Communications: radio wave antennas inventions 04/07

20070091000 - Impedance transformation type wide band antenna: The present invention relates to an impedance transformation-type wide band internal antenna. The wide band antenna includes a radiation part, a short circuit part, a feeding part, and a feeding pin. The radiation part is formed to have a predetermined length and width according to an operating frequency, the radiation... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070090998 - Partially reflective surface antenna: The present invention relates to a partially reflective surface antenna and, more particularly, to a partially reflective surface antenna including a reflective board composed of arrays of microstrip antennas, and has advantages of low side lobe and high gain. It comprises: a substrate with an upper surface having a signal... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070090997 - Reflect array antennas having monolithic sub-arrays with improved dc bias current paths: Embodiments of active array antennas are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a reflect array antenna includes an array of rectangular monolithic sub-array modules arranged in a non-uniform pattern to leave a plurality of rectangular gaps in the pattern. A DC feed pin... Agent: Thomas J. Finn, Esq. Raytheon Company

20070090999 - Self-biased receiver system using a multi-fed antenna: Provided a self-biased receiver system using a multi-fed antenna, including: at least one first port connected to an electronic circuit; and a second port connected to a feeder forming a DC (direct current) voltage using an input electromagnetic wave and feeding the DC voltage to the electronic circuit.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070091001 - Capacitive drive antenna and an air vehicle so equipped: Disclosed are antenna embodiments and air vehicles so equipped that include a first antenna component, and a second antenna component, separated by a free space gap, where the antenna embodiments are adapted to capacitively couple the first antenna component and the second antenna component across one or more portions of... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, P.C.

20070091003 - Antenna device and communications system using the same: An antenna made by winding a coil on the periphery of a rod-like core made of a magnetic material is housed inside a pillar having a relatively small width and disposed in a manner such that its axis line is nearly orthogonal to the vertical axis line of the pillar.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070091002 - Wideband glass antenna for vehicle: Disclosed herein is a wideband glass antenna for a vehicle. The wideband glass antenna includes a loop antenna and a pattern. The loop antenna has a loop antenna pattern, in which a first side is connected to a feeding point, a second side is connected to a ground, and the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20070091004 - Electronic wearable device: The invention concerns a wrist-wearable electronic device comprising a slot antenna and a method of manufacturing the slot antenna. Such a device comprises an outer housing defining an assembly zone and a radio unit contained within the assembly zone. According to the invention the outer housing is made at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070091005 - Multi-band loopole antennae: Described herein are antennae that may provide a relatively compact design that has resonances at UHF (700 MHz), L-band (1.6 GHz), and S-band (2 GHz) to allow good performance in all of these bands. Normally television antennas are relatively large and on the order of a foot long or more... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070091006 - Self-tuning radio frequency identification antenna system: A self-tuning antenna that automatically adjusts its input impedance to compensate for externally induced impedance variations is provided. A variable impedance is adjusted by a control circuit to reconfigure the input impedance of than antenna to compensate for different environmental situations and different transponder mismatch situations. A negative-feedback signal is... Agent: Loza & Loza

20070091007 - Coil antenna: A coil antenna includes a magnetic core and a coil wound around a bobbin which are accommodated within a case. The magnetic core and an end of the bobbin are connected to a cap. The magnetic core and an end portion of the bobbin are covered with a foamed component,... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070091008 - Phased array antenna with extended resonance power divider/phase shifter circuit: A phased array for generating a directed radiation pattern includes a plurality of power divider ports, a first tunable element connected in series between each pair of adjacent power divider ports, an antenna connected to each of the power divider ports, and a second tunable element connected in parallel with... Agent: Andrew R Basile Young & Basile

20070091009 - Inductive miniature component, especially antenna: An inductive miniature component comprising a winding element of ferrite material. Three windings are disposed on the multi-sided winding element such that there axes extend in three perpendicular spatial directions. A first and second winding are wound around the winding element in two directions perpendicular to one another. A third... Agent: Robert W. Becker & Associates

20070085740 - Antenna arrangement for mobile communication terminals: The present disclosure relates to an antenna arrangement, comprising a regular array of electrically conducting antenna elements, arranged on a support, embodied and positioned to be displaced between a first position, in which an electrical contact to at least one adjacent antenna element is possible and a second position, with... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070085745 - Antenna frequency modulating equipment: A frequency modulating equipment (20) for being used in an antenna (10) for modulating frequency of the antenna (10) to achieve a desired operating frequency, comprises a slide block (30) attached to a radiating element (11) of the antenna (10) and being capable of moving freely and a plastic element... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070085743 - Antenna system and apparatus: An antenna design is provided. In one embodiment, the antenna is a planar element with a radiating element containing an elliptical curved portion connected to two curved regions, the curved regions meeting at a geometric construct. Another embodiment provides an antenna constructed with intersecting planar elements. A third embodiment is... Agent: Pulse-link, Inc.

20070085742 - Compact circular polarized antenna: A circular polarized antenna having an electrically conductive element having a generally annular outer portion and first and second inner members coupled to the outer portion. A ground shield is spaced from the element, the ground shield providing an effective ground plane. A dielectric material is positioned between the element... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070085744 - Dual polarization planar array antenna and cell elements therefor: An RF antenna structure (e.g., a planar array) includes at least one radiation cell (and typically many, e.g., 16 or 32 or 64, etc.) having a conductive enclosure and an upper probe and a lower probe located at different heights within the enclosure. The enclosure between the upper probe and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070085741 - Multi-band antenna: A multi-band antenna for multi-band radio frequency telecommunications. The multi-band antenna includes a conductive patch separated from a ground plane by a dielectric material. A slot pattern formed in the conductive patch defines a perimeter substantially surrounding two feed pins and arranged symmetrically about a center line. The slot pattern... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070085746 - Electrostatic discharge protection receiving system: A system for receiving a signal is provided. The system includes an antenna, an amplifier, a transmission medium electrically connected between the antenna and the amplifier and an electrostatic discharge device electrically connected between the transmission line and the antenna.... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP Tri-valley Office

20070085749 - Electronic apparatus having antenna device: An electronic apparatus having an antenna device. The electronic apparatus includes a housing, a circuit board, an antenna device and a feeding device. The circuit board is placed inside the housing. The antenna device disposed on a surface of the housing transmits and receives a wireless signal. The feeding device... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070085748 - 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 antenna, and issues a... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070085747 - Multiband antenna in a communication device: An apparatus is disclosed for a multiband antenna (102) in a communication device (100). An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present invention may include, for example, an antenna having a finite ground surface (201, 401), and an elongated conductor (206, 406) that is characterized by a length and is... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070085750 - Meter antenna: The antenna configuration presented is an integral component of a retrofit module designed to incorporate a data telemetry transceiver within the confines of a utility meter.... Agent: Patent Dept. / Tantalus Systems Corp.

20070085751 - Tag antenna, tag and rfid system using the same: A communication distance difference due to an attached object can be canceled, and an RFID system can be provided which has approximately the same communication distance regardless of an attached position (surface) of a tag. A tag antenna used for such the RFID system is for transmitting/receiving a radio signal... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070085752 - Parabolic antenna with rinsing connection: Contamination at the exciter of a parabolic antenna can lead to impaired signal quality, or even system downtime. A parabolic antenna is described which in addition to a parabolic reflector and an exciter has a rinsing device, which is configured so as to rinse and clean the exciter with rinsing... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070085753 - Shielding device: A shielding device for preventing an antenna signal from interference is disclosed. The shielding device includes a grounding component and a shielding plate. The shielding plate is made of a conductive material. The shielding plate has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is grounded through the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C. Suite 500

20070085754 - Rf front-end architecture for a separate non-50 ohm antenna system: A transceiver system having an RF front-end operatively connected to two separate non-50 ohm antennas for separately providing transmission/reception paths for 1 GHz band and for 2 GHz band. A switching module is operatively connected to each antenna for mode and frequency-range selection within each band. Each switching module has... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070085755 - Compact radio frequency transmitting and receiving antenna and control device employing same: A compact antenna for use in a device for controlling the power delivered to an electric load and operable to transmit or receive radio frequency signals at a specified frequency is presented. The antenna comprises a first loop of conductive material having a capacitance and an inductance forming a circuit... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070085756 - Attaching device for antenna: An attaching device for attaching an antenna member to a coupling member of an electric facility includes a housing having a projection extended from one end for coupling to the antenna member, and another end for attaching to the electric facility, a casing is engaged into the housing and includes... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070085757 - Tunable frequency selective surface: An apparatus and methods for operating a frequency selective surface are disclosed. The apparatus can be tuned to an on/off state or transmit/reflect electromagnetic energy in any frequency. The methods disclosed teach how to tune the frequency selective surface to an on/off state or transmit/reflect electromagnetic energy in any frequency.... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070080866 - Antenna: An antenna for receiving electromagnetic waves in a desired frequency band, includes a radiating conductor and a ground conductor, a feeder part, a wavelength-shortening section, and a magnetic field applying section. The radiating conductor and a ground conductor resonate at a resonance point frequency. The feeder part is configured to... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070080870 - Antenna module, radio device and mobile radio terminal: An antenna module formed with an integrated multilayer substrate having: an antenna with a transmission line; a tuned circuit with a variable capacitance means; a low noise amplifier; and a wave-shaping circuit. The variable capacitance means in the tuned circuit controls a resonance frequency of the antenna by an external... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070080869 - Antenna structure on circuit board: An antenna structure formed on a circuit board includes a first main body formed on the lateral side of the circuit board and a feed line connecting the circuit board and the first main body. The first main body is formed on the lateral side of the circuit board by... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070080867 - Antenna using proximity-coupled feed method, rfid tag having the same, and antenna impedance matching method thereof: An antenna, a RFID tag using the same, and an antenna impedance matching method thereof are provided. The antenna includes: a radiation patch for deciding a resonant frequency of the antenna; a ground plate disposed in parallel to the radiation patch; and a feeder disposed between the radiation patch and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070080868 - Apparatus and method for minimizing inter-signal interference in a wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for minimizing inter-signal interference in a wireless communication system are provided. The polarization phases of Mobile Stations (MSs) are measured. An MS group including a predetermined number of MSs is determined and a polarization phase of the MS group is compensated. The polarization phase of a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm

20070080864 - Broadband proximity-coupled cavity backed patch antenna: A patch antenna in accordance with the present invention comprises a patch optionally surrounded by a top ground plane, a feed line disposed beneath the patch and separated therefrom by a thin substrate, a middle ground plane separated from the feed line by another thin substrate, and a bottom ground... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20070080865 - Electronic apparatus with wireless communication function: An electronic apparatus with wireless communication function, including a first circuit board and a second circuit board, is provided. The first circuit board has a first feed pad and a first shorting pad on a first surface thereof, and has a signal line and a ground plane, electrically connected to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070080873 - 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 from the first antenna element and a switching element (210) to selectively connect the first... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070080871 - Antenna device for communication equipment: An antenna device for a computer card device, such as a PCMCIA type card, includes at least a first antenna including a trace on a support element, antenna output means, and a protruding member extending from a housing of the card. The support element, which may include a flexible dielectric... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070080874 - Antenna device for portable terminal: An antenna device for a portable terminal, which allows a whip antenna and helical antenna of a terminal to be retracted and withdrawn along an extension from the terminal, while not causing them to protrude out of the terminal. The antenna device provided with a whip antenna and helical antenna... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070080875 - Hand-held communication device with a rotatable antenna: Hand-held communication device includes a first housing, a rotation axle connected to the first housing in a rotatable manner, a second housing, an antenna installed inside the second housing, and a rod with one end connected to the rotation axle in a rotatable manner and the other end connected to... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070080872 - Mobile radio apparatus: A mobile radio apparatus that achieves high radiation efficiency in various usage states of a foldable mobile radio apparatus without causing negative impact on communication, and that can realize a thin model. In this mobile radio apparatus that is foldable and that has a mechanism joining a first case and... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070080876 - Planar antenna and window glass sheet for automobiles: When it is assumed that there is a first imaginary straight line connecting between the center of gravity of the first antenna wire and the center of gravity of the second antenna wire, the first imaginary straight line is called a transverse line, and when it is assumed that there... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070080877 - Frame for radio frequency communication system: Disclosed is a frame for a radio frequency communication system. The frame has a frame central opening configured by an inner perimeter and an outer perimeter and a groove. The frame is capable of securely receiving and snugly retaining a circuit board of the radio frequency communication system in the... Agent: Douglas K. Ford C/o Touchplate Technologies, Inc.

20070080878 - Pxm antenna with improved radiation characteristics over a broad frequency range: A low-loss, high-efficiency, broadband antenna including both electric and magnetic dipole radiators is provided herein. The broadband antenna may be referred to as a “P×M antenna” and may generally include a ground plane; a magnetic radiator formed within the ground plane; a conductive feed arranged within a first plane, which... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20070080879 - Electrical loop antenna with unidirectional and uniform current radiation source: Provided is an antenna for a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader using an electrical loop. It includes an upper metal plate which functions as a radiator; a lower metal plate which is disposed apart from the upper metal plate by a predetermined distance and functions as a radiator; a ground... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070080880 - Wireless tag gate reader: In a wireless tag gate reader that includes a plurality of antenna pairs that is disposed oppositely to each other so as to form a path space where a recognition target with a wireless tag goes through and a wireless tag reader connected to each of the antenna pairs, antenna... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070080881 - Transcoding mpeg bitstreams for adding sub-picture content: On the other hand, it comprises at least one first feed-line (3) placed in an open circuit zone of the slot and a second feed-line (4) placed at a distance d=(2n+1) λs/4 from the first line, where n is an integer greater than or equal to zero. The invention is... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070080882 - Antenna device and communication system using it: An antenna device has a core made of a magnetic material, a coil formed by winding a conducting wire on a predetermined range including the core and the outer region of the core, and a sub-core that adjusts the resonance frequency by moving in the inner peripheral region of the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070080883 - Dual polarized dipole radiator: the individual portions of the dual polarized dipole radiator, including the dipole components (9), the feed arms (15), the support portions (21) forming the balun (23) and an associated base (29) connecting the support portions, are connected to one another by bending and/or tilting and/or folding lines (25, 27, 33,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070080884 - Feed network, and/or antenna having at least one antenna element and a feed network: An antenna feed network is provided with a capacitive coupling device via which a capacitive connection exists to a coupled line. The coupled line section is firmly connected to the downstream appliance or antenna element, or is part of the appliance or antenna element, in the region of the capacitive... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070080885 - Meander line capacitively-loaded magnetic dipole antenna: A meander line capacitively-loaded magnetic dipole antenna is disclosed. The antenna includes a transformer loop having a balanced feed interface, and a meander line capacitively-loaded magnetic dipole radiator. The meander line capacitively-loaded magnetic dipole radiator also includes an electric field bridge. For example, the meander line capacitively-loaded magnetic dipole radiator... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070080886 - Phased array antenna systems with controllable electrical tilt: A phased array antenna system with controllable electrical tilt generates two signals V2a and V2b with variable relative delay therebetween. The signals are converted into antenna element drive signals by a power distribution network. The network splits each of the two signals V2a and V2b into three signal components. Pairs... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070080887 - Ka lnb umbrella shade: A system for receiving satellite signals from a satellite data delivery system is disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a reflector, at least one Low Noise Block Amplifier (LNB), coupled to the reflector such that the reflector reflects the satellite signals toward the at least one... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070080888 - Control of an integrated beamforming array using near-field-coupled or far-field-coupled commands: In one embodiment, an integrated circuit antenna array includes: a substrate, a plurality of first antennas adjacent the a first side of the substrate; and an RF network adjacent a second side of the substrate, the RF feed network coupling to a distributed plurality of amplifiers integrated with the substrate... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070080890 - Antenna apparatus: An antenna apparatus has a substrate, a plurality of meandered conductive strips and a feeding conductive strip disposed on the substrate. The meandered conductive strips have different sizes, and are spaced at intervals and arranged in parallel according to their sizes in order. The feeding conductive strip is electrically connected... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070080889 - Electrically small multi-level loop antenna on flex for low power wireless hearing aid system: A hearing device having a multiple-level loop antenna is provided. The hearing device includes a housing structure and a communication system for receiving wireless signals. The antenna is configured to make more than one revolution around a center point and to be on multiple levels. A first part of the... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20070080891 - Configurable and orientable antenna and corresponding base station: An antenna, permitting the configuration of at least one radioelectric wave beam of at least one fixed wavelength, of the type including at least one transmitting element, preferably of the passive type, arranged in a set of essentially parallel, wave-reflecting wires or bars, made from a photonic band gap (BIP)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070075903 - Antenna, radio device, method of designing antenna, and nethod of measuring operating frequency of antenna: An antenna comprises a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer and an LC resonance circuit. The first conductive layer has plural elements and is disposed adjacently to each other. The second conductive layer is disposed at a predetermined distance from the first conductive layer via a dielectric substrate. The... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070075902 - Inverted-f antenna and method of modulating impedance of the same: An inverted-F antenna (1) used in a portable electrical device formed in a metal patch and includes a radiating element (2), a grounding element (5), and an impedance matching element (3) with an impedance matching space (8). The impedance matching element (3) connects the radiating element (2) and the grounding... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070075904 - Vehicle roof antenna with a mounting part for an antenna rod with simultaneous securing of a cover hood: In its first alternative, the invention relates to a roof antenna (1) for a vehicle, which can be mounted on a vehicle roof (2) by means of at least one mounting element (3), wherein furthermore a cover (4) is provided, to which an antenna rod (5) can be attached, wherein... Agent: The Firm Of Karl F Ross

20070075905 - Radio frequency antenna for a wireless intravascular medical device: A radio frequency antenna is provided for use with a medical device for implantation into an animal. The antenna comprises a coil formed by a wire that includes a core formed of a shape-memory material with an electrically conductive first layer applied to an outer surface of the core. A... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070075906 - Multiple feed point slot antenna: A wireless communication device and method for identifying a container, or communication information about a container using a slot in the container as an antenna. The device includes a wireless communication device for transmitting information regarding the container. The container includes an outer wall forming rim and a slot between... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20070075907 - Electron beam induced resonance: We describe an ultra-small structure that produces visible light of varying frequency, from a single metallic layer. In one example, a row of metallic posts are etched or plated on a substrate according to a particular geometry. When a charged particle beam passed close by the row of posts, the... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070075908 - Electromagnetic measurement probe and method: An electromagnetic field probe is provided that is capable of measuring four electromagnetic field components in a spatial plane tangential to the central axis of the probe. The probe included two dipoles and two loops. The dipoles are disposed about the central axis at substantially 90 degree angles, while the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070075909 - Integrated satellite communications outdoor unit: An outdoor unit for satellite communications having an integrated transceiver and LNB circuits within an outer housing that positions a feed proximate the focal point of a reflector dish. The outer housing may have an extended longitudinal dimension, coupled directly to the reflector dish or the end of a shortened... Agent: Babcock Ip, PLLC

20070075910 - Radio wave shield: A radio wave shield selectively shields radio waves of a specific frequency band.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070075911 - Antenna device used in radio-communications within short communication range and article container: There is provided an antenna device used in a radio-communication between a radio communication apparatus and a data carrier within a short communication range. The antenna device comprises first and second leakage transmission lines, and a switch for selectively connecting the first and second transmission lines to the radio communication... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070075913 - Antenna coil and antenna device: An antenna coil includes: a core (3) formed by shaping a magnetic material into a bar-like configuration; a bobbin (1) having a through-hole (12) into which the core (3) is to be inserted; a connection section (15) fixed to the bobbin (1) so as to extend in a length direction... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20070075912 - Device for receiving and releasing free forms of energy by radiation: The invention relates to a device for receiving and releasing free forms of energy by radiation, said device comprising a number of antenna elements arranged about a common axis and respectively comprising an electrical conductor, especially an electrical conductor extending in a spiral-type manner about an axis and/or an electrical... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070075914 - Security antenna apparatus and method: This invention defines an apparatus and method for holding a portable electronic device whereby ease of use is continued, security is ensured and antenna reception is enhanced. The apparatus combines a metallic antenna inside an elastic spiral cord which attaches a cell phone, or other electronic device, with an attachment... Agent: Frank Bates