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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2014
The Boeing Company, Seal Beach, CA (US);
Ming Chen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jimmy Susumu Takeuchi, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Rodney D. Cameron, Renton, WA (US);
Isaac R. Bekker, Long Beach, CA (US);
Peter T. Heisen, Kent, WA (US);
Dan R. Miller, Puyallup, WA (US);
Randal L. Ternes, Seattle, WA (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a switchable transmit and receive phased array antenna ('STRPAA'). As an example, the STRPAA may include a housing, a multilayer printed wiring board ('MLPWB') within the housing having a top surface and a bottom surface, a plurality of radiating elements located on the top surface of the MLPWB, and a plurality of transmit and receive (“T/R”) modules attached to the bottom surface of the MLPWB. The STRPAA may also include a plurality of vias, wherein each via, of the plurality of vias, passes through the MLPWB and is configured as a signal path between a T/R module, of the plurality of T/R modules, on the bottom surface of the MLPWB and a radiating element, of the plurality of radiating elements, located on the top surface of the MLPWB opposite the T/R module.