Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Slot array antenna, and radar, radar system, and wireless communication system including the slot array antenna
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Application No.: US16439740Application Date: 2019-06-13
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Publication No.: US10559889B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Hideki Kirino , Hiroyuki Kamo
- Applicant: Nidec Corporation , WGR Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto JP Kyoto
- Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION,WGR CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION,WGR CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto JP Kyoto
- Agency: Keating & Bennett, LLP
- Priority: JP2015-251018 20151224
- Main IPC: H01Q21/00
- IPC: H01Q21/00 ; H01Q1/32

Abstract:
A slot array antenna includes: a first conductive member having a first conductive surface and a plurality of slots therein, the slots being arrayed in a first direction and in a second direction which intersects the first direction; a second conductive member having a second conductive surface which opposes the first conductive surface; a plurality of waveguide members arrayed between the first and second conductive members along a direction which intersects the first direction, each waveguide member having an conductive waveguide face which extends along the first direction so as to oppose at least one of the slots; and an artificial magnetic conductor in a subregion which is within a region between the first and second conductive members but outside of a subregion containing the waveguide members. Neither an electric wall nor an artificial magnetic conductor exists in a space between two adjacent waveguide faces among the waveguide members.
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