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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169378 | System and method for stabilizing an electronic array A system for stabilizing an electronic array includes at least one component having a notch and at least one stabilizing bar. The stabilizing bar comprises a first pair of contact points. The at least one stabilizing bar is positioned upon the at least one component... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8138985 | Device and method for modular antenna formation and configuration An antenna and method of forming an antenna from first and second planar substrates having antenna elements engaged thereto adapted to transmit and/or receive a desired RF frequency. Notches in some of the substrates engage traversing substrates to form an array wit... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134514 | Coaxial line slot array antenna and method for manufacturing the same A planar antenna including slot arrays configured to set a narrow interval between elements so as to perform beam scanning in a wide angle range while keeping low loss and low profile. The planar antenna includes: a coaxial line including an inner conductor, an oute... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8059049 | Dual band active array antenna An exemplary embodiment of a dual band antenna array includes a folded thin circuit board structure with a thin dielectric layer and a conductor layer pattern formed on a first surface of the dielectric layer, the circuit board structure folded in a plurality of fol... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8044874 | Planar antenna having multi-polarization capability and associated methods The planar antenna apparatus may include a planar, electrically conductive, patch antenna element having a geometric shape defining an outer perimeter, and a pair of spaced apart signal feedpoints along the outer perimeter of the planar, electrically conductive, pat... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8031126 | Dual polarized antenna In one embodiment according to the teachings of the present disclosure, an antenna generally includes a first, second, and third elements. The first and second elements form a first electro-magnetic radiator that is operable to transmit or receive a first signal hav... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8018391 | Plate-shaped antenna having at least three planes A plate-shaped radiating element of a shape having at least three planes is formed by bending a metal plate having a substantially rectangular shape. A first slit is provided from a lower edge of the plate-shaped radiating element up to a portion in the vicinity of ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7994997 | Wide band long slot array antenna using simple balun-less feed elements In one embodiment, a wide bandwidth, reduced depth transmit/receive antenna array includes unit cells having continuous slots, a transceiver, unbalanced feeds, impedance transformers, and exciters. The continuous slots are formed in a conductive antenna plane, and t... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990330 | Slot antenna A slot antenna is located on a substrate and includes a grounding portion, a radiating portion, and a feeding portion. The grounding portion is positioned on the substrate. The radiating portion is symmetrically octagonal-shaped and defines four trapezoidal-shaped s... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7920099 | Multiple-input-multiple-output wireless communications cube antennas Compact 24-port and 36-port multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna designs and methods of construction based on a cube-like structure are provided. The antennas can be implemented with slot antennas distributed on the edges and faces of cubes. According to va... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916093 | Multiband antenna A multiband antenna includes a conductive sheet, a feeding point, and a grounding point. The conductive sheet defines a first slot, a second slot, a third slot, a fourth slot, a fifth slot, a sixth slot, and a seventh slot thereon. The second slot and the third slot... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7864126 | Transmitting/receiving antenna with radiation diversity The present invention relates to a transmission/reception antenna with diversity of radiation comprising on a substrate at least a first and a second radiating elements connected by a network of feeder lines to a transmission/reception circuit of electromagnetic sig... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7830322 | RFID reader antenna assembly An antenna system for a reader configured to interact with RFID tags includes one or more antenna elements electrically coupled to the reader for transmission and reception of RFID signals. In one embodiment the antenna elements include a conductive plate, a first e... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7786944 | High frequency communication device on multilayered substrate A communication device (110, 210) has an antenna (150, 152, 250, 252) positioned on a multilayer substrate/printed circuit board (154, 254, 254′). A first high frequency material (116, 216) is disposed over a first side of the substrate... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7777684 | Multi-band slot-strip antenna A multi-band antenna includes a planar conductive layer that comprises a conductive region and a non-conductive region. The conductive region and the non-conductive region together define a first slot-strip structure, a second slot-strip structure coupled to the fir... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7746283 | Radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna assemblies with folded patch-antenna structures Exemplary embodiments are provided of RFID antenna assemblies having folded patch-antenna structures and that are configured with circular polarization or dual linear polarization. An antenna assembly may generally include two folded patch-antenna structures oriente... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7683847 | Antennas This invention relates to a radiating element 20 for use in array antennas. The radiating element 20 is of simplified design and comprises a front region 26 and a rearward region 28 that are preferably substantially rectangular, which per... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7679575 | Tapered slot antenna cylindrical array A Tapered Slot Antenna Cylindrical Array (NC#98219). The method includes coupling at least two tapered slot antenna pairs to a base element in a cylindrical configuration. The method may further include coupling a transmitter/receiver to each tapered slot antenna of... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7612730 | Antenna system and antenna thereof An antenna system and an antenna thereof are provided. The antenna system comprises an antenna array including a plurality of antennas and at least one plate. The at least one plate is used for isolating two neighbor ones of the antennas. Each of the antennas compri... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7605769 | Multi-ban U-slot antenna In a multi-band U-slot planar antenna, a limited ground plane is provided. A connector includes a ground terminal connected to the ground plane and a feeding terminal for feeding a signal. A planar radiation device includes a feeding point connected to the feeding t... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7598918 | Tubular endfire slot-mode antenna array with inter-element coupling and associated methods The tubular slot-mode antenna includes an array of slot antenna units carried by a tubular substrate, e.g. a cylindrical substrate, and each slot antenna unit having a pair of patch antenna elements arranged in laterally spaced apart relation about at least one cent... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7592963 | Multi-band slot resonating ring antenna A multi-band slot resonating ring antenna (SRRA) is suitable to be manufactured on a circuit board. A first conductive plane includes concentric slots corresponding to different frequency bands. The antenna may be fed by microstrip feed lines. The antenna may also b... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7557765 | Smart antenna with adjustable radiation pattern A smart antenna with an adjustable radiation pattern is described. A plurality of slot antennas are formed at a metal layer which is grounded, wherein openings of the slot antennas point to different directions. One surface of an insulated layer is covered by the me... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7551145 | Slot antenna An antenna (10) having a top (14), a bottom (16), and a longitudinal axis (20). An outer shell (12) of electrically conductive material is provided which is coaxial with the longitudinal axis, and which includes an outer top wall (... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7545334 | Antenna and receiver It is an object of the present invention to provide an antenna capable of reducing a backside gain while keeping the sensitivity of overall antenna to a certain level. Particularly, in the case of an antenna subject to a circularly polarized wave, it is an object of... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545335 | Small conformable broadband traveling-wave antennas on platform The invention is a novel solution to circumvent the fundamental gain bandwidth limitations of an antenna of a given size by using a traveling-wave (TW) antenna and strongly coupling it with the mounting platform to enlarge the effective size of the antenna. A prefer... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7541999 | Polarization switching/variable directivity antenna A polarization switching/variable directivity antenna according to the present invention includes a ground conductor plate 12 on a surface of a dielectric substrate 11, and has a radiation element 13, a directivity switching element 15, a... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7532172 | Differentially-fed variable directivity slot antenna With a differential feed line 103c, open-ended slot resonators 601, 603, 605, and 607 are allowed to operate in pair, a slot length of each slot resonator corresponding to a ¼ effective wavelength during operation. Slot resonators which ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7525498 | Antenna array An antenna array includes a folded thin flexible circuit board with a thin dielectric layer and a conductor layer pattern formed on a first surface of the dielectric layer. The circuit board may be folded in a plurality of folds to form a pleated structure. An array... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525499 | Differentially-fed variable directivity slot antenna Opposite ends open slot resonators (601, 605) having a slot length during an operation set to become one half of effective wavelength are operated by a differential feeder liner (103c) and a slot resonator group excited with a reverse phase/equa... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7518565 | Tapered slot antenna cylindrical array A Tapered Slot Antenna Cylindrical Array (NC#97194). The apparatus includes a base and a tapered slot antenna array. The base is capable of retaining a plurality of tapered slot antenna pairs. The tapered slot antenna array is operatively coupled to the base in a cy... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7505011 | Antenna apparatus An antenna apparatus capable of main beam direction switching is provided that achieves high gain with a small, planar configuration. Rhombic antenna sections composed of linear elements 101a through 101d, 102a through 10... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7501990 | Dual band slot array antenna above ground plane A multiple frequency directional antenna is provided. The antenna includes a radiating array aligned over a ground plane. The radiating array has at least two first elongated slots and two second elongated slots. The slots have different lengths to provide different... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7498995 | UWB antenna having 270 degree coverage and system thereof An ultra wide band antenna having a 270° coverage and a system thereof. The ultra wide band antenna includes a dielectric substrate, two Vivaldi horn radiators attached to the dielectric substrate and including central axes orthogonal to each other, and a single ra... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7486248 | Microwave demulsification of hydrocarbon emulsion Recovery of hydrocarbons, such as petroleum products, from a liquid or solid substrate is facilitated by the use of microwave energy to energize and separate molecular bonds between the hydrocarbons and the substrate. A radio frequency (RF) applicator delivers micro... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7471254 | Triplate planar slot antenna A triplate planar slot antenna formed by laying a ground plate, a lower layer side dielectric layer, a lower layer side copper-clad film substrate, an upper layer side dielectric layer, a slot plate and an upper layer side copper-clad film substrate sequentially fro... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7443346 | Printed antenna A printed antenna disposed on a substrate, includes a radiation part, a feed line, and at least one first ground part. The radiation part is for radiating and receiving electromagnetic signals, and includes a hollow portion and a pair of openings. The hollow portion... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443344 | Antenna arrangement and a module and a radio communications apparatus having such an arrangement An antenna arrangement for a radio communications apparatus such as a mobile phone, comprises a substantially planar patch conductor having a first feed connection point for connection to radio circuitry and a second feed connection point for connection to a ground ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439924 | Offset overlapping slot line antenna apparatus An offset overlapping slot line comprises a first metallization on a first side of a dielectric substrate and a second metallization on a second side of a dielectric substrate cooperating to yield a transmission line. By overlapping the first and second metallizatio... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436371 | Waveguide crescent slot array for low-loss, low-profile dual-polarization antenna A low-loss, low-profile dual-polarization slotted waveguide antenna includes one or more waveguides having a characteristic wavelength. Radiation apertures comprised of a waveguide slot pairs are formed in each or the waveguides of the antenna. Each waveguide slot p... | 10/14/2008 |
