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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8094086 | Electronically steerable antenna An electronically steerable antenna includes at least one driven element, at least one controllable counterpoise element, and a support structure on which the driven element and the controllable counterpoise element are disposed. The controllable counterpoise elemen... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8068068 | 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... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8022889 | Antenna impedance modulation method A method for modulating the impedance of an antenna circuit supplying pump signals to a charge pump comprising at least one first pump stage and one last pump stage, the last pump stage supplying a continuous voltage. The output of the first pump stage is short-circ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7995000 | Electronically-controlled monolithic array antenna An electronically controlled monolithic array antenna includes a transmission line through which an electromagnetic signal may be propagated, and a metal antenna element defining an evanescent coupling edge located so as to permit evanescent coupling of the signal b... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7969381 | Patch antenna A wireless device has a housing, a patch antenna, and an open/shut sensing unit which senses the open/shut state of the housing and forms an open/shut signal indicating the open/shut state. The patch antenna has a first element which corresponds to a first polarized... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7952533 | Antenna element and frequency reconfiguration array antenna using the antenna element A frequency reconfiguration array antenna includes a metal plate and a plurality of antenna elements. The antenna element includes a plurality of radiators and at least one switch for connecting the radiators, and a gain of at least one frequency bandwidth from amon... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7916096 | Communication system having configurable 3-D antenna grid and method for configuring the communication system A system and a method for configuring a communication system are provided. The communication system has an antenna system with a 3-D antenna grid. The configurable 3-D antenna grid has a plurality of antenna elements operably coupled to a plurality of switching elem... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7884779 | Multiple-input switch design A switch designs having very low insertion loss, in which the insertion loss remains the same regardless of the number of inputs. A plurality of inputs are structured for receiving electromagnetic radiation signal having a wavelength λ. A plurality of switches, e.g... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7880685 | Switched-resonance antenna phase shifter and phased array incorporating same Controlled phase shift in the operation of an RF antenna element is achieved by selectively choosing between different modes of antenna element resonance. Additional phase control resolution is achieved by combining this with other types of phase shifters. Such phas... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7855696 | Metamaterial antenna arrays with radiation pattern shaping and beam switching Apparatus, systems and techniques for using composite left and right handed (CRLH) metamaterial (MTM) structure antenna elements and arrays to provide radiation pattern shaping and beam switching. ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7830330 | Antenna configuration Regarding an antenna configuration (1) preferably provided for a telecommunication device and comprising a first resonator structure (6) and second resonator structure (RS) being capacitive coupled with the first resonator structure (6) it is su... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7812783 | Miniaturized orthogonal antenna system A system for providing multiple antenna patterns comprises a first antenna element, a second antenna element, wherein the first and second antenna elements are coplanar and arranged orthogonally with respect to each other in the plane, and a feed circuit in communic... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7808445 | Antenna device and portable radio communication device comprising such an antenna device The present invention relates to a portable radio communication device operable in at least a first and a second frequency band, the antenna device comprises a first electrically conductive radiating element comprises a first feeding portion connectable to a feed de... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7800552 | Antenna apparatus for multiple input multiple output communication At least two antennas are selected from a plurality of antennas which consist of at least two antennas having polarization characteristics or directivities different from one another, and which are arranged such that spatial fading correlations between the antennas ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800553 | Information processing apparatus with antenna switching function, communication apparatus, antenna switching control unit, antenna switching control program, and computer-readable recording medium recording the same program In an information processing apparatus such as a notebook type personal computer having radio communication functions, for communication units to simultaneously carry out transmission/reception independently of each other without increasing the number of antennas, a... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7701410 | Dual-mode antenna device A dual-mode antenna device (20) includes a wireless module (207) and a second wireless module (208) transceiving signals of a first wireless network signal and a second wireless network. A first antenna (201) and a second antenna (202 | 04/20/2010 |
| 7696948 | Configurable directional antenna Systems and methods for a directional antenna and methods for manufacturing the same are described. One system and method includes a plurality of antenna elements. Groups of the antenna elements cooperate to form a directional antenna. In one configuration, a first ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7692602 | Control system of antenna array of RFID reader applications The present invention provides a control apparatus of an antenna array. The control apparatus of an antenna array comprises a control circuit including a serial interface circuit connected to the first switch and the second switch by a first control line and a secon... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7633458 | Antenna assembly and multibeam antenna assembly Provided is an antenna which has a small-sized planar constitution as can be easily mounted on a small-sized radio device and which can form a principal beam having a vertical polarization in directions of low and high elevation angles. On the surface of a su... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7619582 | Printed monopole smart antenna for WLAN AP/router A printed monopole smart antenna is provided. The smart antenna includes a monopole antenna having a plane for receiving and transmitting a signal, two conductors for directing and/or reflecting the signal to the monopole antenna respectively, and a circuit device e... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7609223 | Electronically-controlled monolithic array antenna An electronically controlled monolithic array antenna includes a transmission line through which an electromagnetic signal may be propagated, and a metal antenna element defining an evanescent coupling edge located so as to permit evanescent coupling of the signal b... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7570224 | Antenna apparatus and antenna system Disclosed a antenna apparatus including: a first antenna having a fixed directivity for receiving a signal in a first frequency band; a second antenna capable of switching a directivity thereof at a time of receiving a signal in a second frequency band; a judgment s... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7557770 | Method and apparatus for switching between internal and external antennas in a device such as PC-Card modem Method and apparatus for selectively connecting one of an internal and an external antenna to an RF signal component of a wireless modem use a sensor mounted on the circuit board of the wireless modem. The sensor senses the presence of a connector of the external an... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7551146 | Configurable antenna for mixed wireless networks Methods and apparatus to reconfigure an antenna for use with mixed wireless networks are described. In one embodiment, a switch is coupled between a first portion and a second portion of an antenna to cause the antenna to tune to a plurality of radio frequency bands... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7522120 | Antenna apparatus of mobile communications terminal and operation method thereof An antenna apparatus for a mobile communications terminal and its operation method in which the length of an antenna can be varied according to the changes in the usage environment. The antenna requires minimal space for installation, and can support multiplexing of... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7511681 | Switchable antenna arrangement An antenna arrangement for a portable communication apparatus includes a main antenna connectable to an antenna input, a receive antenna connectable to an antenna output, an external antenna connector for receiving a terminal of an auxiliary antenna, an antenna dete... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7482993 | Variable-directivity antenna A variable-directivity antenna according to the present invention includes at least three linear passive elements, which are arranged parallel to a Z-axis so as to surround a feed element. Each of those passive elements includes at least two element pieces, etc. tha... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7471257 | Antenna assembly and method of operation thereof The invention concerns an antenna assembly (102) and a method (600) of operation thereof. In one arrangement, the antenna assembly can include a first antenna element (202) and a second antenna element (204), electrically disconnected fro... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7429959 | Process and device for the radio transmission of signals generated near the body A process and a device for the radio transmission of signals generated near the body via an array of at least two antennas arranged in different positions near the body. At least one antenna, which will act as the transmitting antenna, is selected before or during t... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7411554 | MIMO antenna operable in multiband A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna operable in a multiband includes a plurality of antenna elements each including a radiator radiating electromagnetic waves, a ground connected to the radiator, at least one switching element mounted in an area of lengt... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405697 | Compact diversity antenna A diversity radio antenna includes a ground substrate and two elongated antenna elements. The antenna elements each extend between respective opposing ends thereof in a plane parallel to and spaced from the ground substrate. An excitation electrode is interposed bet... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403170 | Differential-feed slot antenna With a differential feed line 103c, slot resonators 601, 603, 605, and 607 are allowed to operate in pair, a slot length of each resonator corresponding to a ½ effective wavelength during operation. Slot resonators which are excited out-... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403172 | Reconfigurable patch antenna apparatus, systems, and methods Embodiments of a beam-reconfigurable patch antenna are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403173 | Antenna device Provided is a compact antenna for installment in a portable terminal and adjusting a resonant frequency. The compact antenna device includes an antenna unit including first and second elements, the first element including a first antenna terminal having at least one... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397420 | Timing adjustment method for radar, and radar apparatus having automatic timing adjusting function On/off timing of an amplifier and timing of antenna selection are accurately adjusted. When adjusting the on/off timing of the amplifier, modulation of a transmit signal is stopped, and a switch is set so as not to select any one of the antennas, thereby totally ref... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7372426 | Antenna device and radio communication apparatus An antenna device includes an antenna main body having at least three electricity feeding points and a feeder circuit for feeding an electrical signal to the antenna main body. The feeder circuit feeds electrical signals different in at least one of amplitude and ph... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367281 | Plasma antenna The plasma antenna is designed to allow connection between electric elements within the antenna to be varied without changing the construction of the antenna during a chemical vapor deposition process, thereby maximizing efficiency of a cleaning or deposition proces... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369086 | Miniature vertically polarized multiple frequency band antenna and method of providing an antenna for a wireless device A miniature vertically polarized multi-frequency antenna 10 is embedded in a substrate 11 and suitable for use within a wireless device. The antenna 10 includes a first lateral member 14 and a second lateral member 16, which is spa... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365695 | Antenna system An antenna system for sharing of operation employs contiguous transmit frequencies. Transmit frequencies are separated into non-contiguous sub-groups isolated from one another by filters 158(+) and 160(−) associated with positive and negative polaris... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366544 | Mote networks having directional antennas A mote network having and/or using one or more directional antennas. ... | 04/29/2008 |
