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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2013
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventor:
Daniel J. Gregoire, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 3/34 (2006.01); H01Q 15/00 (2006.01); H01Q 3/44 (2006.01); H01Q 13/28 (2006.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01); H01Q 3/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 3/34 (2013.01); H01Q 3/242 (2013.01); H01Q 3/443 (2013.01); H01Q 13/28 (2013.01); H01Q 15/0066 (2013.01); H01Q 21/0006 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a plurality of radiating elements and a plurality of surface wave feeds. Each radiating element in the plurality of radiating elements comprises a number of surface wave channels in which each of the number of surface wave channels is configured to constrain a path of a surface wave. A surface wave feed in the plurality of surface wave feeds is configured to couple a surface wave channel in the number of surface wave channels of a radiating element in the plurality of radiating elements to a transmission line configured to carry a radio frequency signal.