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Shared aperture antenna for independently steered, multiple simultaneous beams

  • US 5,128,687 A
  • Filed: 05/09/1990
  • Issued: 07/07/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/09/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An antenna comprising:

  • a lens comprising an array of radiating elements located on a focal arc, each radiating element corresponding to a different transmission beam direction; and

    a beam launcher comprising a plurality of phased arrays and a plurality of internal probes, each of said plurality of internal probes being electrically coupled to a corresponding one of said radiating elements, each of the phased arrays of said plurality of phased arrays being independently steered and having a corresponding aperture that is internal to the beam launcher wherein each phased array selectively space feeds a corresponding one or more of said internal probes with a different transmit signal through its corresponding aperture so as to generate a plurality of independently steered transmission beam patterns from said lens, the aperture of at least one of said plurality of phased arrays being separate from the apertures of the other of said plurality of phased arrays.

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