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US 5457465

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).

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Feb 10, 1988

Rescinded

Sep 13, 1994

Duration

6 years, 7 months

Inventor

  • 1DONALD C. COLLIER

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