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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1993

Filed:

Aug. 16, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:

Ruy L Brandao, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);

Anthony Parker, Boca Raton, FL (US);

Randall C Spires, Boca Raton, FL (US);

Assignee:

Allied-Signal Inc., Morris Township, Morris County, NJ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q / ; H01Q / ; H01Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342373 ; 342424 ;
Abstract

A distributed network that compensates for the effects of interelement coupling in a multielement antenna array is inserted between the output of an antenna array and the inputs of a receiver system. Within the distributed network are a plurality of couplers interconnected by transmission lines serving as phase shifters. The coupling factors of the various couplers and the lengths of the transmission lines are selected so as to apply voltage components of specific amplitudes and phase to the antenna ports. The values of the amplitudes and phases of these voltage components are such as to neutralize the components of the voltages at the output of the antenna array which are caused by the spatial couplings between the elements of the antenna array.


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