Invention Application
- Patent Title: ANTENNA ARRAY HAVING A DIFFERENT BEAM-STEERING RESOLUTION IN ONE DIMENSION THAN IN ANOTHER DIMENSION
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Application No.: US16125486Application Date: 2018-09-07
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Publication No.: US20190074600A1Publication Date: 2019-03-07
- Inventor: Adam Bily , Tom Driscoll , John Desmond Hunt , Charles A. Renneberg , Ioannis Tzanidis , Robert Tilman Worl
- Applicant: Echodyne Corp
- Applicant Address: US WA Bellevue
- Assignee: Echodyne Corp
- Current Assignee: Echodyne Corp
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Bellevue
- Main IPC: H01Q21/22
- IPC: H01Q21/22 ; H01Q21/08 ; H04W16/28 ; H01Q1/32 ; G01S13/93 ; G01S7/03

Abstract:
In an embodiment, an antenna includes a one-dimensional array of antenna cells, a signal feed, and signal couplers. The antenna cells are each spaced from an adjacent antenna cell by less than one half a wavelength at which the antenna cells are configured to transmit and to receive, are configured to generate an array beam that is narrower in a dimension than in an orthogonal dimension, and are configured to steer the array beam in the dimension. And the signal couplers are each configured to couple a respective one of the antenna cells to the signal feed in response a respective control signal having an active level. For example, the antenna cells can be arranged such that a straight line intersects their geometric centers.
Public/Granted literature
- US11101572B2 Antenna array having a different beam-steering resolution in one dimension than in another dimension Public/Granted day:2021-08-24
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