Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g. – Return signal controls radar system – Antenna control
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-13
2010-02-02
Sotomayor, John B (Department: 3662)
Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g.,
Return signal controls radar system
Antenna control
C342S081000, C342S368000, C343S753000, C343S754000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07656345
ABSTRACT:
A low-profile lens element for steering a beam is provided. Specifically, the low-profile lens element is mechanically rotatable such that a beam can be steered in any direction within three-dimensional space. The lens element may include a number of discrete portions for differentially delaying adjacent discrete portions of a beam in order to effect beam steering.
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Kerby Kiersten Carinne
Paschen Dean Alan
Ball Aerospace & Technoloiges Corp.
Ross P.C. Sheridan
Sotomayor John B
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