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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter C. Strickland, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
EMS Technologies Canada Ltd., Ottawa, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 9/00 ; H01Q 1/524 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 9/00 ; H01Q 1/524 ;
Abstract
A dielectric lens including a plurality of wedges being formed from a dielectric material, each of the plurality of wedges being substantially identical and orange-slice shaped and including two planar surfaces separated by an angular width, and each of the plurality of wedges having a plurality of gaps for altering an effective permittivity of the dielectric lens, wherein the plurality of wedges form the dielectric lens by connecting the plurality of wedges along the planar surfaces such that each of the planar surfaces intersect along a common line.