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Inductively shorted bicone antenna

US6268834A · kind A · utility

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17Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMay 17, 2000
Grant dateJul 31, 2001
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Expiry dateMay 17, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01Q21/28
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A bicone antenna that facilitates the passage of cables for at least one other radiating antenna. The bicone antenna has a plurality of inductive shorts spaced approximately one-quarter wavelength (at the cut-in frequency) from the antenna axis. Each inductive short provides a pathway for a cable for another antenna. Consequently, an antenna cable from each of one or more other antennas can be led to a center point on the bicone antenna, directed radially along a cone to an inductive short, led through the inductive short and directed along the surface of the other cone to the center line. The outer conductor of each antenna cable attaches to an antenna surface.

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