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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174457 | Broadband television antenna A broadband antenna apparatus that is generally disposed along a plane. The antenna apparatus includes a ground plate with an edge and an inverted “L” antenna that has a base leg and an elongated leg, which define an interior corner. The interior corner is fille... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7999753 | Apparatus and methods for constructing antennas using vias as radiating elements formed in a substrate Antennas are provided which are constructed using one or more conductive via stubs as radiating elements formed in a substrate. The antennas can be integrally packaged with IC chips (e.g., IC transceivers, receivers, transmitters, etc.) to build integrated wireless ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7907099 | Antenna An antenna is provided. The antenna has a ground element, a radiator and a conductive element. The radiator has a body, wherein the body has a first edge, a second edge, a third edge and a fourth edge, and the first edge is parallel to the third edge, a length of th... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7830327 | Low cost antenna design for wireless communications A low cost and multi-featured antenna is disclosed. The antenna employs a radiating element mounted to a ground plane and having first and second branches spaced above the ground plane forming a generally L shaped planar radiating structure. The antenna can be eithe... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7821469 | Printed antenna A printed antenna is positioned on a substrate, and includes a feeding portion and a radiating portion. The feeding portion is configured for feeding electromagnetic signals. The radiating portion is electronically connected to the feeding portion for transceiving t... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7737907 | Planar antenna An antenna includes first and second radiating elements. The first radiating element is operable in a first frequency range. The second radiating element cooperates with the first radiating element to define a slot therebetween in such a manner that the second radia... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7671817 | Wideband antenna An antenna arrangement for a communication device is provided that may include a monopole antenna element having a bottom side joined to a first lateral side and joined to a second lateral side. The bottom side may be joined to each lateral side at an angle less tha... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7642984 | Antenna for a wireless personal area network An antenna includes a loop radiating element, and first and second radiating arms. The loop radiating element includes first and second segments, each of which has opposite first and second ends, and an intermediate segment that interconnects the second ends of the ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7592966 | Broadband antenna and assembly combination thereof A broadband antenna and an assembly combination thereof are disclosed. The broadband antenna according to the present invention comprises a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a substrate, and a reflector. The first radiation element having a first ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7411555 | Folded monoplole antenna, bent, tapped, or both, and systems incorporating same Various antenna designs that are small and cost effective are disclosed. In one design, the antenna is a bent and folded monopole antenna. In another design, the antenna is a folded and tapped monopole antenna. In yet another design, the antenna is a folded, bent, a... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408510 | Patch antenna A patch antenna (10) includes a dielectric substrate (12), a patch conductor (14) and a ground conductor (18) formed on both surfaces thereof. A step (16) is formed on the lower surface of the dielectric substrate, which makes a sp... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7385557 | PIFA device for providing optimized frequency characteristics in a multi-frequency environment and method for controlling the same A Planar Inverted-F Antenna (PIFA) device and a method for controlling the PIFA device that can provide optimized frequency characteristics in a multi-frequency environment. The PIFA device is provided with a plurality of shorting pins located at different distances... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7369089 | Antenna with multiple-band patch and slot structures A multiple-band antenna having a plurality of operating frequency bands is provided. The antenna includes a plurality of structures configured for operation in respective ones of the plurality of operating frequency bands, and a plurality of structures configured fo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362283 | Multilevel and space-filling ground-planes for miniature and multiband antennas An antenna system includes one or more conductive elements acting as radiating elements, and a multilevel or space-filling ground-plane, wherein said ground-plane has a particular geometry which affects the operating characteristics of the antenna. The return loss, ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356351 | Method and apparatus for disabling the RF functionality of a multi-function wireless communication device while maintaining local functionality A method and apparatus for disabling the communication functionality (i.e., disabling the transmission and/or reception of RF signals) of an integrated device, while still providing access to the local functionality of such device. A control and select function, suc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7317424 | Vehicle antenna device having high power feeding reliability There is provided a vehicle antenna device having a high connection reliability and mounted simply. A vehicle antenna device comprise a film antenna unit 1 in which an emission conductor pattern 3 is formed on a resin film 2 and a power feeding ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7298346 | Broadband monopole antenna A wideband monopole antenna including an emitter which is embodied in the form of a disc and vertically arranged at a predetermined spacing above an electrically conductive base plane. The disc-shaped emitter includes a modified section initially having a circular o... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7271772 | Mobile wireless communications device comprising multi-frequency band antenna and related methods A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing and a multi-frequency band antenna carried within the housing. The multi-frequency band antenna may include a main loop conductor having a gap therein defining first and second ends of the main loop condu... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7265727 | Top loaded disk monopole antenna In an exemplary aspect of the invention, an antenna is disclosed that includes a ground plane and a disk disposed adjacent to the ground plane. The disk has a perimeter. The antenna further includes a loading reflector having an underside. At least a portion of the ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265298 | Serpentine and corduroy circuits to enhance the stretchability of a stretchable electronic device A stretchable electronic apparatus and method of producing the apparatus. The apparatus has a central longitudinal axis and the apparatus is stretchable in a longitudinal direction generally aligned with the central longitudinal axis. The apparatus comprises a stret... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256741 | Antenna with multiple-band patch and slot structures A multiple-band antenna having a plurality of operating frequency bands is provided. The antenna includes a plurality of structures configured for operation in respective ones of the plurality of operating frequency bands, and a plurality of structures configured fo... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256744 | Mobile wireless communications device comprising non-planar internal antenna without ground plane overlap A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing, a main dielectric substrate carried by the housing, circuitry carried by the main dielectric substrate, and a ground plane conductor on the main dielectric substrate. The mobile wireless communications d... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7250917 | Directional wire antennas for radio frequency identification tag system Directional wire antennas for use in article or personal tracking and/or inventory monitoring or control systems wherein the antennas are specifically configured to provide a tunable vertical beam angle which is less than their horizontal beam angle. The antennas ar... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7239889 | Antenna system for GSM/WLAN radio operation An antenna system with two antennas provides the possibility to operate at least two different radio communication systems with one radio communication system operating on one single antenna of the antenna system and another radio communication system operating on b... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7183981 | Monopole antenna A monopole antenna is disclosed. The monopole antenna comprises a base board, a first substantially L-shaped conductor, a first ground plane, a second substantially L-shaped conductor, a second ground plane and a feeding strip, and the monopole antenna further has a... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180465 | Compact smart antenna for wireless applications and associated methods A smart antenna includes an active antenna element, a passive antenna element laterally adjacent the active antenna element, and an impedance element selectively connectable to the passive antenna element for antenna beam steering. A ground plane includes a center p... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173564 | Antenna for ultra-wide band communication An antenna for ultra-wide band communication is disclosed. The antenna includes a substrate, a patch formed on one side of the substrate so as to be smaller than the substrate, and being excited when an electric current is supplied through a feeder line, so as so ra... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170448 | Omnidirectional resonant antenna An omnidirectional resonant antenna in a half-plane or in the whole plane comprises a single radiating electric conductor (26) having at least three abutted wires (28, 30, 32), the length of each wire and the orientation of the wires relative to one an... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7131380 | EB pattern profile printing The present invention provides a printing process and a printed product in which a coating is combined with an additive that lowers the surface tension of the dried coating. The coating pattern is printed on a substrate, and is cured using electron beam (“EB”) p... | 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 |
| 7126537 | Cylindrical conformable antenna on a planar substrate A cylindrically conformable antenna is formed on a flexible substrate and preferably comprises a complex pattern coupled to a first feedline and, spaced-apart from the complex pattern, a patch that floats electrically. The complex pattern preferably is a fractal pat... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123203 | Circularly polarized wire antenna Each of the strands being powered by a single conducting wire wherein each of these strands describes an initial segment which is radial relative to a geometric axis perpendicular to the main plane, each of the strands is extended along a circle arc center on this g... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7109923 | Diversity antenna arrangement There is provided a method of operating, a diversity antenna system and arrangement for a mobile station such as mobile phone having a general ground element, the diversity antenna arrangement including at least a pair of antenna elements. Each antenna element compr... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106253 | Compact antenna device An antenna includes a dielectric substrate disposed on a ground conductor and first and second radiating conductors containing meandering lines that are symmetrically disposed on a surface of the dielectric substrate and whose lower ends are connected at a junction.... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7091911 | Mobile wireless communications device comprising non-planar internal antenna without ground plane overlap A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing, a main dielectric substrate carried by the housing, circuitry carried by the main dielectric substrate, and a ground plane conductor on the main dielectric substrate. The mobile wireless communications d... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088294 | Mobile wireless communications device comprising a top-mounted auxiliary input/output device and a bottom-mounted antenna A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing having an upper portion and a lower portion, a dielectric substrate carried by the housing, circuitry carried by the dielectric substrate, and an audio output transducer carried by the upper portion of th... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7079816 | On chip diversity antenna switch An on chip diversity antenna switch includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, and a fourth switch. The first switch is operably coupled to a pin associated with a first antenna, to a transmit path and to receive a transmit receive (T/R) control signa... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7068230 | Mobile wireless communications device comprising multi-frequency band antenna and related methods A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing and a multi-frequency band antenna carried within the housing. The multi-frequency band antenna may include a main loop conductor having a gap therein defining first and second ends of the main loop condu... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061437 | Planner inverted-F antenna having a rib-shaped radiation plate A planner inverted-F antenna (PIFA) includes a ground plane, a rib-shaped radiation plate installed approximately in parallel with the ground plane, a feeding line installed on the rib-shaped radiation plate, a feeding contact installed on an end of the feeding line... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057560 | Dual-band antenna for a wireless local area network device A dual-band antenna, a method of manufacturing the same and a wireless networking card incorporating the antenna. In one embodiment, the antenna includes: (1) a substrate, (2) an inverted F antenna printed circuit supported by the substrate and tuned to resonate in ... | 06/06/2006 |
