Licensing Antenna Designs

Cobham Antenna Systems Microwave Antennas manufacture approximately 20,000 antennas per year at its facility in the UK and undertake continuous development, creating about 100 new antenna designs per year. Nearly 20% of the company's resource is devoted to the creation of new antennas.

If our customers have needs that are in excess of our capacity, we offer a design and licence manufacturing service.

We have undertaken several such licensed agreements where a customer can undertake manufacture.

The evolution of a product can be mapped out and indicative costs for non-recurring engineering, prototypes, tooling, first article testing, pre-production, licence data pack, royalties and technical support. Third party training can be advised at an early stage so that our customer can see the benefits of such arrangements.

Examples of licence manufacturing include the design of a 3.5GHz high gain flat panel antenna which needed to be integrated with a radio within the same en closure in order to be cost effective for CPE (customer premises equipment). From initial contract to a third party manufacturing under licence took less than 20 weeks.

Another example is a miniature circular polarised hemi omni antenna required for a satellite telephone where the potential quantities may exceed 100,000 units.

The details of the arrangements can be flexible and we negotiate terms in order that all parties benefit.