摘要:
In a transponder adapted to be attached to an object to be identified, an interrogator for interrogating the transponder utilizes an antenna system including first and second antennae with the first antenna being formed as a loop and the second antenna formed in a figure-8 configuration, and being coplanar with the first antenna. A source of power provides first and second transmission signals to the first and second antennae, respectively. A phase shift is introduced between the first and second transmission signals such that the first and second antennae create an electromagnetic interrogating field in a desired region with the electromagnetic field having a non-zero value at all points within the desired region for activating the transponder regardless of the orientation of the transponder. At least one of the two antennae may be arranged to function as a receiving antenna to receive signals emitted by the transponder.
摘要:
A circuit for use in a transponder located in an aircraft or the like for identifying a true side lobe suppression signal being transmitted by a ground located transmitted system. The true side lobe suppression signal includes at least pulses P1 and P2. The circuit causes the transponder to produce a reply signal upon the amplitude of the P1 pulse being a predetermined ratio to said P2 pulse. The circuit includes a pair of transistors with a capacitor connected to the output of the second transistor. The pulses P1 and P.sub.2 are supplied to the base electrode of the first transistor. Pulse P1 turns on the two transistors and charges the capacitor to a predetermined level so that when the second pulse P2 arrives, it does not turn on a transistor when it is equal to or less than the first pulse P1.
摘要:
A P-I-N type diode high frequency switch in a secondary radar interrogation device working with ISLS and RSLS and consisting of a transmitter, two receivers and two antennas. So as to reduce the high cost for P-I-N type diodes, including driver stages for the transmission and reception separation and to eliminate the necessity of an antenna switching unit, the terminals 19 and 20 of a pair of antennas are directly connected through single lines 23 and 24 to band pass filters 5 and 6 connected to respective receivers 7 and 8 with the band pass filters 5 and 6 blocking the transmission signal and allowing reception of received signals and wherein the electrical lengths of the line and the band pass filter is such that the input impedance corresponding to no-load operation occurs at the corresponding antenna terminal for the transmission frequency. The invention can be used in secondary radar transponders operating with two antenna diversity and the high frequency switch of the invention can be used in both civil secondary radar interrogation devices as well as military IFF interrogation devices as, for example, in ground stations.
摘要:
This relates to a reference station for distance-measuring systems wherein the distance between aircraft and the reference station can be measured. The station comprises an antenna and at least one receiver and/or transmitter. The antenna consists of a plurality of spatially distributed elements.
摘要:
A secondary radar system for establishing the position and identity of aircraft etc. on airfields, particularly for controlling their ground movements during bad visibility, comprises a pair of spaced aerials each arranged to successively transmit a particular one of two interrogate pulses, the time relationship between the two pulses being varied such that a predetermined time relationship between the two interrogate pulses obtains at varying distances from said spaced aerials to afford selective interrogation of a transponder receiving the two interrogate pulses, and a third aerial spaced from the pair of spaced aerials for transmitting a further pulse in a second predetermined time relationship with one of the interrogate pulses whereby a selected transponder or transponders receiving said two interrogation pulses in said predetermined time relationship is caused to be suppressed.
摘要:
A beacon receiver or IFF system in which the gain of the receiver is time varied to enhance the discrimination between response from transponders located ahead of the interrogator as compared with the responses from transponders in the side or rear lobe regions of the interrogator antenna pattern. The system is employed with a directional antenna and signal processing apparatus giving sum .SIGMA. and difference .DELTA. channels. In accordance with this invention, the gain of the receiver in the sum .SIGMA. channel is increased from the minimum value to a maximum value beginning after the end of interrogation pulse. The difference .DELTA. channel is varied in gain from the time in the beginning after the end of the interrogator pulse but the gain is varied inversely from the maximum level at the beginning of reception to a maximum level at the end of reception.
摘要:
A technique of utilizing the measured time between reception of a sidelobe suppression signal and reflected signals of an IFF interrogation to inhibit further responses to succeeding reflected path interrogations.