Appeal No. 95-3900 Page 3
Application No. 07/978,030
The application on appeal was filed 18 November 1992.
Appellants claim the benefit of 07/606,901, filed 31 October
1990 (abandoned), pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 120. They also
claim the benefit of Japanese patent application 290921/89,
filed 8 November 1989, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 119, but they
have not perfected their claim pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.55(a).
The subject matter of the invention is a planar-array
microwave antenna. Claim 9, the sole independent claim,
defines the subject matter of the invention as follows:
9. A planar array antenna comprising:
an upper plate having a plurality of holes;
a lower plate;
a single film substrate having resonance
type printed patterns of a plurality of array
elements sized in accordance with a predetermined
frequency, said predetermined frequency being
approximately the center of a frequency band;
a first spacer having a plurality of holes,
and being located between said upper plate and said
single film substrate; and
a second spacer having a plurality of
holes, and being located between said lower plate
and said single film substrate, wherein said lower
plate has integral concave regions formed at the
positions corresponding to the positions of said
plurality of holes of said upper plate, each of said
concave regions having a surface facing and parallel
to said substrate and said surface being spaced from
said patterns by a distance less than one quarter
wavelength at said frequency.
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