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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:
Oct. 05, 1976
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert A Dell-Imagine, Orange, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
343754 ; 343854 ;
Abstract
A planar constrained lens (bootlace lens) antenna is disclosed capable of providing a large one or two dimensional field of view with either a scanning feed or with multiple feeds. This planar constrained lens antenna is of the type which can replace both narrow field of view and wide field of view lenses in multiple beam communications satellite and in limited scan radars using focal plane scanning or with a two element lens system and a scanning phased array feed.