Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enhanced directivity feed and feed array
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Application No.: US16404578Application Date: 2019-05-06
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Publication No.: US10741930B2Publication Date: 2020-08-11
- Inventor: Donald L Runyon , Anders Jensen , Ken J. Larson , Jason T. King , Joseph M. Carlson
- Applicant: VIASAT, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Assignee: Viasat, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Viasat, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Agency: Holland & Hart LLP
- Main IPC: H01Q19/13
- IPC: H01Q19/13 ; H01Q21/06 ; H01Q13/02 ; H01Q21/30 ; H01Q15/24 ; G06F30/00

Abstract:
Disclosed is a shaped horn in conjunction with a dielectric tube for enhanced aperture directivity that can achieve a near optimum efficiency. The shaped horn provides additional mode control to provide an improved off-axis cross-polarization response. The horn shape can be individually optimized for isolated horns or for horns in a feed array. The feed array environment can produce results that lead to a different optimized shape than the isolated horn. Lower off axis cross-polarization can result in improved efficiency and susceptibility to interference.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190341700A1 ENHANCED DIRECTIVITY FEED AND FEED ARRAY Public/Granted day:2019-11-07
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