General Electric Company

Cousby Younger, Jr

Blake A Carnahan

Conrad E Nelson

James W Krueger, Jr

Donald H Kuhn

Albert H Berical

Gerald A Otteni

Allan A Schill

The invention relates to a microstrip to stripline transition which achieves good electrical performance and permits easy, solderless disconnection. The upper portion of the stripline is omitted permitting a flying lead bonded to the microstrip conductor, and which extends across a gap, to be held in contact with the stripline conductor by a removable filler block, which replaces the omitted upper portion of the stripline. The air gap, and the width of the stripline and microstrip conductors adjacent the air gap are dimensioned to form the electrical equivalent of a pi network to achieve a desired response. The filler block is held in place, in one embodiment, by an elongated conductor bridging the upper and lower ground planes of the stripline and which is cut away to form a short waveguide section encircling the transition. The waveguide section is dimensioned to favor only a desired TEM stripline mode and suppress undesired waveguide modes for increased transition efficiency over a desired band. The side walls of the waveguide section are made wide to reduce radiation from the stripline adjoining the transition.

Disconnectable microstrip to stripline transition

An RF transparent antenna shield structure is disclosed particularly useful for missile nose cone radome and other severe environment applications. The structure comprises a solid metal wall member perforated to form a triangular grid array of windows each of which has fitted within it a dielectric plug member the end faces of which are flush with the opposite surfaces of the metal wall member. The thickness of the wall member and the dielectric constant of these plug members are chosen such as provide a resonant radome thickness. The waveguide-space junction susceptances are tuned out by capacitive iris members concentrically disposed on the plug member end faces, to yield acceptable uniformity of insertion phase and attenuation even at relatively extreme incidence angles.

RF-Transparent shield structures

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Syracuse, NY, United States of America

Cousby Younger, Jr