Spiral Or Helical Type Patents (Class 343/895)
  • Patent number: 8390529
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an integrated antenna and feed network assembly. The integrated antenna and feed network assembly includes a spiral antenna which is suitable for implementation with ELINT DF systems. The integrated antenna and feed network assembly further includes a feed network, which may include a stripline Balun feed. The feed network is electrically connected to the antenna. Further, the integrated antenna and the feed network assembly provides for integration of the antenna and the feed network into a single PCB assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee M. Paulsen, Richard A. Freeman, James B. West
  • Patent number: 8391927
    Abstract: An antenna structure includes first and second antennas. The first antenna has a first geometry corresponding to a first frequency. The second antenna has a second geometry corresponding to a second frequency. The second antenna is proximal to the first antenna and utilizes electrical-magnetic properties of the first antenna to transceive signals at the second frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jesus Alfonso Castaneda, Franco De Flaviis, Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8378920
    Abstract: An electrically small antenna includes a first plurality of helical arms extending in one direction from a central portion of the antenna and a second plurality of helical arms extending from the central portion in a direction opposite from the direction of the first plurality of helical arms. A plurality of switches are coupled to control signal transmission and reception on the helical arms, each of the plurality of switches is coupled between a corresponding one of the first plurality of helical arms and the second plurality of helical arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Kurt L. Shlager, Liang C. Chu
  • Patent number: 8378842
    Abstract: A downhole tool string component has a through-bore intermediate first and second tool joints adapted for connection to adjacent tool string components. A blind-hole is formed in an outer surface of the component. A processing unit is also disposed within an outer surface of the component. An electrical device that is disposed within the component is in communication with the processing unit through an electrically or optically conductive medium which has a self-aligning pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Jim Shumway, Brad Barger
  • Patent number: 8373600
    Abstract: A single-band antenna, comprising: a substrate; a first radiation unit; a conductive material; an impedance matching circuit; a signal feed-in terminal; a second radiation unit; and a wire connecting unit. Therefore, the single-band antenna can be miniaturized to be installed with or inside a compact wireless transmission device with enhanced transceiving performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Arcadyan Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Jin-Su Chang
  • Publication number: 20130033409
    Abstract: A radiation antenna for wireless communication provides an advantage of being able to enhance gain and control directionality, while suppressing the height. The radiation antenna for wireless communication includes a line antenna element 10 and arm elements 20. The line antenna element 10 extends from a power feed section 15. The arm elements 20 are connected to a tip portion of the far side from the power feed section 15 to enhance the gain of the line antenna element 10 and control the directionality thereof. The electrical length from the power feed section 15 to the open end of the arm elements 20 by way of the line antenna element 10 is designed to resonate at a higher order mode of a target frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: HARADA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dedimuni Rusiru Vinodaka Leelaratne
  • Publication number: 20130035044
    Abstract: A tightly integrated combined transmit and receive dual quadrifilar antenna is provided. The antenna comprises four helical transmit elements and four helical receive elements disposed about a common axis. A receiver front end includes an arrangement of two 90 degree hybrids which serve to effectively reject signals cross coupled from the transmit elements back into the receive elements, while still allowing the receiver to receive signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: MAXTENNA
    Inventors: Carlo DiNallo, Stani Licul, Jeremy Marks
  • Publication number: 20130027276
    Abstract: An antenna device for supporting a plurality of bands in a portable terminal includes a supporting part having an antenna member comprises of a compressed coil, so that the interlayer interval is changed according to the length variation of the supporting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hee-Jun KWON, Yong-Sung JANG
  • Patent number: 8360324
    Abstract: A wireless IC device that is operable in a wide band and is suitable for RFID systems includes a radiating plate and an electromagnetically coupled module constituted by a wireless IC that processes transmitted/received signals and a feeding circuit board having a feeding circuit and coupled with the wireless IC. The radiating plate includes a linear electrode bent at a bent portion and apparently sectioned into two linear electrode portions having different lengths. The electromagnetically coupled module is arranged such that the feeding circuit board and the linear electrode portions are electromagnetically coupled. The wireless IC is operated by signals received by the radiating plate, and response signals from the wireless IC are radiated outward from the radiating plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Shioya, Noboru Kato, Yuya Dokai
  • Patent number: 8354962
    Abstract: An antenna includes a first substrate, a first pattern, a second substrate, a second pattern, and an anisotropic conductive material. The first substrate has an insulating surface. The first pattern is formed over the insulating surface of the first substrate, and made of a conductive material. The second substrate is provided so as to face the surface over which the first pattern of the first substrate is formed and has an insulating surface. The second pattern is formed over the insulating surface facing the first substrate of the second substrate, and made of a conductive material. The anisotropic conductive material electrically connects the first pattern and the second pattern. The whole region of the first pattern overlaps with the second pattern with the anisotropic conductive material interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 8354971
    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: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Ito, Hiroyuki Kubo, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Publication number: 20130009837
    Abstract: An interwoven spiral antenna includes a non-inverted spiral section, an inverted spiral section, and an excitation region. The non-inverted spiral section has a spiral shape and the inverted spiral section has an inverted spiral shape. The excitation region is coupled to at least one of the non-inverted spiral section and the inverted spiral section, wherein, when excited, the interwoven spiral antenna has a circular polarization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: NICOLAOS G. ALEXOPOULOS, SEUNGHWAN YOON
  • Publication number: 20130009840
    Abstract: A whip dual-band antenna is disclosed in the present invention, and includes a radiator which is connected with a radio via a feed point of the radio, wherein the radiator includes a linear first radiator for generating a first resonance, a helical second radiator is set on the top of the first radiator in an inverse series manner, and the second radiator is used for generating a second resonance whose frequency is higher than the resonance frequency of the first radiator. In the present invention, by adding additionally a second radiator with a higher resonance frequency on the top of a first radiator dexterously, the length of the model of the second resonance frequency is increased, and the effect of the change of the UltraHigh Frequency (UHF) band is decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: Hytera Communications Corp., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peng Liu, Gee Siong Kok
  • Publication number: 20130010842
    Abstract: A programmable antenna assembly includes a plurality of interwoven spiral antenna units and a by-pass circuit. An interwoven spiral antenna unit of the interwoven spiral antenna units includes an inverted spiral section and a non-inverted spiral section. The by-pass circuit is operable to couple at least some of the interwoven spiral antenna units into a programmed multiple interwoven spiral antenna assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: NICOLAOS G. ALEXOPOULOS, SEUNGHWAN YOON
  • Patent number: 8350762
    Abstract: A multi-band built-in antenna for a mobile communication terminal having a main board and a casing for protecting the main board, is disclosed. A transmission line is formed to be spaced apart from one outside surface of the main board by a predetermined interval and configured to include an external conductor, a dielectric, and a central conductor so as to transmit signals. A ground clip is configured to ground the transmission line by fastening the transmission line. A radiator is formed by bending the dielectric and central conductor of the transmission line, other than the external conductor of the transmission line, and is configured to operate in multiple bands. An open stub is connected to the ground clip, is bent a plurality of times, and is configured to be operated in a low frequency band, which is lower than the high frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ace Antenna Corp.
    Inventor: Byong-Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 8350764
    Abstract: A dual-antenna diversity antenna system that operates within a low frequency band range is disclosed. Two antennas are folded separately onto a single three dimensional dielectric substrate in a meander pattern configuration. Each antenna has an independent feed port and ground pin. The two antennas are configured within a compact mobile terminal to produce high isolation and low correlation at resonating frequencies within the 700 Megahertz frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Qinjiang Rao, Dong Wang
  • Publication number: 20130002501
    Abstract: An antenna and a communication device thereof are provided. The antenna includes at least one ground and at least one radiating portion. The ground is disposed on a dielectric substrate, and the radiating portion includes at least one signal source and at least one closed conductor loop. The closed conductor loop has a first coupling conductor portion and a second coupling conductor portion, and the closed conductor loop has a plurality of bending portions to form a three-dimensional structure, and a first coupling gap is formed between the first and the second coupling conductor portions. The closed conductor loop further has a feeding portion and a short-circuit portion to form a second coupling gap between them. The feeding portion is electrically connected or coupled to the at least one signal source, and the short-circuit portion is electrically connected or coupled to the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wei-Yu Li, Wei-Ji Chen
  • Publication number: 20120319911
    Abstract: A wide bandwidth antenna, wherein, at least an antenna module is provided on a substrate, said antenna module includes a plurality of antenna elements having spiral geometric patterns, that are connected one by one in series. Each antenna element is formed by an electrically conductive trace winding from outside said spiral geometric pattern to inside, then it winds back from inside to outside. A first antenna element in the antenna module is connected to a signal input terminal, and that is connected electrically to a signal transmission line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: UNICTRON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: CHIH-SHEN CHOU
  • Publication number: 20120299798
    Abstract: A dielectrically loaded antenna for operation at first and second frequencies above 200 MHz with circularly polarized radiation includes an electrically insulative dielectric core of solid material having a relative dielectric constant greater than 5, and a three-dimensional antenna element structure linked to a pair of feed coupling nodes. The antenna element structure is divided into a distal section and a proximal section respectively having a first set of elongate conductors on or adjacent a distal part of the core side surface portion and a second set of elongate conductors on or adjacent a proximal part of the core side surface portion, and wherein the first set of conductors is resonant at the first operating frequency and the second set of conductors is resonant at the second operating frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: SARANTEL LIMITED
    Inventor: Oliver Paul Leisten
  • Publication number: 20120293391
    Abstract: An antenna assembly is disclosed. The antenna assembly comprises an antenna that includes a radiating element formed on the first major surface of a substrate and connection mechanism for connecting the antenna to an unsevered midspan section of adhesive backed RF distribution cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Richard L. Simmons, Paul H. Benson, Curtis L. Shoemaker, Constand E. Yemelong
  • Patent number: 8314750
    Abstract: A slotted bifilar or quadrifilar helix antenna has a plurality of helical antenna elements. The antenna elements have an outer planar surface. A slot element is secured to an interior of the outer planar surface. The slot element extends radially inwardly to a slot element edge. At least two radially opposite slot element edges define a tapered slot. At a shorted point on the antenna, at least one radially opposite pair of slot elements are electrically shorted together. A feed point is axially offset from the shorted point along the antenna axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Michael J. Josypenko
  • Publication number: 20120287016
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a dielectrically loaded antenna having an operating frequency in excess of 200 MHz, the antenna having an electrically insulative core, the method including steps of: forming a first patterned layer of conductive material having a plurality of inner conductive tracks on at least one surface of the core of the antenna; depositing a layer of insulative material over at least a portion of the first layer of conductive material; and forming a second patterned layer of conductive material having a plurality of outer conductive tracks, at least partially overlapping the inner conductive tracks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: SARANTEL LIMITED
    Inventors: Beata Zalinska, Oliver Paul Leisten
  • Publication number: 20120280875
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-performance and small sized helical antenna element and array thereof for use in an aircraft communication system or the like, where stringent spatial restrictions and gain requirements generally apply. The performance of the array is enhanced by increasing the lateral distances between the antenna elements over a portion of the elements where the windings thereof have high current amplitude. The sweeping envelope of the array is maintained small by recovering the initial distancing over a portion of the elements where the windings thereof have low current amplitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: EMS TECHNOLOGIES CANADA, LTD.
    Inventors: Colin Sutherland, Peter John Wood, Peter C. Strickland
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8305290
    Abstract: A planar antenna array and articles of manufacture using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, close-packed antenna elements, disposed on a substrate, number N where N=3x and x is a positive integer. Each of the close-packed antenna elements includes a substantially continuous photonic transducer arranged as an outwardly expanding generally logarithmic spiral having six turns. Each of the outwardly expanding generally logarithmic spirals may be a golden spiral. As an article of manufacture, the planar antenna array may be incorporated into a chip, such as a cell phone, or an article of clothing, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: SVR Inventions, Inc.
    Inventors: Kathryn Reavis, Ralph Suddath, Don Vance
  • Patent number: 8305291
    Abstract: A tire-state detection device including a sensor, an antenna having a predetermined frequency, a detection circuit, a case, and a planar conductor. The sensor detects a predetermined physical state of a tire. The detection circuit transmits information regarding a result of a detection made by the sensor from the antenna as radio waves. The case houses the sensor, the antenna and the detection circuit, and allows radio waves to pass. The case fits on a rim in the tire when the tire-state detection device is to be used. The planar conductor is electrically insulated from the antenna at a position set a predetermined distance away from the antenna so as to form an interface between the antenna and the rim when the case is fitted to the rim, and the planar conductor is set to a potential that is equivalent to a reference potential of the detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nakatani
  • Patent number: 8294629
    Abstract: A highly sensitive magnetic antenna and an antenna device achieve strong coupling with magnetic flux substantially perpendicular to main surfaces of a magnetic core, an enlarged antenna opening, and increased efficiency of magnetic flux radiation. The magnetic antenna includes a flexible substrate and a magnetic core preferably having a substantially rectangular plate shape. The flexible substrate has a spiral coil conductor located thereon, and the coil conductor has a conductor opening located at the center of the winding center thereof. The flexible substrate is bent in the vicinity of the two sides of the coil conductor spaced apart from the center of the conductor opening and along the two sides of the magnetic core, so as to wrap around the upper surface, left and right surfaces, and portions of the lower surface of the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Yosui, Hiroyuki Kubo, Hiromitsu Ito
  • 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: 8289225
    Abstract: The antenna includes a power-feeding radiation electrode and a non-power-feeding radiation electrode are provided adjacent to each other with a gap therebetween on the flexible substrate, which also is bendable. The power-feeding radiation electrode is used to perform antenna operation in a basic mode in which resonant operation is performed at a basic frequency and antenna operation in a high-order mode in which resonant operation is performed at a frequency higher than the basic frequency. The power-feeding radiation electrode includes a loop path configured such that the power-feeding radiation electrode first extends in a direction away from a power-feeding end and an open end is bent toward the power-feeding end. The non-power-feeding radiation electrode has one end serving as a ground-side end and the other end serving as an open end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mie Shimizu, Kazuhiko Kubota
  • 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: 8284105
    Abstract: A multi-band microstrip meander-line antenna includes a substrate, two meander-shaped conductors, and two feed lines. The first meander-shaped conductor is disposed on the substrate in a first reciprocating bend manner for providing a resonant frequency band corresponding to a first operating frequency. The second meander-shaped conductor is disposed on the substrate in a second reciprocating bend manner for providing a resonant frequency band corresponding to a second operating frequency. The first feed line includes the first end electrically connected to a first feed point of the antenna and the second end electrically connected to the end of the first meander-shaped conductor. The second feed line includes the first end electrically connected to the second feed point of the antenna and the second end electrically connected to the end of the second meander-shaped conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: RichWave Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Shau-Gang Mao, Wei-Kung Deng
  • Patent number: 8284106
    Abstract: An antenna that is small in size, has such input characteristics as to secure consistency in each band, and is capable of maintaining omnidirectionality. An antenna includes a grounded conductor, a shorting pin that is formed with a conductor, and a radiation conductor that has one end connected to the grounded conductor via the shorting pin, has the other end left open, and receives power supplied from a feeding point located at the one end. The radiation conductor is folded at a portion between the one end and the other end, and forms a lower arm closer to the grounded conductor and a folded upper arm, with at least part of the lower arm and the upper arm having a meandered portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventor: Ning Guan
  • Patent number: 8284111
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus has a first antenna branch and a second antenna branch. Both the first and the second antenna branch are in the form of a conductor loop which is not closed, and the first antenna branch is arranged at a distance from the second antenna branch in a direction which is substantially at right angles to the surface bounded by the respective conductor loop, such that the first loop direction, which is defined from the foot point to the free end of the first antenna branch, is arranged in the opposite direction to the second loop direction, which is defined from the foot point to the free end of the second antenna branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Guy-Aymar Chakam, Andreas Schäfer, Martin Weinberger
  • Patent number: 8284001
    Abstract: A differential filtering device with coupled resonators, including: a pair of coupled resonators disposed on one and the same face of a dielectric substrate, each resonator including two conducting strips positioned in a symmetric manner with respect to a plane perpendicular to the face on which the resonator is disposed, these two conducting strips being joined respectively to two conductors of a bi-strip port for connection to a line for transmitting a differential signal, wherein each conducting strip of each resonator is folded back on itself so as to form a capacitive coupling between its two ends, and wherein the two resonators of the pair are coupled by the disposition opposite one another of their respective conducting strips disposed on the same side with respect to the symmetry plane, over respective portions of length of these folded-back conducting strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat Ă  l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Raffi Bourtoutian
  • Patent number: 8279134
    Abstract: A dielectrically loaded backfire helical antenna has a cylindrical ceramic core and a feed structure which passes axially through the core to a distal end face of the core where it is connected to helical conductors located on the outside of the core. Opening out on the proximal end face of the core is a cavity which is coaxial with the feed structure. A conductive balun layer encircling a portion of the core extends over the proximal end face of the core and the wall of the cavity to connect the helical elements to the feeder structure when it emerges into the cavity. The presence of the cavity and accommodating some of the length of the balun in the cavity allows a reduction in the size and weight of a dielectrically loaded backfire antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sarantel Limited
    Inventors: David Michael Wither, Oliver Paul Leisten
  • Patent number: 8279135
    Abstract: A dielectrically loaded backfire helical antenna has a cylindrical ceramic core and a feed structure which passes axially through the core to a distal end face of the core where it is connected to helical conductors located on the outside of the core. Opening out on the proximal end face of the core is a cavity which is coaxial with the feed structure. A conductive balun layer encircling a portion of the core extends over the proximal end face of the core and the wall of the cavity to connect the helical elements to the feeder structure when it emerges into the cavity. The presence of the cavity and accommodating some of the length of the balun in the cavity allows a reduction in the size and weight of a dielectrically loaded backfire antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sarantel Limited
    Inventors: David Michael Wither, Oliver Paul Leisten
  • Patent number: 8279136
    Abstract: An antenna module includes a frequency modulation radiator and a T-coil radiator electronically connecting to the frequency modulation radiator. The T-coil radiator and the frequency modulation radiator are made of conductive nano material. The present further discloses a wireless communication device using the antenna module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventors: Zhan Li, Ye Xiong, Hao-Sheng Zhang, Wei-Dong Hao, Guang Peng
  • Publication number: 20120245016
    Abstract: The present invention relates to composite materials with a high dielectric constant and high dielectric strength and to methods of producing the composite materials. The composite materials have high dielectric constants at a range of high frequencies and possess robust mechanical properties and strengths, such that they may be machined to a variety of configurations. The composite materials also have high dielectric strengths for operation in high power and high energy density systems. In one embodiment, the composite material is composed of a trimodal distribution of ceramic particles, including barium titanate, barium strontium titanate (BST), or combinations thereof and a polymer binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
    Inventors: Randy D. Curry, Kevin O'Connor
  • Patent number: 8274435
    Abstract: A portable terminal includes a small-sized built-in antenna apparatus having an excellent electric performance. The built-in antenna apparatus includes a ground plate and an antenna unit. The ground plate includes a feed point. The antenna unit is disposed adjacent to an end of the ground plate. The antenna unit includes a reverse L-shaped antenna element. One end of the L-shaped antenna element is connected to the feed point and an opposite end of the L-shaped antenna has a helical shape. A magnetic piece is loaded at a portion where current distribution of the L-shaped antenna element is high, and a dielectric piece is loaded at a portion where current distribution of the L-shaped antenna element is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20120229363
    Abstract: Directional wide band antenna that may be utilized to enhance cell phone coverage within a building, and/or for signals intelligence collection (SIGINT). Includes a spiral antenna with feed-point configured to transfer energy to/from the antenna. Includes an energy absorbent backing and an energy absorbent siding coupled with the spiral antenna. Includes a cavity behind the log-spiral slot antenna and in front of the energy absorbent backing. Includes a cable connector coupled to a tapered microstrip line coupled to the feed-point wherein the tapered microstrip line is configured to transform the input impedance to the antenna impedance. Housed in a container configured to hold the above listed components. Energy absorbent siding, cavity and energy absorbent backing greatly reduces back lobes. Another embodiment has log-spiral shaped slots at an outer portion of the log-spiral slot antenna overlap with the energy absorbent siding and wherein the feed-point overlaps the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventor: Spencer WEBB
  • Patent number: 8264418
    Abstract: A planar antenna with an isotropic radiation pattern is provided. The planar antenna includes a substrate, a dipole antenna, a microstrip line set, and a channel selection module. The dipole antenna is disposed on a first surface of the substrate, and the microstrip line set and the channel selection module are disposed on a second surface of the substrate. A first microstrip line and a second microstrip line of the microstrip line set are spirally extended along two opposite rotation trails on a vertical projection plane to form a high-frequency path with the dipole antenna. The planar antenna controls the on/off state of the channel selection module so that a low-frequency path is formed when the dipole antenna is connected to a first line and a second line. A plurality of channels having different operating frequencies is respectively generated within the high-frequency path and the low-frequency path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Huan-Chu Huang
  • Patent number: 8259030
    Abstract: The invention relates to an antenna of the helix type, comprising a plurality of radiating strands wound in a helix in an axisymmetric form (15), characterized in that each radiating strand is made up of at least one reference pattern (MR1, MR2, MR3) defined by an analytic function defined in a reference frame, the axis of the abscissae of which is the director axis of the radiating strands and is a periodic function of (I) or (II) and Ak correspond respectively to the frequency and to the amplitude of the sinusoid of index k.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
    Inventors: Lamyaa Hanane, Sami Hebib, Hervé Aubert, Nelson Fonseca
  • Patent number: 8258458
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave receiving antenna includes a spiral element configured to selectively attenuate electromagnetic waves having a predetermined wavelength, selected wavelengths, or range of wavelengths, and to concentrate electromagnetic waves having a predetermined wavelength, selected wavelengths, or range of wavelengths other than the attenuated wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Alexandre M. Bratkovski, R. Stanley Williams, Shih-Yuan Wang
  • Patent number: 8253646
    Abstract: An antenna including first and second printed wiring boards and a plurality of linking conductors. The first and second printed wiring boards each has a respective plurality of rectilinear printed wiring patterns arranged in parallel at a specified interval, and respective through holes formed on both ends of each of the respective rectilinear printed wiring patterns. The plurality of linking conductors are configured so that both ends of the conductors are linked to the through holes that are formed in the first and second printed wiring boards so that the first printed wiring board and the second printed wiring board are disposed opposite each other, and so that the plurality of rectilinear printed wiring patterns formed on the first printed wiring board and the plurality of rectilinear printed wiring patterns formed on the second printed wiring board are conductively connected to each other in a helix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Nakatani
  • Patent number: 8248323
    Abstract: An antenna and methods for manufacturing the antenna is provided. The antenna (100) includes an electrically non-conductive substrate (102). The antenna further includes an electrically conductive strip (104). The electrically conductive strip (104) is wound around the electrically non-conductive substrate (102) so as to form an overlap (120) between adjacent turns of the electrically conductive strip (104), without creating a galvanic connection at the overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Ovadia Grossman, Moshe Ben Ayun, Maksim Berezin, Sooliam Ooi, Mark Rozental
  • Patent number: 8248312
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antenna that is small in size and has band frequencies corresponding to multibands, and a wireless communication apparatus including the antenna. The antenna according to the present invention has two radiation elements 12a and 12b connected to a ground plate 11 via a shorting pin. The two radiation elements 12a and 12b each have a lower arm and an upper arm that are formed through bending. The lower arm is connected to the shorting pin and is located closer to the ground plate 11 than the upper arm is. At least one of the lower arm and the upper arm has a meandered structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Fujikura Ltd., Chiba University
    Inventors: Ning Guan, Koichi Ito
  • Patent number: 8244177
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a wireless interface is provided for supplying all signals and power exclusively wirelessly from a transmitting section to a receiving section. The transmitting section includes a transmitter arranged to modulate a carrier with signals, such as data, control and timing signals. The transmitter is connected to a transmit antenna which comprises a parallel resonant circuit in series with a series resonant circuit. The parallel and series resonant circuits include inductors which are inductively coupled to an inductor of a receive antenna in the receiving section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Emmanuel Zyambo, Lloyd Lukama, Christopher James Brown, Michael James Brownlow, Kazuhiko Miyata
  • Patent number: 8242913
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses an RFID tag communication apparatus comprising: a housing including a bottom surface; an antenna provided at a distance h from the bottom surface; and a radio frequency circuit including a carrier wave transmitting device that generates a carrier wave of a frequency fc; wherein the correlation as fo<fc<fm is satisfied under the conditions of a resonance frequency fm of the antenna when the bottom surface is fixed in contact with a metal surface, a resonance frequency fo of the antenna when the bottom surface is fixed in contact with a non-metal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michihiro Takeda, Mitsuru Nakamura, Tomoyasu Fukui
  • Patent number: 8237622
    Abstract: A base sheet 12 has a structure that stably couples a particular chip measuring 1 mm or less on paper with an antenna line by only disposing the chip and antenna line in such a manner that the chip and antenna line are close to each other, without electrically bringing the chip and antenna line into contact with each other. The base sheet 12 includes a chip 11 having a spiral coil 13 with at least one turn disposed on a surface of the chip, or inside the chip and near the surface thereof and an antenna line 14 having a conductor part 14A orbiting around the coil 13A of the chip 11 or directly over or directly below the coil 13A so that the conductor part is magnetically coupled with the coil 13A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Philtech Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Furumura, Naomi Mura, Shinji Nishihara, Katsuhiro Fujino, Katsuhiko Mishima, Susumu Kamihashi
  • Patent number: 8237621
    Abstract: A spiral antenna includes an antenna element which is formed in a spiral pattern on a dielectric substrate, a cavity which is formed with a space provided between the antenna element, and a magnetic material which is arranged between the antenna element and the cavity. The cross-section of the spiral antenna is formed in a manner which the sum of a distance between the antenna element and the magnetic material and a thickness of the magnetic material increases from the center portion towards the outer circumference of the spiral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuharu Masuda, Masahiro Tanabe