Communications: radio wave antennas inventions 07/08

20080180329 - Antenna with stripline splitter circuit: A flat antenna includes a 2×2 array of circular waveguide antenna elements that receive power from a splitting circuit including first to fourth striplines. The second stripline extends in two directions from one end of the first stripline. The third stripline extends in two directions from one end of the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080180327 - Integrated multi-band antenna: An integrated multi-band antenna has a first radiating element and a second radiating element. The first radiating element has a slot and a feeding conductor having a first feeding point. A first ground portion is arranged to close to the feeding conductor. The second radiating element has a first radiating... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080180330 - Multi-band antenna: A multi-band antenna includes a ground, an asymmetric T-shaped radiation element, an inverted L-shaped conduction element, and a parasitic element. The asymmetric T-shaped radiation element has a first radiation part, a second radiation part, and a first conduction part. The length of the second radiation part is shorter than that... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080180326 - Pendulum-shaped microstrip antenna structure: The present invention discloses a pendulum-shaped microstrip antenna structure which is manufactured in form of a metal microstrip on a side of the printed circuit board and installed at a distal end of the printed circuit board, when the pendulum-shaped antenna is installed onto a printed circuit board of a... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080180328 - Rfid tag: An RFID tag that has a tag antenna and a tag LSI comprising: a power-supply element in which the tag LSI is mounted on a power-supply section; a plurality of patch antennas that function as tag antennas and sizes differs; and a high-frequency coupling section that couples the power-supply element... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080180331 - Window mounted antenna for a vehicle and a method for using the same: An antenna assembly for installation in a vehicle, such as an aircraft, and a method for using the same. The antenna assembly includes at least one window mounted antenna for an aircraft for enabling the aircraft to communicate wirelessly with a network, such as a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN). The... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080180332 - Antenna device: An antenna device attachable to a bottom surface of a resin or glass body of a vehicle, the antenna device includes: an antenna element that has a receiver for receiving radio waves; a circuit board that has a circuit surface having a circuit formed thereon to amplify signals inputted from... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080180333 - Compact antenna: An antenna, including a planar dielectric substrate and a conductive ground plane formed on the substrate. A conductive monopole is formed on the substrate and has an end point located in proximity to a feed region of the ground plane. A conductive coupling element is formed on the substrate and... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080180334 - System and method for tuning a monopole antenna: An antenna system is disclosed that includes a base section to which a signal connector may be attached, and a radiating section distal from said base section. The radiating section includes a flexible electrically conductive material and an adjustment system for changing a length of the electrically conductive material responsive... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080180336 - Lensed antenna methods and systems for navigation or other signals: Lensed antenna methods and systems are provided for navigation or other signals. A dielectric lens is positioned adjacent an antenna. A dielectric lens adjacent an annular ring patch antenna may broaden the acceptance angle of the antenna, providing the desired signal reception characteristics of the annular ring patch antenna, but... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080180335 - System and method for focusing antenna signal transmission: The system contains an antenna feed. A signal is in communication with the antenna feed. The signal has a wavelength and a period. A signal lens has a periphery portion that is thicker than an interior portion, wherein the signal propagates through the signal lens. The signal lens is designed... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080180337 - Antenna system driven by intelligent components communicating via data-bus, and method and computer program therefore: It is disclosed an antenna system drivable in at least one degree of freedom, comprising a target value provider configured to provide at least one target value, a data-bus configured to relay the at least one target value, at least one sensor unit configured to provide a current position in... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080180338 - Antenna beam controlling system for cellular communication: An antenna beam controlling system (ABCS) for use in cellular communication systems. The ABCS allows the antenna's horizontal beam direction and horizontal beam width to be remotely adjusted for optimum reception and transmission. The ABCS, in its basic design, is comprised of at least one antenna reflector that incorporates a... Agent: Storm LLP

20080180339 - Plane circular polarization antenna and electronic apparatus: According to an embodiment, a plane circular polarization antenna comprises a flat insulating substrate and a conductor provided on the flat insulating substrate. The conductor comprises an inverted F antenna including a feeding point, a ground portion, the ground portion including a slot antenna including a slot, and a short-circuiting... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080180340 - Waveguide coupling devices: An optoelectronic device includes a substrate having a surface, a metallic coupling structure deposited on the surface of the substrate, the metallic coupling structure having a port and a waveguide interface portion with at least two waveguide interface portion sides, and a dielectric waveguide, the dielectric waveguide having a coupling... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080180341 - Fractal antennas and fractal resonators: An antenna includes at least one element whose physical shape is at least partially defined as a second or higher iteration deterministic fractal. The resultant fractal antenna does not rely upon an opening angle for performance, and may be fabricated as a dipole, a vertical, or a quad, among other... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080180342 - Wireless link module comprising two antennas: A wireless link module comprises a lower band antenna (LBA) and a higher band antenna (HBA). Each of these antennas comprises an antenna element (AE) with a feeding end (FE) and an open end (OE). The respective antenna elements (AE1, AE3) are substantially capacitively coupled. In addition, the respective antenna... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080180343 - Multi-broad band antenna and electronic device thereof: A multi-broad band antenna including a first radiating body, a second radiating body, a third radiating body, a grounding plate and many short-circuit elements is provided. The first radiating body excites a first resonant mode, such that the multi-broad band antenna has a high frequency wide bandwidth. The second radiating... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080180344 - 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 including such an antenna arrangement. The antenna arrangement may include a thin elongated ground plane, and a flat monopole radiating antenna element, the flat monopole... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080180346 - Rf reception system and integrated circuit with programmable impedance matching network and methods for use therewith: An integrated circuit includes an on-chip antenna interface, coupled to an off-chip antenna interface having at least one off-chip impedance matching component, that forms a programmable impedance matching network with the at least one off-chip impedance matching component. The programmable impedance matching network is programmable based on a control signal.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080180347 - Rf reception system with programmable impedance matching networks and methods for use therewith: A (radio frequency) RF reception system includes an off-chip antenna interface and an integrated circuit. The an off-chip antenna interface includes at least one first off-chip impedance matching component, a filter, and at least one second off-chip impedance matching component. The integrated circuit includes an on-chip antenna interface that forms... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080180345 - Variable antenna matching network for an implantable antenna: An implantable medical device may have an antenna for communication with external devices or other internal devices. Changes in the patient's body position, weight, composition or other factors may change the antenna efficiency and hinder communication. The disclosed circuit may automatically adjust a matching network for an implanted transceiver to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080180348 - Wireless card and adjustable antenna of the same: A wireless card includes a body, a circuit device and an adjustable antenna assembly. The body includes an insertion portion and an outer portion. The outer portion is connected to an end of the insertion portion. The circuit device is mounted inside the body. The adjustable antenna is adjustably mounted... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080180349 - Monopole tower system: A monopole tower system including nested or telescoping tower structures which may be erected utilizing hydraulic cylinders instead of cranes.... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080180350 - Broadband antenna: An antenna including a planar conductive track, which follows, from a first end intended to be connected to a radiofrequency transceiver circuit to a second free end, a serpentine-shaped pattern having at least three primary parallel sections of the same length, connected, except for a first one and for a... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080174493 - Antenna system for radio frequency identification: An antenna including an electrically conductive portion defined substantially by a self-similar geometry present at multiple resolutions. The electrically conductive portion includes two or more angular bends and is configured to radiate broadband electromagnetic energy. The antenna further includes an electrically non-conductive portion that structurally supports the electrically conductive portion.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080174495 - Circularly polarized antenna: A circularly polarized antenna has a dielectric substrate, a feeding member, a coupling member, a ground plane, a support and a radiating patch. The feeding member is mounted on the dielectric substrate and has a first conductor, a second conductor, a connecting conductor and a third conductor. The second conductor... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080174496 - Wide band antenna: A wide band antenna has a ground plane, a dielectric member and a radiating patch. The dielectric member is mounted on the ground plane. The radiating patch is held by the dielectric member, is mounted on the ground plane and has a main conductor, a feeding conductor, a coupling conductor,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P. C.

20080174494 - Wireless chip and electronic device having wireless chip: It is an object to provide a wireless chip which can increase a mechanical strength, and a wireless chip with a high durability. A wireless chip includes a transistor including a field-effect transistor, an antenna including a dielectric layer sandwiched between conductive layers, and a conductive layer connecting the chip... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080174497 - Antenna device, and radio communication apparatus including the antenna device: An antenna device built in a radio communication device, including a substrate having a support portion and a groove, and an electrically conductive elongate antenna member having first and second end portions, and wherein the elongate antenna member is supported at the first end portion by the support portion, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080174499 - Dipole antenna and electronic apparatus using the same: A dipole antenna includes a substrate, a radiating metal plate and a radiating metal line. The radiating metal plate is disposed on the substrate and has a first signal feeding point near a lateral side of the substrate. The radiating metal line has a second signal feeding point near the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080174498 - Electronic device: An electronic device (10) includes a substrate (11), a metal film (12), a radio frequency module (14), and a signal transmission portion (13). The substrate includes two opposite surfaces. The metal film is disposed on one surface of the substrate and defines a clearance (16) therein. The radio frequency module... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080174500 - Magnetic communication link with diversity antennas: To adjust operating characteristics of a first antenna and a second antenna to receive a magnetic signals transmitted by a third antenna, a first magnetic signal from the first antenna. The first magnetic signal is received at the third antenna. A second magnetic signal is transmitted from the second antenna.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080174501 - Method and apparatus for quadrifilar antenna with open circuit element terminations: A quadrifilar antenna having helical windings is fed by a phase shift feed network, each winding having an open circuit termination element, the phase shift feeding network having forward directional phase shift paths from a feed input to phase shift feed output ports, and having a first reverse directional transmission... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.c.

20080174502 - Method and system for equalizing cable losses in a distributed antenna system: The invention is directed to a method and system for equalizing the signal losses over cable runs in a Distributed Antenna System (DAS). In a DAS, two or more antennae are connected to the system by cable runs that can vary widely in length. As a result, the signal loss... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080174503 - Antenna and electronic equipment having the same: An antenna and electronic equipment having the same are disclosed. The antenna comprises: a radiator electrically connected to a feeder, and radiating an electric wave; and one or more reinforcing circuits disposed in the radiator so as to uniformly distribute a current on at least one part of the radiator.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080174504 - Reflector antenna feed device: The antenna feed device (4) of the invention comprises a reflector (2) into which a circular or rectangular section waveguide (8) opens out, the waveguide including a cylindrical or conical radiating aperture (10, 9) at its end. A lens (22) of dielectric material is inserted in part into the inside... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080174505 - Ultra-wideband shorted dipole antenna: An ultra-wideband shorted dipole antenna includes a coaxial cable line and first and second open-loop radiating metal plates with substantially the same shape. The coaxial cable line has a central conducting wire and an outer grounder sheath. The first and second open-loop radiating metal plates are symmetrically disposed on two... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080174506 - Dipole array directional antenna: A dipole array directional antenna is integrally formed. The antenna includes two radiation portions, having a signal feed-in part and a ground signal feed-in part there-between, in which the signal feed-in part receives a feed-in signal, and each radiation portion radiates a radio-frequency (RF) signal corresponding to the feed-in signal;... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080174507 - Multilevel and space-filling ground-planes for miniature and multiband antennas: An antenna system includes one or more conductive elements acting as radiating elements, and a multilevel or space-filling ground-plane, wherein said ground-plane has a particular geometry which affects the operating characteristics of the antenna. The return loss, bandwidth, gain, radiation efficiency, and frequency performance can be controlled through multilevel and... Agent: Winstead Pc

20080174508 - Array antenna apparatus having at least two feeding elements and operable in multiple frequency bands: An array antenna apparatus includes a first feeding element having a first feed point, a second feeding element having a second feed point, and a first parasitic element electrically connected to the respective first and second feeding elements. In a first frequency band, respective resonances in the feeding elements occur... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080174510 - Radome for endfire antenna arrays: The present invention provides a radome for an endfire antenna array that includes a honeycomb core, an inner skin attached to the honeycomb core, a first set of conductive slats disposed on the inner skin of the honeycomb core and a second set of conductive slats that are disposed within... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080174509 - Subwavelength aperture monopulse conformal antenna: In various aspects and embodiments, incident electromagnetic radiation is received through a subwavelength aperture in a lens, the subwavelength aperture being defined by a substrate encased in a dielectric medium.... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080174511 - Pcb and embedded antenna for mobile communication terminal having double feed points using the same: A Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and an embedded antenna for a mobile communication terminal having double feed points using the same are provided. The embedded antenna includes a PCB having an emission carrier. The emission carrier includes first and second feed points connected to a feed wiring layer of the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080174512 - Dielectrically-loaded antenna: A dielectrically-loaded helical antenna has a cylindrical ceramic core bearing metallised helical antenna elements which are coupled to a coaxial feeder structure passing axially through the core. Secured to an end face of the core is a circular laminate board having feedthrough holes for receiving the end portions of feeder... Agent: John Bruckner, P.c.

20080174513 - Radio receiving apparatus: A radio receiving apparatus deterioration of a receiving sensitivity of an antenna used in the radio receiving apparatus due to noise generated from a circuit board disposed within the radio receiving apparatus. The radio receiving apparatus includes a body, a printed circuit board provided within the body, an antenna provided... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080169984 - Antenna: An antenna including a rectangular ground plane, a feed point disposed in a vicinity of a corner of the ground plane, an antenna element coupled to the feed point, and a parasitic element coupled to the ground plane. In this antenna, the shortest length from the feed point to a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080169981 - Antenna device operable in multiple frequency bands: There is provided an antenna device of a radio apparatus, including a fed partial element, a folded partial element and an open-ended partial element. The fed partial element is formed to be extended from a fed portion to a first branch portion where the folded partial element branches off. The... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080169983 - Antenna device, electronic device, and method of manufacturing antenna device: An antenna device is disclosed that includes: an element member; a ground member; and an adhesive through which the element member and the ground member are held in a predetermined positional relationship and affixed to a mounting object.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080169982 - Printed antenna: A printed antenna (10) disposed on a substrate (90) includes a feeding portion (12), a first radiation portion (16), a second radiation portion (18), a matching portion (14), and a grounded portion. The feeding portion feeds electromagnetic signals. One end of the first radiation portion is electronically connected to the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080169986 - Antenna device with ground plane coupled to conductive portion of an electronic device: Disclosed is an antenna device arranged inside a display module of an electronic device with a conductive portion. The antenna device includes an antenna element with a ground plane and a signal feeding end for transceiving a wireless signal, an antenna signal feeding line coupled to the signal feeding end... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080169985 - Antenna for communication with a multitude of transponders: An antenna (1) for communication with a multitude of transponder % (6a . . . 6c) is provided, the antenna (1) having an antenna conductor (2) which completely encloses at least one read/write region (4c) intended for a transponder (6c) individually and/or, when a multitude of read/write regions (4a, 4b)... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080169987 - Shunt antenna for aircraft: A shunt antenna mountable on an aircraft comprises a lower plate, an antenna element formed above the lower plate and integrated within a dorsal fin of the aircraft where the antenna element is substantially slant relative to the lower plate; one or more couplers formed on the lower plate and... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080169988 - Lightweight, conformal, wideband airframe antenna: A conformal antenna comprising: an electrically neutral airframe; metalized fabric covering said airframe; and transmission lines attached to said metalized fabric to connect to a transceiver.... Agent: Maurice M. Lynch

20080169990 - Am/fm receiving antenna: There is provided an AM/FM receiving antenna, which is provided at a windowpane of a vehicle, comprising an AM antenna element including an end portion as a power supply point and another end portion forming an open end, and an AM/FM antenna element connected to the AM antenna element via... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20080169989 - Multi-band antenna: An antenna is integrated with a window of a vehicle primarily for operating in multiple cellular telephone frequency bands. The antenna includes a conductive area formed of conductive material defining a slot. The slot is dimensioned such that edges adjacent the slot radiate primarily in a first frequency band. The... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20080169991 - Antenna apparatus: A ground conductor constituting a bottom board and a loop antenna formed of a strip conductor formed separately from and around the ground conductor are provided on one face of a dielectric substrate, and a transmitter-receiver is connected to one end of the loop antenna serving as the power dispatching... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080169992 - Dual-polarization, slot-mode antenna and associated methods: The dual-polarization, slot-mode antenna includes an array of dual-polarization, slot-mode, antenna units carried by a substrate, and each dual-polarization, slot-mode antenna unit includes a plurality of patch antenna elements arranged in spaced apart relation. The substrate is preferably a flexible substrate. Adjacent patch antenna elements of each dual-polarization, slot-mode antenna... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080169993 - Antenna: An antenna device includes: a plurality of element arrays; a mast member which holds the plurality of element arrays such that the element arrays are arranged in a direction perpendicular to a reference plane; and a first feeding circuit which feeds the element arrays, wherein each element array comprises: a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080169994 - Antenna device: An antenna device can be designed using a micro-strip array antenna designing method while improving a F/B ratio, and resisting wind pressure load despite small size and lightweight. The antenna device includes an array antenna having a plurality of radiation elements arranged on one surface of a rectangular ground plate... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080169995 - Tunable microwave devices with auto-adjusting matching circuit:

20080169996 - Waterproof housing: A waterproof housing is used for accommodating electronic components of an antenna device. The waterproof housing includes a casing and a base body. The casing has a plurality of combination holes disposed on a sidewall thereof, and the electronic components are disposed on the base body. The base body has... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080165061 - Circularly polarized antenna: A circularly polarized antenna includes first and second dielectric substrates, a grounding element, a feeding element, a coupling element, and a close-loop radiating element. The grounding element is formed on a first surface of the first dielectric substrate. The feeding element is formed on a second surface of the first... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080165062 - Planar antenna apparatus: An antenna apparatus including a dielectric substrate, a planar antenna element disposed on the substrate, and a waveguide for propagating electromagnetic waves to or from the planar antenna element. The waveguide includes at least a first conductor and a second conductor extending along each other. Near a connection portion formed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080165066 - Antenna insert: Circuits, methods, and apparatus for adapters and docking stations that include one or more of the following: reradiating antennas to enhance wireless signal integrity, inductive charging circuits, and wireless or optical data links. The adapters may be inserts for use in a docking station, adapters for a cable connection, or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080165065 - Antennas for handheld electronic devices: Handheld electronic devices are provided that contain wireless communications circuitry having at least one antenna. The antenna may have a planar ground element and a planar resonating element. The planar ground element may have a rectangular shape that matches a rectangular housing shape for a handheld electronic device. A dielectric-filled... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080165064 - Broadband antenna for handheld devices: Broadband antennas and handheld electronic devices with broadband antennas are provided. A handheld electronic device has integrated circuits, a display, and a battery mounted within a housing. The housing has a planar inner surface. A broadband antenna for the handheld electronic device has a ground element and a resonating element.... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080165063 - Handheld electronic devices with isolated antennas: Handheld electronic devices are provided that contain wireless communications circuitry having at least first and second antennas. An antenna isolation element reduces signal interference between the antennas, so that the antennas may be used in close proximity to each other. A planar ground element may be used as a ground... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080165067 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal includes: a terminal casing including a first casing and a second casing combined with the first casing; an external antenna mounted on an external surface of the terminal casing; an internal antenna mounted within the terminal casing; and at least one fastening screw that fastens the first... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080165068 - Artificial dielectric rotman lens: An Artificial Dielectric Rotman Lens (ADRL) provides smaller size and reduced weight relative to conventional Rotman Lens embodiments. The ADRL includes the same input ports, output ports and dummy termination ports as a conventional Rotman Lens. The ADRL internal construction, however, is significantly different with multiple printed circuit board layers... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080165070 - Odu alignment procedure using circularly polarized signals allocated to specific satellites: A method and system for aligning an antenna reflector with satellites in a satellite configuration. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises pointing the reflector to an orbital slot used in the satellite configuration, wherein only one satellite in the orbital slot transmits first circularly polarized signals, and... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080165069 - Odu alignment procedure using circularly polarized squint: A method and system for aligning an antenna reflector with satellites in a satellite configuration. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises coarsely pointing the reflector to an orbital slot used in the satellite configuration, wherein at least one satellite in the orbital slot transmits first circularly polarized... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080165071 - Methods and apparatus for improving the performance of an electronic device having one or more antennas: An electronic device comprising a first conductive unit and a second conductive unit disposed such that a gap exists between the first component and the second component. The electronic device further includes one or more components disposed along the gap and configured to counteract one or more capacitance effects in... Agent: G. Victor Treyz

20080165072 - High gain antenna and magnetic preamplifier: An antenna and associated magnetic preamplifier for use with UHF and Microwave wireless telecommunications devices operating at frequencies of greater than 0.3 gigahertz. The antenna may include a plurality of concentric loops about a core. The antenna may be made of a conductor wound helically about an air core with... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20080165073 - Omni-directional high gain dipole antenna: An omni-directional high gain dipole antenna includes a first rod antenna portion, a first helical antenna portion, a second rod antenna portion, a second helical antenna portion, and an impedance matching portion. The helical antenna portions having different helical pitches are serially-connected to the rod antenna portions, so as to... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20080165074 - Enhanced magnetic field communication system: Devices and methods are provided to enhance magnetic field communication. One aspect of the present subject matter relates to a method for transmitting and receiving signals using an antenna element electrically connected to a driver and an amplifier. According to various embodiments of the method, a first signal is transmitted... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080165075 - System and method for forming a conductive pattern: A system and method for forming a conductive pattern. In the illustrative embodiment, the system includes an applicator for applying a conductive substance onto a surface of a structure and a mechanism for precisely moving the applicator such that the conductive substance is applied in a desired pattern. In an... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080165076 - Adjustable antenna assembly: An adjustable antenna assembly has an antenna bracket, an adjusting bracket and a supporting bracket. The antenna bracket has a face and two sidewalls mounted on the face. The adjusting bracket is connected pivotally to the antenna bracket and has a fixed board, two elevation boards and an adjusting device.... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080165077 - Wideband segmented dipole antenna: A wideband antenna comprised of two or more conductive segments that are parasitically coupled.... Agent: Maurice M. Lynch

20080165078 - Antenna assembly and information processing apparatus having the same: An antenna assembly of an information process apparatus includes an antenna connector which is mounted in the information process apparatus, at least one antenna which is selectably connected to the antenna connector, and a detector to detect a type of the at least one antenna if the antenna connector is... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080165079 - Metamaterials: One exemplary metamaterial is formed from a plurality of individual unit cells, at least a portion of which have a different permeability than others. The plurality of individual unit cells are arranged to provide a metamaterial having a gradient index along at least one axis. Such metamaterials can be used... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080158066 - Aperture coupled microstrip antenna: An microstrip antenna is provided. A microstrip antenna includes a first substrate with a first surface and a second surface paralleled to each other, a metal ground plane with an aperture deposed on the first surface and exposed parts of the first substrate via the aperture and a metal feed... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080158064 - Aperture coupled multiband inverted-f antenna and device using same: An antenna structure (200) includes a counterpoise ground plane (202) with a pair of opposing inverted-F elements (204, 206). Each of the F elements has a closed end (208, 210) that is impedance-coupled to the ground plane. A conductive cross member (216) coupled the closed ends together, and a feed... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080158069 - Integrated tunable micro-antenna with small electrical dimensions and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention describes a tunable micro-antenna of reduced electrical dimensions. This antenna consists of the agglutination of several substrate layers (11), identical or distinct, with electrical, thermal and mechanical properties compatible with the manufacturing processes of integrated circuits. These layers are interleaved with metallic sheets (12) that are interconnected... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080158065 - Mobile terminal for reducing specific absorption rate: A mobile terminal that may reduce a specific absorption rate (SAR) includes a case, a circuit board in the case, a ground in the circuit board, an antenna pattern, and a ground pattern spaced apart from the antenna pattern and made of a material that absorbs electromagnetic waves. The ground... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080158063 - Package level integration of antenna and rf front-end module: Electronic devices and methods for their formation are described. One device relates to an electronic assembly including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The electronic assembly also includes at least one RF front-end module coupled to the first surface of the substrate,... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Int77

20080158068 - Planar antenna: The present invention provides a wireless transmit/receive unit, comprising a feeding connecting line, a first radiating line, a second radiating line, a third radiating line and a fourth radiating line, wherein the third radiating line is longer than the first radiating line and the first radiating line is longer than... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080158067 - Printed antenna: A printed antenna (10) disposed on a substrate (90) includes a feeding portion (12), an antenna body (16), a first grounded portion (20), a second grounded portion (30), and a matching portion (14). The feeding portion feeds electromagnetic signals. The antenna body electronically connected to the feeding portion transmits and... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158070 - Low interference internal antenna system for wireless devices: A wireless communications antenna system (100) includes a main circuit element (102) having a feed device (104) with an active port (108) and a grounding port (110), where the grounding port is coupled to a grounding device (106) of the main circuit element, a generally planar antenna element (112) having... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080158071 - Wall element with an antenna device: A wall element for emitting high-frequency radiation for an aircraft comprises an antenna device. The antenna device is adapted for emitting high frequency radiation. Furthermore, the antenna device is integrated in the wall element.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080158072 - Antenna constructions for electronic devices and methods for manufacturing such antenna constructions: Antenna constructions for electronic devices and methods of manufacturing such antenna constructions. The electronic device comprises a transponder and an antenna electrically coupled with the transponder. The antenna has a core of a first material and a coating of a second material on the core. The second material has a... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080158073 - Glass antenna for an automobile: A defogger is disposed in or on a rear window glass sheet. The rear window glass sheet has an H-oriented antenna conductor for frequency band H higher than frequency band L, an L-oriented antenna conductor for frequency band L, and a feeding point disposed in a blank space thereof above... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080158075 - Multi-band loop antenna: An antenna includes a non-conductive pane, a ground plane disposed on the non-conductive pane, and a radiating strip disposed on the non-conductive pane for operating in a plurality of frequency bands. The radiating strip defines a plurality of loops. A portion of a periphery of one of the loops coincides... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.c.

20080158074 - Multi-band strip antenna: A multi-band antenna includes a non-conductive pane, a ground plane disposed on the non-conductive pane, and a radiating strip for operating in a plurality of frequency bands. The radiating strip includes an elongated portion and a meander line portion extending away from an end of the elongated portion. The radiating... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.c.

20080158076 - Dynamically adjustable narrow bandwidth antenna for wide band systems: The effective bandwidth of a dynamically adjustable antenna with a narrow natural bandwidth delineated by a first frequency change can be moved from the natural bandwidth to another narrow bandwidth of interest within a wide band spectrum using a tuning circuit. The tuning circuit controllably changes an effective impedance of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080158077 - Dynamic antenna control in a wireless communication system: The present invention provides a method for controllably moving a plurality of antennae in a wireless communications system. The method comprises activating a first and second actuator associated with a first and second one of the plurality of antennae to move the first and second antennae to a desired position.... Agent: Terry D. Morgan Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.c.

20080158078 - Satellite dish system and method: There is provided a satellite dish system for comprising a satellite dish mount providing an operable position and a stored position, a controller for effecting position changes for the satellite dish mount and a modem connected to the controller for coupling a computer to a data network via a communications... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn: Ip Docketing

20080158079 - Integrated module of antenna and connector: An integrated module of antenna and connector has an insulative housing receiving a plurality of conductive terminals therein, a metal shell shielding the insulative housing, and a coupling device assembled on the metal shell. The metal shell is grounded and defines a slot with a particular shape. A feed-in terminal... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080158080 - Carrier with solid antenna structure and manufacturing method thereof: Carrier with solid antenna structure comprises a substrate and at least one solid antenna structure. The substrate has an upper surface, a lower surface, at least one first slot communicating with the upper surface and the lower surface and at least one second slot communicating with the upper surface and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080158081 - Adjustable integrated circuit antenna structure: An adjustable integrated circuit antenna structure includes a plurality of antenna elements, a coupling circuit, a ground plane, and a transmission line circuit. The coupling circuit is operable to couple at least one of the plurality of antenna elements into an antenna based on an antenna structure characteristic signal, wherein... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080158082 - Multipole antennae for logging-while-drilling resistivity measurements: A multipole antenna for conducting logging-while-drilling (LWD), includes a wire for one of producing and receiving an electromagnetic field, the wire having at least one winding for providing a magnetic moment in a first portion of the antenna that is opposite to the magnetic moment of a second portion of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080158083 - 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. The antenna incorporates chokes that may be implemented using meanderline techniques.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080158085 - Antenna structure and method for increasing its bandwidth: An antenna structure and a method for increasing an antenna bandwidth are provided. The antenna structure includes a feeding portion, a first resonating element electrically connected to the feeding portion, a protruding portion electrically connected to the feeding portion, and a second resonating element coupled with the protruding portion.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080158084 - Low efficiency integrated circuit antenna: A low efficiency integrated circuit (IC) antenna includes an antenna element and a transmission line. The antenna element is on a first metal layer of a die and has a length less than approximately one-tenth of a wavelength or greater than one-and-one-half times the wavelength for a frequency band of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080158086 - Planar antenna: The planer antenna includes: a linear radiating antenna element to which electric power is to be supplied; and multiple linear parasitic antenna elements to which electric power is not to be supplied. The parasitic antenna elements are disposed at a position at which the radiating antenna element and the parasitic... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080158087 - Integrated circuit antenna structure: An integrated circuit (IC) antenna structure includes a die, a package substrate, an antenna element, a ground plane, and a transmission line. The antenna element is on the die and/or package substrate and has a length in the range of approximately 1¼ millimeters to 2½ millimeters. The ground plane has... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080158088 - Antenna for gps: This invention relates to an antenna for GPS. The antenna of the invention comprises a ground metal plate, a parasitic metal plate, a radiation metal plate and at least one supporting element. The parasitic metal plate is disposed above the ground metal plate and connects to the ground metal plate.... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080158089 - Antenna device: An antenna device, includes a plurality of substrate type antennas arranged in a direction, each of the substrate type antennas includes a dielectric substrate, an electric supply line that includes a microstrip line and is formed on the dielectric substrate, and antenna elements each of which includes microstrip lines and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080158090 - Integrated coupler: A non-directional coupler including a semiconductor junction in series with a capacitor, the semiconductor junction being formed so that the threshold frequency short of which it behaves as a rectifier is smaller than the coupler's operating frequency.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080158091 - Semiconductor module and mobile apparatus: A semiconductor module includes a multilayer board, a first circuit element mounted on the multilayer board, a second circuit element stacked on the first circuit element, an interposer board, provided between the first circuit element and the second circuit element, which includes an antenna conductor, a passive element, mounted on... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080158092 - Antenna and semiconductor device having the same: An antenna for an electromagnetic induction method, in which unevenness in current density distribution is suppressed so that a magnetic field with reduced distortion is generated. In addition, a semiconductor device with less variation in response frequency and communication distance is also provided. The antenna has a loop-like shaped conductive... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080158093 - Film type antenna and mobile communication terminal case using the same: A film antenna and a mobile communication terminal case using the same. The film antenna includes a carrier film made of an insulation material, a conductive radiator formed on a surface of the carrier film, and a first protective layer covering the radiator on the surface of the carrier film.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080158094 - Integrated circuit mems antenna structure: An integrated circuit (IC) antenna structure includes a micro-electromechanical (MEM) area, a feed point, and a transmission line. The micro-electromechanical (MEM) area includes a three-dimensional shape, wherein the three dimensional-shape provides an antenna structure. The feed point is coupled to provide an outbound radio frequency (RF) signal to the antenna... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison