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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2013
Applicant:
Monarch Antenna, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Inventor:
Tayfun Ozdemir, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 9/0442 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49016 (2015.01);
Abstract
A patch antenna system comprises a patch antenna having a patch spatially separated from a ground plane, a plurality of shorting pins interposed between the patch and the ground plane to selectively interconnect one or more predetermined fixed locations of the patch to the ground plane. A control module is operably coupled to a discrete RF switch associated with each shorting pin to set the operating frequency characteristic of the patch antenna by selectively connecting the patch to the ground plane through one or more of the plurality of shorting pins.