Patent ID: 11936415
Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 1:
2. The RF aperture of claim 1, wherein:
the first AIP is a transmit AIP and neighboring pairs of tapered elements are configured to transmit over-the-air differential RF signals;
the first circuit board is a transmit conditioning board selectively operative to at least one of condition or amplify individual signals provided to each aperture pixel of the first AIP; and
the second circuit board is a splitting board selectively operative to receive the modulated transmit signal from the DPB and divide the received modulated transmit signal into individual signals for each pixel of the first AIP;
the RF aperture further comprising:
a second air interface plane (AIP) which is a receive AIP, the second AIP including a second matrix of tapered elements, wherein neighboring pairs of tapered elements within the second matrix define aperture pixels and are configured to receive over-the-air differential RF signals;
a fourth circuit board which is a receive conditioning board, the fourth circuit board being electrically connected to the second AIP and selectively operative to at least one of condition or amplify individual signals received from each aperture pixel of the second AIP; and
a fifth circuit board which is a combining board, the fifth circuit board being electrically connected to the fourth circuit board and selectively operative to combine individual received signals from each pixel of the second AIP into a combined receive signal and provide the combined receive signal to the DPB.