Communications: radio wave antennas inventions 02/07

20070040748 - Dual-band antenna for radiating electromagnetic signals of different frequencies: A dual-band antenna for radiating electromagnetic signals of different frequencies includes a ground portion (500), a feeding part (400), and a body (100). The feeding part (400) is for feeding signals. The body (100) includes a first radiating part (110) and a second radiating part (120). The first radiating part... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070040746 - Method for improving the efficiency of transparent thin film antennas and antennas made by such method: A method for improving the efficiency of antennas having transparent thin-film conductive surfaces, and antennas improved by the method are disclosed. For a selected frequency of antenna operation, values for surface current density in areas distributed over the surface of the thin-film are determined. Regions of the surface containing areas... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070040750 - Multi-band antenna: A multi-band antenna used in an electronic device, comprising: a grounding element; a radiating element comprises a first radiating section operating at 900 MHz frequency band and a second radiating section operating at 1800 MHz frequency band; and a connecting section connecting the radiating element and the grounding element. The... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070040747 - Multi-band antenna: A multi-band antenna (10) includes one or more a loop portions (12) substantially defining operation in frequency ranges covering between approximately 800 MegaHertz and approximately 1.0 GigaHertz and between approximately 1.8 GigaHertz and approximately 2.0 GigaHertz, a surface plate portion (14) having a length (15) substantially defining operation in a... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070040745 - Multi-band frequency loop-slot antenna: A loop-slot antenna defined by a conductive plate includes a first slot and a second slot. The first slot and the second slot divide the conductive plate into a first strip, a second strip and a patch element. The first slot is an L-shaped slot and includes a transverse slot... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070040749 - Surface mount antenna apparatus having triple land structure: Disclosed herein is a surface mount antenna apparatus applied to a wireless terminal. The antenna apparatus includes a printed circuit board having a ground pattern, a land structure, and an antenna. The land structure includes a non-grounded area having no ground electrode, first and second land pads formed on opposite... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070040752 - Antenna arrangement for a cellular communication terminal: An antenna arrangement operable to transmit/receive in a first communications band and a second communications band, including a ground plane; a first conductive element for transmitting/receiving; a second conductive element separate from the first conductive element and the ground plane and having a first portion proximal to, but separated from... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070040755 - Built-in antenna module of wireless communication terminal: Disclosed is a built-in antenna module of a wireless communication terminal. The built-in antenna module includes at least one base mounted on the upper surface of a substrate of a main body of the terminal; a radiator line formed in a designated pattern on the external surface of the base... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070040754 - Notebook and antenna structure thereof: An antenna structure includes a ground element, a first transmitting element and a second transmitting element. The first transmitting element transmits a first wireless signal, and comprises a first connecting portion and a first radiation portion. The first connecting portion is connected to the ground element and the first radiation... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070040753 - Retractable cable device: The retractable cable device includes a base, a rotary portion, a spring, a cover, and at least two medal plates. The rotary portion cooperates with the base to form a cavity, and the cable is disposed on the rotary portion. The spring is disposed in the cavity for driving the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070040751 - Wireless terminals: A wireless terminal includes a housing (10) containing a substrate (12) having a ground plane, RF components mounted on the substrate, a PIFA (Planar Inverted-F Antenna) (16) carried by the substrate and coupled electrically to the RF components for transmitting and receiving signals and a notch antenna (14) in the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070040757 - Roof antenna with protected access to a fastener through the cover: A roof antenna (1) for vehicles is provided with a base plate (14) on which antenna elements (12, 13) are arranged or which has at least one contact element (15) for an antenna element, a cover (2) of the roof antenna (1) being provided with at least one opening (6)... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070040756 - Transparent thin film antenna: A method for improving the efficiency of antennas having transparent thin-film conductive surfaces, and antennas improved by the method are disclosed. For a selected frequency of antenna operation, values for surface current density in areas distributed over the surface of the thin-film are determined. Regions of the surface containing areas... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070040758 - Dipole antenna: A method of manufacturing a dipole antenna comprises the steps of forming first and second radiating elements on the surface of a flexible substrate, the radiating elements including respective feed points for making operative electrical contact with a feed line including corresponding first and second feed conductors. The radiating elements... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20070040759 - Stub printed dipole antenna (spda) having wide-band and multi-band characteristics and method of designing the same: A stub printed antenna (SPDA) and a method of designing the same are provided. The SPDA include: a substrate; dipole arms disposed at both surfaces of the substrate for transmitting/receiving a signal; a parallel metal strip line disposed at both surfaces of the substrate, and each having one end connected... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070040760 - Directional antenna system with multi-use elements: Systems and methods for a wireless communication device having a switched multi-beam antenna and methods for manufacturing the same are described. One system and method includes a plurality of antenna of elements. Groups of the antenna elements cooperate to form active one or more antenna elements while other groups of... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070040761 - Method and apparatus for wideband omni-directional folded beverage antenna: An embodiment generally relates to a wave antenna. The wave antenna includes a grounded substrate and a probe feed configured to be substantially centered within the grounded substrate. The wave antenna also includes a load configured to be a linear distance from the probe feed and a conductor trace configured... Agent: Min, Hsieh & Hack, L.L.P. C/o Portfoliolp

20070035448 - Compliant, internally cooled antenna apparatus and method: A phased array antenna system including a mandrel having compliant portions and an internally formed cooling passageway. The compliant portions are formed by removing portions of material along one end of the mandrel to form a plurality of pairs of generally U-shaped, leaf spring-like connecting areas. The connecting areas allow... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070035450 - Dual frequency antenna: The present invention relates to a dual frequency antenna, which integrates a square ring antenna and a patch antenna in order to have a compact circuit area that receives both low and high frequencies, to be used as the antenna of wireless LAN, wherein the wireless LAN is one of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070035447 - Flexible antenna apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof: A flexible antenna apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof are provided for wireless communication devices. The flexible antenna has a metal layer with an adhesive layer pasted onto the back surface of the metal layer, so that it can be directly pasted onto the housing of the wireless communication device.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070035449 - Microstrip antenna with integral feed and antenna structures: A method and system is disclosed for a microstrip antenna module having an antenna structure with one or more radiating elements and an integral feed structure enclosing at least one transmission line, wherein the antenna structure and the feed structure share a ground plane.... Agent: Howard Chen Preston Gates & Ellis LLP

20070035446 - Pifa antenna arrangement for a plurality of mobile radio frequency bands: A small sized structure for a plurality of resonance frequency bands in a PIFA antenna system for at least two mobile frequency bands distant from each other including a ground connection and a HF power supply connection. The PIFA antenna system includes at least two antenna branches which are disposed... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070035451 - Planar inverted-f antenna: A PIFA in one embodiment includes a radiating member including a feed point, a shorting point, a first radiating element having a starting point and a terminating point coiled as a longer path terminated at an outer edge of a ground plane and being open for generating a resonance mode... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070035456 - Antenna apparatus for a portable terminal: An antenna apparatus for a portable terminal includes an antenna device contained in a housing of the terminal and a coaxial cable for connecting the antenna device to circuitry of the terminal. The coaxial cable connects a power feed and a ground of the antenna device to a power feed... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070035458 - Antenna device and radio apparatus capable of multiband operation: An antenna device and a radio apparatus are provided. The antenna device is configured to be coupled to a feeding point of the radio apparatus. The antenna device has a first antenna element and a second antenna element. The first antenna element is configured to be an unbalanced-fed antenna fed... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070035455 - Display frame having antenna: A display frame having an antenna suitable to be set on a display module is provided. The display frame includes a metal frame and an antenna, and the antenna includes a first metal member and a second metal member. The first metal member extending from the metal frame is located... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070035454 - Extendable 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 retracted position. The antenna housing may... Agent: Kacvinsky, LLC.

20070035452 - Patch antenna having a universal serial bus (usb) connection port: A patch antenna having a universal serial bus (USB) connection port, comprising: a substrate; an antenna module, provided on the substrate and having a signal feed-in terminal, and used to transmit or receive a radio frequency signal; a universal serial bus connection port, connected to the signal feed-in terminal of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070035457 - Robot cleaner having rf antenna: A robot cleaner including: a main body; and an RF antenna installed at the main body with such a length appropriate for communication with a remote controller. Because the RF antenna is installed within the main body, the degradation of traveling performance and cleaning efficiency caused as the antenna contacts... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070035453 - Wireless communication device with improved antenna system: A wireless communication device (100) comprises an antenna (204) comprising a major radiating element (210) that includes a letter C shaped part (212) connected to a letter U shaped part (214). The major radiating element (210) is spaced from a ground plane (302) and one or more components (206, 208)... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070035459 - Antenna comprising a plastic housing: The invention relates to a vehicle antenna (1), designed to be mounted on a vehicle surface (4). Said antenna comprises a base body (2) consisting of metal and a plastic antenna housing (3), which surrounds the antenna elements that are placed on the base body (2). According to the invention,... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070035460 - High-frequency motor-vehicle antenna: A high-frequency motor-vehicle antenna has a lower housing part adapted to be secured to the motor vehicle, at least partially dielectric, and formed with an inner and an outer annular side wall and an upper housing part formed with an inner and an outer annular side wall fittable with the... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070035461 - Antenna device and radar apparatus including the same: An antenna device having a primary radiator that includes a transmitting section formed of a cylindrical waveguide extending parallel to a direction in which the front of the antenna device faces (front direction), and a rectangular horn-shaped radiant section extending perpendicular to the front direction. A waveguide whose central axis... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070035462 - Method, system and apparatus for an antenna: Embodiments of the present invention provide a microstrip-coupled dipole antenna. A microstrip of the antenna may be formed on top of a printed circuit board (PCB) and coupled to a transmission line such that the microstrip is operable to transfer electromagnetic energy fed to it by the transmission line to... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070035463 - Antenna device, wireless communication apparatus using the same, and control method of controlling wireless communication apparatus: An antenna device has a substrate of insulation and a conductive flat antenna main body having a predetermined shape. The flat antenna main body is positioned on the substrate. The antenna device also has conductive polarization control elements that are positioned along a transverse line across the flat antenna main... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070035464 - Position detecting device with a microwave antenna arrangement and a method for the manufacture thereof: A position detecting device serves for finding the distance between a specimen arranged in a conductive structure and a microwave antenna arrangement of the position detecting device, produced by an inventive method, on the basis of microwaves. The microwave antenna arrangement exhibits a dielectric antenna body provided at least in... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070035465 - Flat antenna holder: Enibodiments of the invention provide a single apparatus for connecting a flat antenna to a plurality of surfaces, including vertical, horizontal or other inclined surfaces, by screws, suction components or other connectors.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek, LLP Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070035466 - Conductive pattern and method of making: A method of forming an electrically-conductive pattern includes selectively electroplating the top portions of a substrate that corresponds to the pattern, and separating the conductive pattern from the substrate. The electroplating may also include electrically connecting the conductive pattern to an electrical component. Conductive ink, such as ink including carbon... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070035467 - Monopole broadband antenna: A monopole broadband antenna including a connecting segment for connecting an antenna circuit of a set of equipment, the connecting segment is provided thereon sequentially with a shaft portion with a small diameter and a shaft portion with a large diameter in connecting with the shaft portion with the small... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070035468 - Luneberg lens and antenna apparatus using the same: A lens portion 2, which is configured by combining lens parts of spherical core and spherical shell-like resin foams, is configured by a luneberg lens which is sealed by a synthetic resin film 3 which is formed along a surface of that lens portion 2 and in which a thickness... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070030197 - Antenna structure: An antenna includes a ground portion, a radiating element, and an interconnecting element connected to the ground portion and the radiating element. The radiating element includes a first radiating trace including a turning point connected to a first segment and a second segment of the first radiating trace, and a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070030199 - Monopole antennas: Monopole antennas are provided. A monopole antenna transmitting radio signals within a specific frequency range includes a substrate, a ground, a first sleeve portion, a second sleeve portion, a first conductive element, a second conductive element and a cable. The first conductive element and the ground are formed on the... Agent: Quintero Law Office

20070030200 - Multi-band antenna structure: A multi-band antenna structure includes a ground plane, a first radiation metal arm, a first shorted parasitic arm and a second shorted parasitic arm. The first radiation metal arm is connected to a main transmitting antenna and has a first feed point for connecting a first feed line. The first... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070030198 - Multifrequency h-shaped antenna: A multifrequency H-shape antenna is disclosed herein. The multifrequency H-shape antenna includes a conductive radiating element, a conductive grounding element, a conductive interconnecting element, and a coaxial cable. The conductive radiating element includes a left end, a right end, and a T construction. The conductive interconnecting element includes a first... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070030202 - Antenna apparatus for portable terminal: Provided is an antenna apparatus for a portable terminal including a first antenna pattern, and a second antenna pattern formed to correspond to the first antenna pattern, so that the second antenna provides a capacitive coupling along with the first pattern, thereby configuring a divergent type antenna with the second... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070030201 - Antenna device: An antenna device is for a mobile unit to transmit/receive signals, and the mobile unit comprises a printed circuit board which is mounted with a signal processing circuit for processing the signals, the antenna device comprises an antenna body, a metal feeding line, and a ground metal layer. The antenna... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070030204 - Antenna ground structure: An antenna ground structure, for use in an electronic apparatus includes an antenna main body and electrically conductive plastic material connecting the antenna main body is a metal frame of the electronic apparatus to provide an electrical connection between the antenna main body and the metal frame. Better electrical characteristics... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070030203 - Antenna structure: An antenna includes a substrate, a ground element, a radiating element and a feed element. The ground element is disposed on the substrate and has an opening. The radiating element is disposed on the substrate and electrically connects to the ground element. The radiating element comprises a first radiating trace... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070030205 - Dual function composite system and method of making same: A dual function composite system includes a first electronic subsystem, a second electronic subsystem, and a composite member between the first and second electronic subsystems. The composite member includes plies of fabric, and resin impregnating the plies of fabric. At least one ply of the fabric includes signal transmission elements... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska Intellectual Property Law Attorneys

20070030206 - Method for operating a transmitting/receiving station of a wireless communication network in antenna diversity mode: A method for operating a transmitting/receiving station of a wireless communication network in antenna diversity mode, this station having a plurality of reception antennas, consists in listening to the communications between two other transmitting/receiving stations of the network, successively on each reception antenna, then analysing the quality of listening on... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070030207 - Compact loop antenna for inductive read/write apparatus: In order to provide a compact loop antenna, for use in an inductive read/write apparatus, capable of extending a communication range even if the antenna area or power supply thereto is constrained, a compact loop antenna, for use in an inductive read/write apparatus, comprises two layers of loop antennas, each... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070030208 - Cellular antenna and systems and methods therefor: Multi-array antennas providing dual electrical azimuth beam steering, combined mechanical and electrical azimuth steering, independent mechanical column steering and dual mechanical steering. Systems incorporating such antennas and methods of controlling them are also provided.... Agent: Eric D. Cohen

20070030209 - Frequency dispersive antenna suitable in particular for the pinpointing of objects over an angular domain greater than the natural width of the said antenna: The invention relates to a frequency dispersive antenna. The antenna comprises at least one top part and one bottom part. The top part and the bottom part comprises radiating waveguides coupled electromagnetically by way of coupling slots to a feed waveguide. The feed waveguide of the top part of the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070030210 - Antenna apparatus: An antenna apparatus including a feed element excited by first and second wireless frequency signals, first non-feed elements for controlling directivity with respect to the first wireless frequency signal, second non-feed elements for controlling directivity with respect to the second wireless frequency signal, second variable-reactance circuits disposed between the second... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070024503 - Antenna structure: An antenna structure comprises a substrate, a first conductive element, a feed point, a first extending element, two first radiation elements, two second radiation elements, a ground element, a signal line, and a ground line. The first conductive element is disposed on the substrate and extends in a first direction.... Agent: Quintero Law Office

20070024505 - Microstrip patch antenna for high temperature environments: A patch antenna for operation within a high temperature environment. The patent antenna typically includes an antenna radiating element, a housing and a microwave transmission medium, such as a high temperature microwave cable. The antenna radiating element typically comprises a metallization (or solid metal) element in contact with a dielectric... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070024504 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device includes a first level layer, a transmitting antenna provided on the first level layer and extending in a first direction, a receiving antenna provided on the first level layer and extending in the first direction, and a plurality of first wiring portions provided on the first level... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070024506 - Systems and methods for high frequency parallel transmissions: A plurality of high-frequency beam-forming RF antenna arrays are used to enable parallel data transmission at multi-Gigabit per second data rates. In one embodiment, the 60 GHz band is used for parallel transmission of data from an antenna array printed on the substrate or packaging of an integrated circuit.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070024507 - Antenna device: In an antenna device of the present invention, a plurality of antennas 21 are connected to a radio module 41 through respective coaxial cables 22, and one or more of the antennas 21 in good communication conditions can be selected by the radio module 41. An upper cabinet 2 is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070024509 - Antenna for portable terminal: An antenna includes a keypad assembly having a plurality of key buttons, a main antenna unit, and a second antenna unit where a predetermined pattern is formed. The second antenna unit is interposed between components of the keypad assembly. Accordingly, a separate installation space for the antenna radiator is not... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070024508 - Portable terminal having antenna apparatus: A wireless communication device comprising a substrate, an antenna unit mounted on the substrate, and multiple conductive pads at one or more periphery regions of the substrate, one conductive pad among the multiple conductive pads being connected with and providing impedance matching to the antenna unit.... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070024510 - System and method for use in wireless communication employing multiple antennas: A system and method for use in wireless communication includes selectively connecting a communication circuit to one of multiple antennas. The system and method also include preventing the remaining antennas from interacting with the antenna connected to the communication circuit.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20070024511 - Compact circularly-polarized patch antenna: An antenna for receiving and/or transmitting circularly polarized RF signals includes a patch element, a ground plane, a dielectric, and a feed line. The patch element is disposed on a pane of glass and includes a pair of radiating sides disposed opposite each other and a pair of spacer sides... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20070024512 - Mirror device with antenna: In a mirror device with an antenna of the present invention the antenna is placed in a mirror housing where a mirror configured to reflect a rear of a vehicle is attached, a grounding portion at least part of which is composed of a conductive material is provided in the... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070024513 - Composite antenna device: A composite antenna device includes a ground board, an unbalanced antenna, a balanced antenna. The unbalanced antenna includes a first feeding point coupled with the ground board, a first radiator having a second end and a first end connected with the first feeding point, and a load conductor connected with... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070024514 - Energy diversity antenna and system: An energy density diversity antenna (EDA) has a least a pair of antenna elements, whose feeding points are connected to outputs of a hybrid coupler configured such that a sum and a difference signal may exist at the feed points of the antenna elements. First reactive elements are respectively inserted... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070024515 - Coplanar waveguide fed dual-band slot antenna and method of operature therefore: An embodiment of the present invention provides an antenna, comprising a substrate, a metallic component printed on the substrate, a main radiating slot etched into the metallic component, the main radiating slot fed by a coplanar waveguide, and at least one additional slot etched next to the main radiating slot.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070024516 - Antenna, and radio-controlled timepiece, keyless entry system and rfid system using same: An antenna comprising a magnetic main-path member comprising a coil wound around a magnetic core, and a magnetic sub-path member magnetically connected to the magnetic core for constituting a substantially closed magnetic path with the magnetic main-path member, the antenna meeting the relation of (S/N)1>(S/N)0, wherein (S/N)1 is a ratio... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070024517 - Antenna: An antenna has a base and an antenna element in contact with the base. The product of the relative permittivity of the base and the relative permeability of the base varies with a negative gradient with respect to the frequency of the radio waves transmitted by the antenna element or... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070024518 - Antenna unit having improved antenna radiation characteristics: An antenna unit comprises a hollow cylindrical member obtained by forming a flexible insulating film member into a hollow cylinder about a center axis and an antenna pattern composed of a plurality of conductors formed on a peripheral surface of the hollow cylindrical member. The antenna pattern comprises a helical... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070024519 - Rod antenna: The invention relates to a rod antenna, in particular a mobile radio antenna for vehicles as well as method of making a rod antenna, the rod antenna having a connector (1) and receiving means, in particular a spiral shaped antenna coil that are enclosed by casing material (9), the connector... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070024520 - Spiral antenna: An antenna is described, which is comprised of copper tubing formed into a three-dimensional spiral, extending above and supported by a back plate.... Agent: J.w. Gipple

20070024521 - Monopole antenna: A monopole antenna is formed of a ground plane, a flat conductor faced to the ground plane and separated from it by a clearance “H”, and a linear conductor that is connected to the flat conductor, extended on the ground plane side in an insulated state from the ground plane,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070024522 - Orientation adjustable rf connector: An RF connector comprises a sleeve having a through hole; one end of the through hole being formed as a receiving groove and another end thereof being formed with a threaded section; one inner end of the receiving groove being formed with a stop edge; a connecting unit being inserted... Agent: Jui-yang Lee

20070024523 - Electromagnetic interference protection for radomes: A radome, and corresponding method of making, comprising an electro-optic transparent substrate, a semiconductor coating on the substrate, and a frequency selective surface embedded in the coating.... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.