iliev, Thomas Lankes, Gerald Schillmeier
  • Publication number: 20110193760
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna using a complex structure in which dielectric substances having a low dielectric constant and magnetic substances having a high magnetic permeability are arranged vertically and periodically in order to improve the gain, efficiency, and bandwidth of the antenna while maintaining a small size which is an advantage of a conventional antenna using dielectric substances having a high dielectric constant. The present invention provides the antenna using a complex structure having a vertical and periodic structure of dielectric substances and magnetic substances, comprising a substrate and a radiation patch formed on the substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of layers. Each of the layers has the dielectric substances and the magnetic substances of a bar shape alternately arranged therein and has the dielectric substances and the magnetic substances alternately laminated thereon even in a height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Byung Hoon Ryou, Won Mo Sung, Jeong Keun Ji
  • Patent number: 7995001
    Abstract: A dielectric resonator antenna which emits an electric wave by having a dielectric body resonate is disclosed. A magnetic material is contained in the electric body, thereby increasing the relative permeability to more than 1 and lowering the relative permittivity. Consequently, the Q-value of the resonance can be lowered while maintaining the rate of wavelength shortening. With this technique, a broadband dielectric resonator antenna can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ohmi, Akihiro Morimoto, Fumiaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110187621
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna using a complex structure in which dielectric substances having a low dielectric constant and magnetic substances having a high magnetic permeability are arranged vertically and periodically in order to improve the gain, efficiency, and bandwidth of the antenna while maintaining a small size which is an advantage of a conventional antenna using dielectric substances having a high dielectric constant. The present invention provides the antenna using a complex structure having a vertical and periodic structure of dielectric substances and magnetic substances, comprising a substrate and a radiation patch formed on the substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of layers. Each of the layers has the dielectric substances and the magnetic substances of a bar shape alternately arranged therein and has the dielectric substances and the magnetic substances alternately laminated thereon even in a height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Byung Hoon Ryou, Won Mo Sung, Jeong Keun Ji
  • Patent number: 7990331
    Abstract: In an antenna coil including a first magnetic core, a second magnetic core, and a flexible board, coil conductors are provided on a surface of the flexible board. By winding the flexible board around the first magnetic core and the second magnetic core, a first coil portion is disposed around the first magnetic core, and a second coil portion is disposed around the second magnetic core. The winding direction of the second coil portion is opposite to that of the first coil portion. The first coil portion and the second coil portion are connected to define one coil as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Hiroyuki Kubo, Hiromitsu Ito
  • Patent number: 7982679
    Abstract: An underwater communication method is provided. EM signals are transmitted via a seabed using an underwater electrically insulated magnetically coupled antenna. By making use of the low loss properties of the seabed, EM signal attenuation can be reduced and consequently the transmission range can be increased. The underwater electrically insulated magnetically coupled antenna may be located within a body of water or may be buried in the seabed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: WFS Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Rhodes, Brendan Hyland, Derek Wolfe
  • Publication number: 20110169708
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for a configurable antenna in an integrated circuit package are provided. In a hybrid circuit comprising an integrated circuit bonded to a multi-layer package, one or more antenna parameters may be adjusted by configuring a plurality of antenna elements via one or more switching elements. In this regard, the antenna elements and/or the switching elements may be within and/or on the multi-layer package and/or within the integrated circuit. The switching elements may be MEMS switches on and/or within the IC and/or the multi-layer package. The IC may be bonded or mounted to the underside of the package and signals may be communicated between the IC and the package via one or more solder balls. The IC may comprise suitable logic, circuitry, and/or code for configuring the antenna elements. The antenna elements may be configured based on desired polarization, antenna gain, and/or frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
  • Publication number: 20110148728
    Abstract: Disclosed is a chip antenna comprising: a base portion including a dielectric, a magnetic substance or a magnetic dielectric; a spiral antenna electrode which is opposed to a ground portion and which is provided inside the base portion; and a power feeding connecting terminal to feed power to the antenna electrode, wherein a first side portion including an outermost peripheral end of the antenna electrode, or a second side portion connected to the first side portion including the outermost peripheral end, is disposed at a position closest to the ground portion at a predetermined distance away from the ground portion, and the power feeding connecting terminal is connected to a side portion extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the ground portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20110128192
    Abstract: Disclosed are an antenna device and a portable terminal having the same. The portable terminal includes a terminal body, a radiator including a conductive material, and configured in a preset pattern to transmit or receive wireless signals, a circuit board mounted to the terminal body, and configured to process the wireless signal by being electrically connected to the radiator, and an artificial magnetic conductor module disposed near the radiator, and configured to reflect the wireless signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Jaegon LEE, Ansun Hyun, Euntaek Jeoung, Yochuol Ho, Viktor Kalinichev
  • Publication number: 20110122018
    Abstract: An exemplary example of the present disclosure proposes an electromagnetic conductor reflecting plate including a perfect electronic conductor and at least two artificial magnetic conductors, wherein the each of the artificial magnetic conductor is disposed on arbitrary one side of the perfect electronic conductor, and a boundary between the perfect electronic conductor and each of the artificial magnetic conductor forms a virtual radiation unit. In addition, an exemplary example of the present disclosure further proposes an antenna array including an antenna and the electromagnetic conductor reflecting plate, wherein the antenna is disposed on the electromagnetic conductor reflecting plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jenn-Hwan Tarng, Li-Yuan Chang, Chin-Chung Nien, Ya-Chung Yu, Jun-Yen Huang