Communications: radio wave antennas inventions 10/07

20070247370 - Chip antenna apparatus for receiving global positioning system signals: A chip antenna apparatus for receiving global positioning system signals, includes a L-shaped ground area and an omni-directional chip antenna. The L-shaped ground area is disposed on a circuit board. The omni-directional chip antenna is disposed in a gap of the L-shaped ground area on the circuit board and electrically... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070247371 - Dual sphere uwb antenna: An antenna that is suitable for transmission and reception of UWB signals is provided. The antenna includes a pair of conducting spheres separated by an air gap. A first conducting sphere is connected to a first conductor of a transmission line and a second conducting sphere is connected to a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070247369 - Dual-band antenna: A dual-band antenna (10) is provided. The dual-band antenna printed on a substrate (30) includes a transmission portion (120), a first radiator (140), a second radiator (160), a first grounded portion (180), and a second grounded portion (190). The transmission portion is used for feeding electromagnetic signals. The first radiator... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070247372 - Multi-band inverted-f antenna: A multi-band inverted-F antenna includes a first high frequency leg; a low frequency leg; a feed, from which the first high frequency leg and the low part are extending; a second high frequency leg, extending along a lengthwise direction of the first high frequency leg from one end of the... Agent: Barley Snyder, LLC

20070247376 - Antenna and portable terminal having the same: The present invention relates to a portable terminal including a terminal body and a retractable antenna operatively connected to the terminal body and capable of being retractably housed into and withdrawn out of the terminal body. The retractable antenna includes a base rotatably supported at the terminal body, an antenna... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070247373 - Antenna configuration change: A Portable communication device includes in an interior of the portable communication device a ground plane and an antenna arrangement. The antenna arrangement includes an antenna element combination including a first radiating antenna element to be connected to a feeding potential and dimensioned for resonating in a first frequency band,... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070247375 - Multi-angle seat for antenna: A wide-angle seat for an antenna includes a seat having a shaft and a tab located thereon, a first socket having a first slot on one end thereof and a protuberance on the other end thereof where the two sides of the first slot are not connected with each other,... Agent: Barley Snyder, LLC

20070247374 - Mobile telephone: There is provided a mobile telephone assuring a high reception sensitivity over a wide band without deteriorating the design of the mobile telephone. In the mobile telephone, a helical antenna (4) operating as an antenna for television reception is formed by winding a conductive element along the external surface of... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070247377 - Gps-equipped meter: A versatile GPS-equipped meter includes a GPS antenna and a GPS processing circuit in an existing meter unit. Posture adjusting members are provided that have different shapes according to an attachment angle θ of a GPS-equipped meter to a vehicle body frame are appropriately selected so as to point a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247379 - High frequency wave glass antenna for an automobile and rear window glass sheet for an automobile: A plurality of heating wires 2 have a plurality of detours 1 formed therein, the heating wires 2 have inlets 10 formed therein for connection with the detours 1, and both ends of each of the inlets 10 and both ends of each of the detours 1 are connected by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070247378 - Swing arm satellite assembly: The invention is a economical, easy to use, device for mounting a dish satellite antenna onto a recreational vehicle, which is transferrable from one vehicle to another, economical, and enables the user to use either the front or rear mounting to enhance tv reception.... Agent: Jerry W. Anderson

20070247380 - Antenna with disk radiator used in automatic meter reading (amr) device: An antenna for use in an automatic meter reading (AMR) module comprises a pin and a radiator. The radiator may be a disk radiator for example, that comprises an opening which may receive the pin. Desirably, the pin is affixed to the radiator at one end, and is disposed on... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070247381 - Rf transparent barrier: A pre-engineered, packaged RF transparent barrier for non-penetrating installation on a roof, ground, or other surface can be pre-fabricated in different heights and or widths such that customizable barriers can be implemented without manufacturing costs typical of designing custom antenna gate structures. RF transparent materials reduce potential barrier-caused problems such... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070247382 - Antenna having wide transmitting angle: An antenna device includes a seat, a longitudinal antenna member having a lower portion disposed on the seat, and a cylindrical antenna member having a lower portion disposed on the seat and having a chamber formed by an outer peripheral wall, and the longitudinal antenna member is disposed in the... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070247383 - Twin ground antenna: An antenna, consisting of a folded looped conductor closed at a feedpoint. The antenna has at least two conductive arms extending from the feedpoint.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070247384 - Wideband antenna: A wideband antenna has: a rectangular conductor sheet; a bow-tie-shaped slit formed in the rectangular conductor sheet, the rectangular conductor sheet having two apex portions defined by the bow-tie-shaped slit, the two apex portions being opposite to each other in the middle of the bow-tie-shaped slit; an auxiliary antenna element... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070247386 - Multi-band u-slot antenna: In a multi-band U-slot planar antenna, a limited ground plane is provided. A connector includes a ground terminal connected to the ground plane and a feeding terminal for feeding a signal. A planar radiation device includes a feeding point connected to the feeding terminal, a central U-slot having a symmetrical... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070247385 - High gain steerable phased-array antenna: A high gain, phased array antenna includes a conducting sheet having a number of one or more slots defined therein. For each slot, an electrical microstrip feed line is electronically coupled with a corresponding slot to form a magnetically-coupled LC resonance element. A main feed line couples with the one... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070247387 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device includes a circuit board and an antenna coil installed on the circuit board. The antenna coil includes a magnetic core and a coil wound at either side of an unwound portion. The winding direction of the coil is changed at either side of the unwound portion.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070247388 - Antenna device, antenna reflector, and wireless communication unit incorporating antenna: Disclosed herein is an antenna device including, a radiator having a feeder, and a planar reflector spaced from the radiator in a radio wave incoming direction, the reflector having at least one slit defined in a side edge thereof.... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070247389 - Mobile wireless communications device comprising non-planar internal antenna without ground plane overlap: A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing, a main dielectric substrate carried by the housing, circuitry carried by the main dielectric substrate, and a ground plane conductor on the main dielectric substrate. The mobile wireless communications device may further include an-L-shaped dielectric extension comprising a vertical portion extending... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070247390 - Antenna and supporting structure thereof: An antenna comprises a support structure and a downconverter. The support structure comprises a dish, a supporting assembly, and a connecting element. The supporting assembly comprises a dish bracket unit and a supporting arm to connect to the dish bracket unit. The connecting element between the dish and the dish... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070241969 - Antenna: An antenna having a construction enabling simple adjustment of impedance at the antenna connection terminal has a grounded plate; a plate-shape radiating conductor, positioned parallel to the grounded plate; a feed line conductor, one end of which is connected to a feed point of the plate-shape radiating conductor, the other... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070241966 - Conductive antenna structure and method for making the same: A conductive antenna structure and method for making the same, wherein the method includes the following steps: (a) providing a plastic film substrate: (b) performing a rinsing coating material printing process to let the rinsing coating material position on the plastic film substrate and appear a predetermined antenna pattern; (c)... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070241967 - Portable device and antenna thereof: An antenna comprises a substrate, a grounding element and a radiating element. The grounding element has an opening and is disposed on a first surface of the substrate. The radiating element is disposed on a second surface and electrically connects to the grounding element. A projection on the first surface... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070241968 - Printed antenna: A printed antenna includes a radiation part (10) for radiating and receiving electromagnetic signals, a feed wire (30) for feeding the electromagnetic signals to the radiation part, a matching part (20) for impedance matching, and a ground plane (40). The radiation part includes a first radiation segment (12), a second... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070241972 - Antenna arrangement: An antenna arrangement (1000) for use in an RF communication terminal including a plurality of resonators (1003, 1005, 1007, 1009) formed from a plurality of conducting wires (1002, 1004, 1008, 1010, 1012) the resonators being operable to provide radio frequency resonances in at least two different operational frequency bands (VHF,... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070241971 - Mobile communication terminal: An antenna element made of an electrically conductive material pattern is printed and formed on a face of a casing made of an electrically nonconductive material having a circuit board housed therein, and the antenna element and the circuit board are electrically connected to each other by a connecting element.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070241970 - Antenna device and portable radio communication device comprising such an antenna device: A multi-band antenna device for a portable radio communication device has first and second radiating elements (10, 20′). A controllable switch (30) is arranged between the radiating elements for selectively interconnecting and disconnecting thereof. The state of the switch is controlled by means of a control voltage input (VSwitch). A... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20070241973 - Multiband antenna for vehicles: Disclosed herein is a multiband antenna for vehicles. The multiband antenna includes a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), at least one radiation unit, and a feeding unit. The PCB is formed within a radome that protects the antenna. The at least one radiation unit is formed on the PCB to be... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070241974 - Antenna feed structure: In an antenna feed structure for electrically connecting a rotatable antenna to a circuit formed on a circuit board by means of a feeding metallic part, an antenna rotary shaft formed so as to protrude from one end of the antenna and formed of a conductor has a preferably spherical... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070241975 - Antenna unit and method for manufacturing antenna unit: A coaxial cable A12 of a receiving antenna A1, a resin plate A13, and a connecting unit cover A15 are fused by thermal treatment, so that a gap between the outer coating of the coaxial cable A12 and the connecting unit cover A15, and a gap between the resin plate... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070241976 - Antenna system for receiving digital video broadcast signals: An antenna system operative with a communications device for receiving a radio frequency signal, wherein the communications device produces a first control signal representing a frequency of a received signal. The antenna system comprises an antenna structure for receiving the radio frequency signal, the antenna structure comprising tunable elements for... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20070241977 - Impedance matching circuit for a mobile communication device: Position sensors detect the position of a user's hand position on a mobile communication device. A controller dynamically adjusts the source impedance of a transmitter and/or receiver in the mobile communication device based on the user's hand position to compensate for variations in the load impedance caused by the user's... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070241978 - Reconfigurable patch antenna apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments of a beam-reconfigurable patch antenna are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070241979 - Base station antenna rotation mechanism: A base station antenna system producing a beam, includes an array antenna rotatably mounted with respect to an antenna support so as to permit azimuth steering of the antenna beam and an azimuth position rotation arrangement configured to rotate the array antenna with respect to the antenna support about an... Agent: Eric D. Cohen

20070241980 - Low profile bicone antenna: An antenna that includes, in at least one embodiment, first and second radiating elements each having a substantially conical radiating surface. Each radiating surface may be substantially linearly conical or nonlinearly conical. The radiating surfaces are substantially aligned coaxially, and the radiating elements are positioned on opposing sides of a... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070241981 - Wideband antenna with omni-directional radiation: The present invention relates to a wideband antenna with omni-directional radiation comprising two conductive arms placed on a substrate one of the two arms, called second arm, is supplied by a shielded line by using the other arm, called first arm.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070241982 - Contoured triangular dipole antenna: The present invention relates to a contoured dipole antenna. The antenna is suitable for ultra wide band (UWB) radio communications, and in particular UWB applications requiring antennas of small size. Elements of the dipole antenna have a curvature designed to make the antenna UWB over a desired range. Embodiments of... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070241983 - Dipole antenna: A dipole antenna comprising a base; first and second pairs of dipoles positioned in front of the base and arranged around a central region; a first feed line which extends from the base towards the dipoles and splits at a first junction positioned in front of the base into a... Agent: Eric D. Cohen

20070241984 - Vertically polarized traveling wave antenna apparatus and method: A vertically polarized traveling wave antenna is omnidirectional, bottom-mounted, and bottom-fed. A robust center coax provides a self-supporting mechanical structure. Multiple dipoles are capacitively coupled to the coax in quads, with a first two dipoles placed on opposite sides of the center coax and spaced by a quarter wavelength along... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070241985 - Unbalanced power feeding antenna device for making radio communications: An antenna device which is connected to a radio module performing radio communications with a system using a first band and a system using a second band, has an antenna element which transmits/receives radio signals in the first and second bands. The antenna device has first and second matching circuits... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070241986 - Windmill-shaped loop antenna having parasitic loop antenna: There is provided a windmill-shaped loop antenna including: a dielectric substrate; a first radiation unit disposed on a top surface of the dielectric substrate and including a metal pattern having loop pieces; a second radiation unit disposed at a bottom surface of the dielectric substrate and including a metal pattern... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070241987 - Composite antenna for a tire: A composite conductor assembly is configured as a core composed of polymeric elastomeric material and a conductive layer in intimate surrounding contact with the core. The polymeric material provides elasticity to the core to enable the core to elongate when subjected to strain forces within a tire. The conductive layer... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Intellectual Property Department 823

20070236394 - Antenna device and wireless communication apparatus using same: An antenna device is provided which is capable of operating in a wider band of frequencies (in a plurality of transmitting and receiving frequency bands), achieving an excellent gain, maintaining non-directivity of vertically polarized waves in each of the transmitting and receiving frequency bands, and saving space. The antenna device... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070236390 - Dual-band circularly polarized antenna: A dual-band circularly polarized antenna is disclosed, more particularly a dual-band circularly polarized antenna being able to transmit and receive circularly polarized signals at two different frequency bands, simultaneously. The dual-band circularly polarized antenna of the present invention comprises a first polarized radiating element with at least one corner being... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070236392 - Dual-band inverted-f antenna: A dual-band inverted-F antenna includes a first radiating unit, a second radiating unit and a third radiating unit. The first radiating unit has a first long side and a first short side. The second radiating unit has a second long side and a second short side. The second long side... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070236391 - Multi-band built-in antenna for independently adjusting resonant frequencies and method for adjusting resonant frequencies: The invention relates to built-in antenna. Specifically, a multi-band built-in antenna having plurality of resonant frequencies and a method for adjusting resonant frequencies are provided, wherein resonant frequencies are able to be adjusted independently without affecting one another, for each resonant frequencies are adjusted separately through separate radiating elements.... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070236393 - Semiconductor device and method of producing the same: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a first through wiring penetrating through the semiconductor substrate from the first surface to the second surface; an antenna formed on the first surface and electrically connected to the first... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20070236397 - Antenna device with antenna element coupled to anti-emi plate of an electronic device: Disclosed is an antenna device arranged inside a display module of an electronic device with an anti-EMI plate. The antenna device includes an antenna element with a ground connecting end and a signal feeding end for transceiving a wireless signal, a ground connecting line coupled to the ground connecting end... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070236398 - Mobile communication terminal incorporating internal antenna: A mobile communication terminal and an internal multi-band antenna are described. The internal antenna is formed on a substrate and has a first pattern and a second pattern. Both patterns may be formed on one side of the substrate, or one pattern may be formed on each side of the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070236395 - Nano antenna: An antenna for a wireless device is provided. The antenna mounts on a substrate such as a printed circuit board. The antenna includes a carrier having sidewalls with inside surfaces defining an internal recess. A conductive trace resides on the carrier. The conductive trace having a first end and a... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20070236396 - Antenna structure: The present invention is to provide an antenna structure comprising a dielectric substrate and a transmitting portion provided on one surface of the dielectric substrate, wherein the transmitting portion has one end formed with first and second radiators and the other end bent toward the other surface of the dielectric... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070236399 - Antenna device with antenna element matched by resonance circuit: Disclosed is an antenna device with an antenna element with a predetermined shorten length, and a resonance circuit coupled to the antenna element, having a predetermined resonance frequency for matching the shorten length of the antenna element to adaptively make the antenna element in response to and transceive a wireless... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070236400 - Multi-band inverted-l antenna: An antenna includes a first antenna element and a second antenna element. The first antenna element and the second antenna element are configured to transmit and receive signals in a first band of frequencies and in a second band of frequencies. A first pair of delay lines is coupled to... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070236401 - Wireless apparatus capable of controlling radiation patterns of antenna: A wireless apparatus capable of controlling radiation patterns and directions of antenna is provided. It comprises an antenna element, a ground plane, an antenna feed-point, and at least one slot or slit formed on the ground plane. The inclusion of such slots or slits in the wireless apparatus improves the... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070236402 - Antenna and associated method of propagating electromagnetic waves: An antenna includes first, second and third waveguides in direct communication with a base waveguide at first, second and third positions, respectively, the base waveguide forming a continuous loop. The second position, at which the second waveguide is in direct communication with the base waveguide, is spaced apart from the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070236403 - Mobile data memory having bandpass filter characteristics: There is described a mobile data memory for RFID application or a mobile sensor unit having an integrated circuit and an antenna. These are provided with a first and a second oscillating circuit, which are both coupled to one another by means of a coupling element. The first oscillating circuit... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070236405 - Antenna which is made from a photonic band-gap (pbg) material and which comprises a lateral wall surrounding an axis: A antenna made from a photonic band-gap (PBG) material, includes: a lateral wall (4) which is made from a PBG material and which completely surrounds a central axis (6), the wall being disposed at a distance from the central axis such as to form a central resonant cavity; and at... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070236404 - Integrated gps antenna ground plane and telematics module: An electronic control unit has a cover that also serves as a ground plane for an antenna, such as a GPS antenna or other type of antenna. The antenna may be fastened directly to the cover, or mounted internally to the electronic control unit, printed circuit board, and protrude through... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070236406 - Three-dimensional h-fractal bandgap materials and antennas: A three dimensional (3D) fractal structure with H as the mother element is hereby disclosed. Such a 3D structure can act as selective total microwave reflectors or selective microwave filters in transmission. When excited through current injection, such a 3D fractal structure can act as highly efficient antenna for radiating... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20070229359 - Broadband patch antenna: A broadband patch antenna including a planar metallic patch sheet that is provided with right-angled edges and is disposed at a predetermined first height above and parallel to the planar base area of an electrically conducting reflector, and a device for feeding an RF signal into the metallic patch sheet.... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070229358 - Multiple frequency band planar antenna: A multiple frequency band planar antenna formed on one-side surface of a circuit board comprises: a first antenna pattern, a second antenna pattern, a third antenna pattern and a fourth antenna pattern, each antenna pattern further comprising an elongated portion and a conductor portion; wherein the second elongated portion at... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc. Suite 250

20070229368 - Planar coupler and integrated antenna system: In a RF coupler that has high transmission efficiency in a broad range and that uses an RF printed layered circuit board, strong electrostatic coupling is obtained between circuits, and electromagnetic coupling is also used; C-shaped loops (1, 2) that have parts cut out face the surfaces of a dielectric... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070229357 - Reconfigurable, microstrip antenna apparatus, devices, systems, and methods: An antenna device includes a dielectric layer, an electrical ground layer carried on one side of the dielectric layer, and an antenna arrangement carried on another side of the dielectric layer. This arrangement includes two parasitic microstrip elements and a microstrip signal element. The signal element is structured to radiate... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20070229362 - Antenna: An antenna which can be used in different communication standards with a simple structure is disclosed. The antenna includes an antenna section which receives/transmits radio waves, input/output ports to which a signal to be input to the antenna section is input and from which a signal output from the antenna... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229361 - Antenna apparatus: An antenna apparatus is disclosed that includes a dielectric substrate, an antenna element pattern that is formed on an upper face of the dielectric substrate, a strip line that is formed on the upper face of the dielectric substrate and extends from the antenna element pattern, and a ground pattern... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229367 - Antenna apparatus: An antenna apparatus has a ground and an antenna element. The antenna element includes a feeding portion and two turnback potions. The two turnback portions are on different radial lines, which originate from the feeding point to depart from each other on a surface of the antenna element. The two... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070229360 - Antenna apparatus and manufacturing method thereof: A disclosed antenna apparatus includes: a punched out antenna element made of a sheet metal; a punched out ground element made of a sheet metal, the ground element facing the antenna element; and a surface mount type coaxial connector mounted across the antenna element and the ground element.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229363 - Antenna device: An antenna device includes an antenna part and a dielectric formed on the antenna part. The dielectric is formed to be thicker in a direction of directivity that the antenna part is to be made to have, than in another direction.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229366 - Modified inverted-f antenna for wireless communication: An embodiment of the present invention is a modified inverted-F antenna for wireless communication. The antenna circuit includes a dielectric substrate having a first surface, a radiating stub on the first surface of the dielectric substrate, and a first ground plate on the first surface of the dielectric substrate to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070229364 - Multiple antennas having good isolation disposed in a limited space: An apparatus and method are taught for instantiation of a plurality of high-frequency antennas in a limited space in a manner that provides good isolation. The instantiation may include relative rotations of linear conductors, mirror images, as well as horizontally and vertically polarized antennas. In one embodiment, the antennas may... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20070229365 - Transponder antenna: Antenna for mounting ICs thereon, characterized in that the carrier substrate, on which the antenna is applied, is provided with an antistatic coating which does not negatively affect the function of the antenna.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070229372 - Antenna configured for low frequency application: An antenna configured for low frequency applications on a mobile device includes an antenna element coupled to a conductive structure which, in turn, is coupled to the user of the mobile device such that the user of the mobile device effectively becomes part of the antenna. The conductive structure can... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070229370 - Antenna radiator assembly and radio communications assembly: An antenna radiator assembly (200) and radio communications assembly (1) comprising a circuit board (210) supporting electrical conductors (225), one of the electrical conductors (225) being coupled to a feed point (130), and the circuit board (210) having a ground plane (140) formed from at least one conductive sheet. There... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070229373 - Folding portable wireless apparatus: In the configuration which includes a first case 11 having a first circuit board 101 and a second case 12 having a second circuit board 102 and in which the first case 11 and the second case 12 are coupled by a coupling portion 13 constituting a bendable plane-shaped coupling... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070229371 - Meander feed structure antenna systems and methods: A transmitting and receiving system including an antenna element having first and second current paths, and a meander feed line connected to said first and second current paths, the meander feed line including a radiating portion parallel to the first current path, wherein a current in the radiating portion is... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070229369 - Wireless audio signal receiver device for a hearing instrument: A receiver device (10) for receiving audio signals from a remote source is provided, comprising: a magnetic loop antenna for receiving radio frequency signals carrying audio signals, a signal processing unit for reproducing audio signals from the radio frequency signals received by the antenna, an output interface which is capable... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070229374 - Vehicle-mounted communication antenna: A vehicle-mounted communication antenna to be mounted on a vehicle for performing communication by an electromagnetic wave, includes an antenna body having an antenna case and an antenna element contained in the antenna case, and an antenna cover for protecting the antenna body that can transmit the electromagnetic wave.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070229375 - Mountable and adjustable aerodynamic antenna apparatus and method: A mountable and adjustable antenna apparatus (1000) and a method (M) involving a top housing member (100), a bottom housing member (200), and an antenna assembly (300) being disposed within the top housing member (100), the top housing member (100) being in rotatable relation to the bottom housing member (200),... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20070229376 - Antenna configured for low frequency applications: An antenna configured for low frequency applications on a mobile device includes an antenna element coupled to a conductive structure which, in turn, is coupled to the user of the mobile device such that the user of the mobile device effectively becomes part of the antenna. The conductive structure can... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070229379 - Digital uhf/vhf antenna: The invention comprises a Digital UHF/VHF (DUV) Antenna with a driven DUV antenna preferably boosted by an amplifier mounted close to the DUV dipole and a DUV signal line with antenna, amplifier, and signal line contacts being conductively bonded. The DUV dipole is preferably enhanced by a VHF enhancer and/or... Agent: Bradley Lee Eckwielen

20070229377 - Low profile msat skewed beam antenna methods and systems: An aspect of the present invention relates to the manufacture and use of co-planner parasitic patch antennas. In embodiments, methods and systems involve providing an antenna, the antenna including a first substrate, a dielectric material, and a second substrate; positioning the first and the second substrate to be co-planar; providing... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070229378 - Telecommunications antenna monitoring system: The present invention provides systems and methods for determining positional and operating parameters of telecommunications antennae, and for improving the operation of systems of such antennae. In one aspect, the invention provides an enterprise for improving the operation of the telecommunications antennae of clients of the enterprise.... Agent: Laurence C. Bonar

20070229380 - Planar antenna module, triple plate planar, array antenna, and triple plate feeder-waveguide converter: A planar antenna module according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises an antenna portion (101), a feeder portion (102), and a connection plate (18). The antenna portion (101) includes a first ground plate (11) having a first slot (21), a second ground plate (12) having dielectrics, an... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070229381 - Frequency tunable planar internal antenna: A frequency tunable internal antenna includes a substantially planar radiating element with a feed point and a switching element all coupled to the radiating element. The radiating element includes a plurality of slots configured to form a first branch and a second branch within the radiating element. The plurality of... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070229382 - Radiating element for radar array: A radiating element for a radar array has a conductive shell defining a cavity having an aperture; a dielectric material at least partially covering the aperture, and an excitation device coupled to the cavity for exciting the cavity in a radar band. A radar array has an extended ground plane... Agent: Plevy, Howard & Darcy, P.C.

20070229383 - Mobile radio terminal: By devising the case shape and antenna placement, it is possible to provide a mobile radio terminal capable of always having a high antenna sensitivity even when the mobile radio terminal is placed in a pocket of user's clothes. In this mobile radio terminal (1), the case (2) has a... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070229384 - Plane antenna: A plane antenna comprises a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a first radiating element, a first power feeding pattern connected to the radiating element, and a first non-power feeding loop type radiating element provided adjacent to the first radiating element, all disposed on the first surface... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070229385 - Broadband dual polarized base station antenna: A dual polarized broadband base station antenna for wireless communication systems is disclosed. The present invention employs a dual polarized boxed arrangement radiation element with high isolation between polarization channels. Plural radiating elements project outwardly from the surface of a ground plane. The antenna elements are paired dipoles.... Agent: David L. Henty Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman LLP

20070229386 - Adjustable 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 length adjustable conductive member electrically connected at one end. Each conductive... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070229387 - Antenna configuration: Regarding an antenna configuration (1) preferably provided for a telecommunication device and comprising a first resonator structure (6) and second resonator structure (RS) being capacitive coupled with the first resonator structure (6) it is suggested to provide the antenna configuration (1) with a control electrode (2) and a switching stage... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070229388 - Integrated phased array antenna: An integrated communication device having a substrate layer of substantially electrically nonconductive material with two substantially parallel surfaces, an antenna element disposed on one of the surfaces, a ground layer of substantially electrically conductive material disposed on the other surface and having an opening formed therethrough opposite from the antenna... Agent: Robert Popa C/o Ladas & Parry

20070229389 - Dual gain handheld radio antenna: The present invention concerns a dual gain antenna system 100 with an integrated system to control a matching network 214. The dual gain antenna system 100 comprises an antenna that includes a first helically shaped antenna element 104, a second vertical antenna element 106, and a base portion 101. The... Agent: Sacco & Associates, Pa

20070229391 - Radar device for a mobile body: A radar device for a mobile body, such as a vehicle, having a high degree of installation freedom. The radar device comprises a sensor body transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves, and path changing means placed in an electromagnetic wave path through which the electromagnetic waves pass and changing the propagation... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070229390 - Passive anti-jamming antenna system: System and method for improving the interference resistance of an radio frequency (RF) antenna system through passive prescreening of the RF energy incident upon the antenna. The invention physically partitions the RF environment into two or more sectors with respect to the direction of arrival of incident energy. The power... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP