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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2000
Gary A. Martek, Kent, WA (US);
Metawave Communications Corporation, Redmond, VA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention provides an antenna array for transmitting one or more beams in a communication system. The antenna includes a cavity slot antenna array that is adapted to be operatively connected to a beam forming module (e.g., via a plurality of signal feed lines that are connected to radiating signal probes). The antenna array has one or more cavity slot columns adjacently fixed to one another with each of the one or more columns having at least one cavity slot antenna element for providing a radiating beam component. The combined cavity slot elements from the one or more columns define a cavity slot array for providing the one or more beams from the cavity slot beam components.