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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7365452 | Sensor device and output characteristic switching method of sensor device A pressure sensor device (1) includes a sensing element (2) for sending an analog signal according to pressure. The pressure sensor device (1) outputs the analog voltage to a microcomputer (20) through an input-output terminal (8).... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7313552 | Boolean network rule engine A Boolean Network rule engine for evaluation of rules is described that comprises: a rules interface for receiving a set of rules, each rule having at least one condition; a network builder for building a Boolean Network representation of the set of rules including ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 6836243 | System and method for processing a signal being emitted from a target signal source into a noisy environment The invention relates to a system and method for processing a signal being emitted from a target signal source 20 into a noisy environment, wherein said target signal source 20 is located in a target signal source direction φs with regard t... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6540677 | Ultrasound transceiver system for remote operation through a minimal number of connecting wires An advantageous combination of preamplifier electronics and circuits for acoustic beam forming with ultrasound transducer arrays permits integration of the electronics and transducer(s) at close distances in a compact arrangement and is operable from an u... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6310832 | Interpolated beamforming tracker The invention in its preferred embodiment is applied to a spherical assembly of rows of transducer elements arranged in a uniform distribution of elements in each circular row, each row being at a different latitude. The beamforming is accomplished in two... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6292431 | Marine seismic cable termination A cable termination for connecting cable armor strands to a cable housing end. Individual wire strands are inserted through apertures in an inner hub and are engaged with the inner hub. An outer hub is connected to the inner hub and the housing for select... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6198693 | System and method for finding the direction of a wave source using an array of sensors A system and method for finding the direction of a wave source using an array of sensors. The system includes a sensor array for measuring waves from the wave source, an approximate-direction finder for finding the approximate direction of the wave source... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6181643 | Interferometer with a single projector array and a single receiver array The interferometer, which is preferably in the form of a sonar, can have a single projector array and a single receiver array. The projector array comprises a first subset of projector elements that function as a first pseudo projector and a second subset... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6122602 | Method and arrangement for electromagnetic wave distance measurement by the pulse transit time method For electromagnetic wave distance measurement by the pulse transit time method, short electromagnetic transmission pulses are emitted at periodic transmission instants. The signals received in selected transmission cycles after the respective transmission... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6046961 | Multi-layer tiled array A sonar sensor array having a multi-layer tiling arrangement for the indiual elements that increases surface area available for each element while maintaining the inter-element spacing required to avoid spatial aliasing when the received signals are comb... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5490219 | Noise canceling microphone with visual feedback Briefly, according to the invention, a noise-cancelling microphone apparatus (400) is disclosed. The microphone (400) comprises a sound transducer (106) for converting sound waves to electrical signals and means for substantially preventing ambient noise ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 4991147 | Preformed beam tracker Apparatus and method for sonar or radar target tracking. Digital apparatus nd techniques are employed. A variable delay is used for beam steering.... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4985874 | Solid state sequencing switch A combination of integrated circuit (IC) flatpacs used in combination to tch selected sonar microphone inputs from a circular receiving array to position a beam containing a sounding target intermediate to an equal number of left and right microphone pic... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4970703 | Switched capacitor waveform processing circuit Waveform inputs are sampled to provide vector inputs which are coupled to respective ones of a plurality of series connected time delay stages in a processing circuit. Each vector is weighted, or amplified, and time delayed by each stage between its input... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4969132 | Delay quantization technique to reduce steering errors in digital beamformers Quantized delay values used in a digital beamformer are selected so as to minimize the derivative of the beamformer pattern. A first set of quantization error values, one for each hydrophone, is determined from the precise delay values and a second set de... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4939701 | Method and apparatus for error reduction when measuring movement in space of test points by means of ultrasonic signals With the measurement of spatial movement of test points by means of ultrasonic signals, the problem exists that often interferences occur which may lead to distortion of test results. It is proposed to check the space between sound transmitter and sound r... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4914642 | Remote sonic location system A hydrophone (16) having a short-baseline array of transducers (12A, 12B, and 12C) as well as a long-baseline array of transducers (14A, 14B, and 14C) includes switches 30A, 30B, and 30C) for selectively connecting the outputs of the arrays to a cable (18... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4679176 | Ultrasonic receiving apparatus In an ultrasonic imaging apparatus, when a sampling time space determined corresponding to the respective phases of receiving signals from transducer elements adjacent to each other is shorter than the settling time of sample and hold circuits, these rece... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4567766 | Piezoelectric ultrasonic apparatus and method for determining the distance from a predetermined point to a target A distance-determining detector and method. A piezoelectric ultrasonic transceiver sends out pulses and receives their reflection and produces an analog output and a trigger output. The analog output is given effect only when it exceeds a threshold level,... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4559605 | Method and apparatus for random array beamforming A beamforming method and apparatus utilizing a plurality of sensing elements which are free to take up random positions. Each sensing element generates output signals in response to sensed radiation. The signals are fed to a data process or which generate... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4509151 | Marine acoustic analysis system and method An apparatus for locating, classifying and identifying underwater marine animals by means of the sounds they make includes an elongated submersible array adapted to be towed in various directions. The array is made up of subarrays of multiple hydrophones ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4455630 | Device for forming an image by means of ultrasound A device for forming an image of an object by means of ultrasound beams, comprising an array (1) of electroacoustic transducers, means for connecting a selected group of transducers to a delay unit (17) which is arranged to delay the electric signal gener... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4433397 | Circuit arrangement for the formation and processing of group signals A circuit arrangement for forming a succession of group signals in the ranging art from received signals originating from an array of adjacent signal receiving transducers, each successive group signal being associated with a respective group characterist... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4433396 | Sonar receivers A sonar receiver comprises an inwardly curved reflector arranged to direct received sonar signals onto a transducer system. The transducer system comprises an array of transducers distributed over an inwardly curved path facing the reflector. Each transdu... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4425634 | Detection system The present invention is directed to a detection system which forms reception beams successively in a series of angular directions. The detection system comprises receiving means for receiving incoming signals in such a manner that the frequency of the in... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4420825 | Element-sited beamformer This invention is a hydrophone (element) sited beamformer which is coupled to an array cable of a horizontal line array. A hydrophone-sited beamformer is coupled to each hydrophone in the array. The element-sited beamformer directly forms beams from the d... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4414654 | Thinned array transducer for sonar The thinned arrayed transducer for a sonar system includes an array of sonar elements mounted in rows (layers) and columns (staves) on a structure, preferably cylindrical, to form a checkerboard pattern wherein the spacing between adjacent elements in the... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4413332 | Scanning beamformer for a very high resolution circular arc sonar A high resolution scanning beamformer for a soundhead having a circular or a cylindrical array of hydrophones uses charge coupled devices as transversal filters in a plurality of first stage quadrature sampled phase shift steered beamforming modules. In a... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4412316 | Ultrasonic transducer arrangement An ultrasonic transducer arrangement having ultrasonic oscillators, with which electronic delay chains are associated, includes a matrix of column-like ultrasonic oscillators the end faces of which are each connected to control electrodes arranged in the ... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4359767 | Ultrasonic array In an exemplary embodiment, the transducer elements are arranged in rows and columns, the transducer elements bein contacted at both sides by oppositely disposed contact surfaces, and switches being associated with the contacts of the one contact surface ... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4333170 | Acoustical detection and tracking system A plurality of acoustical transducers such as microphones are placed in appropriate array so that they are capable of detecting sonic energy emanating from an acoustical source such as an aircraft or a ground vehicle. The outputs of the transducers are se... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4287580 | Miniaturized scan within a pulse sonar An improvement for a sonar is provided wherein the improvement includes a ne array of N listening transducer elements, each listening element being capable of receiving an acoustic signal and outputting a corresponding electrical signal. A plurality of be... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4275461 | Parallel digital beam-forming system A parallel digital beam-former for an array of hydrophones. The output of ch hydrophone is fed into a different shift register. Each register stores the sampled time history of the hydrophone. The contents of each register are fed serially into a differen... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4274148 | Digital time-delay beamformer for sonar systems There is described a digital sonar receiver having a novel beamformer, own doppler nullifier (O.D.N.), and adaptive time varied gain controller. The beamformer interrogates a multi-element transducer by utilizing an interleaved sampling scheme which sampl... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4271490 | Ultrasonic detection system An ultrasonic detection system having an array of ultrasonic transducers that are uniformly closely disposed relative to each other such that the active surfaces for transmission or reception are maintained on a straight or curved line. The transducers fo... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4247900 | Signal combiner with permuted addressing A system for forming a beam of radiant energy which is incident upon or radiated from an array of radiating elements such as sonar transducers. As a wavefront progresses across the array, samples of signals received by individual ones of the transducers a... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4233678 | Serial phase shift beamformer using charge transfer devices A serial phase shift beamformer characterized by a charge transfer device for progressive clocked transfer of quadrature component analog samples of the scanned outputs of a multiplicity of transducer elements in a curved array. Weighting resistors effect... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4207621 | Electrically steerable sonar system 1. An underwater acoustic listening equipment for use in selectively estashing one of a number of narrow angle listening beams having good signal to noise ratio comprising: a spherical framework, several hundred identical hydrophones fixedly secured to the fr... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4203162 | Electrically steerable spherical hydrophone array 1. Beam forming apparatus for a spherical array of hydrophones comprising: a spherical array of radially inwardly directed wiper contacts, a compensator inside said spherical array of wiper contacts and including sulator means and a series of circular conducting el... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202050 | Multi-angular sector sound transmitting and receiving system This disclosure relates to multi-angular sector sound transmitting and receiving systems embodying stacked pluralities of arrays of transducers and novel scanning arrangements and circuits for enabling the display of the sound-wave reflections emanating f... | 05/06/1980 |
