Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Kazunari Kawabata

Hideaki Yamada

Kazuhisa Yamaki

Jun Harada

Shunjiro Imagawa

Hiroshi Nagakubo

A dielectric rod antenna including a dielectric rod, a ring-shaped conductive film provided on an outer peripheral surface of the dielectric rod, and a waveguide. The conductive film is provided on an outer peripheral surface portion of the dielectric rod which is inclined from a base end portion toward a forward end portion. The conductive film is arranged to intersect the waveguide so as to form a substantially V-shaped cross-sectional area.

Dielectric rod antenna

This invention is to provide a composite material for dielectric lens antennas which contains 3-70 percent by volume of a high dielectric constant ceramic and 30-97 percent by volume of a macromolecular material. At this time it is desirable that the mean particle diameter of the high dielectric constant ceramic is 1-50 .mu.m. It is also preferable that the macromolecular material is a thermoplastic macromolecular material. A dielectric lens is made of this composite material for the dielectric lens antennas. Further, the dielectric lens antenna is preferably produced forming a matching layer on the dielectric lens surface.

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Nagaokakyo, Japan

Kazunari Kawabata