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Behavior Modification Wristwatch

A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.

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Phan, Tho


Primary examiner statistics: 1008 patents; average approval time: 1007 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 698 patents; average approval time: 937 days

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NumberTitleIssue Date
7501770Laser guided display device
A laser beam, which scans a display screen comprised of an array of picture elements. Each picture element is further comprised of a photocell connected to an LED in the presence of an electric field. The laser's intensity and or duration on selected photocells prod...
03/10/2009
7463202Extendable antenna architecture
A system and apparatus for an extendable antenna architecture are described. The apparatus may include an antenna body having one or more antenna traces, and an antenna housing to couple to the antenna body. The antenna housing may have an extended position and a re...
12/09/2008
7463211Adjustable antenna element and antennas employing same
An antenna system with at least one tunable dipole element with a length adjustable conductive member disposed. The element is made of two longitudinally aligned, hollow support arms made of non-conductive material. Disposed longitudinally inside each element is a l...
12/09/2008
7463201Aperiodic array antenna
A wireless handset including an antenna array. The antenna array includes an active antenna element and two passive antenna elements. The active and passive antenna elements are arranged to form a triangle with a vertex. The vertex includes a vertex angle and the ac...
12/09/2008
7463198Non-woven textile microwave antennas and components
A method of constructing an antenna, filter, or similar structure comprising one or more planar electrically conductive radiating and/or receiving elements having conductive feedlines attached thereto and a planar around reference conductor spaced therefrom by a spa...
12/09/2008
7463200Directional antenna configuration for TDD repeater
A wireless communication node, such as a repeater, including a frequency translating repeater, a physical layer (PHY) repeater, time divisional duplex repeater (TDD) and the like, is configured with a pair of directional patch antennae and an omni-directional antenn...
12/09/2008
7460072Miniature patch antenna with increased gain
The present invention, relates to the preparation of a patch antenna with a specific effective dielectric constant; and a reduced dissipation factor. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, size requirements and the desired resonant signal frequency dictate the...
12/02/2008
7460070Chip antenna
A chip antenna has a dielectric material layer, a first meandered strip, a second meandered strip and several bended strips. The first meandered strip is meandered in one direction and disposed on the dielectric material layer. The second meandered strip is meandere...
12/02/2008
7456799Wideband vehicular antennas
Antennas suitable for wideband transmission and reception are disclosed that are useful in environments susceptible to vibration and impact motion such as for example vehicles of various types, e.g., automobiles, trains, etc. The apparatus can include a bicone anten...
11/25/2008
7456796Glass antenna for vehicle
There is provided an antenna formed on at least upper blank space of defogging heating strips of a rear window glass of a vehicle. The antenna is a vehicular glass antenna including an AM broadcast wave receiving antenna which has at least two horizontal strips form...
11/25/2008
7453401Vertical complementary fractal antenna
A vertical complementary fractal antenna is provided, which includes a first fractal structure and a second fractal structure. The first fractal structure is defined as a superposition over at least one iteration of a motif, while the second fractal structure has a ...
11/18/2008
7450078Loop antenna for in the ear audio device
The invention regards a communication device which is adapted for placement in a users ear and comprises a shell part enclosing an input transducer for receiving an input signal, a signal processing device and an output transducer for providing a signal perceivable ...
11/11/2008
7450076Integrated multi-band antenna
An integrated multi-band antenna has a first radiating element and a second radiating element. The first radiating element has a first radiating conductor defining opposite sides connected to a second radiating conductor and a third radiating conductor respectively....
11/11/2008
7446716Electronic device
A display unit includes a conductive portion 1. When it is assumed that there is an imaginary straight line m1, which extends in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of a dipole antenna 2, passes through a center of the dipo...
11/04/2008
7446710Integrated LTCC mm-wave planar array antenna with low loss feeding network
An array antenna comprises a first substrate comprising a first plurality of ceramic layers; a second substrate comprising a second plurality of ceramic layers; a bottom ground plane stacked on the bottom of the second ceramic substrate; a plurality of quasi-cavity-...
11/04/2008
7446720Method and apparatus for a wireless hearing aid antenna
The present subject matter includes a hearing aid housing, a microphone, a wireless communication circuit, hearing aid electronics disposed in the housing, the hearing aid electronics connected to the wireless communication circuit and the microphone, an insertion r...
11/04/2008
7443350Embedded multi-mode antenna architectures for wireless devices
Low-profile, compact embedded multi-mode antenna designs are provided for use with computing devices, such as laptop computers, which enable ease of integration within computing devices with limited space, while providing suitable antenna characteristics (e.g., impe...
10/28/2008
7443349Radio communication device
A radio communication device including: a case; a circuit board mounted inside the case; an antenna apparatus that is arranged inside the case and is fed electricity from the circuit board; and one or a plurality of antenna improving elements that are each arranged ...
10/28/2008
7443348Omni-directional antenna
An omni-directional antenna includes an electrically conductive ground plane, an electrically conductive parasitic disc spaced upwardly apart from the ground plane and parallel thereto, and an electrically conductive vertical antenna element extending up through the...
10/28/2008
7439923Multiband antenna
The present invention relates generally to a new family of antennas with a multiband behavior, so that the frequency bands of the antenna can be tuned simultaneously to the main existing wireless services. In particular, the invention consists of shaping at least on...
10/21/2008
7439914Antenna unit
An antenna unit has a first antenna operating at wireless telecommunication bands and a second antenna operating at wireless local area network bands. The first antenna has a first radiating conductor with a first feeding point defining opposite sides, a second, a t...
10/21/2008
7439915Antenna unit and feeding component
An antenna unit includes a feeding component 40 and a metal plate 50 on which the feeding component 40 is mounted. The feeding component 40 has an attaching member 43 made of resin to support a feeding line against the metal plate....
10/21/2008
7439925Dual band corrugated feed horn antenna
A dual band antenna with a corrugated feed horn comprises a waveguide and a feed horn assembly. The feed horn assembly comprises at least two portions. Two portions each have at least a cylindrical ring and a groove, in which the groove is between two cylindrical ri...
10/21/2008
7436370Device and method for polarization control for a phased array antenna
A method of configuring a phased array antenna having a plurality of radiators, each said radiator elements capable of radiating or receiving signals in one of two orthogonal polarizations determined to achieve a pseudo-random mix of horizontally and vertically pola...
10/14/2008
7436362Antenna device
A first antenna portion has a first board having a first face and a second face opposite to the first face, a first antenna element mounted on the first face, and a first electronic circuit mounted on the second face. A second antenna portion has a second board havi...
10/14/2008
7436368Antenna adapter for improved cosite performance
An antenna for a military ground vehicle having a radio includes a whip element and a base plate attached to the whip element. The base plate has a first set of dimensions. The antenna also includes an antenna adapter that is attached to the base plate. The antenna ...
10/14/2008
7436371Waveguide crescent slot array for low-loss, low-profile dual-polarization antenna
A low-loss, low-profile dual-polarization slotted waveguide antenna includes one or more waveguides having a characteristic wavelength. Radiation apertures comprised of a waveguide slot pairs are formed in each or the waveguides of the antenna. Each waveguide slot p...
10/14/2008
7429956Antenna
Provided is an antenna including: an antenna stick; and an antenna hinge pivotably attaching the antenna stick to an electronic device body. The antenna hinge includes: a support plate fixed to and combined with the electronic device body; a first connector connecte...
09/30/2008
7429954Display panel with pairs of antennas
A portable computer display panel comprising a first and second pair of antennas disposed within a housing. A display screen is supported by the housing. A latch assembly is disposed between the display screen and an outer edge of the housing. The first pair of ante...
09/30/2008
7429960Log-periodic antenna
The subject invention provides a log-periodic antenna and method for controlling multiple polarizations of the antenna per a given frequency or frequencies The antenna includes a boom and a plurality of pairs of elements where each element of each pair of elements e...
09/30/2008
7429961Method for fabricating antenna structures having adjustable radiation characteristics
The radiation properties and wave guiding properties of frequency selective surfaces are used in conjunction with closely spaced antenna elements to fabricate antenna structures having adjustable radiation characteristics. The direction, magnitude, and polarization ...
09/30/2008
7427967Phased array antenna and inter-element mutual coupling control method
A phased array antenna (400) comprises a first array element (402) and second array element (404) and a dielectric separator (408). Each of the first and second array elements (402,404) is a detection element and or an emitter elem...
09/23/2008
7427955Dual polarization antenna and RFID reader employing the same
Provided is a dual polarization antenna realized by using four inverted F-type radiators and a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader employing the dual polarization antenna. The dual polarization antenna includes a ground plate and four inverted F-type radiat...
09/23/2008
7425922Wearable small-sized patch antenna for use with a satellite
A wearable patch antenna comprises a dielectric layer including water; a ground plane adjacent one side of the dielectric layer; a conductive patch element placed adjacent another side of the dielectric layer spaced from the ground plane by the dielectric layer; and...
09/16/2008
7423600Vehicular antenna apparatus
A vehicular antenna apparatus includes a radiating conductor directly patterned on a glass surface of a vehicle, a base plate fixed to the glass surface, a frame screwed to the base plate, a power feeding substrate and a circuit substrate accommodated and held in th...
09/09/2008
7420515Foldable and portable communication apparatus that can reduce the EM absorption
This invention provides a foldable and portable communication apparatus including a lower case, an upper case, and a connector. The connector is used to connect the lower case and the upper case in a foldable way. The lower case has a lower inner face. The upper cas...
09/02/2008
7420525Multi-beam antenna with shared dielectric lens
An integrated multi-beam antenna with a shared dielectric lens is disclosed. The antenna is formed by positioning the feed apertures of a plurality of waveguide feeds at positions located on the surface of the shared dielectric lens. The angular direction and shape ...
09/02/2008
7414584Antenna device and shield cover thereof
A circuit board has a first face and a second face opposite to the first face. An antenna element is mounted on the first face. A shield cover is attached to the second face. The shield cover includes a polygonal base portion, a first wall provided on a first side o...
08/19/2008
7408515Mobile communication device and an antenna assembly for the device
A mobile communication device has an antenna assembly comprising the combination of an inverted-F antenna and a dielectrically-loaded quadrifilar helical antenna, the latter mounted on the distal end of an elongate radiator element of the inverted-F antenna. The die...
08/05/2008
7408522Antenna-feeder device and antenna
An antenna comprises: a main reflector being a body of revolution of parabolic shape; a sub-reflector being a body of the revolution of elliptic shape having a circle and a vertex oriented to the main reflector and being placed between the circle and the main reflec...
08/05/2008
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