Communications: radio wave antennas – Antennas – Antenna components
Reexamination Certificate
2009-08-20
2010-11-23
Mancuso, Huedung (Department: 2821)
Communications: radio wave antennas
Antennas
Antenna components
Reexamination Certificate
active
07839353
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for making a mesh reflector that may be used to produce a shaped reflector is provided. The mesh reflector may be an umbrella-style deployable mesh reflector capable of approximating both parabolic and arbitrarily shaped reflecting surfaces, including those with regions of reversed curvature. The reflecting surface may be provided by a soft mesh attached to a highly pre-tensioned net composed of two sets of substantially parallel chords forming a plurality of parallelogram-shaped facets. The net/mesh may be made to conform to the desired shape by pulling and/or pushing on it at each of its facet corners via a set of finely adjustable tension ties and/or compression rods, the distal ends of which react against a set of pre-tensioned catenary-shaped chords disposed on the aft side of the mesh. The net/mesh and the aft catenaries may be supported and pretensioned by a set of substantially stiff radial ribs connected to a central hub by a means capable of providing high deployment torque and a means for controlling and coordinating the deployment of the ribs so that they reach their fully deployed positions nearly simultaneously. Methods for fabricating the mesh and attaching it to the net are also provided.
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Klintworth & Rozenblat IP LLC
Mancuso Huedung
The Boeing Company
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