Drum-deployable multibay antenna

Details Drum-deployable multibay antenna Drum-deployable multibay antenna

1990-12-20

1993-05-25

Wimer, Michael C.

Communications: radio wave antennas

Antennas

With reel for antenna

3437925, H01Q 112

Patent

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052144399

ABSTRACT:
A deployable crossed log-periodic dipole array antenna includes a plurality of bays, each associated with four elongated, flexible antenna elements, each element having an S-shaped cross-section for stiffness. Each bay also includes a spool. The spools have a "squared circle" shape adapted to the natural curvature of the antenna elements. A drum surrounds and is coaxial with all the spools, and the antenna elements extend through apertures in the drum. Rotation of the drum winds and unwinds the flexible antenna elements from their spools simultaneously. When the drum begins to wind for retraction of the elements toward a stowed condition, some bays are arranged so that the elements begin to wind about the spools immediately, whereas other bays are arranged so that the antenna elements rotate about hinges over an angle such as 90.degree. or 180.degree. before beginning to wind onto their spools. The spools of the various bays have effective diameters selected to stow and deploy antenna elements of different lengths in response to the same angular rotation of the drum.

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"Space Antenna Selection and Design" by Brown et al., published in the Oct., 1965 issue of Systems Design magazine.

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