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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2023
Electronic Design & Development, Corp., Tucson, AZ (US);
Kevin W. Patrick, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sergio E. Cardona, Jr., Tucson, AZ (US);
ELECTRONIC DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT, CORP., Tucson, AZ (US);
Abstract
A dielectric waveguide antenna and manufacturing method, as well as a quasi-helical antenna device. The electrically conducting features within the dielectric waveguide antenna are manufactured using standard printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing technology. Internal elements of the PCB antenna construction may be capacitively coupled or galvanically coupled. The final outer form of the dielectric waveguide antenna is machined by turning on a lathe, and the final outer form is accurately aligned and registered to the electrically conducting features within. The quasi-helical antenna device comprises a repeating, periodic, chain of substantially straight conductive segments that are wound about a central axis. The quasi-helical antenna is fabricated within a planar printed circuit.