US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE FOR Q-SHU PIONEERS OF SPACE on Nov. 3 for "Connection adapter and horn antenna measurement device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,406, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INSTITUTE FOR Q-SHU PIONEERS OF SPACE INC. (Japan).

"Connection adapter and horn antenna measurement device" was invented by Masahiko Uetsuhara (Fukuoka, Japan), Daisuke Yamamoto (Fukuoka, Japan) and Hitoshi Nohmi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a connection adapter and a horn antenna measurement device capable of measuring the performance of a system of a horn antenna on the ground without removing the horn antenna mounted on a spacecraft even immediately before the launch, while suppressing radio wave leakage to an external space. A connection adapter (200) includes a first wav...