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Anti-jamming array antenna

US6124828A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 7, 1998
Grant dateSep 26, 2000
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Expiry dateJul 7, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04K2203/32
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

This array antenna with anti-jamming in reception for radioelectrical or ultrasound waves is provided with radiating elements fitted out individually or in groups with amplitude-controlled and phase-controlled passive or active modules enabling aiming at transmission as well as at reception by analog beam-forming. It possesses a reception anti-jamming circuit carrying out successively two reduced, adaptive computational beam-forming operations, one in elevation which is performed on a grouping, in horizontal alignments, of the reception signals of the radiating elements and working on the reception signals by modifying the settings of the controlled modules and the other in relative bearing, performed on a grouping, in vertical alignments, of the signals of the radiating elements that which it phase-shifts and adds up to form a reception channel for the total antenna. The reception anti-jamming thus obtained has performance characteristics comparable to those that would result from a full adaptive beam-forming operation. At the same time, it requires a far smaller volume of processing.

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