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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:
Nov. 14, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard C Mott, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Bernard D Geller, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Assignee:
Comsat Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3437 / ; 343829 ; 343846 ;
Abstract
Contactless coupling of a low-noise block down-converter (LNB) imbedded within a flat antenna is achieved by mounting the LNB on a power summing/combining network layer of the antenna, and coupling the transition capacitively to the power summing/combining network in a stripline-to-stripline transition. The contactless coupling facilitates antenna manufacture by allowing the rapid testing of the LNB and its final assembly into the antenna.