Patent Document ID: 7894925
Application ID: 12038043
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for determining the location of seams in a multilayer radome for an array of radiating elements, said radome having thickness and first and second lateral dimensions defining broad sides, said method comprising the steps of: quantizing the thickness of said radome into plural layers, each layer having characteristics different from those of adjacent layers; for each of said layers, generating a plurality of different possible radome seam location combinations, where each of said seams overlies a line array of said array, to thereby generate a population of possible parent radomes; creating at least two child radomes from each pair of parent radomes in said population; forming an image from each parent and child radome in each population; two-dimensional Fourier transforming each of said images, to thereby generate Fourier transformed images; assessing each of said Fourier transformed images by means of an optimization process to thereby select an optimal radome seam combination defining the seam locations in each layer of said radome; and making a radome having the optimal radome seam locations.