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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1993
Norbert Sa, Burlington, MA (US);
Joseph S Pleva, Londonderry, NH (US);
James B Conant, Brighton, MA (US);
Steven A Upson, Amherst, NH (US);
Joseph Simoneau, Tyngsboro, MA (US);
Eugene Gelshteyn, Marblehead, MA (US);
Raytheon Company, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
An antenna is described including strip conductor circuitry for interconnecting a plurality of patch radiator elements to a common feed. The strip conductor circuitry includes a plurality of four port quadrature couplers having an isolation port. The antenna further includes a plurality of radio frequency terminating loads and a technique for capacitively coupling one of the plurality of radio frequency terminating loads to the isolation port of a corresponding one of the plurality of four port quadrature couplers of the strip conductor circuitry. With such an arrangement, a least expensive antenna is provided which can survive a high temperature environment.