Appeal No. 96-1663
Application 08/046,240
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 6 and 8 through 25, all of the claims
pending in the application. Claim 7 has been canceled.
The invention relates to an antenna system having at
least two dipole antennas and a method of manufacturing such
an antenna system. In particular, Appellant discloses on
pages 3 and 4 of the specification that Figure 3 shows the
active part of the antennas, including the feed lines which
are made by punching or cutting a thick plate of material. On
page 3 of the specification, Appellant discloses that arm 7,
leg 17 and feed lines 8, 9, 10 and 11 are configured in one
piece.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An antenna system comprising at least two dipole
antennas (6) constituting an antenna module (40) and placed
above and parallel to a common, artificial ground plane (5) in
the form of an electrically conducting plate, feed lines (8,
9, 10, 11) designed as waveguides with air dielectric from the
dipole antennas to a common feeding point (4) and where the
dipole antennas each have a pair of dipole arms which are
carried by matching legs (17) which can form part of the feed
lines, characterized in that the feed lines from each dipole
antenna (6) to the common point (4) and at least one dipole
2
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