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Smart Antenna for Wireless Communications

  • US 20130249761A1
  • Filed: 09/27/2011
  • Published: 09/26/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A smart antenna including a plurality of parasitic antenna elements provided with configuring devices, a voltage supply arranged to be coupled to the configuring devices and to supply a DC voltage, and a control unit operable to tune DC voltages applied to the configuring devices, wherein each parasitic antenna element can be reconfigured either as a reflector or a director on the basis of the voltage applied thereto, wherein the smart antenna includes a driven element which is a reconfigurable directional antenna including first, second and third inverted F-type antenna (IFA) elements angularly spaced from one another.

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