High-frequency current conductor

• US 3,091,655 A
• Filed: 06/29/1960
• Issued: 05/28/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: De Ruiter Jacob Willem
• Original Assignee: De Ruiter Jacob Willem
• Inventors: DE RUITER JACOB WILLEM
• Application Number:
  US04/039,596
• Time in Patent Office: 1,063 Days
• US Class Current: 174/32
• CPC Class Codes: H01P 3/08 Microstrips; Strip lines

Claims

1. A HIGH FREQUENCY CURRENT CONDUCTOR ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SPACED, RELATIVELY INSULATED METAL STRIPS, EACH OF SAID STRIPS BEING T-SHAPED AT ONE END AND HAVING END PORTIONS DEPENDING THEREFROM AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID STRIP, SAID OTHER END OF SAID T-SHAPED STRIP HAVING A FLANGE THEREON EXTENDING PERPENDICULAR TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID END PORTIONS IN A TRANSVERSE PLANE TO THE PLANE OF SAID END PORTIONS SAID STRIPS BEING STACKED IN AN ALTERNATE RELATIONSHIP WHEREBY THE OTHER END OF EACH OF SAID STRIPS IS JUXTAPOSED TO SAID T-SHAPED END OF THE ADJACENT STRIP AND PROJECTS LATERALLY BEYOND SAID T-SHAPED END, AND A BRACKET LOCATED AT EACH END OF SAID CURRENT CONDUCTOR ASSEMBLY, SAID END PORTIONS BEING CONDUCTIVELY CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER AND TO SAID BRACKET, SAID BRACKETS EACH HAVING MOUNTING FLANGES EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALLY CO-PLANAR TO THE FLANGES ON THE OTHER END OF SAID T-SHAPED STRIPS AND SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXES OF SAID METAL STRIPS.