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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176621 | Method for forming antenna structure A method for forming an antenna structure is provided, including the following steps of: providing a non-conductive frame and disposing a plating resist material on the non-conductive frame, removing a part of the plating resist material within a predetermined regio... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171617 | Method of making a waveguide A method of making a ceramic waveguide delay line includes the step of providing several slices or slabs of dielectric material, each including a layer of metal material applied to respective opposed side surfaces thereof. The slices are then fired in an oven to fus... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8136223 | Apparatus for forming a wireless communication device A method for manufacturing wireless communication devices for use in tracking or identifying items comprises cutting techniques that allow the size of antenna elements for the wireless communication device to be adjusted. Rollers cut tabs that form the antenna eleme... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8127432 | Process for fabricating an origami formed antenna radiating structure A process for fabricating an origami formed antenna radiating structure is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a process for precisely fabricating a radio frequency (RF) antenna structure, the process including providing a flexible circuit substrat... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8091208 | Method of forming an inlay substrate having an antenna wire Forming an inlay comprising an antenna wire having two end portions and a site for a transponder chip, comprises: mounting the wire to a surface of substrate; and leaving the end portions of the antenna wire free-standing, as loops adjacent terminal areas of a site ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8087155 | Method of forming an integrated circuit with MM-wave antennas using conventional IC packaging A method of forming the integrated circuit. The method includes, in an integrated circuit package, forming each bond to or from an integrated circuit pad that is intended to be an antenna connection to be elongated compared to other bonds, and arranged in an approxi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8069553 | Method for constructing a dipole antenna A method of fabricating a microwave antenna assembly is disclosed. The fabrication method includes providing a proximal portion having an inner conductor and an outer conductor, the inner conductor extending at least partially therein. The method further includes pr... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8051550 | Method for mounting a tridimensional antenna A tridimensional antenna includes a radiating body, a feeding foot, a grounding foot, and a supporting foot. The feeding foot and the grounding foot are connected to the radiating body. The supporting foot includes a supporting portion, at least one groove and a ben... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7971339 | Method and apparatus for making a radio frequency inlay A method and apparatus are provided for making radio frequency (RF) inlays. The RF inlays include an integrated circuit and an antenna affixed to a substrate material carrying the integrated circuit. During processing, portions of the wire forming the antenna are lo... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7958622 | Method for making smart cards The invention concerns a method for making smart cards capable of operating with or without contact called mixed cards and contactless smart cards. In order to avoid the risk of deteriorating the antenna the method consists in producing an antenna comprising at leas... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954228 | RFID tag manufacturing method with strap and substrate In a manufacturing method of a thin and small RFID tag, an antenna metal pattern is formed on a substrate, going once around a dielectric plate, and a recess is formed on the substrate to house an IC chip. A strap on which the IC chip is mounted is connected and fas... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7950134 | Implantable antenna A method of forming and connecting an antenna to a feedthrough member of a housing. The method comprising a step of: positioning the feedthrough member and an antenna template relative to each other. A step of connecting the first portion of at least one electricall... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7937824 | Method for manufacturing nonreciprocal circuit device and method for manufacturing composite electronic component A method for manufacturing a nonreciprocal circuit device in which a ferrite-magnet device including ferrite having first and second center electrodes arranged to intersect and be electrically insulated from each other and a pair of permanent magnets fixed to both p... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934308 | Method for making a waveguide microwave antenna The invention concerns a method for making a waveguide microwave antenna with corrugated horn, which consists in forming the corrugations of the horn on the outer surface of a synthetic material form block followed by surface metallization of the foam block configur... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930814 | Manufacturing method for a septum polarizer A method for manufacturing a septum polarizer includes dispensing a layer of adhesive on a first contact surface of a first substrate, attaching the first substrate to a second substrate to form a combined structure, and elevating the combined structure to a first t... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930815 | Conductive pattern and method of making A method of forming an electrically-conductive pattern includes selectively electroplating the top portions of a substrate that corresponds to the pattern, and separating the conductive pattern from the substrate. The electroplating may also include electrically con... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7926165 | Micro antenna and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a micro antenna is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of holes penetrating a first substrate, filling each of the plurality of holes with a conductive material to form a plurality of vertical conducting parts, forming a plura... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7908738 | Apparatus for manufacturing a wireless communication device A method for manufacturing antenna elements for use with wireless communication devices comprises a number of cutting techniques that allow the size of the antenna elements to be adjusted. Rollers cut the tabs that form the antenna elements. In a first embodiment, a... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7900340 | Method of fabricating an antenna that includes a serpentine feed waveguide coupled in parallel to a plurality of radiating waveguides A method of fabricating an antenna including a plurality of radiating waveguides disposed so that their wave paths are parallel two by two and including a feed waveguide having a wave path forming a flat zigzag serpentine pattern. The feed waveguide is disposed agai... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7877858 | Method of manufacturing a multi-layer conductive tube antenna A method of manufacturing an antenna including providing a dielectric core which does not contain an electrical conductor, forming a layer of an electrically conductive material on the core and providing an electrically insulative tube over the core and over the lay... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7866028 | Method for manufacturing resonant element A resonant element is manufactured through a process including a setting step and a forming step. A substrate of the resonant element is made of a dielectric material. A ground electrode is formed on a rear principal surface side of the substrate. Principal-surface ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861398 | Method for fabricating a miniature tunable filter A method for fabrication of a filter includes forming an input transformer pole in a first substrate by forming a first conductive via, forming an output transformer pole in the first substrate by forming a second conductive via, forming one or more filter poles in ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7845066 | Method of installing an antenna of a notebook computer A method of installation of a notebook computer antenna, the method is mainly to design to use a mode of manufacturing tags to make groups of or integrate antenna sections required by the notebook computer to make a tag antenna; then the tag antenna is stuck and fix... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7836577 | Method for making an antenna structure A method for making a feed structure for an antenna may include providing a polarizer body having a polarizer sidewall extending longitudinally between spaced apart ends. A portion of the polarizer sidewall is deformed to provide at least one polarizing structure th... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7823269 | Method for manufacturing an auxiliary antenna A method is disclosed of forming on a moving surface an auxiliary antenna for an RFID tag. The method includes the steps of providing a webstock of polymeric material including a conductive film, conveying the webstock with the moving surface, and applying the condu... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7818874 | Method for production of an antenna core An antenna core comprises a flexible stack of a plurality of oblong soft-magnetic strips consisting of an amorphous or nanocrystalline alloy. The strips of said antenna core are separated from one another by an electrically insulating film each. The amorphous or nan... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7805826 | Fabrication of slot waveguide A method for fabricating a nanometer slot waveguide comprises applying a spacer layer to a first waveguide structure, wherein the first waveguide structure includes a waveguide layer and a substrate layer and the waveguide layer has a refractive index greater than t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7797817 | Microwave component and method for making the same A microwave component having an elongated flexible sheet made of a liquid crystal polymer. A first microwave pattern is printed on one side of the sheet while a second microwave pattern is printed on the other side of the sheet. The first and second patterns are mir... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797816 | Method of designing and manufacturing an array antenna A method of manufacturing an array antenna including a designing step which comprises: determining a one-dimensional reference radiation pattern and an associated reference aperture; computing the cumulative phasorial summation of the field distribution of said refe... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7793405 | Method for constructing microwave antennas incorporated within nonwoven fabric A method of constructing fabric microwave antennas with a calendering apparatus which comprises: providing a calendaring apparatus having a plurality of roller two of said rollers are arranged as a nip or meeting point; heating said rollers located at said nip; sett... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7788793 | Method for producing a broadband antenna A method for manufacturing a broadband antenna, such as applicable for a low radar cross-section ground penetrating radar. A conductive film is deposited along a dielectric member, such as by sputtering, in such a manner that the impedance of the conducting film is ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7779533 | Electronic article surveillance marker A fabrication process produces markers for a magnetomechanical electronic article surveillance system. The marker includes a magnetomechanical element comprising one or more resonator strips of magnetostrictive amorphous metal alloy; a housing having a cavity sized ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7739784 | Method of making an antenna assembly A method for installing a grounding clip into an antenna tube, comprising providing the antenna tube having a cylindrical tube, an upper end and an inner end opposite the upper end, a circumferentially extending groove in the cylindrical tube located between the upp... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7707706 | Method and arrangement for producing a smart card A method is provided for producing a smart card comprising a chip module with at least one contacting area, the chip module arrangeable in a mounting location of a substrate, wherein one contacting loop is formed from a wire connector fed by a wire guiding unit for ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7681301 | RFID silicon antenna The system of producing an RFID antenna using the silicon in an integrated circuit as the resonant antenna material for the purpose of reducing the cost of an RFID system and for the purpose of increasing the range and selectivity of the RFID system. According to th... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7676903 | Microelectromechanical slow-wave phase shifter method of use /The present invention provides a method of use for a monolithic device utilizing cascaded, switchable slow-wave CPW sections that are integrated along the length of a planar transmission line. The purpose of the switchable slow-wave CPW sections element is to enabl... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7653982 | Individually unique hybrid printed antennae for chipless RFID applications A method of printing chipless RFID tags with unique features, includes printing a RFID antenna pattern precursor using a first printing process, wherein the RFID antenna pattern precursor includes a plurality of disconnected wire segments; and printing a conductive ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7650683 | Method of preparing an antenna A method for manufacturing wireless communication devices for use in tracking or identifying other items comprises a number of cutting techniques that allow the size of the antenna for the wireless communication device. Further, the chip for the wireless communicati... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7647691 | Method of producing antenna elements for a wireless communication device A method for manufacturing antenna elements for use with wireless communication devices comprises a number of cutting techniques that allow the size of the antenna elements to be adjusted. Rollers cut the tabs that form the antenna elements. In a first embodiment, a... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7644487 | Mechanism of producing a conductor pattern on a substrate In a method of producing a conductor pattern on a substrate and, in particular, of producing RFID labels, the conductive base material and the substrate material are initially provided, further the conductive base material is punched to obtain a conductor pattern an... | 01/12/2010 |
