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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2012
Daniel W. Harris, Mount Laurel, NJ (US);
Andrew R. Mandeville, Delran, NJ (US);
Daniel W. Harris, Mount Laurel, NJ (US);
Andrew R. Mandeville, Delran, NJ (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
An ultrathin, low cost, beamformer with excellent RF performance and robust coaxial connections is disclosed. The beamformer includes a dielectric substrate sheet with a beamformer circuit, a preform sheet adjacent to the substrate sheet, and a conductive backing plate sandwiching the preform as well as an RF absorber. The beamformer also includes robust input and output coaxial connections in which the heads of the coaxial input and output pins are captured between the conductive backing plate and the substrate sheet and ground shrouds are attached to the dielectric substrate sheet.