45 results about "Aperture coupling" patented technology

A photon concentrator includes an imaging photon concentrator concentrating photons from a source to an image point and a non-imaging photon concentrator. The non-imaging photon concentrator (NIPC) has an entry aperture coupling to the imaging photon concentrator near the image point. The NIPC also includes an exit aperture wherein the entry aperture is larger than the exit aperture.

Method for controlling an input impedance of an antenna (100). The method can include the steps of coupling RF energy from an input RF transmission line (106) to an antenna radiating element (102) through an aperture (112) defined in a ground plane (110). For example, the aperture (112) can be a slot and the radiating element (102) can be a patch type element. The input impedance can thereafter be controlled by selectively varying a volume or a position of a conductive fluid (128) disposed in a predetermined region between the RF transmission line and the antenna radiating element. The volume of conductive fluid (128) can be automatically varied in response to at least one control signal (132).

A dual-polarized microstrip patch antenna structure comprising: a dual microstrip feed line circuitry underneath a bottom dielectric substrate; a ground plane layer overlying the bottom dielectric substrate, the ground plane layer having coupling apertures etched to the ground plane layer; a middle metallized patch layer stacked over a middle dielectric substrate; a top metallized patch layer stacked underneath a top dielectric substrate; and an air layer between the middle dielectric substrate and the top dielectric substrate separating the middle metallized patch layer and the top metallized patch layer. The microstrip feed line circuitry is configured to utilize corner-feeding techniques for enabling diagonal modes of the patch layers, and the coupling apertures of the ground plane layer are provided with a non-resonant bow-tie shape for enabling aperture coupling between the microstrip feed line circuitry and the patch layers.

An aperture-coupled antenna has a first radiation electrode, a ground area and a wave guide which is implemented to supply energy to the antenna. The wave guide is arranged spaced apart from the ground area on a first side of the ground area, and the first radiation electrode is arranged spaced apart from the ground area on a second side of the ground area. The ground area has an aperture including a first slot in the ground area, a second slot in the ground area and a third slot in the ground area. The first slot and the second slot together form a slot in the shape of a cross. The third slot passes through an intersection of the first slot and the second slot. The wave guide and the radiation electrode are arranged such that energy can be coupled from the wave guide through the aperture to the patch.

A miniaturized, low power RF transmitter with a dual mode active on-chip antenna / inductor is disclosed in which antenna also serves as the oscillator inductor. Also disclosed is a miniaturized low power RF receiver with an on-chip antenna; and a RF transmitter system wherein an on-chip antenna is wirelessly coupled to an off chip patch antenna are disclosed. Advantageously, the TX chip is housed in a low loss, e.g. Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) package with a patch antenna to provide a System-on-Package implementation comprising electromagnetic coupling between a RF TX chip comprising an integrated on-chip antenna and a package antenna. The on-chip antenna feeds the LTCC patch antenna through aperture coupling, thus negating the need for RF buffer amplifiers, matching elements, baluns, bond wires and package transmission lines, and significantly increases the gain and range of the module with respect to the on-chip antenna alone, without deterioration of the circuit performance and power consumption. Exemplary embodiments are disclosed which may be fabricated using standard CMOS technology, for operation in the 5 GHz U-NII band for applications such as miniaturized, low cost, low power wireless devices and sensor systems.

This invention relates to a microstrip array antenna, especially a broad-band dual-polarized microstrip array antenna having parallel feeding structure whose consist of two parts power supplying layers each of which generates its own polarization respectively. And the broad-band dual-polarized microstrip array antenna according to the present invention arranges transmission paths for two separate linear polarization on a different layer each other in order to minimize an interference effect and a proximity feeding method and an aperture coupled method are used in order to get two separate polarization.

A dual-band, dual-polarized antenna module for a mobile communication base station, which includes: a reflector plate; a radiation antenna module for transmitting and receiving two linear orthogonal polarizations in first and second frequency band, the radiation antenna module generally having a first set of radiation antenna elements operable in a first frequency band including a plurality of dipoles arranged to form generally rectangular shape, each of the dipoles substantially having a planar shape element with a convex cavity; and a second set of radiation elements operable in a second frequency band which are proximately arranged over a convex cavities in the first set of radiation antenna elements, and includes a plurality of aperture coupled patch elements generally arranged to form a quad-shape.

Accelerator apparatus (100) for accelerating charged particles (2) with pulsed radiation includes horn-shaped coupling device (10) with at least one horn coupler (11, 15) having input aperture (12), electrically conductive walls (13) and output aperture (14), wherein pulsed radiation is received at input aperture and focused towards output aperture, and waveguide device (20) coupled with the output aperture and configured for receiving focused pulsed radiation. Waveguide device includes injection section (21) for providing charged particles and subjecting them to acceleration by pulsed radiation in injection section, and lateral output port (23) for releasing accelerated charged particles along particle acceleration direction. The at least one horn coupler receives linearly polarized single cycle pulses (1) including broadband frequency spectrum shaped as a linearly polarized plane wave and focuses linearly polarized single cycle pulses. Waveguide device has non-resonant broadband transmission characteristic. Furthermore, charged particle gun and method of accelerating charged particles are described.