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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2024
Valmont Industries, Inc., Tucson, AZ (US);
Alexander Oberman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Mark R. Schmidt, Tubac, AZ (US);
VALMONT INDUSTRIES, INC., Tucson, AZ (US);
Abstract
Cellular base station antenna concealments, such as palm and tree concealments, utilize artificial branches with nonmetallic (e.g., polymeric) fasteners to avoid loose metal-to-metal connections to mitigate the generation of passive intermodulation (PIM) interference by the branches. Representative embodiments include 'palm concealments' with low-PIM artificial palm fronds, and “tree concealments” with low-PIM artificial tree branches. That is, “low-PIM fronds” and “low-PIM tree branches” are two representative examples of “low-PIM branches” illustrating representative embodiments of the invention. The low-PIM palm frond includes a nonmetallic (e.g., polymeric) fasteners and sleeve positioned between a metal frond shaft and a metal frond receiver. The low-PIM tree branch includes nonmetallic (e.g., polymeric) fasteners as the only low-PIM isolators added to conventional tree branch assemblies to avoid PIM generation by the tree branch assembly.
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