Quotables
"If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice."
George Gobel
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188933 | Antenna unit and mobile terminal therewith An antenna unit includes an antenna formed on a magnetic sheet. A transmission circuit includes an inductor, a matching capacitor, and the antenna connected in series, and a reception circuit includes the antenna, the matching capacitor, a resistor, and a capacitor ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179332 | Antenna coil and antenna device 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 ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8159405 | Magnetic antenna and board mounted with the same A magnetic antenna, suitable for use in an RFID tag and an RFID tag reader/writer, which operates stable even if brought close to a metallic object and suitable for mass-production, and a board mounted with the magnetic antenna. The magnetic antenna has a coil with ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154465 | Portal antenna A portal antenna (10) particularly suited for enabling low frequency RFID devices carried by animals to be read when animals are proceeding through a stock race or the like. The portal antenna includes a portal structure (11) through which an animal ca... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8125401 | Antenna device 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 in... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8111205 | Mast clamp current probe (MCCP) insertion loss determining methods and systems Methods and systems for determining insertion loss for a mast clamp current probe (MCCP) coupled to a monopole antenna are disclosed. An exemplary method includes determining a first power radiated by the monopole antenna across a first range of frequencies while dr... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106845 | Omnidirectional flat antenna and method of production The inventive antenna comprises a planar substrate carrying as first winding whose axis is arranged in a parallel position to the plane of the substrate. Said antenna also comprises at least one second winding, whose axis is arranged in a parallel position to the pl... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094083 | Multi-band tree antenna A multi-band antenna comprising a tree and a plurality of current probes coupled around the tree. Each current probe is designed to receive and transmit in a substantially different frequency band than the other current probes. The current probes are positioned on t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8077105 | Directive bar-type antenna 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 anten... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077106 | Receiving antenna coil 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 ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072387 | Magnetic antenna and board mounted with the same There is provided a magnetic antenna, suitable for use in an RFID tag and an RFID tag reader/writer, which operates stable even if brought close to a metallic object and suitable for mass-production, and a board mounted with the magnetic antenna. The magnetic antenn... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8063844 | Omnidirectional antenna system An omnidirectional antenna system. Implementations may include an antenna having a wire loop and a single ferrite rod loop. The single ferrite rod loop may be oriented substantially parallel to a plane formed by the wire loop. The single ferrite rod loop may include... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059053 | Antenna and radio-wave receiving device provided with antenna An antenna that can ensure a sufficient radio receiving level and a radio-wave receiving device on which the antenna is equipped are provided. The antenna includes a columnar magnetic core formed by a ferromagnetic body, a coil portion wound around the magnetic core... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054235 | Active magnetic antenna with ferrite core 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 con... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8044875 | Coil parts A coil part used in a antenna coil has a cross shape core that includes: a first winding frame part extending a first direction and being provided with a coil, and a second winding frame part extending a direction crossing the first direction and being provided with... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8031127 | Semiconductor memory module incorporating antenna The semiconductor memory module incorporating antenna includes a wiring board (11) having a connection terminal (17) connected with a control semiconductor element (16) and arranged at a position exposed to the surface of an outer case (15 | 10/04/2011 |
| 7999751 | Magnetically coupling near-field RFID antenna 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 ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990331 | Antenna coil to be mounted on a circuit board and antenna device 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... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7903041 | Magnetic antenna apparatus and method for generating a magnetic field The present invention relates to a magnetic transmit antenna apparatus comprising: a toroidal core transformer having a primary winding inductively coupled to a secondary winding supplying a low voltage and high current to a magnetic transmit antenna wherein the mag... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7876281 | Magnetic material, magnetic sheet, and portable electronic apparatus A magnetic material used for an antenna module of an RFID (radio frequency identification) system that uses a communication frequency of 13.56 MHz, includes an Fe alloy magnetic material containing Fe as a primary component, and Si and Al added thereto, and phosphor... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7830324 | Electronic entity having a magnetic antenna An electronic entity includes an electronic circuit (21) having at least one first terminal (22) and a second terminal (24) to which an antenna is connected. The antenna includes a conducting element (26) electrically connected to the fir... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7825869 | Miniature transponders Systems and methods are disclosed for miniature transponders having capsule enclosure housings including a magnetic antenna core, such as a ferrite core, with a shaped form to provide space for an integrated circuit also included within the capsule enclosure housing... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7812777 | Antenna coil to be mounted on a circuit board and antenna device 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... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7796091 | Three-axis antenna, antenna unit and receiving device To attain sensitivity not deviating in any of XYZ directions. A three-axis antenna with a cross-shaped core 2 having a pair of X-axis arms 22a, 22b projecting in the X-axis direction in an orthogonal coordinate system and a pair of... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7755558 | Antenna coil The size of an antenna coil is reduced, and it is possible to prevent a lowering of the reception sensitivity due to a difference of the arrangement position of the antenna coil. On a winding frame of a ferrite core, a first coil and a second coil are wound in such ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7742008 | Multipole antennae for logging-while-drilling resistivity measurements A multipole antenna for conducting logging-while-drilling (LWD), includes a wire for one of producing and receiving an electromagnetic field, the wire having at least one winding for providing a magnetic moment in a first portion of the antenna that is opposite to t... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7737905 | Broadband ferrite loaded loop antenna A ferrite-loaded broadband loop antenna having nearly comparable transmit/receive characteristics is disclosed. The antenna contains a low loss ferrite core having a width-to-height ratio of approximately 24 and a depth-to-height ratio of approximately 6, and an ant... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733283 | Antenna Device An antenna device includes: a winding component having an approximately cylindrical shaped winding shaft portion and a flange portion disposed to project outside the winding shaft portion in at least one end portion of both end portions in an axial direction of the ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7724199 | Antenna device and radio wave controlled timepiece An antenna device includes an antenna for receiving a time information radio wave, and an antenna support member. In the antenna, a coil is wound around a center portion of a core. In the support member, a non-magnetic portion supports two magnetic portions independ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7710341 | Portable electronic device A portable electronic device includes a circuit board and an antenna coil installed on the circuit board. The antenna coil includes a magnetic core and a coil wound at either side of an unwound portion. The winding direction of the coil is changed at either side of ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7688270 | Near field communication antenna and mobile device An NFC antenna (“NFC” stands for “near field communication”) includes a ferrite antenna including a primary antenna coil wound on a ferrite core of the ferrite antenna; a loop coil provided in a position where components of a magnetic flux on a non-communica... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7642983 | High efficiency ferrite antenna system An automatic tuning procedure can be used to allow a small, high efficiency ferrite antenna assembly to be used in various FM frequency based devices. The ferrite antenna can take the form of a rod or flat disk, for example, which can use a pick-up coil and tuning c... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7592964 | Shielded coil for inductive wireless applications The present invention relates to a surface mounted coil (200) for wireless communication. The coil (200) comprises a wire (202) wounded about a core (204) thereby establishing a plurality of windings and having its ends terminated on moun... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7573431 | Broadband polarized antenna including magnetodielectric material, isoimpedance loading, and associated methods The broadband small antenna has equal magnetic electric proportions, circular polarization, and an isoimpedance magnetodielectric (μr≡∈r) shell for controlled wave expansion. The shell is a radome without bandwidth limitation, with reflect... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7557766 | Portable remote controller for tire status detector A portable remote controller for a tire status detector, includes a portable casing, a transmission circuit disposed in the casing, a low-pass filter disposed at an output side of the transmission circuit for permitting a signal with a frequency of not more than the... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7548213 | Game chip The present invention relates to the technology of recognizing and reading each game chip although game chips are stacked. The present invention is a game chip storing data readable by a reader/writer having an antenna which emits an electromagnetic wave and availab... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7545336 | Card type wireless device, antenna coil, and method for manufacturing communication module An antenna coil includes: an air-core type flat coil body; and a coil support member disposed between the coil body and a substrate so that the coil body is supported on a surface of the substrate. The thickness of the coil body is smaller than a radius of a circle,... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545337 | Antenna arrangement for inductive power transmission and use of the antenna arrangement An antenna arrangement for the inductive transmission of energy has magnetic cores made of a composite material with amorphous or nanocrystalline flakes and a moulded plastic material, so that the magnetic properties suitable for effective energy transmission can be... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7515112 | Antenna device and radio wave controlled timepiece An antenna device includes an antenna for receiving a time information radio wave, and an antenna support member. In the antenna, a coil is wound around a center portion of a core. In the support member, a non-magnetic portion supports two magnetic portions independ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7511679 | Antenna, and radio timepiece using the same, keyless entry system, and RFID system A magnetic sensor-type antenna comprising a magnetic core and a coil wound around the magnetic core for receiving electromagnetic waves, which is disposed in a housing such that the end portion of the magnetic core is bent away from the housing or a metal portion of... | 03/31/2009 |
