1561 results about "Fixed Beam" patented technology

An apparatus capable of tracking a target, comprising at least one near-field focused antenna comprising an array of elements and a phase shifter to form multiple fixed beams in the near-field, a sensor capable of sensing the location of the target, and a controller capable of accepting position information and capable of activating the proper fixed beam along a course so as to enable the near-field focused beams to track the target. The array of elements may be substantially linear and the sensor may be optical, mechanical, thermal, or sonic position detection subsystems.

A method and system are disclosed that can be applied to achieve high-throughput in a WLAN. Central to the present invention is the use of an SDMA compatible multi-beam antenna system by a WLAN access point. A system based on two types of antennas-dynamic beam forming and fixed beam antennas—is described. A mechanism and protocol are described that implement simultaneous transmissions with respect to an SDMA compatible access point and thereby improve spectral efficiency, and by extension achieve higher throughput. Based on the recognition that current WLAN MAC has major limitations in throughput, certain MAC extensions (that can be applied independently of SDMA) are described. Also disclosed are power-saving and power control techniques that improve battery performance and contribute to a reduction in station size, and a means of reducing channel interference. The present invention also deals with the problem of backward compatibility with conventional devices that implement the protocol that is a subset covered by the present invention.

In the manufacturing technology of an integrated MEMS in which a semiconductor integrated circuit (CMOS or the like) and a micro machine are monolithically integrated on a semiconductor substrate, a technology capable of manufacturing the integrated MEMS without using a special process different from the normal manufacturing technology of a semiconductor integrated circuit is provided. A MEMS structure is formed together with an integrated circuit by using the CMOS integrated circuit process. For example, when forming an acceleration sensor, a structure composed of a movable mass, an elastic beam and a fixed beam is formed by using the CMOS interconnect technology. Thereafter, an interlayer dielectric and the like are etched by using the CMOS process to form a cavity. Then, fine holes used in the etching are sealed with a dielectric.

An OFDMA communication system is provided that schedules partial usage of subchannels (PUSC) major groups by assigning a beam matrix of a plurality of beam matrices to each major group of multiple PUSC major groups, receiving an uplink signal from each user equipment of multiple users equipment, which uplink signal provides an indication of a channel response associated with the user equipment, determining, for each user equipment of the multiple users equipment and based on the indication of channel quality received from the user equipment, a beam matrix and major group to which to assign the user equipment, and based on the determination of a beam matrix and major group to which to assign each user equipment of the multiple users equipment, assigning two or more users equipment of the multiple users equipment to a same beam matrix and major group during a same time slot.

The invention provides a method for enhancing microphone array voice based on combined inhibition. The method comprises the following steps of: structuring a microphone array for receiving external signals; analyzing the signals and obtaining time delays of different array signals relative to benchmark array signals in the microphone arrays opposite to a target voice source; respectively performing time delay compensation on digital signals corresponding to the two microphones, obtaining the compensated signals; respectively performing subband decomposition on the compensated array signals, and then forming fixed beams on each subband; meanwhile, respectively using blocking matrixes on each subband to obtain noise reference signals on each subband; and then respectively removing the noiseirrelative to the target voice form the fixed beam forming device on corresponding subband through an adaptive filtering processing algorithm, and then merging the subbands, thereby forming an initial gain signal; and meanwhile, making use of the previously compensated any two array signals to obtain a filter for inhibiting the noise signal related to the target voice through a recursive mutual power spectral density, thereby obtaining the final target voice signal through combining the initial gain signal.

The present invention generally relates to the field of wireless communication systems. It particularly refers to a spatial diversity transmitter (110) and a spatial diversity receiver (120) in a wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) spatial multiplexing system as well as a corresponding method for wirelessly transmitting and receiving modulated RF signals via multiple wireless signal propagation paths (Pl) of a multipath fading channel in a way that correlation between the MEMO channel components are reduced and / or the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) is increased which hence result in an improved bit error rate (BER) or packet error rate (PER) performance of said wireless MIMO spatial multiplexing system. On the receiver side, for example, this is achieved by controlling at least one antenna switching and / or combining means (121a′+b′) to select a specific combination of different fixed beam antennas (121a+b) from each receiver-resident antenna array. According to the invention, said selection is based on estimated values of the channel impulse responses (hl(τl, t)) for said signal propagation paths (Pl). An antenna beam selection control means (129) is configured for selecting a specific antenna beam combination so as to maximize the average signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios ( γl) of RF signals (rl(τl, t, φl)) received via said multiple wireless signal propagation paths (Pl) and / or to minimize the correlation coefficients (ρr<sub2>l1< / sub2>r<sub2>l2< / sub2>(t)) indicating the correlations of different pairs of these RF signals (rl1(τl1, t, φl1) and rl2(τl2, t, φl2)).Thereby, each fixed beam antenna (121a+b) of the receiver-resident antenna arrays has a distinct radiation pattern with a different beam center and / or beam width in the azimuth and / or elevation plane, wherein a superposition of all these radiation patterns may cover all possible azimuthal (φ) and / or elevational angles of arrival (θ) of an RF signal (s(t)).For compensating detected multipath fades in the channel amplitude response (|Hl(f, t)|) of at least one signal propagation path (Pl) between the spatial diversity transmitter (110) and the spatial diversity receiver (120), a receiver-resident channel estimation and / or equalization circuitry (124, 128) is applied.

A transmit diversity apparatus and method are provided for adaptively providing a transmit diversity gain or a beamforming gain depending on changes in a radio channel undergoing multipath fading in a mobile communication system using multiple antennas. A transmitter forms as many fixed beams as the number of transmit antennas and a receiver selects a fixed beam having relatively high power among received fixed beams or linearly combines the received fixed beams. This common eigen space transmit diversity scheme improves the link performance between the transmitter and the receiver.

The invention discloses an opening current transformer capable of being installed in a powered-on mode. A shell is divided into two oppositely-connected half cylinders used as a movable semicircular shell body and a fixed semicircular shell body. The two shell bodies are hinged at one oppositely-connected position. A longitudinally-extending movable beam is arranged at an opening of the movable semicircular shell body. A longitudinally-extending fixed beam is arranged at an opening of the fixed semicircular shell body. The fixed beam and the movable beam are blocky bodies and make contact with each other when the two shell bodies are oppositely connected. The contact face of the movable beam and the contact face of the fixed beam are each provided with a longitudinally-extending notch. An upper piercing wire card is arranged in the notch of the movable beam. A lower piercing wire card is arranged in the notch of the fixed beam. The upper piercing wire card and the lower piercing wire card are oppositely connected to form a wire holding hole. The upper piercing wire card and the lower piercing wire card are each provided with metal teeth piercing a bus metal core. The opening current transformer further comprises an opening and closing mechanism making the upper piercing wire card and the lower piercing wire card opened or closed. The opening current transformer is reliable in insulation, capable of being firmly installed on a bus, and capable of being widely applied to occasions for measuring primary current and temperature of the bus.

The invention relates to an adjustable multi-hob rock cutting fragmentation test device for the field of tunnel project. Being characterized in that the soil warehouse is provided on a guiding track achieving the vertical movement by the vertically-moving hydraulic cylinder; the soil warehouse is provided on the soil warehouse supporting base for achieving the transverse movement by the transverse hydraulic cylinder fixed on the soil warehouse base; the soil warehouse has the rock soil samples; two sides of the soil warehouse are provided with four pillars leaning against the beams and forming a rectangular frame structure. The lower position of the fixed beams of the vertical movement of two synchronized hydraulic cylinders for the realization of the vertical plate hob feed, vertical hydraulic cylinder mounting bracket for the following connection hob, for the realization of more than the fixed plate hob; mounting bracket Three-axis with the following sensors, hob plate connected to the force sensor in the bottom three of the hob seat, using industrial computer, data acquisition cards, the pressure of traffic and other sensors, such as high-speed digital camera system to test the disk-shaped roll knife load rock, broken rock and soil characteristics.

A method and system are disclosed that can be applied to achieve high-throughput in a WLAN. Central to the present invention is the use of an SDMA compatible multi-beam antenna system by a WLAN access point. A system based on two types of antennas-dynamic beam forming and fixed beam antennas—is described. A mechanism and protocol are described that implement simultaneous transmissions with respect to an SDMA compatible access point and thereby improve spectral efficiency, and by extension achieve higher throughput. Based on the recognition that current WLAN MAC has major limitations in throughput, certain MAC extensions (that can be applied independently of SDMA) are described. Also disclosed are power-saving and power control techniques that improve battery performance and contribute to a reduction in station size, and a means of reducing channel interference. The present invention also deals with the problem of backward compatibility with conventional devices that implement the protocol that is a subset covered by the present invention.

A three-dimensional micro electro-mechanical (MEMS) variable capacitor is described wherein movable comb electrodes of opposing polarity are fabricated simultaneously on the same substrate are independently actuated. These electrodes are formed in an interdigitated fashion to maximize the capacitance of the device. The electrodes are jointly or individually actuated. A separate actuation electrode and a ground plane electrode actuate the movable electrodes. The voltage potential between the two electrodes provides a primary mode of operation of the device. The variation of the sidewall overlap area between the interdigitated fingers provides the expected capacitance tuning of the device. The interdigitated electrodes can also be attached on both ends to form fixed-fixed beams. The stiffness of the electrodes is reduced by utilizing thin support structures at the ends of the electrodes. The three dimensional aspect of the device avails large surface area. Large capacitance variation and tuning ranges are obtained by independent actuation of the electrode fingers. A plurality of modes of operation of the device provides wide flexibility and greater performance advantage for the device. Upon fabrication of the device, a separate substrate with etched dielectric is used to encapsulated the device. The MEMS device is then completely encapsulated, requiring no additional packaging of the device. Further, since alignment and bonding can be done on a wafer scale, an improved device yield is obtained at a lower cost.

A method of coordinating communications between ground stations and fixed beam satellites is provided, wherein each beam of a satellite antenna is assigned a color to create a color pattern that matches a frequency reuse pattern for the antenna, thereby using the same frequencies in a different beam with the same color. In operation, a ground station requests a virtual channel number from a resource manager, which sends a virtual channel number that is not used by another ground station within a beam diameter of the requesting ground station. The ground station then determines the position of the satellite, the beam and beam color, and further computes the frequency, polarization, and time slot, among other information, to communicate with the satellite. A method is also provided for managing virtual channels that comprises a network manager that groups ground stations and limits the number of virtual channels per group.

To suppress adverse effects caused by side lobes of an antenna array when an AWV to be used for communication is determined based on a transmission / reception result of a training signal. A first transceiver generates a fixed beam pattern and transmits a training signal. In that state, a second transceiver receives the training signal while scanning for the main beam direction, and thereby determines a plurality of direction of arrivals (DOAs). Next, the second transceiver receives the training signal in a state where the signal receptions from the plurality of DODs are restricted one by one (e.g., a null direction or a direction close to the null direction is fixed in the DOA), and calculates the change of the signal characteristics from that obtained in the first reception. The transceivers obtain and use at least one AWV having the main beam direction or a sub-beam direction close to the main beam pointing to one of the plurality of DOAs except for the DOA for which the change is lower than a predefined threshold.

The present invention relates to a device for realizing beam-forming in CDMA mobile telecommunication system by employing smart antenna technique and method thereof, which forms multiple fixed beams in a sector, and uses multiple fixed beams to form the traffic channel with narrow beams and the common channel with sector beams simultaneously in the same smart antenna system, and overcomes the problem of inconsistency of phrases of respective channels due to the variations of time and temperature without complicated correction technique, thereby improving the capacity and performance of CDMA system with multiple antennas. It solves the problem that the fixed beams in some area correlate with and counteract one another or are greatly reduced due to the correlating addition of the space vectors of each fixed beam when the multiple antenna CDMA system transmits the common channels, and makes the strength of the pilot channel and the traffic channel in corresponding proportion in the coverage area, and improves the signal to noise ratio of receiving signals by the mobile station. By adding an optical transceiver system between the base band and the radio frequency TRX, the base band part can support more sectors. The radio frequency part is very close to the antennas, therefore the power consumption is reduced.

The present invention relates to antenna architectures and methods on re-configurable multi-element antennas via feed re-positioning for various optimized radiation contours, including beam forming (or shaping) and / or null steering on contoured beams, spot beams, and orthogonal beams. The feed re-positioning techniques can also be used in radiation pattern optimization processing during antennas designing phases for fixed beams. The techniques are applicable for satellite communications. For satellite antennas, the beam shaping capability via element repositioning can be utilized for (1) optimized geometries on satellite antennas for given desired coverage areas, (2) re-optimizing radiation contours for reconfigurable antenna on board satellites in operation, (3) additional flexibility for satellite antennas using ground based beam forming (GBBF). As to satellite ground terminals, the same techniques are applicable for both fixed and mobile satellite terminals featuring either single beam or multiple beams. For fixed terminals, are applicable for terrestrial based communications; such as retrofitting existing antennas eliminating interference radiations coming from fixed or slow varying directions.

One fixed narrow beam and one sector beam are generated by an antenna array. Multiple fixed narrow beams are realized by shaping technique of simulating fixed beams and using shaping network (Butler array) of fixed narrow beams. A sector beam covering whole sector is formed through controlling initial phase of beam at Butler array side by using phasing adjustment device. Signal energy of sector beams at side of each component of antenna array is equal or approximately equal. Thus, amplitude of transmitted signal of each component of antenna array is lowered.

The bionic mechanical jellyfish consists of a power system comprising four electromagnet devices, a driving system comprising four baffles and two return springs, a water jetting system comprising two leather bags, two water inlet pipes and four water outlet pipes, and a fixing rack comprising a right and a left fixing beam. The present invention has no noise, complete functions, simple structure, high work efficiency, low cost and other advantages.

A satellite system includes a satellite operating in an orbit around the Earth and a satellite operating in another orbit around the Earth. The satellite points a fixed beam at least temporarily to a zone above the Earth's surface through which the satellite passes.

An antenna pattern assigning method capable of avoiding interference between a plurality of base transmission stations constituting a radio system in a cellular type broad band communication. In the radio system, when assigning a fixed beam pattern different for each frequency, each of the radio base transmission station devices transmits a radio wave having a directivity pattern having a peak in the same direction in two or more different frequencies, and between adjacent radio base transmission station devices, radio transmission is performed by using different directivity patterns in the two or more frequencies.

The invention relates to a micro electric mechanical microwave frequency checker, and a relative production, with simple structure, small amplitude of measuring signal, non direct-current power consumption, and easy integration. The checker uses gallium arsenide as a liner (1) arranged with a power distributor (a), a power synthesizer (b), a coplane waveguide line (e), and a fixing beam structure (c), wherein the object signal via the power distributor (a) generates two signals, to form an object signal and another object signal (Us1-Us2), the object signal Us1 is connected with the third port of the power synthesizer (b), the object signal Us2 via a section of a CPW line is connected to the second port of the synthesizer (b) in which port to obtain a first signal via the fixing beam structure (c) to obtain the phase shift phi of the microwave signal on the line with fixed length.

The invention relates to a microelectronic mechanical microwave frequency detector and a preparation method thereof. The microelectronic mechanical microwave frequency detector has simple structure, can measure unknown microwave signals, has large amplitude range of the measurement signals, can avoid consuming direct current power, and is easy to be integrated. The microelectronic mechanical microwave frequency detector adopts a gallium arsenide substrate provided with a 1-to-3 power distributor (a), a coplanar wave guide transmission line (b), a 2-to-1 power distributor (c), a fixing beam structure (d) and a thermocouple structure (e), thereby forming the microelectronic mechanical microwave frequency detector.

A radio communication apparatus enhances cell throughput by adaptive selection of spatially multiplexed channels in consideration of interferences in a local cell and reducing load for calculation of array weights by storing them in advance as fixed values and outputting fixed beams. To reduce the calculation load for the adaptive selection of spatially multiplexed channels that takes interferences within the local cell into consideration, the radio communication apparatus adopts a packet scheduling method that selects a combination of fixed beams and determines the number of spatially multiplexed channels, based on the fixed beams for mobile apparatuses with packets waiting to be transmitted and pre-calculated correlative quantities of inter-beam interferences between these fixed beams.

A noise suppression system includes plural microphones, a fixed beam former, a blocking matrix, plural adaptive filters, and a direction of arrival circuit coupled to the adaptive filters that prevents the filters from adapting in the presence of a signal in the look direction. The direction of arrival circuit causes the filters to adapt more quickly in the absence of a signal in the look direction. A pair of adjustable gain circuits is coupled to each microphone. A first adjustable gain circuit from each pair is calibrated during the presence of a desired signal and a second adjustable gain circuit from each pair is calibrated during the presence of an interfering signal. A fixed null-forming circuit is coupled to a first pair of variable gain circuits and an adaptive null forming circuit is coupled to a second pair of adjustable gain circuits. The ratio of the gains of the null forming circuits is used as a control signal. Successive ratios are averaged with a variable smoothing constant and a control signal is derived from the averaged ratios.

A near-field radar apparatus includes a fixed beam planar radar antenna and a radiation pattern adaptation device disposed substantially at the near-field boundary of the antenna. The adaptation device comprises a plurality of dielectric elements that individually constitute or approximate different surface portions of an idealized quasi-spherical or quasi-cylindrical radome reflector. The dielectric elements can be maintained physically separate or combined about the diffraction point of the antenna to form a single dielectric element. The dielectric elements may be mounted on a radome that is otherwise transparent to the radiation pattern, or otherwise suspended at or near the near-field boundary of the antenna.

The invention discloses a horizontal reverse alloy steel extrusion machine, which belongs to the novel technical field of seamless steel pipe and relates to a seamless steel pipe manufacturing facility. The purpose is to settle the problems of complex process, inefficiency, high energy consumption and pollution of the environment with the prior domestic cold drawing techniques of small-bore seamless alloy steel tube. The machine consists of a rigid framework, a liquid-filled combined hydraulic cylinder and a die assembly, wherein, the rigid framework consists of an anterior fixed beam, a posterior fixed beam and an intermediate moving beam on the frame, which are connected in series by a four tensile columns; the liquid-filled combined hydraulic cylinder has a compact structure and is capable of executing the operations of die displacement, material feeding, perforation, extrusion and die removal; the die assembly consists of a perforation and extrusion and automatic switching system, a hot extrusion / molding system and a die removal and disengaging and residual extrusion and cutting system. The machine is capable of achieving once-and-for-all heating and once-and-for-all molding to directly produce finished products of small-bore seamless alloy steel pipes. Compared with forward extrusion, the deviations of the displacement of the piercing mandril and the dies are small, and no friction occurs between the billets and the internal wall of the container, thereby the machine can directly adopt continuous casting billets to extrude small-bore pipes, and has the advantages of simple process, high quality, high efficiency, low energy consumption, etc.

A radar includes fixed beam radar transmitter and receiver antennae that utilize mixed polarization to optimize the object detection field-of-view through an intervening plastic fascia. The transmitter antenna transmits radar energy with slant polarization, a first receiver antenna designed for short-range wide-angle object detection passes only horizontally polarized radar energy, and a second receiver antenna designed for long-range narrow-angle object detection passes only vertically polarized radar energy.

The invention relates to a time frequency mask-based single acoustic vector sensor (AVS) target voice enhancement method. According to the method, the arrival angle of the target voice is known, a method of combining a fixed beam former and a post-positioned Wiener filter is adopted for realizing target voice enhancement, and calculation of the weight value of the post-positioned Wiener filter involves self-power spectrum estimation of the target voice. Time frequency sparse characteristics of a voice signal are used, the time frequency point correlation arrival angle for receiving audio signals is estimated through calculating the ISDR (Inter-sensor data ratio) of component signals outputted by two gradient sensors in the AVS, time frequency mask is designed through calculating errors between the time frequency point correlation arrival angle and a target arrival angle, and thus self-power spectrum estimation of the target voice is acquired. According to the method of the invention, any noise prior knowledge does not needed, the target voice can be effectively enhanced in a complicated environment where multiple speakers exist, and interference voice can background noise can be suppressed. In addition, the operation complexity is low, the adopted microphone array size is small (about 1cm<3>), and application on a portable device is excessively facilitated.

The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for providing user specific beams in a fixed beam network, the fixed beam network comprising a plurality of fixed beams, each of the plurality of fixed beams being defined by a plurality of fixed beam correlation coefficients. The system may comprise a device that computes reception correlation data for a received signal, and a beamformer that is adapted to determine transmission weighting coefficients to be applied to a return signal based on the difference between the reception correlation data and the fixed beam weighting coefficients associated with at least one of the plurality of fixed beams.