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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1999
John H. Hong, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Rockwell Science Center, LLC, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Abstract
A phased array antenna phase shifter having one or more serially connected stages, the stages allowing a transmission signal to pass through to a radiating element. Each of the stages have three or more delay lines for imparting a different respective delay on the transmission signal and a network of switches to select which of the delay lines within the stage will carry the transmission signal. As the signal is passed through each of the stages, the signal will experience the cumulative delays from the stages of the phase shifter. The delay lines in each stage comprise delay lines of different respective lengths, a delay is imparted on the transmission signal as it passed along the length of the selected delay line. The network of switches comprises micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) switches.