Ross A Halverson

US Patent:

47107774, Dec 1, 1987

Filed:

Jan 24, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/694435

Inventors:

Ross Halverson - Lone Rock WI

Assignee:

Kaultronics, Inc. - Richland Center WI

International Classification:

H01Q 1516

US Classification:

343840

Abstract:

A dish antenna structure (10) is formed from a plurality of ribs (14) which extend from near the center of the dish to its periphery, and which support antenna panels (18) between them. Each rib has an outer flexible plastic sheath having grooves (44,45) in its side edges which receive the edges of antenna panels (18) and a hollow longitudinal channel (40) within which a rigid support member (42) is fixed. The support ribs (14) and the antenna panels (18) are curved such that the anterior surface of the dish defined thereby is parabolic.