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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
May. 16, 2012
John T. Apostolos, Lyndelborough, NH (US);
William Mouyos, Windham, NH (US);
Randall R. Lapierre, Hooksett, NH (US);
John T. Apostolos, Lyndelborough, NH (US);
William Mouyos, Windham, NH (US);
Randall R. Lapierre, Hooksett, NH (US);
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Abstract
An extremely thin embedded antenna for an armor-carrying vehicle utilizes a dipole driven element to the inside of the armor plate and a parasitically-driven dipole element on top of the armor plate, with the parasitic element providing appropriate forward gain and antenna matching characteristics such that there need be no aperturing of the armor plate in order to feed the antenna. In one embodiment, the bowtie antenna elements are elongated, extended or expanded by outboard antenna sections which are spaced from the distal ends of the corresponding bowties, with a meanderline choke bridging the gap between a bowtie element and its extended portion.