公开(公告)号：US20190296709A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-26

申请号：US16306245

申请日：2016-05-31

Applicant: SOFANT TECHNOLOGIES LTD

Inventor： Ahmed Osman EL-RAYIS ,  Yan Chiew WONG ,  Tughrul Sati ARSLAN

IPC: H03H7/38 ,  H01P3/08

Abstract: The invention provides impedance matching circuitry for adjusting an impedance match between a source impedance (2) and a load impedance (4), the impedance matching circuitry comprising: tapered transmission line circuitry which comprises one or more tapered transmission lines (10) coupled or couplable between the source impedance and the load impedance; and a controller (20) in communication with the tapered transmission line circuitry and configured to adjust one or more impedances of the tapered transmission line circuitry to thereby adjust an impedance match between the source impedance and the load impedance.

公开(公告)号：US20200136696A1

公开(公告)日：2020-04-30

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

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.