Patents by Inventor Tony Myron Cecil

Tony Myron Cecil 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).

  • Time-delayed directional beam phased array antenna
    Patent number: 6806845
    Abstract: An antenna comprising a phased array of quadrifilar helix or other multifilar antenna elements and a time-delaying feed network adapted to feed the elements. The feed network can employ a plurality of coaxial cables that physically bridge a microstrip feed circuitry to feed power signals to the elements. The cables provide an incremental time delay which is related to their physical lengths, such that replacing cables having a first set of lengths with cables having a second set of lengths functions to change the time delay and shift or steer the antenna's main beam. Alternatively, the coaxial cables may be replaced with a programmable signal processor unit adapted to introduce the time delay using signal processing techniques applied to the power signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Eugene Fund, John William Cable, Tony Myron Cecil
  • Time-delayed directional beam phased array antenna
    Publication number: 20040135736
    Abstract: An antenna comprising a phased array of quadrifilar helix or other multifilar antenna elements and a time-delaying feed network adapted to feed the elements. The feed network can employ a plurality of coaxial cables that physically bridge a microstrip feed circuitry to feed power signals to the elements. The cables provide an incremental time delay which is related to their physical lengths, such that replacing cables having a first set of lengths with cables having a second set of lengths functions to change the time delay and shift or steer the antenna's main beam. Alternatively, the coaxial cables may be replaced with a programmable signal processor unit adapted to introduce the time delay using signal processing techniques applied to the power signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Douglas Eugene Fund, John William Cable, Tony Myron Cecil