Patents Assigned to Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
  • Patent number: 4847481
    Abstract: An arrangement for position finding of a laser beam in a scattering medium with a laser transmitter and a laser receiver followed by an evaluation circuit. In order to be able to differentiate in the incoming laser radiation the unscattered coherent content and the scattered content, the laser transmitter is connected to a modulation circuit for intensity modulation of the transmitted laser beam with a characteristic modulation frequency (f.sub.L >1/T.sub.s) with the pulse duration spread being T.sub.s, which a brief laser pulse experiences upon being scattered in the medium. In addition, the receiver is connected to an electronic frequency filter tuned to the characteristic modulation frequency. Thereby, essentially only the unscattered coherent content of the laser beam is utilized for evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Konrad Altmann
  • Patent number: 4847489
    Abstract: A light sensitive detector arrangement contains a plurality of photosensitive detector elements, which in each instance have a multilayer structure of alternating positively and negatively doped photosensitive semiconductor material with a superlattice structure and control electrodes arranged vertically to the semiconductor layers and bordering on them on their front faces. To these a control voltage can be applied in order to control the spectral light sensitivity. An array contains in each case a predetermined number (for example three) of photo detector groups (E.sub.11 to E.sub.mm) of photosensitive detector elements (E.sub.111, E.sub.112, E.sub.113. . . respectively E .sub.mml, E.sub.mm2, E.sub.mm3). The control electrodes of the photo detector elements of each photo detector group are connected to variable voltage regulators (U.sub.1, U.sub.2, U.sub.3). Through the voltage regulators the upper and/or lower limit wavelength (.lambda..sub.o, .lambda..sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Dietrich
  • Patent number: 4838246
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an application part for rigid or flexible endoscopes having a viewing channel and a working channel extending parallel to the viewing channel, with the working channel being equipped with a guide as well as a defined stop for a fiber optic waveguide, which can be inserted and coupled with a laser light source, and the working channel having optics for concentrating the laser light emerging from the fiber optic waveguide onto a punctiform area. The part of the working channel surrounding the punctiform area is formed as shock wave reflector. Further, a flushing channel is provided, the outlet opening of which is at least partially directed onto the face of the optics from which the light emerges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Hahn, Fritz Wondrazek, Frank Frank
  • Patent number: 4838166
    Abstract: A housing for the protection of explosive charges comprises several layers of different compositions surrounding the explosive charge. The successive layers have alternately a high and a low shock wave impedance, where further the outermost layer has the lowest melting point and the melting point increases toward the innermost layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Spies, Ulrich Weigel
  • Patent number: 4819561
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor for use in the warhead of a missile, which can be used against helicopters, in that it is equipped with one or more high-resolution LRFs with respect to space and time, which identifies the helicopter on the basis of the common arrangement and size of the detected rotor blade selections with a numerical processor and activates an ignition device accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Gunthard Born, Gunther Sepp
  • Patent number: 4814607
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for recording the image of an object, for instance the earth's surface, from a flying body, in this case an earth satellite. The flying body flies over the object at an altitude. Herein, the object is scanned in lines by a line scanner. The viewing angle .alpha. of the liner scanner with respect to the direction of flight v is increased during the scanning process, whereby a higher resolution capacity is attained. Preferably several line sensors are used in the line scanner, which are arranged on a carrier, which is displaced during the flight of the flying body relative to a length in the direction of flight v. The displacement occurs by way of a cyclically functioning drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Otto Hofmann
  • Patent number: 4807596
    Abstract: A guiding probe, in particular for an endoscope for surgical endoscopy with laser light, wherein the guiding probe comprises a flexible section which is resistant to high temperatures and substantially does not absorb the laser light used, and further including an auxiliary part for introducing the probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Hochberger, Christian Ell
  • Patent number: 4805291
    Abstract: A mold component for forming a member consisting of a nondevelopable surface, such a member being an airfoil such as a wing or the like, is provided with an interior cavity in the shape of a developable surface which approximates the nondevelopable surface. In forming the mold cavity, points of equal tangential inclination on the non-developable surface are joined by straight lines and then the areas between the straight lines are formed as flat planar surfaces, thereby to form a developable surface which is an approximation of the nondevelopable surface. A flat planar development is then formed from this developable surface and bends are made therein at the straight lines in order to form thereby the mold cavity. A substantial number of said bends extend non-parallel to each other and none of the bends intersect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Hahn, Peter Wackerle, Peter Eschenfelder, Ralf-Thilo Schulz
  • Patent number: 4803807
    Abstract: To provide, for a sliding door with a pneumatically operated door panel servomotor, a safety device which operates independently of the usual reversing device and which limits the maximally active door closing force to an exactly settable value in a simple and reliable manner, there is associated with the servomotor, a limit value control circuit with a closing force sensor which senses the reaction force of the servomotor acting on the door jamb side during the closing process and a sensor-controlled three-position control valve which freely vents the closing pressure side of the servomotor above a given response value of the closing force sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Stockermann, Herman Bohm, Josef Grober, Wolfgang David
  • Patent number: 4805108
    Abstract: A low flight method for automatic course determination when approaching a given target site is disclosed wherein a terrain memory is used in which terrain points in grid type distribution of the terrain in question with height coordinates associated with them are stored digitally (digital terrain height model). By means of a rough analyzer, spaced at possibly variable first time intervals .DELTA.T over the multitude of points of the digital terrain height model, a first fan (F.sub.n) starting from a respective momentary flight position (P.sub.1) and oriented with its center direction (M.sub.F) toward the target site (P.sub.z) and consisting of several adjacent segments (S.sub.i) is placed. For each segment (S.sub.i) a mean value of the height coordinates of the terrain points situation in it is calculated, and the segment (S.sub.4) having the smallest mean value is determined. By means of a fine analyzer (4), within each of the first time intervals .DELTA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter W. Feuerstein, Otto Bernhard
  • Patent number: 4799427
    Abstract: An ignition device for a projectile, in particular a guided missile, where the ignition moment is controllable as a function of the impingement delay and of the flight time of the projectile. This allows compensation for the type of material comprising the taget, e.g., hard or soft, and for the amount of time the projectile has been airborne, thus compensating for reduced projectile velocity at the time of striking the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Held, Horst Kirsche
  • Patent number: 4797562
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image recording sensor (1) with a plurality of photodetectors (15) in a matrix arrangement. The photodetectors (15) are here integrated components of cells (2), which through address lines (PX, PY) can be coupled for the definition of cell addresses. Each cell has at least one capacitor (C1, C2), in which the photocharge of the photodetector (15) can be stored. The resulting capacitor voltage (U1) is compared in a comparator (17) with a reference voltage (U.sub.REF, U2). The comparator is succeeded by an output circuit (18) for the output of a signal to the address lines upon the occurrence of a positive comparison result. All cells (2) can be driven via an external control circuit (4) with groups of common control and check signals. With such image recording sensor (1) no intensity values per picture element are output but only the addresses of the picture elements of interest, in which the intensity value has exceeded a given level, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Dietrich
  • Patent number: 4793571
    Abstract: A missile, and in particular a shell flying at supersonic velocity, having aerodynamic control. The missile comprises a missile housing and a missile tip which is tiltably connected to the missile housing. Between the missile housing and the shell tip, a positioning device consisting of at least one piezoelectric positioning member and a control circuit is arranged which comprises a voltage source. By applying a voltage to the piezoelectric positioning members, their lengths are changed, whereby the tilting motion of the shell tip is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Kranz
  • Patent number: 4793199
    Abstract: An electromagnetic precision rotary drive for a disk-shaped rotor. Along a peripheral annular zone of the rotor an armature band with a periodical pattern is disposed, which, within each period, varies continuously between the inner and the outer edge of the annular zone. The rotor is surrounded by a magent support, which carries at least one permanent magnet. If the magnet support is moved back and forth substantially radially, a torque is exerted on the rotor due to the interaction between the permanent magnet and the armature band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Sodeikat
  • Patent number: 4787317
    Abstract: A rail vehicle with spring support of its car body on an underframe with flanged wheels for guidance and support on a track. Permanent magnets are provided on the underframe, which exert an attraction counter to the wheel load on armature bars extending along the track. The magnetic force of the magnets is controllable as a function of the load (weight) of the car body by an increase or decrease of the magnetic resistance of a ferromagnetic magnet core by mechanical means as the load decreases or increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Bohn, Christian Gunther
  • Patent number: 4784448
    Abstract: A retromodulator in the form of a triple mirror with electromechanical transducer elements for planar deformation by which incident light radiation is retroflected in modulated form. At least one face of the retromodulator is formed as an oscillatory diaphragm which is excited to natural oscillations by the transducer elements. In a preferred form of realization, the oscillatory diaphragm comprises a piezoelectric foil, on whose inner side a reflecting layer is applied and on whose outer side electrodes are applied to which the modulation signal is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Sepp, Gunthard Born
  • Patent number: 4775211
    Abstract: A detachable connection between a light-guide fiber and a laser suited particularly for medical purposes comprises two coupling elements. In the light exit opening of the first coupling element an optical coupling system is arranged which is connected to the former and can be adjusted parallel and/or perpendicularly to the optical axis. The first coupling element comprises a device for generating an axial force on the second coupling element. Between the first and second coupling elements, contact surfaces with high thermal conductvity are provided, by means of which heat is transferred in the coupled condition from the second coupling element to the first coupling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Fritz Wondrazek, Andreas Hahn, Wolfram Einars
  • Patent number: 4773334
    Abstract: In order to achieve in a truck for a track vehicle with an H-shaped truck frame which consists of a composite fiber structure serving the function of a primary spring, with two longitudinal beams connected to each other via transverse beams, a distribution of the loads of the truck frame suitable for composite fibers, the frame contains a torsion-elastic central plate member which couples the longitudinal beams to each other independently of the transverse beams, is designed in the truck plane as a frame stiffening element, is provided with load introduction points for the longitudinal and transverse support of the vehicle body and is designed as a bending-stiff composite fiber component for the transmission of longitudinal and transverse forces between the load introduction points and the longitudinal beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Nowak, Rolf Leo, Franz Hofer, Walter Oefner
  • Patent number: 4774117
    Abstract: In a bending load beam, in particular for the truck or bogie frames of rail vehicles, comprising a fiber composite structure relatively rigid at least in the center of the beam, elastic at the beam end sections, having an upper and a lower fiber cord fashioned as respective upper and lower flanges with the fiber oriented in the longitudinal direction of the beam and with a fiber composite core placed between the fiber cords to maintain their distance, the fiber composite core is composed of fiber composite load webs distributed lamellae-like over the width of the beam. The load webs are oriented in the longitudinal direction of the beam, form the boundaries of hollow chambers, and are bound into the upper and the lower fiber cords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Oefner, Gerhard Singer
  • Patent number: 4772928
    Abstract: An electric transducer for measuring mechanical quantities comprises a movable tongue which is acted upon by the mechanical quantity to be measured and the deflection of which is converted into an electrical signal. The tip of the tongue may be designed as the gate and an electric conduction channel disposed opposite the tip at a small distance therefrom may comprise the source-drain path of a field effect transistor, or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Dietrich, Walter Kroy