Patent ID: 11870154
Assignee: ALL.SPACE NETWORKS LIMITED
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system for forming beams on a switched-feed antenna, comprising:
a plurality of feed antennas;
a plurality of switching circuits arranged in a plurality of separately interconnected columns, each of said plurality of switching circuits associated with one of the plurality of feed antennas, and each of said plurality of switching circuits having two or more signal ports in addition to a feed antenna port coupled to the one of the plurality of feed antennas;
a controller configured to:
control at least one of the plurality of switching circuits in each of two or more of the plurality of separately interconnected columns to use a first one of the two or more signal ports in each of the two or more of the plurality of separately interconnected columns to direct a first signal of each of the two or more of the plurality of separately interconnected columns, received by the associated one of the plurality of feed antennas, to a first-side port of each of the two or more of the plurality of separately interconnected columns, and
control at least one of the plurality of switching circuits in each of two or more of the plurality of separately interconnected columns to use a second one of the two or more signal ports in each of the two or more of the plurality of separately interconnected columns to direct a second signal of each of the two or more of the plurality of separately interconnected columns, received by the associated one of the plurality of feed antennas, to a second-side port of each of the two or more of the plurality of separately interconnected columns;

a first combiner configured to combine the first signal from the two or more of the plurality of separately interconnected columns at the first-side port; and
a second combiner configured to combine the second signal from the two or more of the plurality of separately interconnected columns at the second-side port.