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4811026 Mobile satellite receiving antenna especially for recreation vehicle  
A satellite transmission receiving antenna with unique mounting provisions for a recreational vehicle roof. A generally cylindrical collar extends upward from the vehicle roof and attaches to a...
4806945 Receiving head end for polarized microwaves, parabolic aerial and receiving station equipped with such a receiving head end  
A receiving head end comprising only a single movable component, a front depolarizer (POM), for selecting conjugate polarized microwaves. The addition of a fixed depolarizer (POF) provides two...
4804971 Guy system for parabolic reflecting antenna  
A guy system is disclosed for a parabolic reflecting antenna having a reflecting surface and a signal receiver or feedhorn mounted at its focal point. A plurality of stays or guy wires is secured...
4804972 Monocoque antenna structure  
An enclosed terrestrial antenna system of monocoque construction for receiving television signals from satellites in geostationary orbit. The basic antenna comprises two dish-shaped members having...
4801946 Grid antenna  
A grid parabolic antenna formed of a peripheral hoop and a plurality of metallic reflector ribs arranged in planes substantially parallel to each other and connected to the hoop. The reflector ribs...
4797685 Offset shaped antenna reflector  
An antenna fabrication scheme for shaped reflector analyzes the geometry of the shaped reflector to be fabricated. On the basis of this analysis, a surface of revolution which closely approximates...
4792812 Microwave earth station with embedded receiver/transmitter and reflector  
A low-cost, essentially self-contained microwave earth station having a reflector dish together with the microwave sensing/emitting elements embedded in a rigid, low density and low thermal...
4788555 Combined solar and signal receptor device  
A parabolic reflector for combined use as a solar concentrator and communications antenna having both a shared and joint use mode. In both the joint and shared use mode, the dish concentrates the...
4780726 Depolyable reflector  
An improved hydraulic reflector is provided for use as an antenna or solar reflector or the like, wherein the reflector is collapsible for highly compact stowage within a space vehicle and for...
4766443 Satellite dish antenna apparatus  
A satellite dish antenna having parabolic-shaped support ribs firmly engaging the sides of adjacent screen-mesh reflected petals along the entire longitudinal length of each petal. Each support rib...
4761655 Transportable antenna for an earth station  
The antenna (e.g., a transportable, lightweight and cheap antenna for temporary earth stations) is constructed out of three components. The center component is a circular/parabolic dish. The side...
4757323 Crossed polarization same-zone two-frequency antenna for telecommunications satellites  
The antenna comprises a parabolic reflector (1) and a primary source (2). The reflector (1) comprises a first grating of conductor wires (7) and a second grating of conductor wires (8) which are...
4744644 Membrane concentrator mirror  
A membrane concentrator mirror comprises a rigid, circular-segment-shaped frame-like basic body with a hermetically closed bottom wall, the basic body having a union device for connection with a...
4742359 Antenna system  
A parabolic antenna for SHF band having a primary feeder and a reflector is improved by using a backfire helical antenna as a primary feeder, which is fed by using a coaxial cable. The backfire...
4725847 Reflector antenna having sidelobe nulling assembly with metallic gratings  
A reflector antenna having an adaptive nulling assembly. The assembly comprises a disk shaped mounting plate having a shaft aligned with the rotational axis thereof and passing through the main...
4712110 Five-port monopulse antenna feed structure with one dedicated transmit port  
An antenna feed structure for use with a parabolic reflector in amplitude-comparison monopulse radar applications employs a dedicated transmit feed centered within a four-port receive array of...
4712111 Antenna system  
An antenna system includes a reflector which is a part of a paraboloid of revolution or parabolic cylinder, a primary radiator for clockwise circularly polarized wave, and a primary radiator for...
4710777 Dish antenna structure  
A dish antenna structure (10) is formed from a plurality of ribs (14) which extend from near the center of the dish to its periphery, and which support antenna panels (18) between them. Each rib...
4689633 Flared microwave feed horns and waveguide transitions  
An overmoded waveguide transition comprises a flared waveguide section having different transverse cross-sections at opposite ends thereof, the longitudinal shape of a section of the transition...
4689634 Mount for feedhorn/LNA assembly  
A mount for supporting a feedhorn/LNA assembly in a parabolic satellite antenna is disclosed, said mount providing a sturdy support for positioning the feedhorn/LNA assembly at the focal point of...
4689637 Parabola antenna having increased mechanical strength  
A parabola antenna has a parabola surface whose thickness is uniformly decreased from an outer circumferential portion to a central portion of the parabola surface. The thickness of the parabola...
4673945 Backfire antenna feeding  
A backfire feed antenna has a parabolic reflector with a ring-focus at the reflector focal point comprising a dielectric waveguide having a stem portion and a cap portion with a pointed end and...
4672387 Antenna systems for omnidirectional pattern  
An antenna system which has omnidirectional coverage in azimuth and sectoral coverage in elevation. A main reflector including a reflecting surface has polar symmetry about the Z-axis. It also has...
4663633 Vehicle mounted satellite antenna system  
A satellite antenna particularly adapted for use on a recreational vehicle such as a house trailer or mobile home, having a roof surface, the antenna including a base plate mounted on the vehicle...
4658258 Taperd horn antenna with annular choke channel  
A low cost tapered horn with desirable equal E and H plane pattern beamwidths is achieved with one or more annular channels in the tapered wave translation surfaces of the horn. These channels...
4656484 Radar reflector and scanner with electromagnetic programmable drive  
Elements of a radar antenna are provided with one or more electromagnetic actuators capable of moving the elements (scanner or parabolic reflector), independently of the support system in response...
4647943 Mesh dish antenna and hub  
The ribs of a mesh-type parabolic antenna or the like are clamped in a radial arrangement between the side walls of adjacent wedges in a hub. The hub includes a plate with a flange extending from...
4647938 Double grid reflector antenna  
A double grid reflector antenna for radiating different signals having pure linear orthogonal polarization comprises a couple of identical and superposed reflecting grids. One of said grids has...
4639734 Support structure for paraboloid reflector  
Support structure for a paraboloid reflector of electromagnetic radiation. The structure comprises a plurality of abutting flat ribs arranged on edge in rotated concentric square patterns, with the...
4638322 Multiple feed antenna  
The multiple feed antenna comprises a primary focussing element and at least two feeds. The feeds are spaced from each other and have different characteristics such as different frequency bands....
4631547 Reflector antenna having sidelobe suppression elements  
Suppression of selected sidelobes in a reflector antenna is accomplished by the positioning of two or more metallic disks on the reflector surface at specific distances above the reflector surface.
4630061 Antenna with unbalanced feed  
In general a coaxial feeder connected directly into the center of a half-wave dipole antenna disturbs electrical balance and therefore reduces the effectiveness of the screen of the feeder. In the...
4618866 Dual reflector antenna system  
An antenna system in which primary radiators are disposed on the radiation side of beams from a main reflector and in opposition to a subreflector and in which the subreflector and the primary...
4618867 Scanning beam antenna with linear array feed  
The present invention relates to a scanning beam antenna comprising a doubly-curved main reflector, a doubly-curved subreflector and at least one linear array feed. The main reflector is...
4608571 Collapsible parabolic reflector  
A portable, lightweight, folding parabolic reflector antenna for reception of microwave signals includes an axial wave guide tube which constitutes the main structural supporting member of the...
4607260 Asymmetrically configured horn antenna  
The present invention relates to a horn antenna which provides minimized cross-polarization in the far field of the antenna. The antenna arrangement comprises a horn including four walls wherein a...
4596047 Satellite broadcasting receiver including a parabolic antenna with a feed waveguide having a microstrip down converter circuit  
A compact satellite broadcasting receiver comprises a circular waveguide, a strip-line-shaped probe projected into the circular waveguide, a reflecting element provided downstream of the probe in...
4590481 Focal finder for parabolic reflector antenna  
A compact, easily manipulable measuring device is provided, particularly useful for properly positioning the feed horn of a parabolic reflector antenna, or the like, relative to the satellite...
4585317 Reflector with attenuating connecting plates  
A reflector and method for making the same involves joining a set of curved reflective segments together to form a concave reflector having a focal point common to all of the segments. Each segment...
4584588 Antenna with feed horn and polarization feed  
A polarization feed is provided for use in a directional antenna under separation of two linearly polarized electromagnetic waves whereby the feed is basically comprised of a tube, one end of which...
4578681 Method and apparatus for optimizing feedhorn performance  
An optimized feedhorn comprising a circular waveguide having a corrugated plate disposed around the outside of the aperture of the waveguide wherein the corrugations of the plate are capacitive as...
4575726 Antenna construction including two superimposed polarized parabolic reflectors  
A compact frequency reuse communications antenna includes two superimposed structures, each including Kevlar honeycomb, fabric face skins on the honeycomb, and a reflector over one of the face...
4571594 Directional antenna system having sidelobe suppression  
An electrostatically figured directional antenna array for deployment in outer space having means for suppressing sidelobe responses. A portion of the reflector surface symmetric about its center...
4571591 Three dimensional, orthogonal delay line bootlace lens antenna  
A bootlace microwave lens antenna has orthogonal delay lines for reducing adratic phase errors to improve focusing capability. The collector and radiator elements consist of mutually orthogonal...
4565346 Adjustable bracket mount  
An adjustable bracket mount for mounting certain functional components such as a feed horn and a low noise amplifier on a satellite antenna dish at the prime focus or other desired location above...
4554552 Antenna feed system with closely coupled amplifier  
A compact antenna feed system for orthogonally polarized RF signals includes a waveguide feed having orthogonally disposed internal ridges, a pair of wave detectors coupled to the waveguide feed to...
4544928 Multifrequency reflector antenna  
A multifrequency antenna includes a main reflector for signals in a low frequency band. One or more portions of the main reflector are deformed to provide one or more auxiliary reflectors for...
4538175 Receive only earth satellite ground station  
A receive only, low cost, small size, frequency agile earth satellite ground station has the low noise amplifier, frequency agile receiver, head end modulator, motor control circuit and optional...
4528569 Earth station antenna assembled on site  
Earth station antenna and method for assembly wherein the antenna has a frame made up of accurately stamped radial ribs and circularly disposed cross members, the frame being filled in by either...
4527166 Lightweight folding parabolic reflector and antenna system  
A portable lightweight folding parabolic reflector antenna for reception of microwave signals includes an axial waveguide tube which constitutes the main structural supporting member of the...