Plural-reflector antenna system

• US 7,009,574 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2004
• Issued: 03/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Naito, Izuru, Horie, Toshiyuki, Kusakabe, Kenji, Nuimura, Syuji
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAN, THO GIA
• Application Number:
  US10/916,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20050200547A1
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• Field of Search: 343/781.CA, 343/781.P
• US Class Current: 343/781.00P
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/52 Means for reducing coupling between antennas; Means for reducing coupling between an antenna and another structure absorbing means H01Q17/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 19/19 comprising one main concave reflecting surface associated with an auxiliary reflecting surface

Abstract

In order to lessen the deterioration of the VSWR, a plural-reflector antenna system is provided wherein an appropriately shaped vertex matching plate is disposed on the subreflector and electric waves that reenter the primary radiator are cancelled out.

The electric waves radiated from the primary radiator are reflected by the subreflector and are radiated into space after being reflected by the main reflector. The passing area in the horn aperture, through which the reflected waves from the vertex matching plate pass, is made to be analogous to the aperture of the primary radiator, by defining the vertex matching plate as an ellipsoid, and by orienting its minor-axis direction in the major-axis direction of the main reflector and its major-axis direction, in the minor-axis direction of the main reflector.

Claims

1. A plural-reflector antenna system comprising:

an ellipsoidal main reflector;

a subreflector being disposed opposite to the main reflector;

a primary radiator for radiating electric waves to the subreflector, the primary radiator being disposed opposite to the subreflector; and

a vertex matching plate for reflecting to the primary radiator the electric waves radiated from the primary radiator, the vertex matching plate being disposed in the approximately central position of the subreflector and having an ellipsoidal mirror surface.

2. A plural-reflector antenna system according to claim 1, wherein the minor-axis direction of the ellipsoid of the vertex matching plate is oriented in the major-axis direction of the ellipsoid of the main reflector.

3. A plural-reflector antenna system according to claim 1, wherein the rim of the vertex matching plate is formed in a skirt shape.

4. A plural-reflector antenna system according to claim 1, wherein the primary radiator has a pyramidal horn.

5. A plural-reflector antenna system according to claim 1, wherein the primary radiator has an ellipsoidal horn.

6. A plural-reflector antenna system comprising:

an axisymmetrically-shaped main reflector;

a subreflector being disposed opposite to the main reflector;

a primary radiator for radiating electric waves to the subreflector, the primary radiator being disposed opposite to the subreflector and having a pyramidal horn; and

a vertex matching plate for reflecting to the primary radiator the electric waves radiated from the primary radiator, the vertex matching plate being disposed in the approximately central position of the subreflector and having an ellipsoidal mirror surface.

7. A plural-reflector antenna system comprising:

an axisymmetrically-shaped main reflector;

a subreflector being disposed opposite to the main reflector;

a primary radiator for radiating electric waves to the subreflector, the primary radiator being disposed opposite to the subreflector and having an ellipsoidal horn; and

a vertex matching plate for reflecting to the primary radiator the electric waves radiated from the primary radiator, the vertex matching plate being disposed in the approximately central position of the subreflector and having an ellipsoidal mirror surface.