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US3780374A
US3780374A US00232897A US3780374DA US3780374A US 3780374 A US3780374 A US 3780374A US 00232897 A US00232897 A US 00232897A US 3780374D A US3780374D A US 3780374DA US 3780374 A US3780374 A US 3780374A
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  • ABSTRACT A radome wall with matching layers wherein a single layer dielectric plate having a dielectric constant of e, is sandwiched by two dielectric matching layers having the dielectric constant of VE
  • One form of providing the matching layers is wit h strips of the same dielectric material as the plate.
  • the strips may be spaced in parallel or parallel lattice form with a spacing pitch P between adjacent strips in order to obtain the equivalent dielectric constant of the matching layer V2:
  • the thickness of th cor is a lso determined to be an odd multiple of M4 in order to obtain broader frequency band characteristics.
  • This invention relates to a radoine with matching layers.
  • Conventional radomes now in use for antennas are usually constructed of thin plates of material or the like. That is to say, they are made of dielectric plates having a uniform single layer with a thickness shorter than the wavelength of an operating wavelength.
  • the wavelength is sufficiently large as is the case with the VHF and UHF bands, the use of a thin dielectric plate for constructing a radome which crosses the path of the radiation wave from an antenna scarecely affects the electro magnetic properties of the radiation wave.
  • the radome is designed to have a single layer of a 0.4 mm thickness of F.R.P. (Fiber Reinforced Plastic) for the purpose of mechanical strength for the radome structure, the VSWR (Voltage Standing Wave Ratio) for a frontal incidental wave will generally become as high as 1.2.
  • F.R.P. Fiber Reinforced Plastic
  • the thickness of the layer of a radome is required to be as thick as possible with respect to mechanical strength.
  • a sandwich radome is well known. It is, however, difficult to make such a radome, because there are various problems in the designing and manufacturing techniques.
  • the present invention provides a new radome with matching layers which is free from the drawbacks of conventional techniques as mentioned above.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to provide a radome which has a low VSWR over a broad frequency band and a small transmission loss, and further has a radome layer thickness with sufficient mechanical strength.
  • FIG. 1 shows the construction of an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1a is a perspective view and b a view in cross section of the structure shown in FIG. la.
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic section view of the structure shown in FIG. 1 for explaining the electric properties of the radome of the present invention.
  • FIG. 3, FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 are graphic illustrations showing the transmission loss versus frequency range curve and VWSR to frequency range curve in accordance with changing thickness of the plate of unilayer radome of the present invention.
  • FIGS. 6a, 6b, and 6c are cross sectional views of the radome wall of the present invention for explaining the methods of manufacturing the radome according to the teachings of the present invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a perspective view in partial cross section showing a lattice construction of the single layer radome of the present invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a perspective view of an embossed type construction of the single layer radome of the present invention.
  • FIG. la is a slant view of the radome of the present invention with matching layers.
  • FIG. lb shows a section of the radome shown in FIG. la.
  • 1 de' notes a dielectric plate which constitutes a single layer radome and 2 impedance matching layers.
  • the matching layers (2) are made of strips having width W and thickness 1, of a dielectric material which are arranged in parallel and attached to the surface of the single layer radome plate having the thickness t with the spacing pitch P.
  • the direction of the strips is in conformity with the direction of the polarized electric field.
  • the matching layers (2) which are made of the arrangement of strips of the material of a dielectric constant e, may be equivalent uniform dielectric layers having the dielectric constant e... There will be found a relation between 6, and 6,. as follows:
  • the matching layer of a thickness t may be equivalently converted into a uniform dielectric layer of thickness t having an equivalent dielectric constant 6
  • the function of the matching layers is to provide an intermediate impedance layer between the plate (1) forming a single layer radome and free space in order to match the impedance of the plate of the radome to the characteristic impedance of the free space.
  • an impedance conversion is widely known as a 1/4 wavelength transformer.
  • the characteristic impedance of the dielectric plate of the specific dielectric constant e where, that of free space is I, will be given by l/ /T Accordingly, the characteristic impedance of the matching layer will be given as follows:
  • the e,- of formula (l) is not the same as the e, of formula (2).
  • the thickness t, of the matching layer being effectively A the wavelength is given by the free space wavelength )to and the equivalent dielectric constant 6 or the dielectric constant e, as follows.
  • pitch P may be selected freely under the condition that P is sufficiently smaller than the wavelength in the material of the equivalent dielectric constant 6,. (where A )to/ E).
  • the plate of the unilayer radome and strips for the matching layer are made of the same material, F.R.P. (Fiber Reinforced Plastic), the operating frequency is 12 GHz and e,- is 4. v
  • i/T A0 Bo +Co Do/2
  • the transmission loss in dB and the VSWR for the normal wave incident the radome of the present invention are calculated and illustrated in FIGS. 3, 4 and 5 over the frequency range 11.0 GHz to 13.0 HGz, where the material of radome plate and matching layers are both F.R.P., P 6.3 mm and W 2.1 mm.
  • the thickness 1 of the unilayer radome As is easily understood from FIGS. 3, 4 and 5, there will be found an optimum value for the thickness 1 of the unilayer radome. In the examples of these calculations, when 1 is 2 mm, the broadest band is obtained. The fact that t is 3 mm shows that the thickness of the unilayer radome is approximately M4. It is seen from the above that the thickness of the plate of the unilayer radome will be optimum if it is approximately an odd number multiple of ) ⁇ /4, as well as would be the thickness of the matching layers.
  • both surfaces of a dielectric plate having a dielectric constant of a may be provided with matching layers made of the same or a different material and the surfaces are given a lattice-like or embossed construction as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 with parts of the matching layers left missing so as to make the average dielectric constant of the matching layers R1, the thickness of the matching layers being equivalently made 54 wavelength.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 an instance where the directions of polarization of the matching layers and electric field are made to coincide with each other was described in detail.
  • the electric field has components of two directions perpendicular to each other, it is preferable to use matching layers of a latticelike shape. See FIG. 7 for example.
  • the matching layers may be given a regular spacingly embossed configuration as shown in FIG. 8.
  • FIGS. 6a, 6b and 6c are sketches for the purpose of explaining the manufacturing processes.
  • FIG. 6a shows, as an example, a method wherein matching layers (dielectric strips) 2 are attached to a dielectric plate I by means of an interposed material of an adhesive or the like.
  • FIG. 6b shows a method wherein cutting is done into a dielectric plate of a large thickness to form the matched layers.
  • FIG. 60 shows a method wherein a plastic material is moulded by means of metal moulds conforming to the shape of the matching layers.
  • a radome wall with matching layers comprising a single layer dielectric plate of any desired thickness having a dielectric constant of 6,, and two dielectric matching layers sandwiching said plate therebetween, each of said matching layers having the average dielectric constant of V6,- and a thickness which is an odd number multiple of M4 where )t is the wavelength in the matching layer.

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