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1. 发明授权

US06690324B2 Phased array antenna having reduced beam settling times and related methods 有权
标题翻译：具有减小的光束稳定时间的相控阵天线和相关方法
公开(公告)号：US06690324B2
公开(公告)日：2004-02-10
申请号：US09991495
申请日：2001-11-09
申请人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
发明人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
IPC分类号： H01Q322
CPC分类号： H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q3/36
摘要： A phased array antenna may include a substrate and a plurality of phased array antenna elements carried by the substrate. The phased array antenna may also include a plurality of antenna element controllers for the phased array antenna elements and a central controller for providing beam steering commands and edge trigger synchronization signals for the antenna element controllers. Furthermore, each of the antenna element controllers may store a respective next beam steering command and implement the respective next beam steering command as a respective active beam steering command responsive to the edge trigger synchronization signal from the central controller. The edge trigger synchronization signal may be delivered substantially simultaneously to all of the antenna element controllers, and each antenna element controller may detect the edge trigger synchronization pulse only during a predetermined time window, for example.
摘要翻译：相控阵天线可以包括衬底和由衬底承载的多个相控阵天线元件。相控阵天线还可以包括用于相控阵天线元件的多个天线元件控制器和用于为天线元件控制器提供波束控制命令和边沿触发同步信号的中央控制器。此外，每个天线元件控制器可以存储相应的下一个波束转向命令，并且响应于来自中央控制器的边沿触发同步信号，实现相应的下一个波束控制指令作为相应的主动波束操纵指令。边缘触发同步信号可以基本上同时发送到所有天线元件控制器，并且每个天线元件控制器可以仅在预定时间窗口期间检测边缘触发同步脉冲。

2. 发明授权

US06587077B2 Phased array antenna providing enhanced element controller data communication and related methods 失效
公开(公告)号：US06587077B2
公开(公告)日：2003-07-01
申请号：US09991482
申请日：2001-11-09
申请人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
发明人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
IPC分类号： H01Q302
CPC分类号： H01Q3/36 , H01Q3/26
摘要： A phased array antenna may include a substrate and a plurality of phased array antenna elements carried by the substrate, and a plurality of element controllers connected to the phased array antenna elements. Each element controller may be switchable between inactive and active data receiving states. The phased array antenna may further include a plurality of subarray controllers and a plurality of data buses. Each data bus may connect a respective subarray controller to respective columns and rows of element controllers. Further, each subarray controller may cooperate with a respective data bus for sending data in parallel to a plurality of rows of element controllers and while sequentially switching a given column of element controllers from the inactive data receiving state to the active data receiving state

3. 发明授权

US06573862B2 Phased array antenna including element control device providing fault detection and related methods 失效
公开(公告)号：US06573862B2
公开(公告)日：2003-06-03
申请号：US09991268
申请日：2001-11-09
申请人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
发明人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
IPC分类号： H01Q322
CPC分类号： H01Q3/26 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/267 , H01Q3/36
摘要： A phased array antenna may include a substrate and a plurality of phased array antenna elements carried thereby and an element control device for at least one of the phased array antenna elements. The element control device may include an IC die including output circuitry, readback circuitry, and control circuitry connected to the output and readback circuitry. The element control device may further include an IC package surrounding the IC die, a plurality of output terminals connected to the output circuitry and extending outwardly from the IC package, and a plurality of readback input terminals connected to the readback circuitry and extending outwardly from the IC package. Further, respective external readback connections may extend between the plurality of output terminals and the plurality of readback input terminals. The control circuitry may cause the output circuitry to output signals on the plurality of output terminals to be read back for fault detection.

4. 发明授权

US06522293B2 Phased array antenna having efficient compensation data distribution and related methods 失效
公开(公告)号：US06522293B2
公开(公告)日：2003-02-18
申请号：US09990692
申请日：2001-11-09
申请人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
发明人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
IPC分类号： H01Q322
CPC分类号： H01Q3/36 , H01Q1/02 , H01Q1/246 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q21/062 , H01Q21/24 , H04B7/04
摘要： A phased array antenna may include a substrate and at least one phased array antenna element carried thereby, at least one element controller for controlling the at least one phased array antenna element based upon desired compensation data, and a central controller for supplying to the at least one element controller a current value of a quick control parameter and a block of current compensation data. The block of current compensation data may be based upon a current value of a slow control parameter and a range of possible values for the quick control parameter. Further, the quick control parameter may vary more quickly than the slow control parameter. Additionally, the at least one element controller may determine the desired compensation data based upon the supplied block of current compensation data and the current value of the quick control parameter.

5. 发明授权

US06573863B2 Phased array antenna system utilizing highly efficient pipelined processing and related methods 失效
公开(公告)号：US06573863B2
公开(公告)日：2003-06-03
申请号：US09990756
申请日：2001-11-09
申请人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
发明人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
IPC分类号： H01Q324
CPC分类号： H01Q21/24 , H01Q1/02 , H01Q1/246 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q3/36 , H04B7/04
摘要： A phased array antenna system may include a substrate and a plurality of phased array antenna elements carried by the substrate, a plurality of antenna element controllers connected to the phased array antenna elements, and at least one higher level controller connected to the plurality of antenna element controllers. The at least one higher level controller and/or lower level antenna element controllers in some embodiments may perform a processing operation on a first portion of a received multi-bit command message before receiving all bits of the multi-bit command message.

6. 发明授权

US06522294B2 Phased array antenna providing rapid beam shaping and related methods 失效
公开(公告)号：US06522294B2
公开(公告)日：2003-02-18
申请号：US09991547
申请日：2001-11-09
申请人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
发明人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
IPC分类号： H01Q322
CPC分类号： H01Q3/36 , H01Q1/02 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/26
摘要： A phased array antenna may include a substrate, a plurality of phased array antenna elements carried by the substrate, and a central controller for providing beam steering commands and beam shaping commands. Furthermore, the phased array antenna may also include a plurality of element controllers connected to the phased array antenna elements and the central controller. Each element controller may store at least one position related value based upon physical positioning of the associated phased array antenna element on the substrate, and determine a beam shaping offset based upon the stored at least one position related value and a received beam shaping command from the central controller. Each element controller may also determine at least one phased array antenna element control value based upon a received beam steering command and the beam shaping offset.

7. 发明授权

US06824307B2 Temperature sensor and related methods 失效
标题翻译：温度传感器及相关方法
公开(公告)号：US06824307B2
公开(公告)日：2004-11-30
申请号：US09991559
申请日：2001-11-09
申请人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
发明人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
IPC分类号： G01K734
CPC分类号： H01Q1/02 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q3/36
摘要： A temperature sensor may include a capacitor, a circuit element coupled in series with the capacitor and having a resistance that varies with temperature, and a controller. The controller is for charging/discharging the capacitor through the circuit element, measuring a charging/discharging time required to charge/discharge the capacitor to a predetermined threshold, and determining a temperature based upon the charging/discharging time. More specifically, the circuit element may be a thermistor, for example. The temperature sensor may further include at least one calibration resistor coupled between the controller and the capacitor. As such, the controller may sequentially charge/discharge the capacitor through the circuit element and the at least one calibration resistor, measure respective charging/discharging times required to charge/discharge the capacitor to the predetermined threshold through the circuit element and the at least one calibration resistor, and determine the temperature based upon the charging/discharging times.
摘要翻译：温度传感器可以包括电容器，与电容器串联耦合并具有随温度变化的电阻的电路元件和控制器。控制器用于通过电路元件对电容器进行充电/放电，测量将电容器充电/放电所需的充电/放电时间达到预定阈值，并根据充电/放电时间确定温度。更具体地，电路元件可以是例如热敏电阻。温度传感器还可以包括耦合在控制器和电容器之间的至少一个校准电阻器。这样，控制器可以通过电路元件和至少一个校准电阻器顺序地对电容器进行充电/放电，通过电路元件和至少一个电路元件测量将电容器充电/放电到预定阈值所需的相应充电/放电时间校准电阻，并根据充电/放电时间确定温度。

8. 发明授权

US06646600B2 Phased array antenna with controllable amplifier bias adjustment and related methods 有权
公开(公告)号：US06646600B2
公开(公告)日：2003-11-11
申请号：US09991535
申请日：2001-11-09
申请人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
发明人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
IPC分类号： H01Q322
CPC分类号： H01Q3/26 , H01Q3/28
摘要： A phased array antenna may include a substrate and a plurality of phased array antenna elements carried thereby, and an element control module for at least one of the phased array antenna elements. The element control module may include an amplifier coupled to the at least one phased array antenna element and having a controllable bias, and a controllable device coupled to the amplifier and having at least one of a controllable phase, delay, and attenuation. The element control module may also include a control application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for controlling the controllable phase, delay, and/or attenuation of the controllable device and the controllable bias of the amplifier.

9. 发明授权

US06593881B2 Phased array antenna including an antenna module temperature sensor and related methods 失效
公开(公告)号：US06593881B2
公开(公告)日：2003-07-15
申请号：US09991481
申请日：2001-11-09
申请人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
发明人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
IPC分类号： H01Q322
CPC分类号： H01Q3/267 , H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q3/36
摘要： A phased array antenna includes a plurality of phased array antenna modules and associated antenna elements. Further, at least one of the phased array antenna modules may also include a temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the at least one phased array antenna module. More particularly, the temperature sensor may include a capacitor and a circuit element coupled in series with the capacitor having a resistance that varies with temperature. Additionally, the at least one phased array antenna module may further include a module controller for charging/discharging the capacitor through the circuit element, measuring a charging/discharging time required to charge/discharge the capacitor to a predetermined threshold, and determining the temperature of the at least one phased array antenna module based upon the charging/discharging time.

10. 发明授权

US06496143B1 Phased array antenna including a multi-mode element controller and related method 有权
标题翻译：相控阵天线包括多模元件控制器及相关方法
公开(公告)号：US06496143B1
公开(公告)日：2002-12-17
申请号：US09991534
申请日：2001-11-09
申请人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
发明人： David Kenyon Vail , Frank J. Tabor , Daniel P. Blom , Stephen S. Wilson
IPC分类号： H01Q322
CPC分类号： H01Q1/38 , H01Q3/26 , H01Q3/267
摘要： A phased array antenna may include a substrate and a plurality of controllable phased array antenna elements carried thereby, a central controller for generating a mode selection signal and beam control signals, and at least one multi-mode element controller connected to at least one of the controllable phased array antenna elements and the central controller. The at least one multi-mode element controller may be operable in a desired operating mode from among a plurality of operating modes based upon the mode selection signal from the central controller. Furthermore, the at least one multi-mode element controller may also generate output signals for the at least one controllable phased array antenna element based upon the beam control signals from the central controller.
摘要翻译：相控阵天线可以包括基板和由此携带的多个可控相控阵天线元件，用于产生模式选择信号和波束控制信号的中央控制器，以及至少一个多模元件控制器，连接到至少一个可控相控阵天线元件和中央控制器。基于来自中央控制器的模式选择信号，至少一个多模式元件控制器可以在多个操作模式中的期望操作模式中操作。此外，至少一个多模元件控制器还可以基于来自中央控制器的波束控制信号，为至少一个可控相控阵天线元件生成输出信号。

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