Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dual-circular polarized antenna system
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Application No.: US14868627Application Date: 2015-09-29
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Publication No.: US10079422B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Donald L Runyon , Dominic Q Nguyen , James W Maxwell
- Applicant: VIASAT, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Assignee: VIASAT, INC.
- Current Assignee: VIASAT, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Main IPC: H01Q13/02
- IPC: H01Q13/02 ; H01P5/12 ; H01Q1/02 ; H01P11/00 ; H01P1/00 ; H01Q21/00 ; H01Q1/28

Abstract:
In an example embodiment, an azimuth combiner comprises: a septum layer comprising a plurality of septum dividers; first and second housing layers attached to first and second sides of the septum layer; a linear array of ports on a first end of the combiner; wherein the first and second housing layers each comprise waveguide H-plane T-junctions; wherein the waveguide T-junctions can be configured to perform power dividing/combining; and wherein the septum layer evenly bisects each port of the linear array of ports. A stack of such azimuth combiners can form a two dimensional planar array of ports to which can be added a horn aperture layer, and a grid layer, to form a dual-polarized, dual-BFN, dual-band antenna array.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160020525A1 DUAL-CIRCULAR POLARIZED ANTENNA SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-01-21
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