Taoglas Group Holdings Limited

Vladimir Furlan

Jeffrey Shamblin

Patrick Carl Frank

Disclosed is an antenna including a radiating element, a co-planar ground plane element and a transmission line extending across at least a portion of the radiating element and the ground plane element. The transmission line includes a dielectric layer having a portion of a first major surface adjacent to the ground plane and a second major surface opposite and separated from the first surface. A shield is formed on the second major surface. At least one via extends through the dielectric layer to connect the shield to the ground plane. A feed line extends longitudinally through the dielectric layer from a feed point at a proximal end of the transmission line towards a distal end of the transmission line, the feed line being shielded along a portion of its length extending across the ground plane element by the shield.

Methods for fabricating an antenna and a shielded transmission line

An antenna array may include a plurality of printed circuit boards (PCBs) oriented in a stacked arrangement, parallel to and spaced apart from one another. Each of the PCBs may include a linear array of antenna elements, which cooperate with the linear arrays of antenna elements on other PCBs to form a two-dimensional array of antenna elements. The PCBs may be supported at one end by a common backplate in a cantilevered manner, with the linear arrays of antenna elements located near the free end of the PCBs. The PCBs may include a thicker portion and a thinner portion, and the thinner portion may include a heat sink or other thermal dissipation structure.

Millimeter wave antenna array

Disclosed is an antenna including a radiating element, a co-planar ground plane element and a transmission line extending across at least a portion of the radiating element and the ground plane element. The transmission line includes a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer has a portion of a first major surface adjacent to the ground plane and a second major surface opposite and separated from the first surface. A shield is formed on the second major surface. At least one via extends through the dielectric layer to connect the shield to the ground plane. A feed line extends longitudinally through the dielectric layer from a feed point at a proximal end of the transmission line towards a distal end of the transmission line, the feed line being shielded along a portion of its length extending across the ground plane element by the shield with the distal end of the transmission line lying in register with the radiating element and coupling the feed line to the radiating element.

In-glass high performance antenna

Disclosed are patch antennas, systems and methods for embedding a patch antenna between two layers, such as two layers of glass. The glass layers may be a vehicle windshield. An embedded portion of an antenna substrate supporting the patch antenna may be embedded between the two layers, and an exposed portion of the antenna substrate may extend outward from the two layers. The embedded portion of the antenna substrate may support the patch antenna, and the exposed portion of the antenna substrate may support a coplanar waveguide and a connector.

Embedded patch antennas, systems and methods

A Planar Inverted-F Antenna, PIFA, comprises a sheet of conductive material including first, second, third and fourth contiguous sections, the first and third sections extending orthogonally away from the second section and the fourth section extending away from the third section. The sections are folded relative to one another to define a volume with a heights of the second section, a width of the second section, and a depth of the third section extending away from the second section. A supporting pin and a feed pin extend from the second section along an outer edge. A supporting leg extends from either the third or fourth sections, the supporting leg lying outside the plane of the supporting pin to support the PIFA when mounted on a printed circuit board, while allowing components to at least partially occupy the volume under the PIFA.

Planar inverted F-antenna

A Planar Inverted-F Antenna, PIFA, comprises a sheet of conductive material including first, second, third and fourth contiguous sections, the first and third sections extending orthogonally away from the second section and the fourth section extending away from the third section. The sections are folded relative to one another to define a volume with a height of the second section, a width of the second section and a depth of the third section extending away from the second section. A supporting pin and a feed pin extend from the second section along an outer edge. A supporting leg extends from either the third or fourth sections, the supporting leg lying outside the plane of the supporting pin to support the PIFA when mounted on a printed circuit board, while allowing components to at least partially occupy the volume under the PIFA.

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Munich, Germany

Vladimir Furlan