RF Antenna Platform With Quick-Release Modular Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing ECM systems are limited to either portable or non-portable configurations, lacking a universal platform that allows for quick and easy reconfiguration between these modes, leading to inefficiencies in manufacturing, operational complexity, and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
A ruggedized mounting platform with a common component interface for interchangeable stabilizing components, enabling quick-release configurations for both portable and non-portable applications, reducing peripheral components and facilitating a 'plug-and-play' connection for RF data and control signals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate portable and non-portable ECM systems are designed, then each system can be optimized for its specific use, but manufacturing complexity and cost increase due to lack of commonality
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal mounting platform with standardized component interfaces that can accommodate both portable and non-portable ECM systems. The platform body includes common mounting interfaces, power connections, and signal interfaces that work with different antenna array configurations, allowing a single platform design to serve multiple system types without requiring separate dedicated hardware for each application.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is divided into modular components: a standardized mounting platform base and interchangeable antenna array modules. The antenna arrays can be independently designed and manufactured as separate units that attach to the common platform, allowing optimization of each module for its specific function while maintaining overall system compatibility through standardized interfaces.
2Stability of the object's composition
If dedicated mounting components are used for each configuration, then stable mounting is achieved, but weight and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting platform incorporates universal attachment interfaces that can securely hold both portable hand-held configurations and non-portable fixed installations using the same structural components. The standardized mounting brackets and interface mechanisms provide stable attachment for different antenna array weights and sizes without requiring configuration-specific mounting hardware, thereby reducing overall weight and complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If configuration switching is performed manually, then system flexibility is maintained, but operational speed and ease of use decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting platform incorporates dynamic quick-release mechanisms that allow rapid switching between portable and non-portable configurations. The standardized interfaces include release levers, snap-fit connections, or bayonet-style mounts that enable operators to quickly detach and reconfigure antenna arrays without complex manual assembly procedures, thereby maintaining system flexibility while significantly improving operational speed and ease of use.
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AI summary
An RF antenna platform selectively configurable for portable or non-portable use, the platform comprising: a body comprising at least one RF antenna for transmitting and receiving RF signals; at least one component interface provided on the body for interchangeable mounting of different types of stabilising component to the body; wherein the component interface is common to each of the different types of stabilising component such that the portable and non-portable configurations of the platform are selectively determined by the type of stabilising component mounted to the body.