Carsten N Metz

7358833, Apr 15, 2008

Mar 14, 2006

11/375223

Thomas Nikita Krupenkin - Warren NJ, US
Carsten Metz - Chatham Township NJ, US

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H01P 1/20
H01P 1/18

333202, 333156, 333157, 333161

An apparatus comprising a tuning device having at least one control electrode and a ground electrode located over a substrate and an electrically conductive fluid in contact with the control and ground electrodes. The tuning device also has at least one electrical transmission line electrically coupled to the fluid, the transmission line configured to transmit a signal. The fluid is configured to move when a voltage is applied between the ground electrode and the control electrode, the movement of the fluid changing a propagation characteristic of the signal.

20060220980, Oct 5, 2006

Mar 30, 2005

11/093559

Carsten Metz - Chatham NJ, US

H01Q 15/02

343909000, 343701000

A reconfigurable antenna comprises an array of interconnected gas enclosures, each of the enclosures being controllable between at least a first state in which gas within the enclosure is substantially non-conducting and a second state in which the gas within the enclosure forms an electrically conductive plasma. At least one pair of adjacent enclosures in the array is arranged such that configuring the pair of enclosures in the second state results in an electrical connection, between a first electrode associated with one of the enclosures of the pair and a second electrode associated with the other enclosure of the pair, through electrically conductive plasma of at least one of the enclosures of the pair. The reconfigurable antenna in an illustrative embodiment is operable in a plurality of different modes of operation by altering, from mode to mode, which of the enclosures are configured in the first state and which of the enclosures are configured in the second state.

6686867, Feb 3, 2004

Aug 15, 2002

10/048425

Ernst Lissel - Wolfsburg, DE
Arne Jacob - Braunschweig, DE
Andreas Schlachetzki - Braunschweig, DE
Hergo-H. Wehmann - Meine, DE
Erwin Peiner - Braunschweig, DE
Holger Schroeter - Braunschweig, DE
Gerald Oberschmidt - Fellbach, DE
Carsten Metz - Chatham NJ

Volkswagen AG - Wolfsburg/Fallersleben

G01S 1393

342 70, 342 27, 342368, 343711, 343753, 343754

A radar sensor and a radar antenna are for monitoring the environment of a motor vehicle. A compact construction is achieved by the planar array of both the control circuit and the radar antenna, so that the radar sensor may be located, for example, in the area of a motor-vehicle bumper. Example configurations consist of the separate line support for arranging lines to transmit high-frequency signals between the control circuit and the radar antenna and the configuration of the radar antenna as a Rotman lens, in relation to the signal propagation times and the layered arrangement of Rotman lens and group antenna.