US 12,087,989 B2
RF waveguide cable assembly
Marc Epitaux, Gland (CH); Shashi Chuganey, Newberg, OR (US); Kelly Garrison, Portland, OR (US); Thomas Albert Hall, III, Crestwood, KY (US); Cindy Lee Diegel, Portland, OR (US); James Alexander Moss, Newberg, OR (US); Francisco Noyola, Sherwood, OR (US); Yasuo Sasaki, Yokohama (JP); and Scott Mcmorrow, New Albany, IN (US)
Assigned to SAMTEC, INC., New Albany, IN (US)
Appl. No. 17/611,422
Filed by SAMTEC, INC., New Albany, IN (US)
PCT Filed May 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/032790
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/232192, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/004,441, filed on Apr. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/971,315, filed on Feb. 7, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/847,785, filed on May 14, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/847,756, filed on May 14, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/US2019/033915 (WO), filed on May 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0216581 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H01P 5/08 (2006.01); H01P 1/04 (2006.01); H01P 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC H01P 5/087 (2013.01) [H01P 1/042 (2013.01); H01P 3/16 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A waveguide interconnect member configured to releasably secure a dielectric waveguide to a complementary waveguide interconnect, the waveguide interconnect member comprising:
a gaseous waveguide wall that defines an inner gaseous waveguide surface and an outer gaseous waveguide surface that is opposite the inner gaseous waveguide surface, wherein the inner gaseous waveguide surface defines an internal waveguide channel that contains a gas; and
a flexible extruded inner dielectric that extends into the gaseous waveguide wall and tapers to a tapered end in the gaseous waveguide wall,
wherein the gaseous waveguide wall has a transition profile from a first cross-sectional area of the dielectric waveguide to a second cross-sectional area of the complementary waveguide interconnect that is greater than the first cross-sectional area.