US 12,142,826 B2
Antenna apparatus having heat dissipation features
David Milroy, Kirkland, WA (US); Duncan E. Adams, Redmond, WA (US); Andrea Papi, Seattle, WA (US); Scott Kaufman, Los Angeles, CA (US); Ersin Yetisir, Redmond, WA (US); and Anthony Sims, Manhattan Beach, CA (US)
Assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US)
Filed by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/117,853.
Application 18/117,853 is a continuation of application No. 16/892,246, filed on Jun. 3, 2020, granted, now 11,600,915.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/856,730, filed on Jun. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0223680 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/42 (2006.01); H01Q 1/02 (2006.01); H01Q 1/12 (2006.01); H01Q 1/22 (2006.01); H01Q 1/38 (2006.01); H01Q 9/04 (2006.01); H01Q 15/14 (2006.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01); H01Q 21/06 (2006.01); H01Q 21/10 (2006.01); H01Q 23/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 1/428 (2013.01) [H01Q 1/02 (2013.01); H01Q 1/1207 (2013.01); H01Q 1/1228 (2013.01); H01Q 1/2283 (2013.01); H01Q 1/38 (2013.01); H01Q 1/42 (2013.01); H01Q 1/422 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0407 (2013.01); H01Q 9/0414 (2013.01); H01Q 15/144 (2013.01); H01Q 21/00 (2013.01); H01Q 21/065 (2013.01); H01Q 21/10 (2013.01); H01Q 23/00 (2013.01); H01Q 1/2291 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. An antenna apparatus comprising:
an antenna stack assembly having a first surface and a second surface, wherein at least a portion of the antenna stack assembly generates or conducts heat when in operation; and
a radome portion including a radome and a radome spacer each having an outer perimeter portion and an interior portion, wherein the radome spacer includes a plurality of cell walls extending substantially normal to the first surface of the antenna stack assembly, wherein the plurality of cell walls define a plurality of cells such that each cell wall of the plurality of cell walls contacts at least one other cell wall of an adjacent cell, wherein each cell wall is in contact with the first surface of the antenna stack assembly and the radome, and wherein the radome portion facilitates the flow of the heat conductively from the antenna stack assembly through the plurality of cell walls to the interior portion of the radome.