Communications: radio wave antennas – Antennas – Antenna components
Patent
1994-01-19
1995-08-29
Hajec, Donald
Communications: radio wave antennas
Antennas
Antenna components
343912, H01Q 1520
Patent
active
054464749
ABSTRACT:
A redeployable, furlable rib reflector which is furlable and unfurlable between a first stowed position and a second deployed position. The reflector includes a hub assembly having spaced apart top and bottom plate members adapted to receive an antenna feed assembly mounted thereon and a plurality of attachable modular rib assemblies spaced about a periphery thereof. Each modular rib assembly includes a rib member for supporting a metalized mesh reflector surface attached thereto, a channel section base member, and a hinge assembly for pivotally connecting the rib members to their respective channel section base members. The channel section base members, in turn, are attachable between the top and bottom plate members of the hub assembly and also form a portion of the peripheral wall of the hub assembly. The invention further includes a manually actuable rib furling apparatus which includes an annular ring assembly rotatably mounted to the hub and a plurality of rib furling elements extended therefrom and interposed between selected adjacent pairs of rib members. The annular ring assembly also includes handles to facilitate rotation of the annular ring assembly in order to bring the rib furling elements into contact with the ribs for furling or unfurling about the hub.
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Casebolt Matthew P.
Wade William D.
Hajec Donald
Lockheed Missiles & Space Company Inc.
Morrissey John J.
Phan Tho
Volk H. Donald
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