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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7154241 | Wiper control method and wiper control device There are provided a wiper control method and a wiper control device in which unnecessary wiping operation is not performed. When a fixed amount of water passing through a detection area 4, the water being carried by the wiping operation of a wiper 5 | 12/26/2006 |
| 6194850 | System and method for determining true ground speed in a locomotive A processor system and method for accurately determining true ground speed in a vehicle having wheel-axles propelled by traction motors is provided. The vehicle is equipped with a radar unit for providing a radar signal indicative of vehicle speed relativ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5377937 | Aircraft flare control system utilizing an envelope limiter An aircraft autoland flare control system which augments the autopilot's aircraft flare control commands in the event the aircraft exceeds defined flare envelopes, monitors aircraft longitudinal position, altitude, altitude rate, lateral position and late... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5337982 | Apparatus and method for controlling the vertical profile of an aircraft In an aircraft, there is included a Flight Management System (FMS), Autopilot and Autothrottle for controlling the aircraft. The apparatus has a plurality of outputs for definition of the real-time targets, controlled by the Autopilot and Autothrottle, to... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5078345 | Automated approach speed control for an airplane A flight control system of a turboprop airplane includes electronic controlled engines, which are governed by a manual operating device for setting the engine power in order to obtain a certain airspeed, a device for selecting a desired airspeed, and an e... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4972321 | Lateral axis rollout control for aircraft Apparatus for guiding an aircraft along the center line of a runway at rollout touchdown. A rollout predict path command is generated in accordance with a first path segment Y1 =T1 (Ym +Yu)(1-e-t /Ti)-Y | 11/20/1990 |
| 4633404 | Automatic deceleration of aircraft during descent Deceleration control apparatus for an aircraft having an automatic altitude capture and hold system and an airspeed hold system, both systems controlled by controlling pitch attitude wherein during a descent from a higher altitude under airspeed-on-pitch ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4482961 | Automatic control system for directional control of an aircraft during landing rollout A control system for maintaining an aircraft within the lateral boundaries of a runway during landing rollout under conditions of combined crosswind and low runway friction is disclosed. An automatic mode of operation is provided wherein the system utiliz... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4419732 | Method and apparatus for an aircraft inner loop elevator control system An improved inner loop control is disclosed for use in an aircraft pitch axis control system. Signals representative of vertical acceleration and pitch rate are complementary filtered and summed to produce an "inner loop" damping signal which is combined ... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4378518 | Rate based autopilot system An automatic flight control system for an aircraft having a control surface 28 and including a gyro 12 having an output applied through an attitude filter 14 to the input of a roll rate circuit 16 and a summing amplifier 18. The roll rate circuit 16 gener... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4245805 | Turbulence compensated throttle control system for aircraft having throttle command signal path control means responsive to engine rating control and flare initiation Command from engine rating control prevents throttle position from exceeding the value at which the engine operates at its rated power. Flare initiation changes the throttle command signal from a closed loop control signal to a fixed number of degrees per... | 01/20/1981 |
| 3944171 | Glide slope control signal processing system A rate-limited, signal magnitude limited, non-linearized lag circuit for processing glide slope error signals to reject noise and reduce aircraft response to hardover signals due to ground transmitter malfunctions or other anomalies. A feature of an embod... | 03/16/1976 |
