Patents by Inventor Kenneth D. Claborn

Kenneth D. Claborn 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: H173
    Abstract: Beam pointing errors and sidelobes resulting from temperature variations on he aperture and power divider of a series phased array antenna operating at a plurality of selected operating channel frequencies and having uniformly spaced elements are compensated for by placing a temperature sensor on both the aperture and power divider and converting the respective temperature outputs to digital signals which are fed to a digital beam steering unit. A pair of programmed memories are included in the beam steering unit which respond to an address or pointer corresponding to the digitized temperature values and the selected operating frequency to read out stored digitized beam steering phase gradients and feed phase corrections which are combined and sequentially applied at regular intervals to symmetrically located phase shifter pairs. A uniformly compensated beam is thereafter radiated at a predetermined phase angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Claborn, William C. Bailey