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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Thales, Courbevoie, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
THALES, Courbevoie, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 11/00 (2006.01); G10K 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10K 11/008 (2013.01);
Abstract
An omnidirectional antenna to equip a sonar, the antenna centered around a longitudinal axis and comprises an assembly of emission rings stacked along the longitudinal axis, each emission ring formed around the longitudinal axis. The emission rings are assembled in groups of ring, the antenna comprises at least two groups of rings and each group of rings comprises at least two rings, the inter-ring spacings between the rings of one and the same group and the inter-group spacings between two successive groups of rings chosen so as to optimize the emission bandwidth and the sound level.