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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2018
Antenna array having a different beam-steering resolution in one dimension than in another dimension
Echodyne Corp., Kirkland, WA (US);
Adam Bily, Seattle, WA (US);
Tom Driscoll, Bellevue, WA (US);
John Desmond Hunt, Seattle, WA (US);
Charles A. Renneberg, Seattle, WA (US);
Ioannis Tzanidis, Woodinvile, WA (US);
Robert Tilman Worl, Issaquah, WA (US);
Echodyne Corp., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, an antenna includes a one-dimensional array of antenna cells, a signal feed, and signal couplers. The antenna cells are each spaced from an adjacent antenna cell by less than one half a wavelength at which the antenna cells are configured to transmit and to receive, are configured to generate an array beam that is narrower in a dimension than in an orthogonal dimension, and are configured to steer the array beam in the dimension. And the signal couplers are each configured to couple a respective one of the antenna cells to the signal feed in response a respective control signal having an active level. For example, the antenna cells can be arranged such that a straight line intersects their geometric centers.