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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8072388 | Multi-modal RF diversity antenna A dual-band diversity antenna includes a ground plane and a main antenna system coupled to the ground plane, the main antenna system being a dipole having a primary dipole axis directed along the longitudinal axis of the wireless communication device, and a diversit... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8026860 | Electrically small antenna devices, systems, apparatus, and methods The utilization of small antennas for mobile devices and for low frequency (long wavelength) applications is desired. Further, efficient use of transmission power is desirable, especially in mobile applications. For this purpose, a system is provided that includes o... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7990332 | Multi-directional receiving antenna array Techniques for providing multi-directional receiving antenna arrays are described herein. The techniques may include selecting a location for an antenna array, generating a guide for one or more station signals for the location, including a station frequency and a s... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7940228 | Metamaterial for use in low profile stripline fed radiating elements An array antenna may include a substrate, an array of metamaterial elements including radiating elements suspended in the substrate and integrated with the array of dipoles, where the metamaterial elements include a first metal layer and a second metal layer connect... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7755559 | Dual-band omnidirectional antenna A dual-band omnidirectional antenna is provided. The antenna comprises a vertically stacked antenna array, in the following order: a first dual-band dipole which resonates at a first frequency band and a second frequency band, a first single-band dipole which resona... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7432873 | Multi-band printed dipole antenna The invention relates to a printed antenna comprising a dielectric substrate (CS1, CS2) supporting feeder lines (LA1, LA2) and first and second T-shaped dipoles (D1, D2) of different sizes for dual-band operation. Each dipol... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429960 | Log-periodic antenna The subject invention provides a log-periodic antenna and method for controlling multiple polarizations of the antenna per a given frequency or frequencies The antenna includes a boom and a plurality of pairs of elements where each element of each pair of elements e... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427966 | Dual polarized antenna A dual polarized antenna with at least one dual polarized radiator device comprises a reflector (3) and longitudinal or transverse webs (9, 11) provided at least on its longitudinal side and/or on its transverse side. The improvement is distinguished b... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423596 | Antenna device An antenna device is disclosed. An antenna such as a dipole antenna and a parallel feeder each formed of a conductor pattern are disposed on a dielectric plate. The connector is connected to the antenna through the parallel feeder. The parallel feeder has a length o... | 09/09/2008 |
| RE40434 | High isolation dual polarized antenna system using dipole radiating elements An antenna for receiving electromagnetic signals comprises: a ground plane with a length and having a vertical axis along the length. A plurality of dipole radiating elements, the radiating elements are comprised of first and second co-located, orthogonal dipoles, t... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394437 | Multi-resonant microstrip dipole antenna A multi-band antenna for use, for example, in a wireless communications network, employs multi-resonant microstrip dipoles that resonate at multiple frequencies due to microstrip “islands.” Gaps in the microstrips create an open RF circuit except for desired fre... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7369094 | Dual-frequency high-gain antenna A dual-frequency high-gain antenna is provided, which includes: a diplexer loop portion disposed at the center of the antenna substrate for receiving a feed signal; two single-frequency radiation units, symmetrically connected to two sides of the diplexer loop porti... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365699 | Independently center fed dipole array A dipole array is provided for use as an Ultra Short Pulse (USP) transmitter or receiver in UWB communications systems, which reduces the output pulse dispersion. Instead of having all the dipole elements serially fed by a transmission line, the feeding in the array... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365690 | Antenna device An antenna device is disclosed. An antenna such as a dipole antenna and a parallel feeder each formed of a conductor pattern are disposed on a dielectric plate. The connector is connected to the antenna through the parallel feeder. The parallel feeder has a length o... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358921 | Dual polarization antenna and associated methods A dual polarization antenna includes a substantially pyramidal configured substrate having opposing walls. An antenna element is carried at each wall such that opposing pairs of antenna elements define respective antenna dipoles and provide dual polarization. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358922 | Directed dipole antenna A dual polarized variable beam tilt antenna having a superior Sector Power Ratio (SPR). The antenna may have slant 45 degree dipole radiating elements including directors, and may be disposed on a plurality of tilted element trays to orient an antenna boresight down... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358924 | Feed network, and/or antenna having at least one antenna element and a feed network An antenna feed network is provided with a capacitive coupling device via which a capacitive connection exists to a coupled line. The coupled line section is firmly connected to the downstream appliance or antenna element, or is part of the appliance or antenna elem... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339544 | Array antenna for suppressing back signal and method for designing the same The present invention provides a method for designing a front directional array antenna for suppressing a back signal used in a wireless communication, comprising: (a) an analogous pattern element arranging step for arranging, on a reflecting panel which is a conduc... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333068 | Planar anti-reflective interference antennas with extra-planar element extensions Disclosed herein are wireless products adapted to be positioned in a normal or resting position, that also include an antenna composed of a set of elements arranged in a plane in a radially symmetrical configuration providing a reduction in the susceptibility of ref... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321341 | Compact broadband antenna with constant radiation pattern An antenna having multiple antenna elements of unequal lengths, form in a conical shape. The longest antenna element has a trap in a specific location of the antenna element. Multiple traps can be used for extended coverage depending upon the frequency band. The ant... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7292201 | Directional antenna system with multi-use elements Systems and methods for a wireless communication device having a switched multi-beam antenna and methods for manufacturing the same are described. One system and method includes a plurality of antenna of elements. Groups of the antenna elements cooperate to form act... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289067 | Wireless tag gate reader In a wireless tag gate reader that includes a plurality of antenna pairs that is disposed oppositely to each other so as to form a path space where a recognition target with a wireless tag goes through and a wireless tag reader connected to each of the antenna pairs... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286097 | Yagi antenna with balancing tab An antenna minimizes radiation from the outer conductor (44) of a coaxial cable (40) that is coupled to the antenna by providing a balancing tab (90) that lies near the connection (72) of the cable outer conductor (44) to the anten... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283101 | Antenna element, feed probe; dielectric spacer, antenna and method of communicating with a plurality of devices A multiband base station antenna for communicating with a plurality of terrestrial mobile devices is described. The antenna including one or modules, each module including a low frequency ring element; and a high frequency dipole element superposed with the low freq... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277063 | Variable directivity antenna and variable directivity antenna system using the antennas Folded dipole antenna elements (2, 4) are disposed generally in parallel, being spaced by a distance smaller than a half of the wavelength employed. The antenna elements (2, 4) are connected to a combiner (16) via feeders (12, 14) having ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7224321 | Broadband smart antenna and associated methods A smart antenna includes a ground plane, an active antenna element adjacent the ground plane, and passive antenna elements adjacent the ground plane. The passive antenna elements have different sizes for defining different resonant frequencies for increasing a bandw... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221326 | Biconical antenna A biconical antenna according to the present invention includes a columnar dielectric member having frustum-shaped cavities extending respectively from an upper surface and a lower surface toward a center of the columnar dielectric member, wherein flat surfaces of a... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7209091 | Vertically polarized panel antenna system and method A very inexpensive and on-site tunable design for a vertically polarized panel antenna system, suitable for the FCC digital broadcast 700 MHz range is provided. Bowtie-like shaped antennas having machine-stampable planar elements with an adjustable separation are co... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7199760 | Mobile phone having a directed beam antenna A mobile phone includes a body and an antenna array that is coupled to the body. ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196674 | Dual polarized three-sector base station antenna with variable beam tilt A dual polarized three-sector base station antenna with variable beam tilt in each sector. The invention advantageously provides a variable phase shifter with very small lateral dimensions which significantly reduces the diameter of a three-sector antenna. The feed ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193561 | Phase controlled antennae for data transmission between mobile devices In a phase-controlled antenna array for mobile devices, in particular designed for flying device, groups of controllable passive antenna elements are arranged in concentric circles around an active central antenna element. The arrangement of additional similar plana... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190318 | Wide-band fractal antenna An apparatus includes a discone antenna including a cone-shaped element whose physical shape is at least partially defined by at least one pleat. ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7173572 | Dual band, dual pole, 90 degree azimuth BW, variable downtilt antenna A dual band, dual pole, variable downtilt, 90 degree azimuth beamwidth antenna (10). The antenna includes dipole elements (12, 14) forming both a PCS band and a cellular band antenna. The PCS band antenna has two sections disposed each side of the cell... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7148856 | Electronic device including tetrahedral antenna and associated methods An electronic device includes a housing having a plurality of panels connected together to define a closed geometric shape having one or more corners. An electrically conductive layer is carried by the housing to define a first dipole element, and a second dipole el... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148848 | Dual band, bent monopole antenna A dual-band monopole antenna includes a ground plane. A metal plate is located a first distance from the ground plane and includes first and second portions connecting to form a first angle therebetween. A slot is formed in the metal plate that isolates a center por... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145517 | Asymmetric flat dipole antenna An asymmetric flat dipole antenna includes a first radiating body, a second radiating body, and a conductivity element. The first radiating body has a first frequency radiator, at least two second frequency radiators, and a first electrically connecting part. The se... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7132994 | Optical antenna array for harmonic generation, mixing and signal amplification An optical antenna collects, modifies and emits energy at light wavelengths. Linear conductors sized to correspond to the light wavelengths are used. Nonlinear junctions of small dimension are used to rectify an alternating waveform induced upon the conductors by th... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7132986 | Antenna device An antenna element includes a conductive ground plane, planar first and second antenna elements, and feeding points. The first antenna element confronts the ground plane at a given interval, and the second antenna element surrounds parts of the outer periphery of th... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129892 | Planar antenna The invention is a planar antenna which comprises a plurality of antennas positioned relative to each other in a predetermined orientation. Each of the antennas is selectively electrically connectable to one or more of the other antennas. A plurality of switches ele... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7116281 | Universal dipole with adjustable length antenna elements Described is a universal dipole which may include a feed line coupled to a first fitting; a balun coupled to a second fitting; a first variable length antenna element coupled to the first fitting; a second variable length antenna element coupled to the second fittin... | 10/03/2006 |
