US 11,990,676 B2
Deployable electromagnetic radiation directing lens system
Mark Alan Bailey, Longmont, CO (US); and Mitchell Todd Wiens, Loveland, CO (US)
Assigned to M.M.A. Design, LLC, Louisville, CO (US)
Filed by M.M.A. Design, LLC, Louisville, CO (US)
Filed on Aug. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/402,414.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/065,617, filed on Aug. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0102868 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. H01Q 15/02 (2006.01); H01Q 1/28 (2006.01); H01Q 3/14 (2006.01); H01Q 3/20 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 15/02 (2013.01) [H01Q 3/14 (2013.01); H01Q 3/20 (2013.01); H01Q 1/288 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A deployable electromagnetic radiation antenna system comprising:
one or more support structures;
an electromagnetic radiation directing lens adapted to pass a beam of electromagnetic radiation; and
a satellite body including at least one deployment mechanism, wherein the electromagnetic radiation directing lens is deployable in a first direction away from the satellite body, the electromagnetic radiation directing lens being coupled to the satellite body by the one or more support structures, wherein the at least one deployment mechanism deploys the one or more support structures by increasing the one or more support structures in length to extend between the electromagnetic radiation directing lens and the satellite body along the length, wherein increasing the one or more support structures in length causes concurrent expansion of the electromagnetic radiation directing lens from an undeployed state to a deployed state to at least form a substantially planar surface of the deployed electromagnetic radiation directing lens.