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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6848648 | Single actuator direct drive roll control A system and method for controlling roll in a projectile. The novel system (56) includes first (52) and second (58) sections adapted to counter-rotate relative to each other and a mechanism (76) for inducing the counter-rotation to genera... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6820846 | Multiple ball joint gimbal A multiple ball joint gimbal mount apparatus which includes a mount platform structure, and a plurality of linear motor actuators arranged in a housing assembly. Each actuator includes an actuator shaft and an actuator connector at a distal end of the shaft. The pla... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6821159 | Customizable connector keying system A modifiable connector keying system (16). The keying system (16) includes a first shaped feature (30, 32) that is removably connected to a first connector component. A second shaped feature (36, 38) is removably connected to a second con... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6813330 | High density storage of excited positronium using photonic bandgap traps A device is provided that can capture and store electrically neutral excited species of antimatter or exotic matter (a mixture of antimatter and ordinary matter), in particular, excited positronium (Ps*). The antimatter trap comprises a three-dimensional or two-dime... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6809681 | Random-modulation radar signal-induced interference cancellation method and apparatus An uncorrelated clutter noise cancellation method and apparatus employing a measured ambiguity function sample for each randomly-modulated transmission pulse in a randomly-modulated pulsed Doppler radar system. The ambiguity function samples are calculated from a st... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6788273 | Radome compensation using matched negative index or refraction materials A compensated radome is provided, comprising an inner layer of a negative index of refraction material, often referred to as a “metamaterial”, and an outer layer of a positive index of refraction material. The thickness of the two materials and their respective ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6768468 | Reflecting surfaces having geometries independent of geometries of wavefronts reflected therefrom A flat metal plate (20) has a plurality of holes (50) that have a property that changes across the surface of the plate so that the flat plate (20) mimics the behavior of a curved wavefront transformer. The changing property can include a dimens... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6764042 | Precision guided extended range artillery projectile tactical base A tacital base for a guided projectile includes a base structure, and an adaptor structure for securing the base structure to a forward section of the projectile. The base further includes a plurality of fin slots. A plurality of deployable fins are pivotally mounte... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6765535 | Monolithic millimeter wave reflect array system A monolithic semiconductor power device. The device is designed to produce high energy density and high power level RF/Millimeter wave radiation using the quasi-optical spatial power of an array (100) of small amplifiers (200) on a solid state wafer ( | 07/20/2004 |
| 6756932 | Microwave absorbing material A method of absorbing microwave radiation is provided. The method comprises placing a structure in the path of the microwave radiation, the structure comprising an array of metal plates supported over a metal substrate by vertical conducting vias. The structure find... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754610 | Digital signal processing of resolver rotor angle signals An apparatus and method for determining the angular position of a rotor. The rotor is a part of a resolver used to determine the position of a shaft, or the like, in operation in a system such as a shaft in a missile gimbal. A digital signal processor is used advant... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6750804 | System and method for detecting and estimating the direction of near-stationary targets in monostatic clutter using phase information A system and method for detecting a target. The inventive method includes the steps of receiving a complex return signal of an electromagnetic pulse having a real and an imaginary component; extracting from the imaginary component information representative of the p... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6731245 | Compact conformal patch antenna A conformal patch antenna comprises an aperture layer having an at least partially metallized surface that may have at least one aperture slot therein, and a feed-network layer positioned adjacent to the aperture layer and having a feed-network circuitry metallized ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6731241 | Dual-polarization common aperture antenna with rectangular wave-guide fed centered longitudinal slot array and micro-stripline fed air cavity back transverse series slot array A dual-polarization common aperture antenna having fully populated common aperture dual polarized arrays. The inventive antenna includes a first and second arrays of radiating slots disposed in a faceplate. The second array is generally orthogonal and therefor cross... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6707417 | Accurate range calibration architecture A radar system having a tactical mode and a calibration mode includes a transmitter section for providing high-power amplification of an RF pulsed waveform from an exciter during the tactical mode and the calibration mode. A circulator system has an input port conne... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6693605 | Variable quasioptical wave plate system and methods of making and using A wave plate (10) formed of a perforated metallic plate of a particular thickness (L) has circular holes (12) that induce a change in the polarization of an electromagnetic wave passing through the holes in the plate. By choosing the proper hole diameter,... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6666123 | Method and apparatus for energy and data retention in a guided projectile Energy (110) and mission data (108) for a guided projectile are transferred from a projectile setter (102) over an inductive interface (118). The projectile may include energy storage element (114) to store the energy and a data storage element (112) to s... | 12/23/2003 |
