Communications: radio wave antennas inventions 06/08

20080150806 - Multiple input multiple output antenna: A MIMO antenna (10) disposed on a substrate (40) including a first surface (42) and a second surface (44). The MIMO antenna includes a first antenna (20) and a second antenna (30) each including a radiating body (26), a grounded body (28), a feeding portion (22) for feeding signals, and... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080150805 - Single pole printed antenna: A printed antenna includes a smaller antenna member attached onto the circuit board, one or more greater antenna members attached onto the circuit board and electrically coupled to the smaller antenna member with conductive coupling members and coupled in series with each other, a feed-in terminal electrically coupled to the... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20080150810 - Antenna apparatus and radio communicating apparatus: The present invention relates to an antenna apparatus capable of multifrequency resonance and realizes downsizing and multifrequency resonance. The present invention relates to an antenna apparatus capable of multifrequency resonance or a radio communicating apparatus (e.g., portable phone) including the antenna apparatus; toward a feed element connected to and supplied... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080150811 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes: a housing provided with a first conductive pattern; a substrate provided with a first wiring layer in a surface thereof and fixed to the housing; and a first conductive member connecting the first conductive pattern and the first wiring layer. The first conductive pattern extends onto... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080150813 - Electronic apparatus with an antenna: An electronic apparatus with an antenna, an anti-jamming system and a method are disclosed. The electronic apparatus comprises a casing and the antenna. The antenna is composed of a patterned metal thin film and a carrier and provided for processing a wireless signal. The casing and the antenna are made... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.c.

20080150809 - Hoop antenna: An antenna for use in a relatively small confined space, such as a mobile phone, is provided. In one example, the antenna includes a feeding arm having an end coupled to a feeding contact; and a grounded arm having an end coupled to a ground contact, wherein the feeding arm... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080150807 - Multi-band antenna: A multi-band antenna configured in a portable electrical device capable of operating in a low frequency bandwidth and a high frequency bandwidth has an elongated radiating body and a feeding conductor connecting the elongated radiating body. The feeding conductor has opposite side arms respectively connecting the elongated radiating body and... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080150812 - Patch antenna: A wireless device has a housing, a patch antenna, and an open/shut sensing unit which senses the open/shut state of the housing and forms an open/shut signal indicating the open/shut state. The patch antenna has a first element which corresponds to a first polarized wave, a second element which corresponds... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080150808 - Switched capacitive patch for radio frequency antennas: An antenna system (102) for receiving and transmitting radio frequency (RF) signals within a plurality of predetermined RF bands includes a ground leg (202), a feed leg (206), one or more capacitive patches (212) and one or more switching devices (214). The feed leg (206) is coupled to the ground... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (mot)

20080150814 - Radio frequency communication analysis system: A device for measuring variations of a magnetic field generated by a first element and likely to be modulated by this first element as well as by a second distinct element present in the field, comprising a first winding adapted to the first element and a second winding adapted to... Agent: Howard Ip Law Group

20080150815 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes: a first molded body; a second molded body which composes a housing with the first molded body; a first conductive pattern provided on an outer surface of the first molded body; a second conductive pattern provided in the housing; and a first conductive pin. The first... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080150816 - Antenna feed arrangement: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus and method for antenna arrangement by providing a feed arrangement through a flex connection for radiating elements of a first part and a second part (e.g., lower and upper parts, respectively) of a mobile terminal (e.g., a slide-type terminal), wherein the first... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080150817 - Method and apparatus for making a radio frequency inlay: A method and apparatus are provided for making radio frequency (RF) inlays. The RF inlays include an integrated circuit and an antenna affixed to a substrate material carrying the integrated circuit. During processing, portions of the wire forming the antenna are located adjacent to, but not directly over the integrated... Agent: Sheridan Ross Pc

20080150818 - Slot type antenna with integrated amplifiers: The present invention relates to a slot type antenna with integrated amplifiers, comprising a substrate S featuring a ground plane G, a longitudinal radiation open slot antenna, a power divider connected to a feeder line, an amplifier connected to each of the outputs of the power divider, such that the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080150819 - Radar apparatus: antenna elements, a transmitter, a receiver, a first antenna switch which selectively connects first power feeding points of each of the plurality of the antenna elements and the transmitter, a second antenna switch which selectively connects second power feeding points of each of the plurality of antenna elements and the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080150820 - Tubular endfire slot-mode antenna array with inter-element coupling and associated methods: The tubular slot-mode antenna includes an array of slot antenna units carried by a tubular substrate, e.g. a cylindrical substrate, and each slot antenna unit having a pair of patch antenna elements arranged in laterally spaced apart relation about at least one central feed position. Adjacent patch antenna elements of... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080150821 - Flexible substrate integrated waveguides: This invention relates to a device operable to guide electromagnetic waves in substrate integrated structures, said substrate integrated structures being made in one component. In detail planar antennas are part of said substrate integrated structures, which are connected to electromagnetic waveguides. This invention also allows 3D structures of the above... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080150822 - Antenna apparatus: An antenna apparatus is provided, which removes dead directions, and at the same time, has a suppression means for easily suppressing the change of an antenna directivity pattern caused by the effect of a feed line or a radome and an improvement means for simply improving the VSWR deterioration caused... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080150823 - Compact antennas for ultra wide band applications: Compact antennas for ultra wide band applications are disclosed. The compact antenna may be an elliptic dipole antenna with a poise and counterpoise both having an elliptical shape. A substrate may be used to support the poise and counterpoise with the substrate having a closed three-dimensional shape.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080150824 - Antenna array system and method for beamsteering: An antenna array system includes a launcher comprising an antenna configured to establish and steer a wavefront, and an array of Yagi-Uda director trains coupled to the launcher and located in the path of the wavefront. The array of Yagi-Uda director trains is configured to influence a beamwidth of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080150825 - High-impedance substrate, antenna device and mobile radio device: There is provided with a high-impedance substrate including: a finite ground plane; a plurality of metal plates arranged at a predetermined height from the finite ground plane and in a matrix pattern such that respective faces thereof are approximately parallel to the finite ground plane; and a plurality of linear... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080150826 - Reflector antenna: An antenna provided. The antenna includes an outer dish having a first surface and a second surface; an inner dish mounted to the first surface of the outer dish; a helix feed mounted on a ground plane; and a support mounted at an axial center of the inner dish for... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080150827 - Method and apparatus for shaped antenna radiation patterns: Methods and apparatus for antennas, wireless cells and networks are described. Antennas may use a shield to provide a shape of coverage, area of coverage, and channel assignment pattern configured for high throughput wireless cells and networks. Antenna combining devices may be used to form wireless cells configured for high... Agent: Letham Patent Group Llc

20080150828 - Antenna arrangement: An antenna arrangement comprising: including a first antenna element having a first feed for connection to radio frequency circuitry; and a second antenna element, separate to the first antenna element, having a second feed connected to the first feed.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080150829 - Multi-band antenna: A multi-band antenna adapted to a portable electrical device capable of operating in various wireless communication bands includes a first radiating conductor having opposite elongated sides, a second radiating conductor extending from one end of the first radiating conductor, a third radiating conductor arranging about a central area of the... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080150830 - Multi-band tunable frequency reconfigurable antennas using higher order resonances: A wireless device using natural higher order harmonics on multi-band reconfigurable antenna designs where the antenna higher order resonance is used to build a multi-band to multi-band frequency reconfigurable antenna.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080150831 - Low azel lockdown shift antenna mount: An antenna mount with low final lockdown pointing error characteristics especially suited for use with an antenna configuration having an offset center of gravity such as a reflector antenna. The antenna mount having a primary mount with a connecting surface for an azimuth plate; the azimuth plate coupled to the... Agent: Babcock Ip, Pllc

20080150832 - Phased array antenna apparatus and methods of manufacture: Embodiments include phased array antenna apparatus and methods of manufacturing them. In an embodiment, a phased array antenna apparatus includes at least one printed wiring board (PWB) (1002, FIG. 10) having multiple layers, at least one beamformer module (1014) with at least one beam combiner/divider, at least one amplifier (1016),... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080150834 - Semiconductor device, substrate, equipment board, method for producing semiconductor device, and semiconductor chip for communication: A semiconductor device includes a first substrate having a first surface for mounting an electronic component and a second surface substantially parallel to the first surface. The first substrate includes a first region for mounting the electronic component, a second region including a plurality of first communication units for transmitting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080150833 - Three-dimensional wideband antenna and related wireless communication device: A wideband antenna includes a substrate, a radiator, a signal feeding element, and a grounding element. The radiator includes a first child radiator and a second child radiator. The first child radiator and the second child radiator both include a respective first end and a second end. The signal feeding... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080143606 - Antenna assembly and communications assembly: An antenna radiator assembly (201) and radio communications assembly (200) comprising a circuit board (210) supporting electrical conductors (225). A ground plane (140) is supported by the circuit board (210) and a symmetrical antenna radiator element (107) is coupled to a feed point (130). When viewed in plan view, a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080143608 - Antenna-integrated module: The present invention provides an antenna-integrated module capable of decreasing the size thereof, facilitating prevention of arbitrary alternation to the circuit, effectively performing a reflow process, and being manufactured at low cost. Circuit elements 3 are mounted on a circuit board 1 with a wiring pattern and a ground conductive... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080143607 - Concurrent mode antenna system: A concurrent mode antenna system includes an antenna which generates a plurality of operating frequencies that are available at a same time, the antenna comprising a plurality of feed points; and a signal processing circuit which is connected to the feed points and processes radio signals transmitted and received by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080143612 - Antenna apparatus provided with antenna element excited through multiple feeding points: An antenna apparatus includes an antenna element having at least one slit, a first feeding point provided at a position on the antenna element, and a second feeding point provided along the slit. The antenna element is excited as an electric current antenna through the first feeding point, and at... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080143613 - Antenna apparatus provided with electromagnetic coupling adjuster and antenna element excited through multiple feeding points: An antenna apparatus includes a first feeding point and a second feeding point provided at respective positions on an antenna element. The antenna element is excited through the first and second feeding points simultaneously so as to operate as a first antenna portion and a second antenna portion simultaneously, the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080143615 - Antenna feed line for portable terminal: An antenna feed line for a portable terminal is provided that includes first films in which shielding lines are formed lengthwise and a second film disposed between the first films and having at least one pair of signal lines formed lengthwise. The antenna feed line is a flexible printed circuit... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080143611 - Antenna for portable electronic device wireless communications adapter: Antennas are provided for portable electronic devices. A portable electronic device may have a port that receives a wireless communications adapter. The adapter may be used to provide wireless functionality for the portable electronic device. The adapter may contain a chip antenna that serves as an antenna resonating element. A... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080143610 - Antennas for compact portable wireless devices: Compact portable wireless devices and antennas for compact portable wireless devices are provided. The compact portable wireless device may be part of a piece of sports equipment. A compact portable wireless device may include a transceiver module that is used in communicating with equipment such as a handheld electronic device.... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080143609 - Foldable portable radio device: A folder type mobile radio apparatus includes an upper case 1301 having a first antenna element made of a metal plate 1305, a lower case 1302 having a second antenna element made of a circuit board 102, a hinge portion 1303 pivotably connecting the upper and lower cases 1301 and... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080143616 - Internal antenna and motherboard architecture: Various embodiments of an internal antenna and motherboard architecture are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may include a housing enclosing a first motherboard and a second motherboard. The ground plane of the first motherboard may be coupled to the ground plane of the second motherboard within the housing.... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080143614 - Portable terminal with variable ground unit: Provided is a portable terminal with a variable ground unit. The portable terminal includes a main board including a ground layer having a predetermined area; at least one antenna radiator placed at the main board; at least one conductor installed or formed in the terminal and spaced apart from the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080143617 - Systems and methods of scale model correction to account for antenna coupling loss: The invention relates to systems and methods which may allow the determination of a correction factor between full scale antennas and scale antennas in order to determine the coupling loss of the full scale antennas on full scale structures based on models of the full scale structures.... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20080143618 - Antenna system with parasitic element and associated method: An antenna system comprises a parasitic element, which is an electrically tuned structural element, installed between antennas to reduce or eliminate antenna-to-antenna coupled electromagnetic interference by emitting destructive interference in the direction from one antenna to another antenna. The antenna system comprises a first antenna operating at a first wavelength,... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20080143619 - Antenna and body implant: A body implant antenna comprises an electrically conductive electrode formed on the surface of an enclosure filled with a fluid having a relatively permittivity greater than 10. The fluid is substantially electrically insulating and forms a substrate of the conductive electrode. Antenna size may therefore be reduced while permitting a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080143620 - Increasing the bandwidth of a rfid dipole tag: An antenna arrangement that includes two or more electrically coupled antenna elements is described. Each of the antenna elements has different operational characteristics than the other antenna elements. The antenna elements are arranged to resonate generally about a first operational frequency to widen the operational bandwidth of the antenna arrangement.... Agent: Ulmer & Berne LLP Attn: Diane Bell

20080143621 - Electromagnetic reactive edge treatment: An electromagnetic reactive edge treatment including an array of capacitively-loaded loops is disposed at or near an edge of a conductive wedge. The axes of the loops are oriented parallel to the edge of the wedge. This edge treatment may enhance or suppress the hard diffraction coefficient, depending on the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080143622 - Method and apparatus for precision antenna boresight error estimates: Methods, systems and devices are disclosed for positioning an antenna having a sub-reflector assembly. A conical scan processor receives a period for a reference time pulse and a time tag. The processor calculates a rotation angle of the sub-reflector assembly using the received period for the reference time pulse and... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080143623 - Radiating slot planar antennas: The present invention relates to a compact planar antenna containing, on a substrate featuring at least one ground plane, a radiating slot forming at least one folded strand with parallel strand parts. The antenna contains at least one means of phase inversion between two successive strand parts, the means of... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080143624 - Antenna assembly for magnetic resonance unit: An antenna for a magnetic resonance unit has a number of antenna rods arranged substantially regularly around an antenna axis, and being axially oriented relative to said antenna axis. Each antenna rod has two opposite ends with a central portion therebetween. The ends of each rod are electrically connected with... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080143627 - Antenna device adapted for portable radio apparatus: An antenna device includes a printed circuit board and an antenna element. The printed circuit board has a face a portion of which is formed by a conductive layer overlaid with a magnetic material layer made of anisotropic magnetic material. The magnetic material layer is arranged in such a way... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080143625 - Antenna sheet and manufacturing method therefor: An antenna sheet includes a magnetic sheet composed of a resin matrix and an Fe-based amorphous alloy contained in the resin matrix, and an antenna pattern disposed directly on the magnetic sheet, the antenna pattern being composed of nanoparticles. The antenna sheet can be manufactured by forming the antenna pattern... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080143626 - Chip antenna body and method of manufacturing the same: There is provided a chip antenna body and a method of manufacturing the same. The chip antenna body including: a plurality of minute segments formed of one of a dielectric material, a magnetic material and a mixture thereof, the minute segments arranged to be spaced apart from one another at... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080143628 - Reference oscillator assembly: It is difficult to check the suitability of a radio anechoic room as a measuring environment, even when countermeasures for preventing reflection of electromagnetic waves and blocking electromagnetic waves are taken against the radio anechoic room and incidental equipment disposed therein, for example. Depending on the circumstances, measurement reliability is... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080143629 - Vehicular multiband antenna: A coaxial antenna is implemented that combines a VHF and UHF antenna on a common radiating element. The antenna may further include a satellite antenna that, together with the VHF/UHF antenna fits into a whip antenna footprint.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080143630 - Wireless ic device: A wireless IC device includes a flexible sheet provided with a wireless IC chip and radiation plates. The wireless IC chip is connected by an Au bump to a feeder circuit which is located on the sheet and which has a predetermined resonant frequency and a predetermined impedance. The feeder... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080143631 - Antenna for a portable device: A GPS antenna has two electrically connected L-sections disposed on opposite sides of a circuit board. The L-sections lie on two separate planes parallel to the circuit board surface. One L-section is connected to a feeding point located at one edge area of the circuit board and the other L-section... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080143632 - Vehicular multiband antenna: A coaxial antenna is implemented that combines a VHF and UHF antenna on a common radiating element. The antenna may further include a satellite antenna that, together with the VHF/UHF antenna fits into a whip antenna footprint.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080143633 - Protective cover for a satellite dish: The present invention relates generally to protective covers for satellite dishes having a dish reflector body including a front concave face, a rear convex face and a rim portion disposed between the front and rear faces thereof The protective cover has a substantially rigid, cover body shaped to conform to,... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080143634 - Ultrawideband communication antenna: According to the ultrawideband communication antenna, since surfaces of the antenna element are coated with the first resin layer and the second resin layer each of which is mixed with the nonmagnetic metal powder and has an insulating property and a high specific inductive capacity, the size is largely reduced.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080143635 - Retainer for retaining a coaxial cable on a planar antenna: A retainer is adapted for retaining a coaxial cable on a planar antenna. The coaxial cable includes a core conductor disposed at the center thereof, an insulator provided around the core conductor, an outer conductor provided around the insulator, and an insulating sheath provided around the outer conductor. The retainer... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080143636 - Phased array antenna: A phased array antenna for a telecommunications satellite, that is deployable from a retracted condition to a deployed condition when the satellite is on-station, comprising a base member (12) of hexagonal form, and a plurality of deployable antenna panels (14) stacked one on top of the other on the base... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080136713 - Antenna array: An antenna array has a ground plane, a plurality of spacers, a radiating patch array and a feeding member. The spacers are mounted on the ground plane. The radiating patch array is mounted on the spacers, is separated from the ground plane at an interval and has three pairs of... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080136712 - Antenna device having good symmetry of directional characteristics: An antenna device suitable for short distance wireless communication is provided which can have a good symmetry of directional characteristics and increase a gain at both end sides in a longitudinal direction of a ground pattern. An antenna device is formed by patterning a metal conductor on a printed substrate.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080136710 - Apparatus including antennas providing suppression of mutual coupling between current-carrying elements and methods for forming same: An apparatus includes a number of electrically conductive spaced apart elements, and a ground plane situated at least partially in a space between at least two of the electrically conductive spaced apart elements. The apparatus further includes one or more wire media situated over at least a portion of and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080136711 - Multi-frequency antenna: A multi-frequency antenna for receiving a first frequency and second frequency signals comprises a grounding element, a first conductive member, a first radiation member, and a second radiation member. The first conductive member connects to the grounding element. The first radiation member and the second radiation member connect to the... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080136714 - Antenna tuner with zero volts impedance fold back: An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a wireless handset and an antenna tuner within the wireless handset that is adapted to preset its impedance to the transmit/receive circuitry in the handset.... Agent: Law Office Of William J. Tucker

20080136715 - Antenna with selectable elements for use in wireless communications: A system and method for a wireless link to a remote receiver includes a communication device for generating RF and a planar antenna apparatus for transmitting the RF. The planar antenna apparatus includes selectable antenna elements, each of which has gain and a directional radiation pattern. The directional radiation pattern... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080136716 - Connector antenna apparatus and methods: Improved electrical connector apparatus including a wireless antenna acting as a transceiver in conjunction with a wireless integrated circuit is disclosed. In one embodiment, the modular connector comprises an RJ45 modular jack, and the wireless transceiver comprises a Bluetooth transceiver transmitting via an integrated antenna disposed on the front face... Agent: Robert F. Gazdzinski Attorney Of Record

20080136717 - Electromagnetic compatability with window-choke rings: A choke ring apparatus for attenuation of electromagnetic waves in a mobile platform fuselage includes a ground plane mounted on a surface of the fuselage. The choke ring has an axial circular window and a series of concentric circular ring segments on the ground plane arranged coaxially about the axis... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick Llc

20080136718 - Mobile radar array: A mobile radar array system comprising a towable platform having a pair of wheels operably coupled thereto, the wheels adapted for rolling along a road surface; and an antenna array mounted on a side of at least one of the wheels, the antenna array, when energized, capable of providing a... Agent: Howard Ip Law Group

20080136719 - Apparatus and method for adjusting optimum tilt of radar cover according to weather conditions: There are provided systems and methods for adjusting the tilt of a radar cover in response to change of weather condition by calculating dielectric constant of external air, optimum thickness of radar cover, and then optimum tilt angle of radar cover, and adjusting the position of the radar cover.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080136720 - Multiple polarization loop antenna and associated methods: The multiple polarization loop antenna includes a circularly polarized loop antenna, which may utilize a loop electrical conductor and two signal feedpoints along the loop electrical conductor separated by one quarter of the length of the loop circumference for a signal feedpoint phase angle input difference of 90 degrees. Each... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080136721 - Polarization-diverse antenna array and associated methods: The polarization-diverse antenna array includes three orthogonal loop antennas having a common center, e.g. together defining a sphere. Each loop antenna includes a loop electrical conductor. Two signal feedpoints are along the loop electrical conductor and separated by a fraction of a length of the loop electrical conductor. Each of... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080136722 - Semi-automatic satellite locator system: A method for positioning a dielectric dome covered satellite dish adapted to be connected to a satellite receiver, by inputting an elevation command into a control console corresponding to a geographic location of the satellite dish and then depressing a single key on the control console to activate an azimuth... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a. 4800 Ids Center

20080136723 - Slot antenna: An antenna (10) having a top (14), a bottom (16), and a longitudinal axis (20). An outer shell (12) of electrically conductive material is provided which is coaxial with the longitudinal axis, and which includes an outer top wall (22) joining with an outer side wall (24) that extends toward... Agent: Patent Venture Group

20080136724 - Slot antenna: An antenna (10) having outer and inner sections (12, 14) of electrically conductive material and coaxial with a longitudinal axis (19). The outer section includes an outer side wall (22) extending from the bottom to join an outer top wall at the top of the antenna. The inner section includes... Agent: Patent Venture Group

20080136725 - Minimized antenna apparatus with selectable elements: A system and method for a wireless link to a remote receiver includes a communication device for generating RF and an antenna apparatus for transmitting the RF. The antenna apparatus comprises a plurality of substantially coplanar modified dipoles. Each modified dipole provides gain with respect to isotropic and a horizontally... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080136726 - Antenna: An antenna has a ground plane, a radiating member, a signal-feeding member and two grounding supports. The radiating member is suspended over and separated from the ground plane and has two opposite non-radiating edges. Each non-radiating edge has a middle section. Each grounding support is connected perpendicularly to the middle... Agent: Jackson Walker, L.l.p.

20080136727 - Communication device with a wideband antenna: An apparatus is disclosed for a communication device (100) with a wideband antenna (102) supporting at least two common and one differential resonant modes. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present invention may include, for example, the communication device having an antenna (102) that includes a ground structure (202),... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080136729 - Antenna matching device and transceiver having the same: The present invention relates to an antenna matching device that varies a frequency bandwidth according to mobile communication services, and to a transceiver having the same. To this end, an exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a transceiver that varies a frequency band and a bandwidth according to required... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080136728 - Impedance matching method, a method for manufacturing signal processing circuits and a signal processing circuit and a radio apparatus using the same: An embodiment of the present invention relates to impedance matching applied to a radio apparatus having an antenna. The antenna transmits and receives a signal of a predetermined frequency band. A high-frequency signal processing unit performs a signal processing on the signal transmitted from and received by the antenna. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080136730 - Antennas for ultra-wideband applications: An antenna comprising a radiating element for transmitting and receiving communication signals is disclosed. A load and a feed are connectable to the radiating element and that the feed is spaced apart from the load. The radiating element is a planar loop having two free ends to which the load... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080136731 - Broadband ballistic resistant radome: According to one embodiment of the invention, a radome cover for an RF sensor has been provided. The radome cover comprises a ceramic core and at least two layers. The ceramic core is sandwiched between the at least two layers and the at least two layers are impedance matched to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080136732 - Method and structure for rf antenna module: Method and structure for a microwave antenna module is provided. The method includes, creating a laminate structure by laminating a plurality of conductive layers and dielectric layers; creating a plurality of layers within the laminate structure to interconnect the plurality of conductive layers and dielectric layers; laminating a base plate... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080136733 - Modular antenna panel: Disclosed is a modular antenna panel including an antenna wire disposed in a panel substrate, and also including one or more electrical connectors and one or more mechanical connectors disposed at one or more edges of the modular antenna panel. The electrical connectors are configured for electrical connectivity with adjacent... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080136735 - Method for antenna array partitioning: A method for partitioning a plurality of antennas in a wireless communication system, in which the antennas are grouped into a first set of partitions and a second set of partitions. One or more signal transmission schemes are performed with the antennas grouped into the first set of partitions for... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080136736 - Multiple-antenna device having an isolation element: A multiple-antenna device is provided, comprising: a printed circuit board having a ground plane configured to provide electromagnetic isolation between a first side of the printed circuit board and a second side of the printed circuit board; a first non-conductive support member formed over the first side of the printed... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080136734 - 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 three parallel, stacked patches separated by first and second slots. A first feeding line feeds the first patch, and at least a second and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080136738 - Dielectrically loaded antenna and an antenna assembly: A dielectrically loaded quadrifilar helical antenna has four quarter turn helical elements centred on a common axis. Each helical element is metallised on the outer cylindrical surface of a solid dielectric core and each has a feed end and a linked end, the linked ends being connected together by a... Agent: John Bruckner, P.c.

20080136737 - Usb device, an attached protective cover therefore including an antenna and a method of wirelessly transmitting data: An attached protective cover of a USB device, a USB device and a method of wirelessly transmitting data. In one embodiment, the attached protective cover of a USB device includes a cap with an associated antenna and is configured to protect a USB plug of the USB device. Additionally, the... Agent: Hitt Gaines, Pc Lsi Corporation

20080136739 - Digital television receiving antenna for plug-and-play device: The present invention provides a digital television receiving antenna for a plug-and-play device. The digital television receiving antenna includes a first conducting portion; and a second conducting portion, coupled to the first conducting portion and having a resonance path, wherein the second conducting portion is position-adjustable relatively to the first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080129606 - Antenna and semiconductor device having the same: An antenna capable of receiving circularly polarized waves and performing impedance matching between the antenna and an IC (integrated circuit) of a semiconductor device, and a semiconductor device having such an antenna. The antenna has a first conductor pattern with a loop configuration having a cut section, a second conductor... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080129605 - Antenna device including surface-mounted element: An antenna device having a first material base and a second material base is provided. The first material base is three-dimensionally formed by first dielectric material. The first material base forms an opening inside, and has an antenna element arranged on a surface of the first material base. The second... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080129604 - Mobile telecommunication terminal: There is provided a mobile telecommunication terminal comprising: a chip antenna, and a printed circuit board having the chip antenna mounted on one surface thereof, the printed circuit board comprising a tuning ground pattern formed on a surface opposing the one surface of the printed circuit board to have one... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080129603 - Multi-frequency antenna: A multi-frequency antenna includes a feeding element, a first U-shaped radiator, a second U-shaped radiator, a grounding element and a coupling element. The first U-shaped radiator is coupled to the feeding element and forms a first gap toward the feeding element. The second U-shaped radiator is coupled to the feeding... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080129602 - Planar antenna: A planar antenna disposed on a substrate (50) including a first surface (57) and a second surface (58). The planar antenna includes a radiating body (10) for transmitting and receiving radio frequency (RF) signals, a feeding portion (30) for feeding signals, and a metallic ground plane (50). The radiating body... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080129610 - Adaptive antenna matching for portable radio operating at vhf with single-chip based implementation: A novel and useful apparatus for and method of improving antenna matching and reducing mismatch loss for a VHF receiver such as an FM receiver. The invention can be used in a very low cost implementation of a single chip radio such as used in cellphone applications. The impedance of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080129608 - Antenna and radio terminal having antenna thereof: An antenna includes an antenna element, and a first magnetic body which is arranged at least a part of the antenna element and has positive magnetostrictive characteristics.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080129612 - Antenna for mobile communication terminals: An antenna comprising: a first substantially planar ground plate; a first substantially planar resonator positioned in a plane substantially parallel to the first ground plate; a second substantially planar ground plate positioned in a plane substantially parallel to the first ground plate; two or more connectors for electrically connecting the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080129611 - Antenna module and electronic device using the same: An antenna module and an electronic device using the same are provided. The antenna module includes an antenna component and a parasitic element. The antenna component includes a feeding portion used for being electrically connected to a circuit board of the electronic device. The parasitic element is disposed adjacent to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080129607 - Antenna system for a portable communications device: An antenna system (100, 500) for a portable communication device (112) is provided. The antenna system is comprised of a retaining structure (204), an antenna flap (206), and a first pivot coupling (212). The retaining structure provides a means for securing the retaining structure to the portable communication device. The... Agent: Darby & Darby (formerly Sacco & Associates)

20080129609 - Electronic device: According to one embodiment, an electronic device is provided with the following an antenna, a first radio module configured to perform wireless communications by use of the antenna, a second radio module configured to perform wireless communications by use of the antenna, a first printed circuit board with reference to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080129614 - Antenna combiner with a try square: An antenna coupler for testing mobile transmitters and/or receivers, especially mobile telephones, comprises a mounting surface for the mobile transmitter and/or receiver and an antenna element. A mounting bracket is disposed on the mounting surface.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080129613 - Calibration for re-configurable active antennas: A method for calibrating an antenna uses a first and a second antenna element arranged in an array, and a calibration probe that is fixedly located substantially at a phase center of the first and second antenna elements. Phase and amplitude of a signal at each of the first and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080129615 - Radiated performance of a wireless device: Systems, methods, apparatus, processors and computer-readable media include a radiated testing module that executes a predetermined radiated performance test on a wireless device. The test dictates various performance-related parameters to measure and log at each of a plurality of predetermined positions. Further, the wireless device receives synchronization information operable to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080129619 - Beam-tilted cross-dipole dielectric antenna: An antenna for radiating an electromagnetic field includes a ground plane, a first dielectric layer disposed on the ground plane, and a second dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer. The antenna includes at least one feeding element embedded in the first dielectric layer and a radiating element extending... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.c.

20080129616 - Circularly polarized dielectric antenna: An antenna for radiating an electromagnetic field includes a ground plane, a feeding probe, and a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer is disposed on the ground plane and has a radiating surface. The feeding probe electrically is embedded in the dielectric layer, and the feeding probe excites the dielectric layer... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.c.

20080129618 - High frequency capacitive coupling antenna for vehicles: An antenna system includes a detachable assembly including a circuit board that is connected to a cover by a resilient member. A bezel is adhesively attached to the glass of a vehicle having conductive antenna elements on the vehicle glass. The bezel includes guide surfaces and locating surfaces that accurately... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080129620 - Installation assembly for a motor vehicle antenna: The present invention relates to an installation assembly with which a motor vehicle antenna can be fastened to the body of a motor vehicle without an additional tool. The installation assembly includes a base plate from which at least one fastening section to be introduced through an opening of the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080129617 - Wideband dielectric antenna: An antenna for radiating an electromagnetic field includes a ground plane and a dielectric layer disposed on the ground plane. The dielectric layer has at least one exposed surface that radiates the electromagnetic field. The antenna includes at least one feeding element, such as a feeding strip or a feeding... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.c.

20080129621 - Information processing apparatus: The subject is to provide an information processing apparatus serving as a wearable device, which makes it possible not only to reduce the divergence of data toward the peripheral spaces, but also to eliminate the electrode to be contacted to the surface of the living body when wearing it, and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080129622 - Locatable cables and cable components therefor: Cables that are detectable and/or identified from a distant location using detection equipment are disclosed. The cables include at least one communication element, a jacket, and at least one antenna element such as a parasitic antenna element. In one embodiment, the antenna element is at least partially formed from a... Agent: Corning Cable Systems Llc

20080129623 - Chip seal ring for enhancing the operation of an on-chip loop antenna: A chip seal ring that maintains the chip seal ring as a continuous barrier to contamination, while at the same time creating a desirable electrical feature in the seal ring that enables the use of an on-chip loop antenna. In one embodiment, at least a portion of the chip seal... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin Pllc

20080129624 - Flat mobile antenna system: Mobile antenna system comprising rotary part by azimuth, which is an electronically steered in elevation phase array antenna, comprising: plurality of (multi)layered structures, placed at certain levels, said structures include microstrip antenna elements (12), feeding lines (20), which properly combined and guide the electromagnetic energy, forming the necessary phase and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080129626 - Antenna structure with antenna radome and method for rising gain thereof: An antenna structure includes a radiating element and an antenna radome. The antenna radome has at least one dielectric layer, which has an upper surface having many S-shaped metal patterns and a lower surface having many inverse S-shaped metal patterns corresponding to the S-shaped metal patterns. The S-shaped metal patterns... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080129625 - Low profile antenna: The invention discloses an antenna (100, 100′, 400, 500) comprising walls in a conducting material: first (110, 410, 510) and second (120, 420, 520) main walls, a first end wall (130, 530) and a first and a second side wall. The first (110, 510) and second (120, 520) main walls... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080129627 - Notched-fed antenna: A monopole or dipole antenna includes a radiating element having at least one notch. The at least one notch intersects at least at one point on an edge of the radiating element wherein the intersecting point is located at a distance to a feeding point. The distance being shorter than... Agent: Winstead Pc

20080129628 - Wideband antenna for mobile devices: A dielectric based antenna provides for relatively wide band communications. In this regard, the dielectric based antenna may provide communications across a variety of mobile telephone communication types and frequencies, such as GSM850, EGSM900, DCS1800, PCS1900, and UMTS. In one embodiment, the dielectric based antenna includes a dielectric element and... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080129629 - Magnetic antenna and board mounted with the same: There is provided a magnetic antenna, suitable for use in an RFID tag and an RFID tag reader/writer, which operates stable even if brought close to a metallic object and suitable for mass-production, and a board mounted with the magnetic antenna. The magnetic antenna has a coil comprising a magnetic... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080129630 - Coupled multiband antennas: The present invention consists of an antenna comprising at least two radiating structures, said radiating structures taking the form of two arms, said arms being made of or limited by a conductor, superconductor or semiconductor material, said two arms being coupled to each other through a region on first and... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, Pc

20080129631 - Broadband circularly polarization antenna device: A broadband circularly polarization antenna device includes: a dielectric body, a patch, an antenna feed pin, and a grounding layer. The patch is disposed on a top surface of the dielectric body. The antenna feed pin is extended outward from a bottom surface of the dielectric body. One part of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080129632 - Antenna having additional ground: An antenna having an additional ground, includes a first ground which is formed in one side of a substrate; a plurality of antenna elements which are formed symmetrically with respect to each other and spaced apart from one end of the first ground; and a second ground which is interposed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080129633 - Antenna unit and feeding component: An antenna unit includes a feeding component 40 and a metal plate 50 on which the feeding component 40 is mounted. The feeding component 40 has an attaching member 43 made of resin to support a feeding line against the metal plate. The metal plate 50 has a pair of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080129634 - Multi-polarization antenna feeds for mimo applications: Methods and systems for exploiting orthogonal antenna polarizations which restore MIMO capability to an otherwise single path link are disclosed. Disclosed multi-polarization antennae and antennae arrays create two orthogonally polarized independent channels of communication which are transmitted and received by similar multi-polarization antennae, taking advantage of the fact that orthogonally... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20080129636 - Beam tilting patch antenna using higher order resonance mode: A patch antenna receives circularly polarized RF signals from a satellite. The antenna includes a radiating element. A plurality of feed lines feed the radiating element at a plurality of feed points. The feed points are spaced apart to generate a circularly polarized radiation beam solely in a higher order... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.c.

20080129635 - Method of operating a patch antenna in a higher order mode: The invention provides a method of operating a patch antenna having a radiating element. The radiating patch is excited and generates a circularly polarized radiation beam solely in a higher order mode at a desired frequency. This allows for the radiating element to have a small surface area with the... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.c.

20080129637 - Dual-band loop antenna: A dual-band loop antenna comprising: a grounding plane, a radiation metallic loop and a radiation metallic plate, the shape of the grounding plane is generally rectangular having a grounding point and a shorting point; the radiation metallic loop has a feeding end and a shorting end, the shorting end is... Agent: Sinorica, Llc

20080129638 - Composite structure for an antenna and a shell: A composite structure for an antenna and a shell, wherein the antenna mode is pre-set on the surface of the shell of the computer or the electric appliances before the shell is formed. The main layers are preimpregnated with resin and then are subjected to integral forming process, so that... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080129641 - Antenna apparatus for linearly polarized diversity antenna in rfid reader and method of controlling the antenna apparatus: Provided are an antenna apparatus for linearly polarized diversity antennas in a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader, and a method of controlling the antenna apparatus. The antenna apparatus includes: a plurality of linearly polarized diversity antennas disposed to have different directions to one another; a switching unit connecting the linearly... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080129640 - Antennas with polarization diversity: A horizontally polarized antenna array allows for the efficient distribution of RF energy into a communications environment through selectable antenna elements and redirectors that create a particular radiation pattern such as a substantially omnidirectional radiation pattern. In conjunction with a vertically polarized array, a particular high-gain wireless environment may be... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080129639 - Multi-band antenna, circuit board and communication device: There is provided a small multi-band antenna that is capable of supporting multiple bands. A first sub-element (11) is disposed at a region where strength of electric field becomes relatively large while power is being fed on a main element (10) capable of irradiating a high-frequency signal of a plurality... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080129642 - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for high power complementary metal oxide semiconductor (cmos) antenna switches using body switching and substrate junction diode controlling in multistacking structure: Embodiments of the invention may provide for a CMOS antenna switch, which may be referred to as a CMOS SPDT switch. The CMOS antenna switch may operate at a plurality of frequencies, perhaps around 900 MHz 1.9 GHz and 2.1 GHz according to an embodiment of the invention. The CMOS... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080129643 - Method for supporting an antenna wiring, and a system: It is desirable to make the antenna wiring more efficient in the building of an RFID system. The system includes antennas and readers connected in an arbitrary manner, in which calibration tags are installed on all the antennas. By reading the calibration tags, the system automatically generates the correspondences between... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080129644 - Built-in type antenna apparatus for mobile terminal: A built-in antenna apparatus for a mobile terminal is provided. The built-in antenna apparatus includes a first planar antenna having a first feeding point for providing a first radiation pattern, a second planar antenna having a second feeding point for providing a second radiation pattern, the second planar antenna being... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080129645 - High-frequency electromagnetic bandgap device and method for making same: A high-frequency Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) device, and a method for making the device are provided. The device includes a first substrate including multiple conducting vias forming a periodic lattice. The vias of the first substrate extend from the lower surface of the first substrate to the upper surface of the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.