Patents by Inventor Krishnan K. Raghavan

Krishnan K. Raghavan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5006859
    Abstract: A patch antenna is formed of one or more flat disc-shaped radiators disposed parallel to and spaced apart from a common ground-plane element. At each radiator, there is a feed assembly of two feeds positioned to one side of a center of the radiator in space quadrature and excited in phase quadrature for generating circularly polarized radiation from the radiator. Each of the feeds, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, is formed as a post extending through an aperture in the ground-plane element partway to the radiator for capacitive coupling with the radiator. At each radiator, a reactance element on the form of a capacitive block extends from the ground-plane element partway to the radiator at a location diametrically opposite the feed assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Mon N. Wong, Robert J. Patin, Brennan J. Trese, Krishnan K. Raghavan