公开(公告)号：US5008680A

公开(公告)日：1991-04-16

申请号：US187804

申请日：1988-04-29

申请人： Jefferson M. Willey ,  James J. Alter ,  Jules P. Letellier

发明人： Jefferson M. Willey ,  James J. Alter ,  Jules P. Letellier

IPC分类号： H01Q3/26 ,  H01Q3/38

CPC分类号： H01Q3/385 ,  H01Q3/26

摘要： A programmable beam transform system is disclosed for performing both beam steering and beam shaping operations in a phased array antenna. A programmable beam transform control circuit is responsive to a plurality of input signals for selectively generating and applying a plurality of control signals to each intelligent phase shift control circuit in an array of phase shift control circuits/phase shifters/antenna elements. Each phase shift control circuit simultaneously modifies the plurality of control signals applied thereto as a function of its internally-stored data to develop its own phase shift command signal which is used by its associated phase shifter to phase shift that portion of the total energy applied thereto. On transmit, the phase-shifted energy outputs from the phase shifters in the array are then respectively transmitted by the associated antenna elements in the array to form the desired beam pattern at the desired beam position; and on receive the complementary function occurs.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于在相控阵天线中执行波束转向和波束整形操作的可编程波束变换系统。 可编程波束变换控制电路响应于多个输入信号，用于在相移控制电路/移相器/天线元件阵列中的每个智能移相控制电路中选择性地产生并施加多个控制信号。 每个相移控制电路根据其内部存储的数据同时修改施加到其上的多个控制信号，以产生其自身的相移指令信号，该相移指令信号由其相关联的移相器用于将施加到其上的总能量的那部分相移 。 在发射时，阵列中的移相器的相移能量输出然后分别由阵列中的相关联的天线元件传输，以在期望的波束位置处形成期望的波束图案; 并且接收到互补功能发生。