ACTIVE WING TIPS FOR TILTROTOR WHIRL FLUTTER STABILITY AUGMENTATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190248473A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-15

    申请号:US15895189

    申请日:2018-02-13

    CPC classification number: B64C13/18 B64C29/0033 B64D45/00 B64D2045/0085

    Abstract: Mitigating whirl flutter in a tiltrotor aircraft includes providing at least one control surface supported for movement relative to a pylon attached to the aircraft's wing; providing an actuator for moving the control surface relative to the pylon; providing at least one sensor system to sense at least one deformation mode of the wing tip; providing a control system having one or more inputs and one or more output signals; using an electrical signal relating to deformation of the wing tip to serve at least as the basis for at least one of the inputs to the control system; determining at least one output signal of the control system based at least in part on the electrical signal relating to deformation; and controlling the actuator based at least in part on the output signal of the control system to move the control surface so as to counteract the deformation.

    Method and systems for routing entangled photons to quantum network users via a reconfigurable switch networks of optical crossbar switches

    公开(公告)号:US10225080B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-05

    申请号:US15590828

    申请日:2017-05-09

    Abstract: Quantum networking systems and methods for routing entangled photons pairs are described herein. One quantum networking system includes entangled photon sources which generate entangled photons; optical output ports; a reconfigurable switching network connecting to the entangled photon sources and the output ports, which include a regular repeating structure of optical crossbar switches and interconnections for selectively routing individual ones of entangled photons pairs input to the network to and amongst the outputs; and a control module. The control module is configured to receive a request for entangled photons at the output ports; execute a routing algorithm to determine the state of the switches in the reconfigurable switching network to satisfy the request; and generate and transmit control signals to the switching network in order to set the states of the switches according to the executed routing algorithm. The reconfigurable switching network may be a Beneš or a banyan-type network architecture.

    Modified antipodal vivaldi antenna with elliptical loading

    公开(公告)号:US10186783B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-22

    申请号:US15060687

    申请日:2016-03-04

    Inventor: DaHan Liao

    Abstract: A Vivaldi antenna having an upper conductor and a lower conductor. A signal connector feed is attached to a rear end of the conductors while each conductor includes a curved flare section extending forwardly for the reception or transmission of the signal. Each conductor includes elliptical loading section or sections disposed around its flare section to enhance performance of the antenna by improving the front to back ratio as well as other factors for the antenna.

    Reduced Jacketed Bullet Bore Resistance
    126.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190017791A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-17

    申请号:US15451489

    申请日:2017-03-07

    Inventor: Paul Conroy

    Abstract: A jacketed structure includes at least one penetrator slug; a jacket surrounding the at least one penetrator slug; and a deformable sleeve surrounding a portion of the at least one penetrator slug and encased by the jacket. The deformable sleeve includes porous material, which absorbs plastic deflection of the jacket during an engraving process with a barrel of a weapon during firing. The at least one penetrator slug includes material having a hardness value greater than a hardness value of the jacket and the deformable sleeve. The deformable sleeve surrounds a rear portion of the at least one penetrator slug. The deformable sleeve surrounds approximately half of the at least one penetrator slug. The deformable sleeve is configured to deform symmetrically during firing of a weapon containing the jacketed structure.

    LADAR RECEIVER WITH ENHANCED SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20180364332A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-20

    申请号:US15340307

    申请日:2016-11-01

    Abstract: A laser receiver comprising a sensor; a first amplifier operatively connected to the sensor comprising a first gate, a first source and a first drain; a first subcircuit operatively connected between the first drain and the first gate comprising a first resistor, a first inductor and a decoupling capacitor configured to allow the first amplifier bias to be established by the at least one first biasing resistor; the impedance of the first gate being sufficient such that only a small proportion of the current from the sensor passes into the first gate; an inductor connecting the first gate to the at least one biasing resistor with high impedance at the receiver operating frequency; a second amplifier comprising a second gate operatively connected to the first drain; and an output configured to be operatively connected to a processing unit and a display unit configured to displaying output and method thereof.

    OPTICAL FILTER ON A FLEXIBLE MATRIX
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180259694A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-13

    申请号:US15915276

    申请日:2018-03-08

    Inventor: Thomas C. Parker

    Abstract: A flexible optical filter and a method of manufacturing includes providing a porous optical filter; depositing the porous optical filter onto a substrate; coating the porous optical filter with a polymer film thereby transferring the porous optical filter to the polymer film; and removing the polymer film and attached porous optical filter from the substrate thereby creating a flexible optical filter. The porous optical filter includes nano-structures. The nano-structures include any of rods, helices, particles, and zig-zags. The removed polymer film and attached porous optical filter may be flexible. The flexible optical filter includes inorganic materials. The nano-structures may absorb an applied strain to the flexible optical filter. The nano-structures prevent the inorganic materials from being damaged upon undergoing strain. The method may further include integrating any of nano-plasmonics, electrochromic, gasochromic, thermochromic, and non-linear optic materials with the porous optical filter.

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