Patents Examined by Bon Wong
  • Integrated reflector and boom
    Patent number: 6919863
    Abstract: An integral reflector-boom assembly (1) for a deployable antenna includes a facesheet (9) of stiff reflective material and a stiff lattice or grid structure bonded to the facesheet to form a reflector (3) portion of the assembly and a boom (5). Interlocked ribs (13, 15, 17 & 19) are arranged in a pattern that defines an isogrid structure in the reflector portion and at least a part of the boom assembly. Some of the ribs (13) extend in one piece from the reflector portion through the boom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Kawahara, Kenneth A. Kaufman, Garrett R. Wittkopp