Antenna system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6340948
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08722071

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A communication station for generating or receiving an angularly dispersed array of radiation beams, comprising an array of radiating elements (100) defining an array antenna (1); and a beam former (120), the beam former comprising a passive network having a first side (X) carrying a plurality of beam ports for electrical signals corresponding to the beams and a second side (Y) carrying a plurality of antenna ports corresponding to the radiating elements, each beam port being connected to a plurality of antenna ports via a network (50) of power divider (52) and phase shifter (53) components, the phase shifts of which are in integer multiples of a predetermined constant, so as to generate the array of beams; in which the array antenna (1) has triangular or hexagonal symmetry and the array of beams has triangular or hexagonal symmetry.

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INMARSAT GLOBAL LIMITED99 CITY ROAD LONDON EC1Y 1AX

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chomet, Patrick London, GB 7 152
Hutchinson, Ben Rockville, MD 7 277
Mullins, Dennis London, GB 28 1044
Munoz-Garcia, Samuel London, GB 1 27
Nomoto, Shinichi Tokyo, JP 26 269
Poskett, Peter Little Marlow, GB 3 90

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