Omnidirectional electromagnetic signal inducer (omni-inducer) devices are disclosed. The omni-inducer device may include a housing, which may include a conductive base for coupling signals to ground, and an omnidirectional antenna node including a plurality of antenna coil assemblies, where the node may be disposed on or within the housing. The omni-inducer device may further include one or more transmitter modules for generating ones of a plurality of output signals, which may be generated at ones of a plurality of different frequencies, and one or more control circuits configured to control the transmitters and/or other circuits to selectively switch the ones of the plurality of output signals between ones of the plurality of antenna coil assemblies.

An antenna apparatus including an antenna capable of having both a wide-band characteristic and an omni-directional characteristic is provided. An antenna apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a feeding antenna, and a passive element part disposed in a Z-direction of the feeding antenna, in which the passive element part is disposed in parallel to an XY-plane orthogonal to the Z-direction, is made of a conductor, and includes a passive element with a plurality of slots formed therein.

The combined antenna for satellite and terrestrial radio communications includes: a support structure (1); a “crossed dipole” compact broadband satellite antenna (10), in turn including a pair of dipoles (11,12), which extend from the support structure (1), and which are substantially perpendicular to each other and connected so as to be electrically out of phase. A broadband “monopole” antenna (50) for terrestrial communications is included, having a plurality of linear electric mass elements (52) extending radially from the support structure (1) to provide an electric mass surface (53), and a radiating arm (55) is also included extending from the support structure (1) away from the electric mass surface (53). The radiating arm (55) is arranged around the central column (2) and includes thread-like radiating elements (56); and the dipoles (11,12) further include one or more thread-like dipole elements (111,112), arranged to define a flattened configuration of the respective dipole (11,12).

Omni-directional orthogonally-polarized antenna system for MIMO applications are disclosed herein. An example antenna system can have two arrays of horizontally polarized radiating elements, and two arrays of vertically polarized radiating elements, each array having roughly 180-degree radiation pattern, disposed about a central axis in a common horizontal plane, arrays of common polarization separated by 180-degrees, such that MIMO processing of signals to the arrays of common polarization results in a radiation pattern that is substantially constant over 360-degrees in azimuth.

An antenna assembly has a dielectric substrate. A plurality of end fire antennas in a Yagi-Uda configuration is positioned around edges of the dielectric substrate.

A radar antenna includes a plurality of horns in the annular space of a munition nose cone. The horns are disposed near the exterior surface of the nose cone. In a further aspect, the nose cone may be injection molded or additively manufactured so that the horns are embedded a known distance from the exterior surface. In a further aspect, the horns placed in either a transmit mode or a receive mode so as to maintain a minimum special separation between transmitting horns and receiving horns.

A metrocell antenna includes a plurality of linear arrays of first frequency band radiating elements, a first enclosure that includes a first of the linear arrays of first frequency band radiating elements mounted therein, a second enclosure that includes a second of the linear arrays of first frequency band radiating elements mounted therein, a third of the linear arrays of first frequency band radiating elements mounted within one of the first and second enclosures, a first RF port that is mounted through the first enclosure and a first blind-mate connector that provides an electrical connection between the first enclosure and the second of the linear arrays of first frequency band radiating elements that is mounted in the second enclosure.

A wireless communication device is provided. The wireless communication device includes a circuit substrate, an antenna cover, a first antenna array and a first power divider. The first antenna array is arranged between the circuit substrate and the antenna cover. The first antenna array includes two first antenna elements and two second antenna elements. The first antenna elements are disposed on a first surface of the circuit substrate. The second antenna elements are arranged on the antenna cover and correspond to the first antenna elements, respectively. Each of the second antenna elements and a corresponding one of the first antenna elements are separated from and coupled to each other. In response to the two first antenna elements being fed with a first signal provided by a signal source from the first power divider, the first antenna array is configured to generate a radiation pattern having a first polarization direction.

A reconfigurable antenna includes a bottom plate, a vertically polarized high-density antenna, and a controllable reflector. The controllable reflector is located between the bottom plate and the vertically polarized high-density antenna, and a projection of the controllable reflector on the bottom plate is at a center of a projection of the vertically polarized high-density antenna on the bottom plate. The controllable reflector includes a switch, and the switch is configured to enable the controllable reflector to be in an operating state or an off state.

A radio frequency (RF) jamming device includes a differential segmented aperture (DSA), a jammer source outputting a jamming signal at one or more frequencies or frequency bands to be jammed, and RF electronics that amplify and feed the jamming signal to the DSA so as to emit a jamming beam. The DSA includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections, and the RF electronics comprise power splitters configured to split the jamming signal to aperture pixels of the DSA. The aperture pixels comprise pairs of electrically conductive tapered projections of the array of electrically conductive tapered projections. The RF electronics further comprise pixel power amplifiers, each connected to amplify the jamming signal fed to a single corresponding aperture pixel of the DSA. The RF jamming device may include a rifle-shaped housing, with the DSA mounted at a distal end of the barrel of the rifle-shaped housing.