Patents by Inventor Richard E. Marinaccio

Richard E. Marinaccio 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: 4885587
    Abstract: A decorrelated spur digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) system stores incoming radio frequency (RF) signals in a digital memory and at some later time replicates these RF signals at the output. The input RF signal to be stored is mixed with a local oscillator (LO) signal, which is coded with a decorrelation waveform, to produce an intermediate frequency (IF) signal which is next digitized with a multibit analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. This data is stored in a digital memory and is later retrieved from the memory and converted back to an analog IF signal. The IF signal is then mixed with the coded LO to produce a replica of the original RF signal. The code on the LO is the same decorrelation waveform used to produce the input IF signal. The resultant RF output spectrum can be made to be spectrally clean, i.e., containing no spurious harmonic signals arising from the signal's quantization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Richard J. Wiegand, Peter M. Buerger, Richard E. Marinaccio
  • Patent number: 4121214
    Abstract: A system for jamming continuous wave radar type proximity fuzes used on surface-to-air missiles where the fuze requires an increase in return signal power level and a rapid frequency change for detonation. The system basically includes a receiver, amplifier, and transmitter. A received fuze signal is filtered and square wave modulated then sent to a first traveling wave tube for amplification. The signal is then amplified again by a second traveling wave tube which is modulated by a transit time modulator which continuously varies the phase shift through the tube in a linear fashion. The linear variation in phase shift is the equivalent of a displacement in the frequency signal being amplified. The signal is then reradiated to the missile giving the fuze a target sensing causing it to predetonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1969
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Richard E. Marinaccio, Ward M. Meier