Patent ID: 6563473
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: H01Q

Abstract:
An antenna array including:a common aperture surface; and two parabolic rectangular reflectors, each parabolic rectangular reflector having a concave side, each parabolic rectangular reflector being disposed contiguously in a linear array forming a larger common rectangular aperture without gaps in illumination, the two parabolic reflectors being disposed on either side of a centre point of the antenna array, each parabolic rectangular reflector having a parabolic focus, each parabolic focus being displaced equally toward the center point of the antenna array, each parabolic reflector connected to either a first reflector feed or a second reflector feed, the first reflector feed being located at the parabolic focus of its corresponding parabolic reflector, the second reflector feed being located at the parabolic focus of its corresponding parabolic reflector, and the two parabolic rectangular reflectors being supported by the common aperture surface between the two parabolic rectangular reflectors and both the first reflector feed and the second reflector feed.