US 11,683,009 B2
Solar, electronic, RF radiator for a self-contained structure for space application array
Javier Hernandez Bahlsen, Esplugues de Llobregat (ES); Aitor Martinez De Osaba Fernandez, Barcelona (ES); Ryan D. Honour, Midland, TX (US); Abel Avellan, Coral Gables, FL (US); Huiwen Yao, Potomac, MD (US); and Adam H. Halperin, Silver Spring, MD (US)
Assigned to AST & Science, LLC, Miami, FL (US)
Filed by AST & Science, LLC, Miami, FL (US)
Filed on May 15, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/875,703.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/978,081, filed on Feb. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/977,864, filed on Feb. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/977,860, filed on Feb. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/848,317, filed on May 15, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. ES202030123 (ES), filed on Feb. 13, 2020; application No. ES202030124 (ES), filed on Feb. 13, 2020; and application No. ES202030125 (ES), filed on Feb. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2020/0366237 A1, Nov. 19, 2020
Int. Cl. H02S 40/36 (2014.01); H01Q 1/28 (2006.01); H02S 40/30 (2014.01); H01Q 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC H02S 40/36 (2014.12) [H01Q 1/286 (2013.01); H01Q 1/288 (2013.01); H01Q 21/0025 (2013.01); H02S 40/30 (2014.12)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An antenna assembly comprising:
a solar layer comprising one or more solar cells that are configured to generate solar power;
an antenna layer connected to the solar layer, the antenna layer comprising a body that is unitary, the body comprising an outward facing surface;
electronic components that are configured to utilize the solar power; and
a support layer sandwiched between the solar layer and the antenna layer,
wherein the body defines a plurality of recesses, and each recess of the plurality of recesses is defined by a portion of the body that extends inward from the outward facing surface, and
wherein each of the plurality of recesses receives at least one of the electronic components on the portion of the body that extends inward from the outward facing surface.