Wideband compact planar inverted-F antenna module
This technology is a compact, flat antenna design that achieves unusually wide frequency coverage — up to 50% bandwidth — from a single stamped or cut piece of conductive material. It uses a stacked plate configuration where a top plate, a ground plate, a short connecting plate, and a feed plate are precisely arranged to tune the antenna's performance. The narrow shorting plate and the partially hidden feed plate are the key geometric innovations that enable the wide bandwidth without increasing the antenna's physical footprint. The result is a low-profile antenna that can be manufactured cheaply from a single piece of metal.
What you could build
A drop-in wideband antenna module for smartphones, IoT devices, wireless routers, or vehicle telematics units that need broad frequency coverage in a tight physical envelope; buyers would be consumer electronics OEMs, defense communications equipment makers, and automotive Tier 1 suppliers.
Who in Virginia should care
Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads defense and communications contractors — including antenna integrators supporting DoD programs — would be natural licensees or development partners.
Readiness: Lab validated
Concept — described but not yet demonstrated. Lab validated — supported by experimental results in the patent. Prototype likely — the text describes a built, working embodiment.
Readiness is inferred from the patent text, not from a lab visit.
The record
- Inventors
- Minh-Chau T. Huynh, Warren L. Stutzman
- Granted
- September 6, 2011
- Status
- Granted patent
- Patent number
- RE42672
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Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties handles licensing for this technology.
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