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Highly efficient antenna system using a corrugated horn and scanning hyperbolic reflector

US3949404A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 19, 1974
Grant dateApr 6, 1976
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 19, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01Q19/132
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a horn-reflector antenna system for producing a spherical aperture phase front, a corrugated conical horn illuminates a section of a hyperbolic reflector to produce a spherical aperture phase front which produces a far-field beam with low sidelobes and high beam efficiency. The system is insensitive to frequency and polarization changes, and is also insensitive to orientation about the axis of the conical horn for beam scanning.

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