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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2014
Mma Design, Llc, Boulder, CO (US);
Thomas Jeffrey Harvey, Nederland, CO (US);
Jeffrey Edwin Oroke, Boulder, CO (US);
Ryan M. VanHalle, Golden, CO (US);
M.M.A. Design, LLC, Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the invention is directed to an array of articulable masts for use with an array of directional elements. In a particular embodiment, each of the masts employs: (a) a linked structure with a plurality of pivotally connected links that includes a fixed link which is attached to a base and a free link which is adapted to support a directional antenna and (b) a wire structure that engages the linked structure. The array also includes a rotor structure that engages the corresponding wire structure associated with each of the linked structures. In operation, rotation of the rotor structure causes the free ends of the linked structures to move such that the boresights of any attached directional elements are moved at the substantially the same time and in the same way and so that each boresight is collinear or parallel to a radius of a spherical section.