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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2015
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Frédéric Broyde, Maule, FR;

Evelyne Clavelier, Maule, FR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H01Q 1/52 (2006.01); H01Q 9/14 (2006.01); H03H 7/38 (2006.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01); H03J 1/00 (2006.01); H03J 7/04 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); H01Q 9/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/0064 (2013.01); H01Q 1/52 (2013.01); H01Q 9/145 (2013.01); H01Q 21/0006 (2013.01); H03H 7/38 (2013.01); H03J 1/0008 (2013.01); H03J 7/04 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0421 (2013.01); H01Q 9/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to a method for radio communication using one or more tunable antennas and an antenna tuning apparatus, and to an apparatus for radio communication using one or more tunable antennas and an antenna tuning apparatus. An apparatus for radio communication of the invention comprises: 4 antennas, each of the antennas being a tunable passive antenna; a radio device; an antenna tuning apparatus having 4 antenna ports, each of the antenna ports being coupled to one of the antennas through a feeder, the antenna tuning apparatus having 4 radio ports, each of the radio ports being coupled to the radio device through an interconnection; and a tuning control unit, the tuning control unit receiving a tuning instruction generated automatically within the apparatus for radio communication, the tuning control unit delivering a plurality of tuning control signals to the antenna tuning apparatus and to the tunable passive antennas.


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