Patent ID: 8937574
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: H01Q

Abstract:
1. A light-weight, air-cooled transmit/receive unit comprising: a first external cover member; an opposed second external cover member; a central housing unit, including thermal management means, interposed between said first and second external cover members; a transmit/receive circuit board, including components and an integrated and common radiating element for at least one channel, interposed between a first surface of said central housing unit and said first external cover member; and a controller circuit board and a power converter circuit board interposed between an opposed second surface of said central housing unit and said second external cover member, wherein said central housing unit comprises a first plate, made of a light-weight, thermally and electrically conductive material, defining said first surface of said central housing unit and haying an opposed inner surface, and a second plate, made of a light-weight, thermally and electrically conductive material, defining said second surface of said central housing unit and having an opposed inner surface.