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High performance traveling wave antenna for microwave and millimeter wave applications

US6094172A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 30, 1998
Grant dateJul 25, 2000
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Expiry dateJul 30, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01Q13/206
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A traveling array antenna which operates at microwave/millimeter frequencies is disclosed in which a like number of radiator elements are arranged in two mirror image branches, an RF signal feed is fed through a 180 degree compensating power splitter to each branch of the antenna array, each of the radiator elements includes an impedance matching transformer connected at its input side and in which a radiator terminating patch is connected to the end of each of the two mirror image branches.

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