Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Collimated transverse electric mode cavity antenna assembly
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Application No.: US15887431Application Date: 2018-02-02
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Publication No.: US10367255B1Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Eric Booen , Wilhelmus Hendrikus Theunissen
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: FisherBroyles, LLP
- Main IPC: H01Q1/28
- IPC: H01Q1/28 ; H01Q15/16 ; H01Q21/06 ; H01Q1/12 ; H01Q3/08

Abstract:
The disclosed apparatus may include (1) an antenna assembly defining an upper cavity with an aperture, the antenna assembly further defining a lower cavity coupled to the upper cavity via a channel along a linear edge of the antenna assembly, where the antenna assembly may include a reflective element within the lower cavity having a concave parabolic contour, and (2) an array assembly positioned in the aperture and including an array of passive elements. The reflective element may transform a divergent radio frequency (RF) beam directed toward the concave parabolic contour within the lower cavity into a collimated RF beam propagating within the lower cavity and into the upper cavity via the channel, and the array of passive elements may radiate a transmitted RF beam from the aperture in response to the collimated RF beam in the upper cavity. Various other apparatuses, methods, and systems are also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190245265A1 COLLIMATED TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC MODE CAVITY ANTENNA ASSEMBLY Public/Granted day:2019-08-08
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