JOHN WILLIAM CABLE
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Missouri A0270203
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Time-Delayed Directional Beam Phased Array Antenna
US Patent:
6806845, Oct 19, 2004
Filed:
Jan 14, 2003
Appl. No.:
10/342581
Inventors:
Douglas Eugene Fund - Lenexa KS
John William Cable - Kansas City MO
Tony Myron Cecil - Kansas City MO
John William Cable - Kansas City MO
Tony Myron Cecil - Kansas City MO
Assignee:
Honeywell Federal Manufacturing Technologies, LLC - Kansas City MO
International Classification:
H01Q 2100
US Classification:
343853, 343757
Abstract:
An antenna comprising a phased array of quadrifilar helix or other multifilar antenna elements and a time-delaying feed network adapted to feed the elements. The feed network can employ a plurality of coaxial cables that physically bridge a microstrip feed circuitry to feed power signals to the elements. The cables provide an incremental time delay which is related to their physical lengths, such that replacing cables having a first set of lengths with cables having a second set of lengths functions to change the time delay and shift or steer the antennas main beam. Alternatively, the coaxial cables may be replaced with a programmable signal processor unit adapted to introduce the time delay using signal processing techniques applied to the power signals.