Communications: radio wave antennas inventions 08/08

20080204325 - Antenna apparatus: A disclosed antenna apparatus includes a base made of a dielectric material; an antenna element pattern formed on a surface of the base; a ground pattern formed in a position adjacent to and opposite to the antenna element pattern on the same surface of the base; and a surface-mounted coaxial... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080204323 - Antenna device: An antenna device includes a grounding board having an edge, and an antenna provided on the grounding board. The antenna includes a dielectric block having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a side surface, a radiator electrode provided on the top surface, a short-circuit electrode provided on the side... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080204329 - Antenna, and radio-frequency identification tag: An antenna connected to a circuit portion and configured to effect transmission and reception of information by radio communication, the antenna including a driven meander line portion which has a feed section connected to the circuit portion and which is a line conductor formed in a meandering pattern, and a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080204327 - Compact dual-band resonator using anisotropic metamaterial: A dual-band resonator with compact size, such as a resonant type dual-band antenna, which uses an anisotropic metamaterial is described. The artificial anisotropic medium is implemented by employing a composite right/left-handed transmission line. The dispersion relation and the antenna physical size only depend on the composition of the unit cell... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20080204328 - Dual antenna apparatus and methods: A dielectric dual antenna apparatus intended for applications such as small-sized radio frequency devices. The dual antenna comprises a first partial antenna which implements the lower operating band of the antenna and another partial antenna implementing the upper operating band. The partial antennas have a shared substrate, which together with... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates Attorney Of Record

20080204326 - Patch antenna: A patch antenna for achieving a vertically-polarized radiation pattern is described. The patch antenna includes a closed-curve slot within which a signal feed point is located. Parasitic slots are disposed outside or inside the closed-curve slot. In one embodiment, the closed-curve slot is a ring slot and the parasitic slots... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080204324 - Patch antenna and method for producing a patch antenna: In the present invention, a patch antenna wherein electric waves in two frequency bands can be transmitted and received is provided with smaller dimensions and a lower cost than in the conventional arts. The patch antenna has a radiation electrode and a ground conductor disposed to oppose each other, and... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080204331 - Pattern shaping of rf emission patterns: A metallic shaping plate located in the interior housing of a wireless device is disclosed. The metallic shaping plate may influence a radiation pattern being generated by a horizontal antenna array. The result may be an increase in the gain of the array.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080204330 - Portable audio wireless communication device: A portable audio wireless communication device cooperating with a portable electrical apparatus with a display component has a plug for matting with the portable electrical apparatus, a speaker and a cable connected the plug and the speaker. The plug has a signal contact connected one end of a signal wire... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080204334 - Broadcasting receiving apparatus: An MPU (11) of a digital broadcasting receiver has functional units that includes an antenna judging unit (115) for deciding whether an antenna connected to an antenna unit (151) is a bidirectional antenna having directivities in two directions forming substantially 180 degrees with each other or a unidirectional antenna having... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080204333 - Device for checking energy received by an antenna for preventing data corruption during a write operation in a non volatile transponder memory: A transponder circuit includes an antenna (1) for receiving radio frequency signals and an extraction unit (30) for extracting therefrom at least a part of the energy necessary for the transponder circuit, a non volatile memory unit (60), a control logic unit (20) for the circuit that activates a received... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080204332 - On-vehicle device: An on-vehicle device has a receiving antenna for receiving a radio signal from a mobile device, a receiving circuit for returning an electric signal obtained by conversion by the receiving antenna to the original state, a control unit for determining the correct/incorrect of a received signal from the receiving circuit,... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080204336 - Antenna device for seismic surveys: An antenna device (10′, 10″, 10′″, 10″″) for seismic surveys, where the antenna (10′, 10″, 10′″, 10″″), when in the active position, is located by the seabed (2), and where the antenna (10′, 10″, 10′″, 10″″) is coupled to one end portion of at least one feed-out hollow element (12a,... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080204335 - Tank antenna: An air tank for a self-contained breathing apparatus that incorporates a coil antenna for use in a magneto-inductive system. The coil antenna is formed as a part of the tank. The antenna is embedded within the sidewall of the air cylinder to form the air tank. The self-contained breathing apparatus... Agent: Houston Office Of Novak Druce And Quigg LLP

20080204337 - Portable antenna device: A portable antenna device includes a circuit board having a ground pattern, an antenna including a spirally wound external element and a spirally wound internal element coaxially disposed inside the external element at a distance from the first element so that one of the external and internal elements forms a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080204338 - Method and system for software defined antenna control: Methods and systems for reducing AM/PM and AM/AM distortion are disclosed and may comprise selectively coupling and impedance matching one of a plurality of tunable antennas to a single programmable output stage comprising a single power amplifier on a chip in a transmitter. A programmable matching circuit comprising adjustable inductance... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080204339 - External antenna for rfid remote interrogation: A system to capture a remote RFID electro magnetic interrogation of a warehouse or distribution center environment through the propitious use of an external directional antenna. A method of manufacturing said external directional antenna from a composite of aluminum shavings and ceramic powders. This remote RFID electro magnetic interrogation signal... Agent: James Rodgers

20080204340 - Multi-band antenna and mobile communication terminal having the same: There is provided a mobile communication terminal including: a dielectric substrate; a ground surface formed on a first area of the dielectric substrate; a radiation part disposed on a second area where the ground surface is not formed, at a predetermined distance from the dielectric substrate, the radiation part having... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080204341 - Beam waveguide including mizuguchi condition reflector sets: A beam waveguide may include a first set of dual offset reflectors and a second set of dual offset reflectors. The first set of dual offset reflectors and the second set of dual offset reflectors may each include reflector geometries to produce a radiation pattern that is symmetric about a... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Boeing

20080204342 - Reflector antenna: A reflector antenna includes a feed configured to always point during operation in a direction that opposes ingress of water into the feed, and a reflector having a truncated spherical reflecting surface, wherein a relative orientation of the reflector and the feed is adjustable. Another reflector antenna includes a feed... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080204343 - Broadband multi-dipole antenna with frequency-independent radiation characteristics: The invention describes a broadband multi-dipole antenna that has low input reflection coefficient, low cross polarization, rotationally symmetric beam and constant beam width and phase centre location over several octaves bandwidth. The dipoles are fed from one or a few feed points, and they may with advantage have log-periodic dimensions.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080204344 - Contactless label with y-shaped omnidirectional antenna: Contactless label designed to ensure the traceability of an object featuring a microcircuit (16) and a Y-shaped dipole antenna connected to the microcircuit, which contains information necessary for tracing the object, which can be read with a reader through the exchange of ultra high frequency (UHF) electromagnetic waves. The antenna... Agent: James C. Lydon

20080204345 - Wideband i-shaped monopole dipole: A wideband -shaped monopole dipole includes a first dipole unit, a second dipole unit, a feed device, a parallel-wire and two double-leads set between two cantilevers of the first dipole unit and the second dipole unit. The parallel-wire connects the first dipole unit with the second dipole unit in a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080204346 - Antenna adjusting method and antenna device: An antenna adjusting method is disclosed wherein a frequency characteristic of an antenna device is adjusted by changing a shape of a reflecting conductor in the antenna device. The antenna device includes a radiator, which is formed by a metal or a metal and a dielectric material to radiate an... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080204347 - Increasing isolation between multiple antennas with a grounded meander line structure: A wireless communication device includes multiple antennas spaced apart from each other. Also included is a dielectric substrate with electrically conductive ground areas along the substrate opposite the antennas. Signal coupling is decreased between the antennas by connecting the ground areas together with an isolation structure. In one nonlimiting form,... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20080204349 - Horizontal multiple-input multiple-output wireless antennas: High gain, multi-pattern multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems are disclosed. These systems provide for multiple-polarization and omnidirectional coverage using multiple radios, which may be tuned to the same frequency. The MIMO antenna systems may include multiple high-gain beams arranged (or capable of being arranged) to provide for omnidirectional coverage. These... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080204348 - Input device of two orthogonal polarized-wave waveguide type, and radio wave receiving converter and antenna device using the input device: A radio wave receiving converter is provided with a circular waveguide unit to which a vertically-polarized wave and a horizontally-polarized wave are input, first and second board holding units provided on the upside and the downside of the circular waveguide unit and holding first and second circuit boards, respectively, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080204350 - Modular active phased array: A structural grid is provided with continuous and discontinuous beam members coupled by splices, a front structure coupled to the structural grid, the front structure including a walkway and cables, a radome coupled to the front structure. The structural grid is coupled to a plurality of antenna subassemblies. The antenna... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080204351 - Antenna for a level meter employing the radar principle: In an antenna for a level meter employing the radar principle, a fastening device is provided for detachably mounting a dielectric insert in the antenna. The fastening device may be a continuous clamping collar that clamps the dielectric insert in place in the antenna. This offers a simple, universally employable... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080204352 - Movable support armature for a curved reflector: A movable support armature for a curved reflector of electromagnetic radiation is defined substantially as a double layer grid space frame. The armature has plural parallel major chord framing members each having an elongate axis and disposed in a frame major surface. The major chord members include a pair of... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080204353 - Satellite dish mount: A universal eave mount is shown which is capable of mounting a satellite dish antenna on a structure with a sidewall and a roof with an eave. A base bar, with an initially open interior, attaches to a base plate designed to attach to the sidewall of the structure. An... Agent: Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer, LLP

20080204354 - Wideband antenna: An antenna arrangement for a communication device is provided that may include a monopole antenna element having a bottom side joined to a first lateral side and joined to a second lateral side. The bottom side may be joined to each lateral side at an angle less than 90 degrees... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080204355 - Frequency selective surfaces: A freestanding frequency selective surface (FSS) is provided which comprises at least one shorted resonance aperture element (12). The shorted resonance aperture element provides a sensitivity to polarisation. The shorted resonance aperture element may comprise at least one short, which may enable the FSS to be freestanding. The invention further... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080198075 - Broadband antenna unit comprising a folded plate-shaped monopole antenna portion and an extending portion: In a broadband antenna unit including a ground plate, an antenna element disposed in the vicinity of an end of the ground plate, and a dielectric substrate for mounting the antenna element therein, the antenna element includes a folded plate-shaped monopole antenna portion having a U-shape in cross section and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080198073 - Method for adjusting a pcb antenna and a structure thereof: A PCB antenna, comprising: a substrate; a radiator, patterned on the substrate, having a branch point; a ground on the substrate; a short path, patterned on the substrate, having two ends where one end is connected to the ground and the other end is connected to the branch point of... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080198074 - Reconfigurable antenna using addressable pixel pistons: An antenna made up of addressable conductive segments, or pixel elements, affixed to the top of each piston in a piston array is presented. The pixel elements can be activated in less than a millisecond to form an antenna array and transmission line pattern using movable pistons and a two-dimensional... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080198076 - Multi beam repeater antenna for increased coverage: The invention discloses an electronics device for personal use, comprising at least a first main surface, and at least a first antenna for communication via electromagnetic waves between the device and a second party. The antenna is an array antenna comprising at least a first and a second antenna element,... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080198077 - Mobile wideband antennas: In various exemplary embodiments, a wideband antenna assembly includes a stamped monopole antenna mast having two or more conductors combined to a single feed. The conductors are combined at a predetermined height above the point of connection with the single feed. The conductors further have a predetermined spacing between the... Agent: Anthony G. Fussner

20080198078 - Adjusting resonance frequency by adjusting distributed inter-turn capacity: The invention concerns a method for adjusting frequency tuning of a resonant circuit with turns having a regular spacing generating stray inter-turn capacity. The adjusting of the frequency tuning of the resonant circuit is performed, at the level of the stray inter-turn capacity, by varying the regular spacing of adjacent... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080198079 - Mote networks having directional antennas: A mote network having and/or using one or more directional antennas.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080198080 - Adjusting device for phase shifter of antenna in mobile communication: An adjusting device for phase shifter of antenna in mobile communication includes a gear, a rack, a screw, a driving nut, a driving shaft and a manipulating member. The gear is fixed to a rotation axis of a phase shifter on a reflecting plate of the antenna. The rack is... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080198081 - Broadband leaky wave antenna: An antenna comprises a conically shaped body of dielectric material. Cross-sections of the body have truncated elliptical shape, wherein each shape is truncated substantially through a first focus of the elliptical shape along a truncation line that extends substantially perpendicularly to a main axis of the elliptical shape. The second... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080198082 - Antenna diversity system and slot antenna component: The present invention refers to an antenna diversity system comprising at least a first antenna and a second antenna wherein the first antenna substantially behaves as an electric current source or as a magnetic current source, and the second antenna substantially behaves as an electric current source or as a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080198083 - Primary radiator: To produce a primary radiator including a horn part and a waveguide, the cross section of which is elliptical shape, and which can be easily formed, so that production cost is reduced, a primary radiator 3 of the present invention is so arranged that it includes a horn part 3a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080198085 - Antenna: An antenna is formed integrally into one piece and has a ground plane, a feeding strip and two pairs of radiating patches. The feeding strip is connected integrally to the ground plane. The pairs of the radiating patches are formed symmetrically and integrally on the feeding strip. The antenna formed... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20080198084 - Asymmetric dipole antenna: A multiple frequency dipole antenna is provided. The antenna includes a plurality of conductive traces on a substrate (flexible or rigid). One conductive trace comprises the radiating portion and includes a plurality of radiating arms asymmetrically arranged. The other conductive trace comprises the ground portion and includes a plurality of... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20080198086 - Planar antenna with conductive studs extending from the ground plane and/or from at least one radiating element, and corresponding production method: The disclosure relates to a planar antenna comprising at least one radiator element separated from a ground plane by a dielectric. The antenna also comprises an assembly of conductive studs which is connected to and extends from at least one element of a group of elements comprising the ground plane... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080198087 - Dual-band antenna: A dual-band antenna is provided, which includes a signal resonance unit, a grounding unit, a connection unit, and a signal line. The grounding unit is disposed opposite to the signal resonance unit. The connection unit has a first connection element and a second connection element, wherein one end of the... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080198088 - Coupling antenna: A coupling antenna has a ground plane, a main radiating assembly and a secondary radiating assembly. The main radiating assembly is mounted on the ground plane and has a substrate, a feeding-and-coupling assembly and a shorting member. The feeding-and-coupling assembly has a feeding member, a coupling member and an extension... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20080198089 - Coupling antenna: A coupling antenna has a substrate, an inducting conductor, a ground plane, a first coupling member and a second coupling member. The inducting conductor is mounted on the substrate. The ground plane is formed on and protrudes from the inducting conductor and is mounted on the substrate. The first coupling... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080198090 - Antenna, earphone antenna, and broadcasting receiver including earphone antenna: An antenna of the present invention includes a coaxial cable, antenna elements (3a and 3b), and an unbalanced/balanced converter. The unbalanced/balanced converter has a high-pass circuit provided between an input terminal port1 and an output terminal port2 and a low-pass circuit provided between the input terminal port1 and an output... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080198091 - Antenna clip and its applications: The present invention discloses an antenna clip and an application thereof, wherein the antenna clip includes a base and a pair of spring elements. The base has a foundation with a first wall and a second wall connecting to two sides of the foundation. The first wall and the second... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080198092 - Antenna mounting bracket: An antenna mounting bracket has a stationary leaf, a housing, a sliding plug and a spring. The stationary leaf has a connecting rod formed coaxially on and protruding from the stationary leaf. The housing is connected pivotally on the stationary leaf and has a proximal end, a distal end, a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080198093 - Isostatic support structure or fixed or re-orientable large size antenna reflectors: Isostatic deployable support structure for antenna reflectors for vehicles characterized in that it is constituted by six supports hinged to each of their ends in three points on the structure of the vehicle and in three points on the structure of the reflector, in which: —two out of the three... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080191943 - Antenna device having membrane structure: An antenna device includes a membrane, and a conductor wire coupled to the membrane for electrically coupling the membrane to various electric facilities or telecommunication apparatus, the membrane is preferably made of metallic reflective material that may be applied onto the typical compact discs and that includes a conductivity and... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esquire

20080191945 - Antenna, and radio-frequency identification tag: An antenna connected to a circuit portion and configured to effect transmission and reception of information by radio communication, the antenna including a driven meander line portion which has a feed section connected to the circuit portion and which is a line conductor formed in a meandering pattern, and a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080191944 - Method for establishing an electrical and mechanical connection between chip contact surfaces and antenna contact surfaces and transponder: The invention relates to a method for establishing an electrical and mechanical connection between chip contact surfaces of an RFID chip and contact surfaces arranged on a strip-like substrate, wherein the chip contact surfaces which have on their surfaces a plurality of thread-like hooks and/or thread-like eyes are hooked together,... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.c.

20080191946 - Wireless point to multipoint system: A patch array antenna includes a planar base on which is defined a ground plane and feed positions that are electrically isolated from the ground plane. A plurality of patch elements are configured to resonate over a predetermined frequency range. Each patch element is isolated from the ground plane and... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20080191948 - Antenna for electronic product and method for fabricating the same: An antenna device (10) of a consumer electronic product is formed on an outer surface (302) of a shell (30) of the electronic product. The shell of the consumer electronic product is adapted for forming an enclosure of an electronic product. The antenna device extends on a planar plane and... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080191947 - Portable communication device antenna arrangement: A portable communication device is provided, which includes a radio communication unit, an antenna exciter element for connection to the radio communication unit and ground and at least one further antenna element provided on one side of the antenna exciter element. The further antenna elements comprise a first mass block... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080191949 - Generic pick-up horn for high power thermal vacuum testing of satellite payloads at multiple frequency bands and at multiple polarizations: Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed for high power thermal vacuum testing of satellite payloads using pick-up horns. Such pick-up horns can include at least one outer metal wall forming a metal body and at least one interior surface disposed in the metal body, forming at least one chamber in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080191950 - Conformal electronically scanned phased array antenna and communication system for helmets and other platforms: A phased array antenna adapted to be mounted in a helmet. In the illustrative embodiment, the antenna comprises a substrate and an array of radiating elements disposed on said substrate, each of the elements including a-resonant cavity and a mechanism for feeding the cavity with an electromagnetic signal., The cavity... Agent: Raytheon Company, Patent Docket Administration

20080191951 - Semiconductor device: It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor device which can be surely supplied electric power by electromagnetic waves in different frequency bands without preventing reduction in size and weight of a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device capable of wireless communication is provided with a frequency... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080191952 - Luneberg dielectric lens and method of producing same: A hemispherical Luneberg dielectric lens including a hemispherical center layer having a hemispherical outer surface, and a plurality of hemispherical dome-shaped layers each having concentric hemispherical inner and outer surfaces, the outer surfaces of the center layer and dome-shaped layers having different diameters and the inner surfaces of said dome-shaped... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080191953 - Ring-slot radiator for broad-band operation: One embodiment is a ring-slot radiator having: at least one radiating element having a characteristic of dual resonance, double-tuned in which an open ended strip and a cavity are structured to resonate at at least two different frequencies. Another embodiment may have: a ring-slot structure having at least one ring-slot... Agent: Patti, Hewitt & Arezina Llc

20080191954 - Antenna device and wireless mobile terminal provided with magnetic material: A wireless mobile terminal is provided. The wireless mobile terminal includes a printed circuit board, an antenna element including a first portion and a second portion formed almost parallel to each other, the first portion and the second portion arranged almost parallel to the printed circuit board each, and a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080191955 - A triple polarized clover antenna with dipoles: The present invention relates to an antenna arrangement comprising means (1, 72, 72′, 77, 77′) for providing an approximation of a constant current electrical loop, which is arranged to provide a first essentially toroid-shaped radiation pattern (29), where the antenna arrangement further comprises a first (67) and a second (68)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080191956 - High-frequency module: In a high-frequency module, an antenna device is disposed on a first principal surface of a second substrate, a first principal surface of a first substrate and a second principal surface of the second substrate face each other and are connected to each other by conductive connecting members, electronic components... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080191957 - U shape three dimensional multi-frequency antenna: A U shape three dimensional multi-frequency antenna, comprises a first radiation body having an L shape; a second radiation body being connected to the first radiation body; one end of the second radiation body being vertically connected to the first radiation body; a connecting portion connected to the second radiation... Agent: Pao-sui Chang

20080191958 - Orthogonal loop radiofrequency antenna device: The invention concerns an orthogonal loop radiofrequency antenna device designed to receive electromagnetic waves comprising at least two loops (BH, BV) consisting of a single electrical conductor, each of said loops (BH, BV) capable of having a particular shape and located in their respective plane, said planes containing each one... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080191959 - Semiconductor device: An object is to provide a semiconductor device in which even in the case where a plurality of antennas are provided, there is no limitation on the layout of the antennas so that disconnection between an integrated circuit portion and the antenna and reduction in a communication distance from a... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080191960 - Portable antenna assembly: An antenna assembly (100) includes a seat (20) defining a receiving space (12) and a pair of first bores, and an antenna element (10). The antenna element has a connecting portion (101) received in the receiving space, an antenna and a pivot axle (51) rotatably received in the first bores.... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080191961 - Electronic monitoring systems, shipment container monitoring systems and methods of monitoring a shipment in a container: A shipping container has a passive radio antenna element having internal and external antennas. A connector spanning the wall joins the two antennas. An internal communications device is disposed within the container and an external communications device is disposed external to the container. Another shipping container has a repeater element... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv) Ip Docketing

20080191962 - Optimisation of forbidden photo band antennae: The present invention relates to photonic band gap antennas. This antenna comprises according to a plane of directions x, y, a radiating source and a photonic band gap structure constituted by parallel metal rods, the rods repeating themselves nx times in the direction x and ny times in the direction... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080186238 - Antenna apparatus: Disclosed is an antenna apparatus including a dielectric substrate, an antenna element formed of a metallic plate which is disposed by having a predetermined space from the dielectric substrate, a plurality of leg pieces which extend toward the dielectric substrate from the antenna element, a chip capacitor which is electrically... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080186239 - Antenna device: An antenna device for operating in a predetermined frequency band has a resonator section, a semiconductor section and an antenna section. The resonator section includes a first conductor section, a dielectric section, and a second conductor section for specifying a reference potential against each section which is arranged so as... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080186237 - Microstrip antenna: A microstrip antenna comprising a dielectric substrate, a ground conductor provided on one surface thereof, a radiation conductor provided on the other surface and having an area smaller than that of the ground conductor, wherein generally flat electric circuit part having a ground surface is arranged on the surface of... Agent: Butzel LongIPDocketing Dept

20080186236 - Miniaturized multi-band antenna: A multi-band antenna includes a bent flat copper antenna forming a radiation surface to provide GSM-850/900/1800/1900 or GPS multi-band applications, and an auxiliary antenna coupled to the radiation surface provide WCDMA-2100/UMTS-2100 multi-band applications. The radiation surface and the auxiliary antenna are coupled to generate the required bandwidth for multiple radiation... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080186240 - Mobile wireless communications device having dual antenna system for cellular and wifi: A mobile wireless communications device includes a housing and circuit board carried by the housing. Radio Frequency (RF) circuitry is mounted on the circuit board. A first antenna is supported by the circuit board within the housing and operatively connected to the RF circuitry and configured for cellular phone communications.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080186241 - Body radiation and conductivity in rf communication: Method and System for wireless communications is provided. The system includes an RF module, and a coupler. The coupler is coupled with the RF module. The coupler includes a member for conductive coupling with the user's body such that RF energy is coupled into and/or out of the user's body.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080186242 - Enclosed mobile/transportable satellite antenna system: An enclosed satellite antenna system can include a generally rigid enclosure defining a volume that is configured to enable both manual transportability of the satellite antenna system and automated operation of the satellite antenna system without a substantial change in the volume of the enclosure or manual repositioning of the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080186244 - Frequency control of electrical length for bicone antennas: A broadband bicone antenna supports frequency selective control of electrical length. Frequency selective control of the electrical length of an antenna can provide an antenna exhibiting two or more different electrical lengths where use of each length depends upon the operating frequencies of the signals. The electrical length of the... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080186243 - Vswr improvement for bicone antennas: A broadband bicone antenna system supports improved VSWR operation of a high-impedance bicone antenna having a reduced aperture size, high input impedance at the central vertex of the cones, one or more pattern tuning filters associated with the cones, and input filtering for frequency selective impedance matching. Pattern tuning filters... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080186245 - Rfid tag having a folded dipole: A circuit array, comprising a substrate (101), and comprising an electrically conducting folded dipole antenna (103) arranged on and/or in the substrate (101), the folded dipole antenna (103) having a first antenna connection (104) and having a second antenna connection (105), and wherein the folded dipole antenna (103) has a... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080186247 - Versatile si-based packaging with integrated passive components for mmwave applications: An apparatus is described incorporating an interposer having a cavity for a portion of an antenna structure, having conductor through vias, a top Si part having interconnection wiring and having pads for electrically mounting an integrated circuit chip thereon, wherein the top Si part mates with the interposer electrically and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080186246 - Wireless communication systems and methods and transmitter units for use therein: A wireless communication system includes a portable, typically hand-held transmitter which includes RF absorbing material and/or one or more dissipative parasitic antennas for reducing RF fields in close proximity to the operator to such an extent as to substantially preempt the effect of the operator presence, specifically the operator's hand,... Agent: Adams Patent & Trademark Agency

20080186248 - Large-sized electromagnetic digital board with segmented frame antenna: A large-sized electromagnetic digital broad with segmented frame antenna is provided, including at least an antenna turning board, at least an antenna multiplexer board, a physical antenna web, and a control board. The length of the antenna turning board is he same as the length of the antenna multiplexer board.... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080186250 - Radome: A GPS reception arrangement includes a GPS radome body having an upper body portion, a lower body portion and a peripheral body portion between the upper body portion and the lower body portion and extending circumferentially there around, and a GPS antenna positioned inside the radome body. A plurality of... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080186249 - Using a protective housing and a pressurized mechanism to protect base station antennas: The present invention discloses a system for protecting a base station antenna that includes an antenna mounted to a platform base. The platform base can be raised and lowered depending upon an amount of pressure in a pressure chamber. A pressure generator can increase the amount of pressure in the... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080186251 - Systems and methods for a multi-mode reconfigurable sector antenna: Systems and methods for configuring a single sector antenna capable of operating in multiple modes and comprising a plurality of radiating arrays to radiate over a sector area at a polarization by activating a single radiating array. An enabler activates a single radiating array in a single-unit sector antenna that... Agent: Ericsson Inc.