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US 5565879

HIGH SCAN RATE LOW SIDELOBE CIRCULAR SCANNING ANTENNA

Assignee

UNISYS CORPORATION

Filed

Mar 26, 1980

Granted

Oct 15, 1996

Location

Arlington VA (defense contractors)

Abstract

An antenna for inertialess scanning a beam through 360 degrees or any desired sector thereof. A reflector, in the shape of a truncated cone that is tangential to an imaginary sphere in the central plane of the cone, is positioned above a feed array located in the equatorial plane of the sphere. The feed array is fed by a network with a plurality of input ports, each of which corresponds to a beam in space. By successively energizing these input ports the beam is caused to scan continuously over the desired sector.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Oct 28, 1981

Rescinded

Oct 11, 1995

Duration

13 years, 11 months

Inventor

  • 1DAVID LAMENSDORF

Sensitive facility: Arlington VA (defense contractors)

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