Patents by Inventor Charles B. Koerner

Charles B. Koerner 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: 4876546
    Abstract: Doppler shift generator for use in electronic countermeasures equipment includes analog memory devices which are comprised of acoustic charge transport (ACT) memory devices. Such Doppler shift generators includes a switch which alternately applies an input signal to said first and second analog memory devices. Each analog memory device is responsive to a clock signal to sample data at a first frequency and to output the data at a second frequency. As a result, a Doppler shifted signal is generated whose frequency has been shifted by the difference in the first and second frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: ITT Corporation
    Inventor: Charles B. Koerner
  • Patent number: 4742244
    Abstract: There is disclosed an electronic float switch circuit which employs simple immersion probes, one of which is associated with a high fluid level and the other with a low fluid level. Each of the immersion probes operates in conjunction with an oscillator, a detector and a comparator. Essentially, when the associated immersion probe is immersed in a fluid, the oscillator ceases oscillations which therefore provides a first low voltage level via the detector to the comparator to therefore change the state of the comparator. The comparator associated with the high and low level probes operate to set and reset a DC flip-flop which in turn controls an opto-isolator device to trigger a triac. The triac operates the pump. When the fluid level reaches below the level of the low probe, the circuit is disabled allowing the vessel again to be filled with water to allow the pump to operate between the high and low levels by means of the electronic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: ITT Avionics
    Inventor: Charles B. Koerner