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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2012
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sean Lever, Irvine, CA (US);
Nando Hunt, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Ching-Shun Yang, Irvine, CA (US);
George Sideris, Irvine, CA (US);
Carmine M. Fiorello, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Alexander Rabinovich, Cypress, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A common multi-purpose actuator to control antenna remote electrical tilt, remote azimuth steering, and remote azimuth beam-width control is disclosed. A single stepper motor uses a Hall-sensor for closed loop positioning feedback. Serial and parallel communications are employed through the same harness to the motor control circuit. The driven shaft of the motor turns a self-locking worm-gear which rotates a mating shaft which drives the necessary gearing. The actuator assembly can be arranged in multiple or single output configurations. DC line filtering improves the antenna signal to spurious noise ratio.