Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Broadband stacked multi-spiral antenna array integrated into an aircraft structural element
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Application No.: US15252122Application Date: 2016-08-30
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Publication No.: US10096892B2Publication Date: 2018-10-09
- Inventor: Ronald O'Neil Lavin , Manny S. Urcia
- Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Apogee Law Group P.C.
- Agent Francisco A. Rubio-Campos
- Main IPC: H01Q1/28
- IPC: H01Q1/28 ; H01Q9/27 ; H01Q1/36 ; H01Q21/06 ; H01Q5/50

Abstract:
A broadband stacked multi-spiral antenna array comprising two or more spiral antennas with a dielectric layer having a generally uniform thickness positioned between each pair of stacked antennas, which are all center-fed and in-phase. The antenna array may be embedded in a non-conductive material, such as fiberglass embedded in a resin, a honeycomb core sandwich, or structural foam, that may be used to form a structural element of a mobile platform. The structural element may include a via providing a pathway for coaxial cables. If two structural elements are hatch covers on the port and the starboard sides of an aircraft, the use of a stacked multi-spiral antenna array in each structural element provides two roughly hemispherical coverage patterns which together provide an omni-directional coverage pattern. The stacked multi-spiral antenna array may also include a reflecting cavity placed at the bottom of one of the spiral antennas.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180062250A1 BROADBAND STACKED MULTI-SPIRAL ANTENNA ARRAY INTEGRATED INTO AN AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL ELEMENT Public/Granted day:2018-03-01
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