US 12,431,606 B2
Air-breathing platform-mounted SATCOM radome
Leon Benvenisti, Farnborough (GB); Moshe Medina, Farnborough (GB); and Yuval Yassour, Farnborough (GB)
Assigned to SatixFy UK Limited, Farnborough (GB)
Filed by SatixFy UK Limited, Farnborough (GB)
Filed on Jan. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/154,905.
Application 18/154,905 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2021/069670, filed on Jul. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/051,409, filed on Jul. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0178872 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/02 (2006.01); H01Q 1/27 (2006.01); H01Q 1/28 (2006.01); H01Q 1/32 (2006.01); H01Q 1/42 (2006.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 1/02 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/27 (2013.01); H01Q 1/28 (2013.01); H01Q 1/32 (2013.01); H01Q 1/42 (2013.01); H01Q 21/00 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A platform-mounted radome comprising:
a low-profile aerodynamic canopy made of a radio frequency (RF) transparent material, wherein the canopy has a leading edge and a trailing edge and is suitable to accommodate a flat panel satellite communication (SATCOM) antenna;
an air-cooling duct connecting an inlet at the leading edge of the canopy and an outlet at the trailing edge of the canopy, wherein the air-cooling duct is designed to transfer cool air collected by the inlet across the canopy when a platform of the platform-mounted radome is moving, and further comprising a bypass duct;
a heat exchanger thermally coupled to heat-generating elements of the SATCOM antenna and the air-cooling duct;
one or more heat sinks located within the air-cooling duct and thermally coupled thereto; and
a splitting surface located between the air-cooling duct and the bypass duct, and splitting the air-cooling duct from the bypass duct.