CONFORMAL SWITCHED BEAM ARRAY ANTENNA
Assignee
BALL CORPORATION, 345 SOUTH HIGH STREET, MUNCIE, INDIANA 47302, A CORP. OF IN
Filed
Sep 1, 1987
Granted
Oct 10, 1995
Location
NEWTON CT US
Abstract
A conformal switched beam array antenna (10) is provided which includes a plurality of antenna elements (14) that are mounted onto a curved (16) or a planar surface (28) and that are arranged into a plurality of arrays (22). The antenna elements (14) in each array (22) are arranged in a hexagonal array with one antenna element (14) in the center of each hexagonal array space. A plurality of multiple-throw switches (34), a RF power divider or power combiner (42), and a digital programmer (46) cooperate to select antenna elements (14) in the direction of a given target, and also cooperate to reduce the required number of phase shifters (40) and amplifiers (38 or 58) to a fraction of the total number of antenna elements (14).
Source: Google Patents
35 USC §181 Secrecy Order
Imposed
Feb 10, 1988
Rescinded
Sep 13, 1994
Duration
6 years, 7 months
Inventor
- 1DONALD C. COLLIER
Record Details
- Patent number
- US 5457465
- Application
- 07091693
- Aerospace match
- Yes
- Dataset source
- 35 USC §181 SO records
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