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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. 23, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Space Engineering S.p.A., Rome, IT;
Finmeccanica S.p.A., Rome, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
343756 ; 343753 ;
Abstract
Shaped beam antenna, with single or double reflector, gridded or non-gridded, the shaped beams, which can rotate the polarisation, independent of the polarisation of the feed cluster, for use preferably aboard satellites and in micro-wave antennas. The antenna includes a reflector (1), one or more polarisers (2), (2a), one or more feed clusters (3), (3a) , microwave circuits (4), (4a) to set-up the BFN, input port (5), (5a), and connections (C) and (C1).