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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:
Apr. 09, 1985
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Thomson-CSF, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367 87 ; 367105 ; 367154 ; 367905 ; 04R / ;
Abstract
An array with high resolving power and low secondary lobe levels, comprising a receiving array formed of transducers along its length L.sub.R, two of these transducers, separated by a distance L.sub.E, also forming the transmitters. The change from transmission to reception and back is effectuated by switches. Signals received by transducers are weighted by resistors before being delivered to beam forming circuits, containing multi-terminal phase shifters and a wiring matrix and adders. The weighting function and ratio L.sub.E /L.sub.R are chosen to ensure that the overall transmission-reception system diagram has high resolving power and low secondary lobe levels.