Ground runway awareness and advisory system
    31.
    发明授权
    Ground runway awareness and advisory system 有权
    地面跑道意识和咨询体系

    公开(公告)号:US07117089B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-10-03

    申请号:US10789368

    申请日:2004-02-28

    IPC分类号: G06F163/00

    摘要: A Ground Runway Awareness and Advisory System (GRAAS) that provides supplemental position information and airport situational awareness alerts and advisories to pedestrians and vehicle operators during surface operations by providing timely aural, textual, graphic or pictographic alerts and advisory messages to pedestrians and vehicle operators in a significant number of different scenarios that have led to past runway and taxiway incursion occurrences. These messages are optionally supplemented by a situational awareness video display wherein one or more of the user's position, heading and ground speed are superimposed on a graphic display of airport features of interest. The GRAAS thereby satisfies one clear requirement in reducing VPDs: that the pedestrians or vehicle operators have a clear understanding of the airport layout, including designations of runways and taxiways, and their position relative to the airport layout and features, including aircraft, other ground vehicle traffic and pedestrians where position information is available.

    摘要翻译: 地面跑道意识和咨询系统(GRAAS),为行人和车辆操作者在地面作业期间提供补充位置信息和机场情景意识警报和咨询,向行人和车辆操作员提供及时的听觉,文字,图形或图形警告和咨询信息 导致过去跑道和滑行道入侵事件的大量不同情景。 这些消息可选地由情景感知视频显示补充,其中用户的位置,航向和地面速度中的一个或多个叠加在感兴趣的机场特征的图形显示上。 因此,GRAAS在减少VPD方面满足了一个明确的要求:行人或车辆操作人员对机场布局有明确的了解,包括跑道和滑行道的指定,以及他们相对于机场布局和特征的位置,包括飞机,其他地面车辆 交通和行人的位置信息可用。

    Low precision temperature sensor for aircraft applications
    32.
    发明授权
    Low precision temperature sensor for aircraft applications 失效
    用于飞机应用的低精度温度传感器

    公开(公告)号:US06644849B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-11-11

    申请号:US09585917

    申请日:2000-06-02

    申请人: Kevin J Conner

    发明人: Kevin J Conner

    IPC分类号: G01K116

    CPC分类号: G01K7/42

    摘要: A method and device for determining ambient air temperature by measuring the temperature of an aircraft interior skin surface.

    摘要翻译: 一种通过测量飞机内部皮肤表面的温度来确定环境空气温度的方法和装置。

    Aircraft weather information system
    33.
    发明授权
    Aircraft weather information system 有权
    飞机天气信息系统

    公开(公告)号:US06501392B2

    公开(公告)日:2002-12-31

    申请号:US09907730

    申请日:2001-07-17

    IPC分类号: G01C2100

    摘要: A system and method that downlinks weather data, generated by existing weather and data sensors, to a groundstation. The groundstation utilizes data from multiple aircraft to form refined weather information, and uplinks the refined weather information to the aircraft. The refined weather information is stored at the aircraft and picture generating equipment, such as an existing on-board ground proximity terrain picture and symbol generator, generates pictorial information depicting the weather information. The pictorial information is displayed, for example by an existing EFIS or weather radar display, in the form of polygons.

    摘要翻译: 将现有天气和数据传感器产生的天气数据下载到地面站的系统和方法。 地面站利用来自多架飞机的数据形成精细的天气信息,并将精致的天气信息上传到飞机。 精细天气信息存储在飞机和图像生成设备(例如现有的车载地面接近地形图像和符号发生器)中,产生描绘天气信息的图形信息。 图形信息例如通过现有的EFIS或天气雷达显示器以多边形的形式显示。

    Method and apparatus for implementing automatic tilt control of a radar antenna on an aircraft
    34.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for implementing automatic tilt control of a radar antenna on an aircraft 有权
    实现飞机上雷达天线自动倾斜控制的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06236351B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-05-22

    申请号:US09348648

    申请日:1999-07-06

    IPC分类号: G01S1395

    摘要: A method and apparatus for automatically controlling the tilt of a radar antenna to avoid ground clutter returns while scanning the weather formations of most interest. In one embodiment a terrain database is utilized to determine tilt angles for different terrain cells. The tilt angle is determined starting at the aircraft position and working out to the radar range. If a tilt angle for a more distant cell is less than for a nearer cell it is ignored taking shadowing into account. In another embodiment the weighted tilt angle frequencies are entered into a histogram and the histogram is scanned to obtain a tilt angle resulting in an acceptable amount of ground clutter.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于在扫描最感兴趣的天气层时自动控制雷达天线的倾斜以避免地面杂波返回的方法和装置。 在一个实施例中,使用地形数据库来确定不同地形单元的倾斜角度。 从飞机位置开始确定倾斜角度,并计算出雷达范围。 如果一个更远的单元格的倾斜角度小于一个较近的单元格,那么忽略它会被忽略。 在另一个实施例中,将加权倾斜角频率输入到直方图中,并且扫描直方图以获得导致可接受的地面杂波量的倾斜角。

    Automatic detection of GPS SA base value for HFOM
    35.
    发明授权
    Automatic detection of GPS SA base value for HFOM 有权
    自动检测HF SA的GPS SA基值

    公开(公告)号:US07570205B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-08-04

    申请号:US11161340

    申请日:2005-07-29

    IPC分类号: G01S1/00 G01S5/14

    CPC分类号: G01S19/13 G01S19/42

    摘要: An apparatus and method for detecting the type of Selective Availability (SA) engine in a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. The apparatus reverse computes a User Equivalent Range Error (UERE) value and filters it. The filtered value is run through a hysteresis to determine the GPS engine type. The engine type determination is used to adjust values used by other systems.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于在全球定位系统(GPS)接收机中检测选择性可用性(SA)引擎的类型的装置和方法。 设备反向计算用户等效范围误差(UERE)值并对其进行过滤。 滤波后的值通过滞后运行来确定GPS引擎类型。 引擎类型确定用于调整其他系统使用的值。

    Premature descent into terrain visual awareness enhancement to EGPWS
    36.
    发明授权
    Premature descent into terrain visual awareness enhancement to EGPWS 失效
    过早下降到EGPWS的地形视觉意识提升

    公开(公告)号:US06292721B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-09-18

    申请号:US09103349

    申请日:1998-06-23

    IPC分类号: G08G504

    摘要: In order to provide the pilots with a display or a map of the terrain below the aircraft, a display is generated on a cockpit display, such as a weather radar, of the contours of the terrain below the aircraft. The terrain contour display is generated from aircraft position information, a terrain data base, and a terrain awareness envelope defined by awareness boundaries. Terrain contours are depicted with the highest terrain within the envelope colored red, high intermediate terrain contours in yellow with varying dot densities, low intermediate terrain contours in green with varying dot densities, and the lowest terrain in black. The green contours can be overwritten with a low density yellow based on a pre-caution envelope which extends certain of the awareness boundaries to provide notice to a pilot of upcoming cautions.

    摘要翻译: 为了向飞行员提供飞机下方的地形的显示或地图,在驾驶舱显示器(如气象雷达)上生成飞机下方的地形轮廓的显示。 地形轮廓显示是从飞机位置信息,地形数据库以及由识别边界定义的地形识别包络生成的。 地形轮廓被描绘为具有最高地形的信封中着色为红色,高中等地形轮廓为黄色,具有不同的点密度,低中等地形轮廓为绿色,具有不同的点密度,最低的地形为黑色。 基于预警信封,绿色轮廓可以用低密度黄色覆盖,该信封延伸了某些意识边界,以向即将到来的警告的飞行员通知。

    Systems and methods for real-time data logging of an enhanced ground proximity system
    37.
    发明授权
    Systems and methods for real-time data logging of an enhanced ground proximity system 有权
    增强型地面接近系统的实时数据记录系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08258983B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-09-04

    申请号:US12854494

    申请日:2010-08-11

    IPC分类号: G01C21/00

    CPC分类号: G07C5/085

    摘要: Systems and methods for performing efficient, inexpensive data logging of aircraft sensor data. An example system on board an aircraft includes a plurality of data sources that provide sensor data associated with a plurality of avionic components, a line replaceable processing unit that is in signal communication with the plurality of data sources via one or more databuses, a wireless router connected to the line replaceable processing unit via a data cable and a portable data unit in wireless data communication with the wireless router. The wireless router receives at least a portion of the sensor data from the line replaceable processing unit and sends the received sensor data to the portable data unit.

    摘要翻译: 用于执行飞行器传感器数据的有效,便宜的数据记录的系统和方法。 飞机上的示例系统包括提供与多个航空电子部件相关联的传感器数据的多个数据源,经由一个或多个数据总线与多个数据源进行信号通信的线路可替换处理单元,无线路由器 通过与无线路由器的无线数据通信中的数据电缆和便携式数据单元连接到线路可更换处理单元。 无线路由器从线路可替换处理单元接收传感器数据的至少一部分,并将接收到的传感器数据发送到便携式数据单元。

    Surface vehicle transponder
    40.
    发明授权
    Surface vehicle transponder 有权
    表面车辆转发器

    公开(公告)号:US07479919B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-01-20

    申请号:US11672235

    申请日:2007-02-07

    IPC分类号: G01S13/00 G01S13/74

    摘要: Systems and methods for alerting surrounding aircraft if a ground-based unit is a threat. One example system is located on a ground-based unit. The system includes a position sensor that senses position of the ground-based unit, a memory that stores predefined threat zone information, a transmitter that transmits a predefined transponder signal, and a processor in data communication with the position sensor, the memory, and the transmitter. The processor instructs the transmitter to transmit the transponder signal based on the threat zone information and the sensed position of the ground-based unit.

    摘要翻译: 如果地面单位是威胁,则提醒周边飞机的系统和方法。 一个示例系统位于地面单元上。 该系统包括感测地面单元的位置的位置传感器,存储预定义的威胁区信息的存储器,发送预定义的应答器信号的发射器,以及与位置传感器,存储器和 发射机。 处理器指示发射机基于威胁区域信息和基于地面的单元的感测位置来发送应答器信号。