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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2004
Steve Larouche, St-Lazare, CA;
Gerard Senechal, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, CA;
François Bussieres, Notre-Dame-de-l'lle-Perrot, CA;
Sylvain Richard, Kirkland, CA;
Andre Bouvrette, Ile Perrot, CA;
John Mcdougall, St-Laurent, CA;
Geoffrey Moss, Senneville, CA;
Steve Larouche, St-Lazare, CA;
Gerard Senechal, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, CA;
François Bussieres, Notre-Dame-de-l'lle-Perrot, CA;
Sylvain Richard, Kirkland, CA;
Andre Bouvrette, Ile Perrot, CA;
John McDougall, St-Laurent, CA;
Geoffrey Moss, Senneville, CA;
EMS Technologies Cawada, Ltd., Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue (QC), CA;
Abstract
A helical antenna has a helix supported by a helix support. The helix support includes at least one piece of flexible sheet having its two surfaces covered with a layer antistatic material. The flexible sheet is curlable into a revolution surface configuration to form a revolution surface-shaped support section for at least partially supporting a portion of the helix component there around. A grounding mechanism electrically grounds the external sheet surface to the helix and the two sheet surfaces to one another when in the revolution surface configuration while a locking mechanism locks the flexible sheet in the revolution surface configuration. The combination of the helix and the flexible support renders the antenna structurally relatively rigid in all directions.