US 11,996,636 B1
Antenna loaded with electromechanical resonators
Walter S. Wall, Santa Monica, CA (US); Hyok J. Song, Oak Park, CA (US); Randall L. Kubena, Oak Park, CA (US); and Carson R White, Agoura Hills, CA (US)
Assigned to HRL LABORATORIES, LLC, Malibu, CA (US)
Filed by HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/459,891.
Application 17/459,891 is a division of application No. 15/638,052, filed on Jun. 29, 2017, granted, now 11,145,982.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/356,734, filed on Jun. 30, 2016.
Int. Cl. H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); H01Q 1/34 (2006.01); H01Q 1/36 (2006.01); H01Q 5/357 (2015.01); H01Q 9/06 (2006.01); H01Q 9/16 (2006.01); H01Q 9/30 (2006.01); H01Q 13/10 (2006.01); H01Q 13/18 (2006.01); H01Q 23/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 9/0442 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/34 (2013.01); H01Q 1/36 (2013.01); H01Q 5/357 (2015.01); H01Q 9/0421 (2013.01); H01Q 9/065 (2013.01); H01Q 9/16 (2013.01); H01Q 9/30 (2013.01); H01Q 13/106 (2013.01); H01Q 13/18 (2013.01); H01Q 23/00 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
6. An antenna comprising an array of dipole antenna elements, each of the dipole antenna elements having two arms, each with at least one opening therein separating the arm into a first portion and a second portion at some point along the length of the arm, each said opening being occupied by an electromechanical resonator, at least one of said dipole antenna elements in said array being adapted to be electrically excited by a radio transmitter, the remaining dipole antenna elements in said array surrounding, at least in part, said at least one of said dipole antenna elements in said array, each of the electromechanical resonators in said openings presenting a positive reactance to those portions of the dipole antenna element on either side of said opening at an intended frequencies of operation of the antenna.