公开(公告)号：US10763929B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-01

申请号：US16065297

申请日：2016-12-09

Applicant: SOFANT TECHNOLOGIES LTD

Inventor： Ahmed Osman El-Rayis ,  Nakul Haridas ,  Tughrul Sati Arslan

IPC: H04B7/0413 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H04B7/06 ,  G01S1/04 ,  H01Q3/26 ,  H04B7/0404 ,  H04W52/28

Abstract: The invention provides a method of adjusting a principal communication direction of a steerable directional antenna for communicating with a terrestrial electromagnetic signal source, the method comprising: providing location specific steering data comprising one or more steering data portions, each of the steering data portions being specific to a respective location; determining a location of the steerable directional antenna; selecting a steering data portion from the location specific steering data taking into account the determined location of the antenna; determining an adjusted principal communication direction of the steerable directional antenna taking into account the said selected steering data portion; and adjusting the principal communication direction of the steerable directional antenna in accordance with the said adjusted principal communication direction.

公开(公告)号：US11834327B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-05

申请号：US16585242

申请日：2019-09-27

Applicant: SOFANT TECHNOLOGIES LTD.

Inventor： Nakul Haridas ,  Victor Steel

IPC: B81B7/00 ,  H01H59/00 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  H01P1/18 ,  H01P3/08 ,  H01P11/00

CPC classification number: B81B7/0006 ,  H01H59/0009 ,  H01P1/18 ,  H01P3/08 ,  H01P11/00 ,  H01Q1/50 ,  B81B2201/014 ,  B81B2201/016 ,  B81B2201/018 ,  B81B2203/0109 ,  B81B2203/019 ,  B81B2203/0181 ,  B81B2203/0307 ,  H01H2239/006 ,  H01H2239/018

Abstract: A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device comprising: a substrate; a signal conductor supported on the substrate; ground conductors supported on the substrate on either side of the signal conductor; and a MEMS bridge at least one end of which is mechanically connected to the substrate by way of at least one anchor, the MEMS bridge comprising an electrically conductive switching portion, the electrically conductive switching portion comprising a switching signal conductor region and a switching ground conductor region, the switching signal conductor region being provided over the signal conductor and the switching ground conductor region being provided over a said ground conductor, the electrically conductive switching region being movable relative to the said signal and ground conductors respectively to thereby change the inductances between the switching signal conductor region and the signal conductor and between the switching ground conductor region and the respective ground conductor, wherein there is no continuous electrically conductive path extending from the switching conductor region to the at least one anchor. Capacative and ohmic switches, a varactor, a phase shifter, a tuneable power splitter/combiner, tuneable attenuator, SPDT switch and antenna apparatus comprising said devices.