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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2019
Applicant:
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Inventor:
Sudhakar K. Rao, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Assignee:
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Falls Church, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 25/00 (2006.01); H01Q 3/26 (2006.01); H01Q 19/17 (2006.01); H01Q 15/24 (2006.01); H01Q 5/47 (2015.01); H01Q 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 25/007 (2013.01); H01Q 3/2664 (2013.01); H01Q 5/47 (2015.01); H01Q 15/16 (2013.01); H01Q 15/244 (2013.01); H01Q 19/17 (2013.01);
Abstract
An antenna system includes: an antenna, the antenna configured to combine the feed elements to form a high gain element beam (HGEB), the system further configured to combine the HGEBs to form a large coverage beam; and a feed array configured to transfer a signal to the antenna, the feed array being defocused from a focal plane of the antenna by a defocus distance, the feed array comprising a number N of feed elements.