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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Joseph Alfred Iannotti, Glenville, NY (US);
Marco Francesco Aimi, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An antenna system includes a plurality of true time delay (TTD) modules, each having a plurality of switching elements configured to selectively define alternative RF signal transmission paths between a signal input and a signal output of the TTD module. A controller is programmed to control the plurality of TTD modules to steer a beam according to a make-before-break switching technique by closing a first pair of switching elements within at least a subset of the plurality of TTD modules to activate a first RF signal transmission path; closing a second pair of switching elements of the subset of the plurality of TTD modules to activate a second RF signal transmission path in parallel with the first RF transmission path; and opening the first pair of switching elements of the subset of TTD modules after closing the second pair of switching elements.