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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 26, 2018
Applicant:

Echodyne Corp., Kirkland, WA (US);

Inventors:

Adam Bily, Seattle, WA (US);

Tom Driscoll, Bellevue, WA (US);

John Desmond Hunt, Seattle, WA (US);

Charles A. Renneberg, Seattle, WA (US);

Ioannis Tzanidis, Woodinville, WA (US);

Robert Tilman Worl, Issaquah, WA (US);

Assignee:

Echodyne Corp., Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/03 (2006.01); H01Q 21/22 (2006.01); H01Q 1/32 (2006.01); H01Q 1/28 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01); G01S 13/04 (2006.01); H01Q 3/24 (2006.01); H01Q 21/06 (2006.01); G01S 13/933 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/032 (2013.01); G01S 13/04 (2013.01); G01S 13/931 (2013.01); G01S 13/933 (2020.01); H01Q 1/28 (2013.01); H01Q 1/3233 (2013.01); H01Q 3/24 (2013.01); H01Q 21/065 (2013.01); H01Q 21/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment of an antenna array includes a transmit antenna and a receive antenna. The transmit antenna has, in one dimension, a first size, and has, in another dimension that is approximately orthogonal to the one dimension, a second size that is greater than the first size. And the receive antenna has, in approximately the one dimension, a third size that is greater than the first size, and has, in approximately the other dimension, a fourth size that is less than the second size. For example, such an antenna array, and a radar system that incorporates the antenna array, can provide a high Rayleigh resolution (i.e., a narrow Half Power Beam Width (HPBW)) with significantly reduced aliasing as compared to prior antenna arrays and radar systems for a given number of antenna-array channels.


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