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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
James H Mims, Millersville, MD (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3431 / ; 3431 / ; 343854 ;
Abstract
A beam space adaptive array antenna system utilizing a two-stage Butler matrix configuration is disclosed. The individual elements of one subarray are input to the respective ports of a first-stage Butler matrix and the remaining summed subarray elements are input to a second-stage Butler matrix. The zero order output of the first stage Butler matrix is fed to the input of the second stage Butler matrix.