Nippon Steel Corporation

Mikuni Corporation

Hiroaki Kawaguchi

Yutaka Arai

Masahiro Uematsu

Takashi Ojima

Nobuharu Takahashi

Seiji Koyama

Yoshikazu Takahashi

A slotted leaky waveguide array antenna comprises a flat, thin bottom plate made of a metallic material; a flat, thin slotted plate made of a metallic material, and disposed parallel with the bottom plate at a predetermined distance from the bottom plate to form a space between the slotted plate and the bottom plate, the slotted plate being formed with a plurality of slots arranged in substantially parallel rows extending in a predetermined guide axial direction; a plurality of flat, thin side walls made of a metallic material and arranged in the space so as to partition the space between the bottom plate and the slotted plate into a plurality of waveguides communicating with each other and including radiation waveguides extending in parallel in the guide axial direction, a lower surface of each of the side walls being fixed to the bottom plate and an upper surface thereof being fixed to the slotted plate; and an electrically conductive adhesive agent layer between the upper surface of each of the side walls and the slotted plate for fixing them to each other.

Slotted leaky waveguide array antenna and a method of manufacturing the

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Odawara, Japan

Hiroaki Kawaguchi