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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2016
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Joseph P. Nipper, Allen, TX (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed toward methods for forming an expanding lattice notch array antenna that includes a plurality of notch antenna elements extending from a surface of a base plate. The properties and dimensions of the notch antenna elements can be manipulated in order to provide an expanding notch array antenna whereby an area of a base portion of the array is different from an area of a top portion of the array, without increasing an overall height of the notch array antenna. The method includes coupling a first plurality of notch elements to a first surface of a base plate in a first orientation, expanding a second plurality of notch elements from a first state to a second state and coupling the second plurality of notch elements in the second state to the first surface of the base plate in a second orientation.