DIRECTION FINDER ANTENNA

• US 20070109213A1
• Filed: 11/07/2006
• Published: 05/17/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Research of Electronics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: General Research of Electronics, Inc.
• Inventors: Takahashi, Teruo
• Application Number:
  US11/557,140
• Publication Number:
  US 20070109213A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/893
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/062 using dipole aerials; H01Q21/067, H01Q21/068 take precedence

Abstract

The present invention provides a direction finder antenna that includes an antenna mount having one flat portion and four extensible whip antenna elements respectively upright provided rotatably at antenna upright-provided points formed on one circumference at an antenna upright-provided surface. The four extensible whip antenna elements can be rotatably set to arbitrary angular positions lying in sector-shaped areas each having an open angle of 180° orthogonal to the one circumference, which are formed on the antenna upright-provided surface side, centering on the respective antenna upright-provided points at the antenna upright-provided surface.

Claims

1. A direction finder antenna comprising:

an antenna mount having at least one flat portion; and

extensible whip antenna elements of four or more which use the flat portion of the antenna mount as an antenna upright-provided surface and are respectively upright provided rotatably at antenna upright-provided points formed on one circumference at the antenna upright-provided surface,

wherein the extensible whip antenna elements are respectively capable of being rotatably set to arbitrary angular positions lying in sector-shaped areas each having an open angle of 180°

orthogonal to the one circumference, which are formed on the antenna upright-provided surface side, centering on the respective antenna upright-provided points at the antenna upright-provided surface.

2. A direction finder antenna comprising:

an antenna mount having at least one flat portion; and

extensible whip antenna elements of four or more which use the flat portion of the antenna mount as an antenna upright-provided surface and are respectively upright provided rotatably at antenna upright-provided points formed on one circumference at the antenna upright-provided surface,

wherein the extensible whip antenna elements are respectively capable of being rotatably set to arbitrary angular positions in hemispherical areas formed on the antenna upright-provided surface side, lying in spherical areas with respective antenna upright-provided points at the antenna upright-provided surface as the centers.

3. A direction finder antenna comprising:

an antenna mount having upper and lower surface portions and side surface portions formed so as to connect side edges of the upper surface portion and side edges of the lower surface portion; and

a plurality of extensible whip antenna elements which respectively use the side surface portions of the antenna mount as antenna upright-provided surfaces and are respectively upright provided rotatably at antenna upright-provided points formed at plural equal intervals on a straight line connecting the same vertical positions at the antenna upright-provided surfaces,

wherein the extensible whip antenna elements are respectively capable of being rotatably set to arbitrary angular positions lying in sector-shaped areas each having an open angle of 180°

orthogonal to the straight line formed on the antenna upright-provided surfaces sides, centering on the respective antenna upright-provided points at the antenna upright-provided surfaces.

5. The direction finder antenna according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the antenna mount has upper and lower surface portions each shaped in the form of an approximately square, and a plurality of extensible whip antenna elements are respectively provided at antenna upright-provided points respectively formed at positions corresponding to respective sides of the approximately squares at antenna upright-provided surfaces.

6. The direction finder antenna according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the antenna mount includes upper and lower surface portions whose shapes are approximately circular, and a plurality of extensible whip antenna elements are respectively provided at antenna upright-provided points respectively formed at positions each corresponding to a circumferential area shaped in the approximately circular form at an antenna upright-provided surface.

7. The direction finder antenna according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the antenna mount has upper and lower surface portions whose shapes are approximately equilateral pentagonal or regular polygonal greater than the equilateral pentagon, and a plurality of extensible whip antenna elements are respectively provided at antenna upright-provided points respectively formed at positions corresponding to respective sides of the approximately regular polygon at antenna upright-provided surfaces.

4. A direction finder antenna comprising:

an antenna mount having upper and lower surface portions and side surface portions formed so as to connect side edges of the upper surface portion and side edges of the lower surface portion; and

a plurality of extensible whip antenna elements which respectively use the side surface portions of the antenna mount as antenna upright-provided surfaces and are respectively upright provided rotatably at antenna upright-provided points formed at plural equal intervals on a straight line connecting the same vertical positions at the antenna upright-provided surfaces,

wherein the extensible whip antenna elements are respectively capable of being rotatably set to arbitrary angular positions in hemispherical areas formed on the antenna upright-provided surfaces sides, lying in spherical areas with the respective antenna upright-provided points at the antenna upright-provided surfaces as the centers.