A microwave heating device includes a variable frequency microwave power supply, a waveguide launcher, and a fixture to contain a material to be heated, with the fixture located directly adjacent to the end of the launcher. All heating occurs in the near-field region. This condition may be insured by keeping the thickness of the fixture or workpiece under one wavelength (at all microwave frequencies being used). The launcher is preferably a horn or waveguide configured to apply the microwave power to a small area to perform spot curing or repair operations involving adhesives and composites. The spot curing may secure components in place for further handling, after which a thermal or oven treatment will cure the remaining adhesive to develop adequate strength for service. A related method is also disclosed.

An antenna device includes: an antenna panel; one input terminal through which a high-frequency signal is input; and a feeding circuit which distributes the high-frequency signal input to the input terminal to a plurality of antenna elements provided on the antenna panel. The feeding circuit includes: at least one first-stage branch circuit which includes one input and two outputs; at least two second-stage branch circuits which receive outputs of the first-stage branch circuit and include one input and two outputs; and a combining circuit which includes two inputs and one output and receives two outputs selected from the outputs of the first-stage branch circuit and outputs of the second-stage branch circuit.

Resistively loaded dielectric biconical antenna apparatuses, including systems and devices, that may be used to transmit very short electrical pulses (e.g., nanosecond, sub-nanosecond, picosecond, etc.) into tissue non-invasively at energy levels sufficient to invoke biological changes in the tissue. These resistively loaded dielectric biconical antenna apparatuses may include a resistor ring reducing internal reflection and reducing energy loss, as well as delivering longer pulses (e.g. microsecond to millisecond) to tissue.

An antenna device includes an electrical conductor including an electrically conductive surface and a slot in the electrically conductive surface, a pair of electrically-conductive side walls on opposite sides of the slot and protruding from the electrically conductive surface and flanking each other along a first direction, and each side wall extending along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a pair of electrically-conductive ridges each protruding from the electrically conductive surface and extending along the second direction and including an end surface, the respective end surfaces of the pair of ridges opposing each other via a gap overlapping a central portion of the slot as viewed from a third direction perpendicular to the electrically conductive surface. A waveguide continuous with an external space is defined in a space inside the slot and between the end surfaces of the pair of ridges.

An all textile H-plane SIW horn antenna with a corrugated ground for millimeter-wave WBAN applications is proposed. An all textile H-plane SIW horn antenna with a corrugated ground for millimeter-wave WBAN applications proposed in the present disclosure includes an antenna unit having coaxially fed SIW H-plane aperture and excitating signals to antenna elements, and an extended corrugated ground to reduce a beam tilting issue by being attached to the aperture of the antenna unit.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include a system configured for receiving sensing data from a orientation detector coupled to an antenna, determining, according to the sensing data, that an aperture of the antenna has shifted from a first orientation to a second orientation, and configuring a transmitter to generate an adjusted electromagnetic wave that is supplied to a feed point of the antenna for offsetting the shift in orientation of the antenna. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Technologies pertaining to the calibration of ultra-wide-band active-electronically-scanned arrays to compensate for transmit and receive mutual coupling between array elements and/or non-ideal isolated channels are described herein. A plurality of near-field measurements are taken by way of probe or probes that may be moved among a plurality of positions aligned with respective elements in the array. For each position of the probe, each of the elements of the array is stimulated to transmit or receive a calibration signal to or from the probe, respectively. Frequency-domain transfer functions are computed from the received signals by the probe or the element for each of the array elements in each of the positions of the probe. The inverse of the matrix of transfer functions comprise frequency-domain transmit and receive correction factors that are used to modify desired array inputs/outputs such that the modified signals correct for mutual coupling between elements in the array.

Various implementations of combined antenna are provided. In one implementation, for example, a combined antenna comprises a transverse electromagnetic (TEM) horn antenna element and a loop antenna element coupled to the TEM horn antenna element, wherein the loop antenna element comprises at least one slot disposed in the loop antenna element.

Antenna components include an additively manufactured elongate body portion and one or more additively manufactured flanges. The elongate body portion extends from a base portion to an aperture opposite the base portion. The elongate body portion is at least substantially hollow and is configured to direct radio frequency signals. Each flange extends radially outwardly from the elongate body portion and around an outer circumference of the elongate body portion. Each flange is integrally formed with the elongate body portion, and includes an angled portion and a horizontal portion. The angled portion of the flange diverges from the elongate body portion at an acute angle, and the horizontal portion is at least substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the elongate body portion. Satellite systems including said antenna components also are disclosed, along with related methods of additively manufacturing antenna components with integral flanges.

An electronic device with an antenna is provided. The electronic device includes: a wireless communication circuit disposed inside the electronic device, a support including a first support disposed on at least a portion of a side surface of the electronic device and a second support forming a space for mounting electronic parts of the electronic device, a metal flange located on a protrusion of the first support and electrically connected to the wireless communication circuit, a slit formed between a portion of the first support and a portion of the second support, and a metal plate connected to the second support to form a cavity around the metal flange.