Patents by Inventor Arnold Hoschette

Arnold Hoschette has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4965453
    Abstract: A multi-aperture, non-imaging sensing system is disclosed, for guiding a moving projectile toward a source of infrared energy. The detectors are arranged peripherally about a forward portion of the projectile, with their individual fields of view overlapping one another to selectively separate a composite field of view into a plurality of separate sectors, with a central sector including all individual fields of view. Infrared sensing elements and electrical circuitry are operatively associated with the detectors, for generating a binary one or zero, depending upon whether an infrared energy source is sensed by the associated detector. The combined results are generated as a digital word, utilized to indicate the location of the source within the composite field of view, and to generate a control signal. The control signal adjusts the projectile orientation to locate and maintain the source within the central sector of the composite field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Honeywell, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold Hoschette, Jay M. Ellingboe, Allen Lubke