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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2017
Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Corporation, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, CA;
Yves Gaudette, St-Lazare, CA;
Serge Samson, St-Joseph-de-Lac, CA;
Luis Martins-Camelo, Pointe-Claire, CA;
Jasmin McFadden, Laval, CA;
MACDONALD, DETTWILER AND ASSOCIATES CORPORATION, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, CA;
Abstract
A reflector deployment and pointing mechanism, for deploying and pointing a reflector of an antenna movably mounted on a structure, has a first actuator mounted on the structure, a second actuator mounted on the first actuator, and a third actuator mounted on the second actuator and connected to the reflector. The first or second actuator is the deployment actuator, and, respectively, the second or first, and the third actuators are the pointing actuators and have their axis of rotation generally intersecting a feed oriented point of a signal reflecting surface of the reflector.