- Patent Title: Active antenna architecture with reconfigurable hybrid beamforming
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Application No.: US15355968Application Date: 2016-11-18
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Publication No.: US10236589B2Publication Date: 2019-03-19
- Inventor: Hervé Legay
- Applicant: THALES
- Applicant Address: FR Courbevoie
- Assignee: THALES
- Current Assignee: THALES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Courbevoie
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Priority: FR1502522 20151204
- Main IPC: H01Q15/00
- IPC: H01Q15/00 ; H01Q25/00 ; H01Q1/42 ; H01Q19/13 ; H01Q21/00 ; H01Q1/28 ; H01Q15/02

Abstract:
An antenna architecture comprises a hybrid beamformer comprising on the one hand, Ny stacked quasi-optical beamformers, each quasi-optical beamformer comprising a parallel-plate waveguide furnished with a linear radiating aperture and integrating a lens and internal horns furnished with beam access ports, each quasi-optical beamformer forming beams in two, transmission and reception, frequency bands, in a first direction in space, and on the other hand, at least one electronic beamformer comprising a combining device linked to Nx phase and amplitude control chains, each phase and amplitude control chain being connected to a respective beam access port of each quasi-optical beamformer, the electronic beamformer forming beams in a second direction in space, orthogonal to the first direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170162943A1 ACTIVE ANTENNA ARCHITECTURE WITH RECONFIGURABLE HYBRID BEAMFORMING Public/Granted day:2017-06-08
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