Accession Number:

ADD014746

Title:

Lightweight Deployable Antenna System.

Descriptive Note:

Patent Application, Filed 7 Sep 90,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Mileski, Paul
• Kornblith, Jeffrey

Report Date:

1990-09-07

Pagination or Media Count:

23.0

Abstract:

A deployable antenna assembly includes a canister providing an elongated chamber and an elongated hollow mast with a mounting member on its upper end. A coaxial cable extends into the hollow mast to provide radio signals to the antenna assembly and four antenna members of resiliently deflectable wire spaced at 90o intervals about the periphery of the mounting plate comprise a generally helical coil and elongate arms extending downwardly along the inner wall of the canister, and each opposed pair comprises a dipoles. A pair of baluns are connected to the coaxial cable and disposed adjacent the mounting member, and a phase shifter is connected between the coaxial cable and one of the baluns. Connectors conductively connect the central conductor of the balun to the coil of one of the antenna members of a dipole, and the conductive shield to the coil of the other antenna member of a dipole. Keywords Antenna configurations Antenna components Communication and radio systems Environments Patent applications. emk

Descriptors:

• ANTENNA COMPONENTS
• ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS
• ANTENNAS
• ASSEMBLY
• COAXIAL CABLES
• COILS
• COMMUNICATION AND RADIO SYSTEMS
• CONDUCTIVITY
• COUPLING CIRCUITS
• DEPLOYMENT
• HELIXES
• INTERNAL
• LIGHTWEIGHT
• MASTS
• PATENT APPLICATIONS
• PHASE SHIFT CIRCUITS
• RADIO SIGNALS
• SHIELDING
• WALLS
• WIRE

Subject Categories:

• Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE