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AssigneeResonance Microwave Systems Inc.
InventorPhilippe Jonathan Gabriel Lafleur
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A wireless communication system includes a portable, typically hand-held transmitter which includes RF absorbing material and/or one or more dissipative parasitic antennas for reducing RF fields in close proximity to the operator to such an extent as to substantially preempt the effect of the operator presence, specifically the operator's hand, in field operation. As a result, the RF absorbing material and/or one or more dissipative parasitic antennas reduces the proportionate effect upon the RF radiation level caused by the operator's hand or other body part. The RF absorbing material may comprise a layer of such material upon a surface of a ground plane within a housing of the transmitter, and/or on an interior surface of the housing, and/or on an exterior surface of the housing. The dissipative parasitic antenna may comprise a printed antenna and resistive load integrated on the transmitter's printed circuit board or elsewhere in or on the housing.
Portable radio frequency (RF) transmitter means (500,600) for use in a wireless communications system to transmit RF signals at a frequency for which maximum transmitted radiation level is restricted by regulation, the portable radio frequency (RF) transmitter means (500,600) having an antenna means (203) for radiating RF energy at said frequency and an absorber means (501,601,602) for reducing radiation efficiency of the antenna means (203) in all directions when in isolation such that, when the transmitter means is being carried and used by an operator, the relative effect upon the output radiation of the antenna means (203) attributable to the presence of the operator is reduced, wherein the absorber means covers a surface area of at least one side of the ground plane but leaves uncovered a portion of the ground plane adjacent an antenna (203) of the transmitter means.
Portable radio frequency (RF) transmitter means (500,600) for use in a wireless communications system to transmit RF signals at a frequency for which maximum transmitted radiation level is restricted by regulation, the portable radio frequency (RF) transmitter means (500,600) having an antenna means (203) for radiating RF energy at said frequency and an absorber means (501,601,602) for reducing radiation efficiency of the antenna means (203) in all directions when in isolation such that, when the transmitter means is being carried and used by an operator, the relative effect upon the output radiation of the antenna means (203) attributable to the presence of the operator is reduced.
A method of compensating for deleterious effects of operator presence upon radiation level of a portable radio frequency (RF) transmitter means of a wireless communications system, the transmitter means having an antenna means and an absorber means, maximum radiation level of the transmitter means in any direction being restricted by regulations, the method including the steps of calibrating said maximum radiation level of the transmitter means with said absorber means reducing radiation efficiency of the antenna means (203) in all directions, the absorber means remaining in or on the transmitter means during normal operation such that when the transmitter is being carried and used by an operator, the relative effect upon the output radiation of the antenna means (203) attributable to the presence of the operator is reduced.
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