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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Nsl Comm Ltd, Airport City, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NSL COMM LTD, Airport City, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 19/19 (2006.01); H01Q 15/14 (2006.01); H01Q 19/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 15/147 (2013.01); H01Q 15/145 (2013.01); H01Q 19/12 (2013.01); H01Q 19/192 (2013.01);
Abstract
An antenna assembly tunable from remote comprising a main reflector a sub-reflector associated with the main reflector, and a feed adapted receive transmission illuminating the main reflector via the sub-reflector, or to transmit transmission to the main reflector via the sub-reflector. The sub-reflector comprising a plurality of actuators disposed over and attached to its outer face. Each of the actuators is adapted to locally deform the surface of the sub-reflector adjacent to that actuator in response to a change in the actuator position.