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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2009
Applicant:
Gérard Raguenet, Eaunes, FR;
Inventor:
Gérard Raguenet, Eaunes, FR;
Assignee:
Thales, , FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The antenna with shared feeds for generating multiple beams includes a plurality of identical individual feeds spaced apart by a constant pitch, wherein the individual feeds are associated in identical subnetworks around a central individual feed, each subnetwork being intended to synthesize a beam, the individual feeds of each subnetwork being phase-coupled together by electromagnetic coupling, and two successive subnetworks include at least one individual feed in common and are offset by a distance corresponding to a predetermined number of pitches greater than or equal to one, being applicable in particular to the field of satellite telecommunications.