Patent ID: 11923618
Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. An antenna module comprising:
an antenna element to emit and/or absorb radio frequency (RF) signals;
a digital input/output port to send digital signals to and/or to receive digital signals from a digital communications medium;
an electronics unit including at least one of an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter and a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter to provide an interface between the antenna element and the digital input/output port; and
a housing shaped to be disposed conformally with an exterior surface of a platform, wherein the antenna element and electronics unit are disposed within the housing, and the digital input/output port provides ingress/egress of the digital signals to/from the housing,
wherein the each antenna module further comprises:
a ground plane disposed between the antenna element and the electronics unit; and
a substrate disposed between the antenna element and the ground plane, the substrate comprising a tuning resonant disk.