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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:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Howard H Luh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter W Lord, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Space Systems/Loral, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3437 / ; 3437 / ; 343840 ;
Abstract
A method for designing a shaped dual reflector antenna comprising the initial selection of a hyperboloidal or ellipsoidal reflective surface profile for the main reflector such that the cross-polarization of the contoured output RF signal beam of the resulting antenna structure is reduced.