US2715184A - Aerials - Google Patents
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
- H01Q21/00—Antenna arrays or systems
- H01Q21/06—Arrays of individually energised antenna units similarly polarised and spaced apart
- H01Q21/08—Arrays of individually energised antenna units similarly polarised and spaced apart the units being spaced along or adjacent to a rectilinear path
- H01Q21/10—Collinear arrangements of substantially straight elongated conductive units
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- the present invention relates to resonant aerials for radiating or receiving electromagnetic waves over a wide range of frequencies.
- an aerial which is capable of radiating or receiving electromagnetic waves whose frequency spectrum extends over a wide range.
- aerials such as dipole aerials
- tubular conductors rather than single solid wires.
- an aerial coupled with energizing or receiving apparatus arranged to operate in a wide range of frequencies, said aerial comprising a thin conductor, a plurality of series impedances disposed at intervals along the length of said conductor, said intervals being smaller than one-quarter of the operating wavelength, and said conductor having such a length and the impedances having such magnitude that the aerial is caused to function with substantially uniform efficiency over said range of frequencies like a vibrator having a length equal to a number of quarter wavelengths, said number including one.
- said aerial may comprise a pair of conductors for operating as a half wavelength resonator, said conductors being inclined to one another to impart a more sharply defined directive diagram.
- An aerial in accordance with the invention is longer than a simple dipole and hence the aerial has a more extended current distribution than that of a simple dipole.
- Such an aerial tends to be less selective than a simple dipole since on the one hand the greater extension of current referred to above tends to yield a greater radiating efficiency so that the aerial is more damped. On the other hand, it also tends to be less selective because the aerial tends to be less reactive due to the neutralizing effect on the inductance of the aerial of the capacitative loading.
- the aerial also has a greater directivity than a simple dipole on account of the more extended current distribution.
- the capacity loading may be so chosen that the current flow in the region of the extremities of the aerial is augmented.
- Figure 1 shows a capacity loaded dipole in accordance with one embodiment of the invention
- Figure 2 shows another capacity loaded aerial in accordance with another embodiment of the invention in which the capacity loading is graded along the arms of the aerial to obtain an augmentation of current at the extremities of the aerial.
- the aerial shown comprises a pair of radiating or receiving conductors 10 and 11 which lie, for example, in a vertical vplane, and which may be each two free-space wavelengths in length and may be each inclined in said plane at 30 degrees with the vertical.
- Numerals 12 indicate series capacities inserted in the conductors 10 and 11. Said capacities may or may not be all equal in magnitude and uniformly distributed. It will be observed that the conductors 10 and 11 are nonterminated, that is they are not terminated by their characteristic impedances.
- each conductor 10 and 11 may extend for a length of two free-space wavelengths, and said capacities may be disposed at uniform intervals of A of a freespace wavelength and graded in magnitude in a uniform manner from 5 micro-micro-farads at the innermost ends of said conductors to 8 micro-micro-farads at the extremities thereof.
- the diameter of the conductors may be approximately 4 inch.
- Such conductors will have an impedance when unloaded of approximately 400 ohms and thus the impedances of the capacities aforesaid are small compared with the impedance of the unloaded conductors.
- the aerial operates substantially as a half-wavelength resonator in said Wide range of frequencies substantially a quarter wavelength of current distribution existing along each conductor 10 and 11 of the aerial.
- the directive diagram of the aerial is similar in character to the two lobes of a dipole except that the lobes are more sharply defined. If the conductors 10 and 11 are co-linear the diagram is symmetrical but each lobe may show a tendency to split into two lobes if the conductors and 11 are excessively long. By inclining the conductors 10 and 11 towards one another as shown in Figure 1, the tendency for the lobes to split is overcome but the directive diagram is rendered slightly asymmetrical.
- the aerial is formed of a plurality of tubular conductors 15. These elements are insulated from one another and as indicated in Figure 2 are capacitatively coupled together by overlapping their ends.
- a non-uniform capacitative series loading of the aerial can be achieved giving a half-wavelength current distribution along the aerial in which more current flows in the region of the extremities of the aerial than if the aerial were in the normal form of an unloaded straight rod, wire or tube, that is to say, in the form of a simple dipole.
- an aerial according to the invention may consist of a straight wire loaded by series connected capacities distributed non-uniformly in magnitude or spacing or both so as to give augmentation at the extremities of the aerial.
- the aerial shown in Figure 1 of the drawings can, as stated, be connected to feeding or receiving apparatus at the adjacent ends 13 and 14 and likewise the aerial shown in Figure 2 can also be connected at the centrally disposed conductor 15 to feeding or receiving apparatus.
- the extremities of the aerials may be connected to said feeding or receiving apparatus.
- An aerial coupled with apparatus for operation in a wide band of frequencies extending over at least 8 per cent of the mean frequency in the range of said band said aerial comprising a thin conductor having one end coupled to said apparatus and its other end left free, a plurality of series capacities having small impedances at the operating wavelength compared with the impedance of said conductor without said capacities, said capacities having magnitudes increasing towards the free end of said conductor and being disposed along the length of said conductor at intervals smaller than one quarter of the operating wavelength, said intervals and the magnitudes of said capacities being proportioned to tune said aerial for operation in said band with a reflection coefficient of less than 10 per cent.
- An aerial coupled with apparatus for operation in a wide band of frequencies extending over at least 8 per cent of the mean frequency in the range of said band said aerial including a pair of arms inclined to one another and each comprising a thin conductor, adjacent ends of said conductors being coupled to said apparatus and their outer ends being left free, a plurality of series capacities having small impedances at the operating wavelength compared with the impedance of each con- 4 ductor without said capacities, said capacities having magnitudes increasing towards the free end of each conductor and being disposed along the length of each conductor at intervals smaller than one quarter of the operating wavelength, said intervals and the magnitudes of quency in the range of said band, said aerial comprising a thin conductor having one end free, a plurality of series capacities having magnitudes increasing towards the free end of said conductor disposed along the length of said conductor at intervals limited substantially to a maximum of one-twelfth of the operating wavelength, the magnitudes of said capacities and their spacing being proportioned to cause said aerial to operate with a reflection coefi
- a tuned aerial for operation over a band of frequencies extending over at least 8 per cent of the-mean frequency in the range of said band said aerial comprising a thin conductor having one end free, a plurality of series capacities having magnitudes increasing towards the free end of said conductor disposed along the length of said conductor at intervals limited substantially to a maximum of one-twelfth of the operating wavelength, the magnitudes of said capacities and their spacing being proportioned to cause said aerial to operate with a reflection coefiicient of less than 10 per cent, said conductor comprising a plurality of sections, and said sections having adjacent overlapping ends and means for insulating said overlapping ends to provide said capacities.
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GB268705X | 1946-10-01 |
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US (1) | US2715184A (de) |
CH (1) | CH268705A (de) |
DE (1) | DE833064C (de) |
FR (1) | FR953486A (de) |
GB (1) | GB628986A (de) |
Cited By (6)
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US2887682A (en) * | 1954-06-18 | 1959-05-19 | Emi Ltd | Aerials |
US3159839A (en) * | 1955-07-07 | 1964-12-01 | Donald L Hings | Driven dipole coupled to a colinear array spaced with respect to the first fresnel zone |
US3530474A (en) * | 1968-07-02 | 1970-09-22 | Us Army | Antenna with adjustable-ratio dual capacitive loading |
US4092646A (en) * | 1975-12-31 | 1978-05-30 | The Marconi Company Limited | Flexible antenna with capacative plate coupling |
US4238800A (en) * | 1978-02-07 | 1980-12-09 | The Marconi Company Limited | Whip antenna with capacitive loading |
US4568944A (en) * | 1982-07-28 | 1986-02-04 | U.S. Philips Corporation | Y-Shaped dipole antenna |
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NL160940B (nl) * | 1950-05-03 | Spanstaal | Werkwijze en inrichting voor het bepalen van het soortelijk gewicht of de transportconcen- tratie aan baggerspecie van een door een leiding stromende suspensie van baggerspecie en water. | |
DE975023C (de) * | 1952-07-24 | 1961-07-06 | Heinz Dr Phil Graziadei | Breitband-Richtstrahlantenne mit einer leitenden Flaeche variabler Breite |
US2924823A (en) * | 1954-12-08 | 1960-02-09 | Emi Ltd | Separate adjacent antennas for different bands with means to reduce cross coupling |
US2967300A (en) * | 1957-11-22 | 1961-01-03 | L A Young Spring & Wire Corp | Multiple band antenna |
US3064257A (en) * | 1958-02-14 | 1962-11-13 | James D Guest | Antenna with adjustable tuning reactance |
GB2148604B (en) * | 1983-10-18 | 1988-01-06 | Plessey Co Plc | Monopole aerial |
GB2148605B (en) * | 1983-10-18 | 1988-02-17 | Plessey Co Plc | Whip aerial |
GB2171258B (en) * | 1985-02-19 | 1988-12-07 | Plessey Co Plc | Aerials |
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US1790646A (en) * | 1925-05-09 | 1931-02-03 | alex anderson | |
US1839426A (en) * | 1924-07-25 | 1932-01-05 | Drahtlose Telegraphie Gmbh | Antenna |
US1935373A (en) * | 1929-03-29 | 1933-11-14 | Rca Corp | Antenna |
US2208749A (en) * | 1937-02-09 | 1940-07-23 | Emi Ltd | Aerial system |
US2258406A (en) * | 1938-04-16 | 1941-10-07 | Rca Corp | Wide band antenna |
US2272608A (en) * | 1939-12-19 | 1942-02-10 | Internat Telephone Dev Co Inc | Antenna matching structure |
US2276910A (en) * | 1939-08-03 | 1942-03-17 | Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co | Phase shifting network |
US2352977A (en) * | 1942-09-18 | 1944-07-04 | Gen Electric | Self-compensating video antenna |
US2409542A (en) * | 1942-11-20 | 1946-10-15 | Rca Corp | High-frequency transducer system |
FR916270A (fr) * | 1944-05-02 | 1946-12-02 | Emi Ltd | Antenne aérienne de rayonnement et de réception des ondes électromagnétiques dans une large gamme de fréquence |
US2419552A (en) * | 1943-06-12 | 1947-04-29 | Standard Telephones Cables Ltd | Radio antenna |
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- 1947-09-24 US US775783A patent/US2715184A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1947-09-25 FR FR953486D patent/FR953486A/fr not_active Expired
- 1947-09-29 CH CH268705D patent/CH268705A/de unknown
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US1839426A (en) * | 1924-07-25 | 1932-01-05 | Drahtlose Telegraphie Gmbh | Antenna |
US1790646A (en) * | 1925-05-09 | 1931-02-03 | alex anderson | |
US1935373A (en) * | 1929-03-29 | 1933-11-14 | Rca Corp | Antenna |
US2208749A (en) * | 1937-02-09 | 1940-07-23 | Emi Ltd | Aerial system |
US2258406A (en) * | 1938-04-16 | 1941-10-07 | Rca Corp | Wide band antenna |
US2276910A (en) * | 1939-08-03 | 1942-03-17 | Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co | Phase shifting network |
US2272608A (en) * | 1939-12-19 | 1942-02-10 | Internat Telephone Dev Co Inc | Antenna matching structure |
US2352977A (en) * | 1942-09-18 | 1944-07-04 | Gen Electric | Self-compensating video antenna |
US2409542A (en) * | 1942-11-20 | 1946-10-15 | Rca Corp | High-frequency transducer system |
US2419552A (en) * | 1943-06-12 | 1947-04-29 | Standard Telephones Cables Ltd | Radio antenna |
FR916270A (fr) * | 1944-05-02 | 1946-12-02 | Emi Ltd | Antenne aérienne de rayonnement et de réception des ondes électromagnétiques dans une large gamme de fréquence |
Cited By (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US2887682A (en) * | 1954-06-18 | 1959-05-19 | Emi Ltd | Aerials |
US3159839A (en) * | 1955-07-07 | 1964-12-01 | Donald L Hings | Driven dipole coupled to a colinear array spaced with respect to the first fresnel zone |
US3530474A (en) * | 1968-07-02 | 1970-09-22 | Us Army | Antenna with adjustable-ratio dual capacitive loading |
US4092646A (en) * | 1975-12-31 | 1978-05-30 | The Marconi Company Limited | Flexible antenna with capacative plate coupling |
US4238800A (en) * | 1978-02-07 | 1980-12-09 | The Marconi Company Limited | Whip antenna with capacitive loading |
US4568944A (en) * | 1982-07-28 | 1986-02-04 | U.S. Philips Corporation | Y-Shaped dipole antenna |
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GB628986A (en) | 1949-09-08 |
CH268705A (de) | 1950-05-31 |
DE833064C (de) | 1952-03-03 |
FR953486A (fr) | 1949-12-07 |
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