US 4,045,706 AGranted

Arrangement having a traveling-wave tube and a current supply unit

AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft

InventorsErich Daffner, Herbert Sarnezki

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Abstract

The invention relates to an arrangement comprising a traveling-wave tube mounted in a housing, and a power supply source enclosed by a separate housing. Inventively, all electrical supply lines inside the tube housing are run to a plug mounted in this housing, projecting outward and enclosed by a sleeve of electrically conductive material. The invention further provides for a central singular electrical coupling matrix in the power source, whereby all electrical connecting lines to the traveling-wave tube are combined and connected to the outside via one electrical socket carried by this housing. Both housings can easily be mounted such that, when the plug connection is established, the plug sleeve is compressed. The invention provides a space-savingly designed unit of traveling-wave tube and current supply unit connected to each other with an HF-seal.

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Dependent claims

An arrangement for modular directional radio systems comprising a traveling-wave tube mounted in a substantially parallelepiped tube housing with four longitudinal sides and two end sides having an HF plug outlet communicating with said tube and mounted in one of the sides of said housing, and a power unit mounted in a separate substantially parallelepiped power supply housing having a reciprocal plug socket mounted in said power supply housing communicating with said traveling-wave tube by means of said plug outlet, wherein all electrical connecting supply lines in said traveling-wave tube are connected to said plug outlet mounted in said tube housing and said plug outlet is enclosed by a sleeve means comprising an electrically conductive compressible material;

all electrical connecting supply lines in said power supply unit directed to said traveling-wave tube are connected to said reciprocal plug socket;
and, said sleeve means forming an electrically conductive high frequency seal around said outlet when the tube and power supply housings are interfaced, said sleeve means being compressed between said housings.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.