Patent ID: 9521678
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: H01Q,H04B,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A wireless data concentrator for a data network of an aircraft, the wireless data concentrator comprising: a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) having a top surface and a bottom surface; a controller electrically coupled to the top surface of the PCB and proximate to a centerline of the PCB; four Radio Frequency (RF) transceivers electrically coupled to the top surface of the PCB that are disposed orthogonally to each other around the controller, each configured to communicate with the controller and at least one wireless sensor that measures an environment of the aircraft; and four inverted-F PCB trace antennas fabricated along the top surface of the PCB, each electrically coupled to one of the RF transceivers and disposed orthogonally to each other around the controller; the controller configured to receive sensor data about the environment of the aircraft from the at least one wireless sensor utilizing at least one of the RF transceivers, and to provide the sensor data to an application server of the data network of the aircraft utilizing a data backbone of the data network.