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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:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Astrium GmbH, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/920 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 1/920 ;
Abstract
A centrally fed reflector antenna system has an effective reflector surface shaped so that the maximum of the copolar far field lies on the illuminated coverage area corresponding to the far field requirements, and the minimum of the copolar near field lies at the feed system, e.g. at the aperture of a feed horn.