Centurion Wireless Technologies, Inc.

Sripathi Yarasi

Govind Rangaswamy Kadambi

Theodore Samuel Hebron

Kenneth D Simmons

Willis R Hardy

Gary Cumro

Ted S Hebron

Antonio Barron Meza

Operating parameters of a planar antenna are controlled by providing a planar metal radiating element having an edge, by providing a slot within the radiating element, the slot having side walls, an open slot-end that lies on the edge of the radiating element, and a closed slot-end the lies within the radiating element, and by providing a thin, line-like, and metal segment, at least a portion of which is coplanar with the radiating element and that extends from the open slot-end to the closed slot-end without physically engaging the slot's side walls. The metal segment can be connected to the antenna's ground plane to thereby form a parasitic element, or the metal segment can be connected to the radiating element to thereby form an extension of the radiating element.

Optimum Utilization of slot gap in PIFA design

Printed circuit techniques and two-shot molding techniques are used to form a metal radiating element, a metal ground plane element, a metal antenna feed, a metal short-circuiting strip and metal capacitive loading plates within small antennas that are buried within transmit/receive radio-devices such a mobile cellular telephones. Balanced and unbalanced, single-feed, two and three band antennas are provided wherein the radiating element is laterally spaced from the ground plane element, to thereby provide an antenna having a very low profile or height, including antennas wherein the ground plane element and the radiating element are placed coplanar on the same surface of a PCB. A thin dielectric carriage on a PCB allows for the metal capacitive loading plates to be placed on the sidewalls of the dielectric carriage, to thereby provide reactive loading of a radiating element that is on the top surface of the dielectric carriage.

Compact, low profile, single feed, multi-band, printed antenna

An internal antenna for wireless devices comprising a ground plane and a planar loop antenna. The shorted loop antenna is provided with a gap and operates at a quarter wavelength. The compact single feed dual or multi band internal antenna is realized either through composite assembly of an active outer and inner radiating elements or by a selective combination of an active outer radiating element and a parasitic inner radiating element. The inner radiating element of the proposed invention is completely encompassed within the outer radiating element. The resonant tuning of the internal antenna is accomplished by means of the matching stub and capacitive loading plates with the matching stubs being entirely internal to the outer radiating element.

Antenna with shorted active and passive planar loops and method of making the same

A unitary assembly provides two virtual planar inverted-F antennas (PIFAs) within a physical volume that is occupied by one of the PIFAs. The virtual two-antenna assembly includes a single RF feed, and provides multiple frequency response in the AMPS, PCS, GSM, DCS and GPS frequency bands. A composite radiating element is supported above a ground plane. A C-shaped slot divides the composite radiating element into an outer radiating element and an inner radiating element. Two metal stubs within a slot-discontinuity of the C-shaped slot physically and electrically connect the outer radiating element to the inner radiating element. An RF feed post connects to the outer radiating element, and both of the inner and outer radiating elements are shorted to the ground plane. One metal stub provides virtual RF feed to the inner radiating element, the other metal stub provides a matching and/or tuning function to the inner radiating element, and the two metal stubs provide a matching and/or tuning function to the outer radiating element. The outer radiating element includes an L-shaped slot, and the inner radiating element includes a linear slot. Reactive loading plates extend from the composite radiating element toward the ground plane.

Single-feed, multi-band, virtual two-antenna assembly having the radiating element of one planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) contained within the radiating element of another PIFA

Single feed planar inverted-F antennas (PIFAs) are provided for three, four or five frequency bands of resonance in both cellular and non-cellular frequency bands. The PIFAs include a dielectric carriage having a metal radiating element located on a top surface thereof and sidewalls having a metal ground plane element located at the bottom of the sidewalls. The non-radiating edge of the radiating elements include a downward extending shorting strip that is connected to the ground plane element and a downward extending feed strip that is spaced above the ground plane element and is connected to a feed cable. The radiating element includes downward extending matching and loading plates whose free ends are spaced above the ground plane element, which provide impedance matching and reactive loading to the radiating elements. Configurations of slots (open and closed) within the radiating elements selectively provide multiple frequency resonance to the radiating elements in both cellular and non-cellular frequency bands.

Planar Inverted-F-Antenna (PIFA) having a slotted radiating element providing global cellular and GPS-bluetooth frequency response

The present invention relates to a non-rectangular shaped PIFA capable of dual ISM band operation using a single power feed. The dual frequency operation of the PIFA is accomplished by using a slot in the radiating element to quasi partition the radiating element. The dual band performance of the PIFA is realized through the integration of either the microstrip or the Co Planar Waveguide (CPW) feed line to the antenna structure.

Compact dual band circular PIFA

A diversity antenna comprising two planar inverted F antennas (PIFAs) characterized by: two radiating elements with or without the physical separation between them; the spatially separable radiating elements of the two PIFAs with side-by-side or orthogonal placement with respect to each other are combined to form an equivalent single element consisting of the composite assembly of two radiators; a small ground plane of rectangular or L-shape with or without bending at its opposite ends is common to both the radiating elements; the radiating elements are placed above the unbent common ground plane; the radiating elements are placed above the vertical sections of the bent common ground plane; the shorted ends of the spatially separated radiating elements are placed back to back on the said common ground plane; a common shorting post placed along the common boundary line resulted by the merging of the two radiators with a prior side by side mutual placement; a common shorting post placed within the common boundary surface resulted by the merging of the two radiators with a prior mutual orthogonal orientation.

Diversity antenna system including two planar inverted F antennas

A Planar Inverted F Antenna (PIFA) is disclosed comprising a radiator assembly positioned in the interior of a lower Radome member. An upper Radome member is placed over the radiator assembly with the upper Radome member and the lower Radome member fully enclosing the radiator assembly. The radiator assembly is held to the upper and lower Radome members by means of three dielectric blocks on each member. The radiator assembly comprises: (1) two radiating elements placed on the opposite sides of common ground plane; (2) two separate shorting strips extending between one end of each radiating element and one end of common ground plane; (3) a common feed conductor in the form of a single strip connecting one edge of each radiating element and the common feed conductor which has a disc-shaped portion with an opening formed therein. A ground tab is formed as an extension of the common ground plane. A hollow cylindrical structure formed as an outward extension of the lower Radome member constitutes the embedded (built-in) connector for the PIFA. A metal rod is inserted through the opening in the disc-shaped portion and protrudes into the hollow cylindrical structure to serve as the feed (center) pin of the embedded connector. A cylindrical dielectric block on the bottom surface of the upper Radome member holds the feed (center) pin in the designed location of the embedded connector. The ground tab protrudes into the hollow cylindrical structure and maintains a flush contact with the side wall of the hollow cylindrical structure to provide the ground potential of the embedded connector.

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Lincoln, NE, United States of America

Sripathi Yarasi