| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6755653 |
System and method for preventing cheating in a simulated combat exercise |
June 29, 2004 |
| Soldiers and vehicles are fitted with infrared laser detectors for detecting simulated laser bullets and artillery shells from SAT-equipped small arms weapons and tanks employing laser scanner transmitters. An infrared LED is mounted inside the protective housing which supports each |
| 6735505 |
Aircraft flight and voice data recorder system and method |
May 11, 2004 |
| An onboard portion of the system is located on an aircraft for monitoring a plurality of flight parameters and detecting a predetermined exceedence indicative of a potential problem. With regard to flight data, predetermined exceedences could include abnormal attitude, control surface |
| 6641087 |
Anti-hijacking system operable in emergencies to deactivate on-board flight controls and remotel |
November 4, 2003 |
| In an anti-hijacking system for autopilot equipped aircraft, a transceiver communicates with at least one remote guidance facility. A panic button is activated by flight crew in case of hijacking. A manager is coupled to the transceiver and the panic button, as well as existing avionics |
| 6579097 |
System and method for training in military operations in urban terrain |
June 17, 2003 |
| A stationary area weapon effects simulator is mounted to the ceiling of a room in a building being assaulted by soldiers equipped with optical detectors and small arms weapons having small arms transmitters (SATs). Area effects weapon codes simulating the detonation of a grenade, bomb, |
| 6496547 |
Digital FM receiver employing combined sample-and-hold and integrate-and-dump detectors for impr |
December 17, 2002 |
| A narrow-band digital frequency-modulation (FM) limiter-discriminator (LD) receiver with two independent detectors that combine to remove most of the bit errors caused by FM-clicks in an encoded channel. The output of the LD circuit is presented to a sample-and-hold (S&H) detector and to |
| 6473980 |
Infrared laser transmitter alignment verifier and targeting system |
November 5, 2002 |
| A relatively inexpensive system is provided for detecting and visually indicating the relative location of the impact on a target of an invisible infrared laser beam emitted from a small arms transmitter (SAT) mounted on a combat rifle. A plurality of red LEDs are mounted on a planar PCB |
| 6406298 |
Low cost laser small arms transmitter and method of aligning the same |
June 18, 2002 |
| A laser small arms transmitter (SAT) includes a housing having a hollow interior and a clamp structure connected to the housing for rigidly securing the housing to a barrel of a weapon such as an M16A1 rifle. A spyglass shaped metal laser tube is rigidly mounted inside the housing. A |
| 6386879 |
Precision gunnery simulator system and method |
May 14, 2002 |
| A turret mounted gun on a shooter tank with a laser scanner transmitter in its barrel emits a laser beam upon a trigger pull. The laser beam is directed toward a target tank based upon a shooter's ranging and tracking using a standard fire control computer to provide conventional ranging |
| 6292106 |
Acoustical system and method for simultaneously locating and tracking multiple personnel in room |
September 18, 2001 |
| A radio frequency (RF) sync pulse is transmitted throughout a building having a plurality of rooms to be traversed by a plurality of players during, for example, an assault training exercise. Ultra-sound pulses are transmitted from fixed piezoelectric transducers mounted at each corner o |
| 6254394 |
Area weapons effect simulation system and method |
July 3, 2001 |
| An area weapons effect simulation system and method that determine the extent of simulated injuries and damage sustained by players such as soldiers and vehicles as a consequence of simulated mines, projectiles, air defenses, and toxic or nuclear clouds in near real time. The system |
| 6252464 |
Numerically-controlled nyquist-boundary hopping frequency synthesizer |
June 26, 2001 |
| An inexpensive numerically-controlled fast frequency-hopping microwave synthesizer. A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) output phase remains locked to an internal direct digital synthesizer (DDS) reference signal over the entire output frequency band, which is an order of magnitude |
| 6178207 |
Aircraft combat training signal processing system |
January 23, 2001 |
| An ASIC chip interfaces with multiple data protocol specifications and includes a demodulator for data messages in a protocol at a first data rate, such as the TACTS protocol, and includes a demodulator for data messages in a protocol at a second data rate, such as the NACTS protocol. |
| 6065404 |
Training grenade for multiple integrated laser engagement system |
May 23, 2000 |
| A re-usable simulated grenade is provided that may be utilized by soldiers training with a multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES). The simulated grenade includes a central core having a blast chamber that contains a non-lethal quantity of an explosive detonated by a manually |
| 5992290 |
Aircraft interface device and crossover cable kit |
November 30, 1999 |
| A digital interface device conveys signals between aircraft data busses and a wingtip weapons station. A first interface is provided, coupling to an F/A-18 Aircraft Instrumentation Subsystem Internal (AISI) input/output connector. A second interface is coupled to a secondary armament bus |
| 5476385 |
Laser small arms transmitter |
December 19, 1995 |
| A laser small arms transmitter (SAT) which may be affixed to the stock of a rifle such as an M16 used by a soldier in training with a multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES). The transmitter includes a housing assembly having a forward end with a window through which the beam |
| 5426295 |
Multiple integrated laser engagement system employing fiber optic detection signal transmission |
June 20, 1995 |
| A manworn laser detection system is provided for use in a multiple integrated laser engagement system (MILES). A plurality of laser detectors are carried by a harness adapted to be worn by a person for receiving a laser bullet hit from a weapon equipped with a laser small arms transm |
| 5410815 |
Automatic player identification small arms laser alignment system |
May 2, 1995 |
| A fixture automatically aligns a laser transmitter bolted to a rifle. A case is horizontally oriented and a hinged end cover is swung upwardly to reveal a control unit. The barrel of the rifle is supported on a weapon rest mounted to the base unit and the trigger guard or clip receptacle |
| 5344319 |
Shoot and kill indicator |
September 6, 1994 |
| An airborne wind-driven electrical generator provides electrical current to the resistance wire of a smoke generator, which receives a smoke-producing fluid from a reservoir. A valve controls the flow of fluid to the smoke generator in response to control signals, which may indicate a si |
| 5255004 |
Linear array dual polarization for roll compensation |
October 19, 1993 |
| A planar array of linearly polarized antenna elements, each element tilted so that its polarization orientation is disposed at an angle with respect to the array vertical axis so that array polarization loss is minimized as a function of roll about an array normal. Half of the elements a |
| 5202697 |
Low-profile steerable cardioid antenna |
April 13, 1993 |
| A multimode low-profile avionics antenna is disclosed for use in Automatic Direction Finder (ADF) systems. The low profile antenna generates a steerable cardioid radiation pattern having a minimum bandwidth of 30% and an unusual degree of independence from mutual coupling and coupling to |
| 5136512 |
Ground collision avoidance system |
August 4, 1992 |
| A method and system for avoiding ground collision through pilot warning messages which is implemented in aircraft having a plurality of sensors, onboard inertial navigation units, and altimeters for measuring aircraft performance or flight characteristics. Data is collected through a dig |
| 5072225 |
Radar sidelobe identification and discrimination system |
December 10, 1991 |
| An apparatus and method for identifying sidelobe transmitted and/or received radar signals. The apparatus is utilized in a radar system having a transmitter for generating at least one detection signal, an antenna system defining a mainbeam and sidelobe radiation pattern for transmitting |
| 5049011 |
Rotary boring tool with indexable cutter chips |
September 17, 1991 |
| To permit boring with replaceable cutter elements (10, 10a, 10b), particularly into materials where, upon withdrawal of the boring tool from a bore hole (40), grooves or scratches are to be avoided, two cutter elements are positioned on a fluted cylindrical body (1), the cutter eleme |
| 5045858 |
Sidelobe identification and discrimination system with signal multiplexer-separator |
September 3, 1991 |
| A system for discriminating between signals received on the mainbeam of an antenna system and signals received on the sidelobe of the antenna system. The system utilizes a main antenna and multiple auxiliary antennas. The signals received on the main antenna are coincident on one or more |
| 5003314 |
Digitally synthesized phase error correcting system |
March 26, 1991 |
| A system for correcting phase errors in a space based radar system utilizing probes located in front of an array of lens elements of a phased array antenna. Included is a mechanism for supplying a stored perfect value signal indicative of the distance between the probes and lens elem |
| 4928109 |
Modulated scanning antenna |
May 22, 1990 |
| A scanning antenna comprises a non-magnetic, electrically conductive radiation horn defining an antenna opening having a predetermined central line of focus, and at least one magnetically switchable conductive element such as a reed relay mounted to extend across the antenna opening |
