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| 8174455 | Antenna element with improved radiation characteristics An antenna element is disclosed. A substrate is made of dielectric material and has a first face. A first antenna element is made of conductive material and is provided on the first face. A first power feeding portion is made of conductive material and is disposed o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8164528 | Self-contained counterpoise compound loop antenna The present invention relates to a self-contained counterpoise compound field antenna. Improvements relate particularly, but not exclusively, to compound loop antennas having coplanar electric field radiators and magnetic loops with electric fields orthogonal to mag... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7710335 | Dual band loop antenna An antenna assembly is disclosed. The antenna assembly includes a dual band vertical loop wire antenna extending from a printed circuit board positioned over a ground plane, wherein the wire antenna includes: at least one coiled section, at least one straight wire s... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7692595 | Broadband internal antenna combined with monopole antenna and loop antenna Provided is a broadband internal antenna including a ground plate and an antenna unit. The antenna unit can include a feed point; a first radiator, formed with a bar shape having the feed point as one end part and the other end part from which an uncurved ‘C’ sh... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7432872 | Compact aviation vertically polarized log periodic antenna A reduced height log periodic antenna that may safely be positioned under the rotating blades of a helicopter sitting on the ground and still resonate in the frequency range at which the antenna was originally designed to resonate. The antenna comprises a pair of an... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7385561 | Multiple monopole antenna The present invention seeks to provide a multiple monopole antenna including a looped conductor having at least two conductive arms extending therefrom and a common feed point located on the looped conductor. ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7358912 | Coverage antenna apparatus with selectable horizontal and vertical polarization elements An antenna apparatus comprises selectable antenna elements including a plurality of dipoles and/or a plurality of slot antennas (“slot”). Each dipole and/or each slot provides gain with respect to isotropic. The dipoles may generate vertically polarized radiatio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352326 | Multiband planar antenna A multiband planar antenna intended for small-sized radio devices and a radio device. The basic structure of the antenna is a two-resonance P1FA, the radiating plane (320) of which has a structural part (321) corresponding to the lowest operatin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7325723 | System and method for detecting persons or objects in definite areas provided each with at least an entrance A system and a method are described for detection of individuals (8) or objects in a plurality of delimited spaces (10), each having at least one entrance (6). The detection system comprises LF transmission means (4, 4*, 5, 5*) located at... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317901 | Slotted multiple band antenna A multiple band antenna has an RF coupling structure (110) and a resonant RF structure (102). The RF coupling structure (110) has an RF connection (116, 118) and an RF coupling end (112, 114). The resonant RF structure (102)... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7289074 | Composite antenna device A composite antenna device comprising a plurality of antennas, the plurality of antennas having at least one particular antenna which differs in antenna characteristics, and at least either the particular antenna or at least one other antenna being of subassembly co... | 10/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7274358 | Focusing-shaped reflector arrays for acoustic touchscreens An acoustic touchscreen having a substrate capable of propagating acoustic waves, the substrate having a touch-sensitive area, and an array of acoustically reflective elements lying in or on the substrate are positioned to transmit or receive acoustic signals into o... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7271775 | Deployable compact multi mode notch/loop hybrid antenna An antenna formed with a number of notch antennas forming an sectional inner ring and a sectional outer ring. Each of the notch antennas having a pair of leaves with a throat end proximate the inner ring and a leaf tip end proximate the outer ring, wherein the leave... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267421 | Cartridge and printing apparatus An ink cartridge has an ink sensor. A printer's control device transmits a detection command and specified detection condition to the cartridge by radio. In response to the detection command, a sensor controller actuates and vibrates the sensor under the specified d... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7253770 | Integrated GPS and SDARS antenna An integrated patch antenna is disclosed. The integrated patch antenna receives at least a first and second band of signals. The integrated patch antenna includes a bottom metallization and first and second upper metallizations disposed about a dielectric material t... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245950 | Portable radio communication apparatus provided with a boom portion and a part of housing operating as an antenna In a portable radio communication apparatus including a housing, at least one part of the housing is formed as a housing electrical conductor portion by an electrically conductive material. The housing electrical conductor portion is connected with a radio communica... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239290 | Systems and methods for a capacitively-loaded loop antenna A capacitively-loaded loop antenna and corresponding radiation method have been provided. The antenna comprises a transformer loop having a balanced feed interface and a capacitively-loaded loop radiator. In one aspect, the capacitively-loaded loop radiator is a bal... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7205947 | Litzendraht loop antenna and associated methods The antenna includes a Litz wire loop having a plurality of individually insulated wires braided together and a plurality of splices therein to define distributed capacitors. A magnetically coupled feed loop is provided within the electrically conductive loop, and a... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199763 | Ground proximity antenna system The invention provides an antenna system for operation near a ground plane, for example, at or near the surface of a body of water. The antenna system includes, for example, an array of filar elements attached to one or more spiral elements. The system also includes... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191507 | Method of producing a wireless communication device 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... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187336 | Rotational polarization antenna and associated methods The antenna includes a base and a plurality of antenna feeds carried by the base for respective different rotational polarizations. A plurality of inner elongate convex coupler elements are carried by the base and connected to respective ones of the antenna feeds fo... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7154449 | Antenna An antenna suitable for use in a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag is disclosed. The antenna includes a plurality of discrete loop antennas (130, 140, 150) disposed concentrically on a substrate. Each one of said plurality of loop antennas is electric... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7123210 | Loop-type antenna The invention concerns an antenna for use as transmission/reception beacon (2), in a radio frequency identifying system, having a general upturned U configuration, located in a vertical plane, above the ground transversely to a passage (9), the vertica... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113138 | Radio antennas A radio transmitting or receiving antenna which is physically compact being typically no more than three percent of a wavelength in any dimension. The antenna comprises two electrical conducting surfaces (2) and (4) across which radio frequency electri... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7061440 | Electrically small planar antennas with inductively coupled feed Inductively coupled antennas and methods of designing the same are disclosed. Electrically small antennas having relatively high efficiency and relatively broad bandwidth may be formed by inductively coupling an antenna loop to at least one antenna winding. Such ant... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7053846 | Spherical ring antenna An antenna includes a radiating ring element formed as a spherical sector or about a one-half wavelength circumference in natural resonance for obtaining uniform current distribution and enhancing the gain relative to the size of the antenna. A capacitive element, s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053834 | Antenna A multi-band flat antenna that shows excellent radio characteristics in each of multiple different frequency bands. In a patch antenna, a plurality of flat antenna patterns for different frequency bands are formed on a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7038635 | Antenna, and communication device using the same An antenna system includes a substrate, a ground on the substrate, a first radiator having a helical shape near a side of the substrate and having a central axis substantially in parallel to a side of the ground, and a high frequency circuit electrically connected t... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6999028 | Ultra high frequency radio frequency identification tag An antenna design for radio frequency identification (“RFID”) tags. More particularly, the present invention relates to design for RFID tags particularly operating in the ultra high frequency (“UHF”) operating band. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994415 | Cartridge and printing apparatus An ink cartridge has a sensor to detect ink. A printer's control device transmits a detection command and specified detection condition to the ink cartridge by radio communication. In response to input of the detection command into the ink cartridge, a sensor contro... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992634 | Antenna device commonly used for two frequencies A patch antenna for a first frequency is disposed on a first face of a dielectric substrate, and has a first size. A coil antenna for a second frequency is disposed on the first face of the dielectric substrate so as to surround the patch antenna, and has a second s... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6975834 | Multi-band wireless communication device and method The present invention relates to a wireless communication device, such as a transponder, that has a plurality of antennas for multi-frequency usage. The wireless communication device comprises a control system, communication electronics, memory, and the aforemention... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6954180 | Antenna device for transmitting and/or receiving radio frequency waves and method related thereto An antenna device for transmitting and/or receiving electromagnetic radiation, installable in and connectable to a communication device, inlcudes an antenna structure switchable between a plurality of antenna configuration states. Each antenna configuration state is... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6940461 | Remote access device having multiple inductive coil antenna A remote access device which may comprise an antenna having a first inductor with a first axis, a second inductor with a second axis, and a third inductor with a third axis, where the first, second and third axes may be oriented substantially perpendicular to each o... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6927737 | Composite antenna An object of the present invention is a small composite antenna that is capable of operating in a plurality of different frequency bands. A first antenna 2 constituting a GPS circularly polarized loop antenna is formed on a dielectric substrate 10. A s... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6927738 | Apparatus and method for a communication device This invention aims to provide a communication device, installation structure for the communication device, a method of manufacturing the communication device, and a method of communication with the communication device in which the communication device is able to e... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6927742 | Electromagnetic-induction system with optimum antenna layout and the method for forming the same This invention utilizes the design rule with minimum path to design the antenna layout so as to reduce the across-line effect, and it also makes changes in antenna address to design the optimum antenna layout. Furthermore, the single connector is also substituted fo... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924773 | Integrated dual band H-field shielded loop antenna and E-field antenna A dual band antenna system that combines into a single integrated device an H-field shielded loop antenna and an E-field antenna. The system includes an unshielded section bounded on each end by first and second shielded sections, respectively. Input frequency filte... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6917335 | Antenna with shorted active and passive planar loops and method of making the same An internal antenna for wireless devices comprising a ground plane and a planar loop antenna. The shorted loop antenna is provided with a gap and operates at a quarter wavelength. The compact single feed dual or multi band internal antenna is realized either through... | 07/12/2005 |
