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US 12,531,328 B2Granted
Reflector antennas and related methods
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorJames Timothy Barrett
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Abstract
Reflector antennas and related methods are disclosed. An example antenna includes a hub; ribs coupled to the hub; a reflective material; gold-plated clips to couple the reflective material to respective ones of the ribs; and an actuator to cause respective ones of the ribs to move relative to the hub from a folded position to an unfolded position to expand the reflective material.
Claims21
An antenna comprising:
- a hub;
- ribs coupled to the hub;
- a reflective material;
- gold-plated clips coupling the reflective material to respective ones of the ribs;
- and
- an actuator to cause respective ones of the ribs to move relative to the hub from a folded position to an unfolded position to expand the reflective material.
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An antenna comprising:
- a hub including a base and a shaft;
- a rib coupled to the base when the rib is in a folded position, the rib movable relative to the shaft from the folded position to an unfolded position;
- a gold-plated mesh, a portion of the gold-plated mesh coupled to the rib;
- a gold-plated clip coupled to the rib, the portion of the gold-plated mesh between the gold-plated clip and the rib;
- and
- a hold down release mechanism to cause the rib to move from the folded position to the unfolded position to deploy the antenna, the gold-plated mesh to define a reflector portion of the antenna.
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An antenna comprising:
- a housing;
- a hub;
- a rib carried by the hub, the rib including a first rib segment and a second rib segment, the hub movable relative to the housing between a first position in which the rib is folded in the housing and a second position in which the rib is external to the housing;
- a reflective material;
- one or more gold-plated clips coupling the reflective material to the rib;
- and
- an actuator to cause hub to move relative to the housing from the first position to the second position, the second rib segment to move in response to movement of the first rib segment when the rib is external to the housing to unfold the rib.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.