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US 2010/0134369 A1Published application
High gain steerable phased-array antenna
AssigneePinyon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsForrest J. Brown, Forrest Wolf
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Abstract
A high gain, phased array antenna includes a conducting sheet having a number of one or more slots defined therein. For each slot, an electrical microstrip feed line is electronically coupled with a corresponding slot to form a magnetically-coupled LC resonance element. A main feed line couples with the one or more microstrip feed lines. At least one slot and/or microstrip feed line includes at least one segment with greater width than other segments.
Claims15
A high gain, steerable phased array antenna, comprising:
- (a) a conducting sheet having one or more slots defined therein, at least one of the slots having a triangular protrusion into the slot;
- (b) for each of the slots, an electrical microstrip feed line coupled with the slot to form a magnetically coupled LC resonance element, the electrical microstrip feed line of at least one of the LC resonance elements being coupled with one of the triangular protrusions;
- and (c) a main feed line coupling with the microstrip feed lines;
- (d) wherein at least one microstrip feed line includes at least one segment with greater width than other segments to reduce electrical resistance and produce an enhanced q-factor to provide a selected broader bandwidth for the antenna.
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