Communications: radio wave antennas inventions 05/08

20080122699 - Broadband antenna: A broadband antenna includes a dielectric substrate, a radiation conductor and a feeding gap. The radiation conductor is disposed on the dielectric substrate and has a first side and a second side. The first side is adjacent to the second side, and the first side is longer than the second... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080122700 - Dual-band antenna: A dual-band antenna (10) is disposed on a substrate (20), for transceiving electromagnetic signals of different frequencies. The dual-band antenna includes a grounded portion (12), a feeding portion (14), and a radiation body (16). The feeding portion is adjacent to the grounded portion. The radiation body electronically connected to the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080122701 - Multi-band planar inverted-f antenna: A multi-band planar inverted-F antenna, adapted for a wireless communication device, is disclosed, which is comprised of: a feeding port, a first radiation area, a second radiation area, a ground area and a connecting port. The wireless communication device is connected to the feeding port through a signal line so... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080122702 - Multiband antenna: A multiband antenna with the broadband function has a radiator, a feed cable, a first extension conductor, and a second extension conductor. The radiator has a microwave substrate, a coupling conductor, a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, and a connecting conductor. The coupling conductor is connected with... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080122698 - Multiband antenna arrangement: The invention relates to a radio antenna and, more specifically, to an internal multiband antenna for use e.g. in a portable telecommunication device, such as a mobile phone. In particularly the invention relates to an antenna module for a mobile terminal comprising including a non-resonant antenna element, two resonant antenna... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080122697 - Multilayer antenna of planar construction: A multilayer antenna of planar construction comprises an electrically conductive ground face and a conductive radiation face which is arranged with lateral spacing from the ground face and extends substantially parallel thereto. A dielectric carrier is arranged between the ground face and the radiation face. Above the radiation face there... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080122705 - Antenna apparatus and electronic device: The present invention discloses an antenna apparatus including a dielectric substrate on which an element including a conductive material pattern is formed. The dielectric substrate is a film.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080122703 - Compact dielectric resonator antenna: A dielectric radiator antenna arrangement for a communication device having a ground plane is provided. The antenna arrangement may include a dielectric volume having a central axis normal to the ground plane, and mode-exciting elements. The mode-exciting elements may include a first mode-exciting element provided in or attached to the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080122704 - System and method for providing a low and narrow-profile radio frequency identification (rfid) tag: Methods and systems for wireless devices are disclosed. According to one system, a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes an RFID circuit packaged within a chip carrier package. The chip carrier package bonds out a first antenna connection for the RFID circuit. An antenna including a conductive lead is interfaced... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080122706 - Polarization reuse and beam-forming techniques for aeronautical broadband systems: Aeronautical broadband communication is enhanced by providing an apparatus having a first antenna configured to communicate using a signal orientation corresponding to a first polarization, and a second antenna configured to communicate using a signal orientation corresponding to a second polarization, where the second polarization has at least one characteristic... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080122707 - Vehicle ground contact element, tire and vehicle ground contact: A ground-contacting component of a vehicle, comprising at least two physical parameter measurement systems, each measurement system having a linearly polarized antenna. The polarization directions of the antennas make an angle of between 30 and 90° between them. Also disclosed are a tire and a vehicle ground contact.... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080122708 - Vehicle-mount antenna assemblies having snap-on outer cosmetic covers with compliant latching mechanisms for achieving zero-gap: An antenna assembly generally includes an antenna module mountable to a vehicle body wall. The antenna base module includes a base, a protective cover coupled to the base, at least one antenna element disposed within an interior enclosure collectively defined by the protective cover and the base, and one or... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080122709 - Optical method of multi-band mixing: The light is filtered by a two- or three-band optical device integrated with two- and three-band mixing method so that only the light in the wavelength range of the pass bands can pass through this optical device and reach the optical sensor for the opto-electronic sensing application, or human eyes... Agent: Fujian Ding

20080122710 - Folded dipole loop antenna having matching circuit integrally formed therein: A folded dipole loop antenna has a matching circuit integrally formed therein. The antenna includes a radiating unit formed in the shape of a loop, and the matching circuit has an extended part projected and extended toward a central area of the radiating unit from an inner side surface of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080122711 - Antenna device: Disclosed herein is an antenna device for receiving a broadcast wave in each of a first required frequency band and a second required frequency band, the antenna device including: an earphone cable including an audio signal line and a ground line; and an antenna element cable including a coaxial line... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080122713 - Printed circuit board: There is provided a printed circuit board comprising: a mounting area of a chip antenna provided on one surface thereof, and a tuning ground pattern formed on a surface opposing the one surface of the printed circuit board to have one end connected to a ground part so as to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080122712 - Tunable antenna including tunable capacitor inserted inside the antenna: A tunable component such as a tunable BST (Barium Strontium Titanate) capacitor is added inside the antenna structure, and the input impedance of the antenna is tuned by tuning this tunable component, rather than adding a multiple-component impedance matching network at the feed point of the antenna outside the antenna... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080122714 - Antenna structure and radio communication apparatus including the same: In an antenna structure 1 in which a feed radiation electrode provided on a dielectric base member performs an antenna operation in a fundamental mode and an antenna operation in a higher-order mode with a resonant frequency higher than that in the fundamental mode, one end of the feed radiation... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080122715 - Loaded antenna: A novel loaded antenna is defined in the present invention. The radiating element of the loaded antenna consists of two different parts: a conducting surface and a loading structure. By means of this configuration, the antenna provides a small and multiband performance, and hence it features a similar behaviour through... Agent: Winstead PC

20080122716 - Segmented antenna system for offshore radio networks and method of using same: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a segmented antenna system. The method includes determining an orientation of a first antenna, the first antenna including a plurality of segments for transmitting and receiving signals, determining a direction from the first antenna to a second antenna capable or at... Agent: Westerngeco L.L.C.

20080122717 - Flat miniaturized antenna and related electronic device operated in wide band: A flat miniaturized antenna includes a substrate, a radiation element, a short circuit metal arm, and a feed element. The substrate includes a first sheet and a second sheet. The first sheet is perpendicular to the second sheet. The radiation element includes a first radiation plate approximately paralleling the first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080122718 - Phase-shifting cell having an analogue phase shifter for a reflectarray antenna: The present invention relates to the production of reflectarray antennas, that is to say antennas consisting of a primary illumination source and a phase-shifting plate consisting of an array of cells each having a coefficient of reflection the phase of which is electronically controlled. According to the invention, each cell... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080122719 - Antenna device: An antenna device includes a coupling tube, a conductor member received in the coupling tube and having one end for electrically coupling to an electric facility, a socket member electrically coupled to the other end of the conductor member and having a socket opening for coupling to an antenna member.... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20080122720 - Antenna structure: An antenna structure is suitable for being embedded in an electronic device. The antenna structure includes a grounding plate, a radiating plate, and a shorting plate. The grounding plate has a body and a bending portion extending from the body. The radiating plate is disposed above the grounding plate and... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080122721 - Method for coupling a radio frequency electronic device to a passive element: A method for coupling a radio frequency electronic device (14) to a passive element (12), such as an antenna, the passive element including a body having an impedance at the operating frequency. the method comprises the steps of attaching a conductive pad having a shape and area corresponding to the... Agent: Medwick, George M. E.i. Du Pont De Nemours And Company

20080122722 - Chip antenna: There is provided a chip antenna including: a dielectric block; a first conductive pattern formed on at least one surface of the dielectric block to connect to an external feeding part; a second conductive pattern spaced apart from the first conductive pattern at a certain distance so as to be... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080122723 - Programmable antenna with programmable impedance matching and methods for use therewith: A programmable antenna includes a fixed antenna element and a programmable antenna element that is tunable to one of a plurality of resonant frequencies in response to at least one antenna control signal. A programmable impedance matching network is tunable in response to at least one matching network control signal,... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080122724 - Antenna: An antenna includes inductance elements that are magnetically coupled together, an LC series resonant circuit that includes one of the inductance elements and capacitance elements, and an LC series resonant circuit that includes another of the inductance elements and capacitance elements. The plurality of LC series resonant circuits are used... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080122725 - Ballistic resistant antenna assembly: A ballistic resistant antenna for use with a ballistic resistant communications system having a first plate fabricated from a ballistic material. The first plate has at least one opening configured to allow transmission of electromagnetic energy at a predetermined range of electromagnetic wavelengths. The antenna also has at least one... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20080122726 - Low cost chip package with integrated rfantenna: An electronic RF chip package with integrated antenna includes a top cover section having on its external surface an integrated antenna with antenna elements resonating at different polarizations, a RF chip mounted on an internal surface of the top cover section and functionally coupled to the antenna elements to provide... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080122728 - Antenna arrangement: There is provided an antenna arrangement for use in an ultra-wideband network, the antenna arrangement comprising an active element; and a plurality of passive elements arranged around the active element; each passive element being controllable to selectively reflect or transmit radio signals emitted by the active element so as to... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080122729 - Antenna arrangement: An antenna arrangement for use in an ultra-wideband network comprises a plurality of active monopoles. Each monopole is oriented substantially perpendicular to a ground plane, and arranged in a row along a transmission axis. Each monopole has an active portion for emitting radio signals and switch means for selectively changing... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080122727 - 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

20080122730 - Antenna seat: An antenna seat comprises a female joint having a connecting cylinder; an inner side of the connecting cylinder having a buckle ring; and a male joint having a tapered inner cylinder corresponding to the buckle ring; a left end of the tapered inner cylinder having a flange; an inner space... Agent: Kao-shen Lin

20080122731 - Method for mounting a tridimensional antenna: A method for mounting a tridimensional antenna includes steps of: providing the tridimensional antenna including a radiating body, a feeding foot, a grounding foot, and a supporting foot, the feeding foot and the grounding foot connected to the radiating body, the supporting foot including a supporting portion, at least one... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080122732 - Arrangement and method for increasing bandwidth: An antennal arrangement for radio signals includes two loop antennas. Each of the antennas is provided with a capacitor. The antennas are separated from one another by a gap and are coupled to each other by a conductor.... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080122733 - Quadrifilar helical antenna: A quadrifilar helical antenna comprising two pairs of filars having unequal lengths and phase quadrature signals propagating thereon. A conductive H-shaped impedance matching element matches a source impedance to an antenna impedance. The impedance matching element having a feed terminal at the center thereof from which current is supplied to... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080117107 - Flat panel antenna: A flat panel antenna includes a horizontal ground plan, a vertical ground plane, a radiation metal member disposed over and in parallel with the horizontal ground plane; the vertical ground plane being disposed at a level higher than that of the radiation metal member, an extension member extending from the... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080117108 - Miniature antenna with feeding coupled line: The present invention provides a micro antenna with feeding coupled line comprising a dielectric body, an antenna metal surface, a ground metal surface, and a feeding line. The ground metal surface is to couple the antenna metal surface and the feeding line for signal transmitting; namely, the ground metal surface... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080117109 - Antenna assembly for portable terminal: An antenna assembly for a portable terminal. The antenna assembly includes an antenna housing releasably received in the portable terminal; a cam member having at least one stopping groove formed on a surface of the cam member, and connected to the antenna housing to move linearly and reciprocally in the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080117110 - Wireless communication system: A wireless communication apparatus adapted to be mounted on an elevated surface having an electrical socket thereon. The apparatus includes a housing, a photocell and a transceiver. The housing at least partially defines an interior space and has a portion which is translucent. The photocell is supported by the housing... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080117111 - Antenna apparatus: In an antenna case 10 projecting from a vehicle in a height of not more than 70 mm, an antenna circuit board 30 on which an antenna pattern is formed is uprightly arranged and an amplifier circuit board 34 which amplifies a received signal output from the antenna circuit board... Agent: Kirk Hahn

20080117112 - Quick deployed antenna system: A satellite system is packed into and transported via a backpack whereby the backpack integrally accommodates and supports the satellite antenna system as a single unit. The satellite antenna system expands or telescopes from the backpack as a complete working unit without the assembly of parts or minimal assembly such... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080117114 - Apparatus and method for antenna rf feed: An RF feed is provided which is structured as a curved reflector coupled to a sidewall of a waveguide cavity. A radiation source is situated facing the curved reflector. The RF feed may be coupled to a waveguide cavity having radiation elements coupled to top surface thereof, to thereby feed... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080117113 - Integrated waveguide cavity antenna and reflector rf feed: An integrated antenna and reflector feed is provided which is structured as a waveguide cavity antenna or array having a curved reflector coupled to a sidewall of the waveguide cavity. A radiation source is situated facing the curved reflector and one or more radiating elements are provided on a top... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080117115 - Log-periodic dipole array (lpda) antenna and method of making: A log periodic dipole array (LPDA) antenna including a first antenna element, a second antenna element and a pair of transmission line structures is provided herein. The first antenna element is fabricated as a continuous piece of conductive material to include a plurality of dipole elements extending outward from a... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20080117116 - Method and apparatus for receiving dual band signals from an orbital location using an outdoor unit with a concentric antenna feed: A satellite system 10 having a first satellite 14 at a first orbital slot B has a first transponder 32 and a second generating a first downlink signal 44B at a first frequency and a second downlink signal 44C at a second frequency. An outdoor unit is directed toward the... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080117117 - Communication system and communication apparatus: A communication system includes the following elements: a transmitter including a transmission circuit unit configured to generate an RF signal for transmitting data and an EFC antenna configured to transmit the RF signal as an electrostatic field or an induced electric field; and a receiver including an EFC antenna and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080117118 - Non-contact ic module: An accessed object having a non-contact IC module including a semiconductor device and a module-side antenna formed extending over two sides of an accessed object, wherein the module-side antenna consists of a first module-side antenna and a second module-side antenna continuous to the first module-side antenna, wherein the first module-side... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080117119 - Antenna system compensating a change in radiation characteristics: The invention concerns antenna systems wherein energy is transmitted or received through a transmissive surface. A system of the invention comprises an antenna and means for displacing a radiation lobe of the antenna relative to the transmissive surface, thus allowing lobe positions which give rise to an unacceptable change in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080117120 - Receiver of fm system: A receiver of a frequency modulation (FM) system includes a first dielectric substrate, a second dielectric substrate, a helix antenna and an FM module. The helix antenna is formed between the first dielectric substrate and the second dielectric substrate and has a first end and a second end opposite to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080111745 - Antenna: An antenna having a ground plane having an edge and a first antenna element extending substantially parallel to the edge is disclosed. A ground element electrically connects the first antenna element with the ground plane. A second antenna element extends substantially parallel to the first antenna element and is disposed... Agent: Barley Snyder, Llc

20080111744 - Antenna structure: An antenna structure is disposed on a substrate. The antenna structure includes a -shaped radiation body and a first radiation body, and both share a feeding end and a grounding end. The feeding end and the grounding end are disposed to a side edge of the -shaped radiation body. The... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080111743 - Broadband antenna: A broadband antenna includes a radiation part (10) for radiating and receiving electromagnetic signals, a feed portion (30) for feeding the electromagnetic signals, and a pair of ground planes (40) respectively disposed on sides of the feed portion. The radiation part comprises an annular first radiation segment (12) and an... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080111742 - Micro stacked type chip antenna: A micro stacked type chip antenna, wherein a plurality of elementary layers printed with radiation metallic electrodes are stacked up to allow the radiation metallic electrodes on the elementary layers to electrically connect each with its neighboring ones (one) of the radiation metallic electrodes on its upper one and/or lower... Agent: Sinorica, Llc

20080111749 - Antenna and mobile communication terminal comprising the same: A mobile terminal and antenna including a case configured to include a circuit board and an antenna disposed inside the case. The antenna including an antenna pattern formed on a substrate, a feed unit having a first end connected to the antenna pattern and a second end connected to the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080111747 - Antenna for a pen-shaped mobile phone: The present invention relates to an antenna arrangement for a thin elongated portable communication device as well as to a thin elongated portable communication device comprising such an antenna arrangement. The antenna arrangement includes a first radiating antenna element dimensioned for operation at a first frequency and provided in the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080111746 - Antenna system for notebook computer and method for communicating in multiple wireless systems: Embodiments of an antenna system for notebook, laptop and portable computers and methods for communicating in multiple wireless systems are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a notebook computer comprises a plurality of transceivers, a plurality of antennas coupled to the transceivers with... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080111748 - Antenna system having plural selectable antenna feed points and method of operation thereof: An antenna system includes a plurality of antenna feed points operatively coupled to one or more antennas and a controller for selecting at least one of the antenna feed points based on the operating environment of the antenna system. When the antenna system is employed in a mobile wireless device,... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080111750 - Wave transmitting/receiving structure for vehicle antennas: A vehicle antenna transmitting/receiving structure is provided, which is not affected by electric current that flows through the windshield. The vehicle antenna transmitting/receiving structure comprises a resin roof constituting at least a portion of the vehicle roof inclusive of a front end portion of the vehicle roof, and an overhead... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080111751 - Window glass for vehicle: A window glass of a vehicle having a roof antenna mounted on an upper rear portion of a roof of the vehicle, has a defogger formed, on the rear window glass, by a plurality of horizontal heating lines which are connected with each other at the respective both ends by... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080111752 - Modular antenna assembly for automotive vehicles: The specification discloses various embodiments of modular antenna assemblies for automotive vehicles. In one exemplary embodiment, an antenna generally includes a base assembly that may be used on a variety of vehicle platforms. The antenna may also include a radome assembly that is specific to a particular vehicle platform. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080111753 - Dual band printed antenna and dual band printed antenna module: A dual band printed antenna includes a first metal sheet, a second metal sheet, a substrate and a conductive unit. The first metal sheet is triangular and has a slit and a feeding part. The slit is extended from a side to another side of the first metal sheet. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080111754 - Electronically scanned antenna with secondary phase shifters: An antenna module for an electronically scanned phased array antenna is provided. In various embodiments, the module includes a transmit/receive (T/R) module layer including a plurality of T/R modules. The module additionally includes an external phase shifter layer that includes a plurality of sets of secondary phase shifters. Each secondary... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, Plc

20080111755 - antenna operable at two frequency bands simultaneously: An antenna is provided which is structured to operate at two frequency bands simultaneously. The antenna is structured as a waveguide cavity having two types of radiating elements provided on its top surface, symmetrically about the diagonal of the cavity. One group of radiating elements is optimized to operate at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080111756 - Semiconductor memory module having built-in antenna: A semiconductor memory module formed of a mounted module (12) having a semiconductor memory device (16) and a control semiconductor device (18), a circuit board (14) which contains connection terminal (20) coupled with the control semiconductor device (18) and disposed so that it is exposed from the surface of outer... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080111757 - Dipole antennas and coaxial to microstrip transitions: The invention relates in part to a folded dipole having a dipole axis and a pair of arms which together have a profile which is concave on one side and convex on the other when viewed along the dipole axis. The dipoles may be arranged as a dipole box around... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080111758 - Antenna feed-tube-to-amplifier coupling: A first set of screws secures a Cassegrain-configuration microwave antenna's primary reflector to its low-noise block down-converter without additionally securing that reflector or the low-noise block down-converter to the antenna's feed tube, which a second set of screws separately secures to the low-noise block down-converter.... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080111759 - Antenna arrangement: An antenna for use in a direction finder system, said antenna including a microstrip patch layer with a stripline transmissionline layer below. The microstrip layer and the stripline layer share a common groundplane. In this groundplane is formed a number of apertures. Each aperture couples a patch to a radiation... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080111760 - Radio frequency integrated circuit tag and method of using the rfic tag: An RFIC tag includes an IC chip and a thin metal plate. The IC chip is mounted approximately in the center of a slit part on the thin metal plate. The thin metal plate has connecting parts at both longitudinal-direction ends fixed on a metal member by soldering, and the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080111761 - Digital tv antenna: A digital TV antenna, comprising an antenna cable in a copper tube covered by a plastic coating as an antenna housing, wherein a top end of the digital TV antenna is used as a feed-in terminal of the antenna cable extended to a connector at the other end for electric... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20080111762 - Wide band-width antenna: A wide band-width antenna, comprising a copper tube in a main structure, wherein the copper tube is closed at one end and is provided with a screw thread at the other end inside the copper tube so as to be connected with a feed-in terminal.... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20080106475 - Printed wiring board with enhanced structural integrity: A structural printed wiring board panel includes a multilayer printed wiring board having opposing, outer faces and interlayer interconnects that route RF, power and control signals. Connection areas are formed in or on at least on one face for connecting the interlayer interconnects and any electrical components. A metallic face... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080106471 - Compact pcb antenna: A compact PCB antenna is disclosed. The compact PCB antenna has a substrate; a ground on the substrate; a radiating element patterned on the substrate; and a shorting path patterned on the substrate, the shorting path extends from a branch point of the radiating element; wherein the branch point defines... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Attn: Juan Carlos A. Marquez

20080106474 - Device comprising an antenna for exchanging radio frequency signals: In devices (1) comprising antennas (2) for exchanging radio frequency signals, the antennas (2) comprise two conductive planes (21,22) which comprise two connection points (31a,32a) and which are separated by gaps (23) for separating the conductive planes (21,22) from each other and which are coupled to each other by conductive... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080106470 - Multi-branch conductive strip planar antenna: A multi-branch conductive strip planar antenna is disclosed herein, which is basically a planar antenna with a radiator and a ground plane fed by a transmission line. Specifically, the radiator is composed of a plurality of taper-comb-shaped multi-branch conductive strips. Thus, a broadband antenna can be achieved through a plurality... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080106472 - Pattern antenna structure: A pattern antenna structure includes a casing, a PCB, and an antenna unit. The PCB is disposed in the casing. The antenna unit is electrically connected with the PCB, and the antenna unit is disposed on the casing to form a predetermined pattern. Hence, the antenna unit of the present... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080106473 - Planar antenna: A planar antenna (20) disposed on a substrate (10) including a first surface (102) and a second surface (104). The planar antenna includes a radiating body (21) laid on the first surface for transmitting and receiving radio frequency (RF) signals, a feeding portion (22), and a first metallic ground plane... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080106469 - Semiconductor device: The present invention provides a semiconductor device in which, in order to prevent wiring delay, an electromagnetic wave is radiated from a transmitting dipole antenna placed on a semiconductor chip and received with a receiving antenna placed in a circuit block included in another semiconductor chip, instead of long metal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080106476 - Adaptable antenna system: The invention utilizes small, narrow-band and frequency adaptable antennas to provide coverage to a wide range of wireless modes and frequency bands on a host wireless device. The antennas have narrow pass-band characteristics, require minimal space on the host device, and allow for smaller form factor. The frequency tunability further... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080106478 - Broadband antenna with coupled feed for handheld electronic devices: Broadband antennas and handheld electronic devices with broadband antennas are provided. A handheld electronic device may have a housing in which electrical components such as integrated circuits and a broadband antenna are mounted. The broadband antenna may have a ground element and a resonating element. The resonating element may have... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080106477 - Collapsible mobile radio device: The invention is to improve antenna performance in an internal antenna in a closed state without deteriorating the antenna performance in a state where a foldable portable radio apparatus is opened. A foldable portable radio apparatus includes a foldable mechanism in which an upper casing 101 and a lower casing... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080106479 - Electronic device having dipole antenna: The present invention provides an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a circuit board; and a dipole antenna, having a first conducting portion and a second conducting portion that are electrically coupled to the circuit board respectively and disposed substantially along an outline of the circuit board.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080106480 - Glass antenna for vehicle: There is provided an antenna formed on at least upper blank space of defogging heating strips of a rear window glass of a vehicle. The antenna is a vehicular glass antenna including an AM broadcast wave receiving antenna which has at least two horizontal strips formed to have a space... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080106481 - Dipole antenna with reduced feedline reverse current: A dipole antenna with reduced feedline reverse current is provided. A substrate includes a first surface and a second surface, with a feed aperture and a ground aperture penetrating through both the first and second surfaces. A radiator is configured on the first surface for receiving and transmitting wireless signals.... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20080106482 - Electronically scanned hemispheric antenna: A low-profile, electronically scanned antenna that can scan a hemisphere is comprised of three, phased array radiators. Each radiator face has an azimuth and elevation scan angle equal to 120 degrees. The three radiator faces are arranged in a truncated 3 sided pyramid such that they prove continuous hemispherical coverage.... Agent: Patti, Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080106483 - Antenna cover for microwave ovens: An antenna cover assembly for a high-temperature operating environment has a cover plate, gasket portions, and a retainer plate. The cover plate has an inner side and an outer side, the cover plate being translucent to at least one selected frequency of electromagnetic energy. The gasket portions are each located... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080106484 - Compact, dual-beam phased array antenna architecture: A dual beam electronically scanned phased array antenna architecture is provided. The architecture includes a plurality of antenna modules substantially orthogonally connected to a signal distribution board. Each module includes a radiator board substantially orthogonally connected to a first end of a support mandrel. Each radiator board includes a plurality... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080106485 - Portable electronic device and antenna thereof: A portable electronic device with function of receiving and radiating radio frequency (RF) signal and an antenna thereof are disclosed. The portable electronic device comprises an RF module and an antenna connecting to the RF module. The antenna comprises a helix element, a radiating element, and a base. The base... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080106486 - System and method for a radio-antenna interface: A radio-antenna interface is disclosed for coupling of an antenna to one or more radio receivers. The radio-antenna interface includes a hub and a feed-boom. The hub includes an aperture adapted to receive the feed-boom. The hub is also fitted with latches adapted to detachably couple the radio to... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080100513 - Antenna: The present invention describes an antenna assembly. The antenna assembly has a planar antenna structure and a conductor. The planar antenna structure has at least three metallic sheets and is electrically connected with the conductor. The present invention is used to receive multiple frequency signals and produce a coupled effect.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080100512 - Antenna: An antenna comprises a first transmission element, a second transmission element, a conductive element, a ground element, a ground line and a signal line. The conductive element is connected to the ground element. The first transmission element is connected to the conductive element. The first transmission element comprises a first... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080100511 - Low profile partially loaded patch antenna: A low profile antenna comprises a radiating element arranged over a ground plane. The radiating element has a plurality of radiating edges. Dielectric elements are coupled to the radiating edges.... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20080100514 - Antenna arrangement for hinged wireless communication device: An improved wireless communication device, such as a clamshell-type cellular telephone, and related method of operation are disclosed. In at least some embodiments, the wireless communication device includes a first structure and a second structure that is hingedly coupled to the first structure, where at least a part of at... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S C

20080100519 - Built-in antenna module for portable wireless terminal: A built-in antenna module includes a main board including a feed pad, a ground pad, and a ground layer having a predetermined area; an antenna radiator installed on the main board to have a predetermined height, and including a feed pin and a ground pin, the feed pin and the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080100518 - Electronic device detachable antenna assembly: An electronic device detachable antenna assembly comprises a connector member coupled to an electronic device and configured to receive an external antenna in pluggable engagement therewith, the antenna and the connector member movable between a stored position on the electronic device and an extended position relative to the electronic device.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080100517 - Internet communication system: An Internet communication system includes a satellite; a computer; and an antenna unit connected to the computer to communicate with the satellite. The antenna unit comprises a housing; an antenna mounted in said housing and rotatable about a generally vertical axis while remaining in a generally horizontal plane. The antenna... Agent: Tod R Nissle

20080100516 - Low profile internal antenna: A multi-band folded inverted conformal antenna (101), suitable for use internally within an electronic device (501), facilitates low-profile designs with the multi-band folded inverted conformal antenna (601) extending less than five millimeters above a circuit substrate (102) in some embodiments. The multi-band folded inverted conformal antenna (601) includes planar sections... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080100515 - Multiple-band monopole coupling antenna: A multiple-band monopole coupling antenna includes a dielectric board, a low frequency antenna and a high frequency antenna. The low frequency antenna and the high frequency antenna are located on the front of the dielectric board. The length of the low frequency antenna equals to the half length of the... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080100520 - Internal antenna of wireless communication terminal: An internal antenna of a wireless communication terminal, in which internal style folded monopole antenna is installed, is provided. The internal antenna of a wireless communication terminal includes a folded monopole antenna. The folded monopole antenna includes two folded radiation planes having a quarter wavelength, and reactances loaded to predetermined... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080100521 - Antenna assemblies with composite bases: An antenna assembly according to one embodiment is configured to be installed and fixedly mounted to a vehicle body wall after being inserted into a mounting hole in the vehicle body wall from an external side of the vehicle and nipped from the interior compartment side. The antenna assembly may... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080100522 - Antenna device and door handle device: A transmission/reception antenna (21) comprises a core (31) and a coil (32) wound around the core (31). One of a plurality of core sheets (31a) constituting the core (31) is utilized as a sensor electrode (23). Conductors (33, 34) extending from the two ends of the coil (32) are connected... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080100523 - Flap antenna and communications system: A flap antenna may include a radio frequency (RF) feed and a shaped reflector formed in a selected shape to reflect electromagnetic radiation to or from the RF feed. The flap antenna may also include a flap reflector to reflect the electromagnetic radiation to or from the shaped reflector. The... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Boeing

20080100524 - Triplate planar slot antenna: A triplate planar slot antenna formed by laying a ground plate, a lower layer side dielectric layer, a lower layer side copper-clad film substrate, an upper layer side dielectric layer, a slot plate and an upper layer side copper-clad film substrate sequentially from the bottom side, wherein a lower layer... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080100525 - Broadband antenna: A broadband antenna including: a dielectric substrate; a meander line radiator formed on the dielectric substrate to be bent at an acute angle; and a stub extended from at least one of bending portions of the meander line radiator, wherein the meander line radiator has 2n number of the bending... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080100526 - Impedance matched passive radio frequency transmit/receive switch: A Radio Frequency (RF) structure services an antenna having a characteristic impedance and includes a differential Power Amplifier (PA), a differential Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), and a balun transformer. The differential PA has a differential PA output with a PA differential output impedance. The differential LNA has a differential LNA... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080100527 - Antenna arrangement: An antenna arrangement including a first antenna module having a first antenna loop positioned in a plane for emitting a signal in a first spatial area, and at least one additional antenna loop positioned in substantially the same plane for emitting a signal in an additional spatial area. The arrangement... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080100528 - Antenna apparatus: Disclosed is an antenna apparatus comprising: an antenna module comprising a ground plate and an antenna element having a metal plate disposed at a predetermined distance from the ground plate; and an antenna cover to cover the antenna module, wherein the antenna cover includes an antenna holding section to hold... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080100529 - Antenna with lattice support structure: A transmitting antenna having a lattice-type support structure is provided through the confines of which the transmission lines may be routed so that the supporting structure itself may serve as a screen, shielding the transmission lines from the radiated field, while permitting generation of a satisfactory radiation pattern. A transmitting... Agent: C Richard Martin Martin & Martin, Attorneys At Law, PC

20080100530 - Triple polarized patch antenna: An antenna arrangement for a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) radio system, the antenna arrangement transmitting and receiving in three essentially uncorrelated polarizations. The arrangement includes first and second patches, and four feeding points for feeding the first patch. In one mode of operation, the feeding points are fed in... Agent: Ericsson Inc.