References for 'Unmanned Air Vehicles' [ABSTRACTS]

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References for 'Unmanned Air Vehicles' [ABSTRACTS]

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Patent Number:	9,097,527
Title:	Method And System For Generating A Route
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 9,097,527
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Notstrand, Joakim (Linkoping, SE), Norberg, Par (Vreta Kloster, SE), Ivansson, Johan (Linkoping, SE), Skarman, Erik (Linkoping, SE)
Assignee:	SAAB AB (Link¶ping, SE)
Publication Number:	9097527
Application Number:	11/538,819
Abstract:	A method for generating a route including at least one path. The method is suitable for aircraft reconnaissance of an area. The method includes encompassing the area with a geometrical figure, generating a first direction depending upon a configuration of the figure, generating the at least one path depending upon the first direction wherein the path corresponds to a sub area covering at least a part of the area.
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Patent Number:	8,123,162
Title:	Unmanned Air Vehicles And Method Of Landing Same
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 8,123,162
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Sirkis, Omri (Ramat Gan, IL)
Assignee:	Elbit Systems Ltd. (Haifa, IL)
Publication Number:	8123162
Application Number:	11/098,529
Abstract:	There is provided an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) including an engine and an airframe, including means for performing a deep stall maneuver at least one inflatable sleeve connected or connectable to the airframe, and means for inflating the sleeve during flight, wherein the inflated sleeve extends along the lower side of the airframe so as to protect same during deep stall landing. A method for operating an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV), including an engine and an airframe is also provided.
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Patent Number:	8,030,567
Title:	Generalized Electronic Music Interface
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 8,030,567
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20151004
Inventor(s):	Ludwig, Lester F. (Redwood Shores, CA)
Publication Number:	8030567
Application Number:	10/680,591
Abstract:	A generalized interface for interconnecting a wide range of electronic musical instruments and signal processing systems includes an outgoing multi-channel audio interface and an outgoing control interface. The outgoing multi-channel audio interface receives instrument audio signals generated by an external musical instrument, while the outgoing control interface receives MIDI control signals generated by the same external musical instrument. The outgoing multi-channel audio interface and the outgoing control interface respectively communicate audio signals and MIDI control signals to the external signal processing system. Variations include the addition of multi-channel audio paths to the instrument using drive transducer signals to excite instrument vibrating elements; the use of control paths to the instrument to control on-instrument lighting, signal processing, drive transducers, controller interpretation, etc.; non-MIDI control paths out of the instrument; providing the instrument with expanded power to supporting on-instrument lighting, video devices, and other auxiliary systems; video signals out of the instrument; and video signals to the instrument to support on-instrument video display.
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Patent Number:	7,980,510
Title:	Small Unmanned Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,980,510
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Tanabe, Yasutada (Tokyo, JP), Totsuka, Chiharu (Tokyo, JP), Akasaka, Takeshi (Tokyo, JP), Okamoto, Masato (Wakayama, JP)
Assignee:	Kawada Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, JP)
Publication Number:	7980510
Application Number:	10/569,653
Abstract:	A small unmanned airplane includes; a main wing having a camber airfoil whose under surface is approximately flat, narrowing in the shape of taper to a blade tip, leading edge of which holds sweepback angle, of flying wing type which has an aerodynamic surface of tailless wing type and is low aspect ratio; movable flaps extending approximately extreme breadth in trailing edge part of both left and right sides of the main wing, having a dihedral angle at least in level flight; vertical stabilizers placed at blade tips of left and right of the main wing; and two propellers installed on the top surface of the main wing. This can materialize miniaturization and weight saving of a small unmanned airplane for individual carrying capability and for suitability for such as lift-off by hand throw.
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Patent Number:	7,976,310
Title:	Autorotation Flight Control System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,976,310
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Bachelder, Edward N. (Redondo Beach, CA), Lee, Dong-Chan (Lawndale, CA), Aponso, Bimal L. (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA)
Assignee:	Systems Technology, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA, US)
Publication Number:	7976310
Application Number:	11/332,078
Abstract:	The present invention provides computer implemented methodology that permits the safe landing and recovery of rotorcraft following engine failure. With this invention successful autorotations may be performed from well within the unsafe operating area of the height-velocity profile of a helicopter by employing the fast and robust real-time trajectory optimization algorithm that commands control motion through an intuitive pilot display, or directly in the case of autonomous rotorcraft. The algorithm generates optimal trajectories and control commands via the direct-collocation optimization method, solved using a nonlinear programming problem solver. The control inputs computed are collective pitch and aircraft pitch, which are easily tracked and manipulated by the pilot or converted to control actuator commands for automated operation during autorotation in the case of an autonomous rotorcraft. The formulation of the optimal control problem has been carefully tailored so the solutions resemble those of an expert pilot, accounting for the performance limitations of the rotorcraft and safety concerns.
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Patent Number:	7,953,372
Title:	Directional Antenna Sectoring System And Methodology
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,953,372
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Ofek, Yoram (Riverdale, NY), Gavish, Bezalel (Dallas, TX)
Publication Number:	7953372
Application Number:	10/814,731
Abstract:	Methods and systems for packet-by-packet directional mobile wireless transmission utilizing plurality of directional antenna sectors, such that, the transmission of each packet is performed by at least one selected antenna sector. The direction of transmission is selected responsive to the direction in which the best electromagnetic signal reception was received. For each plurality of data packets, the transmission direction is selected again. Switching logic is coupling the out going transmission signal to selected ones from the plurality of the antennas responsive to the motion of the mobile user. The antenna design in this invention is aimed at increasing the gain and minimizing the interfering signals with respect large number of mobile users who are concurrently and continuously tracking and communicating with their access points, and consequently, increasing the bit rate of each transmission and the aggregate capacity of the wireless system.
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Patent Number:	7,937,878
Title:	Apparatus And Method For Calculating Aiming Point Information
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,937,878
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20190510
Inventor(s):	Sammut, Dennis J. (San Francisco, CA), Buell, Dickinson (Hayward, CA), Chao, Lawrence (Oakland, CA)
Assignee:	Horus Vision LLC (San Bruno, CA, US)
Publication Number:	7937878
Application Number:	11/389,723
Abstract:	The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets.
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Patent Number:	7,862,045
Title:	Method And Apparatus For Determining And Retrieving Positional Information
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,862,045
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20190104
Inventor(s):	Hodge, Bruce (Greenfield, NY)
Publication Number:	7862045
Application Number:	11/402,419
Abstract:	An apparatus for determining and retrieving positional information including a surface having a plurality of first elements and a plurality of second elements, a first detection element connected to at least one of the plurality of first elements, and a second detection element connected to at least one of the plurality of second elements. The detection elements may include pulse detection elements or current sensing circuits. The plurality of first elements and the plurality of second elements may include conductive and non-conductive threads, and the conductive threads may include piezoelectric crystals embedded within conductive plastic.
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Patent Number:	7,860,680
Title:	Robotic System For Powering And Interrogating Sensors
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,860,680
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Arms, Steven Willard (Williston, VT), Townsend, Christopher Pruyn (Shelburne, VT), Hamel, Michael John (Williston, VT)
Assignee:	Microstrain, Inc. (Williston, VT, US)
Publication Number:	7860680
Application Number:	10/379,224
Abstract:	A mobile system powers, charges, and communicates with separate devices, such as sensors and actuators. The mobile system includes an unmanned vehicle for approaching and wirelessly electromagnetically powering the separate device.
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Patent Number:	7,793,888
Title:	Apparatus And Method For Air-to-air Arming Of Aerial Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,793,888
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20180914
Inventor(s):	Padan, Nir (Moshav Beith Yitzhak, IL)
Publication Number:	7793888
Application Number:	10/568,242
Abstract:	A transfer of ordnance units from a first aerial vehicle to a second aerial vehicle performed while both vehicles are airborne. The first aircraft is used as an ordnance storage, ordnance delivery and ordnance supplier platform. The second aircraft has the functionality and capability of delivering the received ordnance to designated targets. The first aircraft includes an ordnance storage apparatus, an ordnance transfer assembly, a computer-based highly accurate ordnance transfer control apparatus, and an ordnance transfer apparatus operating crew. The ordnance transfer assembly establishes temporarily a transfer link between the aircraft and utilizes an ordnance conveyor mechanism for the delivery of the ordnance units. The second aircraft includes a multi-use multi-purpose pylon that receives the transferred ordnance in the proper manner. The aircrafts can be uninhabited.
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Patent Number:	7,783,246
Title:	Tactical Gps Denial And Denial Detection System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,783,246
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Twitchell, Jr., Robert W. (Cumming, GA), Smith, Delia J. (Morris Township, NJ)
Assignee:	TeraHop Networks, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA, US)
Publication Number:	7783246
Application Number:	11/424,850
Abstract:	A tactical GPS denial/denial detection system includes a plurality of GPS detection/denial devices, a gateway, and a computer management system. Each GPS detection/denial includes a GPS receiver for determining positional parameters based on the GPS satellite signals, a GPS denier, which may be selectively activated, for disrupting reliable operation of GPS receivers, and a remote sensor interface adapted to extract the GPS parameters from the GPS receiver and to effectuate the activation of the GPS denier. The remote sensor interfaces and the gateway are communication nodes in an ad hoc wireless network. The gateway receives the GPS parameters from the remote sensor interfaces and communicates instructions to the remote sensor interfaces to selectively activate the GPS deniers. The computer management system receives the extracted GPS parameters from the gateway and analyzes the GPS parameters to detect whether an active GPS denial device is present in the vicinity of the system.
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Patent Number:	7,752,976
Title:	Warhead And Method Of Using Same
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,752,976
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Banks, Johnny E. (Venus, TX)
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Grand Prairie, TX, US)
Publication Number:	7752976
Application Number:	11/140,131
Abstract:	A warhead includes a barrel operatively associated with the vehicle, the barrel being extendable from and retractable into the vehicle; a penetrator disposed in the barrel; and means for expelling the penetrator from the barrel. A vehicle includes a barrel extendable from and retractable into the vehicle; a penetrator disposed in the barrel; and means for expelling the penetrator from the barrel. A method includes transporting a warhead to a position proximate a target; angularly or translationally positioning a barrel of the warhead; and expelling at least one penetrator from the barrel toward the target. A vehicle includes an airfoil; a barrel operably associated with the airfoil; a penetrator disposed in the barrel; and means for expelling the penetrator from the barrel.
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Patent Number:	7,745,767
Title:	Method Of Control Of An Ammunition Or Submunition, Attack System, Ammunition And Designator Implementing Such A Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,745,767
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Bredy, Thierry J. M (Saint Doulchard, FR)
Assignee:	Nexter Munitions (Versailles, FR)
Publication Number:	7745767
Application Number:	11/415,180
Abstract:	The object of the invention is a method of control of an ammunition or submunition, and in particular of the control of initiation of fire and/or of control of a trajectory correction and/or of a direction of fire, from a target detection. The method consists of the following steps: (1) a field zone (2) is sweeped from the ammunition (6) or submunition using a laser beam (10), (2) a potential target (1) located on the field is spotted using a passive surveillance means (4), and (3) when the means of passive surveillance (4) detects the laser beam (10) transmitted by the ammunition or submunition, the transmission of an order of confirmation is controlled and/or of at least one off-target data via the means of surveillance (4) and towards the ammunition or submunition.
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Patent Number:	7,708,493
Title:	Modifiable Display Marker
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,708,493
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Jung, Edward K. Y. (Bellevue, WA), Levien, Royce A. (Lexington, MA), Lord, Robert W. (Seattle, WA), Malamud, Mark A. (Seattle, WA), Rinaldo, Jr., John D. (Bellevue, WA)
Assignee:	Searete, LLC (Bellevue, WA, US)
Publication Number:	7708493
Application Number:	11/324,175
Abstract:	One aspect of the disclosure involves modifying a display marker at least partially by actuating an at least one positional display element. Another aspect of the disclosure involves modifying an effective positioning of at least one display marker relative to a supporting structure.
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Patent Number:	7,640,723
Title:	Engine With Fuel/lubricant Supply System For Bearing Lubrication
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,640,723
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Alexander, Eric J. (San Diego, CA)
Assignee:	Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, CT, US)
Publication Number:	7640723
Application Number:	11/305,608
Abstract:	A fuel delivery system for a gas turbine engine that delivers fuel to a combustor of the engine and lubricates bearings of the engine with fuel, comprising: a tank for storing the fuel; a pump for delivering a continuous flow of fuel from the tank to the combustor by way of a combustor inlet stream and the engine bearings by way of a bearing lubrication stream; a pressurized container for storing fuel lubrication additive under pressure; and a flow valve for controlling flow of fuel lubrication additive that flows from the pressurized container into the bearing lubrication inlet stream to mix with the fuel delivered to the engine bearings.
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Patent Number:	7,583,769
Title:	Operating Gps Receivers In Gps-adverse Environment
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,583,769
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Twitchell, Jr., Robert W. (Cumming, GA), Smith, Delia J. (Morris Township, NJ)
Assignee:	Terahop Netowrks, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA, US)
Publication Number:	7583769
Application Number:	11/424,847
Abstract:	A system for operating a GPS receiver in a GPS-adverse environment includes a plurality of GPS receivers, a plurality of remote sensor interfaces (RSIs), and a computer management system. The GPS receivers are adapted to determine positional parameters based on the GPS satellite signals. A first set of GPS receivers is able to accurately determine its positional parameters and a second set of GPS receivers is unable to do so. Each RSI is associated with a respective GPS receiver. The RSIs are communication nodes in an ad hoc wireless network. The computer management system identifies a GPS receiver that is not accurately determining its positional parameters, and in response, causes GPS information to be provided from one of the first set of GPS receivers to the identified GPS receiver. The identified GPS receiver then determines its positional parameters accurately using the provided GPS information.
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Patent Number:	7,581,696
Title:	Aircraft Attitude Control Configuration
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,581,696
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Morgan, Brian Herman (Oostburg, WI), Hagen, David LeRoy (Goshen, IN)
Assignee:	Morgan Aircraft, LLC (Ootsburg, WI, US)
Publication Number:	7581696
Application Number:	11/595,525
Abstract:	An aircraft attitude control configuration enables control surfaces to provide attitude control for an aircraft at hover or low air speed conditions. The aircraft attitude control configuration includes a thruster mounted to an aircraft for thrusting air, a first control surface kinematically coupled to the aircraft at a position downstream of the thruster, and a second control surface kinematically coupled to the aircraft at a position downstream of the thruster, the second control surface being differentially movable with respect to the first control surface such that a portion of the thrusted air from the thruster generates a first vector force on the first control surface and another portion of the thrusted air generates a second vector force on the second control surface, so that the first and the second vector forces provide a net roll moment about the Y-Roll axis.
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Patent Number:	7,574,300
Title:	Gps Denial Device Detection And Location System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,574,300
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Twitchell, Jr., Robert W. (Cumming, GA), Smith, Delia J. (Morris Township, NJ)
Assignee:	Terahop Networks, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA, US)
Publication Number:	7574300
Application Number:	11/424,845
Abstract:	A system for detecting a GPS denial device includes a plurality of GPS receivers, a plurality of remote sensor interfaces, a gateway, and a computer management system. Each of the plurality of GPS receivers determines positional parameters based on the signals received from the GPS satellites. Each remote sensor interface is associated with a respective GPS receiver such that each remote sensor interface extracts the GPS parameters from a respective GPS receiver. The plurality of remote sensor interfaces and the gateway are communication nodes in an ad hoc wireless network. The gateway receives the extracted GPS parameters from the remote sensor interfaces. The computer management system receives the extracted GPS parameters from the gateway and compares the determined GPS parameters with historical GPS parameters for the plurality of GPS receivers to detect whether an active GPS denial device is present in the vicinity of the system.
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Patent Number:	7,574,168
Title:	Selective Gps Denial System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,574,168
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20170811
Inventor(s):	Twitchell, Jr., Robert W. (Cumming, GA), Smith, Delia J. (Morris Township, NJ)
Assignee:	Terahop Networks, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA, US)
Publication Number:	7574168
Application Number:	11/424,849
Abstract:	A selective GPS denial system includes a plurality of GPS deniers for disrupting reliable operation of GPS receivers, a plurality of remote sensor interfaces, a gateway, and a computer management system. Each of the plurality of GPS deniers may be selectively activated. Each remote sensor interface is associated with a respective GPS denier such that each remote sensor interface effectuates the activation of the respective GPS denier. The plurality of remote sensor interfaces and the gateway are communication nodes in an ad hoc wireless network. The gateway communicates instructions to one or more of the plurality of remote sensor interfaces to selectively activate the GPS denier respectively associated therewith. The computer management system is disposed in communication with the gateway and controls the instructions communicated by the gateway, thereby selectively controlling which GPS deniers are activated.
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Patent Number:	7,566,177
Title:	Imaging Device Assembly
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,566,177
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Thompson, Robert Lee (Rogers, AR)
Assignee:	Pinotage L.L.C. (Fayetteville, AR, US)
Publication Number:	7566177
Application Number:	11/386,371
Abstract:	An assembly for mounting an imaging device, such as a camera, is provided. The assembly may include a housing and an imaging device mounted to the housing. The housing is constructed and arranged in a manner that absorbs and/or dampens a shock and/or vibration to minimize any resulting damage to the imaging device. The assembly may be constructed and arranged to meet MIL-S-901D (NAVY). In one embodiment, resilient and/or robust materials are incorporated into the mounting assembly.
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Patent Number:	7,564,408
Title:	Sensor Network And Method For Monitoring A Terrain
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,564,408
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20130721
Inventor(s):	Glockler, Roman (Lauf, DE), Kalisch, Peter (Nurnberg, DE), E.beta.er, Gerd (Kleinmachnow, DE)
Assignee:	Diehl Stiftung & Co. KG (Nşrnberg, DE)
Publication Number:	7564408
Application Number:	11/542,558
Abstract:	A sensor network (1) as well as a method for monitoring a terrain (6) is specified. The sensor network (1) has a number of fixed-position sensors (3, 3, 3), which can be deployed in the terrain (6), and at least one programming module (25), with the fixed-position sensors (3, 3, 3) each being equipped with a communication device, with the at least one programming module having a position-finding device and a programming device (25), in which case the position of the sensors (3, 3, 3) can be determined by the position-finding device and can in each case be applied to the sensors (3, 3, 3) by the programming device (25) via the communication device, and with the sensors (3, 3, 3) being designed such that they themselves form a network. The sensor network (1) as well as the method, which is carried out in a manner corresponding to it, for monitoring the terrain (6) require sensors (3, 3, 3) of simple design, and are thus associated with a cost advantage.
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Patent Number:	7,562,843
Title:	Method Of Launching A Catapult, Catapult, And Locking Device
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,562,843
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Lipponen, Pentti (Kangasala, FI)
Assignee:	Robonic Ltd Oy (Tampere, FI)
Publication Number:	7562843
Application Number:	10/578,016
Abstract:	A method of launching a catapult, a catapult and a locking device for a catapult. The catapult comprises a carriage (4) for fastening an aircraft (5). The carriage (4) can be provided with a high acceleration by directing a launching force (F.sub.1) generated by a launching device thereto. The carriage (4) can be held at a launching position (6) by means of the locking device (9). The catapult further comprises a takeoff damper (34) that generates a damping force (F.sub.2) having a direction opposite relative to the launching force. Accordingly, the takeoff damper (34) restricts the acceleration of the carriage (4) at the initial launching moments.
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Patent Number:	7,561,881
Title:	Air Based Emergency Monitor, Multimode Communication, Control And Position Finder System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,561,881
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Feher, Kamilo (El Macero, CA)
Publication Number:	7561881
Application Number:	11/413,984
Abstract:	Air based emergency monitor, multimode communication, control and position finder system with a receiver having multiple inputs for reception and demodulation of position finder signals to position finder baseband signals. One or more cameras or microphones or data signal generation devices, storage devices, and processors for recording or storing and processing of signals obtained from one or more cameras or microphones or data signal generation devices. A processor for processing input signals and for providing cross-correlated shaped in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signals. Transceivers for multimode GSM, spread spectrum, CDMA, OFDM, TDMA and other signals. A receiver and demodulator for reception of modulated position finder radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted by a Global Positioning System (GPS) transmitter and a receiver and demodulator for reception of modulated position finder radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted by other than a GPS transmitter for providing the demodulated and receiver processed signal to an emergency unit. An air based position finding, signal monitor, control and emergency multimode communication system for use in one or more units located in or on airplanes, or helicopters, or unmanned vehicles (UV) or balloons or rockets, or missiles, or space shuttles or birds or other air based items with a multimode bit rate agile (BRA) and modulation demodulation (modem) format selectable (MFS) signal modulator.
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Patent Number:	7,542,828
Title:	Unmanned Air Vehicle, Integrated Weapon Platform, Avionics System And Control Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,542,828
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20130602
Inventor(s):	Steele Daniel W [US]; Chovan Joseph R [US]
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD, US)
Publication Number:	US7542828B2
Application Number:	US20050160645
Abstract:	A small, reusable interceptor unmanned air vehicle (UAV), an avionics control system for the UAV, a design method for the UAV and a method for controlling the UAV, for interdiction of small scale air, water and ground threats. The UAV includes a high performance airframe with integrated weapon and avionics platforms. Design of the UAV first involves the selection of a suitable weapon, then the design of the interceptor airframe to achieve weapon aiming via airframe maneuvering. The UAV utilizes an avionics control system that is vehicle-centric and, as such, provides for a high degree of autonomous control of the UAV. A situational awareness processor has access to a suite of disparate sensors that provide data for intelligently (autonomously) carrying out various mission scenarios.; A flight control processor operationally integrated with the situational awareness processor includes a pilot controller and an autopilot controller for flying and maneuvering the UAV.
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Patent Number:	7,487,641
Title:	Microfabricated Rankine Cycle Steam Turbine For Power Generation And Methods Of Making The Same
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,487,641
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20170210
Inventor(s):	Frechette, Luc (Fleurimont, CA), Muller, Norbert (Haslett, MI), Lee, Changgu (New York, NY)
Assignee:	The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, NY, US)
Publication Number:	7487641
Application Number:	10/988,974
Abstract:	In accordance with the present invention, an integrated micro steam turbine power plant on-a-chip has been provided. The integrated micro steam turbine power plant on-a-chip of the present invention comprises a miniature electric power generation system fabricated using silicon microfabrication technology and lithographic patterning. The present invention converts heat to electricity by implementing a thermodynamic power cycle on a chip. The steam turbine power plant on-a-chip generally comprises a turbine, a pump, an electric generator, an evaporator, and a condenser. The turbine is formed by a rotatable, disk-shaped rotor having a plurality of rotor blades disposed thereon and a plurality of stator blades. The plurality of stator blades are interdigitated with the plurality of rotor blades to form the turbine. The generator is driven by the turbine and converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
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Patent Number:	7,475,549
Title:	Thermal Management System For A Gas Turbine Engine
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,475,549
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Alexander, Eric (San Diego, CA), Jewess, Gordon (San Diego, CA), Lydon, Patrick (San Marcos, CA), Lane, Tammy (San Diego, CA)
Assignee:	Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Rockford, IL, US)
Publication Number:	7475549
Application Number:	11/197,248
Abstract:	A thermal management system for a gas turbine engine includes a cooling airflow which enters through an air filter portion of a forward cover for filtration of particulate which may result in FOD to a rotational system of the engine. Filtered cooling airflow flows along a rotor shaft over and through a forward bearing, over and through a permanent magnet generator, then over and through an aft bearing to provide thermal management. Commensurate therewith, the cooling airflow atomizes and communicates a lubricant to the bearings. From the aft bearing, the cooling airflow merges with a primary airflow path from an intake which generally surrounds the forward cover.
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Patent Number:	7,464,895
Title:	Lighter-than-air Aircraft And Related Methods For Powering The Same
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,464,895
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20121216
Inventor(s):	Palmer, William Robert (Melbourne, FL)
Assignee:	Harris Corporation (Melbourne, FL, US)
Publication Number:	7464895
Application Number:	10/977,418
Abstract:	A lighter-than-air aircraft includes a gas envelope for containing a buoyant gas, and a solar panel is carried by a predetermined portion of the gas envelope. A solar sensor is used for determining a direction of the sun. A propulsion system carried by the gas envelope orients the gas envelope so that the solar panel is oriented in the direction of the sun based upon the solar sensor. A navigation controller cooperates with the propulsion system to move the lighter-than-air aircraft along a desired flight path while the solar panel is oriented in the direction of the sun.
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Patent Number:	7,447,591
Title:	Daytime Stellar Imager For Attitude Determination
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,447,591
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Belenkii, Mikhail (San Diego, CA), Sandler, David (San Diego, CA), Bruns, Donald (San Diego, CA), Korevaar, Eric (La Jolla, CA)
Assignee:	Trex Enterprises Corp. (San Diego, CA, US)
Publication Number:	7447591
Application Number:	11/209,261
Abstract:	An automatic celestial navigation system for navigating both night and day by observation of K-band or H-band infrared light from multiple stars. One or more telescopes mounted on a movable platform such as a ship or airplane and directed at a substantially different portion of sky. Telescope optics focus (on to a pixel array of a sensor) H-band or K-band light from one or more stars in multiple telescopic fields of view. Each system also includes a GPS sensor and a computer processor having access to catalogued infrared star charts. The processor for each system is programmed with special algorithms to use image data from the infrared sensors, position and timing information from the GPS sensor, and the catalogued star charts information to determine orientation (attitude) of the platform.
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Patent Number:	7,440,826
Title:	Steering Aid System For Altitude And Horizontal Speed, Perpendicular To The Vertical, Of An Aircraft And Aircraft Equipped Therewith
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,440,826
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Franceschini, Nicolas (Marseilles, FR), Ruffier, Franck (Marseilles, FR), Viollet, Stephane (Marseilles, FR), Boyron, Marc (Marseilles, FR)
Assignee:	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifque (C.N.R.S.) (Paris, FR)
Publication Number:	7440826
Application Number:	10/528,027
Abstract:	A steering aid system for altitude and horizontal speed of an aircraft (4) includes: a measuring device (22) for delivering a measured signal based on the aircraft altitude and horizontal speed, a common predetermined reference value (26) for the aircraft altitude and horizontal speed, and elements (20) for slaving the signal to the reference value by pitch loop, the elements being adapted to vary automatically the pitch and/or propulsive performance of the lifting members to lock the measured signal to the reference value.
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Patent Number:	7,436,038
Title:	Visible/near Infrared Image Sensor Array
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,436,038
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20121014
Inventor(s):	Engelmann, Michael G. (Pukalani, HI), Chao, Calvin (Cupertino, CA), Hsieh, Tzu-Chiang (Fremont, CA), Martin, Peter (Kahului, HI), Pender, Milam (Kihei, HI)
Assignee:	e-Phocus, Inc (San Jose, CA, US)
Publication Number:	7436038
Application Number:	10/785,833
Abstract:	A MOS or CMOS sensor for high performance imaging in broad spectral ranges including portions of the infrared spectral band. These broad spectral ranges may also include portions or all of the visible spectrum, therefore the sensor has both daylight and night vision capabilities. The sensor includes a continuous multi-layer photodiode structure on a many pixel MOS or CMOS readout array where the photodiode structure is chosen to include responses in the near infrared spectral ranges. A preferred embodiment incorporates a microcrystalline copper indium diselenide/cadmium sulfide photodiode structure on a CMOS readout array. An alternate preferred embodiment incorporates a microcrystalline silicon germanium photodiode structure on a CMOS readout array. Each of these embodiments provides night vision with image performance that greatly surpasses the GEN III night vision technology in terms of enhanced sensitivity, pixel size and pixel count. Further advantages of the invention include low electrical bias voltages, low power consumption, compact packaging, and radiation hardness. In special preferred embodiments CMOS stitching technology is used to provide multi-million pixel focal plane array sensors. One embodiments of the invention made without stitching is a two-million pixel sensor. Other preferred embodiments available using stitching techniques include sensors with 250 million (or more) pixels fabricated on a single wafer. A particular application of these very high pixel count sensors is as a focal plane array for a rapid beam steering telescope in a low earth orbit satellite useful for tracking over a 1500-meter wide track with a resolution of 0.3 meter.
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Patent Number:	7,415,313
Title:	Spatial Coordination System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,415,313
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20160819
Inventor(s):	Brueckner, Sven (Ann Arbor, MI), Parunak, Henry Van Dyke (Ann Arbor, MI), Sauter, John A. (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee:	New Vectors LLC (Ann Arbor, MI, US)
Publication Number:	7415313
Application Number:	09/900,251
Abstract:	A system and process uses pheromone propagation to provide direction and/or distance information to a remote destination through the use of localized decision making processes. Locally available information is exchanged and translated with global information through the use of a pheromone vocabulary and multi-layer grid systems. Self-organizing networks of sensors provide remote monitoring of a space.
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Patent Number:	7,397,357
Title:	Sensing And Analysis Of Ambient Contextual Signals For Discriminating Between Indoor And Outdoor Locations
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,397,357
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Krumm, John C. (Redmond, WA), Horvitz, Eric J. (Kirkland, WA), Hariharan, Ramaswamy (Irvine, CA)
Assignee:	Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA, US)
Publication Number:	7397357
Application Number:	11/558,410
Abstract:	Methods and systems that determine automatically the likelihood that a device is inside or outside of a structure or building. The system uses one or more sensors to detect ambient conditions, and make the determination. The inference can be used to save power or suppress services from certain devices, which are irrelevant, cannot be used effectively, or do not function under certain circumstances. In support thereof, the system includes one or more context sensors that measure parameters associated probabilistically with the context of a device. A context computing component considers one or more context sensors and facilitates determination of ideal actions, policies, and situations associated with the device. A service provided by the subject invention is the inference from one or more available observations the probability that the device is inside versus outside.
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Patent Number:	7,372,175
Title:	Two-spool Bypass Turbojet With A Rear Electricity Generator, And An Air Flow Connection Device And System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,372,175
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Bouiller, Philippe (Samoreau, FR), Rousselin, Stephane (Hericy, FR)
Assignee:	SNECMA (Paris, FR)
Publication Number:	7372175
Application Number:	11/282,663
Abstract:	A two-spool bypass turbojet includes a low-pressure spool having a rear portion carrying a low-pressure turbine provided with a low-pressure rotor. The turbojet includes a support structure connected to a casing and to a rear bearing in which the rotor is mounted. The bearing can be situated in an enclosure including a liquid lubricant feed. The enclosure can be put to atmospheric pressure via an air feed pipe connected to the enclosure via a link. The turbojet further includes an electricity generator connected to the rear end of the low-pressure rotor that extends downstream from the link, which link is secured to the rotor and includes a device for guiding the liquid lubricant from the feed to the bearing.
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Patent Number:	7,349,804
Title:	Daytime Stellar Imager
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,349,804
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Belenkii, Mikhail (San Diego, CA), Bruns, Donald G. (San Diego, CA), Rye, Vincent A (Oceanside, CA), Brinkley, Timothy (La Jolla, CA)
Assignee:	Trex Enterprises Corp. (San Diego, CA, US)
Publication Number:	7349804
Application Number:	11/141,526
Abstract:	An automatic celestial navigation system for navigating both night and day by observation of K-band or H-band infrared light from multiple stars. In a first set of preferred embodiments three relatively large aperture telescopes are rigidly mounted on a movable platform such as a ship or airplane with each telescope being directed at a substantially different portion of sky. Embodiments in this first set tend to be relatively large and heavy, such as about one cubic meter and about 60 pounds. In a second set of preferred embodiments one or more smaller aperture telescopes are pivotably mounted on a movable platform such as a ship, airplane or missile so that the telescope or telescopes can be pivoted to point toward specific regions of the sky. Embodiments of this second set are mechanically more complicated than those of the first set, but are much smaller and lighter and are especially useful for guidance of aircraft and missiles. Telescope optics focus (on to a pixel array of a sensor) H-band or K-band light from one or more stars in the field of view of each telescope. Each system also includes an inclinometer, an accurate timing device and a computer processor having access to catalogued infrared star charts. The processor for each system is programmed with special algorithms to use image data from the infrared sensors, inclination information from the inclinometer, time information from the timing device and the catalogued star charts information to determine positions of the platform. Direction information from two stars is needed for locating the platform with respect to the celestial sphere. The computer is also preferably programmed to use this celestial position information to calculate latitude and longitude which may be displayed on a display device such as a monitor or used by a guidance control system. These embodiments are jam proof and insensitive to radio frequency interference. These systems provide efficient alternatives to GPS when GPS is unavailable and can be used for periodic augmentation of inertial navigation systems.
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Patent Number:	7,338,010
Title:	Air-launchable Aircraft And Method Of Use
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,338,010
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Corder, David A. (Tucson, AZ), Koessler, Jeffrey H. (Tucson, AZ), Webb, George R. (Tucson, AZ)
Assignee:	Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA, US)
Publication Number:	7338010
Application Number:	10/951,041
Abstract:	An air-launched aircraft includes deployable wings, elevons, and vertical fins that deploy from a fuselage during flight. The aircraft may include a control system for operating the elevons, a communication system, and batteries for powering the systems. In addition, the aircraft may include a payload module that mates with an interface in the fuselage. The payload module may include any of a variety of payloads, including cameras, sensors, and/or radar emitters. The aircraft may be powered or unpowered, and may be very small, for example, less than on the order of 10 kg (22 pounds). The aircraft may be employed at a low cost for any of a wide variety of functions, such as surveillance, or as a decoy. The deployable surfaces of the aircraft may be configured to deploy in a pre-determined order, allowing the aircraft automatically to enter controlled flight after being launched in a tumbling mode.
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Patent Number:	7,331,019
Title:	System And Method For Real-time Configurable Monitoring And Management Of Task Performance Systems
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,331,019
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20160212
Inventor(s):	Ananth, Viswanath (Norristown, PA), Surianarayanan, Ananthakrishnan (Lansdale, PA)
Assignee:	Pathway Technologies, Inc. (Ambler, PA, US)
Publication Number:	7331019
Application Number:	10/912,649
Abstract:	The system and method of the present invention enable the user to build and/or use an interactive visual instrument panel for monitoring and/or managing one or more target systems locally or remotely in real-time, with the instrument panel being configured based on the user-defined requirements and based on the attributes of the target system(s) being monitored and/or managed. In one embodiment of the present invention a novel data handling system is provided for ensuring that the target system is able to continuously transmit real-time data without any data loss and without interrupting its operation.
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Patent Number:	7,327,245
Title:	Sensing And Analysis Of Ambient Contextual Signals For Discriminating Between Indoor And Outdoor Locations
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,327,245
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Krumm, John C. (Redmond, WA), Horvitz, Eric J. (Kirkland, WA), Hariharan, Ramaswamy (Irvine, CA)
Assignee:	Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA, US)
Publication Number:	7327245
Application Number:	10/994,550
Abstract:	Methods and systems that determine automatically the likelihood that a device is inside or outside of a structure or building. The system uses one or more sensors to detect ambient conditions, and make the determination. The inference can be used to save power or suppress services from certain devices, which are irrelevant, cannot be used effectively, or do not function under certain circumstances. In support thereof, the system includes one or more context sensors that measure parameters associated probabilistically with the context of a device. A context computing component considers one or more context sensors and facilitates determination of ideal actions, policies, and situations associated with the device. A service provided by the subject invention is the inference from one or more available observations the probability that the device is inside versus outside.
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Patent Number:	7,299,069
Title:	Adapting A Communications Network Of Wireless Access Nodes To A Changing Environment
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,299,069
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Claussen, Holger (Swindon, GB)
Assignee:	Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ, US)
Publication Number:	7299069
Application Number:	11/095,351
Abstract:	The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for adapting a communications network of a plurality of wireless access nodes, such as base stations to a changing environment. The method comprises determining a current location of at least a first user in the communications network, identifying a need for change in at least one parameter associated with a position of a first base station of the plurality of base stations based on the current location of the first user, and implementing a first response in the communications network in response to the need for change for the first base station. In this way, a self-deploying wireless access network may autonomously reposition base stations in a changing environment of user distributions across a coverage area and/or user demand by users of wireless communication devices, such as mobile units. Using indirect communication between the base stations capable of operating with different standards or protocols, a distributed algorithm may adapt the network to the changing environment. Such adaptation of the network in a distributed manner may control overall network costs of providing wireless services to mobile users.
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Patent Number:	7,269,513
Title:	Ground-based Sense-and-avoid Display System (SAVDS) For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,269,513
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20150911
Inventor(s):	Herwitz, Stanley R. (Newton, MA)
Publication Number:	7269513
Application Number:	11/120,263
Abstract:	The present invention is a Sense-And-Avoid Display System (SAVDS) that integrates airborne target position data from a ground-based radar with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) position data from the UAV ground control station (GCS). The UAV GCS receives the UAV position data from a global positioning system (GPS) element in the flight management autopilot system in the UAV. Using a high-resolution display, the SAVDS shows the GPS position of the UAV in relation to other radar-detected airborne targets operating in the same airspace. With the SAVDS co-located adjacent to the GCS computer controlling the UAV, the SAVDS instructs the UAV operator to change the heading and/or elevation of the UAV until any potential midair aircraft conflict is abated. The radar-detected airborne target data and the UAV GPS data are integrated and displayed with georeferenced background base maps that provide a visual method for tracking the UAV and for performing collision avoidance.
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Patent Number:	7,264,202
Title:	Tri-cycloidal Airship
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,264,202
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20150904
Inventor(s):	Sullivan, Callum R. (New Market, AL)
Assignee:	Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. (San Diego, CA, US)
Publication Number:	7264202
Application Number:	11/263,877
Abstract:	An unmanned, lighter-than-air airship includes three omnidirectional thrust generating units. One unit is mounted at the fore-end of the airship to generate thrust in a plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the airship. This unit controls pitch and yaw movements of the airship. The other two units are mounted on the airship equidistant from the first unit, and are located in a same midships plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. These two units generate thrust vectors that control roll movements of the airship and provide propulsion for the airship.
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Patent Number:	7,262,395
Title:	Expendable Sonobuoy Flight Kit With Aerodynamically Assisted Sonobuoy Separation
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,262,395
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20150828
Inventor(s):	Bilyk, Derek (Toronto, Ontario, CA), Zdunich, Patrick (Toronto, Ontario, CA), MacMaster, Marc (Toronto, Ontario, CA)
Publication Number:	7262395
Application Number:	10/848,131
Abstract:	A flight kit that can be retrofitted to existing navy sonobuoys. The preferred embodiment gives sonobuoys the capability of self-deployment, allowing them to be sent to a location remotely without the use of manned aircraft or recoverable unmanned air vehicles. This capability is advantageous in instances where it is desired to place a sonobuoy in an area hostile or hazardous to manned aircraft. The preferred embodiment is an attachment of a GPS navigation and control system, wings, control surfaces, and a propulsion system, onto a naval size-A sonobuoy, using the sonobuoy as the central structural load-bearing component of the assembly. The invention navigates from a launch point on a ship to a designated position, where the sonobuoy separates from the invention, using the wings aerodynamic forces to mechanically assist in separating the sonobuoy from the flight kit. The sonobuoy and the flight kit enter the water separately to ensure no interference with the sonobuoy.
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Patent Number:	7,261,257
Title:	Cargo Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,261,257
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Helou, Jr., Elie (Carpinteria, CA)
Publication Number:	7261257
Application Number:	10/996,799
Abstract:	An aircraft for carrying at least one rigid cargo container includes a beam structure with a forward fuselage attached to the forward end of the beam structure and an empennage attached to the rearward end of the beam structure. Wings and engines are mounted relative to the beam structure and a fairing creates a cargo bay able to receive standard sized intermodal cargo containers. Intermodal cargo containers of light construction and rigid structure are positioned within the cargo bay and securely mounted therein. The beam structure is designed to support flight, takeoffs and landings when the aircraft is empty but requires the added strength of the containers securely mounted to the beam structure when the aircraft is loaded. The aircraft is contemplated to be a drone.
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Patent Number:	7,249,733
Title:	Lighter-than-air Aircraft Including A Closed Loop Combustion Generating System And Related Methods For Powering The Same
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,249,733
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20110731
Inventor(s):	Palmer, William Robert (Melbourne, FL)
Assignee:	Harris Corporation (Melbourne, FL, US)
Publication Number:	7249733
Application Number:	10/977,791
Abstract:	A lighter-than-air aircraft includes a gas envelope for containing a buoyant gas, and a propulsion system is carried by the gas envelope. A solar panel is carried by the gas envelope for powering the propulsion system when generating sufficient power. A closed loop combustion generating system is also carried by the gas envelope for powering the propulsion system when the solar panel is not generating sufficient power. The fuel for the closed loop combustion generator is regenerated by the solar panel from its exhaust when the solar panel is generating sufficient power.
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Patent Number:	7,240,878
Title:	High Wing Monoplane Aerospace Plane Based Fighter
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,240,878
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20100703
Inventor(s):	Towne, Andrew James (Colorado Springs, CO)
Publication Number:	7240878
Application Number:	08/999,657
Abstract:	The Hypersonic Orbital Fighter and the methods of flying it are disclosed. The Hypersonic Orbital Fighter is characterized by a winged, modified lifting body shape with the forward ventral section comprising an X-30 type compressive air inlet, throttleable supersonic combustion ramjet array under the center of gravity and half-cone exhaust outlet at the back, fore mounted canards, cockpit/payload area top front and mid section and one or more tailplanes at the top back. Flight profile comprising runway takeoff, high subsonic climb up to 65,000 feet, alternatively full power climb from zero to 65,000 feet, with progressive acceleration from there up to Mach 24 @ required orbital altitude. Able to intercept missiles from early through post-boost phase from chosen orbit or suborbital arc, to intercept aircraft and to interdict surface targets. Winged dynamic soaring capability in reentry followed by powered runway landing.
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Patent Number:	7,234,667
Title:	Modular Aerospace Plane
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,234,667
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Talmage, Jr., Robert N. (Acworth, GA)
Publication Number:	7234667
Application Number:	11/007,855
Abstract:	This invention relates to the design of a Modular Aerospace Plane (MAP) comprising a forward fuselage section, a main wing section, a tail section and wing attachments. Various sections can be integrated to offer a variety of aircraft characteristics, performance and missions. This modular design offers a new method of aircraft fabrication, maintenance, repair and ground handling to reduce costs for the manufacturers, owners and operators. The forward fuselage and tail sections may utilize a parachute device whereby these sections can separate in an emergency and safely lower the occupants to the ground.
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Patent Number:	7,224,082
Title:	Turbomachine Including An Integrated Electricity Generator
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,224,082
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Bouiller, Philippe (Samoreau, FR), Morreale, Serge (Guignes, FR), Rousselin, Stephane (Hericy, FR)
Assignee:	Snecma (Paris, FR)
Publication Number:	7224082
Application Number:	11/282,669
Abstract:	A turbomachine includes a high-pressure spool, an axial compressor of axis X mounted on a rotor and including a casing and at least one rear bearing disposed between the casing and the rotor of the compressor. The turbomachine further includes an electricity generator coaxial with the spool and including a primary magnetic circuit that is constrained to rotate with the rotor of the compressor and a secondary magnetic circuit that is secured to the casing. The electricity generator is disposed upstream from the rear bearing and includes at least a first cooling circuit surrounding the secondary magnetic circuit and extended by a nozzle for lubricating the rear bearing.
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Patent Number:	7,219,490
Title:	Nested Core Gas Turbine Engine
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,219,490
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20190522
Inventor(s):	Dev, Sudarshan Paul (Seymour, CT)
Assignee:	D-Star Engineering (Shelton, CT, US)
Publication Number:	7219490
Application Number:	11/201,441
Abstract:	A gas turbine engine comprising a combustion chamber section, a turbine section, and a compressor section. The turbine section surrounds the combustion chamber and the compressor section surrounds the turbine section.
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Patent Number:	7,207,566
Title:	Method And Apparatus For Determining And Retrieving Positional Information
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,207,566
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Hodge, Bruce (Greenfield, NY)
Publication Number:	7207566
Application Number:	11/054,670
Abstract:	A force-bearing object or non-penetrating projectiles contact location can be determined and mapped by a computer using methods of pressure, penetration, or stress sensitivity.
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Patent Number:	7,204,455
Title:	Motion Assisting Apparatus
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,204,455
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20150417
Inventor(s):	Sinclair, Peter Logan (London, GB)
Publication Number:	7204455
Application Number:	10/481,944
Abstract:	A drive assembly for use with a mechanical flying or walking device comprises an articulated member (7) having first and second portions (7a, 7b) arranged such that the portions move relative to each other, and a drive mechanism (9) for imparting motion to the articulated member. The drive mechanism (9) comprises: a drive member for imparting a cyclic motion on the articulated member, and a control member for controlling, in a predetermined manner, the relative position of the first and second portions during each cycle of the cyclic motion of the articulated member. In the case of a mechanical flying device, two such drive assemblies may be provided, the articulated member of each assembly forming a wing.
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Patent Number:	7,195,200
Title:	Unmanned Helicopter, Takeoff Method Of Unmanned Helicopter, And Landing Method Of Unmanned Helicopter
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,195,200
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Yamane, Akihiro (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee:	Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP)
Publication Number:	7195200
Application Number:	10/679,984
Abstract:	An unmanned helicopter includes an altitude control device for giving a command of a collective pitch blade angle based on an altitude change rate command, etc., and performing altitude control of an airframe and takeoff device, upon reception of a takeoff start command from the ground, for causing the airframe to take off and climbing the airframe to a first altitude while increasing the collective pitch blade angle without performing the altitude control of the altitude control device and then causing the altitude control device to start the altitude control. The unmanned helicopter further includes descending device for causing the airframe to descend to a second altitude while changing descent rate command of the altitude control device and giving a descent rate command smaller than the descent rate command to the second altitude to the altitude control device for causing the airframe to descend from the second altitude to the ground.
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Patent Number:	7,194,866
Title:	Static Structure For An Expendable Gas Turbine Engine
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,194,866
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Jones, Anthony (San Diego, CA), Harris, Mark (San Diego, CA), Alexander, Eric (San Diego, CA), Lydon, Patrick (San Marcos, CA)
Assignee:	Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Rockford, IL, US)
Publication Number:	7194866
Application Number:	10/600,401
Abstract:	A static structure for a miniature gas turbine engine includes a forward housing, a forward cover, a diffuser housing, a diffuser, a turbine nozzle, a combustor liner, a combustor housing and an exhaust pipe with relatively uncomplicated assembly interfaces. The static structure defines airflow and lubrication passages which communicate lubricant and airflow to each shaft bearing such that an adequate measured quantity of lubricant is supplied to the bearings in response to engine speed. The airflow through the airflow passage carries the lubrication supplied to the forward bearing toward the aft bearing to further lubricate the aft hot section bearing.
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Patent Number:	7,168,533
Title:	Rotor Brake As Well As Rotor And Rotary-wing Aircraft With Such A Rotor Brake
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,168,533
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20190130
Inventor(s):	Podratzky, Andreas (Neufahrn, DE)
Assignee:	Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH (Donauwoerth, DE)
Publication Number:	7168533
Application Number:	10/940,045
Abstract:	A rotor brake includes a braking force absorption element non-rotatably connected to a rotor shaft; a stationary brake actuator for actuating a braking force transmission element that is functionally coupled to the braking force absorption element so as to exert a braking effect; and at least one rotor speed-controlled, centrifugal force-actuated rotor brake deactivation device. In addition, a rotor having at least one such rotor brake, as well as rotary-wing aircraft, especially a helicopter, having at least one rotor as well as at least one such rotor brake.
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Patent Number:	7,152,347
Title:	Method And Apparatus For Applying Railway Ballast
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,152,347
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Herzog, Stanley M. (St. Joseph, MO), Bounds, Ivan E. (Lake Havasu City, AZ), Schmitz, Ron (Clarksdale, MO), Pogglemiller, Randy (Easton, MO), Bedingfield, Stephen (Savannah, MO), Laughlin, Dan (Platte City, MO), Harris, Pat (Lenexa, KS), Shirk, Tony (Clarksdale, MO)
Assignee:	Herzog Contracting Corporation (St. Joseph, MO, US)
Publication Number:	7152347
Application Number:	10/870,843
Abstract:	A method and apparatus for spreading ballast along railways makes use of an inertial measurement system to determine where to apply ballast from a hopper car. A variety of techniques can be used to determine the location and speed of the ballast spreading train, including manual or automated visual techniques, laser technology, radar technology, radio frequency transponders, magnetic sensor, thermal imaging and aerial photogrammetry. The invention also contemplates "on the fly" surveys and terrain profiling using lasers or radar.
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Patent Number:	7,149,611
Title:	Virtual Sensor Mast
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,149,611
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Beck, Michael S. (Colleyville, TX), Chun, Wendell H. (Littleton, CO), Stinchcomb, Jon T. (Arlington, TX)
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD, US)
Publication Number:	7149611
Application Number:	10/639,267
Abstract:	A virtual sensor mast for a ground vehicle and a method for operating a ground vehicle using a virtual sensor mast are disclosed. The virtual sensor mast includes an unmanned airborne vehicle capable of lifting itself from the ground vehicle upon deployment therefrom; a sensor suite mounted to the unmanned airborne vehicle; and a tether between the unmanned airborne vehicle and the ground vehicle over which the sensor suite is capable of communicating sensed data upon deployment. The method includes elevating a tethered unmanned airborne vehicle from the ground vehicle to a predetermined height; sensing environmental conditions surrounding the ground vehicle; and terminating the deployment.
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Patent Number:	7,127,334
Title:	System And Methods For Preventing The Unauthorized Use Of Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,127,334
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20101024
Inventor(s):	Frink, Bentley D. (Wilmington, NC)
Publication Number:	7127334
Application Number:	10/727,447
Abstract:	An aircraft having a memory loaded with geolocation data corresponding to restricted airspace boundaries and an autonomous system for rerouting the aircraft outside of the restricted airspace boundaries as the aircraft approaches to within a predetermined distance of the restricted airspace.
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Patent Number:	7,105,790
Title:	Process To Control The Trajectory Of A Spinning Projectile
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,105,790
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Lamorlette, Gerard (Bourges, FR)
Assignee:	GIAT Industries (Versailles, FR)
Publication Number:	7105790
Application Number:	10/848,137
Abstract:	A process to control the trajectory of a spinning projectile. The projectiles accelerations are measured by means of an inertial unit in three axes within a reference linked to the projectile so as to prepare the piloting commands for the projectiles trajectory. The velocity vector V components (V.sub.X, V.sub.Y, V.sub.Z) of the projectile are measured using a global positioning system (GPS) along three axes and within a land reference (G.sub.X, G.sub.Y, G.sub.Z). Based on these measurements, the components (.GAMMA..sub.X,.GAMMA..sub.Y,.GAMMA..sub.Z) of the acceleration vector .GAMMA. are evaluated in the same land reference (GX, GY, GZ). At each of these measurements and periodical evaluations by the GPS, the Euler angles of the projectile are recalculated by combining the resultants of the velocity (V) and acceleration (.GAMMA.) measurements given by the GPS and those of the acceleration given by the inertial unit.
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Patent Number:	7,095,488
Title:	System For Profiling Objects On Terrain Forward And Below An Aircraft Utilizing A Cross-track Laser Altimeter
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,095,488
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20140822
Inventor(s):	Jamieson, James R. (Savage, MN), Ray, Mark D. (Burnsville, MN), Pesik, Joseph T. (Eagen, MN)
Assignee:	Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, MN, US)
Publication Number:	7095488
Application Number:	10/347,908
Abstract:	A forward looking cross-track laser altimeter comprises: a first configuration of optical elements for guiding pulsed laser beams along a first optical path; a mirror element coupled to a scanner and disposed in the first optical path, the scanner operative to oscillate the mirror element to sweep the reflected laser beams back and forth across a line at a predetermined frequency; the scanner and mirror element configurable to reflect the pulsed laser beams along paths forward and downward at a predetermined angle to the flight path of the aircraft, wherein the pulsed laser beam paths are caused to be line swept across a ground track forward the aircraft; the mirror element for receiving returns of the pulsed laser beams from the terrain and objects on the terrain forward the aircraft and reflecting the returns along a second optical path to a light detector which produces a return signal in response thereto; a first circuit governed by the return signals for measuring times-of-flight of the returns and generating time-of-flight signals corresponding thereto; the scanner for generating a line sweep position signal; and a second circuit for generating for each return a data profile comprising range and line sweep position thereof based on the corresponding time-of-flight and position signals.
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Patent Number:	7,089,000
Title:	Multi-node Wireless Communication System With Multiple Transponding Platforms
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,089,000
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20180808
Inventor(s):	Chang, Ming U. (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA), Yung, Kar W. (Torrance, CA), Hagen, Frank A. (Palos Verdes Estates, CA), Chang, Donald C. D. (Thousand Oaks, CA)
Assignee:	The DirecTV Group, Inc. (El Segundo, CA, US)
Publication Number:	7089000
Application Number:	09/584,012
Abstract:	A mobile wireless communications system including a plurality of individual transponding platforms all in communication with a central processing hub. A signal processed by the central processing hub is radiated simultaneously through multiple paths to a plurality of the individual transponding platforms. The signal transmitted to each transponding platform by the hub is appropriately delayed by the hub so as to equalize the differential delay of all such signals from a given receiver location. The radiated signal is then re-radiated by each of the plurality of individual transponding platforms to a mobile satellite terminal that receives the re-radiated signal from the plurality of individual transponding platforms. The signals from the plurality of transponding platforms are all received coherently by the intended user, and incoherently by all other users.
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Patent Number:	7,083,148
Title:	Assembly For Carrying And Ejecting Stores
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,083,148
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Bajuyo, Ronaldo A. (Indianapolis, IN), Galanti, Benjamin J. (Indianapolis, IN), Guerrero, Armando (Indianapolis, IN)
Assignee:	Raytheon Company (Waltham, MA, US)
Publication Number:	7083148
Application Number:	10/996,000
Abstract:	A carriage and ejection assembly for retaining different types of stores to an aircraft and selectively ejecting a carried one of the stores away from the aircraft is disclosed. The assembly can include a sway brace having at least one contact location for each type of store, wherein during ejection of the carried store by actuation of the sway brace, the at least one contact location corresponding to the carried store applies a pitch downward moment to the carried store. Another feature of the assembly can include a direct connection of the sway brace to a moveable part of an ejection actuator. Another feature of the assembly can include independent latching and unlatching of plural store retaining hooks of the assembly. Another feature can include a compressor for pressurizing a piston of the assembly that is carried by the aircraft. Yet another feature can include a hook release actuator placed in series with and upstream of an ejector actuator.
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Patent Number:	7,082,706
Title:	Systems And Methods For Creating Aerial Messages
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,082,706
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Stinis, Gregory (Cypress, CA), Stinis, Stephen G. (Channel Islands, CA), Stinis, Curtiss T. (Irvine, CA)
Assignee:	Skytypers, Inc. (Las Vegas, NV, US)
Publication Number:	7082706
Application Number:	09/874,565
Abstract:	Systems and methods are disclosed for creating aerial messages using multiple aircraft. Each of the aircraft includes a control box located in the aircraft for receiving data from and transmitting data to a software program running on a main computer. The systems and methods employ a wireless network to transmit and receive data between the aircraft and the software program, with each aircraft (or its respective control box) representing a node on the wireless network. Additionally, the systems and methods may operate on remote controlled devices, such as miniature remote controlled aircraft, and may be used to produce colored aerial messages. The systems and methods may be used to create an aerial vapor screen capable of displaying projected images. Also disclosed are various methods, systems and user interfaces for creating character libraries (including graphical image libraries and various language libraries), printing aerial messages, tracking system parameters (including message, system and/or aircraft parameters) and accounting of the messages created and printed.
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Patent Number:	7,066,430
Title:	Methods And Apparatuses For Capturing And Recovering Unmanned Aircraft, Including Extendable Capture Devices
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,066,430
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Dennis, Brian D. (White Salmon, WA), Jackson, Clifford (White Salmon, WA), McGeer, Brian T. (Underwood, WA), von Flotow, Andreas H. (Hood River, OR)
Assignee:	The Insitu Group, Inc. (Bingen, WA, US)
Publication Number:	7066430
Application Number:	10/758,956
Abstract:	Methods and apparatuses for capturing and recovering unmanned aircraft and other flight devices or projectiles are described. In one embodiment, the aircraft can be captured at an extendable boom. The boom can be extended to deploy a recovery line to retrieve the aircraft in flight. The boom can be retracted when not in use to reduce the volume it occupies. A tension device coupled to the recovery line can absorb forces associated with the impact of the aircraft and the recovery line.
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Patent Number:	7,066,427
Title:	Active Protection Device And Associated Apparatus, System, And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,066,427
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20140627
Inventor(s):	Chang, Yu-Wen (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA)
Assignee:	Chang Industry, Inc. (La Verne, CA, US)
Publication Number:	7066427
Application Number:	10/787,843
Abstract:	An interceptor device adapted to protect a platform associated therewith against an incoming threat having a trajectory by intercepting the threat in an intercept zone is provided. Such an interceptor device comprises a housing defining an axis and a countermeasure device operably engaged with the housing. At least one detonating charge is housed by the housing and is operably engaged with the countermeasure device. A controller device is in communication with the at least one detonating charge, wherein the controller device is housed by the housing and is configured to direct the at least one detonating charge to deploy the countermeasure device at least partially radially outward with respect to the axis of the housing and in correspondence with the trajectory of the threat to thereby cause the countermeasure to impact the threat in the intercept zone. Associated apparatuses, systems, and methods are also provided.
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Patent Number:	7,059,566
Title:	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle For Logistical Delivery
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,059,566
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20180613
Inventor(s):	Byers, David W. (Arlington, VA), Hall, Gary A. (King George, VA), Hunter, Graham D. (Horncastle, GB), Kennell, Colen G. (University Park, MD), Macander, Aleksander B. (Rockville, MD), Milgram, Judah H. (Hyattsville, MD), Strickland, Jason D. (Gaithersburg, MD)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC, US)
Publication Number:	7059566
Application Number:	10/856,360
Abstract:	A hollow elliptical-cylindrical hull conformingly houses a hollow rectangular-prismatic cabin whereby the four longitudinal parallel outside edges of the latter make contact with the inside surface of the former. The fully constructed aircraft (either non-powered or powered) includes the integral hull-plus-cabin structure along with nose, tail and airfoil structures that are coupled therewith. The cabin conformingly accommodates hollow rectangular-prismatic modules useful for cargo storage. While the nose and/or tail structure is uncoupled from the integral hull-plus-cabin structure, the modules are inserted into the cabin and the cabin is sealed. The aircraft is lifted (e.g., via airplane, helicopter, rocket or balloon) to a particular elevation and released, whereupon the two wings fully emerge and the aircraft effects controlled flight until reaching its destination. After landing, the nose and/or tail structure is uncoupled from the integral hull-plus-cabin structure, the cabin is unsealed, and the modules are removed from the cabin.
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Patent Number:	7,055,777
Title:	Airship And Method Of Operation
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,055,777
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20140606
Inventor(s):	Colting, Hokan S. (Newmarket, CA)
Assignee:	21st Century Airships Inc. (Newmarket, CA)
Publication Number:	7055777
Application Number:	10/178,345
Abstract:	An airship has a generally spherical shape and has an internal envelope for containing a lifting gas such as Helium or Hydrogen. The airship has a propulsion and control system that permits it to be flown to a desired loitering location, and to be maintained in that location for a period of time. In one embodiment the airship may achieve neutral buoyancy when the internal envelope is as little as 7% full of lifting gas, and may have a service ceiling of about 60,000 ft. The airship has an equipment module that can include either communications equipment, or monitoring equipment, or both. The airship can be remotely controlled from a ground station. The airship has a solar cell array and electric motors of the propulsion and control system are driven by power obtained from the array. The airship also has an auxiliary power unit that can be used to drive the electric motors. The airship can have a pusher propeller that assists in driving the airship and also moves the point of flow separation of the spherical airship further aft. In one embodiment the airship can be refuelled at altitude to permit extended loitering.
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Patent Number:	7,055,306
Title:	Combined Stage Single Shaft Turbofan Engine
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,055,306
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Jones, Anthony (San Diego, CA), Harris, Mark (San Diego, CA), Lydon, Patrick (San Marcos, CA), Alexander, Eric (San Diego, CA)
Assignee:	Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Rockford, IL, US)
Publication Number:	7055306
Application Number:	10/426,315
Abstract:	A turbofan engine includes a combined stage rotor mounted for common rotation with a shaft, a compressor stage, and a turbine stage. Each of the plurality of fan blades of the combined stage rotor are contiguous with a respective compressor blade. The combined stage rotor is located at a junction between a fan bypass duct and a core duct. The fan bypass stage portion includes a plurality of the fan blades which communicate incoming airflow into fan bypass airflow through the fan bypass duct. The compressor stage portion includes a plurality of the compressor blades which communicated airflow into core airflow through the core duct. The plurality of fan blades extend substantially perpendicular to the plurality of compressor blades such that the plurality of compressor blade portions extend at least partially into the core duct and preferably will include splitters for enhanced efficiency.
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Patent Number:	7,050,813
Title:	Parallel Computer Network And Method For Telecommunications Network Simulation To Route Calls And Continuously Estimate Call Billing In Real Time
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,050,813
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Paiz, Richard S. (North Miami Beach, FL)
Publication Number:	7050813
Application Number:	10/926,446
Abstract:	An expert system supercomputer that incorporates a plurality of independent nodes, or intelligent components, which work together in an organized and hierarchical manner to represent network platform components, the human resources of an organization, and consumer interactions with the plurality of concurrently working sovereign telecommunication organizations that form the system.
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Patent Number:	7,047,861
Title:	System, Methods And Apparatus For Managing A Weapon System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,047,861
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20140523
Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Publication Number:	7047861
Application Number:	10/422,033
Abstract:	A system for managing a weapon system is provided. The system includes a number of mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs), a number of squads, each squad having a lead MRV and member MRVs, a number of central control systems, a number of reactive control systems, a central planning control configured to control the plurality of central control systems, a behavior-based reactive control configured to control the plurality of reactive control systems, an intermediated control layer configured to control the central planning control and the behavior-based reactive control, a number of hybrid control models configured to communicate with the intermediate control layer, the hybrid control models including a planning driven model and an adaptation model, a number of synthetic control models configured to communicate with the hybrid control models, and a number of synthetic hybrid control models configured based on combinations of the hybrid control models and the synthetic control models.
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Patent Number:	7,047,425
Title:	Scaleable Muti-level Security Method In Object Oriented Open Network Systems
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,047,425
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Dubuque, Mark W. (Town & Country, MO)
Assignee:	The Boeing Company
Publication Number:	7047425
Application Number:	10/198,862
Abstract:	A system and method are provided for securely transferring data between applications over a network. According to one embodiment, a receive site address on a server is selected based on a first IP address/object filter table and a desired security level. A data payload for transmittal is defined the data payload is encrypted for transfer and the encrypted data payload is transmitted from a send site address over a network to the receive site address. The transmitted encrypted data is only received at the receive site address by decrypting the data payload and accepting the data based upon a second IP filter table and the address of the send site.
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Patent Number:	7,040,082
Title:	Assistance And Emergency Drive For Electrically-driven Accessories
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,040,082
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Bouiller, Philippe (Samoreau, FR), Franchet, Michel (Pouilly le Fort, FR), Ruis, Jean-Pierre (Chatelet en Brie, FR)
Assignee:	Snecma Moteurs (Paris, FR)
Publication Number:	7040082
Application Number:	10/617,656
Abstract:	The invention relates to a system for driving an accessory, such as a fuel pump or an oil pump in a turboengine, said system comprising an electric motor and further comprising an air turbine associated with said electric motor. Said air turbine is suitable for being fed with a flow of air taken from a compressor of said turboengine and contributing to driving the accessory. The system also includes a valve for controlling the flow of air taken from the compressor, which valve is in the closed position while the turboengine is starting.
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Patent Number:	7,023,375
Title:	Radar System For Obstacle Warning And Imaging Of The Surface Of The Earth
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,023,375
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20100404
Inventor(s):	Klausing, Helmut (Wessling-Hochstadt, DE), Kaltschmidt, Horst (Neubiberg, DE)
Assignee:	EADS Deutschland GmbH (Ottobrunn, DE)
Publication Number:	7023375
Application Number:	10/475,596
Abstract:	A radar system for active obstacle warning and imaging of the surface of the earth, working in the pulse frequency or FH-CW range, which can be used in on-line operation in real time, includes a plurality of antenna elements for sending and receiving radar signals, which are arranged on the fuselage of an aircraft, and which may be turned on and scanned sequentially, whereby a synthetic aperture can be generated by means of periodic sending and receiving of the antenna elements. Antenna elements are arranged along the curved surface of the aircraft contour, whereby a SAR processor is present, which analyzes the data obtained from the antenna elements and displays them as processed radar images on board the aircraft, in a virtual cockpit.
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Patent Number:	7,007,889
Title:	Flexible Airfoils And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 7,007,889
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20180307
Inventor(s):	Charron, Richard (West Palm Beach, FL)
Publication Number:	7007889
Application Number:	10/869,106
Abstract:	An airfoil for use in kites, movable wing aircraft and fixed wing aircraft has a straight spar inserted into a sleeve in the arcuate leading edge of a flexible wing panel. The resultant forces on the spar dynamically shape the airfoil. The airfoil is reinforced by battens between the leading edge and the trailing edge of the wing panel. Flight control is maintained through control lines warping the airfoil.
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Patent Number:	6,997,097
Title:	Autonomous Mission Profile Planning
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,997,097
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20180214
Inventor(s):	Harding, William V. (Arlington, TX)
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD, US)
Publication Number:	6997097
Application Number:	09/847,224
Abstract:	The invention includes a method and apparatus for planning a mission profile in real time on board a platform or a vehicle dispensed from a platform. In general, the mission planning technique includes ascertaining a plurality of target information, including a target location, a target velocity, and a target location error. This is followed by an autonomous determination of a pattern from the ascertained target information. In one particular implementation, the autonomous determination includes projecting along a target axis a direction opposite a target heading defined by the target velocity a distance of at least twice the target location error to establish an intersection of the target axis with the target location error; projecting left and right relative to the target axis from the intersection a distance at least as great as one-half the target location error to determine a pair of possible start points; selecting the possible start point closest to the platform; determining a dispense point; laying out a trace from the selected start point; and translating the trace along a heading defined by the target velocity a distance determined by the elapsed time of travel for the platform to the dispense point and for a vehicle from the dispense point to the start point. In other aspects, the invention includes a computing device programmed to perform this autonomous determination or a program storage device encoded with instructions for performing such a determination.
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Patent Number:	6,988,357
Title:	Nested Core Gas Turbine Engine
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,988,357
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20180124
Inventor(s):	Dev, Sudarshan Paul (Seymour, CT)
Publication Number:	6988357
Application Number:	10/635,956
Abstract:	A gas turbine engine comprising a combustion chamber section, a turbine section, and a compressor section. The turbine section surrounds the combustion chamber and the compressor section surrounds the turbine section.
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Patent Number:	6,966,523
Title:	Airship And Method Of Operation
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,966,523
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20131122
Inventor(s):	Colting, Hokan S. (Newmarket, CA)
Assignee:	21st Century Airships Inc. (Newmarket, CA)
Publication Number:	6966523
Application Number:	10/718,634
Abstract:	An airship has a generally spherical shape and has an internal envelope for containing a lifting gas such as Helium or Hydrogen. The airship has a propulsion and control system that permits it to be flown to a desired loitering location, and to be maintained in that location for a period of time. In one embodiment the airship may achieve neutral buoyancy when the internal envelope is as little as 7% full of lifting gas, and may have a service ceiling of about 60,000 ft. The airship has an equipment module that can include either communications equipment, or monitoring equipment, or both. The airship can be remotely controlled from a ground station. The airship has a solar cell array and electric motors of the propulsion and control system are driven by power obtained from the array. The airship also has an auxiliary power unit that can be used to drive the electric motors. The airship can have a pusher propeller that assists in driving the airship and also moves the point of flow separation of the spherical airship further aft. In one embodiment the airship can be refuelled at altitude to permit extended loitering.
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Patent Number:	6,966,174
Title:	Integrated Bypass Turbojet Engines For Air Craft And Other Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,966,174
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20091122
Inventor(s):	Paul, Marius A. (Yorba Linda, CA)
Publication Number:	6966174
Application Number:	10/383,462
Abstract:	Turbojet engines and aircraft configurations for advantageous use of the turbojet engines; the turbojet engines utilizing ram air turbine units that centrifugally compress air isothermally for use in various combustion configurations designed for stoichiometric combustion, wherein a stream of by-pass ram-air jets is mixed with combustion gas jets for discharge in a common discharge nozzle.
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Patent Number:	6,965,816
Title:	Pfn/trac System Faa Upgrades For Accountable Remote And Robotics Control To Stop The Unauthorized Use Of Aircraft And To Improve Equipment Management And Public Safety In Transportation
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,965,816
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20091115
Inventor(s):	Walker, Richard C. (Waldorf, MD)
Assignee:	Kline & Walker, LLC (Potomac, MD, US)
Publication Number:	6965816
Application Number:	10/260,525
Abstract:	This invention, a Protected Primary Focal Node PFN is a Trusted Remote Activity Controller TRAC and mobile communication router platform that provides accountable remote and robotics control to transportation vehicles by interfacing with the vehicles E/E systems. It connects each vehicle either on the earths surface or near the earths surface with application specific intranets for air, sea and land travel, via either host commercial servers or agency providers through wireless communication gateways and then further interfaces these vehicles in a larger machine messaging matrix via wireless and IP protocols to further coordinate movement assess and manage equipment use and impact on the world resources, societies infrastructure and the environment. This filing focuses directly on PFN/TRAC System use to augment and upgrade public safety and security in the Airline Industry and restrict any unauthorized use of an aircraft. Additionally, this application and related filings teaches the PFN/TRAC System.TM. use for all vehicle platforms to increase safety and security in a free society like the United State of America. The other related filings instruct in the technologys use for robust and accountable remote control for personal applications, stationary equipment and standalone functions, and coordinates them and interfaces them within the communication matrix. The TRAC controller also performs translation and repeating functions across a wide variety of communication protocols to complete a more mobile flexible matrix or web. This connected communication matrix of computers and humans provides an enhanced Human Machine Interfacing HMI scenario both locally and systemically in real-time for improve equipment management and world stability.
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Patent Number:	6,965,342
Title:	Method For Recognizing And Identifying Objects
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,965,342
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20091115
Inventor(s):	Klausing, Helmut (Wessling-Hochstadt, DE), Kaltschmidt, Horst (Neubiberg, DE)
Assignee:	EADS Deutschland GmbH (Ottobrunn, DE)
Publication Number:	6965342
Application Number:	10/475,597
Abstract:	A method for recognizing and identifying objects by means of several sensors, particularly using imaging sensors (L, W, V) in the infrared and/or visible wavelength range and radar devices (R) which are based on the generation of a synthetic aperture. According to the invention, generation of the synthetic aperture occurs in accordance with the ROSAR principle, wherein a plurality of antenna elements (A), which the radar device (R) comprises, is placed on the aircraft (F) along its arched contour (K), controlled sequentially and scanned, and wherein the information acquired by the radar devices (R) and the imaging sensors (L, W, V) is subsequently processed, in such a way that optimal imaging of the surroundings of the aircraft (F) is made possible in every viewing direction.
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Patent Number:	6,948,681
Title:	Automated Cargo Transportation System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,948,681
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Stupakis, John S. (Hewitt, NJ)
Assignee:	BoXaiR Engineering LLC (Hewitt, NJ, US)
Publication Number:	6948681
Application Number:	10/341,206
Abstract:	A modular automated air transport system comprising an unmanned autonomous aircraft having a selectively detachable control systems portion and a structural air frame portion, wherein the structural air frame portion contains an interior cargo hold, aerodynamic members having control surfaces and at least one propulsion device attached to the structural air frame portion; and wherein the control system portion includes a control computer for autonomously controlling the flight of said air transport system from one known location to a second known location.
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Patent Number:	6,943,701
Title:	Vehicular Safety System And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,943,701
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20090913
Inventor(s):	Zeineh, Rashid A. (Fullerton, CA)
Assignee:	Advanced American Enterprises, LLC (Fullerton, CA, US)
Publication Number:	6943701
Application Number:	10/165,782
Abstract:	A relatively low cost but effective vehicular safety system includes a navigational status determination system generating navigational status information, an alarm response system generating alarm responses in response to alarm response command information and a data processing system. The data processing system stores a list of safety zones having one or more safety conditions for each safety zone. The data processing system receives the navigational status information and compares the received navigational status information to the stored safety conditions. If a safety condition is found to be violated the data processing system communicates a response command to the alarm response system. Depending upon the severity of the violated safety condition, the alarm response system notifies the vehicle operator of the violation, notifies law enforcement authorities external to the vehicle of the violation or takes some other safety response. In an extreme condition, the alarm response system assumes control over some aspect of the operation of the vehicle such as steering or engine control.
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Patent Number:	6,923,404
Title:	Apparatus And Methods For Variable Sweep Body Conformal Wing With Application To Projectiles, Missiles, And Unmanned Air Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,923,404
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20090802
Inventor(s):	Liu, Danny D. (Scottsdale, AZ), Chen, Ping-Chih (Scottsdale, AZ), Sarhaddi, Darius (Mesa, AZ)
Assignee:	ZONA Technology, Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ, US)
Publication Number:	6923404
Application Number:	10/339,908
Abstract:	An unmanned air vehicle ("UAV") apparatus is configured to have a body and a body-conformal wing. The body-conformal wing is configured to variably sweep from a closed position to a fully deployed position. In the closed position, the body-conformal wing span is aligned with the body axis and in the fully deployed position the body-conformal wing span is perpendicular to the axial direction of the body. Delivery of the UAV comprises the steps of: positioning the span of a body conformal wing in alignment with the axis of the body of the UAV; initiating the flight of the UAV; and adjusting the sweep angle of the body-conformal wing as a function of the current speed, altitude, or attack angle of the UAV, with the adjustment starting at a 0 degree position and varying between a closed position and a fully deployed position. The UAV also has a control mechanism configured to variably adjust the sweep of the body-conformal wing to achieve a high lift over drag ratio through out the flight path of the UAV.
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Patent Number:	6,914,344
Title:	Integrated Starter/generator For A Turbomachine
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,914,344
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Franchet, Michel (Pouilly le Fort, FR), Picard, Jean-Louis (Vaux le Penil, FR)
Assignee:	Snecma Moteurs (Paris, FR)
Publication Number:	6914344
Application Number:	10/619,076
Abstract:	The invention relates to a turbomachine of axis X including a compressor and an integrated starter/generator. The field magnetic circuit of the starter/generator is mounted in the bore of at least one disk of the compressor and surrounds the secondary magnetic circuit which is secured to a cylindrical shroud provided on the support structure for the bearing of the compressor. The invention applies in particular to single-shaft or multi-shaft turbomachines.
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Patent Number:	6,907,326
Title:	Autonomous Surf Zone Line Charge Deployment System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,907,326
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20090614
Inventor(s):	Kucik, Daniel P. (Lynn Haven, FL)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC, US)
Publication Number:	6907326
Application Number:	10/156,370
Abstract:	A system and method autonomously clears obstacles and mines from an approach lane. A ship is distantly located from an approach lane spanning a surf zone and beach portion, and the ship has operator control station software in an onboard computer. At least one system delivery vehicle having a storage bay and propulsion system transits from the ship to the approach lane in response to instructions from the operator control station. A line charge is disposed in each bay and has one end coupled to the system delivery vehicle. A line charge delivery vehicle in the bay is connected to another end of the line charge to pull the line charge from the bay and emplace it in a straight path in the approach lane in response to instructions from the operator control station. Explosives in all line charges are detonated to clear the approach lane.
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Patent Number:	6,899,298
Title:	Variable Area Wing Aircraft And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,899,298
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20170531
Inventor(s):	Lee, John R. (New Orleans, LA)
Assignee:	LEE JOHN R.
Publication Number:	6899298
Application Number:	10/682,205
Abstract:	An STOL aircraft structure has a variable-attitude, variable-area wing in addition to a traditional airfoil. The variable wing has an angle of attack that varies from 0.degree. to a predetermined angle far in excess of the stall angle. The variable wing area can be adjusted from 0% to 100% by a roller furling arrangement. The aircraft structure operates during takeoff by deploying the variable wing with an attitude exceeding the stall angle, applying thrust to the aircraft so that the variable wing generates reaction lift and the aircraft attains a predetermined altitude, and stowing the variable wing so that the traditional airfoil is the primary lifting surface. Those steps are reversed for landing.
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Patent Number:	6,886,776
Title:	Vtol Personal Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,886,776
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20130503
Inventor(s):	Wagner, Joseph (Ozark, AL), Pruszenski, Jr., Anthony (Newburyport, MA), Milde, Jr., Karl F. (Mahopac, NY)
Assignee:	Milde Jr., Karl F. (Mahopac, NY, US)
Publication Number:	6886776
Application Number:	10/242,036
Abstract:	A personal aircraft (PAC) capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) comprises a fixed wing and a fuselage with a passenger compartment having a front, a rear and two sides, and a plurality of independently powered thrusters, preferably integrated into the wing, on each side of the fuselage. The aircraft has a lift to drag ratio equal to or greater than 2. The thrusters, which are ducted fan units capable of providing a vertically upward force to the aircraft, are provided with such redundancy that the aircraft can hover with at one thruster inoperative on each side of the fuselage. At least one thruster on each side of the fuselage preferably comprises a "levitator" which creates lift from the airfoil-like air inlet as well as from the acceleration of air from inlet to outlet.
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Patent Number:	6,879,878
Title:	Method And System For Controlling A Robot
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,879,878
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Glenn, Susan J. (Huntsville, AL), Shreve, Gregory A. (Huntsville, AL)
Assignee:	Time Domain Corporation (Huntsville, AL, US)
Publication Number:	6879878
Application Number:	10/826,440
Abstract:	A system and method are described that use impulse radio technology to enhance the capabilities of a robot. In one embodiment, a system, a robot and a method are provided that use the communication capabilities of impulse radio technology to help a control station better control the actions of the robot. In another embodiment, a system, a robot and a method are provided that use the communication, position and/or radar capabilities of impulse radio technology to help a control station better control the actions of a robot in order to, for example, monitor and control the environment within a building.
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Patent Number:	6,874,729
Title:	Launch And Recovery System For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,874,729
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	McDonnell, William R. (St. Louis, MO)
Assignee:	Advanced Aerospace Technologies, Inc. (St. Louis, MO, US)
Publication Number:	6874729
Application Number:	10/031,925
Abstract:	A method of launching and retrieving a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) (10). The preferred method of launch involves carrying the UAV (10) up to altitude using a parasail (8) similar to that used to carry tourists aloft. The UAV is dropped and picks up enough airspeed in the dive to perform a pull-up into level controlled flight. The preferred method of recovery is for the UAV to fly into and latch onto the parasail tow line (4) or cables hanging off the tow line and then be winched back down to the boat (2).
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Patent Number:	6,871,816
Title:	Proactive Optical Trajectory Following System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,871,816
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Nugent, Mark R. (Torrance, CA), Selmon, John Richard (Redondo Beach, CA)
Assignee:	The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL, US)
Publication Number:	6871816
Application Number:	10/633,346
Abstract:	A system for automatically correcting flight path of an aircraft onto a predetermined trajectory is provided. A sensor is configured to sense speed and direction of air relative to the aircraft at a predetermined distance in front of the aircraft. A navigation system is configured to determine displacement of a flight path of the aircraft from a predetermined trajectory. A processor is coupled to receive the sensed speed and direction of air from the sensor and the displacement of the flight path from the navigation system. The processor includes a first component that is configured to determine whether the speed of the air at the predetermined distance is indicative of turbulence, and a second component that is configured to automatically generate control signals to correct the flight path of the aircraft from the displacement onto the predetermined trajectory by a time when the aircraft enters the turbulence.
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Patent Number:	6,867,728
Title:	Methods And Systems For Identifying Signals-of-interest
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,867,728
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Hanna, Craig A. (Vestal, NY), Johnson, James A. (Newark Valley, NY)
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD, US)
Publication Number:	6867728
Application Number:	10/701,473
Abstract:	Signals-of-interest are identified by distinguishing such signals from signals constituting environmental or internal receiver noise. A received signal is rapidly sampled in order to set a dynamic, system threshold. Signals above the threshold constitute signals-of-interest.
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Patent Number:	6,847,865
Title:	Miniature, Unmanned Aircraft With Onboard Stabilization And Automated Ground Control Of Flight Path
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,847,865
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20090125
Inventor(s):	Carroll, Ernest A. (Herndon, VA)
Assignee:	CARROLL ERNEST A.
Publication Number:	6847865
Application Number:	10/255,183
Abstract:	A miniature, unmanned aircraft for acquiring and/or transmitting data, capable of automatically maintaining desired airframe stability while operating by remote directional commands. The aircraft comprises a fuselage and a wing, a piston engine and propeller, a fuel supply, at least one data sensor and/or radio transceiver, a microprocessor disposed to manage flight, a radio transceiver for receiving remotely generated flight direction commands, a GPS receiver, a plurality of control surfaces and associated servomechanisms, for controlling flight stabilization and direction, roll, pitch, yaw, velocity, and altitude sensors. The microprocessor uses roll, pitch, yaw, and altitude data to control attitude and altitude of the aircraft automatically, but controls flight direction solely based on external commands. The aircraft does not exceed fifty-five pounds.
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Patent Number:	6,842,674
Title:	Methods And Apparatus For Decision Making Of System Of Mobile Robotic Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,842,674
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20130111
Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Assignee:	SOLOMON NEAL
Publication Number:	6842674
Application Number:	10/422,051
Abstract:	In a swarm weapon system, decision-making processes are described for the organization of mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs). After MRV drone sensor data is provided to a lead MRV, an initial decision is made by the lead MRV as a result of the selection of a winning simulation that provides the best opportunity for success of a mission. Once this decision is made, actions are organized for the MRVs, which provide feedback for the continuation of the process until the mission is completed.
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Patent Number:	6,840,480
Title:	Miniature, Unmanned Aircraft With Interchangeable Data Module
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,840,480
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20090111
Inventor(s):	Carroll, Ernest A. (Herndon, VA)
Assignee:	CARROLL ERNEST A.
Publication Number:	6840480
Application Number:	10/255,186
Abstract:	A miniature, unmanned aircraft having interchangeable data handling modules, such as sensors for obtaining digital aerial imagery and other data, and radio transmitters and receivers for relaying data. The aircraft has a microprocessor for managing flight, remote control guidance system, and electrical supply system. The data handling modules have an aerodynamic housing and manual fasteners enabling ready installation and removal. One or more data acquiring sensors or data transferring apparatus and support equipment such as batteries and communications and power cables are contained within the module. A plurality of different modules are preferably provided. Each module, when attached in a preferred location below the wing, does not significantly alter the center of gravity of the airframe. Preferably, each module contains the supervisory microprocessor so that the microprocessor need not be part of the airframe.
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Patent Number:	6,839,017
Title:	Method And Apparatus For Using Anti-jam Technology To Determine The Location Of An Electromagnetic Radiation Source
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,839,017
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Dillman, David J. (Marion, IA)
Assignee:	Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA, US)
Publication Number:	6839017
Application Number:	10/630,052
Abstract:	A system employs null angle measurements developed in response to the detection of radiation, such as jamming, along with the positions at which the null angles are measured, to determine the location of the radiation source through reverse triangulation.
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Patent Number:	6,834,835
Title:	Telescopic Wing System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,834,835
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Knowles, Gareth (Williamsport, PA), Bird, Ross W. (Canton, PA)
Assignee:	QorTek, Inc. (Williamsport, PA)
Publication Number:	6834835
Application Number:	10/799,400
Abstract:	The present invention is a wing having telescoping segments deployed via an actuator composed of a heat activated material. The actuator is a coiled tube of shape memory alloy (SMA) with large force-displacement characteristics activated thermally by either a fluid or an electrical charge. Actuator motion extends an inner wing segment from an outer wing segment when the coiled tube is compressed. Compression is achieved by heating the coiled tube so as to cause a phase transformation from Martensite to Austenite. The inner wing segment may be retracted by a mechanical device or second SMA coil when the coiled tube is cooled and returned to its Martensite phase.
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Patent Number:	6,832,251
Title:	Method And Apparatus For Distributed Signal Processing Among Internetworked Wireless Integrated Network Sensors (WINS)
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,832,251
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Gelvin, David C. (Escondido, CA), Girod, Lewis D. (Los Angeles, CA), Kaiser, William J. (Los Angeles, CA), Merrill, William M. (Los Angeles, CA), Newberg, Fredric (San Diego, CA), Pottie, Gregory J. (Los Angeles, CA), Sipos, Anton I. (Los Angeles, CA), Vardhan, Sandeep (Walnut, CA)
Assignee:	Sensoria Corporation (San Diego, CA)
Publication Number:	6832251
Application Number:	09/685,020
Abstract:	The Wireless Integrated Network Sensor Next Generation (WINS NG) nodes provide distributed network and Internet access to sensors, controls, and processors that are deeply embedded in equipment, facilities, and the environment. The WINS NG network is a new monitoring and control capability for applications in transportation, manufacturing, health care, environmental monitoring, and safety and security. The WINS NG nodes combine microsensor technology, low power distributed signal processing, low power computation, and low power, low cost wireless and/or wired networking capability in a compact system. The WINS NG networks provide sensing, local control, remote reconfigurability, and embedded intelligent systems in structures, materials, and environments.
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Patent Number:	6,819,291
Title:	Reduced-size Gps Antennas For Anti-jam Adaptive Processing
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,819,291
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Lackey, Raymond J. (Bohemia, NY), Lopez, Alfred R. (Commack, NY)
Assignee:	LACKEY RAYMOND J.; LOPEZ ALFRED R.
Publication Number:	6819291
Application Number:	10/452,530
Abstract:	A reduced-size GPS antenna with anti-jam capabilities includes eight inclined monopole elements making available a primary and seven auxiliary antenna patterns usable with multi-pattern adaptive processing for anti-jam operation. An excitation network coupled to the eight monopole elements can be configured to provide the eight antenna patterns having quadrature characteristics with low mutual coupling. Bent monopoles or other elements may also be utilized. With availability of the primary and auxiliary patterns, multi-pattern adaptive processing can be employed during airborne operations to actively provide reduced-gain pattern notches or nulls to track incident angles of interference or jamming signals. In other embodiments selected combinations of less than all of the eight antenna patterns or other patterns may be employed.
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Patent Number:	6,802,237
Title:	System And Method For Neutralization Of Mines Using Robotics And Penetrating Rods
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,802,237
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20081012
Inventor(s):	Jones, W. Steve (Panama City Beach, FL), Woodring, Charles D. (Bellefonte, PA), Szostkiewicz, Michael E. (Plant City, FL)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6802237
Application Number:	10/429,332
Abstract:	A system and method to autonomously neutralize mines has a tracked crawler vehicle having a sealed housing, power source, and motor driven track assemblies on opposite sides of the housing. A control/communications module in the housing has a GPS processing receiver section connected to a GPS antenna that extends upwardly to receive GPS signals and generate first control signals. A gun mechanism in the housing is connected to control/communications module and has a breech assembly connected to a gun barrel extending and aiming downwardly through a bottom side of the housing toward a surface beneath the housing. Penetrating rods in the gun mechanism are fired through the gun barrel penetrating the surface and a mine. The mine is neutralized by flooding the mine with ambient water or otherwise disrupting the firing or explosive train including detonators, detonating cord, and/or the electrical continuity of components the mine.
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Patent Number:	6,798,357
Title:	Method And System For Collecting Traffic Information
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,798,357
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Khan, M. Salahuddin (Lake Forest, IL)
Assignee:	Navteq North America, LLC. (Chicago, IL)
Publication Number:	6798357
Application Number:	10/247,399
Abstract:	A system and method are disclosed for collecting traffic information. One or more aircraft, such as helicopters, fly predetermined flight paths above a geographic area. The flight paths are determined so that portions of roads for which traffic information are to be collected are within the ranges of remote velocity sensors located on board the aircraft during the flights of these aircraft along their respective flight paths. Each aircraft includes positioning equipment that allows the precise position (i.e., altitude, latitude, and longitude) and attitude (i.e., roll, pitch, and yaw) of the aircraft during its flight to be determined. During a flight along the predetermined flight path, the remote velocity sensor in each aircraft is operated to perform scans of locations on roadways in the geographic area. Using a precise road map database and taking into account the location, velocity and attitude of the aircraft while each scan is being made, data indicating traffic conditions along the roadways are collected.
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Patent Number:	6,789,768
Title:	Bordered Flying Tool
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,789,768
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20160914
Inventor(s):	Kalisch, Gad (Kiriat Tivon, IL)
Assignee:	Steadicopter Ltd (Kibbutz Kfar Maccabi, IL)
Publication Number:	6789768
Application Number:	09/979,680
Abstract:	Differential Global Positioning System receivers (60) are located at the corners of a confined zone and receive signals from Global Positioning System satellites (62). The Differential Global Positioning System receivers (60) aid an aircraft (16) to fly and flight path or combing patten (20) over the confined zone. A vehicle (12) with a trailer (14) may be used to transport the aircraft (16) for use over the confined zone.
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Patent Number:	6,744,397
Title:	Systems And Methods For Target Location
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,744,397
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20160601
Inventor(s):	Hager, James R. (Golden Valley, MN), Almsted, Larry D. (Bloomington, MN), Jicha, Thomas (Elk River, MN)
Assignee:	Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, NJ)
Publication Number:	6744397
Application Number:	10/458,950
Abstract:	A method of determining a target location from a vehicle is described. The method includes identifying the target utilizing a video system, determining an angular location vector to the target with respect to the vehicle, determining a position of the vehicle utilizing a digital terrain elevation map and precision radar altimeter, calculating a location where the angular location vector would intersect with the digital terrain elevation map, and generating a target position based on vehicle position and the location of the intersection of the angular location vector and digital terrain elevation map.
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Patent Number:	6,732,974
Title:	Tiperon
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,732,974
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20080511
Inventor(s):	Lewis, Carl E. (Arlington, TX), Carlton, Lindley A. (Chattanooga, TN), Saeks, Richard E. (Chattanooga, TN)
Assignee:	Accurate Automation Corporation (Chattanooga, TN)
Publication Number:	6732974
Application Number:	09/425,097
Abstract:	A control surface for an air vehicle (e.g., an aircraft, rocket, or missile) is useful for flight control at both subsonic and supersonic speeds. The control surface defines the outboardmost tip of a flight structure (e.g., a wing, tail or other stabilizer) of the air vehicle. Hence, the control surface is referred to as a `tiperon`. The tiperon has an approximately L-shaped configuration, and can be rotated relative to a fixed portion of the flight structure about a control axis. The respective surface areas of the tiperon sections forward and aft of the control axis are proportioned to place the subsonic center of pressure aft of the control axis to enhance aircraft control, and preferably also forward of the centroid of tiperon surface area. Also, the control surface sections forward and aft of the control axis are preferably mass-balanced, or at least nearly so, to enhance aircraft control at supersonic speeds. Either of the tiperon sections forward and aft of the control axis can be tapered to reduce the dependence of the moment exerted by air flow about the control axis, upon the tiperons angle-of-attack. The tiperon also has enough surface area to control the air vehicle, even at low airspeeds. The invention is also directed to air vehicles incorporating one or more such control surfaces.
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Patent Number:	6,726,148
Title:	Manually Disassembled And Readily Shippable Miniature, Unmanned Aircraft With Data Handling Capability
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,726,148
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20120427
Inventor(s):	Carroll, Ernest A. (Herndon, VA)
Assignee:	CARROLL ERNEST A.
Publication Number:	6726148
Application Number:	10/255,182
Abstract:	A method of shipping a disassembled miniature, unmanned aircraft capable of handling data, the aircraft having remote guidance, an onboard microprocessor for managing flight, wing area of at least eight hundred square inches, a wingspan of at least eight feet, and weighing under fifty-five pounds. The aircraft includes a data handling module. The aircraft is disassembled into separate components including at a minimum the wing, the fuselage, and the data handling module. The fuselage and possibly other lesser components are packed in a first shipping container. The wing is packed in a second shipping container. The data handling module is packed in a third shipping container. The first and second containers are shipped by overnight courier, while the third container is either shipped the same way or alternatively travels as unchecked luggage aboard a commercial airliner.
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Patent Number:	6,705,568
Title:	Variable Area Wing Aircraft And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,705,568
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20160316
Inventor(s):	Lee, John R. (New Orleans, LA)
Assignee:	LEE JOHN R.
Publication Number:	6705568
Application Number:	10/090,616
Abstract:	An STOL aircraft structure has a variable-attitude, variable-area wing in addition to a traditional airfoil. The variable wing has an angle of attack that varies from 0.degree. to a predetermined angle far in excess of the stall angle. The variable wing area can be adjusted from 0% to 100% by a roller furling arrangement. The aircraft structure operates during takeoff by deploying the variable wing with an attitude exceeding the stall angle, applying thrust to the aircraft so that the variable wing generates reaction lift and the aircraft attains a predetermined altitude, and stowing the variable wing so that the traditional airfoil is the primary lifting surface. Those steps are reversed for landing.
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Patent Number:	6,672,534
Title:	Autonomous Mission Profile Planning
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,672,534
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Harding, William V. (Arlington, TX), Gant, Arlin W. (Arlington, TX), Zimmerer, Douglas R. (Flower Mound, TX)
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD)
Publication Number:	6672534
Application Number:	09/847,225
Abstract:	The present invention, in its various aspects and embodiments, includes a method for planning a mission profile in real time. The method comprises ascertaining a plurality of target information (including a target location, a target velocity, and a target location error) and autonomously determining a pattern from the ascertained target information. In one particular embodiment, the autonomous determination includes projecting along a target axis a distance of the target location error to establish two intersections of the target axis with the target location error; projecting perpendicularly left and right from the intersections to determine a pair of possible start point pairs; selecting the possible start point pair including a closest single start point; selecting the farthest start point of the selected start point pair; identifying an adjusted start point; mirroring the adjusted start point to obtain an adjusted start point pair; and laying out the front-end and back-end traces from the adjusted start point pair.
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Patent Number:	6,670,920
Title:	System And Method For Single Platform, Synthetic Aperture Geo-location Of Emitters
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,670,920
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20151230
Inventor(s):	Herrick, David L. (Mont Vernon, NH)
Assignee:	BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, NH)
Publication Number:	6670920
Application Number:	10/219,103
Abstract:	The determination of the geographical location of a signal emitter by the coherent, time integrated measurement of received signal wavefront phase differences through a synthetic aperture and the reconstruction of the wavefront of the received signal. The location of an emitter is determined by coherently measuring the phase gradient of an emitted signal at measurement points across a measurement aperture. Each measured phase gradient is integrated to determine a vector having a direction from the measurement point to the signal emitter and an amplitude proportional to the received signal. A figure of merit is determined for each possible location of the signal emitter by integrating each vector with respect to a propagation path between the measurement point of the vector and the possible location of the signal emitter, and the location of the signal emitter is determined as the possible location of the signal emitter having the highest figure of merit. The measurement aperture is generated by motion of a receiving aperture along the path and the receiving aperture is generated as by synthetic aperture methods. The receiving aperture may be mounted on an airborne platform and a positional towed body.
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Patent Number:	6,659,065
Title:	Flexible Vane Rotary Engine
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,659,065
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20071209
Inventor(s):	Renegar, David C (Columbia, SC)
Assignee:	RENEGAR DAVID C
Publication Number:	6659065
Application Number:	10/216,948
Abstract:	An internal combustion rotary engine that employs resilient, flexible vanes attached to a rotor that spins within an oval cavity in a housing. The vanes, which are long enough to extend slightly radially from the rotor by a distance beyond the interior surface of the cavity, bend in response to the cyclical variation between the rotor and the oval cavity in order to define four chambers and form a sliding seal with the interior surface. As the vanes revolve with the rotating rotor, the volumes of these four chambers vary cyclically and enable the four phases of an approximate Otto Cycle. The engine is more efficient than a conventional, reciprocating engine because the expansion force of the combustion gas acts directly on the rotating element with a minimum of moving parts.
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Patent Number:	6,648,272
Title:	Airship
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,648,272
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Kothmann, Keith L. (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee:	KOTHMANN KEITH L.
Publication Number:	6648272
Application Number:	10/164,780
Abstract:	An airship has a gas bag for containing lifting gas, which gas bag is located within an outer envelope. The envelope, made of flexible material, is made rigid by the pressure of the gas in the gas bag. A hollow ring surrounds the gas bag and is coupled to the envelope as well as support decking located below the gas bag. On one of the decks is located a propulsion unit and horizontal and vertical control surfaces. Vertical flight is controlled with the control surfaces as well as by moving gas in and out of the gas bag. The gas from the gas bag is stored within the hollow ring. Vertical flight is also controlled by an expandable diaphragm located below the gas bag; when inflated, the diaphragm compresses the gas bag. Vertical flight is also controlled by adjusting the top shape of the envelope so as to compress the gas bag. When the airship is on the ground, a suction between the deck and the ground maintains the airship in a parked condition.
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Patent Number:	6,647,328
Title:	Electrically Controlled Automated Devices To Control Equipment And Machinery With Remote Control And Accountability Worldwide
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,647,328
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20111111
Inventor(s):	Walker, Richard C. (Waldorf, MD)
Assignee:	Kline and Walker LLC (Potomac, MD)
Publication Number:	6647328
Application Number:	09/738,901
Abstract:	This application describes completely in many unique ways and detail all the devices to reduce a vehicles speed and/or reduce a machines RPMs and/or stop any piece of equipments as well as guide it if mobile through automated controls. First to slow it down, and guide it and/or control it if necessary (i.e., other pieces of equipment). Secondly it discusses how to stop any piece of equipment completely. And thirdly, the invention secures it in a safe stationary position either entirely or any number of specific moving parts. Many of these systems are initially here described to slow, reduce speed, steer, stop and/or secure equipment functions. However, they also can be used to increase a piece of equipments functions. In other words their variations are completely capable to serve any remote or automated controls on a vehicle in the future to provide full robotics systems, e.g., for automated transportation systems, automated manufacturing, etc., either through individually isolated remote control systems and/or interfaced with other off-board systems through communication links, gateway computers, computer networks and the world wide web for inexpensive long distance monitoring and remote control. The invention focuses on the automobile industry but as has always been maintained throughout all these applications these devices and systems are designed to control every piece of equipment. The invention includes various accountable protocols and commercial developments to control speed, brake and steering for an automobile shut down to be performed through automation to a safe controlled secured deactivated state to be considered as a basis for a standard in aggressive vehicle remote control and/or to control and guide a vehicle and/or piece of equipment through many different automated systems.
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Patent Number:	6,628,941
Title:	Airborne Constellation Of Communications Platforms And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,628,941
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Knoblach, Gerald M. (Chandler, AZ), Frische, Eric A. (Plano, TX)
Assignee:	Space Data Corporation (Chandler, AZ)
Publication Number:	6628941
Application Number:	09/342,440
Abstract:	An airborne constellation is disclosed with a plurality of individual lighter-than-air platforms spaced apart above a contiguous geographic area within a predetermined altitude range so that ubiquitous line of sight coverage of the geographic area is provided. Each of the plurality of platforms include an enclosure holding a regulated volume of low density gas for buoyancy of the platforms. Each of the plurality of platforms further includes a signal transmitting device attached to the enclosure by which signals from the platform may be transmitted to the contiguous geographic area.
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Patent Number:	6,628,231
Title:	Location Of Radio Frequency Emitting Targets
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,628,231
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20110930
Inventor(s):	Mayersak, Joseph R. (Ashburn, VA)
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, MD)
Publication Number:	6628231
Application Number:	09/977,910
Abstract:	A method is described which enables the location of a radio frequency emitting target in absolute or relative GPS coordinates from a single airborne platform within a few seconds. The method uses a signal processing technique which emulates an antenna moving at very high velocities to induce a Virtual Doppler shift on signals incident upon a linear antenna array. The Virtual Doppler shift is directly proportional to the signal direction of arrival as measured by its direction cosine. The method is shown to prevent single and multiple GPS jammers from being able to jam conventional GPS signals. Also disclosed is a means and method for developing virtual Doppler shifted signals to determine the angle-angle bearing of emitting targets to high resolution. This in turn, allows the position of the emitter to be determined in a GPS reference frame to be located to a high degree of accuracy from a single platform in extremely short times. The ultra-high precision direction-find capability requires the ability to determine the direction cosines of GPS satellite signals incident upon the detecting air vehicle and provides GPS anti-jam capability as a derivative of the definition of the direction finding.
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Patent Number:	6,621,456
Title:	Multipurpose Microstrip Antenna For Use On Missile
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,621,456
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20110916
Inventor(s):	Ryken, Marvin L. (Oxnard, CA), Davis, Albert F. (Ventura, CA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6621456
Application Number:	10/176,783
Abstract:	A microstrip antenna system having a GPS antenna for receiving GPS data, a telemetry antenna for transmitting telemetry data, a Flight Termination System antenna which receives an RF signal having a set of decoder tones and a beacon tracking antenna for providing an RF signal to allow tracking of the device utilizing the microstrip antenna system. The microstrip antenna system is designed for use on a missile.
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Patent Number:	6,618,017
Title:	Gps Conformal Antenna Having A Parasitic Element
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,618,017
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20110909
Inventor(s):	Ryken, Marvin L. (Oxnard, CA), Davis, Albert F. (Ventura, CA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6618017
Application Number:	10/147,715
Abstract:	A GPS conformal adapted for use on a small diameter projectile. The antenna includes a GPS antenna array of six driven elements The antenna also has an antenna cover which includes a parasitic element aligned the six driven elements. The electric field coupling between the parasitic element and the driven elements produces an omnidirectional radiation pattern.
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Patent Number:	6,615,165
Title:	Cable Connections Between An Unmanned Aircraft And A Detachable Data Handling Module
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,615,165
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20110902
Inventor(s):	Carroll, Ernest A. (Herndon, VA)
Assignee:	CARROLL ERNEST A.
Publication Number:	6615165
Application Number:	10/255,187
Abstract:	A power and communications connection arrangement for a miniature, unmanned aircraft having data handling capability. The aircraft has a microprocessor for managing flight control, a GPS receiver, a communications radio frequency transceiver, and data handling apparatus. The latter may be any of a sensor for gathering environmental data, sensing aircraft altitude or attitude, a data relay station, or any combination of these. The data handling apparatus is part of a removable module mounted to and detachable from the aircraft. The connection arrangement includes stationary power and communications terminals fixed to the module, and corresponding free power and data cables completing respective power circuits and communications links within the aircraft. In the preferred embodiment, the microprocessor, at least one sensor, and a battery pack are located in the module, and a radio transceiver, a GPS receiver, controls such as rudder and elevator, and other sensors are located in the airframe.
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Patent Number:	6,604,711
Title:	Autonomous System For The Aerial Refueling Or Decontamination Of Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,604,711
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Stevens, Paul (Chino, CA), Sinha, Sach (Burbank, CA)
Assignee:	Sargent Fletcher, Inc. (El Monte, CA)
Publication Number:	6604711
Application Number:	09/716,099
Abstract:	A motor with a variable speed controller is used to operate a hose reel for connecting a fuel source or decontaminant on a tanker plane to a fuel tank or other receptor on an unmanned vehicle. The hose reel is controlled to feed the fuel or other liquid through the hose and a drogue to a receiving probe on the unmanned vehicle and is also controlled to maintain the drogue in proper position. This end result is achieved by means of a controlling transponder on the unmanned vehicle which receives radio control signals from a communicating transponder on the tanker. A microcomputer processes the received control signals which are then fed to the motor controller. The motor controller not only controls the positioning of the drogue but also controls the motor so that excess hose is reeled in by the hose reel. The controller in addition controls the thrust power. A lidar tracker with a miniature video camera maintains a line of sight between the drogue and the receiver probe and tracks the drogue-probe.
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Patent Number:	6,592,071
Title:	Flight Control System For A Hybrid Aircraft In The Lift Axis
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,592,071
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Kinkead, W. Douglas (Wallingford, CT), Scott, Mark W. (Bethany, CT)
Assignee:	Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, CT)
Publication Number:	6592071
Application Number:	09/962,762
Abstract:	A flight control system includes a lift control algorithm which selectively communicates with the pitch command of the flight system control algorithm. The lift control algorithm selects the proper control commands to coordinate an effective transition between hover and forward flight. The most efficient vehicle pitch during transition is thereby automatically generated so that sufficient lift and control throughout the transition between rotor borne and wing borne flight.
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Patent Number:	6,584,879
Title:	System And Method For Disabling Time Critical Targets
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,584,879
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Gorman, Richard (Potomac, MD)
Assignee:	Northrop Grumman Corporation (Redondo Beach, CA)
Publication Number:	6584879
Application Number:	10/001,533
Abstract:	The present invention is a method and system for disabling time critical and moving targets and an air deployed guided missile launcher. A system for disabling a time critical target at a site within a geographical area in accordance with the invention includes a plurality of spaced apart mostly buried missile launchers located within or adjacent to the geographical area with each spaced apart mostly buried mobile missile launcher containing a guided missile, any site within the geographical area being located at a distance from at least one spaced apart missile launcher not more than a maximum distance of travel of a guided missile launched from at least one of the spaced apart missile launchers to the site, the time of travel of a missile from the missile launcher to the site requiring less time than a maximum time required to enable the time critical target at the site.
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Patent Number:	6,564,146
Title:	Tracking System For Providing Position Information
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,564,146
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20150513
Inventor(s):	Meyer, Steven J. (Ridgecrest, CA), Merts, John H. (Niceville, FL)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6564146
Application Number:	09/954,305
Abstract:	Processing GPS signals received at moving targets and at a fixed location near instrumentation associated with timing and recording an event allows the determination of instantaneous target position to be made without a requirement for additional active tracking. An example is the recording and display of a test event involving a missile intercepting a target. The missile, target, and an instrumentation site all receive GPS signals. The signals are time tagged and the data contained thereon verified by a source and forwarded from each platform to a ground station. The data is correlated with other test data to provide a real time record and display of the missile intercepting the target. Both Time Space Position Information (TSPI) and Miss Distance Indication (MDI) are derived to a very high degree of accuracy using double difference error correction techniques. Both absolute and relative position information can be derived.
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Patent Number:	6,549,168
Title:	Gps And Telemetry Microstrip Antenna For Use On Projectiles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,549,168
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20070415
Inventor(s):	Ryken, Marvin L. (Oxnard, CA), Davis, Albert F. (Ventura, CA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6549168
Application Number:	10/107,343
Abstract:	A microstrip antenna system having a GPS antenna for receiving GPS data and a telemetry antenna for transmitting telemetry data mounted on a dielectric substrate. The microstrip antenna system is designed for use on small diameter airborne projectiles which have a diameter of about 2.75 inches. A pair of band stop filters are integrated into the antenna system to isolate the transmitted telemetry signal from the received GPS signal.
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Patent Number:	6,549,130
Title:	Control Apparatus And Method For Vehicles And/or For Premises
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,549,130
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20150415
Inventor(s):	Joao, Raymond Anthony (Yonkers, NY)
Assignee:	JOAO RAYMOND ANTHONY
Publication Number:	6549130
Application Number:	09/277,935
Abstract:	A control apparatus and method, including a first control device, located at a vehicle or premises, capable of at least one of activating, de-activating, disabling, and re-enabling, one or more of a plurality of at least one of a respective system, component, device, equipment, equipment system, and/or appliance, of a respective vehicle or premises, with a first signal. The first signal is generated by and/or transmitted from the first control device in response to a second signal, generated by and/or transmitted from a second control device located remote from the vehicle or premises, and automatically received by the first control device. The second control device is responsive to a third signal, generated by and/or transmitted from a third control device located remote from the vehicle or premises and remote from the second control device, and automatically received by the second control device.
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Patent Number:	6,542,077
Title:	Monitoring Apparatus For A Vehicle And/or A Premises
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,542,077
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Joao, Raymond Anthony (Yonkers, NY)
Assignee:	JOAO RAYMOND ANTHONY
Publication Number:	6542077
Application Number:	09/933,105
Abstract:	A monitoring apparatus for a vehicle or a premises, including a monitoring device for monitoring operation, system status, equipment system status, or activity, or a device for detecting a state of disrepair of a system or equipment system. The monitoring device or device is located at the vehicle or premises. The monitoring device or device transmits data to a first processing device located remote from the vehicle or premises. The data is received by the first processing device. The first processing device is capable of transmitting the data to a second processing device located remote from the vehicle or premises and remote from the first processing device. The second processing device is capable of receiving the data. The data can include operational data and video information, or information regarding a state of disrepair of the system or equipment system.
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Patent Number:	6,542,076
Title:	Control, Monitoring And/or Security Apparatus And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,542,076
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20150401
Inventor(s):	Joao, Raymond Anthony (Yonkers, NY)
Assignee:	JOAO RAYMOND ANTHONY
Publication Number:	6542076
Application Number:	09/551,365
Abstract:	Control apparatus and method including a first control device, located at the vehicle or premises, for monitoring or detecting an event, which generates and/or transmits a first notification signal containing event information to a second control device located remote from the vehicle or premises. The second control device generates and/or transmits a second notification signal to a remote communication device for providing notification of the event occurrence. Control apparatus and method including a first control device, located at a vehicle or premises, which generates and/or transmits a first signal for activating, deactivating, enabling, or disabling, a vehicle or a premises system, equipment system, subsystem, device, component, appliance, a vehicle, or a premises, in response to a signal generated and/or transmitted from a remote second control device. The second control device is responsive to a third signal generated and/or transmitted by a remote third control device.
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Patent Number:	6,540,179
Title:	In-flight Loadable And Refuelable Unmanned Aircraft System For Continuous Flight
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,540,179
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20070401
Inventor(s):	Henderson, J. Kirston (Fort Worth, TX)
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, MD)
Publication Number:	6540179
Application Number:	09/738,227
Abstract:	A method for refueling and reloading an unmanned aircraft for continuous flight is disclosed herein wherein the unmanned aircraft is maintained and supported by a support aircraft. Both aircraft maintain cargo bays and in-flight operable doors located on the underside of each aircraft for the purposes of docking and exchanging goods. Preferably the goods comprise loadable cartridges and may contain such items as weapons, cargo, or fuel for example. In one embodiment, when both aircraft are in a docked configuration for exchange of goods during flight, the in-flight operable doors open and the support aircraft is capable of loading such cartridges aboard the unmanned aircraft. When necessary the support aircraft may load gear for the purposes of landing the unmanned aircraft. Alternate methods of reloading an unmanned aircraft for continuous flight is disclosed wherein the unmanned aircraft does not have cargo bay doors and the aircraft is supported by a support aircraft.
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Patent Number:	6,530,543
Title:	Hypersonic And Orbital Vehicles System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,530,543
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20070311
Inventor(s):	Redding, Jr., Fred Whitney (late of Arlington, VA), Redding, Mary (Arlington, VA)
Assignee:	REDDING, JR. FRED WHITNEY
Publication Number:	6530543
Application Number:	09/893,496
Abstract:	A method for developing and utilizing a Space Cruiser vehicle efficiently combines resources from relevant end users in industry and the military. The preferred vehicle has an elongated conical shell with an elliptical transverse cross. section. The cabin of the vehicle preferably has a circular transverse cross section, leaving space between the cabin and the shell to store vehicle fuel. The cabin is insulated and capable of supporting occupants in a shirt-sleeve, air-breathing environment whether in the Earths atmosphere or in outerspace. The vehicle is capable of being launched from conventional aircraft, and also being stored in and launched from a space shuttle or orbiting space station.
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Patent Number:	6,498,767
Title:	Cruise Missile Deployed Sonar Buoy
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,498,767
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20061224
Inventor(s):	Carreiro, Paul J. (Swansea, MA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6498767
Application Number:	09/832,114
Abstract:	A sonar buoy adapted to be deployed by a cruise missile. This sonar buoy includes a flotation device for keeping a portion of the buoy afloat, a hydrophone, a transmitter for communicating contact and position information and releasable means for attaching the sonar buoy to the cruise missile. By means of this device, a means of monitoring littoral and other waters for enemy submarines and other threats is provided with a low degree of risk to friendly forces. A system for deploying this sonar buoy in a sonar buoy field is also disclosed.
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Patent Number:	6,487,500
Title:	Gps Vehicle Collision Avoidance Warning And Control System And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,487,500
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20141126
Inventor(s):	Lemelson, Jerome H. (Incline Village, NV), Pedersen, Robert D. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee:	LEMELSON JEROME H.; PEDERSEN ROBERT D.
Publication Number:	6487500
Application Number:	09/923,252
Abstract:	GPS satellite (4) ranging signals (6) received (32) on comm1, and DGPS auxiliary range correction signals and pseudolite carrier phase ambiguity resolution signals (8) from a fixed known earth base station (10) received (34) on comm2, at one of a plurality of vehicles/aircraft/automobiles (2) are computer processed (36) to continuously determine the ones kinematic tracking position on a pathway (14) with centimeter accuracy. That GPS-based position is communicated with selected other status information to each other one of the plurality of vehicles (2), to the one station (10), and/or to one of a plurality of control centers (16), and the one vehicle receives therefrom each of the others status information and kinematic tracking position. Objects (22) are detected from all directions (300) by multiple supplemental mechanisms, e.g., video (54), radar/lidar (56), laser and optical scanners. Data and information are computer processed and analyzed (50,52,200,452) in neural networks (132, FIGS. 6-8) in the one vehicle to identify, rank, and evaluate collision hazards/objects, an expert operating response to which is determined in a fuzzy logic associative memory (484) which generates control signals which actuate a plurality of control systems of the one vehicle in a coordinated manner to maneuver it laterally and longitudinally to avoid each collision hazard, or, for motor vehicles, when a collision is unavoidable, to minimize injury or damage therefrom. The operator is warned by a heads up display and other modes and may override. An automotive auto-pilot mode is provided.
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Patent Number:	6,478,262
Title:	Flight Control System For A Hybrid Aircraft In The Yaw Axis
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,478,262
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Kinkead, W. Douglas (Wallingford, CT), Scott, Mark W. (Bethany, CT)
Assignee:	Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, CT)
Publication Number:	6478262
Application Number:	09/907,068
Abstract:	A flight control system includes a blending algorithm which evaluates the current flight regime and determines the effectiveness of the flight controls to effect the rotational moment of a hybrid vehicle about the yaw axis. Gain schedules for both differential collective and rudder control provide a quantitative measure of control effectiveness. Based on the respective gain schedules, the algorithm determines how much of the control commands should be sent to each control surface. The result is that for a given control command, the same amount of yaw moment will be generated regardless of flight regime. This simplifies the underlying flight control law since the commands it generates are correct regardless of flight regime.
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Patent Number:	6,474,603
Title:	Flight Control System For A Hybrid Aircraft In The Pitch Axis
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,474,603
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Kinkead, W. Douglas (Wallingford, CT), Scott, Mark W. (Bethany, CT)
Assignee:	Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, CT)
Publication Number:	6474603
Application Number:	09/962,038
Abstract:	A flight control system includes a blending algorithm which evaluates the current flight regime and determines the effectiveness of the flight controls to effect the rotational moment of a hybrid vehicle about the pitch axis. Gain schedules for both pitch cyclic and elevator control provide a quantitative measure of control effectiveness. Based on the respective gain schedules, the algorithm determines how much of the control commands should be sent to each control surface. The result is that for a given control command, the same amount of pitch moment will be generated regardless of flight regime. This simplifies the underlying flight control law since the commands it generates are correct regardless of flight regime.
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Patent Number:	6,471,160
Title:	Method For Deploying A Parachute On A Drone
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,471,160
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20141029
Inventor(s):	Grieser, Wolfram (Riemerling, DE)
Assignee:	Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH (Donauwoerth, DE)
Publication Number:	6471160
Application Number:	09/865,106
Abstract:	A flying drone includes a flight control computer, a parachute system with a parachute, a power supply system, a propulsion system, and an actuating drive system, without any of these systems being redundantly duplicated. To prevent uncontrolled crashing of the drone due to a critical error of any subsystem, signals or data are supplied from the power supply system, the propulsion system, and the actuating drive system, to an error detection or recognition device, which detects defined errors or error combinations in the provided signals or data and then supplies a deployment signal to the parachute system, which responsively generates a control signal that triggers an ejection mechanism to eject the parachute.
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Patent Number:	6,466,172
Title:	Gps And Telemetry Antenna For Use On Projectiles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,466,172
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20061015
Inventor(s):	Ryken, Marvin L. (Ventura, CA), Davis, Albert F. (Ventura, CA), Kujiraoka, Scott R. (Camarillo, CA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6466172
Application Number:	10/039,939
Abstract:	A microstrip antenna system having a GPS antenna for receiving GPS data and a telemetry antenna for transmitting telemetry data mounted on a dielectric substrate. The microstrip antenna system is designed for use on small diameter airborne projectiles which have a diameter of about 2.75 inches. A filter is integrated into the antenna system to isolate the transmitted telemetry signal from the received GPS signal.
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Patent Number:	6,455,828
Title:	Method For Remote Controlled Combat Of Near-surface And/or Surface Targets
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,455,828
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Gauggel, Roland (Salem, DE), Arnold, Michael (Bad Reichenhall, DE), Kruger, Reinhard (Ruckstetten bei Teisendorg, DE), Tranapp, Norbert (Bad Tolz, DE)
Assignee:	LFK-Lenkflugkorpersysteme GmbH (Unterschleissheim, DE)
Publication Number:	6455828
Application Number:	09/720,426
Abstract:	The invention relates to a method for combating near-surface and/or surface targets such as tanks or the like by using a missile comprising a seeker head, an effective charge and at least one thruster. According to the invention, the missile is redirected into an essentially horizontal cruising and seeking phase after completing an essentially vertical start phase. During said cruising and seeking phase, the missile scans the terrain ahead of it using the seeking head, whereupon an approaching phase which is directed in an essentially downward direction follows after the finally ensues head locks onto an identified target. An external reconnaissance system in an appropriate aircraft and/or spacecraft such as in a helicopter, a drone or in a satellite receives information for guiding the missile which is transmitted to the same.
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Patent Number:	6,431,494
Title:	Flight Control System For A Hybrid Aircraft In The Roll Axis
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,431,494
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Kinkead, W. Douglas (Wallingford, CT), Scott, Mark W. (Bethany, CT)
Assignee:	Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, CT)
Publication Number:	6431494
Application Number:	09/907,006
Abstract:	A flight control system includes a blending algorithm which evaluates the current flight regime and determines the effectiveness of the flight controls to effect the rotational moment of a hybrid vehicle about the roll axis. Gain schedules for both roll cyclic and aileron control provide a quantitative measure of control effectiveness. Based on the respective gain schedules, the algorithm determines how much of the control commands should be sent to each control surface. The result is that for a given control command, the same amount of roll moment will be generated regardless of flight regime. This simplifies the underlying flight control law since the commands it generates are correct regardless of flight regime.
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Patent Number:	6,422,508
Title:	System For Robotic Control Of Imaging Data Having A Steerable Gimbal Mounted Spectral Sensor And Methods
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,422,508
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Barnes, Donald Michael (Indialantic, FL)
Assignee:	Galileo Group, Inc. (Melbourne, FL)
Publication Number:	6422508
Application Number:	09/543,465
Abstract:	A robotically controlled steerable gimbal mounted virtual broadband hyperspectral sensor system and methods provide a highly mobile, rapidly responsive and innovative system of locating targets and exploiting hyperspectral and ultraspectral imaging and non-imaging signature information in real-time from an aircraft or ground vehicles from overhead or standoff perspective in order to discriminate and identify unique spectral characteristics of the target. The system preferably has one or more mechanically integrated hyperspectral sensors installed on a gimbal backbone and co-boresighted with a similarly optional mounted color video camera and optional LASER within an aerodynamically stable pod shell constructed for three-dimensional stabilization and pointing of the sensor on a direct overhead or off-nadir basis.
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Patent Number:	6,422,506
Title:	Towed Airborne Array System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,422,506
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20100723
Inventor(s):	Colby, Christopher J. (Saunderstown, RI)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6422506
Application Number:	09/686,777
Abstract:	A towed airborne array system has a balloon that supports appropriate instrumentation packages overhead and is tethered to a towing ship to improve line-of-sight sensing and communication capabilities to up to about 100 nautical miles. These improved capabilities can benefit relatively small surface combatant ships (CG, DD, FFG) and might provide an alternative location for having countermeasures placed on a warship.
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Patent Number:	6,416,019
Title:	Precision Parachute Recovery System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,416,019
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20100709
Inventor(s):	Hilliard, Donald Patrick (Oxnard, CA), Hilliard, Michael Patrick (Oxnard, CA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6416019
Application Number:	09/736,722
Abstract:	A parachute recovery system which provides for the recovery of a payload such as a target drone without damage by allowing for a safe, non-destructive landing of the payload at a desired location. The parachute recovery system comprises a payload, a parachute or parasail and a guidance control electronics and servo system. The parachute, which is rectangular in shape, is connected by a plurality of control lines to the guidance control electronics and servo system, which is attached to the payload. The payload may be an air launch component such as a spacecraft, a target drone, unmanned air vehicle, camera film, or similar apparatus. The guidance control electronics and servo system is used to control glide path trajectory and provide for a safe non-destructive landing of the payload. Servo system adjust the length of each of the plurality of control lines attached to the parachute to provide a means for controlling the parachute so as to control the speed, direction and lift of the parachute recovery system.
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Patent Number:	6,409,122
Title:	Anti-submarine Warfare Uav And Method Of Use Thereof
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,409,122
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20140625
Inventor(s):	Nicolai, Leland M. (Castaic, CA)
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Palmdale, CA)
Publication Number:	6409122
Application Number:	09/761,076
Abstract:	An anti-submarine warfare system includes an unmanned "sea-sitting" aircraft housing submarine detecting equipment, the aircraft including a body portion having a catamaran configuration adapted for stably supporting the body portion when sitting in water, the body portion including a fuselage and laterally disposed sponsons connected to the fuselage via platforms, and submarine detecting equipment housed within the fuselage and adapted to be electronically linked to sonobuoys disposed in adjacent water locations.
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Patent Number:	6,400,996
Title:	Adaptive Pattern Recognition Based Control System And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,400,996
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Hoffberg, Steven M. (West Harrison, NY), Hoffberg-Borghesani, Linda I. (Acton, MA)
Assignee:	HOFFBERG STEVEN M.; HOFFBERG-BORGHESANI LINDA I.
Publication Number:	6400996
Application Number:	09/241,135
Abstract:	An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation that may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a video cassette recorder (VCR), medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.
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Patent Number:	6,392,313
Title:	Microturbomachinery
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,392,313
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20140521
Inventor(s):	Epstein, Alan H. (Lexington, MA), Senturia, Stephen D. (Brookline, MA), Waitz, Ian A. (Newton, MA), Lang, Jeffrey H. (Sudbury, MA), Jacobson, Stuart A. (Somerville, MA), Ehrich, Fredric F. (Marblehead, MA), Schmidt, Martin A. (Reading, MA), Ananthasuresh, G. K. (Philadelphia, PA), Spearing, Mark S. (Newton, MA), Breuer, Kenneth S. (Newton, MA), Nagle, Steven F. (Cambridge, MA)
Assignee:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Publication Number:	6392313
Application Number:	09/354,544
Abstract:	The invention overcomes limitations of conventional power and thermodynamic sources by with micromachinery components that enable production of significant power and efficient operation of thermodynamic systems in the millimeter and micron regime to meet the efficiency, mobility, modularity, weight, and cost requirements of many modern applications. A micromachine of the invention has a rotor disk journalled for rotation in a stationary structure by a journal bearing. A plurality of radial flow rotor blades, substantially untapered in height, are disposed on a first rotor disk face, and an electrically conducting region is disposed on a rotor disk face. A plurality of stator electrodes that are electrically interconnected to define multiple electrical stator phases are disposed on a wall of the stationary structure located opposite the electrically conducting region of the rotor disk. A first orifice in the stationary structure provides fluidic communication with the first rotor disk face at a location radially central of the rotor blades, and a second orifice in the stationary structure provides fluidic communication with the first rotor disk face at a location radially peripheral of the rotor blades. An electrical connection to the stator electrode configuration is provided for stator electrode excitation and for power transfer with the stator electrode configuration as the rotor disk rotates.
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Patent Number:	6,388,611
Title:	Method And System For Dynamic Surveillance Of A Remote Object Using Gps
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,388,611
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20140514
Inventor(s):	Dillman, David J. (Marion, IA)
Assignee:	Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Publication Number:	6388611
Application Number:	09/817,516
Abstract:	A system and method for dynamic electronic surveillance comprising an imaging system having an angular measurement device, such as a seeker, in combination with a GPS receiver and a microprocessor which are used to compute a latitude and longitude of a remotely sensed position after it has been surveyed from a plurality of known measuring positions.
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Patent Number:	6,385,434
Title:	Wireless Access Unit Utilizing Adaptive Spectrum Exploitation
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,385,434
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Chuprun, Jeffery Scott (Scottsdale, AZ), Bergstrom, Chad S. (Chandler, AZ), Tarver, Byron (Chandler, AZ), Beaudry, Bennett C. (Scottsdale, AZ)
Assignee:	Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL)
Publication Number:	6385434
Application Number:	09/153,976
Abstract:	A wireless access unit (12) for providing an interface between a satellite communications system (32) and a plurality of terrestrial user devices (14-26) in a centralized or distributed architecture includes a spectrum allocation unit (92) for dynamically allocating spectrum to the plurality of terrestrial user devices (14-26) based on a spectral environment about the wireless access unit (12). A spectrum scan unit (60) scans the spectral environment about the wireless access unit (12) and generates a spectrum signal indicative thereof. An environment understanding unit (61) provides signal information corresponding to signal emitters in proximity to the distributed or centralized network. A spectrum table (90) assembles data related to the spectral environment and the proximity emitters for use by the spectrum allocation unit (92) in dynamically allocating spectrum.
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Patent Number:	6,382,556
Title:	Vtol Airplane With Only One Tiltable Prop-rotor
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,382,556
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20100507
Inventor(s):	Pham, Roger N. C. (Grand Prairie, TX)
Assignee:	PHAM ROGER N. C.
Publication Number:	6382556
Application Number:	09/739,095
Abstract:	A VTOL-capable tilt-rotor airplane having a single tiltable large-diameter prop-rotor attached to an elongated power pod containing the collective and cyclical pitch mechanism, transmission, and engine. The tiltable power pod is disposed at the airplanes longitudinal axis and is partially buried within the depth of the fuselage and protrudes 3-4 ft (0.915-1.22 m) above the top of the fuselage in the VTOL mode. In the horizontal cruising mode, the power pod perched on top of the fuselage front section with the rotor blades protruding in front of the airplanes nose. A connecting bar is used to connect the power pod to the fuselage, allowing the power pod to travel significantly rearward and forward as required for proper balance as the power pod pivots 90 degrees during transition from VTOL mode to the cruising mode, without the power pod being excessively long and unwieldy. A small anti-torque rotor toward the tail of the aircraft, driven by a hydraulic motor provides the necessary force to overcome the main rotors torque. A pair of high-aspect-ratio wings supported by wing struts on both sides of the fuselage provide highly efficient lift during cruising flight with very little induced drag. Conventional horizontal and vertical tail planes are used for directional stability in the cruising mode.
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Patent Number:	6,380,889
Title:	Reconnaissance Sonde
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,380,889
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Herrmann, Ralf-Joachim (Eimke, DE), Seidel, Wolfgang (Lehre, DE)
Assignee:	Rheinmetall W & M GmbH (Unterlüss, DE)
Publication Number:	6380889
Application Number:	09/510,191
Abstract:	A reconnaissance sonde to be dropped and erected in an area for wirelessly transmitting data to a data processing apparatus. The sonde includes a housing having top and bottom portions; a parachute disposed at the top housing portion; a plurality of support legs peripherally mounted on the housing in a circumferential array and having a folded state and a deployed state; a drive for simultaneously moving the support legs from the folded state into the deployed state upon landing of the sonde; a GPS navigation system, a magnetic field sensor and an attitude sensor for accurately determining a position and an attitude of the sonde; at least three target bearing determining sensors supported by the housing and distributed circumferentially; an electronic evaluating apparatus supported by the housing and connected to the GPS navigation system, the magnetic field sensor, the attitude sensor and the target bearing determining sensors for evaluating measured sensor signals thereof; a transmitting and receiving apparatus connected to the electronic evaluating apparatus for wirelessly transmitting evaluated signals to a remote data processing apparatus or an additional sonde; and a battery for supplying electric energy to the sonde components.
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Patent Number:	6,339,396
Title:	Location Of The Radio Frequency Emitting Targets
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,339,396
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20140115
Inventor(s):	Mayersak, Joseph R. (Ashburn, VA)
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corp (Bethesda, MD)
Publication Number:	6339396
Application Number:	09/505,796
Abstract:	A method is described which enables the location of a radio frequency emitting target in absolute or relative GPS coordinates from a single airborne platform within a few seconds. The method uses a signal processing technique which emulates an antenna moving at very high velocities to induce a Virtual Doppler shift on signals incident upon a linear antenna array. The Virtual Doppler shift is directly proportional to the signal direction of arrival as measured by its direction cosine. The method is shown to prevent single and multiple GPS jammers from being able to jam conventional GPS signals. Also disclosed is a means and method for developing virtual Doppler shifted signals to determine the angle-angle bearing of emitting targets to high resolution. This in turn, allows the position of the emitter to be determined in a GPS reference frame to be located to a high degree of accuracy from a single platform in extremely short times. The ultra-high precision direction-find capability requires the ability to determine the direction cosines of GPS satellite signals incident upon the detecting air vehicle and provides GPS anti-jam capability as a derivative of the definition of the direction finding.
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Patent Number:	6,338,457
Title:	Precision Parachute Recovery System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,338,457
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20100115
Inventor(s):	Hilliard, Donald Patrick (Oxnard, CA), Hilliard, Michael Patrick (Oxnard, CA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6338457
Application Number:	09/736,721
Abstract:	A parachute recovery system which provides for the recovery of a payload such as a target drone without damage by allowing for a safe, non-destructive landing of the payload at a desired landing location. The parachute recovery system comprises a payload, a parachute or parasail and a guidance control electronics and servo system. The parachute, which is rectangular in shape, is connected by a plurality of control lines to the guidance control electronics and servo system, which is attached to the payload. The payload may be an air launch component such as a spacecraft, a target drone, unmanned air vehicle, camera film, or similar apparatus. The guidance control electronics and servo system is used to control glide path trajectory and provide for a safe non-destructive landing of the payload. Servo system adjust the length of each of the plurality of control lines attached to the parachute to provide a means for controlling the parachute so as to control the speed, direction and lift of the parachute recovery system.
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Patent Number:	6,333,726
Title:	Orthogonal Projection Concealment Apparatus
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,333,726
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20131225
Inventor(s):	Bettinger, David S. (Grosse Ile, MI)
Assignee:	BETTINGER DAVID S.
Publication Number:	6333726
Application Number:	09/451,721
Abstract:	A pixel array-based orthogonal projection concealment apparatus applicable for continuously matching a mobile platform to its changing background integrates power means, sensing and inputting means for observer and background data, programmed computational means, and pixel array display means in a single apparatus. In its preferred embodiment the concealment projection image is displayed through a liquid crystal array.
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Patent Number:	6,326,904
Title:	Map Positioning System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,326,904
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20091204
Inventor(s):	Parent, Christopher A. (West Springfield, MA), Richmond, James A. (Monson, MA), Voss, James R. (Dupont, IN)
Assignee:	United Innovations, Inc. (Holyoke, MA)
Publication Number:	6326904
Application Number:	09/078,120
Abstract:	A map positioning system is presented. The map positioning system has a rectangular or X-Y drive having a map support surface coupled thereto and receptive to a map. The X-Y drive mechanism is computer controlled to drive an indicator to a definite coordinate relative to the map support thereby illuminating the exact coordinate point when the indicator is energized.
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Patent Number:	6,293,202
Title:	Precision, Airborne Deployed, Gps Guided Standoff Torpedo
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,293,202
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20090925
Inventor(s):	Woodall, Robert (Lynn Haven, FL), Garcia, Felipe (Panama City, FL)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6293202
Application Number:	09/560,533
Abstract:	A standoff delivery system is responsive to GPS coordinate signals and in-flight GPS signals to deploy a torpedo at a remote location that avoids the limitations and hazards attendant conventional deployment by full size aircraft. A gliding rigid winged unmanned aircraft carries the torpedo to a desired remote location. A GPS receiver on the aircraft enters GPS coordinate signals representative of the remote location and receives GPS signals representative of the location of the unmanned aircraft. A control signal generator produces control signals in response to both of the GPS signals and feeds control signals to servos that displace control surfaces to pilot the unmanned aircraft. The torpedo is released and descends via parachute in response to GPS signals that are representative of at least the proximity of the remote location. This system provides for clandestine deployment of a torpedo without exposing manned aircraft to danger.
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Patent Number:	6,286,410
Title:	Buoyantly Propelled Submerged Canister For Air Vehicle Launch
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,286,410
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20050911
Inventor(s):	Leibolt, Edward A. (Wheaton, MD)
Assignee:	The United States of Americas as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6286410
Application Number:	09/307,420
Abstract:	The invention features a self-contained enclosure-plus-enclosed contexture and the implementation thereof in a multi-phase launching system, according to which the waterborne first phase entails naturally (buoyantly) induced motion, and at least the airborne second phase entails artificially (technologically) induced motion. Typical inventive practice provides a launch canister which is exteriorly configured to be hydrodynamically efficient while moving buoyantly upward in response to hydrostatic pressure, and which has a chamber for stowing an air vehicle. The inventive vehicle-stowing canister is released underwater so as to be buoyantly propelled upward and into the air, at which time the air vehicle is mechanistically propelled (e.g., boosted), in response to which the canister becomes disjointed cooperatively with the uncoupling of the air vehicle from the canister. The air vehicle continues to propulsively ascend, the canisters nose cone and main body gravitationally falling to the water below. Some inventive embodiments enter an airborne third phase (which, like the second phase, entails artificially induced motion), wherein the air vehicles aerodynamic shape is adjusted (e.g., the wings are extended) and its main (self) propulsion (e.g., via propeller or jet engine) is initiated.
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Patent Number:	6,281,970
Title:	Airborne Ir Fire Surveillance System Providing Firespot Geopositioning
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,281,970
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Williams, John H. (Thousand Oaks, CA), Cooper, Guy F. (Ventura, CA)
Assignee:	Synergistix LLC (Thousand Oaks, CA)
Publication Number:	6281970
Application Number:	09/267,513
Abstract:	A system for airborne detection of fires and transmission of fire location and characteristic data to the system ground station. The system includes an airborne pod and an associated ground station. The pod uses a passive infrared (IR) scanning system which employs a rotating and nutating mirror within an air slipstream driven propeller/spinner and is optically coupled to an infrared detector. A computer in the pod receives fire pod GPS position, IR detector fire spot detection pulse or `hit` plus fire spot characteristics, spinner/mirror rotation and nutation angle at the `hit` time and pod platform attitude relative to North-East-down using an on board Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). The computer then calculates the firespot GPS location, and processes associated firespot characteristic data and downlinks this data to the ground station. Onboard pod video scene cameras also provide operational video that is also downlinked to the ground station.
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Patent Number:	6,275,773
Title:	Gps Vehicle Collision Avoidance Warning And Control System And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,275,773
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Lemelson, Jerome H. (Incline Village, NV), Pedersen, Robert D. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee:	LEMELSON JEROME H.; PEDERSEN ROBERT D.
Publication Number:	6275773
Application Number:	09/436,097
Abstract:	GPS satellite (4) ranging signals (6) received (32) on comm1, and DGPS auxiliary range correction signals and pseudolite carrier phase ambiguity resolution signals (8) from a fixed known earth base station (10) received (34) on comm2, at one of a plurality of vehicles/aircraft/automobiles (2) are computer processed (36) to continuously determine the ones kinematic tracking position on a pathway (14) with centimeter accuracy. That GPS-based position is communicated with selected other status information to each other one of the plurality of vehicles (2), to the one station (10), and/or to one of a plurality of control centers (16), and the one vehicle receives therefrom each of the others status information and kinematic tracking position. Objects (22) are detected from all directions (300) by multiple supplemental mechanisms, e.g., video (54), radar/lidar (56), laser and optical scanners. Data and information are computer processed and analyzed (50,52,200,452) in neural networks (132, FIGS. 6-8) in the one vehicle to identify, rank, and evaluate collision hazards/objects, an expert operating response to which is determined in a fuzzy logic associative memory (484) which generates control signals which actuate a plurality of control systems of the one vehicle in a coordinated manner to maneuver it laterally and longitudinally to avoid each collision hazard, or, for motor vehicles, when a collision is unavoidable, to minimize injury or damage therefrom. The operator is warned by a heads up display and other modes and may override. An automotive auto-pilot mode is provided.
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Patent Number:	6,270,038
Title:	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle With Counter-rotating Ducted Rotors And Shrouded Pusher-prop
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,270,038
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Cycon, James P. (Orange, CT), Scott, Mark Winfield (Bethany, CT), DeWitt, Christopher W. (East Haven, CT)
Assignee:	Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, CT)
Publication Number:	6270038
Application Number:	09/296,624
Abstract:	An unmanned aerial vehicle that includes a fuselage with a partial toroidal forward portion, and an aft portion. A duct is formed through the fuselage and extends from the top to the bottom of the fuselage. Two counter-rotating rotor assemblies are mounted within the duct for providing downward thrust through the duct. The rotor assemblies are supported by a plurality of support struts. At least one engine is mounted within the fuselage and engages with the rotor assemblies. A pusher prop assembly is mounted to the aft portion of the fuselage. The pusher prop assembly is designed to provide forward thrust along the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The pusher prop assembly includes a drive shaft that is engaged with the engine. A plurality of propellers are attached to and rotated by the drive shaft. A shroud is mounted to the aft portion of the fuselage around the propellers and is operative for channeling the air passing through the propellers in a substantially aft direction. A pair of wings is removably attached to the sides of the fuselage. Each wing preferably includes a fixed portion and a pivotal flaperon portion hinged to the fixed portion. Directional vanes are preferably mounted to the shroud downstream from the propellers and control flow out of the shroud. Deflectors may be mounted to the bottom of the fuselage across a portion of the duct to control flow of air into the duct.
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Patent Number:	6,257,527
Title:	Hypersonic And Orbital Vehicles System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,257,527
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Redding, Jr., Fred Whitney (late of Arlington, VA), Redding, Mary (Arlington, VA)
Assignee:	REDDING, JR. FRED WHITNEY
Publication Number:	6257527
Application Number:	09/188,308
Abstract:	A method for developing and utilizing a Space Cruiser vehicle efficiently combines resources from relevant end users in industry and the military. The preferred vehicle has an elongated conical shell with an elliptical transverse cross section. The cabin of the vehicle preferably has a circular transverse cross section, leaving space between the cabin and the shell to store vehicle fuel. The cabin is insulated and capable of supporting occupants in a shirt-sleeve, air-breathing environment whether in the Earths atmosphere or in outerspace. The vehicle is capable of being launched from conventional aircraft, and also being stored in and launched from a space shuttle or orbiting space station.
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Patent Number:	6,211,816
Title:	Process And Apparatus For Target Or Position Reconnaissance
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,211,816
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20090403
Inventor(s):	Westphal, Robert (Nuremberg, DE)
Assignee:	Diehl Stiftung & Co. (Nurnberg, DE)
Publication Number:	6211816
Application Number:	09/162,978
Abstract:	Items of relative target location information (19) which are obtained on board a platform serving as a sensor carrier (13) for target or position reconnaissance are combined, with association with the navigation satellite system time (34), with items of absolute mission location information (25) which are obtained on board the sensor carrier (13) from the satellite navigation orbit data (22), in order to obtain absolute target position data in which however, due to the system, there is still contained the absolute residual error of the order of magnitude of some ten meters, from the satellite-aided mission location determination. In order that the absolute target position data can also be made still more precise later, for effective use of the artillery (27), at a geodetically accurately known reception location (28) the deviation (33) between the location coordinates (32) and the items of reception location information (29) obtained on different platforms (13) and/or at different times and put into intermediate storage can also still be corrected at a later time by the deviations (33) associated in respect of system time, in order to obtain absolute target position data (36) which are independent of the satellite navigation residual error, for example for comparing the knowledge from the different, even time-displaced reconnaissance missions, for controlling the artillery (27).
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Patent Number:	6,193,188
Title:	Line Of Sight Pointing Mechanism For Sensors
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,193,188
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Ahmad, Anees (Tucson, AZ), Arndt, Thomas D. (Amado, AZ)
Assignee:	Raytheon Company (Lexington, MA)
Publication Number:	6193188
Application Number:	09/190,954
Abstract:	A missile includes a fuselage with a roll axis and a nod axis perpendicular to the roll axis, and a conformal window mounted to a forward-facing end of the fuselage. There is a sensor system with a field of regard through the window and a line of sight, and a sensor system pointing mechanism affixed to the airframe and upon which the sensor system is supported. The sensor system pointing mechanism includes a gimbal structure having a first degree of rotational freedom about the roll axis and a second degree of rotational freedom about the nod axis, and a linear translational mechanism connected to the sensor system. The linear translational mechanism is operable to translate the sensor system away from the window with increasing angular deviation of the line of sight of the sensor system from the roll axis. Preferably, the translational mechanism is a slider-crank mechanism.
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Patent Number:	6,190,484
Title:	Monolithic Composite Wing Manufacturing Process
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,190,484
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20050220
Inventor(s):	Appa, Kari (Lake Forest, CA)
Assignee:	APPA KARI
Publication Number:	6190484
Application Number:	09/252,750
Abstract:	A method of manufacturing a monolithic composite wing without using mechanical fasteners is described. The process begins with the formation of a center wing box in combination with a pair of spars, riblets and a pair of skin-molds including the wrapping and binding of the box by means of resin impregnated composite tapes. Next, additional cells are adjoined contiguously on either side of the current framework and an overlap wrapping and bonding process is continued around the current framework. The overlap wrapping and binding procedure provides increased torsion stiffness and reduced structural weight. All cells up to the leading and trailing edges will be included in the assembly process. Conduits to convey fuel, hydraulic fluid and electrical wiring will also be installed in designated cells. Finally, the completed wing will be cured in an autoclave under uniform pressure and temperature.
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Patent Number:	6,170,778
Title:	Method Of Reducing A Nose-up Pitching Moment On A Ducted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,170,778
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20050109
Inventor(s):	Cycon, James P. (Orange, CT), Scott, Mark Winfield (Bethany, CT), DeWitt, Christopher W. (East Haven, CT)
Assignee:	Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, CT)
Publication Number:	6170778
Application Number:	09/296,716
Abstract:	A method for reducing a nose-up pitching moment in an unmanned aerial vehicle during forward flight. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes counter-rotating rotor assemblies that are mounted within a duct. Each rotor assembly includes a plurality of rotor blades. The method involves adjusting the rotor blades to have substantially zero pitch. Then rotating the rotor assemblies to produce a virtual plane across the duct. The virtual plane is operative for substantially deflecting air passing over the fuselage away from the duct. In one embodiment of the invention, the method involves the further step of obstructing at least a portion of the bottom of the duct to inhibit air that is flowing across the bottom of the duct from passing into the duct.
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Patent Number:	6,164,591
Title:	Ground-effect Flying Boats Also Applicable To Aircraft, Drones, And Spacecraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,164,591
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20081226
Inventor(s):	Descatha, Michel Henri (Brownsville, TX)
Assignee:	DESCATHA; MICHEL HENRI
Publication Number:	6164591
Application Number:	09/121,056
Abstract:	A Ground-Effect Flying-Boat system with a special hull producing a very low drag, but high lift, both in the water and in the air. A high pivoting-wing of an auto-stable airfoil, and one or more rear spoilers fitted on the hull-stern of the vessel having a special airfoil and determined horizontal and vertical slots producing very low drag, but a strong downward airstream deflection so as to increase the height of the ground-effect. The wing configuration allows for automatic maintenance of horizontal flight and automatic inclination in turns as well as an automatic anti-crash system against strong descendent gusts. These automatic stability features allow the craft to fly in rain or foggy weather without need of I.F.R. instruments, due to slide and spin resistance. In addition, the craft will not stall "nose down", but lose altitude slowly, with the hull remaining always practically horizontal. Water-landing is possible at a very reduced speed and even vertically into very strong winds and waves. The craft is easier and cheaper to build than conventional aircraft or seaplanes. The system can be scaled to craft of any size.
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Patent Number:	6,158,691
Title:	Process For Preventing Turning Over During The Landing Of An Aircraft Or Spacecraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,158,691
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20041212
Inventor(s):	Menne, Stefan (Kolbermoor, DE), Ovadya, Yasar (Taufkirchen, DE), Schmidt, Bernhard (Unterhaching, DE), Wagner, Adalbert (Radthal, DE)
Assignee:	DaimlerChrysler AG (DE)
Publication Number:	6158691
Application Number:	09/032,280
Abstract:	A process for preventing overturning during the landing of an aircraft or spacecraft using an air bag type landing impact-damping system, which is inflated with gas before the landing and from which gas is discharged via discharge valves during the landing. The process includes using as the air bag type landing impact-damping system a system that is divided into a plurality of chambers that can be inflated with gas and from which gas is released independently from one another, and that a pressure difference is generated during landing in the individual chambers of the air bag type landing impact-damping system.
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Patent Number:	6,116,606
Title:	High Speed Glide Target
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,116,606
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Brum, Roger D. (Irvine, CA), Martin, Bryan J. (Mission Viejo, CA)
Assignee:	Meggitt Defense Systems (Tustin, CA)
Publication Number:	6116606
Application Number:	09/137,574
Abstract:	A glide target comprising a fuselage having forward and aft ends. Movably attached to the fuselage is at least one control surface, while releasably attached to the fuselage is a tow line adaptor. Disposed within the fuselage is a tow line adaptor release mechanism which mechanically couples the tow line adaptor to the control surface in a manner wherein the (control surface is effectively locked into a set position until the tow line adaptor is detached from the fuselage. The glide target further comprises a glide target parachute which is disposed within the fuselage and a parachute launching mechanism which is also disposed within the fuselage and is used for selectively deploying the glide target parachute therefrom. The tow line adaptor, when attached to the fuselage, is cooperatively engaged to the parachute launching mechanism in a manner preventing the deployment of the glide target parachute from within the fuselage.
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Patent Number:	6,094,163
Title:	Ins Alignment Method Using A Doppler Sensor And A Gps/hvins
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,094,163
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20040725
Inventor(s):	Chang, Min-I James (Herndon, VA)
Assignee:	Chang, Min-i James (Herndon, VA)
Publication Number:	6094163
Application Number:	09/009,918
Abstract:	Transfer/in-flight alignment technique using a Doppler velocity sensor. An aircraft navigation system (10 and/or 20), a Doppler velocity sensor (50) and an alignment filter (45) are used to align the inertial navigation system (4) of a slave vehicle. The velocity (and/or position) of the aircraft navigation system, the velocity (and/or position) of the slave vehicles inertial navigation system (40) and the velocity measurement of a Doppler velocity sensor (50) are used to generate the measurements of the alignment filter (45). The DVS and aircraft navigation system are used simultaneously to align the inertial navigation system of the slave vehicle. A GPS receiver (60) with a GPS antenna (70), a Doppler velocity sensor (50) and an alignment filer (46) are used to align the inertial navigation system (40) of a flight vehicle. The velocity (and/or position) of a GPS receiver (60), the velocity (and/or position) of the inertial navigation system (40) of a flight vehicle and the velocity measurement of a Doppler velocity sensor (50) are used to generate the measurements of the in-flight alignment filter (46).
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Patent Number:	6,084,510
Title:	Danger Warning And Emergency Response System And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,084,510
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Lemelson, Jerome H. (Incline Village, NV), Pedersen, Robert D. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee:	LEMELSON; JEROME H.; PEDERSEN; ROBERT D.
Publication Number:	6084510
Application Number:	08/844,029
Abstract:	Surveillance platforms in airborne craft (8,10), land based vehicles (12), vessels at sea or fixed structures (14) detect dangers using conventional scanners and transmit information signals describing the dangers to a control center (2) which analyzes the data and determines the degree of danger and its geographic extent. The center generates a danger warning and emergency response including a danger index. The warning/response message identifies the degree of danger (danger index 144) and the GPS coordinates (142) of the impacted geographic area for a wide region or regions of the earth (FIGS. 2-6). A vulnerability index (FIG. 16) determined using neural networks (FIGS. 13-14) and fuzzy logic (FIGS. 15-20) enables a prioritized warning/response. The center broadcasts (18) the danger warning and emergency response (FIG. 9) to a large population of remotely located warning devices (11), such as a network of pagers each of which has a GPS receiver (6,28). The pagers compare the received danger coordinates with their own GPS coordinates and each pager determines the extent to which it is in danger. The warning device automatically issues a warning signal or signals, which may be audible, visual or vibratory, appropriate to the degree of danger. Emergency manned vehicles may also directly receive the broadcast warning/response and be immediately alerted to act appropriately relative to the degree of danger. One embodiment broadcasts (16) directly to home T.V.s and radios (17) which have internal GPS receivers and which display/annunciate an emergency message customized to that receiver resulting from the internal comparison of the danger coordinates versus the local receiver coordinates.
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Patent Number:	6,082,675
Title:	Standoff Delivered Sonobuoy
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,082,675
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20080704
Inventor(s):	Woodall, Jr., Robert C. (Lynn Haven, FL), Garcia, Felipe A. (Panama City, FL)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6082675
Application Number:	09/137,874
Abstract:	A standoff delivery system is responsive to GPS coordinate signals and inight GPS signals to deliver and emplace a sonobuoy at a remote location that otherwise would be hazardous for full size aircraft conventionally deploying the sonobuoy. A flying platform, such as a drone or gliding guided wing, carries the sonobuoy to a remote location. A GPS receiver on the platform enters GPS coordinate signals representative of the remote location and receives GPS signals representative of the location of the platform. A control signal generator produces control signals in response to both of the GPS signals and feeds control signals to servos that displace control surfaces to pilot the platform. The sonobuoy is released from the platform in response to GPS signals that are representative of at least the proximity of the remote location. This system provides for clandestine deployment and activation of the sonobuoy.
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Patent Number:	6,065,718
Title:	Universal Vtol Power And Rotor System Module
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,065,718
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20040523
Inventor(s):	Piasecki, Michael W. (Haverford, PA)
Assignee:	PIASECKI; MICHAEL W.
Publication Number:	6065718
Application Number:	09/045,991
Abstract:	A universal power drive and lifting rotor system module adaptable for powering various types of single and multiple rotor VTOL aircraft comprising an elongated component support framework on the top of which a lifting rotor assembly and transmission are mounted onto the front end of which an engine is externally supported and the rear end of which is adapted for attachment and external support of a VTOL augmentation framework carrying a lifting rotor torque compensating unit. The rotor assembly and transmission receive power from a power train comprising a main drive shaft coupled to the engine and supported for rotation within the component support framework to extend longitudinally thereof and connected through a pulley and belt rotational power arrangement to the rotor transmission power input shaft extending from within the transmission to above the rear end of the component support framework. The outer free ends of the main power and transmission power input shafts have a coupling attachable to a rotatable shaft powering a rotor torque compensating unit carried on any one of a variety of VTOL augmentation auxiliary framework assemblies configured to be attachable to the rear end of the module component support framework. The attachable auxiliary framework assemblies include a framework on which is mounted a vertically rotating torque compensating tail rotor, a wing attached compound VTOL augmentation framework having a ducted propeller ahead of a slip stream deflecting tail assembly and a framework connecting a pair of back-to-back oriented modules comprising a dual rotor tandem VTOL.
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Patent Number:	6,061,017
Title:	System For Increasing Isolation In Active Radar Augmentation Systems
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,061,017
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20040509
Inventor(s):	Vaccaro, Kenneth (Camarillo, CA), Oh, Kenneth (Thousand Oaks, CA), Mensa, Dean Lucian (Ventura, CA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	6061017
Application Number:	09/084,051
Abstract:	In an active radar augmentation system a microwave switch is connected been the receiving antenna and the amplifier. When there is an RF input signal to the receiving antenna of the augmentation system, a square wave timing signal provided to the microwave switch is adjusted to have the microwave switch in an open state during a time period when the coupling or feedback signal from the transmitting antenna of the augmentation system is received by the receiving antenna. The "on-off" timing of the square wave signal is set equal to the external time delay of the feedback signal plus the internal time delay of the RF signal as the RF signal passes through the augmentation system. Under this condition, the feedback signal coupled by antenna leakage arrives at the output of the receiving antenna while the microwave switch is in the open state.
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Patent Number:	6,056,237
Title:	Sonotube Compatible Unmanned Aerial Vehicle And System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,056,237
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20040502
Inventor(s):	Woodland, Richard L. K. (Victoria, B.C., CA)
Assignee:	WOODLAND; RICHARD L. K.
Publication Number:	6056237
Application Number:	08/882,368
Abstract:	The present invention is generally comprised of a sonotube-compatible unmanned aerial vehicle apparatus, hereinafter referred to as a UAV, and systems for launch and control of the UAV. The UAV is generally comprised of modular sections including a nose section, a payload section, a wing and fuel tank section, and a powerplant section. The modular sections are attached to adjacent sections by uniform lock sealing rings and related components. The present invention comprises an apparatus enabling very small, man portable, ballistically launched, autonomously or semi-autonomously controlled vehicle to be deployed with preprogrammed, communicated, or telemetry mission programming. A wide range of payload packages, including emergency supplies, sensors, and antenna assemblies, may be carried, used or deployed in flight. Man-portable operation is accomplished by the use of a launch canister apparatus. The launch canister comprises retractable launch stabilizing legs, turbine engine exhaust orifices, and various antennas. The launch canister apparatus alternatively comprises a modified type "A", "B", or "C" sonotube launch canister. The system of the invention also comprises a portable Command, Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence (C4I) control and sensing analysis console. The console is preferably ruggedized, waterproof, shockproof, and comprises necessary control and analysis computers, input/output devices, antennas, and related hardware and software for vehicle and mission control. A C4I console and/or launch canisters may be transported by means of a backpack adapted for man portability.
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Patent Number:	6,037,899
Title:	Method For Vectoring Active Or Combat Projectiles Over A Defined Operative Range Using A Gps-supported Pilot Projectile
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,037,899
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20080314
Inventor(s):	Weber, Adolf (Neunkirchen, DE)
Assignee:	Rheinmetall W&M GmbH (Unterluess, DE)
Publication Number:	6037899
Application Number:	09/072,025
Abstract:	For an exact vectoring of active or combat projectiles, a GPS-supported pilot projectile is provided with a satellite navigation system or GPS receiver and continuously detects its own position and speed during the complete operational (firing) sequence--and thus also the ballistic interference variables--and transmits this information via a transmitter to the ordnance unit for evaluation and correction of the firing parameter of a subsequently fired active or combat projectile. If the active or combat ammunition or projectile to be vectored is equipped with submunitions, then the GPS receiver and the transmitter are located in the pilot submunition, so that the ballistic interference variables affecting the submunition can be recorded as well.
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Patent Number:	6,011,510
Title:	Gps Based Search And Rescue Transceiver
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 6,011,510
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Yee, David Moon (Scottsdale, AZ), Bickley, Robert Henry (Scottsdale, AZ), Brenner, Charles Herbert (Scottsdale, AZ), Zucarelli, Philip John (Glendale, AZ), Keller, Theodore Wolley (Scottsdale, AZ), Moyer, Christopher Kent (Scottsdale, AZ)
Assignee:	Motorola, Inc. (Schamburg, IL)
Publication Number:	6011510
Application Number:	08/877,142
Abstract:	A survival radio of the type useable in search and rescue operations and carried by the party to be rescued is described. The survival radio includes a GPS receiver, a transceiver and a microcontroller. The microcontroller responds to interrogation messages containing a predetermined identification code for the survival radio to cause a transceiver to transmit a geographic location of the survival radio as derived from GPS signals.
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Patent Number:	5,983,161
Title:	Gps Vehicle Collision Avoidance Warning And Control System And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,983,161
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20111109
Inventor(s):	Lemelson, Jerome H. (Incline Village, NV), Pedersen, Robert D. (Dallas, TX)
Assignee:	LEMELSON; JEROME H.; PEDERSEN; ROBERT D.
Publication Number:	5983161
Application Number:	08/717,807
Abstract:	GPS satellite (4) ranging signals (6) received (32) on comm1, and DGPS auxiliary range correction signals and pseudolite carrier phase ambiguity resolution signals (8) from a fixed known earth base station (10) received (34) on comm2, at one of a plurality of vehicles/aircraft/automobiles (2) are computer processed (36) to continuously determine the ones kinematic tracking position on a pathway (14) with centimeter accuracy. That GPS-based position is communicated with selected other status information to each other one of the plurality of vehicles (2), to the one station (10), and/or to one of a plurality of control centers (16), and the one vehicle receives therefrom each of the others status information and kinematic tracking position. Objects (22) are detected from all directions (300) by multiple supplemental mechanisms, e.g., video (54), radar/lidar (56), laser and optical scanners. Data and information are computer processed and analyzed (50,52,200,452) in neural networks (132, FIGS. 6-8) in the one vehicle to identify, rank, and evaluate collision hazards/objects, an expert operating response to which is determined in a fuzzy logic associative memory (484) which generates control signals which actuate a plurality of control systems of the one vehicle in a coordinated manner to maneuver it laterally and longitudinally to avoid each collision hazard, or, for motor vehicles, when a collision is unavoidable, to minimize injury or damage therefrom. The operator is warned by a heads up display and other modes and may override. An automotive auto-pilot mode is provided.
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Patent Number:	5,932,940
Title:	Microturbomachinery
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,932,940
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Epstein, Alan H. (Lexington, MA), Senturia, Stephen D. (Brookline, MA), Waitz, Ian A. (Newton, MA), Lang, Jeffrey H. (Sudbury, MA), Jacobson, Stuart A. (Somerville, MA), Ehrich, Fredric F. (Marblehead, MA), Schmidt, Martin A. (Reading, MA), Ananthasuresh, G. K. (Philadelphia, PA), Spearing, Mark S. (Newton, MA), Breuer, Kenneth S. (Newton, MA), Nagle, Steven F. (Cambridge, MA)
Assignee:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Publication Number:	5932940
Application Number:	08/749,454
Abstract:	The invention provides a micro-gas turbine engine and associated microcomponentry. The engine components, including, e.g., a compressor, a diffuser having diffuser vanes, a combustion chamber, turbine guide vanes, and a turbine are each manufactured by, e.g., microfabrication techniques, of a structural material common to all of the elements, e.g., a microelectronic material such as silicon or silicon carbide. Vapor deposition techniques, as well as bulk wafer etching techniques, can be employed to produce the engine. The engine includes a rotor having a shaft with a substantially untapered compressor disk on a first end, defining a centrifugal compressor, and a substantially untapered turbine disk on the opposite end, defining a radial inflow turbine. The rotor is preferably formed of a material characterized by a strength-to-density ratio that enables a rotor speed of at least about 500,000 rotations per minute. An annular, axial-flow combustion chamber is provided that is located axially between the compressor and turbine disks and that has a ratio of annular height to axial length of at least about 0.5. The micro-gas turbine engine can be configured with an integral microgenerator as a source of electrical power, and can be employed for a wide range of power, propulsion, and thermodynamic cycle applications.
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Patent Number:	5,927,648
Title:	Aircraft Based Sensing, Detection, Targeting, Communications And Response Apparatus
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,927,648
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20030727
Inventor(s):	Woodland, Richard Lawrence Ken (Victoria, British Columbia, CA)
Assignee:	WOODLAND; RICHARD LAWRENCE KEN
Publication Number:	5927648
Application Number:	08/731,684
Abstract:	The system and apparatus of this invention provides for a rapidly loaded, palletized, non-dedicated fixed or rotary wing aircraft based, manned observation, sensor launch system, with self-powered sensing and targeting pod, multi-frequency antenna array, and with C4I analysis and control capabilities. The system may be used to deploy and manipulate autonomous and remote control vehicles, for the purpose of recovering and protecting persons in peril; containing/remediating toxic spills; sensing/detection; fire fighting; ship towing; or surface based refueling and support. Although not the primary purpose, this system can also be used for to support an offensive weapons system which could be used to selectively eliminate various targets with a standoff delivery capability. The system and apparatus of the present invention is generally comprised of a removable pallet assembly adapted for loading into, and mounting to the floor of, the interior of the aircraft; a seating assembly moveably mounted to the pallet assembly; an integrated door assembly retractably mounted to the pallet assembly and adapted fit into an opening in the aircraft upon removal of the aircraft side door member, the integrated door assembly having a door frame defining a periphery; at least one remote sensing pod retractably attached to the door frame adapted for deployment from the interior of the aircraft to the exterior of the aircraft; at least one radar member retractably attached to the door frame adapted for deployment from the interior of the aircraft to the exterior of the aircraft; at least one antenna array retractably attached to the door frame adapted for deployment from the interior of the aircraft to the exterior of the aircraft; and control means for coordinating the members and functions of the apparatus.
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Patent Number:	5,906,336
Title:	Method And Apparatus For Temporarily Interconnecting An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,906,336
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Eckstein, Donald (Annandale, VA)
Assignee:	ECKSTEIN; DONALD
Publication Number:	5906336
Application Number:	08/970,559
Abstract:	An apparatus and method for aerial refueling of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wherein a laser receiver/transmitter on a target device towed by a host aircraft projects a reticle pattern aft of the host aircraft and a laser receiver/transmitter on a probe of the UAV is activated as the UAV is moved within the projected reticle pattern. Thereafter, a rangefinder guides the UAV towards the host aircraft until the laser transmitter/receiver of the UAV is aligned and boresighted with the laser transmitter/receiver of the host aircraft at which time the mode of the laser transmitter/receiver of the UAV alternates between a rangefinder mode and a modulation data link mode to transmit vital information concerning the UAV to the host aircraft. The probe on the UAV continues to move toward the drogue until the probe establishes contact within a receptacle structure of the drogue and is coupled thereto.
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Patent Number:	5,880,693
Title:	Method And Apparatus For The Wireless Exchange Of Information Between Stations
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,880,693
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20070309
Inventor(s):	Drummer, Clemens (Forchheim, DE)
Assignee:	Diel GmbH & Co. (DE)
Publication Number:	5880693
Application Number:	08/746,006
Abstract:	For power-optimised radio relay communication between in particular a station (11) which is operating at low level and navigating at high speed and which is fixed to a missile and a remote ground station (12) the apparatus and time expenditure for antenna tracking from the missile station (11) to the relay station (13) is reduced by the conventional production of an item of tracking direction information (17) on board the missile by direction-finding being replaced by computation of the directional information (17) from a comparison of the current locational data (15, 15) of the navigating station (11) and the relay station (13). If the position of the relay station (13) is variable its locational information (15) is also up-dated with satellite support, for example for correction of a reference position stored there it is transmitted to the missile station (11). In the interests of even more precise orientation of the electronically pivotable array antenna (21) satellite navigational errors can be ascertained from the stationary ground station (12) and transmitted to the cooperative stations (13-11) thereof for additionally taking same into account when computing the directional information (17) for antenna orientation.
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Patent Number:	5,878,981
Title:	Flight Console For Radio Controlled Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,878,981
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20070309
Inventor(s):	Dewey, Daniel L. (Chandler, AZ)
Assignee:	DEWEY; DANIEL L.
Publication Number:	5878981
Application Number:	08/843,253
Abstract:	An control mechanism apparatus is shown which electromechanically actuates a control board of a radio transmitter. The radio transmitter transmits radio signals to a receiver on board a model aircraft for actuating the various parts thereof. The apparatus comprises a base frame for providing a stable platform with a seat mounted at the rear of the base frame. A plurality of controls emulating the controls found in a cockpit of an actual aircraft are mounted to the base frame. A plurality of mechanical linkages are provided which transmit the position of each of the plurality of controls to a corresponding plurality of electrical devices. Each of the corresponding electrical devices is in electrical communication with the control board and the output of each of the electrical devices varies in accordance with the position of the controls. The radio signals are transmitted by the radio transmitter control board and vary in accordance with the electrical output of each of the electrical devices. The radio signals actuate the various parts of the model aircraft corresponding to each of the plurality of the controls.
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Patent Number:	5,850,617
Title:	System And Method For Route Planning Under Multiple Constraints
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,850,617
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20101215
Inventor(s):	Libby, Vibeke (San Mateo, CA)
Assignee:	Lockheed Martin Corporation (Sunnyvale, CA)
Publication Number:	5850617
Application Number:	08/777,523
Abstract:	A route planning mechanism receives a target set denoting a set of available targets, a set of target parameter thresholds for binning target parameters, a set of mission objectives and a corresponding set of mission thresholds for binning the mission parameters. The route planning mechanism may also receive an avoidance set denoting obstacles to be avoided. The mission objectives define a number of distinct target parameter priority orderings, each associated with a respective mission status. Successive best next targets are selected and added to a selected target sequence list until a mission completion criteria is satisfied. Each best next target is selected by determining a mission status in accordance with the previously selected targets, and a corresponding target parameter priority ordering. The target parameters of each available target are mapped into respective bin values in accordance with their respective target thresholds, and a cost function value is computed for each available target in accordance with the bin values. A subset of the available targets having a best cost function value is selected. That subset is successively narrowed until the subset contains only one target, and then that one target is selected as the best next target. The subset narrowing is performed using the bin values of the target parameters, applied in the target parameter priority ordering that is based on the current mission status. The resulting sequence of selected targets is then passed to a route utilization system, such as a satellite control system.
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Patent Number:	5,847,679
Title:	Gps Based Search And Rescue System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,847,679
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Yee, David Moon (Scottsdale, AZ), Bickley, Robert Henry (Scottsdale, AZ), Brenner, Charles Herbert (Scottsdale, AZ), Zucarelli, Philip John (Glendale, AZ), Keller, Theodore Wolley (Scottsdale, AZ), Moyer, Christopher Kent (Scottsdale, AZ)
Assignee:	Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL)
Publication Number:	5847679
Application Number:	08/877,592
Abstract:	A GPS based search and rescue system utilizes an airborne interrogation unit for extending the range of a second interrogation unit. The airborne unit relays communication between a survival radio and the second interrogation unit. The second interrogation unit is typically a ground based unit and is arranged to provide GPS correction information to the survival radio. The normal line of sight communication between a survival radio and an interrogation unit is extended to an over the horizon communication path by utilizing the airborne interrogation unit as a relay for communications.
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Patent Number:	5,799,900
Title:	Landing And Take-off Assembly For Vertical Take-off And Landing And Horizontal Flight Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,799,900
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20060901
Inventor(s):	McDonnell, William R. (St. Louis, MO)
Assignee:	Advanced Aerospace Technologies, Inc. (St. Louis, MO)
Publication Number:	5799900
Application Number:	08/680,000
Abstract:	An aircraft adapted for flight in helicopter mode with its longitudinal axis oriented generally vertically and in airplane mode with its longitudinal axis oriented generally horizontally is provided with the capability of launching and landing with the tail end directed skyward. The invention also includes improvements to the controllability and efficiency of aircraft in helicopter mode provided by the stabilizer wings and relative rotation of the fuselage section about the aircrafts longitudinal axis. The aircraft has an elongate boom positioned between the rear fuselage and the stabilizer wings for engagement with a base structure. The base structure may be attached to a building, a trailer transporter, a ship or some other structure. The base may be a beam having latching arms that swing inward when pressure from the boom is applied, then trap the boom in a recess between the latching arm and beam, thereby suspending the aircraft. An actuator for releasing the latching arms is provided to allow the aircraft to launch.
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Patent Number:	5,785,281
Title:	Learning Autopilot
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,785,281
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Peter, Francis E. (Albuquerque, NM), Strohacker, Fred M. (Albuquerque, NM)
Assignee:	Honeywell Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)
Publication Number:	5785281
Application Number:	08/333,162
Abstract:	A learning autopilot for a vehicle provides the capability to command complex maneuvers or maneuver the vehicle when control by its ground station is not possible. A memory is used during a piloted rehearsal mission and position and time information for the aircraft is stored in the memory. This memory is incorporated into the vehicle control system, and during automatic operation of the aircraft, the recorded position and relative time information is retrieved and compared against position and relative time information occurring during automatic flight. The difference between the recorded information and the actual flight information is used to generate error signals which are converted to command signals for the vehicle. Maneuvers which were initiated and completed by the pilot during the rehearsal mission are then repeated during the automatic flight from the flight information stored in the memory.
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Patent Number:	5,740,987
Title:	Helicopter Cyclic Control Assembly
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,740,987
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20060421
Inventor(s):	Morris, Joseph J. (South Lake Tahoe, CA), Grass, Gerard G. (North Bay, NY)
Assignee:	MORRIS; JOSEPH J.; GRASS; GERARD G.
Publication Number:	5740987
Application Number:	08/565,825
Abstract:	A helicopter cyclic control assembly for redirecting the thrust produced at a main rotor assembly includes a rotor disc control plate having arms with arm tubes therein for close, slideable insertion of slide rods, the slide rods being pivotally attached to bi-directional linear actuators, the bi-directional linear actuators being attached to the helicopter transmission casing or main truss works. The rotor disc control plate also having a neck tube with a bore which passes through the rotor disc control plate, through which an upper shaft passes and is rotatably engaged, the neck tube being perpendicular to the arm tubes. The upper shaft being fixedly attached at a distal end to the main rotor assembly, and rotatably engaged at a proximal end to a constant velocity joint such that as the motor is rotatably driving the upper shaft, the rotor disc control plate may be tilted relative to the helicopter body, the upper shaft tilting in cooperation with the rotor disc control plate, thereby changing the horizontal plane of the main rotor assembly, and redirecting the thrust produced at the main rotor assembly.
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Patent Number:	5,728,965
Title:	Method And Device For The Scattering Of Drones On Curved Paths Around One Or More Reference Points
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,728,965
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20020317
Inventor(s):	Fesland, Sylvain (Montlouis S/Loire, FR), Nigron, Pascal (Fresnes, FR)
Assignee:	Thomson-csf (Paris, FR)
Publication Number:	5728965
Application Number:	08/628,108
Abstract:	The disclosure relates to the deployment and maintenance of a belt of autonomous sensors fitted out with warning sensors to monitor the area surrounding one or more sensitive points. It relates especially to anti-missile and anti-aircraft warning systems for naval surface ships against missiles and aircraft flying at low and very low altitudes. It consists in controlling the paths of the drones solely by means of their radius of curvature for which they receive an instructed value from the reference point or points. This instructed value is encoded by a frequency of a radioelectric signal sensitive to the Doppler effect. A modification of this instructed value of radius of curvature as a function of the signal of a proximity sensor makes it possible to avoid all problems of collision and to keep the drones at equal distance from one another. This mode of control proves to be particularly efficient and, at the same time, very simple.
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Patent Number:	5,713,536
Title:	Aerostat Single Ballonet System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,713,536
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Bata, Bohus T. (Columbia, MD)
Assignee:	Tcom L. P. (Columbia, MD)
Publication Number:	5713536
Application Number:	08/458,751
Abstract:	An aerostat, including an aerostat hull and a single ballonet, attached to said aerostat hull, along an attachment line, the attachment line dividing a helium compartment formed by said aerostat hull into a forward helium compartment and an aft helium compartment, wherein a ratio of a volume of the forward helium compartment to volume of the aft helium compartment is equal to a ratio of a volume of the single ballonet forward of the attachment line to a volume of the single ballonet aft of the attachment line.
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Patent Number:	5,695,153
Title:	Launcher System For An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,695,153
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Britton, Ken G. (Huntsville, AL), Schaper, Don O. (Madison, AL)
Assignee:	Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
Publication Number:	5695153
Application Number:	08/559,056
Abstract:	A launch system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is contained in a portable trailer where all the components of the launch platform can be unfolded and/or attached to each other by hand using removable pins attached to the platform by lanyards. The platform includes launch extension mechanisms that insure a proper launch angle. Wing rails that fold into and are pinned into position to support the UAV before a launch. The launcher also includes a crane that provides a fixed position lifting crank and a movable boom with a lifting cable that is not exposed to getting tangled during movements of the boom when positioning the UAV on the launcher. The trailer has an air compressor and air tanks, and a foot operated release valve that supplies compressed air for a piston based launch mechanism that is controlled by the pilot. The system includes enclosed compartments that are capable of storing components for several vehicles. The system also includes an aircraft starter mechanism that can be slidably positioned for starting a motor of the aircraft by the pilot.
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Patent Number:	5,675,104
Title:	Aerial Deployment Of An Explosive Array
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,675,104
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Schorr, David J. (Austin, TX), Richards, Les H. (Temple, TX), Vinson, James K. (Austin, TX), Allen, Lex N. (Austin, TX)
Assignee:	Tracor Aerospace, Inc. (Austin, TX)
Publication Number:	5675104
Application Number:	08/551,882
Abstract:	The present invention pertains to the aerial deployment of generally planar structures. Typically, these structures are explosive arrays. Such explosive arrays are typically used in standoff minefield clearing and breaching on the ground, at river crossings, on beaches, and in shallow water surf zones adjoining beaches. The invention more specifically involves devices and methods for stably deploying such structures. This stable deployment is achieved by positioning the structure in a dihedral configuration as it moves through the air.
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Patent Number:	5,655,945
Title:	Video And Radio Controlled Moving And Talking Device
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,655,945
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Jani, Jeffrey Scott (Long Beach, CA)
Assignee:	Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
Publication Number:	5655945
Application Number:	08/535,785
Abstract:	A video and radio controlled remote device control system including at least one moving and talking remote device is presented. Standard video tapes used .in cameras or to home record TV programs have unused space on which data can be stored. This space may be called the vertical interval space. Appropriate digital control data is recorded in this unused vertical interval space. The encoded signal is played when the tape plays and is detected by a control box coupled between the VCR and the television. The control box generates an RF (radio) signal as a function of the encoded signal. A radio receiver in at least one, and possibly substantially more than one device receives the signal and as a function thereof generates selected voice and/or other sounds and mechanical control signals. Each device has a plurality of motors. Selected motors are controlled as a function of response to the transmitted signals. One practical example of a combination of the devices could be small characters singing, dancing or moving in concert with and controlled by a video tape of a childs movie.
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Patent Number:	5,620,153
Title:	Light Aircraft With Inflatable Parachute Wing Propelled By A Ducted Propeller
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,620,153
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20010415
Inventor(s):	Ginsberg, Harold M. (Lorton, VA)
Assignee:	GINSBERG; HAROLD M.
Publication Number:	5620153
Application Number:	08/406,476
Abstract:	A para-plane (parachute or parafoil airplane), ultralight, or the like is provided with a ducted propeller or fan to increase efficiency of the powerplant, thus reducing the size of the powerplant required. In addition, the duct may reduce propeller and/or engine noise and enhance safety for pilot, passengers and bystanders. Axial vanes may be provided upstream or downstream of the propeller within the duct to counteract the torque effect of the propeller. In another embodiment, a novel inflatable parafoil may be provided to reduce the effort required to initially inflate a prior art parafoil and reduce the incidence of ground strikes of the parafoil. The inflatable parafoil may be inflated with a buoyant gas such as helium or hot air to further reduce ground contacts and provide limited buoyancy to the aircraft.
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Patent Number:	5,614,910
Title:	Miss Distance Vector Scoring System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,614,910
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20010325
Inventor(s):	Bradley, Joseph L. (Oxnard, CA), Whiteman, Don (Ridgecrest, CA), Mills, George T. (Ridgecrest, CA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	5614910
Application Number:	08/505,716
Abstract:	A miss distance scoring system comprising four antennas which are configu to provide for an optimal radiation pattern of pulsed radio frequency energy to determine a missiles miss distance and miss direction from a target. Reflected pulses from a missile are received by each of the four antennas and then supplied by a radio frequency switch to a scalar scoring system which provides an analog video signal to four analog switches. The four analog switches are also connected to a controller which provides control signals to the switches to separately activate each switch. The activated analog switch then samples and holds the analog video signal with the sample being provided to an associated bandpass filter of the switch which is one of four bandpass filters. The sampled portions of the analog video signal are provided to a multiplexer and then passed sequentially through the multiplexer. The resulting doppler video signal is supplied to an analog to digital converter which converts this signal to an equivalent doppler digital signal. The equivalent doppler digital signal is next supplied to a pulse code modulation encoder which encodes the signal into a serial bit stream and provides a frame sync to the serial bit stream for transmission to a ground station by a transmitter and its associated antenna.
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Patent Number:	5,584,047
Title:	Methods And Apparatus For Augmenting Satellite Broadcast System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,584,047
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20081210
Inventor(s):	Tuck, Edward F. (West Covina, CA)
Assignee:	TUCK; EDWARD F.
Publication Number:	5584047
Application Number:	08/450,601
Abstract:	The present invention comprises methods and apparatus for providing programming from both satellites (11) and local sources (L) using a single receiving antenna (32). In a preferred embodiment, beams (18) emanating from a geosynchronous satellite (11) are collected using the main lobe (36) of a home receiving antenna (32), while a rebroadcast signal (26) generated by an airplane (20) circling above the home (H) is simultaneously sensed using a side lobe (38) of the receiving antenna (32). The airplane (20) flies along a path (40) which is a closed loop so that it is always positioned in a region where the aircraft antenna (24) can supply signals (26) to the receiving terminal (28) using the side lobe (38). The present invention may be implemented using any form of airborne platform (20), whether it is manned or unmanned. A wide range of methods may be employed to deliberately enhance the sensitivity of the side lobe (38) of the receiving antenna (32). The invention allows immediate and inexpensive enhancement to existing geostationary broadcast services.
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Patent Number:	5,581,250
Title:	Visual Collision Avoidance System For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,581,250
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20001203
Inventor(s):	Khvilivitzky, Alexander (Coral Springs, FL)
Assignee:	KHVILIVITZKY; ALEXANDER
Publication Number:	5581250
Application Number:	08/393,478
Abstract:	A collision avoidance ability for UAV (42) during its non-VFR pre-programmed autonomous flight is achieved by using a forward-looking TV camera (20) which senses visual obstacles in direction of flight. The UAV is equipped with an autopilot which is able of maneuvering and incorporated in a form of flight/mission computers (10) program. Image processor (18) locks and tracks obstacles in the cameras field of view in real time. It provides the autopilot with information about level of threat and generates appropriate commands. Being warned by the TV camera (20), flight/mission computer (10) initiates appropriate maneuver, in order to avoid possible collision. After that, it returns to interrupted pre-programmed flight. Two forward-looking TV cameras are used to measure a distance between the UAV (42) and the obstacle considering that the level of threat is higher if this distance is less.
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Patent Number:	5,534,873
Title:	Near Field Rcs Test Facility And Testing Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,534,873
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Weichman, Alan R. (Chesterfield, MO), Ferrell, Barton G. (Troy, IL), Butters, William G. (Florissant, MO), Murden, Gregory (Ballwin, MO), Alldredge, Phillip D. (St. Charles, MO), Latham, L. Adam (Florissant, MO), Courtney, Mike J. (Florissant, MO), Degroot, Paul J. (St. Louis, MO)
Assignee:	McDonnell Douglas Corp. (St. Louis, MO)
Publication Number:	5534873
Application Number:	08/385,057
Abstract:	A method for determining the far field radar signature of relatively large and complex objects, like a fighter aircraft, and the facility to provide the data for the method. The method includes reflecting different frequencies of near field radar energy off of an object while translating the object in a radial direction with respect to the radar so the resulting radar return includes a moving signal representative of the radar return of the object and a stationary return representative of environmental clutter. The environmental clutter and R 4 amplitude variations caused by signal strength variations due to the different overall reflection distances during translation are removed from the radar signal. Multipath reflections may also be removed. The resultant signal is transformed from a spherical wave to a cylindrical wave so that for objects having a major dimension that is presented to the radar with respect to a much smaller minor dimension at right angles thereto, the radar signature as determined by the method is almost identical to that obtainable at a far field radar range. In addition, the facility includes an electromagnetically shielded building, object translating devices with position feedback, object rotators, and a computer to perform the transformations.
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Patent Number:	5,524,524
Title:	Integrated Spacing And Orientation Control System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,524,524
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Richards, Les H. (Temple, TX), Schorr, David J. (Austin, TX), Kelley, Mark J. (Dripping Springs, TX), McDuffie, Philip L. (Austin, TX), Coleman, Edward R. (Austin, TX)
Assignee:	Tracor Aerospace, Inc. (Austin, TX)
Publication Number:	5524524
Application Number:	08/328,255
Abstract:	An integrated spacing and orientation control system is provided for carrying an array of objects and maintaining a predetermined orientation of the objects and a predetermined spacing between objects. In a presently preferred application, the spacing and orientation system carries an array of anti-mine munitions for clearing a path through a minefield. The invention deploys the anti-mine munitions in a downwardly pointed orientation with proper spacing between munitions, even when the array of munitions is deployed using rocket motors.
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Patent Number:	5,516,060
Title:	Vertical Take Off And Landing And Horizontal Flight Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,516,060
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20040514
Inventor(s):	McDonnell, William R. (St. Louis, MO)
Assignee:	MCDONNELL; WILLIAM R.
Publication Number:	5516060
Application Number:	08/038,119
Abstract:	The present invention pertains to an aircraft that is capable of converting between vertical flight or helicopter mode flight, and horizontal flight or airplane mode flight where a two-bladed rotor is employed as both helicopter rotor blades in vertical flight and as a fixed wing in horizontal flight. In vertical flight, a bearing connection between two fuselage sections enables a forward section supporting the rotor blades to rotate relative to an aft section of the aircraft fuselage about the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The exhaust or thrust force created by the mode of power (either a propeller engine or a turbine jet engine) is partially routed over the exterior of the aircraft to provide both vertical and horizontal thrust force, and in one embodiment a portion of the exhaust is routed through the interiors of the rotor blades and out exhaust ports at the blades distal ends to rotate the blades in vertical flight and to provide a thrust force for the blades in horizontal flight. A control system controls the pitch position of the rotor blades to convert from vertical flight to horizontal flight by rotating the blades about their common lateral axis through opposite angles of substantially 90.degree..
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Patent Number:	5,494,240
Title:	Vehicle Recovery Device For Use By Helicopter
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,494,240
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20000227
Inventor(s):	Waugh, Thomas R. (Portsmouth, RI)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	5494240
Application Number:	08/320,616
Abstract:	A recovery device for use from the cargo door of a helicopter hovering over vehicle to be recovered and including a telescoping pole with an upper end secured to the helicopter floor and a lower end defining a hoop which can be manipulated around the weapon or target into a first position for securing a first noose to a first portion of the vehicle to be recovered. The snare pole is then shifted to a second position where a second noose is tightened around a second portion of the vehicle. After the nooses have been positioned about the vehicle, the crewman aboard the helicopter pulls the retainer lanyard joined to the retaining pins. This operation releases the snare pole from the helicopter. The inner pole telescopes within the outer pole, and the vehicle is held directly beneath the helicopter by the cargo hook. The pilot can then fly the helicopter upwardly to carry the vehicle clear of the water.
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Patent Number:	5,425,281
Title:	Fluid Pendulum Arrangement For Implementing Fast Erection Of Vertical Gyroscopes
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,425,281
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	McFall, Shawn D. (Charlevoix, MI)
Assignee:	AlliedSignal Inc. (Morris Township, Morris County, NJ)
Publication Number:	5425281
Application Number:	07/568,107
Abstract:	A fluid pendulum arrangement is used for implementing fast initial erection of vertical gyros by maintaining the gyro wheel spin axis near vertical during the gyro "power-off" mode of operation. Fluid is contained in a lower fluid chamber section which is disposed below the rotational axes of the gyro inner and outer gimbals. The mass of the fluid in cooperation with the fluid chamber moment arm results in a gyro wheel pendulosity that is greater than the combined gyro component friction torques. Upon the "power-on" or gyro wheel spin up mode of operation, the fluid tends to migrate from the lower section of the chamber to an upper section thereof which is arranged relative to the gimbal rotational axes so that gyro wheel pendulosity is negligible. In one embodiment of the invention, the fluid chamber is an external "add-on" feature to the gyro wheel rotor and in another embodiment, the fluid chamber is integral with said rotor.
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Patent Number:	5,398,032
Title:	Towed Multi-band Decoy
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,398,032
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19990314
Inventor(s):	Tucker, Trevor W. (Carp, CA), Vigder, William B. (Nepean, CA), Zwicker, Charles E. (Nepean, CA), Schreiber, John K. (Nepean, CA)
Assignee:	TTI Tactical Technologies Inc. (Kanata, CA)
Publication Number:	5398032
Application Number:	08/246,924
Abstract:	The towed multi-band radar decoy or target is a collapsible, airstream-inflatable device intended to be used for providing gunnery practice or electronic countermeasure protection for aircraft against radars and radar-guided missiles by being towed on a line behind the aircraft and offering a more attractive radar target than the aircraft for the radar or radar guided missile to track and home on. The decoy or target is collapsible, so that many can be stored in a small space, and can be deployed while an aircraft is airborne. The decoy is comprised of a sleeve of radar-transparent fabric having a tapered cylindrical shape and an open mouth at a narrow end, and clusters of orthogonal trihedral corners formed from flat conductive surfaces fixed inside and to said sleeve which can be folded and collapsed into a small space, and once inflated, for providing a radar reflective signature which exceeds that of a towing aircraft over predetermined angular aspects.
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Patent Number:	5,388,783
Title:	Echo Exhancing Decoy
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,388,783
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Lynn, Howard F. (Lexington, MA)
Assignee:	Raytheon Company (Lexington, MA)
Publication Number:	5388783
Application Number:	06/065,680
Abstract:	A method of interdicting a guided missile equipped with an active radar-controlled guidance system is shown to include generating decoy signals in a transponder on an decoy launched from a ship being attacked, such decoy signals being formed by amplifying echo signals from the ship to cause the apparent position of the ship (as measured by the active radar-controlled guidance system) to differ from the actual position of the ship so that the guided missile ultimately is caused to miss the ship.
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Patent Number:	5,340,056
Title:	Active Defense System Against Tactical Ballistic Missiles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,340,056
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Guelman, Moshe (Haifa, IL), Yavnai, Arie (Kiryat Bialik, IL)
Assignee:	The State of Israel, Ministry of Defence, Rafael Armament Development (Tel Aviv, IL)
Publication Number:	5340056
Application Number:	08/021,871
Abstract:	An active defense system against ballistic missiles. The system includes a fleet consisting of a plurality of flying platforms fitted with interceptor missiles which loiter over hostile territory. The flying platforms communicate with each other by suitable data links and at least some of them also communicate with a ground station located in friendly territory. The interceptor missiles have electro-optical seeking and tracking capabilities and the data which the missile generates while in captive flight are communicated to a processor of the associated flight platform for autonomous decision whether to launch or not to launch the missile.
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Patent Number:	5,308,022
Title:	Method Of Generating A Dynamic Display Of An Aircraft From The Viewpoint Of A Pseudo Chase Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,308,022
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Cronkhite, Minton B. (San Diego, CA), Kamhis, Daniel N. (San Diego, CA)
Assignee:	Cubic Corporation (San Diego, CA)
Publication Number:	5308022
Application Number:	06/373,651
Abstract:	Kinematic data is generated onboard an aircraft for describing its state of motion as it flies over a tracking range. The kinematic data is transmitted to a plurality of remote stations on the tracking range and tracking data is generated which represents the actual state vector of the flying aircraft. Also generated is pseudo tracking data, identical to the tracking data but delayed in time, for representing the motion and trajectory of a pseudo aircraft. Utilizing the pseudo tracking data an image of the flying aircraft is generated from the viewpoint of the cockpit of the pseudo aircraft. A person may then view the image to observe the dynamics of the flying aircraft as if the person were chasing the actual aircraft in the pseudo aircraft. The method permits sophisticated maneuvers in the remote piloting of aircraft as well as flight performance analysis.
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Patent Number:	5,266,799
Title:	Geophysical Survey System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,266,799
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19971203
Inventor(s):	Steinitz, Gideon (Jerusalem, IL), Zafrir, Hovav (Kfar Bilu, IL), Dubester, Yair (Kfar Sava, IL)
Assignee:	State of Israel, Ministry of Energy & Infastructure (Jerusalem, IL); The State of Israel, Atomic Energy Commission (Yavne, IL); Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd. (Lod, IL)
Publication Number:	5266799
Application Number:	07/581,212
Abstract:	A geophysical survey system including a remotely piloted vehicle, a geophysical sensing payload mounted thereon and ground based control and data receiving means.
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Patent Number:	5,245,927
Title:	Dual-tandem Unmanned Air Vehicle System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,245,927
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19970924
Inventor(s):	Ranes, Richard L. (Simi Valley, CA)
Assignee:	Northrop Corporation (Hawthorne, CA)
Publication Number:	5245927
Application Number:	07/874,881
Abstract:	An unmanned air vehicle system which is intended for launch from a platform such as an aircraft or a ship and to follow other than a ballistic trajectory includes a pair of substantially similar air vehicles in a tandem relationship. A unitary tubular airframe is provided coextensive with both air vehicles. The nose of a second air vehicle is nested in the tail member of a first air vehicle. A rocket booster is mounted in the tail of the second air vehicle and ignited for launch of both air vehicles as a unit. Thereafter, a pyrotechnic separating mechanism is actuated for bisecting the tubular airframe intermediate the tail member of the first air vehicle and the nose of the second air vehicle. Following separation, each air vehicle has a gas turbine engine which is ignited for powering its associated air vehicle to its destination. Electrical connections from the launch platform to the vehicle system are made to the first air vehicle and the second air vehicle is, in turn, electrically connected to the first.
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Patent Number:	5,208,757
Title:	Airborne System For Determining The Position Of An Aerial Vehicle And Its Applications
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,208,757
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20010504
Inventor(s):	Appriou, Alain (Saclay, FR), Dezert, Jean (Malakoff, FR), Bensimon, Joseph (L'Hay-les-Roses, FR)
Assignee:	Societe Anonyme dite: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle (Paris, FR)
Publication Number:	5208757
Application Number:	07/639,987
Abstract:	An airborne system is disclosed for determining the position of an aerial vehicle. According to the invention, a first memory is provided containing the general characteristics of different types of discrete landmarks and a second memory containing the geographic position of such landmarks on the ground to be flown over, a device for extracting, from the signals delivered by sensitive means, the general characteristics of said different types of discrete landmarks located on the ground being flown over, and a device for computing from the signals delivered by said sensitive means the relative positions of said vehicle with respect to said recognized landmarks, which it feeds to Kalman filter means.
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Patent Number:	5,181,039
Title:	System For Sensing The Approach Of A Moving Missile To A Target
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,181,039
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Oswald, Gordon K. A. (Huntingdon, GB), Neal, Christopher S. (Cambridgeshire, GB), Richardson, Alan T. (Cambridge, GB)
Assignee:	Cambridge Consultants Limited (Cambridge, GB)
Publication Number:	5181039
Application Number:	07/768,402
Abstract:	A system for determining the trajectory of a missile and the minimum miss distance with respect to a target aircraft, comprises two transmitters on the aircraft each cooperating with four receivers on the aircraft. Each transmitter radiates a succession of pulses each having a very short duration of the order of 2 nanoseconds and each having a shape approximating to a single sine wave. The transmitted pulses are reflected from the missile and received by the receivers each of which is accurately time gated so that the received signal is sampled at a predetermined time delay after the radiation of each transmit pulse. A time delay corresponds to a particular missile range, and by gating at different delays the sampled signals indicate when the missile enters or leaves a plurality of range envelopes surrounding the target. Processing of the sampled signals enables the missile trajectory and minimum miss distance to be computed.
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Patent Number:	5,140,820
Title:	Carburetion And Combustion System For Gas Turbine Engines
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,140,820
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19960828
Inventor(s):	Booz, Edward (Pipersville, PA)
Assignee:	BOOZ; EDWARD
Publication Number:	5140820
Application Number:	07/614,094
Abstract:	A carburetion and combustion system is provided in which the carburetor discharges a combustible fuel/air mixture in a rotating swirl from a plurality of nozzles at one end of a cylindrical combustion chamber, and discharges a rotating helical swirl of high-velocity compressor air concentrically surrounding the combustion mixture from a second set of nozzles. The high-velocity air swirl confines the flame propagation away from the combustible chamber walls and provides the walls with an insulating layer against the combustion heat.
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Patent Number:	5,120,006
Title:	Kite-like Flying Device With Independent Wing Surface Control
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,120,006
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19960612
Inventor(s):	Hadzicki, Joseph R. (San Diego, CA)
Assignee:	HADZICKI; JOSEPH R.
Publication Number:	5120006
Application Number:	07/462,124
Abstract:	A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a kite having a sail with a left and right wing, each being connected to a supporting frame, with the frame having a leading edge support member associated with a left wing strut member and with a right wing strut member. It also includes bridle apparatus associated with the frame, the bridle apparatus having a horizontal line member connected to the leading edge support member, a left wing vertical line member connected to the left wing vertical support member, and a right wing vertical line member connected to the right wing strut member. The horizontal line member is connected to the left and right wing vertical line members at upper left and upper right control line contact points. The set of control lines includes an upper left line and an upper right line connected to the upper left and upper right control line contact points. The set of control lines further includes a lower left line and a lower right line connected to lower left and lower right control line points. A left control handle is connected to the upper left and lower left control lines, and the right control handle is connected to the upper right and lower right control lines. The control handle members include a design which mechanically amplifies the reverse flight signals relative to the forward flight control line signals. Also included is a three-line embodiment, an ornithoptic embodiment, and an inflated airfoil construction.
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Patent Number:	5,115,996
Title:	Vtol Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,115,996
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Moller, Paul S. (Dixon, CA)
Assignee:	Moller International, Inc. (Davis, CA)
Publication Number:	5115996
Application Number:	07/472,696
Abstract:	A VTOL aircraft including a fuselage with four nacelles, three vertical stabilizers and a horizontal stabilizer attached to the fuselage. The fuselage and the nacelles are lifting bodies that are configured to jointly form an aerodynamic lifting body which cooperates with the horizontal stabilizer to provide aerodynamic lift to the aircraft in forward flight. Each nacelle contains two rotary engines directly driving corresponding fans which face each other and operate in counter-rotating directions. Each nacelle also contains a system of vanes located at the rear opening thereof, and actuators for extending and retracting the vanes to deflect the airflow over a predetermined range of angles from the horizontal. Each engine utilizes the dynamic pressure of the air behind the fans to provide a source of air for cooling the rotors and exhaust system. A triple redundant computerized flight control system maintains the stability of the aircraft as it transitions from one flight regime to another as well as in flight. The system of vanes alone can also be used as an apparatus for gas or fluid stream directional control.
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Patent Number:	5,082,204
Title:	All Wing Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,082,204
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19960121
Inventor(s):	Croston, Leon J. (Bois d'Arc, MO)
Assignee:	CROSTON; LEON J.
Publication Number:	5082204
Application Number:	07/546,550
Abstract:	An all-wing aircraft is disclosed that has novel foreplane and depending aftplane, a center wing section and outer wing panel flying surfaces which cooperate aerodynamically to eliminate the need for conventional fuselage and tail structures. The foreplanes are strategically located to create a positive pitching moment which is sufficient to significantly reduce elevator forces and to balance the negative pitching moment induced by the outer wing panels and the downwardly extending aftplane units that provide static and dynamic pitch and yaw stability. At the same time, the foreplane structures serve as an unobstructed means to mount engines forward on the airframe to established a forward empty center of gravity. Additionally the aftplane structure serves as a means to mount main landing gears, elevators, ruddervators and to provide structural means for interconnecting outboard wing sections of the airplane. The all-wing design is of a nature permitting adoption of the principles thereof in either a multi-engine airplane or single-engine airplane. In both instances, a center wing section, foreplane and aftplane structures and outer wing sections cooperate to provide stability in all three axes of movement of the airplane while decreasing fuel burn by virtue of an improved lift to drag ratio and empty weight reduction by removal of the conventional fuselage and tail structures.
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Patent Number:	5,076,516
Title:	High Drag Airfoil Apparatus
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,076,516
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19991231
Inventor(s):	Wheat, Robert B. (Garland, TX), Wheat, Roy D. (Garland, TX)
Assignee:	WHEAT; ROBERT B.; WHEAT; ROY D.
Publication Number:	5076516
Application Number:	07/009,370
Abstract:	Disclosed are airfoil structures which provide two distinct mean centers of lift and high induced drag. Also disclosed are aircraft structures employing such high-lift high-drag airfoils for both the lifting wing and the horizontal stabilizer with the center of gravity disposed between the mean centers of lift of the fore and aft airfoils.
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Patent Number:	5,046,685
Title:	Fixed Circular Wing Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,046,685
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19990910
Inventor(s):	Bose, Phillip R. (Pleasant Hill, CA)
Assignee:	BOSE; PHILLIP R.
Publication Number:	5046685
Application Number:	07/376,716
Abstract:	A heavier-than-air craft having a cylindrical external configuration comprising a single annular airfoil forming a circumferential lift wing. This fixed circular wing is surrounded by a circular fuselage of substantially the same diameter, closely spaced axially above and below the outer periphery of the annular airfoil, to allow radial air flow over and under substantially the full circumference of the airfoil. The radial air flow is induced through an axial opening in the center of one surface of the circular fuselage by an engine driven propeller, fan or jet effect.
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Patent Number:	5,005,009
Title:	Method And Apparatus For Multiple Object Viewing
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 5,005,009
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Roberts, John K. (Camp Pendleton, CA)
Assignee:	K. W. Muth Company, Inc. (Sheboygan, WI)
Publication Number:	5005009
Application Number:	07/310,644
Abstract:	A heads-up display for moving vehicles such as an airplane or automobile and which includes a transparent sheet which may be the windscreen or windshield of the vehicle. An extremely thin enhancing film is secured in intimate contact with the transparent sheet and disposed within the sheet, if it is a laminated sheet such as a safety glass sheet or on that side of the sheet which is on the interior of the vehicle, or which may be made integral with the composition which makes up the transparent sheet. The enhancing film is an absorber or blocker of selected lightwaves which match the lightwaves of a display of indicia projected against the interior side of the windscreen. The assembly of film in sheet eliminates the need for a separate, independent indicia reflector to replace between the windscreen and the operator of the vehicle.
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Patent Number:	4,992,999
Title:	Submarine Drone For Carrying A Barrel Stave-type Transducer Array
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,992,999
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Yerby, Henry T. (Pasadena, CA), Lang, Thomas G. (State College, PA), Karig, Horace E. (Pasadena, CA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	4992999
Application Number:	04/569,560
Abstract:	A submarine drone has special hydrodynamic performance features for operag as a moving underwater platform for underwater transport of a barrel stave type sonar receiving transducer and a pole type sonar transmitting transducer with highly precise vertical alignment. The body of the submarine comprises a generally spherical pressure hull for containing propulsion plant and electronic components. The barrel stave transducer is affixed about the upper half of the pressure hull. An acoustically transparent false wall forms a spherical hydrodynamic wall over the pressure vessel and transducer. The false wall also forms a tail cone projecting from the rear side of the submarine. The tail cone contains an annular channel which takes in boundary layer water from the spherical portion of hydrodynamic wall and conducts it back to a pump jet at the extreme rear of the tail cone. A fixed tail boom emerges from the center of the pump jet structure and extends rearwardly. Cruciform control surfaces append from the tail boom. The pole transducer projects from the top of the spherical body and has a freely pivoting fairing made of acoustically transparent material thereabout.
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Patent Number:	4,937,522
Title:	Speed Sensor Pickup Assembly With Slotted Magnet
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,937,522
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19980701
Inventor(s):	Gee, Thomas A. (Allen Park, MI)
Assignee:	Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, OH)
Publication Number:	4937522
Application Number:	07/262,550
Abstract:	A dual speed sensor pickup assembly (140) for sensing the rotational velocity of two independently rotatable, closely axially spaced exciter rotors (116 and 118) is provided. The pickup assembly includes two speed sensor assemblies (136 and 138) each including a pole piece (152,160) having a longitudinal axis (152a,160a) with the longitudinal axes skewed relative to one another but radial relative to the common axes of rotation (24) of the exciter rotors. Each speed sensor includes a permanent magnet (154,162) disposed between an end of the pole piece (152,160) and having a face divided into first and second surfaces (154a,154b and 162a,162b) by a slot (154c,162c) therein. In one embodiment a primary coil (156,164) and a secondary or anti-cross talk coil (158,166) surrounds the pole piece of each sensor (136,138), and each secondary coil is conductively connected to the primary coil of the other sensor. In another embodiment, an electronic circuit (176) is provided for producing anti-cross talk signals which are added to the speed sensor signals.
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Patent Number:	4,935,742
Title:	Automatic Radar Generator
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,935,742
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19980624
Inventor(s):	Marin, Jonathan (Brooklyn, NY)
Assignee:	MARIN; JONATHAN
Publication Number:	4935742
Application Number:	07/340,380
Abstract:	An autonomous radar transmitting system transmits radar signals which simulate the presence of a police-manned radar station. A controller runs pseudo-randomizing programs to select the width of a radar pulse transmitted as well as the time lapse between subsequent pulses. The radar output of the system is therefore sufficiently random to prevent a detecting circuit from identifying it in the time it takes for a motorist with a radar detector to reach the radar source. This system is battery powered and a photovoltaic panel is provided to recharge the battery, thus giving the system a long lifespan. Also provided is an infrared detector through which infrared signals may be input to the controller. Thus, external control is provided without making the system susceptible to tampering or vandelism. Most of the electrical components are enclosed in a weatherproof casing capable of being mounted in a number of discrete, convenient locations. The casing includes a drainage hole with a downwardly extending tube for allowing the drainage of condensation buildup within the casing.
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Patent Number:	4,913,376
Title:	Vtlh Autogyro
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,913,376
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Black, Franklin E. (Cincinnati, OH)
Assignee:	BLACK; FRANKLIN E.
Publication Number:	4913376
Application Number:	07/260,800
Abstract:	This invention relates to autogyros and to counter-rotating rotor helicopters. It further relates to compound autogyros and/or helicopters that employ a lifting surface or wing in forward flight. More specifically this invention provides an autogyro with counter-rotating rotors, circular planform wing integral with the rotors, and means for engaging power to the rotors for vertical ascent, descent and hovering.
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Patent Number:	4,908,705
Title:	Steerable Wide-angle Imaging System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,908,705
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Wight, Ralph (Northport, NY)
Assignee:	Fairchild Weston Systems, Inc. (Syosset, NY)
Publication Number:	4908705
Application Number:	07/146,696
Abstract:	An electro-optic system which is advantageous for low altitude, high speed aerial reconnaissance. A linear imager is movably positioned in the focal plane of a fixedly mounted wide-angle lens system. The fore-aft motion capability of the imager can be used to select an optimal viewing angle for recognition, for image motion compensation (to reduce smear), or for other functions.
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Patent Number:	4,907,764
Title:	Infrared Radiation Powered Lightweight Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,907,764
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19980318
Inventor(s):	Long, David E. (Canoga Park, CA)
Assignee:	LONG; DAVID E.
Publication Number:	4907764
Application Number:	07/204,019
Abstract:	A high altitude reconnaissance platform is implemented by an ultralight aircraft powered solely by long wave infrared cells mounted on the lower surfaces of the wings and the fuselage. The aircraft may be of the pusher, slow speed propeller style, with a larger rear wing and a small, canard-type front wing. The bottom of the fuselage may be flat. The two wings may be vertically offset from one-another, and the cross-section of the wings may be relatively thick, with the ratio of the width of the wings to their thickness being in the order of about 6 to 8.
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Patent Number:	4,865,328
Title:	Low-cost, Expendable, Crushable Target Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,865,328
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19970917
Inventor(s):	Attinello, John S. (Alexandria, VA), Rousseau, David G. (Germantown, MD)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	4865328
Application Number:	06/590,384
Abstract:	An expendable drone aircraft to be used as a target for advanced weapons tforms is made of a lightweight crushable foam material. The drone is adapted to realistically converge upon the weapons platform so as to activate the tracking/fire control sensors thereof. A solid fuel rocket motor is encased in a non-metallic lightweight housing and is used to power the drone in free flight. A simple optical seeking device is used to input a signal to a guidance control system which directs the drone in free flight to converge upon the weapons platform. If the weapons platform fails to neutralize the drone during convergence thereon, the impact hazard of the drone is neutralized by the lightweight crushable foam material which acts to harmlessly absorb the kinetic energy of the drone thereby minimizing danger to equipment and personnel of the weapons platform.
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Patent Number:	4,854,824
Title:	Vapor Separating And Metering Pump
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,854,824
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19930808
Inventor(s):	Scholz, Daniel E. (Avon, OH)
Assignee:	Parker-Hannifin Corporation (Cleveland, OH)
Publication Number:	4854824
Application Number:	07/150,800
Abstract:	A two-staged vapor separating and metering fuel pump for an aircraft includes a housing (12) divided into a liquid ring section, a metering section and a motor section. Vapor-laden fuel enters the liquid ring section through a fuel inlet opening (14) and enters a liquid ring chamber (36) wherein vapor is separated from the fuel by the rotary action of a liquid ring impeller (44). The separated vapor is discharged from the housing through a vapor outlet opening (18). Vapor-free liquid from the liquid ring section is delivered to a metering chamber (86). The action of a metering rotor (72) in the metering chamber causes fuel to be discharged from the metering section at a flow rate proportional to the rotational speed of the metering rotor. The metering section discharges fuel from a pair or outlet ports (94) into a cavity (114) in the motor section. The motor section includes an armature (104) which is connected to a shaft (46) on which the metering and liquid ring impellers are mounted. Fuel discharged from the metering portion passes through the cavity cooling the components located in the motor section, and is discharged from the housing through a housing outlet opening (16). A sensor (116) mounted adjacent the liquid ring impeller generates signals representative of the rotational displacement of the shaft which are representative of the quantity of fuel discharged from the pump. The signals from the sensor are transmitted to a fuel control system of the aircraft which operates to adjust the rotational speed of the armature to deliver a desired amount of fuel at the outlet of the pump.
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Patent Number:	4,818,990
Title:	Monitoring System For Power Lines And Right-of-way Using Remotely Piloted Drone
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,818,990
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 20010404
Inventor(s):	Fernandes, Roosevelt A. (Liverpool, NY)
Assignee:	FERNANDES; ROOSEVELT A.
Publication Number:	4818990
Application Number:	07/095,152
Abstract:	A monitoring system using a unique remotely piloted drone with dual counter rotating propellers and carrying electric field sensing, thermal infra-red imaging, video imaging, acoustic and corona discharge sensing equipment. The compact remotely piloted drone flies along a power corridor and is maintained at a fixed distance from an outer phase conductor using on board electric field detection circuitry, video/infra-red imagery and an RF/laser altimeter. The counter rotating, twin-turbo driven configuration for the propellers mounted on coaxial vertical shafts provides a highly stable platform, unlike conventional manned helicopters presently used for routine right-of-way patrols. Dual, counter-rotating saucer-shaped auxiliary propellers provide a degree of stability far superior to a conventional helicopter, particularly in gusty winds. On board sensors and video cameras would permit electric utilities an economic approach to right-of-way monitoring, inspection of frayed conductors or deteriorated splices through infra-red sensing, detection of cracked insulators through acoustic/corona sensors, monitoring of critical, thermally limiting spans and other monitoring functions.
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Patent Number:	4,802,639
Title:	Horizontal-takeoff Transatmospheric Launch System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,802,639
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Hardy, Richard (Seattle, WA), Hardy, Jonathan (Seattle, WA), Kornell, Thomas J. (Federal Way, WA), Tallquist, Kenneth M. (Bellevue, WA)
Assignee:	The Boeing Company (Seattle, WA)
Publication Number:	4802639
Application Number:	06/919,207
Abstract:	This invention is directed toward providing a transatmospheric launch system that is essentially totally reusable, provides wide flexibility in choice of orbit, and may be launched quickly on short notice. The system of the invention is a two-stage horizontal takeoff and landing system. An orbiter vehicle (50) is integrated into the underside of an aircraft (2). Aircraft (2) has a cavity (4) opening aftwardly and downwardly to receive vehicle (50). Vehicle (50) and aircraft (2) are releasably connected by struts (30, 32). Aircraft (2) and vehicle (50) proceed to staging conditions under air breathing and then rocket power. Rocket engine (22) of aircraft (2) is throttled to produce a thrust differential with rocket engine (66) of vehicle (50). This differential causes vehicle (50) to automatically pivot away from aircraft (2) on struts (30, 32). After pivoting out of cavity (4), vehicle (50) is disengaged from struts (30, 32) and proceeds on its own to orbit. Aircraft (2) makes a conventional landing. Following reentry, vehicle (50) makes an unpowered horizontal landing. Separation is accomplished at a Mach number of about 3.3. In a second embodiment, the main engine of the orbiter (50) is a scramjet (101) instead of a rocket.
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Patent Number:	4,786,008
Title:	Nuclear Powered Drone
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,786,008
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19921122
Inventor(s):	Corbett, Marshall J. (E. Northport, NY)
Assignee:	Grumman Aerospace Corporation (Bethpage, NY)
Publication Number:	4786008
Application Number:	06/855,238
Abstract:	An unmanned aircraft is equipped with a helium-cooled Brayton cycle nuclear reactor. Heated helium gas drives turbines which in turn rotate propellers to maintain the aircraft aloft for a protracted period of time. After the helium gas expands in the turbines, it is passed through a closed loop including radiator tubes which radiate waste heat from the helium gas to space. The cooled helium gas is returned through the closed loop for repeat of the Brayton cycle.
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Patent Number:	4,783,799
Title:	Electronic Communications And Control System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,783,799
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19921108
Inventor(s):	Maass, Joachim A. (River Plaza, NJ)
Assignee:	MAASS; JOACHIM A.
Publication Number:	4783799
Application Number:	07/073,253
Abstract:	A fully distributed, disposable, self-organizing, independently powered communications system is described capable of providing a radio-communications channel in environments that may prove dangerous or inacessible to humans and may be hostile to communications systems by exposing them to electromagnetic interference, obstacles to line-of-sight operation and threats to survival.
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Patent Number:	4,757,481
Title:	Method And System For Detecting Water Depth And Piloting Vessels
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,757,481
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19960717
Inventor(s):	Orr, Edgar H. (Cumming, GA), Steffes, Paul G. (Norcross, GA)
Assignee:	Sea Scout Industries, Inc. (Cumming, GA)
Publication Number:	4757481
Application Number:	06/656,190
Abstract:	The depth of water ahead of a vessel is detected by sonar means carried aboard a drone stationed by radio control ahead of the vessel. Detected depth information is transmitted from the drone to the vessel where it is displayed for use by the vessel pilot in navigating shallow waters.
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Patent Number:	4,736,583
Title:	Rocket Firing System For Sequential Firing Of Rocket Motor Groups
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,736,583
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19960417
Inventor(s):	Hudema, Henry P. (Medicine Hat, CA), Burton, Stanley K. (Medicine Hat, CA), Markov, Alexander B. (Medicine Hat, CA), Coffey, Clayton G. (Medicine Hat, CA)
Assignee:	Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada as represented by the Minister (CA)
Publication Number:	4736583
Application Number:	06/925,246
Abstract:	An aerial target vehicle has an aerodynamically stabilized body carrying plural rocket motors. An ignition system for the motors serves to fire the motors in selected groups at selected time intervals. The ignition system uses a capacitor as its sole power source. The capacitor is charged only after the motors are in place and the vehicle is ready for launch. A capacitor-powered logic circuit ignites the motor groups at the selected time intervals. The sequential firing of the rocket motors provides a quasi-maneuverable target with relatively long range and flight time. The capacitive power arrangement is a safety factor that prevents premature firing of the rocket due to transient currents.
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Patent Number:	4,730,793
Title:	Ordnance Delivery System And Method Including Remotely Piloted Or Programmable Aircraft With Yaw-to-turn Guidance System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,730,793
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19960320
Inventor(s):	Thurber, Jr., Charles H. (Springfield, VA), Behrens, Frederick A. (Springfield, VA), Hunton, John H. (Annandale, VA)
Assignee:	E-Systems, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Publication Number:	4730793
Application Number:	06/566,163
Abstract:	A method and system for delivery ordnance to a target via a remotely piloted or programmable aircraft including a yaw-to-turn guidance system, a deployment and launching system and packaging for the aircraft are disclosed.
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Patent Number:	4,712,371
Title:	Process And Device For Starting A Gas Turbine
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,712,371
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19951220
Inventor(s):	Weber, Thomas (Oberursel, DE)
Assignee:	Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (Cologne, DE)
Publication Number:	4712371
Application Number:	06/797,903
Abstract:	A process and a device for starting a gas turbine such as a jet engine which contains a compressor, a turbine and a combustion chamber by means of hot exhaust gases from an exhaust gas source, wherein the energy of the exhaust gases is transferred at least partially to the gas turbine for the starting process. For this purpose the hot exhaust gases are used for simultaneously driving the turbine and for igniting the combustion in the combustion chamber. A single exhaust gas source can be used. In this manner, a large number of component parts are eliminated and the reliability of the starting process is considerably increased overall.
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Patent Number:	4,700,307
Title:	Feature Navigation System And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,700,307
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Mons, Barend (Solana Beach, CA), Flowers, Donald H. (La Mesa, CA), Henderson, Robert L. (San Diego, CA)
Assignee:	General, Dynamics Corp /Convair Division (San Diego, CA)
Publication Number:	4700307
Application Number:	06/514,210
Abstract:	A method of navigating an airborne vehicle using observation of linear features such as roads, railroads, rivers or the like. Maps of linear features in several discrete areas along an intended flight path are prepared and entered into an on-board computer memory. The vehicle typically uses an inertial navigation system during flight from the origin to the first mapped area. Imaging sensors and on-board processing detect linear features as the vehicle approaches or passes over them. The sensed feature pattern network is compared to the reference mapped feature network to update the inertial navigation system to generate guidance commands. Frequent updates at other mapped areas keep the vehicle on course. This system is also capable of navigation updates from single linear features when the flight path is fairly well known, and of tracking a linear feature for terminal guidance. In these cases, only a small number of feature parameters need to be stored, rather than an area map. Linear feature navigation can be used by any manned or unmanned airborne vehicle which has the on-board capability to detect the required features.
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Patent Number:	4,690,062
Title:	Warhead, Especially For The Attacking Of Radar Installations
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,690,062
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19950906
Inventor(s):	Bugiel, Horst G. (Bonn, DE)
Assignee:	Diehl GmbH & Co. (Nuremberg, DE)
Publication Number:	4690062
Application Number:	06/877,795
Abstract:	A warhead for a nose-diving aircraft or missile utilized for the attacking of quasi-stationary targets which possess reducing or weakening armour along their vertical height, especially such as radar installations. The warhead has its explosive received within frusto-conically shaped casing region which is constructed as a fragmentation casing, and a cylindrical casing region located in front of the base or tail end, and which is covered with small, radially oriented projectile-forming inserts.
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Patent Number:	4,666,105
Title:	Unmanned Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,666,105
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Dellinger, Juergen (Achim-Uesen, DE), Hoeppner, Hans-Jochen (Bremen, DE), Kraemer, Ulrich (Syke-Barrien, DE)
Assignee:	Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH (Bremen, DE)
Publication Number:	4666105
Application Number:	06/784,484
Abstract:	An unmanned craft having a fuselage, a propeller drive with a propeller being arranged in the tail portion of the fuselage for purposes of cruising, and a rocket assist propulsion system for the takeoff phase is releasably mounted to the fuselage, the improvement includes three spring biased thrust rods being secured to the frame and releasably engaging peripheral points of the craft. The thrust rods are radially pivotal in outer direction. Support points on the wings and the rudder engage front ends of the rods in contourmatching relationship but are disengageable therefrom.
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Patent Number:	4,643,374
Title:	Steering Apparatus For A Flying Body
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,643,374
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Friederich, Oskar (Sauerlach, DE)
Assignee:	Messerschmitt-boelkow-blohm, Gesellschaft Mit Beschraenkter Haftung (Munich, DE)
Publication Number:	4643374
Application Number:	06/739,825
Abstract:	The steering of a jet propelled flying body is improved by positioning jet eflector flaps into the propulsion jet for deflecting the propulsion jet. The deflector flaps can steer the flying body automatically in response to a flight control unit either alone or as a support steering system for the control surfaces of the flying body. The jet deflector flaps are arranged in the jet nozzle in a cross or star configuration and preferably near the periphery of the jet nozzle.
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Patent Number:	4,553,718
Title:	Naval Harrassment Missile
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,553,718
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19930912
Inventor(s):	Pinson, George T. (Huntsville, AL)
Assignee:	The Boeing Company (Seattle, WA)
Publication Number:	4553718
Application Number:	06/430,346
Abstract:	A naval harrassment missile for autonomously flying to a designated target area such as an enemy naval warship. The missile designed for searching, finding and harrassing the target. The missile may send a homing signal to guide other missiles to the target or by a homing signal attack the target using either a high explosive or a self-forging fragmentation warhead.
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Patent Number:	4,530,476
Title:	Ordnance Delivery System And Method Including Remotely Piloted Or Programmable Aircraft With Yaw-to-turn Guidance System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,530,476
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19970723
Inventor(s):	Thurber, Jr., Charles H. (Springfield, VA), Behrens, Frederick A. (Springfield, VA), Hunton, John H. (Annandale, VA)
Assignee:	E-Systems, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Publication Number:	4530476
Application Number:	06/292,260
Abstract:	A method and system for delivering ordnance to a target via a remotely piloted or programmable aircraft including a yaw-to-turn guidance system, a deployment and launching system and packaging for the aircraft are disclosed.
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Patent Number:	4,471,923
Title:	Unmanned Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,471,923
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19960918
Inventor(s):	Hoppner, Heinz-Jochen (Bremen, DE), Sgarz, Hugo (Bremen-Lesum, DE), Sadowski, Herbert (Delmenhorst, DE)
Assignee:	Vereinigte, Flugtechnische Werke Mbb (Bremen, DE)
Publication Number:	4471923
Application Number:	06/410,700
Abstract:	An unmanned aircraft vehicle to be launched from a container is provided with a rocket engine for launching and a propeller drive for cruising; the wings can be folded to the body of the vehicle and will be deployed as the vehicle leaves the launching container. The propeller is freely rotatable, even if the vehicle is still in the launching container. The rocket engine is releasably connected to at least one point on the propeller drive and in symmetrical relation to maintain the propeller drive coaxial to the propeller shaft, and to react rocket thrust directly into the propeller drive.
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Patent Number:	4,445,652
Title:	Adjustable Rocket Thrust Alignment Device
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,445,652
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19920503
Inventor(s):	Engelke, Claude W. (Wichita, KS), Power, Royal A. (Wichita, KS), Brees, Dale W. (Wichita, KS)
Assignee:	The Boeing Company (Seattle, WA)
Publication Number:	4445652
Application Number:	06/361,849
Abstract:	An alignment device for adjusting the takeoff assist thrust vector of a rocket booster in a desired relationship to the center of gravity of an autonomous missile. The device provides for using "plumb bob type" hanging tool prior to installing the rocket booster on the missile.
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Patent Number:	4,428,583
Title:	Airborne Target For Generating An Exhaust Plume Simulating That Of A Jet Powered Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,428,583
INPADOC Status:	Expired -EXPIRED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEE Effective DATE 19960131
Inventor(s):	Feagle, Hugh B. (Leeds, AL)
Assignee:	Hayes International Corporation (Birmingham, AL)
Publication Number:	4428583
Application Number:	06/443,056
Abstract:	An airborne target for generating an exhaust plume simulating that of a jet powered aircraft embodies an elongated target body having an elongated combustion chamber therein. An air receiving inlet which faces in the direction of travel of the body communicates with the forwardmost end of the combustion chamber. An expansion chamber between the air receiving inlet and combustion chamber increases the expansion of air flowing toward the combustion chamber while at the same time reduces its velocity. A fuel injector is carried by the body to inject hydrocarbon fuel at a predetermined rate under pressure into the air to thus provide a predetermined fuel-air mixture. An igniter is carried by the body downstream of the fuel injector to ignite the fuel-air-mixture. A flame holder is carried by the body in position for the ignited fuel-air mixture to attach thereto and provide sustained burning after the igniter is spent. The sustained burning of the mixture thus produces an exhaust plume of a predetermined length which simulates the same spectral distribution of infrared energy as that produced from a jet engine burning the same fuel.
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Patent Number:	4,410,151
Title:	Unmanned Craft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,410,151
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Hoppner, Heinz-Jochen (Bremen, DE), Kramer, Ulrich (Syke-Barrien, DE), Sgarz, Hugo (Bremen, DE), Sadowski, Herbert (Bremen, DE)
Assignee:	Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke-Fokker GmbH (Bremen, DE)
Publication Number:	4410151
Application Number:	06/182,021
Abstract:	A vehicle or craft is provided for propeller propulsion with start assist by a releasable rocket engine. The craft is launched from a silo of square-shaped cross-section containing the starter motor for the propeller, whose engine is started while the craft is still in the silo. Diagonally opposed corners of the silo are provided with rails, in which run guides on rudder fins of the craft. The wings are pivoted to the fuselage for deployment whereby the wing tips do not move forward. The rocket engine is jettisoned shortly after take-off by simple disengagement. Parts of the wings and/or the rear of the fuselage may be jettisoned shortly before the craft reaches the target area.
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Patent Number:	4,385,354
Title:	Automatically Landing An Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,385,354
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Hornfeld, Willi (Weyhe, DE), Grobecker, Helmut (Stuhr, DE)
Assignee:	Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke GmbH (Bremen, DE)
Publication Number:	4385354
Application Number:	06/202,586
Abstract:	The aircraft is provided with an infrared sensor which is adjustable by means of feedback control so that its line of sight (image center) is and remains in line with the middle one of three infrared fires at and near the end of the runway. The craft is now maneuvered in such a way that its longitudinal axis is aligned with the horizontal component of the line of sight. After a particular distance has been reached, the aircraft descends while the image of the middle fire remains centered. The system uses existing equipment and is further supplemented to correct an initial gross deviation from the desired approach path.
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Patent Number:	4,357,777
Title:	Dihedral Aerodynamic Structure
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,357,777
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Kulik, Donald A. (Toronto, Ontario, CA)
Assignee:	KULIK; DONALD A.
Publication Number:	4357777
Application Number:	05/866,480
Abstract:	The specification describes an aerodynamic structure having lift for use on an aerodyne. The structure comprises first and second essentially identical planar sections hingedly connected at their roots to one another at dihedral angles. The sections are moveable in unison to vary the angle between each section and its transverse axis.
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Patent Number:	4,354,419
Title:	Survivable Target Acquisition And Designation System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,354,419
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Patterson, Charles F. (Xenia, OH)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	4354419
Application Number:	06/176,437
Abstract:	A target acquisition and designation system is disclosed which enables an aircraft to perform aerial reconnaissance and surveillance, strikes of fixed or mobile targets, and other defense missions while at an altitude below which detection by enemy radar is effective. The system utilizes a very small, stealthy, unmanned glider equipped with a Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) image sensor and a laser designator. The glider is towed by the aircraft and remotely controlled to fly at an elevation high above the aircraft where the FLIR and laser designator can be effectively utilized. A lightweight towline comprising one or more load-bearing tension members surrounded by a flexible member having a symmetrical streamlined exterior shape substantially reduces drag and allows the glider to be deployed from conventional aircraft.
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Patent Number:	4,309,773
Title:	Apparatus And Method For Radio Channel Selection
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,309,773
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Johnson, George B. (La Jolla, CA), Clapp, Gerald A. (San Diego, CA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	4309773
Application Number:	06/141,703
Abstract:	An improved apparatus and method for selecting a carrier frequency channel etween two radios are disclosed wherein one radio transmits a cyclic test signal sequentially on a set of frequencies for a period of time at each frequency sufficient to allow a second radio fo sweep through the entire set while pausing at each frequency for a period of time sufficient to receive a cycle of the test signal. The second radio utilizes the detected test signal to evaluate the transmission quality of the carrier frequency channel upon which it is received. After the second radio recognizes the test signal on a carrier frequency for a second time, it ceases evaluation and transmits an answer signal upon the carrier frequency with the highest transmission quality. The first radio is enabled to detect the answer signal by initiating reception at the end of each test signal transmission and sweeping through the entire set of frequencies at the rate of sweep of the second radio.
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Patent Number:	4,308,015
Title:	System And Method For Aircraft Gunnery Training And Accuracy Evaluation
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,308,015
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Tye, Gene (Endwell, NY)
Assignee:	General Electric Company (Binghamton, NY)
Publication Number:	4308015
Application Number:	06/105,606
Abstract:	A system for aircraft gunnery training and accuracy evaluation wherein a head-up display unit employs a cathode ray tube for projecting simulated bullets on a pilots sighting panel. The simulated bullets each comprise a pair of bullet trajectory indicia simulating the firing of the guns of the aircraft at an actual target. The indicia in a pair of bullet trajectory indicia are equidistantly spaced from the simulated trajectory path by an amount related to a selected dimension of the target. Each pair of bullet trajectory indicia are initially displayed to reflect the physical conditions of the aircraft at the time of firing, including the rates of aircraft roll, pitch and yaw, the aircraft lift acceleration, true aircraft airspeed, gun angle of attack, and relative air density. As the bullet trajectory indicia traverse the simulated trajectory path, the separation between the indicia comprising a pair of indicia is decreased to simulate increasing distance from the firing aircraft. A hit of a target occurs when a pair of bullet trajectory indicia are observed to overlie the target and the indicia in the pair are separated by a distance equal to the selected target dimension.
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Patent Number:	4,296,894
Title:	Drone-type Missile
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,296,894
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Schnabele, Werner (Wolfratshausen, DE), Buckley, Jack (Albaching, DE), Rieger, Ulrich (Feldkirchen-Westerham, DE)
Assignee:	Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH (Munich, DE)
Publication Number:	4296894
Application Number:	06/014,720
Abstract:	The invention relates to a drone-type missile for combatting ground targets from the ground, particularly for the use against targets which emit electromagnetic rays, such as radar stations; with built-in target-seeking head, guidance system, self-propulsion and take-off assist, preferably a booster rocket.
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Patent Number:	4,289,287
Title:	Fixed Skewed Wing Airborne Vehicle
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,289,287
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Child, Richard D. (Huntington Beach, CA), Tulinus, Jan R. (Newport News, VA)
Assignee:	The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	4289287
Application Number:	05/807,618
Abstract:	Improvement to a fixed-wing airborne vehicle which results in significant delay drag rise well into the transonic regime. The fundamental features of the improvement include: fixedly skewing the wings at 45 degrees; shaping the outboard ends of the wing tips so that the trailing edge of the forwardly disposed wing is swept forwardly and the leading edge is straight relative to the trailing edge, and so that the leading edge of the rearwardly disposed wing is swept rearwardly and the trailing edge is straight relative to the leading edge; and, blending the leading and the trailing edges of the planform, so as to increase the local chord and control the longitudinal position of the maximum thickness in the root area (i.e., at the interface of the inboard tip end of each wing with the fuselage).
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Patent Number:	4,267,562
Title:	Method Of Autonomous Target Acquisition
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,267,562
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Raimondi, Peter K. (Woodbridge, VA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	4267562
Application Number:	06/019,069
Abstract:	A method of target acquisition and lock-on-launch strike capability of self uided explosive canisters, such as imaging missile systems and imaging artillery projectiles, by launching an imaging sensor platform over the battlefield area and transmitting imagery of the battlefield to an image processing computer system and an image receiving on-board microcomputer. The sensor platform may be an artillery television camera fired over the battlefield and parachute deployed, or an airlift sensor platform aboard a helicopter or the like. The image processing computer system is comprised of an automatic target cueing system and CRT display in which the system displays cued targets on the CRT. The method has an important man-in-the-loop, as a crew-chief, who examines the cued targets on the CRT and eliminates false targets, such as a bush or rock, and annotates selected targets to be struck by the explosive canisters. The self guided explosive canisters have electrical connectors between the microcomputer system and the computer system to directly receive and store thresholded digital target maps of the battlefield targets therein from the computer system. After launch of the canister, the microprocessor directly receives sensed imagery from the battlefield, compares and matches the sensed imagery with the stored digital target map, and guides the explosive canister to its designated target.
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Patent Number:	4,262,596
Title:	Overhead Attack Missile
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,262,596
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Allier, Michel (Garches, FR), Lursat, Didier (Limours, FR)
Assignee:	Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale (FR)
Publication Number:	4262596
Application Number:	05/952,427
Abstract:	A overhead attack missile for targets of little movement such as tanks or firing turrets is described. It comprises: at least one hollow charge, with a unidirectional radial action possessing a pyrotechnic dissymmetry means such as the off-centering of the detonator of the charge to preserve the straightness of the burst despite the movement of the missile and a guidance means to bring the missile, at the end its course, overhead of the target. The invention is applied to any stabilized or unmanned aerial weapons carrying war heads.
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Patent Number:	4,248,394
Title:	Remote Control Hang Glider Towing Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,248,394
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Klumpp, Marlin K. (Ann Arbor, MI)
Assignee:	KLUMPP; MARLIN K.
Publication Number:	4248394
Application Number:	06/017,411
Abstract:	A remotely controlled powered aircraft equipped with engine, propeller and landing gear, radio-controlled from the ground and capable of towing a manned hang glider to an appropriate altitude. On reaching altitude, the pilot of the hang glider releases the tow, and the pilotless towing aircraft is returned to the launching site under radio control from the ground. During towing of the hang glider, two-way communication is maintained between the hang glider pilot and the towing aircraft remote pilot.
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Patent Number:	4,233,605
Title:	Helicopter Radar Decoy
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,233,605
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Coleman, John R. (Westminster, CA)
Assignee:	Northrop Corporation (Hawthorne, CA)
Publication Number:	4233605
Application Number:	06/012,574
Abstract:	A Doppler radar signature simulator decoy for protecting a helicopter under attack by hostile weapons which home in on a Doppler radar return signal from the helicopters rotors. The decoy returns a strong radar signal which duplicates a relatively weaker signal emitted from the helicopter rotors, leading hostile weapons to the decoy.
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Patent Number:	4,215,347
Title:	Target Seeker Simulator
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,215,347
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Jarrell, Edward C. (Damascus, MD), Marlow, Donald R. (Highland, MD), Tetens, Howard B. (Rockville, MD), Gulick, Joseph F. (Clarksville, MD)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	4215347
Application Number:	05/960,991
Abstract:	An incoming enemy missile is simulated by pointing the radiation transmitg antenna of a drone missile, regardless of the actual movement of the drone, at the launch site of a friendly intercept missile or other friendly object without changing direction of flight.
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Patent Number:	4,205,811
Title:	Drone Landing Bag
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,205,811
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Palm, Lorenz A. (Fort Erie, CA), Webb, David B. (Fort Erie, CA)
Assignee:	Irvin Industries Canada Ltd. (Fort Erie, CA)
Publication Number:	4205811
Application Number:	05/964,414
Abstract:	An inflatable landing bag having a valve for release of the inflating fluid from the landing bag as the pressure of the inflating fluid of the landing bag rises above a given level, such valve including a sleeve comprised at least in part of a woven stretch fabric having interstitially variable inflating fluid porosity such as to control release of inflating fluid from the landing bag.
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Patent Number:	4,203,160
Title:	Submarine Communication
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,203,160
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Doherty, John J. (Fairfax, VA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	4203160
Application Number:	04/079,931
Abstract:	2. A method by which a submarine while deeply submerged in the sea may receive a message from a remote station without disclosing to others the position of the submarine, which comprises transmitting from said remote station into the atmosphere message information modulated on electromagnetic radiant energy, intercepting said radiant energy at a plurality of separated and widely dispersed relay stations on the surface of the sea, extracting the message information from the electromagnetic energy and transmitting acoustic wave energy modulated by said message information from each of said relay stations into the sea, locating said submerged submarine in message receiving range of one of said relay stations and detecting the acoustic wave energy modulated by the message information aboard said submarine.
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Patent Number:	4,200,287
Title:	Remotely Controlled Miniature Vehicle
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,200,287
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Ryan, John W. (Los Angeles, CA), Moore, James D. (Palos Verdes, CA)
Assignee:	Ideal Toy Corporation (Hollis, NY)
Publication Number:	4200287
Application Number:	05/878,474
Abstract:	An improved remotely controlled miniature vehicle, more particularly an electrically driven miniature car of the type operated on a track-way having contact strips through which power is supplied to the driving motor of the vehicle. Improved remote control is provided for controlling the miniature car for changing one lane to another. The front wheels are steerable by actuation of a steering post. The driving motor is mounted to move physically in response to additional driving torque applied through a gear train to the rear wheels. Mechanism is provided whereby the physical movement of the driving motor actuates the steering mechanism to turn the front wheels for changing from one lane to another. Provided in one form of the invention is a member having rollers that can contact a side wall of the track for positioning the front wheels and steering post to pre-determine the direction of turning in response to physical movement of the driving motor.
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Patent Number:	4,094,143
Title:	Variable Torque Hydraulic Clutch
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,094,143
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Schlegel, William R. (Wilmington, DE), Mayhew, Jr., Harry E. (Wilmington, DE)
Assignee:	All American Industries, Inc. (Thomaston, CT)
Publication Number:	4094143
Application Number:	05/750,264
Abstract:	The hydraulic energy absorbing device of U.S. Pat. Re. 28,736 is adapted to serve as a variable torque hydraulic clutch for a flywheel catapult by mobilizing the fixed array of annular vanes disposed about the rotor blades and mounting them on an output shaft. The torque transmission through the device is controlled by the degree of enclosure of the input rotor blade ring by a channel-shaped shroud, which is mounted in an annular recess in the toroidal flow-control ring disposed in an annular cavity in the casing.
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Patent Number:	4,034,372
Title:	Velocity Gate Hand-off System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,034,372
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Margerum, Donald Lee (Woodland Hills, CA)
Assignee:	Northrop Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
Publication Number:	4034372
Application Number:	05/704,645
Abstract:	A system for programming the radar return signal from an airborne target carrier to gradually increase its frequency and attenuate its amplitude timed with respect to the launching of a target from the carrier, the target having its own fixed radar return, so that the velocity gate of the doppler tracking radar of a missle fired at the carrier will be smoothly handed off from the carrier to the target when the target is launched from the carrier. The programming equipment comprises timed serrodyne modulation of a traveling wave tube phase shifter to control the frequency change, and a controlled attenuator to reduce the amplitude of the returned "reflected" signal, together with necessary timing controls, the operation of the system being initiated by a command signal to launch the target.
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Patent Number:	4,021,007
Title:	Pitch-yaw Stabilization System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,021,007
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Coxe, Frank S. (Santa Ana, CA)
Assignee:	Northrop Corporation (Los Angeles, CA)
Publication Number:	4021007
Application Number:	05/514,243
Abstract:	A laser beamrider projectile having a lens system and a four-quadrant photodiode detector, which eliminates the need for rate gyros in the projectile to provide stabilization. When the projectile is aligned with the beam, the beam image is centered on the intersection of the four quadrants of the detector, and when the projectile pitch or yaw angle deviates, more light strikes one or two of the quadrants than the others. Comparison circuitry connected to the detector outputs provides one error signal proportional to pitch angle deviation and another error signal proportional to yaw angle deviation. These signals are usable by the projectile flight control system to eliminate oscillation in pitch and yaw. Preferably, an angle rate signal is also supplied to the stabilization system in addition to or instead of the angle deviation signal. The full specification must be consulted for an understanding of the invention.
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Patent Number:	4,005,818
Title:	Pulse Signaling System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 4,005,818
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Krause, Ernst H. (Washington, DC), Cleeton, Claud E. (Washington, DC)
Assignee:	KRAUSE; ERNST H.; CLEETON; CLAUD E.
Publication Number:	4005818
Application Number:	02/593,174
Abstract:	1. A radio pulse signalling system comprising, in combination: Means for generating a first time base consisting of a finite number of regularly time-spaced pulse signals; First means for forming a pulse code group from said time base signal in accordance with a preselected pattern, said pulse code group always including an initial starting pulse; Means for transmitting a pulsed radio wave corresponding to said pulse code group; Means for receiving said pulsed radio wave at a remote point; Means, actuated by the initial starting pulse in said received wave, for generating a second time base corresponding to said first time base; and Second means for forming a pulse code group corresponding to the transmitted pulse code group from said second time base signal.
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Patent Number:	3,957,230
Title:	Remotely Controlled Electric Airplane
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,957,230
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Boucher, Roland A. (Los Angeles, CA), Boucher, Robert J. (Los Angeles, CA)
Assignee:	BOUCHER; ROLAND A.; BOUCHER; ROBERT J.
Publication Number:	3957230
Application Number:	05/556,674
Abstract:	An airplane with an electric motor and rechargable battery pack are disclosed herein. The electric motor is of the high performance variety (i.e., it has a very high power rating for its size and weight). Means are provided for producing a high velocity blast of cooling air directly onto the rotating armeture for rapidly dissipating the waste heat generated inside of the motor. Means are also provided for obtaining a large power output from the battery pack and for very rapidly recharging the battery pack. A remote control system is included for controlling the operation of the airplane from a remote location.
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Patent Number:	3,946,555
Title:	Process For Simulating Turbojet Engine Plumes
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,946,555
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Goede, Philip J. (Lorton, VA)
Assignee:	Atlantic Research Corporation (Alexandria, VA)
Publication Number:	3946555
Application Number:	05/390,996
Abstract:	A process for simulating the infrared radiation in wave length and intensity and the spatially extended characteristics of the plumes of turbojet engines comprising burning fuel-rich solid gas generator compositions, comprising an organic binder, an oxidizer, and dispersed inorganic particles, of a character such that venting of the combustion products directly into the atmosphere or venting them into the inadequate plume of a separate gas generator to provide a combined plume, produces a plume having the size and radiating characteristics of the turbojet plume being simulated.
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Patent Number:	3,943,357
Title:	Remote Controlled Vehicle Systems
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,943,357
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Culver, William Howard (Washington, DC)
Assignee:	CULVER; WILLIAM HOWARD
Publication Number:	3943357
Application Number:	05/393,468
Abstract:	Remote controlled vehicle systems for the surveillance of and/or action on objects spaced from the point of control including a control or information receiving station and means for modulating a beam of light receivable at the control or information receiving station by intelligence bearing signals generated at the vehicle. The beam of light receivable at the control station may be a laser beam or a light beam carried by an optically conductive fiber or fiber bundle. Control signals may be transmitted to the vehicle by a modulated laser beam or a fiber-carried beam or by radio frequency signals.
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Patent Number:	3,937,013
Title:	By-pass Jet Engine With Centrifugal Flow Compressor
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,937,013
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Aspinwall, Robert H. (Zionsville, IN)
Assignee:	General Motors Corporation (Detroit, MI)
Publication Number:	3937013
Application Number:	05/483,878
Abstract:	A simple by-pass type jet propulsion engine includes a centrifugal compressor and a centripetal turbine mounted back-to-back and a combustion apparatus disposed radially outwardly of the turbine. These constitute the core engine; the fan part of the engine is provided by fan blades extending outwardly from the rotor blades of the core engine compressor which discharge through outlet guide vanes into a fan duct lying radially outwardly of the combustion apparatus. The fan outlet guide vanes or the fan duct nozzle may be variable to substantially close the fan duct for starting the engine. Part of the air flows from the compressor to the combustion apparatus of the core engine through hollow turbine nozzle vanes.
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Patent Number:	3,900,198
Title:	Expendable Self-powered Target With Stabilizing Control
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,900,198
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Conner, Jack S. (Topanga, CA)
Assignee:	NORTHROP CORPORATION
Publication Number:	3900198
Application Number:	05/379,415
Abstract:	A radar-augmented target pod to be launched from a drone aircraft and act as a flying target for weapon system crew training. The launching drone is recoverable for re-use, while the target pod is extremely simple and expendable after its one flight. It is powered by a JATO rocket unit for example, and has a simple air-driven direction-holding mechanism and an automatic weight shifting design to maintain substantially constant altitude until power burnout.
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Patent Number:	3,897,151
Title:	Laser Miss Distance Indicator
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,897,151
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Lecroy, James F. (Springfield, VA)
Assignee:	LECROY; JAMES F.
Publication Number:	3897151
Application Number:	05/329,261
Abstract:	The laser miss distance indicator is an electro-optical device which utilizes a light emitting diode and an electro-optical scanning system to radiate a hemispherically shaped pattern of electromagnetic (light) energy about a target in which the device is installed. When a missile penetrates the radiation envelope, energy is reflected from the surface of the missile. The reflected energy is received by the miss distance indicator through the means of a detector. The detector converts the reflected light energy into an electrical signal which is amplified and processed to extract miss distance and vector information. The information is transmitted to a ground receiving station where a computer processes the data to produce missile miss distance and flight trajectory information.
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Patent Number:	3,891,165
Title:	Retrieval Assembly
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,891,165
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Day, Douglas B. (Dayton, OH), Stahl, Welfred A. (Dayton, OH)
Assignee:	THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
Publication Number:	3891165
Application Number:	05/423,855
Abstract:	A retrieval assembly, in combination with an airborne vehicle capable of hovering (e.g., a helicopter), for use in retrieving a downed drone airborne vehicle. The assembly includes a hook subassembly, a pole subassembly which includes a multi-purpose pole, a recovery cable subassembly, and a swivel subassembly, all of which cooperate to capture, lift, support, and carry the downed drone vehicle. The drone, thereby, can be safely suspended beneath the helicopter, and also can rotate while dangling without twisting and subsequently breaking the recovery cable from which the drone is dangling. Therefore, the drone can be reliably, safely, quickly, and easily retrieved.
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Patent Number:	3,838,835
Title:	Precessor Flying Craft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,838,835
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Kling, Alberto (8136 Percha Uber Starnberg, DT)
Assignee:	KLING A,DT
Publication Number:	3838835
Application Number:	05/184,891
Abstract:	The invention relates to an improved type propellor means and driving arrangement therefor, especially as applied to a flying craft which is directionally controllable according to the principles of gyroscopic precession as disclosed in the parent application. The propellor comprises a rotating annular loop between whose inner and outer radial walls are mounted blades. A pair of concentric loops are oppositely rotated by an engine in a manner whereby the counter-torque resulting from driving one of the loops is totally dissipated in driving the other loop whereby no torque is imparted to any static portion of the craft.
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Patent Number:	3,823,901
Title:	Aerial Launch System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,823,901
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Holmes, Karl A. (Ridgecrest, CA), Knepshield, James R. (Ridgecrest, CA), Knutsen, Dale E. (Ridgecrest, CA)
Assignee:	NAVY,US
Publication Number:	3823901
Application Number:	05/382,238
Abstract:	A launcher support structure is provided for a helicopter installation wh may be quickly and easily installed or removed. The primary structural members extend across the floor of the helicopter and out a doorway. These members are attached to the helicopter structure at the door sill using existing hardware. A compression strut between the launcher structural members and overhead helicopter structure is utilized in the helicopter cabin and tension rods are extended from the extreme outboard ends of the structure to the fore and aft helicopter tie-down rings.
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Patent Number:	3,798,795
Title:	Weapon Aim Evaluation System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,798,795
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Michelsen, Paul F. (Kensington, MD)
Assignee:	RMC RES CORP,US
Publication Number:	3798795
Application Number:	05/268,632
Abstract:	The system for evaluating the accuracy of aim of a missile firing weapon measures the line of aim of the weapon at the time of firing, measures the target flight path with an optical sensor and a radio ranging apparatus, and with a data processing unit calculates and compares a mean trajectory of a selected missile with either the actual or predicted target flight path indicating qualitatively and quantitively the error in aim.
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Patent Number:	3,794,273
Title:	Vtol Rotor Wing Drone Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,794,273
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Girard, Peter F. (La Mesa, CA)
Assignee:	TELEDYNE RYAN AERONAUTICAL,US; TELEDYNE IND INC,US
Publication Number:	3794273
Application Number:	05/291,582
Abstract:	An aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing and high speed cruis flight, utilizing a combine rotary and fixed wing. The wing has a large center body with three radial arms which are pivotal and controllable in the manner of helicopter rotor blades in the wing rotating operation, and incorporate spoilers to minimize center of pressure shift during transition between rotary and fixed modes. In fixed position the wing is stopped with one arm forward in a modified delta configuration, the lateral arms being movable for roll control in cruising flight. Propulsion is by means of a turbojet providing cruising thrust and also wing rotating thrust through tip nozzles in a beam mounted below the wing. In stopped position, the beam is streamlined in alignment with the forward arm, and for rotary wing mode the beam is rotationally displaced relative to the wing to clear the movable arm.
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Patent Number:	3,792,827
Title:	Vtol Aircraft With Cruciform Rotor Wing
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,792,827
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Girard, Peter F. (La Mesa, CA)
Assignee:	TELEDYNE RYAN AERONAUTICAL INC,US
Publication Number:	3792827
Application Number:	05/305,261
Abstract:	An aircraft having a combined rotary and fixed wing providing aerodynamic pport in vertical take-off and landing and in high speed cruising flight. The wing is cruciform in configuration, with four similar arms extending radially from a center body, the outer portions of the arms being pivotal and controllable in the manner of helicopter rotor blades in the rotating mode of the wing. In fixed wing mode the wing is locked with two arms longitudinal to the aircraft and the other two extending laterally, one or both of the lateral arm portions being used for roll control in forward flight. The wing arms may have air brakes to slow rotation and stop the wing in proper alignment. A common turbojet power source provides propulsion for wing rotation and cruising flight.
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Patent Number:	3,780,970
Title:	Parachute Apparatus
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,780,970
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Pinnell, William R. (Dayton, OH)
Assignee:	AIR FORCE,US
Publication Number:	3780970
Application Number:	05/266,788
Abstract:	A parachute apparatus which includes a plurality of identical parachutes, each of which has a canopy, with the parachutes releasably connected together by a clustering web assembly. When the parachute apparatus is deployed with a common payload, the parachutes, with the clustering web assembly releasably connected thereto, form a cluster and carry the common payload. The web assembly holds a portion of the canopy of each of the parachutes in a reefed condition. At a preselected time, or at a preselected atmospheric pressure (or altitude), during descent of the clustered parachutes, the web assembly permits the simultaneous disreefing of all of the parachute canopies. As a result, all of the canopies simultaneously open; then they spread; and, then they inflate to the fully open position, simultaneously. Therefore, none of the canopies need be designed to withstand the overload which normally occurs because of the frequent non-simultaneous opening, and subsequent non-simultaneous inflating, of the canopies in a cluster of parachutes during descent. Further, the current need for the use of additional (and redundant) parachutes in a cluster to assure payload recovery when one or more canopies of the parachutes, which are normally in the cluster, fail to open and/or to inflate to the fully open position during descent, is obviated. The common payload is, thereby, safely delivered.
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Patent Number:	3,778,007
Title:	Rod Television-guided Drone To Perform Reconnaissance And Ordnance Delivery
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,778,007
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Kearney, II, Stuart D. (Bethesda, MD), Richardson, Walter (Ventura, CA)
Assignee:	NAVY,US
Publication Number:	3778007
Application Number:	05/252,931
Abstract:	A remote observation and destruction system comprises an unmanned flight icle guided by a remote operator viewing a television display to perform reconnaissance and the delivery of naval ordnance. A television camera is mounted on the unmanned flight vehicle and the television picture is transmitted to a television monitor in a remote control station. The remote operator controls the flight vehicle on the basis of the information contained in the television picture. A hand held laser aimed at the target by a forward observer can be used to point out concealed targets.
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Patent Number:	3,746,280
Title:	Vehicle Guidance System Utilizing Conical Scan Control Beam
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,746,280
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Coxe, Frank S. (Santa Ana, CA), Eguchi, Ronald G. (Torrance, CA)
Assignee:	NORTHROP CORP,US
Publication Number:	3746280
Application Number:	05/221,722
Abstract:	A reference signal generated in a receiver on a vehicle to be controlled is phase locked with a reference signal generated in a transmitter at a control station, prior to separation of the vehicle from the station. A conically scanned electromagnetic guidance beam containing a boresight axis is radiated out from the station and is used to guide the vehicle along this boresight axis, the direction of the boresight axis from the station being positionable. This end result is achieved by means of the receiver on the vehicle which receives the electromagnetic signal generated by the transmitter and develops elevation and azimuth control signals whenever the vehicle deviates from a position centered along the boresight axis; such deviation being indicated by a phase difference between the conical scanning modulation pattern of the received signal and the receiver reference signal. These control signals may be used to maintain the vehicle centered along the boresight axis.
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Patent Number:	3,739,378
Title:	Radio Tracking System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,739,378
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Botzum, Richard A. (Chania, CA), Peck, Donald W. (Newbury Park, CA)
Assignee:	NORTHROP CORP,US
Publication Number:	3739378
Application Number:	05/152,765
Abstract:	A tracking system suitable for tracking a target from a command station includes a transponder on the target which transmits signals in response to signals received from a command control transmitter at the command station. The signals transmitted by the transponder are received by a receiver at the command station and a target range signal is developed in accordance with the time interval between the signal transmitted by the command control transmitter and that received by the receiver. The azimuth of the target is determined by means of a servo-control system which automatically locks the receiver antenna onto the target. Signals in accordance with target range and azimuth are processed in a position computer, the output of which is fed to an X-Y plotter which provides a continuous positional plot of the target.
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Patent Number:	3,737,119
Title:	Device For Sonic Boom Reduction And Improving Aircraft Performance
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,737,119
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Cheng, Sin-I (Princeton, NJ)
Assignee:	RES CORP,US
Publication Number:	3737119
Application Number:	05/046,293
Abstract:	Method and means for improving the performance of, and particularly for reducing the sonic boom produced by a supersonic aircraft, comprising the production of a jet stream of approximately equal pressure but higher Mach number than the ambient supersonic flow, which steam is directed below the wing leading edge to intercept and interact with the wing shock wave. The interaction weakens the wing shock and decreases its propagation velocity, so that the wing shock, which normally reinforces the leading nose shock at the ground, will be shifted aftward spatially and in time in the boom signature, and will be delayed in its arrival with respect to the leading nose shock at any fixed position on the ground. By thus altering the signature, both the peak overpressure and the positive impulse of the boom may be substantially reduced without affecting the lift in support of the aircraft. Indeed, proper use of the stream will increase the lift on the aircraft, permitting some decrease in the angle of attack in maintaining level flight, which further weakens the wing shock to add to the altering of the boom signature. Also, the increase in lift, occurring largely on the aft part of the wing, results in reduction in drag, aftward shift of the center of pressure, and increase in the aerodynamic efficiency factor or lift-to-drag ratio, so that the jet stream can be used to improve various aspects of aircraft performance. Supersonic aircraft equipped with the anti-boom means, and a particular feasible means for producing the antiboom jet using existing technology are described, along with particular alternatives for the manner of incorporating the means on existing supersonic transports.
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Patent Number:	3,712,226
Title:	Missile Launching Apparatus
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,712,226
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Moskowitz, Arthur (Santa Ana, CA), MacInnes, William F. (New Port Beach, CA), Sumrall, Calhoun W. (Costa Mesa, CA)
Assignee:	PHILCO FORD CORP,US
Publication Number:	3712226
Application Number:	05/079,652
Abstract:	A rocket powered missile and cooperating launching tube from which the missile can be catapulted at high initial velocity. The missile includes a hollow fuselage section which is telescopingly fitted over a launching tube open at its forward end and closed at its rearward end. Stabilizing fins and rocket motors are provided on the fuselage section, and a gas generator is provided toward the forward end of the section to supply sufficient gas pressure within the launching tube to launch the missile. Prior to launching, the missile is held on the launching tube by shear pins. Ignition of the gas generator pressurizes the launching tube so that the resultant force on the shear pins exceeds their shear strength, whereupon the missile is launched, and the rocket motors are ignited to propel the missile in its flight.
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Patent Number:	3,703,998
Title:	Drone Aircraft With Telescopic Fuselage
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,703,998
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Girard, Peter F. (La Mesa, CA)
Assignee:	TELEDYNE RYAN AERONAUTICAL CO.
Publication Number:	3703998
Application Number:	05/101,558
Abstract:	A drone type aircraft having a telescopic fuselage and folding aerodynamic surfaces to facilitate installation in a limited capacity bomb bay or storage compartment of a launch aircraft. Prior to launch, the drone is lowered from the aircraft on a supporting frame, the aerodynamic surfaces are extended, and the nose section of the fuselage is extended. The added fuselage capacity is used as fuel tankage, which is filled from the launch aircraft to increase the operating range of the drone.
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Patent Number:	3,678,692
Title:	Pulsation Power Unit
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,678,692
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Heise, Georg (Ailingen, DT)
Assignee:	DORNIER AG.
Publication Number:	3678692
Application Number:	05/072,046
Abstract:	This invention relates to an improvement in a pulsation power unit comprising an inlet, valve means, injection means, a combustion chamber and a combustion cowl, the improvement comprising additional cowl means of larger diameter at the end of the combustion cowl, said additional cowl means having a variable gas outlet cross-section.
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Patent Number:	3,623,726
Title:	Aerial Tow Dart Deployable From A Target Drove With A Ballistically Actuable Deployment Station
Family:	Patent family and legal status for 3,623,726
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Pittinger, Abraham L. (Scottsdale, AZ), Taylor, Rex V. (Tempe, AZ), Thomas, Raymond W. (Phoenix, AZ)
Assignee:	TALLEY INDUSTRIES INC.
Publication Number:	3623726
Application Number:	04/782,301
Abstract:	An aerial tow dart is provided which is towable by a target drone and is deployable from and jettisonable by the drone. The tow dart emits a homing signal for attracting a missile to the dart rather than to the drone, and is deployed such that the drone and tow dart are separated by a distance sufficiently small that both appear as a single target to the gunnery operator firing the missile. In one embodiment, the tow-cable is carried within the tow dart and fed through a pair of snubbing posts within the tow dart for regulating payout of the tow-cable. A ballistically actuable deployment station for each tow dart is mounted on the target drone and is responsive to control signals for initiating operation of the source of homing signals in the tow dart, releasing and deploying the tow dart, and releasing the tow-cable to jettison the tow dart.
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Patent Number:	Design 277,976
Title:	Autonomous Drone Missile
Family:	Patent family is not available
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Holloway, Richard B. (Wichita, KS), Millett, Jr., Merlin L. (Sedgwick, KS)
Assignee:	The Boeing Company (Seattle, WA)
Publication Number:	D277976
Application Number:	06/343,566
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Patent Number:	re35,172
Title:	Pulsed Piston-compressor Jet Engine
Family:	Patent family and legal status for re35,172
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Clark, Barre A. M. (Mammoth Lakes, CA)
Assignee:	CLARK; BARRE A. M.
Publication Number:	RE35172
Application Number:	08/375,381
Abstract:	An air-breathing pulsed jet engine for aircraft propulsion which employs a piston compressor rather than much more expensive axial or centrifugal compressors and turbines employed by conventional turbojet engines. The engine is similar to the common two-cycle gasoline engine, except its cylinder head comprises a jet nozzle with an internal pressure-activated nozzle-blocking valve. A spring keeps this valve closed during the engines compression stroke when the piston, connected to a crankshaft and flywheels by a connecting rod, is forced by the moment-of-inertia of the flywheels toward the cylinder head. When ignition and combustion of the compressed air and fuel occurs slightly before the piston reaches the top of its stroke, the much greater pressures within the engines combustion chamber force the valve to pivot open. This allows a jet of combustion gases to be released through the jet nozzle into the atmosphere. The reactive forces of the gas jet work against the piston to produce linear thrust (due to the moment-of-inertia of the flywheels) and to store up energy in the flywheels to motivate the piston through the next compression stroke. The jet pulse continues until the pressure inside the combustion chamber drops to a predetermined level, when the spring is able to close the valve. Since the pressure inside the combustion chamber of a gasoline engine are on the order of those inside many rocket motors, the thrusts imparted to the engine during each jet pulse is substantial.
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Patent Number:	h1,742
Title:	Glint Responsive Parametric Amplified Phase Conjugate Signal Laser Radar
Family:	Patent family and legal status for h1,742
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Richmond, Richard D. (Springfield, OH)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	H1742
Application Number:	09/034775
Abstract:	A laser radar system in which a laser beam is used to illuminate a target region of interest. The density of the laser radiation at the target plane is low enough that the reflected energy from diffusing portions of the target is not detectable by the laser radar receiver. Target reflections from retroreflective portions of the target such as glint signal reflections are also not initially detectable by the radar however these reflections are of such greater signal strength that the radar system is arranged to respond to the glint signals after they are enhanced by optical processing which includes re-illumination of the target glint area by a phase conjugated and parametrically amplified enhancement of the original reflected glint signal. Plural uses and alternate arrangements of the invention are included.
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Patent Number:	h1,469
Title:	Remotely Piloted Vehicle Control And Interface System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for h1,469
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Simonoff, Adam J. (Springfield, VA)
Assignee:	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC)
Publication Number:	H1469
Application Number:	07/940,159
Abstract:	A remotely piloted vehicle control and interface system is provided. A penal computer equipped with an RS232 serial communication port passes an ASCII character(s) as a serial data stream. A shift register device converts the serial data stream to a parallel data character and continuously generates a status signal indicating one of the presence or absence of the parallel data character. A central processing unit, responsive to the status signal, compares the parallel data character with a set of valid control characters to generate a control signal when a match occurs therebetween. A transmitter, responsive to the control signal, transmits a radio frequency control signal to the remotely piloted vehicle.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2007/0151493
Title:	Integration Of A Large Calibre Gun On A Ship
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2007/0151493
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Graf, Alexander (Gifhorn, DE) , Von Seidlitz, Henning (Neuss, DE) , Kruse, Heinz-Josef (Hermannsburg, DE) , Folgmann, Uwe (Neumunster, DE) , Liebel, Peter (Kassel, DE)
Publication Number:	20070151493
Application Number:	10/535800
Abstract:	A method for integrating a large-calibre gun on a ship, including connecting a turret having an armament of a lad gun with a calibre >127 mm in a modular configuration to an adaptor plate and a shock-absorbing mounting, and installing the turret on the ship so that an existing steel structure of the ship withstands increased recoil forces from the armament.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2007/0136763
Title:	Tnt Data Master & Beyond Or All Digital Studio Hand Or The Ultimate Duplication Conversion Or Mobile Intelligence Or Transformania Pc (proper Connectivity) Or My Mobilosophy Or Hand To Handheld Generation Or Mobile Mogul Or The All Disposable Pc Or The Conversion Specialist Or The All Digital Burn Unit Or Mobile To Mobiletainment Or Blend Vision
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2007/0136763
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Stroughter, La Tretha Ellonise (Antioch, CA) , Smith, Jerome William (Oakland, CA)
Publication Number:	20070136763
Application Number:	11/502337
Abstract:	The TNT Datamaster and Beyond is a machine that incorporates all copying, duplication and transference recording conversion needs into one 60+ or smaller unit. This product feature serves as a transaction computer, initial Internet base televisual blend classification to form a more enhanced digital transference device/personal recording studio. Using convenient performance/function keys, users can automatically copy their old music and videos onto unlimited hard drive space, CDs or DVDs. It also offers a turntable part to copy vinyl and computer connections for peripherals. It allows you to have your standard mixing CPU with CD-ROM-DVD ROM, Audiocassette, VCR, Turntable and 8-Track etc. You can transfer all data. Cassette Tapes easily break and you can lose songs that are hard to find that you may have had only on tape and this is good because cassette tapes are becoming obsolete.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2007/0087695
Title:	Mobile Directional Antenna
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2007/0087695
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Cohen, Alexander J. (Mill Valley, CA) , Jung, Edward K.Y. (Bellevue, WA) , Levien, Royce A. (Lexington, MA) , Lord, Robert W. (Seattle, WA) , Rinaldo, John D. JR. (Bellevue, WA) , Tegreene, Clarence T. (Bellevue, WA)
Assignee:	Searete Llc, A Limited Liability Corporation Of The State Of Delaware
Publication Number:	20070087695
Application Number:	11/396367
Abstract:	In one aspect, adjusting a directional antenna from a first state to a second state to improve a network operation of the directional antenna relative to a mobile node to at least partially compensate for motion of the mobile node. In another aspect, identifying a network operational characteristic; determining a desired directional antenna configuration to direct a directional antenna at least partially with respect to a first mobile node at least partially according to the network operational characteristic; and establishing a directional antenna directionality at least partially according to a desired directional antenna direction.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2007/0034749
Title:	Deployable Airfoil Assembly For Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2007/0034749
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Wagner, Fred A. III (Charlotte, NC)
Publication Number:	20070034749
Application Number:	11/202494
Abstract:	A deployable airfoil assembly is disclosed that provides for selectively augmenting lift surface area of an aircraft. In one embodiment, a fixed wing is mounted to the aircraft. An auxiliary wing is moveably coupled to the fixed wing and actuatable between a retracted position and an extended position. In the retracted position, the auxiliary wing is housed within the fixed wing and, in the extended position, the auxiliary wing is positioned above the fixed wing such that a venturi passageway is defined between the auxiliary wing and the fixed wing. A sail is deployable along a length of the auxiliary wing from a boom associated with the aircraft.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2007/0023570
Title:	System And Method For Remote Control Of Interdiction Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2007/0023570
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Bernard, Charles W. (West Columbia, TX)
Publication Number:	20070023570
Application Number:	11/192171
Abstract:	An aircraft attack interdiction system using an unmanned interdiction aircraft piloted using a remote control system. In-flight refueling system, weapons launcher systems and intelligence gathering equipment are mounted on the interdiction aircraft. A remote flight control operator to remotely fly the interdiction aircraft can be based on a remote flight control commander aircraft that can be flown at safe distances from targets that are attacked by the interdiction aircraft.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2006/0271251
Title:	Unmanned Vehicle Control
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2006/0271251
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Hopkins, Jeffrey Alan (Fontana, CA)
Publication Number:	20060271251
Application Number:	11/356626
Abstract:	A control system for an unmanned vehicle includes a plurality of servos, a transceiver that receives a plurality of first control signals, and a controller connected to the transceiver and the plurality of servos. The controller receives the first control signals from the transceiver and processes the first control signals to provide a plurality of second control signals to the servos to thereby control the servos and the unmanned vehicle.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2006/0225599
Title:	Piece Of Ammunition Or Ammunition Component Comprising A Structural Energetic Material
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2006/0225599
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Brunet, Luc (Bourges, FR) , Regis, Muriel (Bourges, FR)
Assignee:	Giat Industries Versailles Fr
Publication Number:	20060225599
Application Number:	11/274347
Abstract:	The invention relates to a piece of ammunition or ammunition component comprising a pyrotechnic load associated with a structure, such as a casing. This ammunition is characterized in that part at least of its structure is made of an energetic material comprising at least one energetic component mixed with at least a first structural reinforcement material.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2006/0221328
Title:	Automatic Homing Systems And Other Sensor Systems
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2006/0221328
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Rouly, Ovi Chris (McLean, VA)
Publication Number:	20060221328
Application Number:	11/135443
Abstract:	Automatic homing systems are disclosed, operable between pairs of objects. One or both of the objects in the pair may be moving and/or unmanned. Examples of a pair of objects between which the inventive automatic homing systems may be operated are ground vehicles in leader-follower configuration, as well as aircraft, spacecraft, watercraft. The automatic homing systems are based on a relatively simple, elegant concept of rightness/leftness and a line-of-sight link between a respective leader vehicle and follower vehicle. Complex EO/IR cameras, LIDAR, RADAR, and/or SONAR-based sensor systems can be avoided. Convoys of vehicles in leader-follower configuration advantageously may be operated without needing human operators in the follower vehicles.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2006/0219094
Title:	Real Time Dynamically Controled Elevation And Azimuth Gun Pod Mounted On A Fixed Wing Aerial Combat Vehicle
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2006/0219094
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Padan, Nir (Moshav Sade Yitzhak, IL)
Publication Number:	20060219094
Application Number:	10/534169
Abstract:	A gun pod, mounted on a fixed-wing aerial vehicle, stores, delivers, controls and supports a controllable movement gun unit. The gun pod includes a flexible gun mount, gun movement actuators, gun movement controllers, a standalone range finder, a standalone processor, and standalone sensors for capturing dynamically environmental data and for controlling the movement of the gun unit. The gun is provided with allowable ranges of movement in the elevation and the azimuth where the ranges are determined in accordance with the flight envelope of the aerial vehicle, the characteristics of the gun unit and the mounting location of the gun pod. The movement of the gun is either controlled manually or automatically.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2006/0206246
Title:	Second National / International Management And Security System For Responsible Global Resourcing Through Technical Management To Brige Cultural And Economic Desparity
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2006/0206246
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Walker, Richard Clark (Waldorf, MD)
Publication Number:	20060206246
Application Number:	11/259201
Abstract:	This invention is a societal management and security system to aid the United States and world populous in discovering a secure and civil way to move from a finite economy of fossil fuels that is causing todays future shock, cultural encroachment and tension; to a technically and economically expansive co-existence available through alternative fueling with new and diversified technologies, which can reduce todays cultural tensions worldwide. Societies can fairly voice concerns and accurately monitor, evaluate, manage and control the impact of equipment, technology and technology policy on the earths environment, its societies, cultures and infrastructures. The invention can help humanity frame the issues locally, regionally, nationally and globally to answer the relevant questions and maintain a healthy, stable, civil and respectful co-existence, together. A free existence with positive security and public safety that is complete, cohesive and fair but, still separate nationally. The development of the invention will grow global economies and make them more robust compatible and stable, by accurately identifying and meeting real needs and presenting them as new commercial opportunities designed to cause less disruption and limit waste. The inventions electronic messaging, transactions, sensing and controls can improve and make every facet of life safer and more enjoyable, but none more than, providing critical awareness of how to make that safe, respectful and inclusive life together. It has been said; that "humans are hardwired for self preservation and to be social at the same time". Now is the time for humanity to use technology in a socially sound manner. And, its time for the greatest human development and best chance to survive. Its time to development of our "Social Self" through Critically Awareness.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2006/0176169
Title:	System For Sensing Environmental Conditions
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2006/0176169
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Doolin, David M. (El Cerrito, CA) , Glaser, Steve (Berkeley, CA) , Sitar, Nicholas (Orinda, CA) , Radke, John (Berkeley, CA)
Assignee:	The Regents Of The University Of California Oakland Ca
Publication Number:	20060176169
Application Number:	11/303458
Abstract:	A system and method for facilitating measurement of environmental conditions such as might be used in emergencies or other situational awareness applications. The method includes dispersing several networked nodes in a region, the nodes being coupled to one or more sensors, and then employing the one or more sensors to sense one or more environmental conditions and providing sensed data in response thereto. In a more specific embodiment, the region exhibits a fire, and the method further includes utilizing the sensed data to predict fire conditions, such as fire movement and temperature. A controller may be employed to selectively adjust power to one or more sensors based on predetermined priorities associated with sensed data output from the one or more sensors.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2006/0167601
Title:	Method And Apparatus For Determining Optimized Paths Of A Vehicle
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2006/0167601
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Henning, Ulrich (Feldkirchen, DE) , Lohmiller, Winfried (Muenchen, DE) , Walsdorf, Anton (Vaterstetten, DE)
Assignee:	Eads Deutschland Gmbh Ottobrunn De D-85521
Publication Number:	20060167601
Application Number:	11/305031
Abstract:	A computer implementable process for determining optimized paths for a vehicle includes the following steps: (a) evaluation of all nodes or grid points of a defined search space based on costs arising at these nodes for desired paths, starting from both a first reference node and a second reference node, and determining cost-effective desired paths starting from each respective reference node; (b) formation of cost-effective desired paths extending between the first and the second reference node including at least a combination of desired-path sections which extend from the first and second reference nodes respectively, to an intersecting point of the respective cost-effective desired paths; and (c) selection of a cost-optimized desired path extending between the first and second nodes comprising the potential combinations of desired-path sections which start from the first and second reference nodes respectively, on the basis of a defined criterion.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2006/0150612
Title:	Thrust Vector Control
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2006/0150612
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Anderson, Morris G. (Mesa, AZ) , Johnston, Mark (Scottsdale, AZ) , Knauer, Chad E. (Chandler, AZ)
Assignee:	Honeywell International Inc. Morristown Nj
Publication Number:	20060150612
Application Number:	11/034016
Abstract:	A thrust vector control system for a flight vehicle comprises a fixed nozzle defining a first thrust vector direction and at least one exhaust deflector moveable to a location downstream of said fixed nozzle to provide a second thrust vector direction. Movement of the at least one exhaust deflector may allow for simultaneous control of both thrust vector direction and nozzle throat area. Translational motion of each exhaust deflector may be independently controlled. A flight vehicle incorporating a thrust vector control apparatus, and a method for thrust vector control are also disclosed.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2006/0144994
Title:	Homeostatic Flying Hovercraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2006/0144994
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Inventor(s):	Spirov, Peter (Minneapolis, MN) , Pedersen, Brad (Minneapolis, MN)
Publication Number:	20060144994
Application Number:	10/526153
Abstract:	A homeostatic flying hovercraft preferably utilizes at least two pairs of counter-rotating ducted fans to generate lift like a hovercraft and utilizes a homeostatic hover control system to create a flying craft that is easily controlled. The homeostatic hover control system provides true homeostasis of the craft with a true fly-by-wire flight control and control-by-wire system control.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0281999
Title:	Structural And Other Composite Materials And Methods For Making Same
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0281999
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Hofmann, Ray F. (Capistrano Beach, CA) , Ackert, Bruce (Henderson, NV) , Collins, Craig K. (San Diego, CA) , Meirowitz, Randy E. (San Diego, CA) , Dylan, Tyler M. (San Diego, CA)
Assignee:	Petritech, Inc.
Publication Number:	20050281999
Application Number:	11/061301
Abstract:	In accordance with the present invention, structural and other composite materials have been developed which have superior performance properties, including high compressive strength, high tensile strength, high shear strength, and high strength-to-weight ratio, and methods for preparing same. Invention materials have the added benefits of ease of manufacture, and are inexpensive to manufacture. The superior performance properties of invention materials render such materials suitable for a wide variety of end uses. For example, a variety of substances can be applied to invention materials without melting, dissolving or degrading the basic structure thereof. This facilitates bonding invention materials to virtually any surface or substrate. Moreover, the bond between invention materials and a variety of substrates is exceptionally strong, rendering the resulting bonded article suitable for use in a variety of demanding applications. Invention materials can be manufactured in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, densities, in multiple layers, and the like; and the performance properties thereof can be evaluated in a variety of ways.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0211827
Title:	High Speed Missile Wing And Associated Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0211827
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Inventor(s):	Barocela, Edward (Ballwin, MO)
Assignee:	The Boeing Company
Publication Number:	20050211827
Application Number:	10/811735
Abstract:	A high speed missile and an associated system and method are provided. The missile includes a fuselage member, and an engine carried by the fuselage member and capable of thrusting the missile to transonic speed during flight. A wing actuator is also carried by the fuselage member, and a wing member is pivotally movable by the wing actuator. Advantageously, the wing member may pivot from a fore-aft position aligned along the fuselage member to various sweep angles, and the wing actuator is capable of pivoting the wing member to a predetermined sweep angle.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0200480
Title:	System And Method For Monitoring The Occurrence Of Situational And Environmental Events Using Distributed Sensors
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0200480
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Inventor(s):	Caras, Jay David (King County, WA) , Nault, Thomas James (King County, WA)
Assignee:	CARAS JAY D.; NAULT THOMAS J.
Publication Number:	20050200480
Application Number:	11/008345
Abstract:	A system and method relating to the monitoring of environmental and/or situational events by the use of distributed sensors and sensor control modules. The sensor control modules contain means for self-location and wireless communication. When the sensor control module, using its distributed sensors, determines an event has occurred that matches either a predetermined or dynamically set limit, a wireless notification is made to a central collector. The central collector analyzes the data received from one or more sensor control modules and then, if appropriate, notifies a remote facility.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0195096
Title:	Rapid Mobility Analysis And Vehicular Route Planning From Overhead Imagery
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0195096
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Inventor(s):	Ward, Derek K. (Arlington, TX) , Walloch, Margaret K. (Arlington, TX)
Assignee:	WARD DEREK K.; WALLOCH MARGARET K.
Publication Number:	20050195096
Application Number:	10/794361
Abstract:	The invention comprises, in its various embodiments and aspects, a method and apparatus for generating a dynamic mobility map. The method includes classifying a plurality of objects represented in a data set comprised of overhead imagery data; and classifying the objects through application of dynamic data pertaining to those objects. The apparatus includes a program storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computing device, perform such a method and a computing apparatus programmed to perform such a method. The method, in alternative embodiments, may be employed in generating dynamic mobility maps and in association with a ground vehicle to operate the vehicle or simulate the operation of the vehicle.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0187677
Title:	Pfn/trac Systemtm Faa Upgrades For Accountable Remote And Robotics Control To Stop The Unauthorized Use Of Aircraft And To Improve Equipment Management And Public Safety In Transportation
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0187677
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Inventor(s):	Walker, Richard C. (Potomac, MD)
Assignee:	Kline & Walker, Llc Potomac Md
Publication Number:	20050187677
Application Number:	11/086494
Abstract:	This invention, a Protected Primary Focal Node PFN is a Trusted Remote Activity Controller TRAC and mobile communication router platform that provides accountable remote and robotics control to transportation vehicles by interfacing with the vehicles E/E systems. It connects each vehicle either on the earths surface or near the earths surface with application specific intranets for air, sea and land travel, via either host commercial servers or agency providers through wireless communication gateways and then further interfaces these vehicles in a larger machine messaging matrix via wireless and IP protocols to further coordinate movement assess and manage equipment use and impact on the world resources, societies infrastructure and the environment. This filing focuses directly on PFN/TRAC System use to augment and upgrade public safety and security in the Airline Industry and restrict any unauthorized use of an aircraft. Additionally, this application and related filings teaches the PFN/TRAC System.TM. use for all vehicle platforms to increase safety and security in a free society like the United State of America. The other related filings instruct in the technologys use for robust and accountable remote control for personal applications, stationary equipment and standalone functions, and coordinates them and interfaces them within the communication matrix. The TRAC controller also performs translation and repeating functions across a wide variety of communication protocols to complete a more mobile flexible matrix or web. This connected communication matrix of computers and humans provides an enhanced Human Machine Interfacing HMI scenario both locally and systemically in real-time for improve equipment management and world stability.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0166785
Title:	High-speed Magnetic Train System With Two-tier Tracks
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0166785
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Inventor(s):	Schramek, Dieter-Wolfgang (Kamen, DE) , Schwager, Hartmuth (Unna, DE) , Figger, Axel (Unna, DE) , Brandherm, Ulrich (Beckum, DE)
Assignee:	SCHRAMEK DIETER-WOLFGANG; SCHWAGER HARTMUTH; FIGGER AXEL; BRANDHERM ULRICH
Publication Number:	20050166785
Application Number:	10/505891
Abstract:	A high-speed magnetic train system with two-tier tracks, comprising a guide system, mounted on struts, whereby above the guide system an upper track and below it a lower track are disposed on which vehicles are displaced by means of magnetic train technology. Every vehicle comprises at least two drive and guide units, disposed opposite each other above and below the vehicle and associated pair-wise. These drive and guide units are used to optionally place the vehicle on the upper track or suspend it from the lower track and displace it on the respective track, thereby allowing an orbital operational mode of the vehicles. The vehicles travel on the upper track exclusively in the one direction of travel and on the lower track exclusively in the other direction of travel.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0151001
Title:	Compound Helicopter
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0151001
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Inventor(s):	Loper, Arthur W. (Fairfield, CT)
Assignee:	LOPER ARTHUR W.
Publication Number:	20050151001
Application Number:	10/871028
Abstract:	The compound helicopter is a hybrid combination of a helicopter and a fixed wing aircraft. A conventional helicopter is modified with a nose-mounted tractor propeller to provide thrust for forward flight. Wings are added to provide lift during forward flight. With the propeller providing thrust and the wings lift during forward flight, the helicopter rotor blades are unloaded during cruising flight to allow increased forward speed by avoiding limitations of conventional helicopters, including retreating rotor blade stall and maximum rotor blade tip speeds. A single powerplant drives both the main rotor and the nose-mounted propeller. The compound helicopter employs high aspect ratio wings with large flaps that may be extended to reduce vertical drag during vertical flight and hovering operations.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0139363
Title:	Fire Suppression Delivery System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0139363
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Inventor(s):	Thomas, Michael Steven (Bellerose, NY)
Assignee:	THOMAS MICHAEL S.
Publication Number:	20050139363
Application Number:	10/902598
Abstract:	This is a fire suppression delivery system for the delivery of compressed powdered fire suppressant materials to extinguish fires in, but not limited to high rise, commercial, industrial buildings; tunnel structures; offshore structures; oil and gas platforms; marine vessels; and environmental areas. The system and methods employ basic platforms, to the use of advanced methods currently not employed for this purpose, including electronic programming, heat seeking, propulsion, microprocessor discharge; the use of carriers, launching devices; modification of fire fighting aircraft, ground vehicles, and unmanned aircraft or drones.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0132104
Title:	Command Processing Systems And Methods
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0132104
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Inventor(s):	Brown, David W. (Bingen, WA)
Assignee:	BROWN DAVID W.
Publication Number:	20050132104
Application Number:	10/991905
Abstract:	A command processing system for transferring commands from at least one command source to at least one command target of at least one command target type. The command processing system comprises at least one service client associated with each command source; a command processor in communication with the at least one service client; and a command thread associated with each command target type. The command thread is in communication with the command processor. The command thread is in communication with the at least one command target. The command thread transfers commands from the command processor to the command target.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0127242
Title:	Payload Dispensing System Particularly Suited For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0127242
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Rivers, Eugene P. JR. (King George, VA)
Assignee:	RIVERS EUGENE P.JR.
Publication Number:	20050127242
Application Number:	10/729578
Abstract:	A payload dispensing system and a method of operation thereof are disclosed that comprises an on-board computer, a magazine, and a controller all of which operatively cooperate so that cartridge actuating devices may be selectively activated so that the contents of the payload being carried by an unmanned aerial vehicle can be accurately delivered to a target of interest.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0124234
Title:	Remote Marine Craft System And Methods Of Using Same
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0124234
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Inventor(s):	Sells, Robin (Redmond, WA) , Nand, Raj (Seattle, WA)
Assignee:	SELLS ROBIN; NAND RAJ
Publication Number:	20050124234
Application Number:	10/994657
Abstract:	A remote user-operated, user-transporting marine craft system is disclosed that includes a marine craft having a hull and a propulsion device and including a wireless receiving device adapted and configured to receive a signal component that operates and controls the propulsion device, and a remote control device that is operatively and wirelessly associated with the wireless receiving device for transmitting a signal component, wherein the user controls movement of and is transported by the marine craft using the remote control device to generate and transmit the signal component to the receiving device to operate and control the propulsion device. Also disclosed are methods of water-skiing solo; water-skiing kits; a remote, user-operated marine craft drone system that carries a goal-specific device intended to carry out a task; remote control automatic retrieval device; remote control retrieval system and methods; remote-control, user-transporting combination; and the like.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0051667
Title:	Micro-rotorcraft Surveillance System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0051667
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Arlton, Paul E. (West Lafayette, IN) , Arlton, David J. (West Lafayette, IN)
Assignee:	ARLTON PAUL E.; ARLTON DAVID J.
Publication Number:	20050051667
Application Number:	10/499530
Abstract:	A flying micro-rotorcraft unit (18, 24, 310, 330, 370) is provided for remote tactical and operational missions. The unit (18, 24, 310, 330, 370) includes an elongated body (52) having an upper and a lower end. The body (52) defines a vertical axis (60). The unit (18, 24, 310, 330, 370) further includes a navigation module (54) including means for determining a global position of the elongated body (52) during flight of the unit (18, 24, 310, 330, 370). Rotor means of the unit (18, 24, 310, 330, 370) is coupled to the upper end of the elongated body (52) for generating a thrust force that acts in a direction parallel to the vertical axis (60) to lift the elongated body (52) into the air. The rotor means is located between the elongated body (52) and the navigation module (54).
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0011348
Title:	Observation And/or Firing System
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0011348
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Bertrand, Ludovic (Guyancourt, FR) , Orgelet, Serge (Levis Saint Nom, FR) , Richeux, Elisabeth (Paris, FR)
Assignee:	BERTRAND LUDOVIC; ORGELET SERGE; RICHEUX ELISABETH
Publication Number:	20050011348
Application Number:	10/496653
Abstract:	The invention relates to an observation and/or firing system intended for an observer housed in a vehicle 1, wherein the vehicle 1 is equipped with elevation means 3 for the observation means 4, said means 4 being supported by a supporting structure, said elevation means 3 being equipped with an interface 19 to provide a power supply and communications with the observation means 4. The observation means 4 are constituted by a cupola adapted to the supporting structure and able to be removed from it. The cupola 4 is a component of the usable supporting structure which can be a vehicle.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2005/0007450
Title:	Vehicle Mounted System And Method For Capturing And Processing Physical Data
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2005/0007450
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Inventor(s):	Hill, Duane (Logan, UT) , Walker, Ray (Huntsville, UT) , Breene, Dan (Lake Oswego, OR) , Sanders-Reed, Jack (Albuquerque, NM) , Allen, Bob Van (Albuquerque, NM)
Assignee:	HILL DUANE; WALKER RAY; BREENE DAN; SANDERS-REED JACK; ALLEN BOB VAN
Publication Number:	20050007450
Application Number:	10/735528
Abstract:	A system and method for collecting and processing physical data obtained by various detection devices mounted to a vehicle, such as an aerial craft. Specifically, the present illustrated embodiment(s) involve the use of an aerial craft, such as a helicopter, to capture continuous visual, spatial, and related physical data, and a method for selecting certain representative pieces of the captured unprocessed data to create a discrete stream of processed data. The discrete data stream may then be analyzed and any defects and/or anomalies may be identified within the physical data.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0219491
Title:	Combat Simulation System And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0219491
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Inventor(s):	Shlomo, Lev (St. Holon, IL)
Publication Number:	20040219491
Application Number:	10/476332
Abstract:	The present invention relates to combat simulations and, in particular, the invention concerns a combat simulation system and method to be used with models of weapon platforms controlled and navigated by a remote control to simulate a pre firing signal and a firing signal created by releasing electromagnetic radiation towards a target, thereafter registering the "hits" and transmitting the designated signal to a second location. The present invention provides for an effective combat simulation system to be used on weapon platform models, which simulates firing, target "hits" and registering the firing and the hits and which simulates target illumination and facilitates and illuminated target to "fire" upon the illuminator, either with simulated fire or real fire with real weapon systems and which mimics a variety of weapon systems by emitting the same type of illumination with the same characteristics that the weapon system actually emits and that the system will be suitably mounted on a remote controlled platform whether air-born, sea-born or land. Thus, the target can detect and employ the target defense systems including employing counter measures, performing evasive maneuvers, creating smoke screens and real fire resulting in the incapacitation and destruction of the illuminating platform.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0143602
Title:	Apparatus, System And Method For Automated And Adaptive Digital Image/video Surveillance For Events And Configurations Using A Rich Multimedia Relational Database
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0143602
INPADOC Status:	See issued patents
Inventor(s):	Ruiz, Antonio (Poughquaq, NY) , Meyers, John Vance (Edgewater, MD)
Assignee:	RUIZ ANTONIO; MEYERS JOHN VANCE
Publication Number:	20040143602
Application Number:	10/686578
Abstract:	An automated and adaptive digital image/video and/or sensor surveillance system is provided in a massively and pervasively deployed sensor/image surveillance environment using virtual configuration perimeters for all the subsystems and processes which allow triggered events to be automatically captured by virtual event perimeters in environments where unattended operation and automatic support needs to be provided for real-time event analysis, automatic event tracking, or for storage and retrieval of sensory or visual event information within the scope of the large scale spatio-temporal domain of a target surveillance environment. All operations are performed in the framework of the captured data, information, and knowledge derived through fusion operations and captured in a relational surveillance database subsystem. The information collected and derived knowledge may be used to dynamically create new virtual event perimeters and new virtual configuration perimeters to enable the system to learn and adapt to events as they take place.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0134337
Title:	System, Methods And Apparatus For Mobile Software Agents Applied To Mobile Robotic Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0134337
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Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Assignee:	SOLOMON NEAL
Publication Number:	20040134337
Application Number:	10/422008
Abstract:	Mobile software agents (MSAs) are software program code that moves from machine to machine in order to perform specific functions. MSAs are used in the swarm weapon system by using methods of transfer via wireless communications between mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs) in a multirobotic system. MSAs provide additional program parameters and analytical functions to existing program code in a real time changing battlefield environment.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0134336
Title:	System, Methods And Apparatus For Aggregating Groups Of Mobile Robotic Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0134336
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Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Publication Number:	20040134336
Application Number:	10/421985
Abstract:	Aggregation processes of mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs) in a swarm weapon system are described. The formation of MRVs from the larger swarm into specific squads is organized by a lead MRV that makes decisions on the specific spatial configuration by determining the optimal approach to interact with the environment in rapidly changing battlefield situations. The initial phase of organization into specific configurations is contingent on information about enemy targets.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0068416
Title:	System, Method And Apparatus For Implementing A Mobile Sensor Network
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0068416
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Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Assignee:	SOLOMON NEAL
Publication Number:	20040068416
Application Number:	10/421546
Abstract:	A system is described for a sensor network comprised of an apparatus of a group of mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs). The sensors in the MRVs are linked into a network such that sensor data from one MRV can be used by another MRV. The collective of MRVs can reconfigure in spatial positions and thereby responds to and interacts with its environment. The mobile sensor network is used to provide sensor data to the swarm weapon system.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0068415
Title:	System, Methods And Apparatus For Coordination Of And Targeting For Mobile Robotic Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0068415
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Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Publication Number:	20040068415
Application Number:	10/421502
Abstract:	In a multirobotic system comprised of automated mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs), a network of MRV drones provides sensor information to a lead MRV, which calculates the distance to objects in the environment. By using a method of optic flow to map coordinates in spatial positions, MRVs establish mission priorities and work as a group to accomplish a mission. Once the operational coordination is made for the group to organize its priorities and tasks, the enemy targets are struck in a sequence according to mission parameters.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0068351
Title:	System, Methods And Apparatus For Integrating Behavior-based Approach Into Hybrid Control Model For Use With Mobile Robotic Vehicles
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Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Publication Number:	20040068351
Application Number:	10/421547
Abstract:	Behavior-based models of robotic coordination are integrated into a synthetic hybrid control architecture of a multi-robotic system (MRS). The MRS uses rules to organize the priorities of squads of mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs) in a broader system that includes a central control model for planning, hierarchy and simulations. The system, and methods and apparatus thereof, is applied to the organization of the swarm weapon system.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0031880
Title:	Aircraft And Propulsion System For An Aircraft, And Operating Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0031880
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Inventor(s):	Stemme, Reiner (Hoenow, DE) , Kauffmann, Konrad (Caputh, DE)
Assignee:	STEMME REINER; KAUFFMANN KONRAD
Publication Number:	20040031880
Application Number:	10/275211
Abstract:	The invention relates to a propulsion system for aircraft, especially for high-flying and long-distance flying unmanned aircraft, to the aircraft itself and to a method for controlling aircraft. Said propulsion system has a first jet turbine engine and a second jet turbine engine (22, 24). The invention also provides that the first jet turbine engine is a turbine engine (22) and the second jet turbine engine is an airscrew turbine engine (24). Said airscrew turbine engine (24) remains non-operational at least during the process for starting the aircraft (10).
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0030571
Title:	System, Method And Apparatus For Automated Collective Mobile Robotic Vehicles Used In Remote Sensing Surveillance
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0030571
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Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Assignee:	SOLOMON NEAL
Publication Number:	20040030571
Application Number:	10/421593
Abstract:	A system is described for remote sensing surveillance by configuring groups of automated mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs). The collection of MRVs have sensors that feed information to a central network node. As the MRVs interact with the environment, the mobile network adapts in real time by reconfiguring its spatial positions. This system, and the methods and apparatus involved therein, are applied to reconnaissance missions in order to collect information in remote hostile environments.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0030570
Title:	System, Methods And Apparatus For Leader-follower Model Of Mobile Robotic System Aggregation
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0030570
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Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Assignee:	SOLOMON NEAL
Publication Number:	20040030570
Application Number:	10/421464
Abstract:	In a swarm weapon system, groups of mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs) are organized into a leader-follower configuration in which follower drone MRVs supply sensor data to a lead MRV. The lead MRV analyzes data and makes decisions about how the collective of automated robots will behave as a group. The hierarchical control model will centralize processes in order for varied spatial configurations of the network to be made in real time.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0030450
Title:	System, Methods And Apparatus For Implementing Mobile Robotic Communication Interface
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0030450
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Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Assignee:	SOLOMON NEAL
Publication Number:	20040030450
Application Number:	10/422003
Abstract:	A process is described in which mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs) in a swarm weapon system is used as a communication interface. In a battlefield with restricted communication bandwidth, swarms of MRVs can be used as a wireless repeater by interfacing between ground troops and a satellite for transmission of signals to central command.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0030448
Title:	System, Methods And Apparatus For Managing External Computation And Sensor Resources Applied To Mobile Robotic Network
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Inventor(s):	Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA)
Assignee:	SOLOMON NEAL
Publication Number:	20040030448
Application Number:	10/421469
Abstract:	In a swarm weapon system including mobile robotic vehicles (MRVs), a system, methods and apparatus are described for the use of external resources, including computation and sensor capabilities, to guide groups of MRVs from position to position in real time. Methods are shown whereby external computation resources provide massive supplementary computing capability to a remote computing network to solve complex problems on the fly that preserves limited intra-systemic power and computation resources. Methods are shown for external sensors, such as satellite sensors, to provide supplemental sensor data to a multi robotic system with resource constraints.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2004/0021040
Title:	Container Cabin For Orbital Vehicle
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2004/0021040
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Inventor(s):	Redding, Fred Whitney JR. (Arlington, VA) , Redding, Mary (Arlington, VA)
Assignee:	REDDING FRED WHITNEY; REDDING MARY
Publication Number:	20040021040
Application Number:	10/365690
Abstract:	A method for developing and utilizing a Space Cruiser vehicle efficiently combines resources from relevant end users in industry and the military. The preferred vehicle has an elongated conical shell with an elliptical transverse cross section. The cabin of the vehicle preferably has a circular transverse cross section, leaving space between the cabin and the shell to store vehicle fuel. The cabin is insulated and capable of supporting occupants in a shirt-sleeve, air-breathing environment whether in the Earths atmosphere or in outerspace. The vehicle is capable of being launched from conventional aircraft, and also being stored in and launched from a spaced shuttle or orbiting space station.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2003/0192304
Title:	Integrated Bypass Turbojet Engines For Aircraft And Other Vehicles
Family:	Patent family and legal status for US Application 2003/0192304
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Inventor(s):	Paul, Marius A. (Yorba Linda, CA)
Assignee:	PAUL MARIUS A.
Publication Number:	20030192304
Application Number:	10/337032
Abstract:	Turbojet engines and aircraft configurations for advantageous use of the turbojet engines; the turbojet engines utilizing ram air turbine units that centrifugally compress air isothermally for use in various combustion configurations designed for stoichiometric combustion, wherein a stream of by-pass ram air jets is mixed with combustion gas jets for discharge in a common discharge nozzle.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2003/0192303
Title:	Integrated Bypass Turbojet Engines For Aircraft And Other Vehicles
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Inventor(s):	Paul, Marius A. (Yorba Linda, CA)
Assignee:	PAUL MARIUS A.
Publication Number:	20030192303
Application Number:	10/292829
Abstract:	Turbojet engines and aircraft configurations for advantageous use of the turbojet engines; the turbojet engines utilizing ram air turbine units that centrifugally compress air isothermally for use in various combustion configurations designed for stoichiometric combustion, wherein a stream of by-pass ram air jets is mixed with combustion gas jets for discharge in a common discharge nozzle.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2003/0152145
Title:	Crash Prevention Recorder (CPR)/VIDEO-FLIGHT Data Recorder (V-FDR)/COCKPIT-CABIN Voice Recorder For Light Aircraft With An Add-on Option For Large Commercial Jets
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Inventor(s):	Kawakita, Kevin (Temple City, CA)
Assignee:	KAWAKITA KEVIN
Publication Number:	20030152145
Application Number:	09/999589
Abstract:	FIG. 1 shows a light airplane with the installed invention comprising: an Electronic Rear-view Mirror Component (100) in the cockpit usable by the pilot or co-pilot from the adjustment of twin mechanical arms, a Video Local Area Network (V-LAN) Component (3000), several Bug-Eye Sensor Components (2000) for the front-video camera (2004), rear video camera (2008), right video camera (2012), and left video camera (2016), and a Crash Prevention Recorder (CPR) Component (4000).
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Patent Number:	US Application 2003/0136875
Title:	Aircraft With Rotary Wings
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Inventor(s):	Pauchard, Daniel (Pirotte, FR)
Assignee:	PAUCHARD DANIEL
Publication Number:	20030136875
Application Number:	10/181691
Abstract:	This aircraft contains a central cabin around which are two coaxial compensating rotary rotors synchronized presenting each a crown (2, 3) and at least two wings. The cabin contains two structural rings (10, 11) connected to each other and guiding the rotors. Some means allowing to modify the pitch of wings are made of two oscillating rings (31, 32). Every oscillating ring is associated to a crown (2, 3), in concentric to it, is made rotating by the crown, and is linked to the wings of the corresponding crown by rods or cables. Every oscillating ring (31, 32) is linked to vertical means of transport and movement around a transversal axis to present a chosen distance regarding to the corresponding crowns (2, 3) along a circumference. The guidance of crowns on the structural rings (10, 11) is realized by means of pebbles (30) of perpendicular axis to the plan containing a structural ring and the corresponding crown, pebbles and the wings being equally displayed between the structural ring and the corresponding crown.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2003/0136874
Title:	Method For Safer Mid-air Refueling
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Inventor(s):	Gjerdrum, David Michael (Palo Alto, CA)
Assignee:	GJERDRUM DAVID MICHAEL
Publication Number:	20030136874
Application Number:	10/316623
Abstract:	This invention teaches a method for delivering fuel to flying helicopter and fixed winged aircraft that is both safer than and compatible with presently used `boom` and `drogue` airborne fueling systems. This method introduces to the mid-air refueling repertoire the use of refueling drones as additional air vehicles, in a first instance tethered to and deployed from the craft receiving fuel. The recipient drone fuselage, configured with a receptacle for accommodating a tanker-controlled fuel dispensing boom, a forward-facing recipient-controlled fuel capture probe for accommodating fuel dispensing drogues, or both, assures compatibility with all mid-air fuel dispensing equipment in present use. The same invention in a later instance extends the inventory of mid-air fuel dispensing resources to include fueling drones of complementary configuration for deployment from airborne fuel tankers. Although towed by its deploying aircraft, a given drone may have locally available thrust capability to improve flight control and orientation during fueling and other operations. In any instance, the deployment tether acts as an umbilical in providing a path for fuel transfer and data lines, and contemporary guidance technology may be used to control the drones flight. Such technology includes real-time inertial and positional sensor data for the drone, the tanker and the recipient aircraft, as exchanged among the aircraft. Said data may be computationally integrated through a Kalman Filter or similar algorithm driving the drones control system, thereby assuring reliable docking and fuel exchange with minimal operator intervention. Since the present application domain is prominently military, mid-air refueling operations quiet in the radio spectrum are preferred, favoring embodiments in which the energy emitting portions of the position sensing and data exchange systems are limited to the optical spectrum. This invention improves the safety and reliability of mid-air refueling in several particulars. The use of tethered drones in the mid-air refueling process allows a substantial increase in the separation between tanker and receiving aircraft, thereby lowering the risk of mid-air collision. To the extent that such separation is vertical or lateral with respect to the common line of flight, there is a corresponding reduced risk of the tankers wake disturbing the flight path of the receiving aircraft. Since the drone acts much as does a
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Patent Number:	US Application 2003/0024453
Title:	Fluid-medium Vehicle
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Inventor(s):	Fonda, Albert Granville (King of Prussia, PA)
Assignee:	FONDA ALBERT GRANVILLE
Publication Number:	20030024453
Application Number:	09/944959
Abstract:	A vehicle or the like, operable in the vicinity of an interface between differentially flowing regions of fluid media, consisting of two fluid-diverting members each acting as an aero/hydrodynamic wing, connected by at least one tether passing through the fluid interface, whereby each member is rendered able to divert each toward the other as well as each aft along the path of the vehicle some of the mass of its surrounding fluid flow; typically, means of controlling at least one wingset in response to its distance from the fluid interface; and typically, means of operation of at least one wingset for control of the course of the vehicle.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2002/0088898
Title:	Airborne Fire Fighting System
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Inventor(s):	Lucy, John C. (Exeter, GB)
Assignee:	LUCY JOHN C.
Publication Number:	20020088898
Application Number:	09/736468
Abstract:	Airborne fire fighting system comprising a helicopter and a pair of tiltable jet engines where the exhaust can be directed at the fire under the control of the pilot or other fire fighting crew. AFFS comprises a rotor-powered craft, fitted internally with a jet engine collinear to the length of the fuselage which has an air intake projecting through the rear of the fuselage. The jet exhaust escapes through a vector able orifice, protruding through the floor of the fuselage of the airborne firefighting platform. The jet exhaust impacts the ground in front of an advancing firewall and bounces through the firewall, extinguishing that segment of the fire. The system can also be used is to disperse snow and ice. The jet engine may also be removed and a smaller jet engine affixed with hydraulic arms to a wheeled mobile to be loaded into the AFFS and delivered to a fire zone where it can used to extinguish fire by remote control.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2002/0088364
Title:	Method Of And System For Destabilization And Destruction Of Dangerous Atmospheric Phenomena Mainly Tornado.
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Inventor(s):	Feldman, Boris (Ramat-Gan, IL)
Assignee:	FELDMAN BORIS
Publication Number:	20020088364
Application Number:	09/754578
Abstract:	Method of destabilization and destruction of the dangerous atmospherical phenomena related to a rapidly rotating air masses mainly tornado and apparatus for its realization; this method consists in the delivery of normally liquid fuel-air explosive in the preferably chosen areas of this phenomena by pilotless fuel delivery means; the fuel is released, dispersed and mixed up with rotating air masses and through predeterminated time this aerosol cloud blown up, strong shock wave scatters air masses, destroys a uniform rotating flow of air and thus destroys tornado.
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Patent Number:	US Application 2001/0021365
Title:	Schemes For Replenishing, Retarding And Reversing The Depletion Of Ozone In Polar Ozone Layers
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Inventor(s):	Keith, Henry Howard (London, GB)
Assignee:	KEITH HENRY HOWARD
Publication Number:	20010021365
Application Number:	09/738506
Abstract:	Schemes, the purpose of which is to replenish, retard and reverse and eventually stop the depletion of Ozone in the Arctic and Antarctic (depleted) Ozone layers, which filters out the harmful solar UVB radiation on its way to earth having damaging effects, and which can be achieved by replenishment of Ozone methods and retarding Ozone depletion methods together with the necessarily with these methods connected various air- or spaceborne collection/delivery vehicles such as manned aircraft, unmanned aircraft, manouverable (hot air) balloons and airships with suitable propulsion engines, or a slightly modified Space Shuttle of NASAs Space Transportation System. Retarding Ozone depletion methods utilize suitable chemical processes, which can remove the Ozone depleting substance (ODS) molecules direcly from the Ozone layers by binding the offending molecules to other elements or substances in combination with any physical process to produce substances, which can be utilized in agriculture, industry or as pharmaceutics. pa The collection of the above-named Ozone depleting molecules from the Arctic and Antarctic (depleted) Ozone layers as well as the selection of the correct preprogrammed chemical processes is achieved automatically by computer assisted evaluations of their mass spectra and cracking patterns.
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Patent Number:	WO 07065781A1
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Patent Number:	WO 07022177A2
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Patent Number:	WO 06132703A2
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Patent Number:	WO 06093612A1
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Patent Number:	WO 06083368A2
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Patent Number:	WO 06083320A2
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Patent Number:	WO 06077315A1
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Patent Number:	WO 06076647A2
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Patent Number:	WO 06066561A1
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Patent Number:	WO 06025986A2
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Patent Number:	WO 06022654A1
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Patent Number:	WO 06006151A1
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Patent Number:	WO 06001856A2
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Patent Number:	WO 05081012A1
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Patent Number:	WO 05056378A2
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Patent Number:	WO 05048086A2
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Patent Number:	WO 05047805A2
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Patent Number:	WO 05047803A1
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Patent Number:	WO 05039151A2
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Patent Number:	WO 05016749A1
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Patent Number:	WO 05005250A2
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Patent Number:	WO 05001409A2
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Patent Number:	WO 04113166A1
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Patent Number:	WO 04110860A1
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Patent Number:	WO 04101357A2
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Patent Number:	WO 04092567A2
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Patent Number:	WO 04063008A2
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Patent Number:	WO 04042315A2
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Patent Number:	WO 04024562A1
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Patent Number:	WO 04018158A2
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Patent Number:	WO 04003680A2
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Patent Number:	WO 04000642A1
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Patent Number:	WO 03076266A2
Title:	Variable Area Wing Aircraft And Method
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Inventor(s):	Lee John R [US]
Publication Number:	WO03076266A3
Application Number:	WO2003US06571
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Patent Number:	WO 03040653A1
Title:	Improved Real Or Near Real Time Earth Imaging System And Method For Providing Imaging Information
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Inventor(s):	Burns Alan Robert [AU]
Publication Number:	WO03040653A1
Application Number:	WO2002AU01565
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Patent Number:	WO 03036323A1
Title:	Target Acquisition Device, Aircraft, Associated Trajectory Estimation System And Defence System
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Inventor(s):	Unterreiner Patrick [FR]; Thillot Marc [FR]
Publication Number:	WO03036323A1
Application Number:	WO2002FR03613
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Patent Number:	WO 03004122A1
Title:	Motion Assisting Apparatus
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Publication Number:	WO03004122A1
Application Number:	WO2002GB02976
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Patent Number:	WO 02075235A2
Title:	Stealth Airborne System
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Inventor(s):	Kalisch Gad [IL]
Publication Number:	WO02075235A3
Application Number:	WO2002IL00227
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Patent Number:	WO 9965768A1
Title:	Modular Helicopter System
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Inventor(s):	Jeney Peter [CH]
Publication Number:	WO9965768A1
Application Number:	WO1999GB01853
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Patent Number:	WO 9858273A1
Title:	Gps Based Search And Rescue Transceiver
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Inventor(s):	Yee David Moon [US]; Bickley Robert Henry [US]; Brenner Charles Herbert [US]; Zucarelli Philip John [US]; Keller Theodore Wolley [US]; Moyer Christopher Kent [US]
Publication Number:	WO9858273A1
Application Number:	WO1998US12106
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Patent Number:	WO 9825412A1
Title:	Methods And Apparatus For Augmenting Satellite Broadcast System
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Inventor(s):	Tuck Edward F [US]
Publication Number:	WO9825412A1
Application Number:	WO1996US19147
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Patent Number:	WO 9802350A1
Title:	Landing And Take-off Assembly For Vertical Take-off And Landing And Horizontal Flight Aircraft
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Inventor(s):	Mcdonnell William R [US]
Publication Number:	WO9802350A1
Application Number:	WO1997US10932
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Patent Number:	WO 9735433A1
Title:	A Fire Imaging System And Method
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Inventor(s):	Zurgil Uzi [IL]
Publication Number:	WO9735433A1
Application Number:	WO1997IL00097
Abstract:	The present invention combines real-time infrared (IR) images (3 6) of a fire (11) taken at the time of the fire, with digital images of the area where the fire rages, taken at some previous time. The two types of images are registered and the IR images are superimposed upon the digital images, thereby providing the fire-fighting forces with information regarding the types of objects (e.g. houses (20), trees (22), roads (24), etc.) which lie in the path of the fire. A system is provided which includes a viewing unit and a ground station (44). The viewing unit is mounted on an airborne vehicle (42), an unmanned airborne vehicle (40), or a fire watch tower, and includes a temperature sensitive sensor, such as an IR-sensor, for measuring the hot areas of the scene.
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Patent Number:	WO 9724260A2
Title:	Cyclic Minimizer
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Inventor(s):	Cotton Bryan S; Thornberg Christopher A; Cotton Bryan S [US]; Thornberg Christopher A [US]
Publication Number:	WO9724260A3
Application Number:	WO1996US20008
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Patent Number:	WO 9638340A1
Title:	Aerostat Single Ballonet System
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Inventor(s):	Bata Bohus T
Publication Number:	WO9638340A1
Application Number:	WO1996US07611
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Patent Number:	WO 9612928A1
Title:	Aerial Deployment Of An Explosive Array
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Inventor(s):	Richards Les H; Schorr David J; Vinson James K; Allen Lex N
Publication Number:	WO9612928A1
Application Number:	WO1995US13792
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Patent Number:	WO 9408677A1
Title:	Video And Radio Controlled Moving And Talking Device
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Inventor(s):	Jani Jeffrey Scott [US]
Publication Number:	WO9408677A1
Application Number:	WO1993US09946
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Patent Number:	WO 8902393A1
Title:	Flying Emergency Ejection Seat
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Inventor(s):	Zuck Daniel R [US]
Publication Number:	WO8902393A1
Application Number:	WO1988US03236
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Patent Number:	WO 8808544A1
Title:	Multi-mode Microwave Landing System
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Inventor(s):	Chisholm John P [US]
Publication Number:	WO8808544A1
Application Number:	WO1988US00810
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Patent Number:	WO 8806738A1
Title:	Relative Position Indicating Means And Method
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Inventor(s):	Samarai Faris [GB]
Publication Number:	WO8806738A1
Application Number:	WO1988GB00162
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Patent Number:	WO 0107318A1
Title:	Launch And Recovery System For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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Inventor(s):	Mcdonnell William R [US]
Publication Number:	WO0107318A1
Application Number:	WO2000US20099
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Patent Number:	WO 0101710A1
Title:	Airborne Constellation Of Communications Platforms And Method
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Inventor(s):	Knoblach Gerald M; Frische Eric A
Publication Number:	WO0101710A1
Application Number:	WO2000US15607
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Patent Number:	WO 0064736A1
Title:	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle With Counter-rotating Ducted Rotors And Shrouded Pusher-prop
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Inventor(s):	Cycon James; Scott Mark W; Dewitt Christopher W
Publication Number:	WO0064736A1
Application Number:	WO2000US09745
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Patent Number:	WO 0054433A1
Title:	Method And Apparatus For Positioning A Low Cost, Long Duration High Altitude Instrument Platform Utilizing Unmanned Airborne Vehicles
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Inventor(s):	Henderson J Kirston
Publication Number:	WO0054433A1
Application Number:	WO2000US05829
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Patent Number:	WO 0033012A2
Title:	Line Of Sight Pointing Mechanism For Sensors
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Inventor(s):	Ahmad Anees; Arndt Thomas D
Publication Number:	WO0033012A3
Application Number:	WO1999US26882
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Patent Number:	EP 1806808A2
Title:	Applications For Low Profile Two Way Satellite Antenna System
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INPADOC Status:	Expired -APPLICATION DEEMED TO BE WITHDRAWN Effective DATE 20090303
Inventor(s):	Kaplan Ilan [US]; Gachev Mario [US]; Spirtus Danny [US]; Bercovich Moshe [US]
Publication Number:	EP1806808A3
Application Number:	EP20060127356
Abstract:	Antenna assemblies and associated satellite tracking systems that may include a low profile two-way antenna arrangement, tracking systems, and applications thereof. Applications for the system include military, civilian, and domestic emergency response applications. The antenna arrangements may be configured to form a spatial element array able to track a satellite in an elevation plane by electronically dynamically targeting the antenna arrangement and/or mechanically dynamically rotating the antenna arrangements about transverse axes giving rise to generation of respective elevation angles and dynamically changing the respective distances between the axes whilst maintaining a predefined relationship between said distances and the respective elevation angles. The system provides dynamic tracking of satellite signals and can be used for satellite communications on moving vehicles in military and civilian applications.
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Patent Number:	EP 1780387A2
Title:	Nested Core Gas Turbine Engine
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INPADOC Status:	Expired -APPLICATION DEEMED TO BE WITHDRAWN Effective DATE 20080916
Inventor(s):	Dev Sudarshan Paul [US]
Publication Number:	EP1780387A3
Application Number:	EP20060121926
Abstract:	A turbojet engine (400) comprising: an air breathing gas turbine engine (10) comprising: a combustion chamber section (52); a turbine section (16) surrounding the combustion chamber section so that the combustion chamber section is nested at least in part within the turbine section, a rotor portion of the turbine section forming at least part of the combustion chamber section; and a compressor section (12) surrounding the turbine section; wherein the compressor section has two or more spools, capable of rotation independent of one another.
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Patent Number:	EP 1734333A1
Title:	Ammunition Or Ammunition Component Having The Shape Of A Flying Object Such As A Drone
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INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Brunet Luc [FR]; Regis Muriel [FR]
Publication Number:	EP1734333B1
Application Number:	EP20060019954
Abstract:	A munition (10) or munition component comprises a carrier (12) to carry load, where at least a part of the carrier is made of an energetic material comprising an energetic component mixed having first structural reinforcing material in which the carrier is present in an air-craft (1) e.g. drone and forms the body (2) and/or the wings (3) of the drone, where the drone comprises a sensor box (8) and/or starters (14, 15) and control unit (16).
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Patent Number:	EP 1719969A1
Title:	Method For Controlling An Ammunition Or A Submunition, Attack System, Ammunition And Target Designator For Carrying Out Such A Method
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INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Bredy Thierry [FR]
Publication Number:	EP1719969B1
Application Number:	EP20060290666
Abstract:	The procedure consists of scanning an area of the terrain by a laser beam (10) on the munition or sub-munition (6), observing a potential target (1) from a passive observation unit (4), such as a drone (5), and delivering a confirmation order or range-finding information to the munition or sub-munition when the observation unit detects the laser beam, directing it onto the target. The munition or sub-munition cannot be fired at the target before the confirmation order is received.
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Patent Number:	EP 1666356A1
Title:	Small Unmanned Aircraft
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INPADOC Status:	Expired -APPLICATION REFUSED Effective DATE 20141012
Inventor(s):	Tanabe Yasutada [JP]; Totsuka Chiharu [JP]; Akasaka Tsuyoshi [JP]; Okamoto Masato [JP]
Publication Number:	EP1666356A4
Application Number:	EP20040732435
Abstract:	A small unmanned airplane includes; a main wing (1) having a camber airfoil whose under surface is approximately flat, narrowing in the shape of taper to a blade tip, leading edge of which holds sweepback angle, of flying wing type which has an aerodynamic surface of tailless wing type and is low aspect ratio; movable flaps (2) extending approximately extreme breadth in trailing edge part of both left and right sides of the main wing, having a dihedral angle at least in level flight; vertical stabilizers (3) placed at blade tips of left and right of the main wing; and two propellers (5) installed on the top surface of the main wing. This can materialize miniaturization and weight saving of a small unmanned airplane for individual carrying capability and for suitability for such as lift-off by hand throw.
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Patent Number:	EP 1645505A2
Title:	Unmanned Helicopter And Landing Method For An Unmanned Helicopter
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INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Yamane Akihiro [JP]
Publication Number:	EP1645505B1
Application Number:	EP20050017978
Abstract:	An unmanned helicopter 20 includes altitude control device for giving a command of a collective pitch blade angle based on an altitude change rate command, etc., and performing altitude control of an airframe. The unmanned helicopter further includes descending device for causing the airframe to descend to a second altitude while changing descent rate command of the altitude control device and giving a descent rate command smaller than the descent rate command to the second altitude to the altitude control device for causing the airframe to descend from the second altitude to the ground.
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Patent Number:	EP 1638220A2
Title:	Constellation Of Airborne Communication Platforms And Corresponding Communication Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1638220A2
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Knoblach Gerald M [US]; Frische Eric A [US]
Publication Number:	EP1638220B1
Application Number:	EP20050026040
Abstract:	An airborne constellation (10) is disclosed with a plurality of individual lighter-than-air platforms (12) spaced apart above a contiguous geographic area within a predetermined altitude range so that ubiquitous line of sight coverage of the geographic area is provided. Each of the plurality of platforms (12) includes an enclosure holding a regulated volume of low density gas for buoyancy of the platforms. Each of the plurality of platforms further includes a signal transmitting device attached to the enclosure by which signals from the platform may be transmitted to the contiguous geographic area.
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Patent Number:	EP 1557356B1
Title:	Aircraft, Particularly Small Aircraft, Having A Propulsion System Including A Plurality Of Pulse Detonation Engines (pdes)
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1557356B1
INPADOC Status:	Expired -SE: EUROPEAN PATENT HAS LAPSED
Inventor(s):	Perlo Piero [IT]; Golub Victor [IT]; Kotelnikov Andrei [IT]
Publication Number:	EP1557356B1
Application Number:	EP20040425043
Abstract:	A small aircraft is disclosed having a propulsion system including a plurality of Pulse Detonation Engines (PDEs). The engines are arranged within the wings (2a) of the aircraft. The discharge nozzles (8) of the detonation tubes (7) of the detonation engines are provided at different areas of the aircraft and are differently oriented, so as to provide extra manoeuvrability along the three directions. The arrangement of the detonation tubes (7) within the wings (2a) reduces drag and hence the fuel consumption.
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Patent Number:	EP 1557356A1
Title:	Aircraft, Particularly Small Aircraft, Having A Propulsion System Including A Plurality Of Pulse Detonation Engines (pdes)
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1557356A1
INPADOC Status:	Expired -SE: EUROPEAN PATENT HAS LAPSED
Inventor(s):	Perlo Piero [IT]; Golub Victor [IT]; Kotelnikov Andrei [IT]
Publication Number:	EP1557356B1
Application Number:	EP20040425043
Abstract:	A small aircraft is disclosed having a propulsion system including a plurality of Pulse Detonation Engines (PDEs). The engines are arranged within the wings (2a) of the aircraft. The discharge nozzles (8) of the detonation tubes (7) of the detonation engines are provided at different areas of the aircraft and are differently oriented, so as to provide extra manoeuvrability along the three directions. The arrangement of the detonation tubes (7) within the wings (2a) reduces drag and hence the fuel consumption.
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Patent Number:	EP 1538074A1
Title:	Remote Marine Craft Control System And Methods Of Using Same
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1538074A1
INPADOC Status:	Expired -APPLICATION DEEMED TO BE WITHDRAWN Effective DATE 20051209
Inventor(s):	Sells Robin [US]; Raj Nand [US]
Publication Number:	EP1538074A1
Application Number:	EP20040015221
Abstract:	A remote user-operated, user-transporting marine craft system is disclosed that includes a marine craft (20) having a hull and a propulsion device and including a wireless receiving device (112) adapted and configured to receive a signal component that operates and controls the propulsion device, and a remote control device (64) that is operatively and wirelessly associated with the wireless receiving device for transmitting a signal component, wherein the user controls movement of and is transported by the marine craft using the remote control device to generate and transmit the signal component to the receiving device to operate and control the propulsion device. Also disclosed are methods of water-skiing solo; water-skiing kits; a remote, user-operated marine craft drone system that carries a goal-specific device intended to carry out a task; remote control automatic retrieval device; remote control retrieval system and methods; remote-control, user-transporting combination; and the like.
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Patent Number:	EP 1480000A1
Title:	Method For Controlling The Trajectory Of A Spinning Projectile
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1480000A1
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Lamorlette G©rard [FR]
Publication Number:	EP1480000B1
Application Number:	EP20040291034
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Patent Number:	EP 1444130B1
Title:	Aircraft With A Lift-generating Fuselage
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1444130B1
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Schafroth Konrad [CH]
Publication Number:	EP1444130B1
Application Number:	EP20020771971
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Patent Number:	EP 1407965A1
Title:	Unmanned Helicopter And Takeoff Method For An Unmanned Helicopter
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1407965A1
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Yamane Akihiro [JP]
Publication Number:	EP1407965B1
Application Number:	EP20030022691
Abstract:	A flight controller causes an airframe to take off and elevate to a predetermined altitude upon reception of a take-off start command from the ground. The flight controller increases a collective pitch rudder angle without performing altitude control, and subsequently starts the altitude control. Independent claims are also included for the following: (a) an unmanned helicopter take-off method; and (b) an unmanned helicopter landing method.
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Patent Number:	EP 1382817B1
Title:	Assistance To The Driving Of Accessories In A Turbo-engine
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1382817B1
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Bouiller Philippe [FR]; Franchet Michel [FR]; Ruis Jean-pierre [FR]
Publication Number:	EP1382817B1
Application Number:	EP20030291734
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Patent Number:	EP 1197099B1
Title:	Airborne Constellation Of Communications Platforms And Method
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1197099B1
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Knoblach Gerald M [US]; Frische Eric A [US]
Publication Number:	EP1197099B1
Application Number:	EP20000941248
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Patent Number:	EP 1196732B1
Title:	Bordered Flying Tool
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1196732B1
INPADOC Status:	Expired -FR: TRANSLATION NOT FILED
Inventor(s):	Kalisch Gad [IL]
Publication Number:	EP1196732B1
Application Number:	EP20000929758
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Patent Number:	EP 1090263B1
Title:	Method For Remote Controlled Combat Of Near-surface And/or Surface Targets
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 1090263B1
INPADOC Status:	Active
Inventor(s):	Gauggel Roland [DE]; Arnold Michael [DE]; Krueger Reinhard [DE]; Traenapp Norbert [DE]
Publication Number:	EP1090263B1
Application Number:	EP19990927726
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Patent Number:	EP 0762074A1
Title:	Remote Control System For A Wire Controlled Missile
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 0762074A1
INPADOC Status:	Expired -SE: EUROPEAN PATENT HAS LAPSED
Inventor(s):	Barnier Jean-francois [FR]
Publication Number:	EP0762074B1
Application Number:	EP19960401865
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Patent Number:	EP 0687626B1
Title:	Observation System Utilizing A Remote Controlled Aircraft
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 0687626B1
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Ernoult Philippe [FR]; Outters Xavier [FR]; Panot Christian [FR]
Publication Number:	EP0687626B1
Application Number:	EP19950401366
Abstract:	The observation system includes an Earth-based control station (10) and a light pilot-less aircraft (12). The control station includes a pilotage system (22,24) to remotely pilot the aircraft. It also has receiver and displays (68) to visualise data transmitted by the plane. The aircraft includes observation system (16) including a camera, and a pilotage system (14) responsive to the control station order. In the first phase of observation, which extends until the wire breaks, the wire is used for the communication. In the second phase, including the return of the aircraft to the station, transmission is generally interrupted, and the plane flies on automatic pilot. In the third and final phase, the aircraft is controlled by the radio link, to enable it to land successfully.
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Patent Number:	EP 0293173B1
Title:	Rotor Arrangement For A Rotorcraft.
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 0293173B1
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Roberts Bryan W; Fien Alan R; Blackler John
Publication Number:	EP0293173B1
Application Number:	EP19880304704
Abstract:	A rotorcraft having four symmetrically disposed intermeshing rotors (22-25) coupled to a common drive unit (26), each rotor having a single blade (27) which is formed with a lifting surface and an oppositely projecting balance arm (28). The four rotors (22-25) are coupled to the drive unit (26) by respective rotor shafts (33-36) and the shafts are inclined with respect to one another such that the path surface traced by each blade (27) is inclined with respect to the path surface traced by each other blade. Each rotor (22-25) is connected to its associated rotor shaft (33-36) by way of a universal joint (38-39) which provides for torque transmission and which permits blade flapping and blade pitch adjustment, and actuators (60) are provided for applying differential collective pitch to the rotors (22-25) by way of pitch control shafts (32).
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Patent Number:	EP 0273653B1
Title:	Rotary Engine.
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 0273653B1
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Garside David Walker
Publication Number:	EP0273653B1
Application Number:	EP19870311153
Abstract:	A rotary engine (E) in which a rotary piston or rotor (13) rotates within a cavity (11) in a housing (10), the rotor (13) and the walls (21) of the cavity (11) being so shaped that working chambers are formed therebetween which vary in volume as the rotor (13) rotates and the cavity (11) being provided with inlet (8) and exhaust (9) ports and the rotor providing passage means (30) for cooling air wherein means (40, 41) are provided to force air through the passage means (30) to cool the rotor (13) as a result of motion of the engine (E) through the surrounding atmosphere.
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Patent Number:	EP 0187900B1
Title:	Pilotless Aircraft For Fighting Ground Targets.
Family:	Patent family and legal status for EP 0187900B1
INPADOC Status:	Expired
Inventor(s):	Lindstaedt Klaus [DE]; Rudolf Karl [DE]; Weber Adolf [DE]; Luekewille Heinrich [DE]; Roell Wilfried [DE]
Publication Number:	EP0187900B1
Application Number:	EP19850113061
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Patent Number:	DE 102005014949A1
Title:	Multi-rotor Helicopter E.g. Reconnaissance Drone For Urban Areas, Has Support Frame Divided Into At Least Two Groups Of Structures Mechanically Connected Together As Such That Electrical Connection Between Groups Is Possible
Family:	Patent family and legal status for DE 102005014949A1
INPADOC Status:	Unknown
Publication Number:	DE102005014949A1
Application Number:	DE20051014949
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