Ammunition and explosives – Igniting devices and systems
Patent
1957-02-21
1977-11-22
Jordan, Charles T.
Ammunition and explosives
Igniting devices and systems
F42C 1304
Patent
active
040590526
ABSTRACT:
1. An improved noise-modulated distance-measuring fuze comprising in combtion: an oscillator; a transmitting antenna coupled to said oscillator for radiating a signal towards a target; a modulator coupled to said oscillator to cause frequency modulation thereof, said modulator comprising a random noise generator, a band-pass shaper connected to the output of said noise generator for frequency shaping the random noise output thereof, a limiter coupled to said band-pass shaper for amplitude shaping the frequency-shaped noise output thereof, an integrator coupled to said limiter for integrating the frequency-shaped and amplitude-shaped output thereof, and means connecting the output of said integrator to said oscillator in such a manner as to frequency modulate said oscillator; a receiving antenna adapted to receive a portion of the signal radiated from said transmitting antenna after reflection from a target; mixer means for mixing the received signal from said receiving antenna with a local signal taken from said oscillator to produce a difference-frequency mixer output signal, said mixer output signal having a frequency spectrum peaked at a frequency greater than zero that decreases with decrease of fuze-to-target distance, the frequency at which the mixer output signal is peaked and the broadness of the spectrum in the vicinity thereof for a given fuze-to-target distance being dependent upon the characteristics of said band-pass shaper and said limiter; and means coupled to said mixer and responsive to the frequency at which said mixer output signal is peaked for functioning the fuze at a predetermined fuze-to-target distance.
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patent: 2341351 (1944-02-01), Barkley
patent: 2433361 (1947-12-01), Harrison
patent: 2522367 (1950-09-01), Guanella
patent: 2711529 (1955-06-01), Shanahan
Edelberg Nathan
Elbaum Saul
Gibson Robert P.
Jordan Charles T.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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