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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2006
Applicants:
Gregory S Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard Paul Tella, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gregory S Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard Paul Tella, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Grating lobe free scanning in a phased array with sparse element spacing is obtained by restricting the maximum scan angle for elements in the array, and arranging the elements in a convex form. One convex form is a paraboloid, which may be continuous, or piecewise in nature, tiled with flat segments.