Patents Assigned to Loral Corp.
  • Patent number: 5657947
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a low cost and highly accurate precision guided system suitable for use in conventional aircraft launched bombs. The system includes a kit mounted upon the nose of the conventional bomb which replaces the conventional fuse disposed in a fuse well, the kit including guidance electronics controlling a self-contained jet reaction device and GPS P-code receiver electronics. The bombs are readied for discharge by signals broadcast from the aircraft into the bomb bay which transfer initial GPS data and commence operation of a gas generator which powers the jet reaction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Loral Corp.
    Inventor: Joseph R. Mayersak
  • Patent number: 5507452
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a low cost and highly accurate precision guided system suitable for use in conventional aircraft launched bombs. The system includes a kit mounted upon the nose of the conventional bomb which replaces the conventional fuse disposed in a fuse well, the kit including guidance electronics controlling a self-contained jet reaction device and GPS P-code receiver electronics. The bombs are readied for discharge by signals broadcast from the aircraft into the bomb bay which transfer initial GPS data and commence operation of a gas generator which powers the jet reaction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Loral Corp.
    Inventor: Joseph R. Mayersak
  • Patent number: 5456429
    Abstract: A thrust maneuver system for steerable vehicles comprising a plurality of thrusters of varying impulsive force, some of which provide a base force, and others varying multiples of the base force. The forces may be used additively or subtractively to obtain a desired force for any given maneuver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Loral Corp.
    Inventor: Joseph R. Mayersak
  • Patent number: 4808999
    Abstract: A rf decoy for use with rf repeater devices, transponders, noise jammers and other jamming devices. The decoy is adapted to be towed behind an aircraft using a tow line which incorporates a fiber optic link through which signals are transmitted. The device is excited through rf energy which is modulated on a laser carrier and transmitted through the fiber optic link. While the principal application is to repeaters which are towed behind an aircraft, the invention has utility in free-falling and forward fired transmitters as well as land and sea based vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Loral Corp.
    Inventor: Donald Toman
  • Patent number: 4423505
    Abstract: An adaptive canceller construction for cancelling signals received by a radio receiver operating in close proximity to a transmitter having means for extending the usefulness of the device over a wide band of frequencies. The canceller is provided with a memory which will remember the adopted parameter from one time in a given band to the next, so that as a jammer frequency jumps back and forth among several narrow frequency bands, the canceller will jump among a corresponding set of remembered parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1983
    Assignee: Loral Corp.
    Inventor: John H. Greig