Communications: radio wave antennas inventions 10/06

20060238421 - Low-loss substrate antenna structure and method of manufacture thereof: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an antenna structure. In one embodiment, the method includes forming an antenna trace on a substrate proximate a ground plane of the substrate. In addition, the method includes creating an insulation region extending through the substrate and located between the antenna trace...

20060238420 - Multilayer pcb antenna: An inverted F-antenna may include an element formed from conductor patterns on a plurality of layers including at least one buried layer of a multilayer PCB, wherein (a) the conductor patterns are in stacked relation and interconnected through the PCB, (b) the conductor patterns comprise an F-shaped conductor pattern on...

20060238422 - Tag-along microsensor device and method: A tag-along microsensor device comprises a means for transmitting a signal, adhesion means, and sensing means. In a preferred embodiment, a means for transmitting a signal includes a nano-antenna apparatus. Adhesion means may include mechanical, magnetic, or static electric adhesion means. Mechanical adhesion means may include a hook or barb,...

20060238424 - Antenna structure for operating multi-band system: An antenna structure for operating multi-band system is disclosed. The antenna structure at least comprises a first radiation metal wire and a second radiation metal wire. These radiation metal wires send signal through the same feed point and provide a ground surface. The radiation metal wires are embedded into the...

20060238423 - Dual-layer atenna and method: A wireless communication device has a housing, an antenna, and a preferably flexible substrate. The housing has first and opposed second major surfaces. The antenna is fixed to the flexible substrate, and is disposed within the housing. The antenna has first and second antenna portions. The first antenna portion is...

20060238426 - Embedded antenna apparatus for utility metering applications: A multi-purpose embedded antenna apparatus for facilitating the communication of RF data signals is disclosed. Exemplary embodiments of the subject technology are utilized in a wireless utility metering environment and corresponding nodal network of communications devices. Preferred embedded antenna embodiments incorporate an RF antenna into a structural member, such as...

20060238425 - Portable wireless apparatus: There is provided with a portable wireless apparatus including a first casing including a first conductor plate; a second casing including a second conductor plate, wherein the first casing and the second casing being capable to rotate around a feed point, a coupler which couples the first casing and the...

20060238427 - Phased array antenna choke plate method and apparatus: A phased array antenna system on an aircraft that incorporates a choke plate that significantly attenuates sidelobes of the antenna beam pattern at elevation angles that would cause RF interference with ground-based terrestrial wireless networks. The choke plate includes a plurality of choke grooves that substantially circumscribe the antenna aperture....

20060238429 - Antenna device: A GPS receiving antenna device that can suitably be provided on the exterior of a vehicle is provided with low cost. An antenna case includes a top cover and a bottom plate joined with each other. The top cover stores an antenna module that receives a signal and a packing...

20060238428 - Domed circuit board of an antenna amplifier for a vehicle antenna device: A high-frequency device for a vehicle antenna device which can be mounted on a surface of the vehicle, comprising a circuit board (1) with strip conductors and circuit components, in addition to feed means such as lines or connectors or the like. According to the invention, the circuit board (1)...

20060238430 - Antenna device and antenna device manufacturing method: A loop antenna device includes a loop antenna having a high noise resistance performance. In a loop antenna having a shield member covering a looped conductor portion formed in a loop shape from a conductive wire, a non-covered portion where the looped conductor portion is not covered is formed in...

20060238431 - Antenna: An antenna having excellent receiving sensitivity for radio waves of two or more different frequency bands is achieved with a relatively simple configuration using a single cord. The antenna of the present invention is made up of a single cord which has one end connected to a plug and includes...

20060238433 - Antenna assembly having different signal emitting direction: An antenna assembly includes a circuit board, and one antenna device disposed on one side of the circuit board, for receiving and transmitting signals laterally, and another antenna device disposed on the other side of the circuit board, for receiving and transmitting signals vertically, to prevent the signal receiving and...

20060238434 - Electronic device including tetrahedral antenna and associated methods: An electronic device includes a housing having a plurality of panels connected together to define a closed geometric shape having one or more corners. An electrically conductive layer is carried by the housing to define a first dipole element, and a second dipole element is carried by housing adjacent one...

20060238432 - Reflecting plate-equipped planar antenna: A reflector 21 of planar shape is provided at the rear face of a radiator 20 of planar shape made of a triangular loop element. The side sections 21b on both sides of the reflector 21 are bent towards the radiator 20 and the separation α2 between the leading edges...

20060238435 - Portable sdars-receiving device with integrated audio wire and antenna: An antenna having a plurality of elongated conductors is disclosed. The elongated conductors have a substantially straight portion and a substantially helical portion....

20060238436 - Method for constructing microwave antennas and circuits incorporated within nonwoven fabric: This patent describes fabric antenna and fabric microwave circuits and the method for making the same. Microwave conducting material is incorporated into non-woven fabrics using a calendaring process to produce an antenna or microwave circuits. The resulting material can then be manufactured into garments, either as filler material or as...

20060238437 - Antenna with isolation sleeve: An antenna includes a body with an isolation sleeve fitted in the stepped passage defined axially through the body. A central signal line is received in the isolation sleeve. A connector is rotatably connected to an end of the body and a flange extends inward from an inner periphery of...

20060238438 - Antenna reflector: An antenna reflector panel comprises a reinforcing element and a reflector sheet being mounted onto said reinforcing element. The reinforcing element comprises a block of a machinable material having a shaped front surface, the reflector sheet being fixed to the front surface of the block so as to form a...

20060232477 - Antenna having a plurality of resonant frequencies: An antenna having a plurality of resonant frequencies and including a ground plane having an edge; a feed point; a ground point; and an antenna track extending between the feed point and the ground point and comprising, in series connection, a first loop and a second loop wherein a least...

20060232474 - Antenna system: An antenna system includes a dielectric resonator, provided with first and second electrical signal inputs. An electrical signal is fed through the first electrical signal input, and through the second electrical signal input with a significant phase difference, for example in the region of 180°. This has the advantage that...

20060232475 - Dual-band strip antenna supporting left-hand and right-hand circular polarization: A dual-band strip antenna supporting left-hand circular polarization and right-hand circular polarization includes at least a first base and a second base stacked to each other, an antenna conductor coated between the two bases, and a feeder connected to the antenna conductor through indirect capacitor coupling. The antenna conductor includes...

20060232476 - Miniature planar notch antenna using microstrip feed line: A miniature antenna for various wireless communication applications in the ISM band around 2.45 GHz is provided. The miniature antenna mainly contains a bended planar notch antenna with a metallic stub as a capacitive load. A microstrip feed line is also appropriately bended so as to achieve a significant reduction...

20060232479 - Multi-band antenna: Antenna assemblies and corresponding modes of operation are provided where the first antenna assembly of the system is tuned to a first frequency band ν1 and the second antenna assembly of the antenna system is tuned to a second frequency band ν2. The ground plane of the first antenna assembly...

20060232478 - Planar monopole antennas: Planar monopole antennas. A planar monopole antenna for communicating radio signals within a specific frequency range includes a substrate, a ground, a first sleeve, a second sleeve and a radiator. The radiator and the ground are formed on the substrate. The first and second sleeves project from a side of...

20060232483 - Adaptive antenna apparatus including adaptive controller for adaptive controlling at least two antenna elements: An adaptive antenna apparatus includes antenna elements. One of the antenna elements has an electrical length L1 larger than λ/2, and equal to or smaller than a predetermined upper-limit wavelength, where λ is a wavelength of a radio signal. Another antenna element has an electrical length L2 equal to or...

20060232482 - Antenna: An antenna comprises an antenna body, a cable, a substrate, a ground element and a conductive element. The antenna body, which is U-shaped, comprises a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The first portion is planar, the second portion is connected to an end of the first...

20060232484 - Insert molded antenna: Systems and methods are disclosed for insert-molding various electronic and mechanical parts as part of a housing of an electrical device. The insert molded components can comprise antennas, flex members and circuits, electronic, mechanical, and interface units that have been insert molded as part of a plastic housing that contains...

20060232485 - Multi-band antenna with patch and slot structures: A multiple-band antenna having first and second operating frequency bands is provided. The antenna includes a first patch structure associated primarily with the first operating frequency band, a second patch structure electrically coupled to the first patch structure and associated primarily with the second operating frequency band, a first slot...

20060232480 - Placing of components on an antenna arrangement: A portable communication device includes a radio circuit for feeding antenna elements, at least one component which is mildly sensitive to external radio transmission, and an antenna arrangement for sending and receiving radio traffic. The antenna arrangement includes a first antenna element located within and extending through a major portion...

20060232481 - Wideband antenna module for the high-frequency and microwave range: An antenna module more particularly for the high-frequency and microwave range is described which can be operated as a wideband antenna in various frequency bands. For this purpose the antenna module is particularly suitable in that it has an antenna (10) and an HF line (20) to connect the antenna...

20060232486 - Antenna system: In some embodiments, the multiple antennas are cooperated in the system to provide simultaneous communication with multiple remote sites. Embodiments comprises a first variable inclined continuous transverse stub (VICTS) antenna that comprises a perimeter and an inactive region within the perimeter, a second VICTS antenna positioned at the inactive region...

20060232487 - Antenna device having ultra wide bandwidth characteristics: An antenna device having ultra wide bandwidth characteristics includes: a dielectric substrate having first and second surfaces that are opposite to each other in a normal direction; a radiating element formed on the first surface of the dielectric substrate and defining an axis perpendicular to the normal direction; and a...

20060232488 - Array antenna: An array antenna includes a dielectric substrate (10) having an upper and a lower surfaces (101, 102), a first and a second radiating elements (11, 21), a first connecting portion (31) connecting the two radiating elements arranged on the upper surface of the dielectric substrate, a first and a second...

20060232489 - 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 frequency ring element. The element includes a ground plane; and...

20060232490 - 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 frequency ring element. The element includes a ground plane; and...

20060232491 - Electromagnetic wave shield box: Disclosed herein is an electromagnetic wave shield box for shielding a wireless terminal received therein from external electromagnetic waves. The electromagnetic wave shield box includes a box body for allowing the wireless terminal to be received therein, the box body having a coupling antenna mounted therein, the coupling antenna being...

20060232492 - Array antenna control device and array antenna device: An array antenna apparatus (100) includes a radiating element (A0) for receiving a transmitted radio signal, two parasitic elements (A1, A2), and two variable reactance elements (12-1, 12-2) connected to the respective parasitic elements (A1, A2), and a directivity characteristic of the array antenna apparatus is changed by changing reactances...

20060232493 - Circular-polarization dipole helical antenna: A circular-polarization dipole helical antenna is used for electronic device and satellite terminal and includes a base, and an antenna conductor arranged on surface of the base. The antenna conductor includes a plurality of metal conductors with high Q value and anti-oxidation property and continuously and helically coated on surface...

20060227053 - Antenna device and electronic apparatus: An antenna device includes a dielectric substrate, a ground plane, a pair of antenna elements, a feeding section, and a pair of transmission lines. The ground plane is formed on a surface of the dielectric substrate. The antenna elements are flat, have different resonant frequencies, are formed on another surface...

20060227052 - Multi-band or wide-band antenna: A monopole-type antenna for multi- or wide-band use to transmit or receive radio frequency electromagnetic energy. A feed point, provides energy into the antenna or receives energy from the antenna. A driven radiating section includes a first top-loading element and a feed conductor that electrically connects the feed point linearly...

20060227051 - 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 spacing between the patch conductor and the ground conductor nonuniform in...

20060227054 - Antenna: An antenna arrangement including a first antenna element having a first portion and a first feed; and a second antenna element having a second portion and a second feed, different to the first feed, wherein the first antenna element and the second antenna element are relatively arranged and oriented so...

20060227055 - Antenna device: An antenna device is provided that is preferably used for various wireless devices, television receivers and the like. An antenna rod can be stopped at a predetermined angle position via a hinge mechanism. The antenna device includes hinge mechanism (41) by which a biasing force by coil spring (51) stored...

20060227056 - Electrothermal deicing apparatus and a dual function heater conductor for use therein: An electrothermal deicing apparatus comprises: at least one heater conductor formed into a predetermined pattern for application to a structure, each conductor of the pattern coated with at least one layer of a material active to absorb electromagnetic energy, the pattern of the at least one coated heater conductor is...

20060227057 - Fin-shaped antenna apparatus for vehicle radio application: A fin-shaped antenna apparatus for vehicle ratio application is electrically connected to a wireless receiver circuit and receives a radio signal. The fin-shaped antenna apparatus includes a fin-shaped cover, an AM antenna, a signal amplifier circuit board, an FM resonance circuit on the signal amplifier circuit board and a metal...

20060227058 - 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 electric power source (10) for powering the electronic module....

20060227059 - Lighted antenna: A lighted antenna is provided. The lighted antenna is composed of an antenna pole, a base block, a cylindrical body, a control circuit, and a battery. The base block has a hole in the center for fixing the antenna in upright position, and a plurality of clipping holes surrounding center...

20060227060 - System and method for multiple antennas having a single core: A system and method for multiple antennas on a single core. The system may include a first core, a first winding wound about the first core for transmitting/receiving electromagnetic signals, and a second winding for transmitting/receiving electromagnetic signals wound about the first core and the first winding. The first winding...

20060227061 - Omni-directional collinear antenna: An antenna includes a differential transmission line and a center conductor, where the center conductor is at least partially contained within the differential transmission line and at least partially protruding therefrom. A first conductive flat element is connected to the center conductor and a flat meander-line structure is integral with...

20060227062 - Antenna system with parasitic element and associated method: An antenna system comprises a parasitic element, which is an electrically tuned structural element, installed between antennas to reduce or eliminate antenna-to-antenna coupled electromagnetic interference by emitting destructive interference in the direction from one antenna to another antenna. The antenna system comprises a first antenna operating at a first wavelength,...

20060227063 - Star-rib backing structure for a reflector system: A backing structure of an antenna reflector for satellite communication to increase the stiffness and the frequency of the antenna reflector, having a deployable panel attached to a spacecraft at a hinge/gimbal interface and a plurality of hinge-release points. The backing structure has a plurality of first ribs and second...

20060220957 - Antenna device and a method of making the antenna: An antenna device comprising a hollow dielectric plastic holder (17) with a pair of opposite ends. A first helical electrode plate (18) is attached to one of the pair of opposite ends and has a first terminal device (25). A second flat electrode plate (19) is attached to the other...

20060220958 - Antenna element and array antenna: An antenna element for an array antenna comprises a transmission line (1) passed through a ground plane (3), connected at an excitation point (8) to a flat, conductive, helical excitation element (6) mounted on a dielectric substrate (4) on the top of and parallel to the ground plane (3). The...

20060220960 - Antenna system designed to enhance power efficiency: An antenna system designed to enhance power efficiency of a patch antenna for wireless transmission is provided. The system includes a patch antenna, a reflective plate, a transmission line, and a printed circuit board assembly. The reflective plate is arranged at the position of ¼λ away from the patch antenna,...

20060220961 - Antenna system using complementary metal oxide semiconductor techniques: Apparatus, system, and method are described for a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit device having a first metal layer that includes a radiating element and a second metal layer that includes a first conductor coupled to the radiating element. The first conductor and the radiating element are mutually...

20060220962 - Circularly polorized square patch antenna: An antenna comprises a square patch element having first and second feed points and lying in a first plane, the first feed point being disposed near a first edge of the square patch element and substantially bisecting the first edge, and the second feed point being disposed near a second...

20060220959 - 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 between the respective ends. A ground connector switch is configured to...

20060220963 - Electronic circuit: The present invention provides electric circuits in which the line width of a conductor, which becomes close to a metal flange of a connector or a conductor wall, is gradually reduced from a predetermined position thereon, thereby the reduction of the impedance of the conductor line can be compensated....

20060220964 - Antenna arrangement: An antenna arrangement including a first matching circuit; a second matching circuit; a first antenna connected to the first matching circuit; a second antenna, moveable with respect to the first antenna, between an extended position in which it is connected to the first matching circuit and a non-extended position in...

20060220966 - Antenna element-counterpoise arrangement in an antenna: An antenna comprising an antenna element and a counterpoise. The antenna element is positioned to minimize capacitive coupling between the antenna element and the counterpoise. In one embodiment no portion of the antenna element overlaps the counterpoise decreasing the distributed capacitance between the antenna element and the counterpoise and increasing...

20060220967 - Combined dmb and mobile communication antenna apparatus for mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is a combined DMB and mobile communication antenna apparatus for a mobile communication terminal. The antenna apparatus includes one whip antenna for receiving both signals in a DMB frequency band and in a mobile communication frequency band, a first contact coupled to the whip antenna to receive the signal...

20060220965 - Mobile wireless communication device antenna systems and methods: An antenna with a loop portion that arches away from the body of the mobile wireless communication device. The loop portion is connected to the mobile wireless communication device at one end and detachably connected or grounded to the mobile wireless communication device at the other end. An antenna that...

20060220969 - 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 the housing and connected to the circuitry. The device...

20060220968 - Wireless signal transmission restriction device: Disclosed herein is a wireless signal transmission restriction device for directing or limiting signal transmission range of signal transmission devices. In one embodiment, the wireless signal transmission restriction device comprises a hollow elongated enclosure having a closed first end and an open second end configuring an internal space therein. The...

20060220970 - Antenna module: Antenna module for frequencies in the GHz-range mountable on vehicles features a wide range of functions. Module includes a lower patch-antenna with a lower dielectric substrate. A lower λ/2-antenna structure is on the upper surface of the lower substrate for reception of satellite-transmitted frequencies in the GHz range, and a...

20060220971 - Mounting type receiver, mounting type transmitter, mounting type transmitter-receiver, antenna, receiver, transmitter, and transmitter-receiver: An antenna (100) includes a core (101) formed with ferrite and an antenna copper plate (102) arranged on periphery of the core (101) so that the antenna copper plate wraps nearly one around the core (101). A length L1 of the core (101)=a length L2 of the antenna copper plate...

20060220972 - Noise suppressor: A noise suppressor capable of preventing degradation in an attenuation characteristic by a parasitic component so as to obtain a favorable attenuation characteristic is provided. The noise suppressor includes a first winding wire disposed on a first current-carrying wire and a series circuit including a capacitor and a second winding...

20060220973 - Millimeter-wave transreflector and system for generating a collimated coherent wavefront: A planar multi-layer transreflector for generating collimated coherent energy comprises one or more of insulating layers between two or more metallic layers. The transreflector substantially reflects a cross-polarized component of an incident millimeter-wave signal and substantially transmits the remaining portions of the incident millimeter-wave signal. Each of the metallic layers...

20060220974 - High frequency module and array of the same: A high frequency module for converting a high frequency wave in a free space to a high frequency wave in a planar waveguide includes two metal plates, a dielectric substrate and a planar waveguide disposed on the dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate between the two metal plates has the planar...

20060220975 - Magnetic source oscillators universal passive antenna: h

20060220976 - Vertically polarized panel antenna system and method: A very inexpensive and on-site tunable design for a vertically polarized panel antenna system, suitable for the FCC digital broadcast 700 MHz range is provided. Bowtie-like shaped antennas having machine-stampable planar elements with an adjustable separation are configured with a stripline feed. The stipline feed enables easy feeding of doublet...

20060220977 - Loop antenna: A loop antenna providing a reception performance equivalent to a patch antenna receiving a circularly polarized wave, simple in configuration, and kept low in cost, which forms a loop element and a parasitic element provided independently of this loop element on the same dielectric board to form an antenna element...

20060220978 - Magnetic source oscillators universal passive antenna: A device concerning a magnetic source oscillators universal passive antenna to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves from low frequencies to hyper frequencies. The device is made with a special dipolar system that contains tow identical parts (15) and (16) that are assembled by a metal support (7). This metal support...

20060220979 - Structure for an edge of a disk body of an antenna: The present invention is related to an improved structure for an edge of a disk body of an antenna, which comprises the disk body and a side edge, the side edge has a supporting ring and a containing slot and is around the disk body, the supporting ring is on...

20060220980 - Reconfigurable plasma antenna with interconnected gas enclosures: A reconfigurable antenna comprises an array of interconnected gas enclosures, each of the enclosures being controllable between at least a first state in which gas within the enclosure is substantially non-conducting and a second state in which the gas within the enclosure forms an electrically conductive plasma. At least one...