Pulse expands wireless communications portfolio

30 November 2005 News

Pulse, a Technitrol company, has expanded its wireless communications product offering through the acquisition of LK Products of Finland, a leading producer of antennas and integrated modules for mobile handsets. LK is a leader in both internal antennas and integrated antenna modules. It also designs and manufactures external cellular antennas and ceramic chip antennas for narrow band communication applications such as GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth.

LK's product line complements Pulse's line of antennas that are compatible with IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (WiFi), Bluetooth, and ZigBee applications and devices that utilise industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency bands. Pulse's antennas also perform with GPS, RFID and the newer wideband technologies.

Pulse's RF magnetic components are used in mobile communications, cable television, hybrid fibre/coax (HFC) equipment, cable modems, set-top boxes, home networking and RF medical and industrial equipment. Platforms include wirewound chip inductors, transformers/baluns, low-pass filters, diplex filters, directional couplers and RF splitter/combiners.

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