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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1982
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1980
William G Scott, Saratoga, CA (US);
Edgar W Matthews, Jr, Los Altos, CA (US);
Howard H Luh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Charles A Klein, Centerburg, OH (US);
Ford Aerospace & Communications Corp., Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
This specification discloses a multibeam antenna which produces a null at one or more specified points with greater frequency band width for a given null depth. For example, a ring of beams about the null are set to have a phase difference between adjacent beams of 360.degree. divided by the number of beams in the ring. The amplitude of each of the beams is chosen so that each such ring set is self-nulled at the intended null and any common change in the side lobes of all beams of a ring set at the null due to frequency change is substantially equal. Thus, even with change in frequency, the null depth and position is substantially unchanged.