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US2423083A
US2423083A US478079A US47807943A US2423083A US 2423083 A US2423083 A US 2423083A US 478079 A US478079 A US 478079A US 47807943 A US47807943 A US 47807943A US 2423083 A US2423083 A US 2423083A
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  • This invention relates to improvements in loop antenna systems, and more particularly to an arrangement for interconnecting a loop receiving antenna with a transmission line.
  • An object of this invention relates to providing a novel arrangement for interconnecting a loop antenna with a transmission line.
  • Another object of this invention is directed to an arrangement for preventing wide fluctuations of voltage amplitude with frequency without appreciable loss in power, in a loop-transmission line system.
  • a specific object of the present invention is to effectively prevent large voltage fluctuations with frequency on the end of a transmission line whose other end is connected to a shielded receiving loop.
  • Fig. 1 is a diagrammatical illustration of a loop antenna and transmission line interconnected in accordance with the present invention
  • Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating by means of curves a comparison between applicants novel system and comparable systems of the prior art.
  • a loop antenna which is to be connected to radio apparatus such as a receiver or transmitter (not shown) through a transmission line I2 which may be a relatively long line, as 20 feet or more.
  • the loop I0 may be shielded as indicated at I4 but, in any event, shielded or not, some capacitance indicated at I6 will exist between the ends of the loop to form a circuit which will be resonant at some predetermined frequency.
  • the loop I 0 and the transmission line I2 are preferably matched in impedance in accordance with the usual practice in this art.
  • the interconnection between the loop I0 and the transmission line I2 will, over a frequency band, produce wide voltage fluctuations as indicated, for example, in curve A of Fig. 2.
  • the antenna I0 is a receiving antenna
  • the transmission line I2 is directly connected to the ends thereof the voltage at the other ends of the transmission line may change in value in the ratio of over a wide frequency band.
  • Various arrangements have heretofore been proposed for reducing this undesirable fluctuation but, in all cases such-arrangements have also introduced an undesirable reduction in voltage amplitude.
  • I introduce immediately between the loop antenna and the transmission line, resistors indicated in Fig. 1 at I8.
  • resistors are of equal value and their sum should be at least equal to the surge impedance of the transmission line I2.
  • these resistors I By the introduction of these resistors I have effectively isolated the loop ID from the transmission line I2 so that the large Voltage changes over a wide frequency band will no longer occur.
  • these resistors if of proper value will not appreciably reduce the voltage at the output end of the line I2.
  • the results of introducing such resistors are graphically indicated in Fig. 2 by curve B, drawn to the same scale as curve A, previously mentioned. It will be seen at once that while some voltage fluctuation over a frequency band does occur, this voltage fluctuation is extremely small compared to systems which do not utilize such resistors, while at the same time the voltage amplitude is still appreciable.
  • each resistor I8 should preferably be approximately equal to one half the surge impedance of the line I2, the value is not critical. It will be obvious however, that if the value of resistor I8 is too low it Will eventually result in a condition in which the transmission line is effectively directly connected to the loop and the system will then be substantially equivalent to other systems which produce the large voltage fluctuations indicated by curve A. On the other hand if the value of resistors I8 is too high, voltage fluctuation will be prevented but the voltage amplitude will be more greatly reduced as the value of such resistors increases. The best results appear to be obtained if as previously stated, the value of each resistor is equal one-half the surge impedance of line I2.
  • An antenna system including, in combination, a loop antenna, a two conductor transmission line, and resistors respectively serially interconnecting the ends of said conductors with the ends of said loop, each of said resistors having the same value and being at least equal to approximately one half the surg impedance of said transmission line.
  • a receiving antenna system including in combination, a loop antenna, a transmission line adapted to be connected at one end to the ends of the loop, and means damping voltage fluctuations of the energy received at the other end of the transmission line without appreciably reducing the voltage amplitude, comprising a resistor connected immediately adjacent each end of the 4 loop and serially with the conductors of the transmission line.

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Jul 1, 1947.
E. DAUBARAS 2,423,083
LOOP ANTENNA SYSTEM Filed March 5, 1943 Vol 7465 I N VEN TOR. EDWfl/PD OHUBHRHS Arrow FREQUENCY Patented July 1, 1947 LOOP ANTENNA SYSTEM Edward Daubaras, Brooklyn,N. Y., assignor to Federal Telephone and Radio: Corporation, Newark, N. J., a corporation of Delaware Application March 5, 1943, Serial No. 478,079
Claims. 1
This invention relates to improvements in loop antenna systems, and more particularly to an arrangement for interconnecting a loop receiving antenna with a transmission line.
An object of this invention relates to providing a novel arrangement for interconnecting a loop antenna with a transmission line.
Another object of this invention is directed to an arrangement for preventing wide fluctuations of voltage amplitude with frequency without appreciable loss in power, in a loop-transmission line system.
A specific object of the present invention is to effectively prevent large voltage fluctuations with frequency on the end of a transmission line whose other end is connected to a shielded receiving loop.
These and other features of the invention will be best understood and appreciated from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof, described for purposes of illustration and shown in the accompanying drawings in which:
Fig. 1 is a diagrammatical illustration of a loop antenna and transmission line interconnected in accordance with the present invention;
Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating by means of curves a comparison between applicants novel system and comparable systems of the prior art.
In Fig. 1, I have indicated at It) a loop antenna which is to be connected to radio apparatus such as a receiver or transmitter (not shown) through a transmission line I2 which may be a relatively long line, as 20 feet or more. The loop I0 may be shielded as indicated at I4 but, in any event, shielded or not, some capacitance indicated at I6 will exist between the ends of the loop to form a circuit which will be resonant at some predetermined frequency. The loop I 0 and the transmission line I2 are preferably matched in impedance in accordance with the usual practice in this art.
In ordinary systems of the kind just described the interconnection between the loop I0 and the transmission line I2 will, over a frequency band, produce wide voltage fluctuations as indicated, for example, in curve A of Fig. 2. For example, if the antenna I0 is a receiving antenna, and the transmission line I2 is directly connected to the ends thereof the voltage at the other ends of the transmission line may change in value in the ratio of over a wide frequency band. Various arrangements have heretofore been proposed for reducing this undesirable fluctuation but, in all cases such-arrangements have also introduced an undesirable reduction in voltage amplitude. In accordance with the present invention, however, I introduce immediately between the loop antenna and the transmission line, resistors indicated in Fig. 1 at I8. These resistors are of equal value and their sum should be at least equal to the surge impedance of the transmission line I2. By the introduction of these resistors I have effectively isolated the loop ID from the transmission line I2 so that the large Voltage changes over a wide frequency band will no longer occur. At the same time these resistors, if of proper value will not appreciably reduce the voltage at the output end of the line I2. The results of introducing such resistors are graphically indicated in Fig. 2 by curve B, drawn to the same scale as curve A, previously mentioned. It will be seen at once that while some voltage fluctuation over a frequency band does occur, this voltage fluctuation is extremely small compared to systems which do not utilize such resistors, while at the same time the voltage amplitude is still appreciable.
While the value of each resistor I8 should preferably be approximately equal to one half the surge impedance of the line I2, the value is not critical. It will be obvious however, that if the value of resistor I8 is too low it Will eventually result in a condition in which the transmission line is effectively directly connected to the loop and the system will then be substantially equivalent to other systems which produce the large voltage fluctuations indicated by curve A. On the other hand if the value of resistors I8 is too high, voltage fluctuation will be prevented but the voltage amplitude will be more greatly reduced as the value of such resistors increases. The best results appear to be obtained if as previously stated, the value of each resistor is equal one-half the surge impedance of line I2.
While the present invention was developed primarily for use with shielded loop antennas used for receiving purposes in direction finding equipment, it will be obvious to those skilled in this art that the principles of the present invention of applicant for use in connection with any loop antenna whether shielded or unshielded, whether for receiving or transmitting, which must be connected to the radio equipment into a transmission line.
Accordingly, while I have described above the principles of my invention with some particularity, it is to be clearly understood that this description is made only by way of example and not as a limitation on the scope of my invention as set forth in the objects and the accompanying claims.
I claim:
1. An antenna system including, in combination, a loop antenna, a two conductor transmission line, and resistors respectively serially interconnecting the ends of said conductors with the ends of said loop, each of said resistors having the same value and being at least equal to approximately one half the surg impedance of said transmission line.
2. A receiving antenna system, including in combination, a loop antenna, a transmission line adapted to be connected at one end to the ends of the loop, and means damping voltage fluctuations of the energy received at the other end of the transmission line without appreciably reducing the voltage amplitude, comprising a resistor connected immediately adjacent each end of the 4 loop and serially with the conductors of the transmission line.
3. The combination according to claim 2, in which said resistors are of equal value.
4. The combination according to claim 2, in which said resistors are of equal value and the sum of the value of said resistors is at least appreciably equal to the surge impedance of the transmission line.
5. The combination according to claim 2, in combination with means shielding the loop antenna.
EDWARD DAUBARAS.
REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:
Wireless Direction Finding, by Keene, 3d ed., pp. 128 and 129, copy in Division 51.
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US2532138A (en) * 1949-06-18 1950-11-28 Atchison Arreather Ray Television aerial
US3902177A (en) * 1972-09-19 1975-08-26 Taiyo Musen Co Ltd Antenna for direction finders
DE3140319A1 (en) * 1981-10-10 1983-04-21 Klaus 3300 Braunschweig Münter Electrically screened broadband antenna for the in-phase detection of the magnetic components of an alternating electromagnetic field
US5363113A (en) * 1987-05-07 1994-11-08 General Electric Cgr S.A. Electromagnetic antenna and excitation antenna provided with such electromagnetic antenna for a nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus
US5170172A (en) * 1990-12-10 1992-12-08 Torrington Products Venture, Inc. Electronic assembly for range finding using radio wave signal strength
US5485165A (en) * 1994-08-15 1996-01-16 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army Broadband high efficiency full wave open coaxial stub loop antenna
EP1665459A2 (en) * 2003-05-01 2006-06-07 MeadWestvaco Corporation Apparatus for and method of providing an antenna integral balun
EP1665459A4 (en) * 2003-05-01 2006-11-22 Meadwestvaco Corp Apparatus for and method of providing an antenna integral balun
JP2009303037A (en) * 2008-06-16 2009-12-24 Toshiba Corp Antenna device and radio apparatus

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