Conformal electronically scanned phased array antenna and communication system for helmets and other platforms
    1.
    发明申请
    Conformal electronically scanned phased array antenna and communication system for helmets and other platforms 有权
    用于头盔和其他平台的保形电子扫描相控阵天线和通信系统

    公开(公告)号:US20080191950A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-08-14

    申请号:US11705213

    申请日:2007-02-13

    IPC分类号: H01Q1/27 H01Q1/38 H01Q9/04

    摘要: A phased array antenna adapted to be mounted in a helmet. In the illustrative embodiment, the antenna comprises a substrate and an array of radiating elements disposed on said substrate, each of the elements including a-resonant cavity and a mechanism for feeding the cavity with an electromagnetic signal., The cavity is formed in a multi-layer structure between a ground plane and a layer of metallization. A radiating slot or slots are provided in the layer of metallization. A first layer of dielectric material is disposed within the cavity. The feed mechanism is a microstrip feed disposed in the first layer of dielectric material parallel to a plane of a portion of the substrate over which an associated element is disposed. A layer of foam is disposed between the layer of dielectric material and the ground plane. Second and third parallel layers of dielectric material are included in each element. The second layer is disposed adjacent to the ground plane. A layer of element interconnection circuitry is disposed between the second and third layers of dielectric material. A transmit/receive module or circuitry for each element is secured to the third layer of dielectric material. The substrate may be conformal or conformable, as well as rigid. An arrangement is included for steering a beam transmitted or received by the antenna.

    摘要翻译: 适合安装在头盔中的相控阵天线。 在说明性实施例中,天线包括衬底和布置在所述衬底上的辐射元件阵列,每个元件包括谐振腔和用于向空腔馈送电磁信号的机构,空腔形成为多 在地平面和金属化层之间的层结构。 在金属化层中提供辐射槽或槽。 介电材料的第一层设置在空腔内。 馈送机构是布置在电介质材料的第一层中的平行于衬底部分的平面的微带馈电,相关元件设置在该平面上。 一层泡沫体设置在介电材料层和接地平面之间。 介电材料的第二和第三平行层包括在每个元件中。 第二层设置在接地平面附近。 元件互连电路层设置在介电材料的第二和第三层之间。 用于每个元件的发射/接收模块或电路固定到第三层电介质材料。 衬底可以是适形的或适形的,以及刚性的。 包括用于控制由天线发送或接收的波束的布置。

    Partitioned aperture array antenna
    2.
    发明申请
    Partitioned aperture array antenna 有权
    分区孔阵列天线

    公开(公告)号:US20100060517A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-03-11

    申请号:US12283373

    申请日:2008-09-11

    IPC分类号: G01S1/00 H01Q3/00

    CPC分类号: H01Q21/0025 G01S19/36

    摘要: A partitioned aperture array antenna. The novel antenna includes a first subarray having a first number of antenna elements equipped with transmit functionality and a second subarray having a second number of antenna elements equipped with receive functionality, wherein the first and second numbers are not equal and the first and second subarrays have at least one common antenna element. In an illustrative embodiment, the first subarray includes a transmit circuit coupled to each antenna element in the first subarray for controlling a relative transmit phase of the antenna element to steer an overall antenna transmit beam, and the second subarray includes a receive circuit coupled to each antenna element in the second subarray for controlling a relative receive phase of the antenna element to steer an overall antenna receive beam.

    摘要翻译: 分区孔阵列天线。 新颖天线包括具有配备有发送功能的第一数量的天线元件的第一子阵列和具有配备有接收功能的第二数量的天线元件的第二子阵列,其中第一和第二数字不相等,并且第一和第二子阵列具有 至少一个公共天线元件。 在说明性实施例中,第一子阵列包括耦合到第一子阵列中的每个天线元件的发射电路,用于控制天线元件的相对发射相位以引导整个天线发射波束,并且第二子阵列包括耦合到每个天线元件的接收电路 第二子阵列中的天线元件,用于控制天线元件的相对接收相位以控制整个天线接收波束。

    Method and System for Controlling the Direction of an Antenna Beam
    3.
    发明申请
    Method and System for Controlling the Direction of an Antenna Beam 有权
    用于控制天线光束方向的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20080258971A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-10-23

    申请号:US12017916

    申请日:2008-01-22

    IPC分类号: H01Q3/00

    CPC分类号: H01Q1/125 H01Q3/02 H01Q3/26

    摘要: In one embodiment, a system for controlling the direction of an antenna beam includes a location identifier, an orientation sensor, and an antenna beam controller. The location identifier determines a transmit antenna location indicating the location of a transmit antenna, where the transmit antenna produces an antenna beam. The orientation sensor determines a transmit antenna orientation indicating the orientation of the transmit antenna. The antenna beam: accesses target data describing a receive antenna of a target, the target data comprising a location of the receive antenna relative to the transmit antenna; calculates a deviation value from the transmit antenna location, the transmit antenna orientation, and the target data; and adjusts the direction of the antenna beam to reduce the deviation value

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,用于控制天线波束的方向的系统包括位置标识符,方位传感器和天线波束控制器。 位置识别器确定指示发射天线的位置的发射天线位置,其中发射天线产生天线波束。 方向传感器确定指示发射天线方向的发射天线取向。 天线波束:访问描述目标的接收天线的目标数据,目标数据包括接收天线相对于发射天线的位置; 从发射天线位置,发射天线方向和目标数据计算偏差值; 并调整天线波束的方向以减小偏差值

    Active electronically scanned array antenna for satellite communications
    4.
    发明授权
    Active electronically scanned array antenna for satellite communications 有权
    用于卫星通信的主动电子扫描阵列天线

    公开(公告)号:US08334809B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-12-18

    申请号:US12288635

    申请日:2008-10-22

    IPC分类号: H01Q1/38

    摘要: An electronically scanned array antenna. The novel antenna includes a first planar array of antenna elements and one or more side planar arrays of antenna elements, each side array adjacent to the first array and tilted at a predetermined angle relative to the first array. In an illustrative embodiment, the antenna also includes a plurality of transmit/receive modules, each module coupled to one antenna element. Each transmit/receive module includes phase shifters for varying the relative phases of the antenna elements to form a desired overall beam pattern, and a low noise amplifier and high power amplifier for amplifying signals received and transmitted by the antenna element, respectively. In an illustrative embodiment, a processor provides individual phase and channel enable control signals for independently controlling the phase shifters and amplifiers, respectively, of each module.

    摘要翻译: 电子扫描阵列天线。 新型天线包括天线元件的第一平面阵列和天线元件的一个或多个侧平面阵列,每个侧阵列与第一阵列相邻并相对于第一阵列以预定角度倾斜。 在说明性实施例中,天线还包括多个发射/接收模块,每个模块耦合到一个天线元件。 每个发射/接收模块包括用于改变天线元件的相对相位以形成期望的总波束图案的移相器,以及用于分别放大由天线元件接收和发射的信号的低噪声放大器和高功率放大器。 在说明性实施例中,处理器提供单独的相位和通道使能控制信号,用于分别独立地控制每个模块的移相器和放大器。

    Conformal electronically scanned phased array antenna and communication system for helmets and other platforms
    5.
    发明授权
    Conformal electronically scanned phased array antenna and communication system for helmets and other platforms 有权
    用于头盔和其他平台的保形电子扫描相控阵天线和通信系统

    公开(公告)号:US07532163B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-05-12

    申请号:US11705213

    申请日:2007-02-13

    IPC分类号: H01Q1/38

    摘要: A phased array antenna adapted to be mounted in a helmet. In the illustrative embodiment, the antenna comprises a substrate and an array of radiating elements disposed on said substrate, each of the elements including a-resonant cavity and a mechanism for feeding the cavity with an electromagnetic signal., The cavity is formed in a multi-layer structure between a ground plane and a layer of metallization. A radiating slot or slots are provided in the layer of metallization. A first layer of dielectric material is disposed within the cavity. The feed mechanism is a microstrip feed disposed in the first layer of dielectric material parallel to a plane of a portion of the substrate over which an associated element is disposed. A layer of foam is disposed between the layer of dielectric material and the ground plane. Second and third parallel layers of dielectric material are included in each element. The second layer is disposed adjacent to the ground plane. A layer of element interconnection circuitry is disposed between the second and third layers of dielectric material. A transmit/receive module or circuitry for each element is secured to the third layer of dielectric material. The substrate may be conformal or conformable, as well as rigid. An arrangement is included for steering a beam transmitted or received by the antenna.

    摘要翻译: 适合安装在头盔中的相控阵天线。 在说明性实施例中,天线包括衬底和布置在所述衬底上的辐射元件阵列,每个元件包括谐振腔和用于向空腔馈送电磁信号的机构,空腔形成为多 在地平面和金属化层之间的层结构。 在金属化层中提供辐射槽或槽。 介电材料的第一层设置在空腔内。 馈送机构是布置在电介质材料的第一层中的平行于衬底部分的平面的微带馈电,相关元件设置在该平面上。 一层泡沫体设置在介电材料层和接地平面之间。 介电材料的第二和第三平行层包括在每个元件中。 第二层设置在接地平面附近。 元件互连电路层设置在介电材料的第二和第三层之间。 用于每个元件的发射/接收模块或电路固定到第三层电介质材料。 衬底可以是适形的或适形的,以及刚性的。 包括用于控制由天线发送或接收的波束的布置。

    Low-observability, wide-field-of-view, situation awareness viewing device
    7.
    发明授权
    Low-observability, wide-field-of-view, situation awareness viewing device 有权
    低可观察性,广视野,情景观察装置

    公开(公告)号:US06693749B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-02-17

    申请号:US09774495

    申请日:2001-01-31

    IPC分类号: G02B2714

    CPC分类号: G02B27/0172 G02B5/30

    摘要: A situation awareness viewing device, typically in the form of a head-mounted display device, includes a polarizing beam splitter made of a cube of a material transparent to light and having an index of refraction greater than 1, and a wire grid polarizer lying within the cube on a cube-diagonal plane extending between two diagonally opposed edges of the cube. The polarizing beam splitter has a first optical axis extending from a first face of the cube toward an opposing second face of the cube and lying at an angle of 45 degrees to the cube-diagonal plane, and a second optical axis extending from a third face of the cube toward an opposing fourth face of the cube and lying at an angle of 45 degrees to the cube-diagonal plane, the second optical axis being perpendicular to the first optical axis. The device further includes an external polarizer external to the cube on the first optical axis and disposed to intercept light incident upon the first face along the first optical axis, an image source external to the cube and disposed to send a display image incident upon the third face along the second optical axis, a quarter-wave plate external to the cube and disposed to intercept a beam of light traveling along the second optical axis and passing out of the cube through the fourth face, and a mirror external to the cube and disposed to reflect light passing through the quarter-wave plate back through the quarter-wave plate and to the fourth face.

    摘要翻译: 通常为头戴式显示装置形式的状况感知观察装置包括由透明至光并具有大于1的折射率的材料的立方体制成的偏振分束器,并且线偏振器位于 立方体对角平面上的立方体在立方体的两个对角线相对的边缘之间延伸。 偏振光束分离器具有第一光轴,该第一光轴从立方体的第一面向立方体的相对的第二面延伸,并且与立体对角线平面成45度的角度,第二光轴从第三面延伸 所述立方体朝向所述立方体的相对的第四面并且与所述立方体对角线平面成45度的角度,所述第二光轴垂直于所述第一光轴。 该装置还包括位于第一光轴上的立方体外部的外部偏振器,并设置成沿着第一光轴截取入射在第一面上的光,该立方体外部的图像源,并且被布置成发送入射到第三光轴上的显示图像 沿着第二光轴的一个四边形波片,在该立方体的外侧设置成拦截沿第二光轴行进的光束,并且通过该第四面从该立方体流出;以及一个在该立方体外面的镜子, 以将通过四分之一波片的光反射回四分之一波片和第四面。

    Apparatus for increasing output efficiency of an optically pumped Nd:YAG
laser
    8.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for increasing output efficiency of an optically pumped Nd:YAG laser 失效
    用于提高光泵浦Nd:YAG激光器输出效率的装置

    公开(公告)号:US4005333A

    公开(公告)日:1977-01-25

    申请号:US475685

    申请日:1974-06-03

    CPC分类号: H05B41/34 H01S3/092

    摘要: Laser excitation is generally initiated by "dumping" energy from a stored supply into a flashlamp. The flashlamp produces light which is a mixture of both black-body type radiation and atomic line spectra. That portion of the flashlamp output energy spectrum which overlaps the pump bands of Nd.sup.3.sup.+ causes the inversion population necessary for laser action. It has been determined that the sequence in which energy is initially supplied to the flashlamp is an important parameter. More particularly, light output in the pump bands, and hence laser efficiency, is increased by slightly turning on the flashlamp at a predetermined interval of time prior to the main energy dump. Theory indicates that this method of triggering results in a larger ionic path diameter at the time of main energy release to the flashlamp.

    摘要翻译: 激光激发通常是通过将能量从存储的电源“倾倒”到闪光灯中开始的。 闪光灯产生的是黑体型辐射和原子线谱的混合物。 与Nd3 +的泵浦波段重叠的闪光灯输出能谱的那部分导致激光作用所需的反演群。 已经确定,最初向闪光灯提供能量的顺序是重要的参数。 更具体地,通过在主能量转储之前以预定的时间间隔稍微打开闪光灯来增加泵浦带中的光输出,从而提高激光器效率。 理论表明,这种触发方法在主能量释放到闪光灯时导致更大的离子路径直径。

    Rigid/flexible circuit board
    9.
    发明授权
    Rigid/flexible circuit board 有权
    刚性/柔性电路板

    公开(公告)号:US08320133B1

    公开(公告)日:2012-11-27

    申请号:US11951100

    申请日:2007-12-05

    IPC分类号: H05K1/00

    摘要: According to one embodiment, a circuit board comprises an anisotropic film disposed outwardly from a first flexible dielectric layer, and a second flexible dielectric layer disposed outwardly from the anisotropic film. The first and second flexible dielectric layers each have at least one conductive trace conductively coupled to a pad. The anisotropic film forms a via region that conductively couples the pad of the first flexible dielectric layer to the pad of the second flexible dielectric layer, and electrically isolates the conductive trace of the first flexible dielectric layer from the conductive trace of the second flexible dielectric layer.

    摘要翻译: 根据一个实施例,电路板包括从第一柔性介电层向外设置的各向异性膜和从各向异性膜向外设置的第二柔性介电层。 第一和第二柔性介电层各自具有至少一个传导性迹线,导电性地耦合到焊盘。 各向异性膜形成通孔区,其导电地将第一柔性介电层的焊盘耦合到第二柔性介电层的焊盘,并且将第一柔性介电层的导电迹线与第二柔性介电层的导电迹线电隔离 。

    Partitioned aperture array antenna
    10.
    发明授权
    Partitioned aperture array antenna 有权
    分区孔阵列天线

    公开(公告)号:US08089404B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-01-03

    申请号:US12283373

    申请日:2008-09-11

    IPC分类号: H01Q3/00 G01S19/46 H04B7/185

    CPC分类号: H01Q21/0025 G01S19/36

    摘要: A partitioned aperture array antenna. The novel antenna includes a first subarray having a first number of antenna elements equipped with transmit functionality and a second subarray having a second number of antenna elements equipped with receive functionality, wherein the first and second numbers are not equal and the first and second subarrays have at least one common antenna element. In an illustrative embodiment, the first subarray includes a transmit circuit coupled to each antenna element in the first subarray for controlling a relative transmit phase of the antenna element to steer an overall antenna transmit beam, and the second subarray includes a receive circuit coupled to each antenna element in the second subarray for controlling a relative receive phase of the antenna element to steer an overall antenna receive beam.

    摘要翻译: 分区孔阵列天线。 新颖天线包括具有配备有发送功能的第一数量的天线元件的第一子阵列和具有配备有接收功能的第二数量的天线元件的第二子阵列,其中第一和第二数字不相等,并且第一和第二子阵列具有 至少一个公共天线元件。 在说明性实施例中,第一子阵列包括耦合到第一子阵列中的每个天线元件的发射电路,用于控制天线元件的相对发射相位以引导整个天线发射波束,并且第二子阵列包括耦合到每个天线元件的接收电路 第二子阵列中的天线元件,用于控制天线元件的相对接收相位以控制整个天线接收波束。