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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:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1997
Michael E Cooley, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Thomas J Chwalek, Hawthorne, CA (US);
Parthasarath Ramanujam, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Hughes Electronics Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for shaping reflected radio frequency signals includes geometrically shaping a reflector surface of an antenna to focus the beam, and reflectively shaping the reflector surface with phasing elements that emulate geometric shaping to configure the beam to a predetermined shape. In the preferred embodiment, the antenna comprises a geosynchronous satellite antenna conveying signals from a wave guide horn to or from a predetermined geographic area on earth. The use of a parabolic-approaching surface of reflectarray phasing elements for shaping the beam substantially improves the beam pattern bandwidth over the performance of previously known shaped beam reflectarrays.
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