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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:
May. 11, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Louis A Kurtz, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
343771 ;
Abstract
An improved feed waveguide 15 for an antenna 10 is disclosed which reduces coupling junction phase errors. The improved feed waveguide 15 of the present invention includes first and second slotted parallel walls 35a and 37a along the length thereof. The first wall 35a includes a first elongate slot 27 therethrough having a first longitudinal axis 42. The second wall 37a includes a second elongate slot 32 which is located on the second wall 37a opposite the first slot 27 on the first wall 35a. The second slot 32 has a longitudinal axis 44 which is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis 42 of the first slot 27.