Patents by Inventor Hideya Taira

Hideya Taira 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).

  • Television antenna directing and tracking system for television program network between air-borne and ground offices
    Patent number: 4047175
    Abstract: This invention relates to a television antenna directing and tracking system for directing a television repeating or relaying antenna mounted on an aircraft toward a ground station. The air-borne office is provided with a coordinate transforming device for transforming the azimuth angle .phi..sub.A (t) and the elevation angle .theta..sub.A (t) which represent the direction of the aircraft with respect to the longitude and latitude of the globe or the globe coordinate into the azimuth angle .phi..sub.B (t) and the elevation angle .theta..sub.B (t) at the air-borne coordinate. The ground office is equipped with receiving means and tracking means and the air-borne office receives command signals regarding the azimuth angle .phi..sub.A (t) and the elevation angle .theta..sub.A (t) from the ground office. Further, the air-borne office is equipped with means for computing by itself the azimuth angle .phi..sub.A (t) and the elevation angle .theta..sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Tokyo Keiki Company Limited
    Inventors: Hideya Taira, Kuniaki Shimizu