US 9,308,713 B2Granted

Method and apparatus for assembly of a satellite antenna

AssigneeHughes Network Systems, LLC

InventorsAicsa Becerril, Alex Toh, Alfred Ebrahim, Ming Sun

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Abstract

A method of assembling a satellite antenna including placing a first layer PCB including an alignment hole on an assembly fixture including an alignment pole, placing a solid foam spacer including an alignment hole on the assembly fixture, pressing the solid foam spacer onto the first layer PCB to adhere the solid foam spacer to the first layer PCB, removing an adhesive carrier film from a reflector patch of a reflector patch sheet including an alignment hole, placing the reflector patch sheet on the assembly feature, pressing the reflector patch sheet onto the solid foam spacer to adhere the reflector patch to the solid foam spacer, and removing a release liner from the top of the reflector patch sheet to remove excess material from the reflector patch sheet.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A method of assembling a satellite antenna comprising:

placing a first layer PCB comprising a plurality of driver patches and at least one alignment hole on an assembly fixture comprising at least one alignment pole;
placing a solid foam spacer comprising at least one alignment hole on the assembly fixture;
pressing the solid foam spacer onto the first layer PCB to adhere the solid foam spacer to the first layer PCB;
precutting through an adhesive carrier film, a double sided adhesive layer, and a reflector patch sheet in a shape of a plurality of separate reflector patches in the reflector patch sheet;
removing a plurality of separate portions of the adhesive carrier film from the plurality of separate reflector patches of the reflector patch sheet, which includes at least one alignment hole;
placing the reflector patch sheet on the assembly fixture;
pressing the reflector patch sheet onto the solid foam spacer to adhere the plurality of separate reflector patches to the solid foam spacer;
and
removing a release liner from the top of the reflector patch sheet to remove excess material from the reflector patch sheet.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/268,039Filed 7 Oct 2011
Published: US 2013/0087266 A111 Apr 2013
Granted: 12 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

B32B 38/1841
Positioning, e.g. registration or centering: during laying up
H01Q 1/42
Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas: housings not intimately mechanically associated with radiating elements, e.g. radome
H01Q 21/065
Two dimensional planar arrays: patch antenna array
B29C 65/5057
Using adhesive tape , e.g. thermoplastic tape; using threads or the like: positioned between the surfaces to be joined