US 11,909,091 B2
Expansion compensation structure for an antenna
Steven Howard Linn, Hillsboro, OR (US); Mehdi Afkhami Reihani, Redmond, WA (US); Stephen Olfert, Kent, WA (US); Chris Eylander, Redmond, WA (US); Felix Chen, Kirkland, WA (US); Corey Pfeiff, Redmond, WA (US); and Jonathan Byron, Redmond, WA (US)
Assigned to KYMETA CORPORATION, Bothell, WA (US)
Filed by Kymeta Corporation, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on May 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/323,800.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/027,186, filed on Jul. 21, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0273311 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/38 (2006.01); H01Q 21/06 (2006.01); H01Q 1/08 (2006.01); H01Q 1/42 (2006.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 1/085 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/42 (2013.01); H01Q 21/005 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An antenna comprising:
an array of antenna elements; and
a structure coupled to the array of antenna elements, the structure having a plurality of components comprising materials having different coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs), wherein first and second components of the plurality of components are pin bonded with one or more pins, and one or more components of the plurality of components other than the first and second components are between the first and second components and have one or more slots through which the one or more pins traverse and have CTEs different than CTEs of the first and second components to allow movement of at least one component of the one or more components between the first and second components around the one or more pins due to thermal expansion.