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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2004
Applicant:
Edward B. Stoneham, Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventor:
Edward B. Stoneham, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Endwave Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01P 5/107 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for coupling a conductor-based transmission line, such as a strip transmission line, to a waveguide. The transmission line may be separated from a corresponding conducting ground plane by a first dielectric substrate layer. The ground plane may be adhesively coupled to a portion of the waveguide, and may be offset from the interior of the waveguide, so that adhesive squeezed out between the ground plane and the waveguide may be at least partially shielded from the waveguide, and thus does not significantly perturb electromagnetic signals within the waveguide.