Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Patent
1992-10-20
1995-12-12
Mullen, Thomas
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
356369, G08B 1902
Patent
active
054753708
ABSTRACT:
A system for detecting the presence of an energy polarization altering dielectric material, such as ice or snow, on a surface, such as a part of an aircraft, which normally specularly reflects incident energy, such as light, when there is no such dielectric present. The energy is conveyed from a transmitter along a path to the surface and the incident energy is reflected from the surface along a path to a receiver with a dielectric on the surface destroying any polarization, such as circular, of the energy and that reflected from a specular portion maintaining the polarization. An optical system in one or both of the paths operates in an isolator state to produce an image of the dielectric portion having a first intensity level and that of the specular portion passing through the optical system having a different intensity level. When the optical system is operated alternately in isolator and non-isolator states it produces an image of the dielectric portion having a relatively steady intensity level and that of the specular portion alternating between first and second different intensity levels corresponding to the isolator and non-isolator states of the optical system.
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Mullen Thomas
Robotic Vision Systems Inc.
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