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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2017
Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Lake Forest, CA (US);
David Levy, Karmiel, IL;
Brinder Bhatia, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Yair Shemesh, Haifa, IL;
Michael Sigalov, Moshav Bat Shlomo, IL;
Benjamin Engel, Haifa, IL;
Amir Haber, Qiryat Bialik, IL;
Paul Margis, Irvine, CA (US);
Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
An antenna assembly including a support and antenna tiles disposed in the support. The antenna tiles form an external surface corresponding substantially in shape to lateral faces of a frustum. The frustum includes a central axis with the antenna tiles disposed around the central axis of the frustum and sloping away therefrom. Each antenna tile includes opposite ends, with one end narrower than the other end. A planar array of antenna elements is disposed on each antenna tile in which the antenna elements of each array are configured to operate as a phased array. A control system connects to the planar arrays of antenna elements in which the control system is configured to selectively activate and deactivate each of the planar arrays.