Communications – electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices – Transponders – Sonobuoys and sonobuoy systems
Patent
1976-07-02
2000-08-01
Pihulic, Daniel T.
Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
Transponders
Sonobuoys and sonobuoy systems
H04B 159
Patent
active
060976683
ABSTRACT:
In an air-delivered, ice-penetrating, acoustic communications package, me are provided to ensure that subsurface electronic components are safely deployed under the ice layer. The package comprises a shaped penetrator probe and a separable, interconnected sonobuoy system having a buoyant, signal transmitting section, a buoyant, signal converting section and subsurface signal detecting components. The subsurface components are housed within a canister extractable from the aft end of the probe and connected to the afterbody by a heavy-duty shock cord coupled with a lighter connecting cord. After ice penetration, the antenna section, afterbody and probe separate, with the antenna section and after-body remaining above the ice/water interface. The probe descends, paying out the shock cord to extract the component canister. The canister separates and the components are deployed full depth via the connecting cable.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3248689 (1966-04-01), Shomphe et al.
patent: 3818523 (1974-06-01), Stillman, Jr.
patent: 3859598 (1975-01-01), McElwain
Pihulic Daniel T.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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