Patents by Inventor Claude Vignier

Claude Vignier 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: 4207573
    Abstract: A dished reflector is illuminated by a primary radiation feed including a rectangular waveguide and a secondary radiation feed comprising two dipoles flanking that waveguide. In order to minimize distortion of the radiation diagram from the secondary feed by the waveguide envelope, at least one elongate corrective member paralleling the dipoles is externally mounted on that envelope and is capacitively coupled or conductively connected thereto at a location where a peripheral current induced by the dipoles is at a maximum. The corrective member, like the dipoles themselves, may be a plate with major faces lying in planes perpendicular to the waveguide axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventor: Claude Vignier