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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2016
Blue Danube Systems, Inc., Warren, NJ (US);
Robert C. Frye, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Peter Kiss, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Josef Ocenasek, Whippany, NJ (US);
Blue Danube Systems, Inc., Warren, NJ (US);
Abstract
A removable module for a phased array, the module including: a circuit board having a ground plane formed on one side of the circuit board; an antenna mounted on and extending away from a topside of the circuit board; circuitry on a backside of the circuit board, the circuitry including an RF front end circuit coupled to the antenna; and a group of one or more first connecters mounted on the backside of the circuit board, the first connectors for physically and electrically connecting and disconnecting the module from a master board through a corresponding group of one or more matching second connectors on the master board, the first connectors on the module having electrically conductive lines for carrying an externally supplied LO signal for the RF front end circuit and an IF signal for or from the RF front end circuit.