Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174459 | Coplanar antenna unit and coplanar antenna The present invention is related to a coplanar antenna unit and a coplanar antenna. By utilizing the unique properties of meta-material to design 1-D balanced CRLH leaky-wave antenna. The antenna can be realized with the coplanar antenna unit consisting of MIM capac... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7982682 | Antenna apparatus An antenna apparatus includes: a substrate; an RF ground conductor which is branched to extend in at least two directions and at least a part of which is formed on a surface of the substrate, the RF ground conductor functioning as an antenna ground plane; and an ant... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7830329 | Composite antenna and portable terminal using same Provided is a composite antenna adapted for reduction in size while ensuring sufficient electrical isolation between antenna elements. The composite antenna comprises ground plane, first feeding point connected to ground plane, first conductor connected to first fee... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7719479 | Antenna array An antenna array includes five grounding plates, a signal transmission part, two radiation conductors, and a signal feed cable. The first and fifth grounding plates located at the same plane are substantially perpendicular with the second and fourth grounding plates... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7430125 | Data processing terminal, parent board, child board, terminal designing apparatus and method, computer program, and information storage medium A second ground plane (18); has one end opposite to a connector (14), which end is connected to a first ground plane (17) by resistor connection element (41). Accordingly, it is possible to lower Q of resonance of the ground structure by ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7417596 | Ground connection of a printed circuit board placed in a wristwatch type electronic device There is disclosed an electronic instrument worn on the wrist including a case (2) at least a part (4) of which is electrically conductive and in which are housed an electronic module (6) including a printed circuit board (60) and an elec... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7388504 | RFID standoff label and method of use A RFID label suitable for use on a metal support surface. In one embodiment, the RFID label includes a substrate having a downwardly extending integral leg. RFID circuitry is disposed on the substrate adjacent to the leg which spaces the RFID circuitry from the supp... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382321 | Broadband antenna A broadband antenna includes a radiation part (10) for radiating and receiving electromagnetic signals, a feed portion (30) for feeding the electromagnetic signals, and a pair of ground planes (40) respectively disposed on sides of the feed port... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369098 | Compact multi-tiered plate antenna arrays An antenna array having a plurality of array elements is disclosed. The antenna array comprises a first array element (204A) having a first suspended radiator (207A) and a first ground conductor (206A), the first suspended radiator being displac... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7307587 | High-gain radiating element structure using multilayered metallic disk array Provided are a microstrip stack patch antenna using multilayered metallic disk array and a planar array antenna using the same. The microstrip stack patch antenna of the present research concentrates beam patterns and acquires a high gain characteristic by finitely ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7268739 | Data processing terminal, parent substrate, child substrate, terminal design apparatus and method, computer program, and information storage medium A second ground plane (18); has one end opposite to a connector (14), which end is connected to a first ground plane (17) by resistor connection element (41). Accordingly, it is possible to lower Q of resonance of the ground structure by ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269440 | Cellular phone and method of operating the same A cellular phone covering a plurality of frequency bands, includes (a) an antenna, (b) a high-frequency circuit, (c) an antenna-matching circuit electrically connecting in series between the antenna and the high-frequency circuit, and (d) a first unit which varies a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7221322 | Dual polarization antenna array with inter-element coupling and associated methods The dual-polarization, slot-mode antenna includes an array of dual-polarization, slot-mode, antenna units carried by a substrate, with each dual-polarization, slot-mode antenna unit having at least four patch antenna elements arranged in spaced apart relation about ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215290 | Fractal counterpoise, groundplane, loads and resonators An antenna system includes a fractalized element that may be a ground counterpoise, a top-hat located load assembly, or a microstrip patch antenna having at least one element whose physical shape is at least partially defined as a first or higher iteration determini... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7196626 | Radio frequency identification RFID tag The RFID TAG includes a conducting antenna affixed to the surface of the substrate. And, wireless telecommunication IC is electrically linked to antenna. The antenna is provided with a conductor plane and a conductor pressing section, such that wireless telecommunic... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7162264 | Tunable parasitic resonators A mobile terminal can include a printed circuit board with a reference voltage conductor, an antenna coupled to the first side of the printed circuit board, and a parasitic resonator coupled to the second side of the printed circuit board. More particularly, the par... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158090 | Antenna for a wireless network A data access system includes a plurality of access points and an antenna corresponding to one of the access points. The antenna includes a planar monopole, a vertical ground plane and a top horizontal ground plane. In one aspect, the top horizontal ground plane out... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7123197 | Miniaturized antenna-coupled module A circuit component group of a high frequency circuit is mounted on an upper surface of a circuit board. The circuit board contains a multilayered dielectric board having a ground conductor therein. An antenna element 6 made of a metal plate is mounted so as ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7027008 | Antenna ground system An antenna system includes an electrical grounding system for a low power radio transmitter of a traveler's information station. The antenna system includes an elongated metal tube having a lower portion configured to be received in the ground and an upper portion a... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6977616 | Dual-band antenna having small size and low-height There is provided a dual-band antenna having small size and low height which has a characteristic of not affecting a bandwidth of signal waves of a low band in its miniaturized state. In a dual-band antenna 11, a first radiating conductive plate 13 is ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975272 | Circularly polarized wave antenna device suitable for miniaturization A circularly polarized wave antenna device contains a dielectric substrate provided on a ground conductor 1, electrodes provided on the dielectric substrate to face the ground conductor. The electrodes form capacitors together with the ground conductor. A rad... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6967631 | Multiple meander strip monopole antenna with broadband characteristic Disclosed is a multiple meander strip monopole antenna, which can have a broad bandwidth and easily miniaturize the antenna by using a meander structure. A grounding conductor plate is coupled to the under face of a dielectric base plate. A radial cross-strip is dis... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965346 | Wireless LAN antenna and wireless LAN card with the same A wireless LAN antenna/card which can transmit/receive RF signals in a high frequency band (e.g., 5 GHz) and a low frequency band (e.g., 2.4 GHz), includes a radiation electrode, a matching electrode and a feeding electrode. The radiation electrode has a predetermin... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961022 | Antenna radiator assembly and radio communications device A radio communications device (100) having an antenna radiator assembly (19) has radio frequency communications circuitry (2), a ground plane (40), a radio frequency radiator element (7) and connectors each physically contacting th... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6956529 | Disk-shaped antenna with polarization adjustment arrangement The present invention is to provide a disk-shaped antenna comprising a ring-shaped metal loop and a ground metal face respectively on top and bottom of a substrate, wherein a center hole is provided in each of the substrate and the ground metal face, a central condu... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952185 | Method for manufacturing and tuning the center frequency of a microstrip antenna A method for fine tuning a microstrip antenna which has eight tuning tabs for tuning the antenna frequency of the microstrip antenna. The antenna is designed to operate around 430 MHz with a tuning step size of approximately 1.5 MHz. The method utilizes the eight tu... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6946999 | Tuning tabs for a microstrip antenna A microstrip antenna which includes eight tuning tabs for tuning the antenna frequency of the microstrip antenna. The antenna is designed to operate around 430 MHz with a tuning step size of approximately 1.5 MHz. The eight tuning tabs allow the antenna to be tuned ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943748 | Multiband polygonally distributed phased array antenna and associated methods A phased array antenna includes a substrate, and dipole element arrays extending in concentric rings about an imaginary center point on the substrate. Each dipole element array includes dipole antenna elements arranged in an end-to-end relation and having a dipole s... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6943730 | Low-profile, multi-frequency, multi-band, capacitively loaded magnetic dipole antenna A design and physical configuration for multi-frequency, low-profile, capacitively loaded magnetic dipole (CLMD) antennas to be used in wireless communications. One component of the CLMD antenna having one to three metal plates, and one component having one to n ele... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940458 | Electronic equipment and antenna mounting printed-circuit board A PDA includes a printed-circuit board on which at least one printed antenna pair having two chip-like printed antennas, which receive linearly polarized signals and are disposed along axes orthogonal to each other, is mounted. In each of the printed antennas, an op... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6906669 | Multifunction antenna A multifunction printed antenna for wireless and telematic applications. In one embodiment, GPS and satellite radio patch antenna elements are printed on one side of a printed circuit board and AMPS, PCS, GSM and terrestrial radio slot antenna elements are etched in... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6903686 | Multi-branch planar antennas having multiple resonant frequency bands and wireless terminals incorporating the same A conductive element with a primary branch and a secondary branch are separated by a bend segment and the signal and ground feeds are positioned adjacent each other on a common portion of the conductive element. The frequencies in the high band may be at least about... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6903703 | Multiband radially distributed phased array antenna with a sloping ground plane and associated methods A multiband phased array antenna includes a substrate, and dipole element arrays extending outwardly from an imaginary center point on the substrate. Each dipole element array includes dipole antenna elements arranged in an end-to-end relation and having a dipole si... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6897810 | Multi-band antenna A multi-band antenna (1) includes a ground patch (10), a first radiating patch (21), a second radiating patch (22), a connecting patch (23) connecting the first and second radiating patches with the ground patch, and a feeder cable... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6897831 | Reconfigurable artificial magnetic conductor An electronically reconfigurable artificial magnetic conductor (RAMC) includes a frequency selective surface (FSS) having an effective sheet capacitance which is variable to control resonant frequency of the RAMC. In one embodiment, the RAMC further includes a condu... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6897813 | Combined antenna with antenna combining circularly polarized wave antenna and vertical antenna A combined antenna combining a circularly polarized wave antenna and a vertically polarized wave antenna is provided. A flat plate antenna for ground waves is fixed on a printed board, and a two-point feeding type patch antenna is placed and fixed on a metallic flat... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6891504 | Dual-band antenna The present invention provides a dual-band inverted-F antenna configured for portable electronic devices having wireless communication function. The antenna includes a first planar conductive element and a second planar conductive element. The first planar conductiv... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6876332 | Multiple-frequency antenna structure A multiple-frequency antenna includes a feed-line and a first radiating element electrically connected to the feed-line. A tuning element is electrically connected to the first radiating element. The tuning element contains at least two stubs, each stub having a fix... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6873292 | Surface mounted type chip antenna for improving signal interfix and mobile communication apparatus using the same A surface mounted type chip antenna comprises: a body including an upper surface, a lower surface, and four side surfaces; a feeding pad formed on the lower surface and the first side surface of the body; a radiation electrode formed on the upper surface of the body... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6864841 | Multi-band antenna A multi-band antenna for enabling an electronic device (such as a laptop computer) to operate in two frequency bands comprises an insulative substrate (30), a conductive element disposed on the substrate, and a feeder cable (40). The conductive element... | 03/08/2005 |
