Patent ID: 7365699

Claim:
A communication system comprising: an ultra wide band (UWB) communication system; and an antenna array system to be coupled to said UWB communication system, the antenna array system comprising a number of dipole elements selected to provide a required bandwidth, said number being at least two, and means for feeding the dipole elements in parallel, each element to be fed individually, through a central point, with a desired transmission signal, said means for feeding the dipole elements in parallel comprising a power divider including a number of output branches equal to said number of dipole elements, each output branch comprising a substantially identical impedance, wherein the power divider is arranged such that a signal feeding any one of said number of dipole elements is substantially in-phase with a signal feeding any other of said number of dipole elements, and wherein the antenna array system is broadside firing and is made of a linear set with a functional relationship between the separation of elements and their related lengths and thicknesses.