Sanders Associates Limited

Lockheed Sanders, Inc.

Richard L Powers

Kenneth D Arkind

Russell J Cyr

Richmond W Price

This Yagi-Uda-type antenna includes also a sleeve embracing the dipole. The sleeve may be a closed cylindrical element surrounding the dipole or it may comprise a pair of discrete elements forming an 'open sleeve'. The dipole, sleeve, reflector, and director elements may be in filamentary form, or they may be fabricated from stripline.

Broad-band high-directivity antenna

A microwave antenna (10) is excited by two independently driven feed lines (30 and 32) so that the plane of polarization of the resultant microwave radiation depends on the relative amplitudes of the signals on the two feed lines. The feed lines are disposed between two parallel ground planes (12 and 14), in one of which is etched an aperture (18). The periphery of the aperture forms ridges (20, 22, 24, and 26) in registration with the feed lines (30 and 32). Conductive eyelets (27) extend between the ground-plane conductors (12 and 14) to act as shorting elements that surround the aperture to form a cavity defined by the shorting elements and the ground-plane conductors. The resultant antenna, which may, for instance, have a thickness of only one-tenth of a wavelength, achieves a 2:1 VSWR bandwidth on the order of 30%.

Multiple ridge antenna

A microwave antenna is made of a pair of parallel ground-plane conductors (12 and 14), one of which forms a generally cruciform aperture (18). A pair of T-shaped feedlines are disposed with their cross pieces (22 and 34) in registration with the respective arms (20 and 36) of the aperture 18 and are independently driven from stems (26 and 32) disposed between the ground-plane conductors.

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Richard L Powers