Patents by Inventor Anthony Kinghorn
Anthony Kinghorn 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).
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Patent number: 11953270Abstract: A gas-liquid separator includes a chamber having an inlet for liquid to enter and at least one outlet for expulsion gas and/or vapour that has separated from the liquid within the chamber under gravity. For some applications the chamber will also have an outlet for the liquid. These systems can rely on the chamber remaining in a static orientation with the gas outlet arranged uppermost. Exemplary embodiments provide the chamber with multiple spaced apart outlets and an ability to sense orientation and/or acceleration of the chamber. A controller uses the output of the sensors to determine the spatial arrangement of the liquid phase and gas phase within the chamber relative to the outlets and selectively opens the multiple outlets to allow one of the liquid phase or gas phase to escape the chamber in preference to the other.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: LEONARDO UK LTDInventor: Anthony Kinghorn
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Patent number: 11765835Abstract: A radar system includes two circuit boards, a first carries an array of antenna elements and the second carries power circuitry to power the circuitry of the first board. To provide adequate cooling whilst minimising the size of the system the two circuit boards are mounted in a sandwich arrangement on opposite sides of a heat sink. Data and power connections between the two boards are provided by a plurality of electrical cables that extend through apertures in the heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: LEONARDO UK LTDInventors: Anthony Kinghorn, Paul Thompson, Michael Dugan
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Patent number: 11555909Abstract: A radar system for air volume surveillance, the radar having a transmitter and receiver with separate antennas. The receiver aperture being relatively large compared with the transmitter aperture such that the receiving beam is narrower than the transmitting beam, which itself is relatively small compared with the volume to be surveyed. Multiple receiving beams can be configured so that collectively they substantially match the angular volume of the transmitting beam; and in which the transmitter is arranged, when operating, to transmit a signal with a duty cycle greater than fifty percent.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: LEONARDO UK LTD.Inventors: Anthony Kinghorn, Christopher Mountford
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Patent number: 11552717Abstract: The present disclosure relates to manufacture of an active array antenna from a combination of modular sub-arrays, nominally of equal size; each sub-array being associated with a separate receiver and/or transmitter. A solution to calibrating a modular array is the inclusion of a calibration manifold having multiple 1st ports that connect to respective sub-arrays between their passive network and their respective receiver and/or transmitter. Each of the first ports communicate with a common second port through which a signal can be introduced in order to be received at each element of each sub array, or through which a signal from any element of any sub-array can be received. This allows any element of the sub array to be calibrated at any time including during operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: LEONARDO UK LTDInventors: Anthony Kinghorn, Alexander Robinson
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Publication number: 20220272846Abstract: A radar system includes two circuit boards, a first carries an array of antenna elements and the second carries power circuitry to power the circuitry of the first board. To provide adequate cooling whilst minimising the size of the system the two circuit boards are mounted in a sandwich arrangement on opposite sides of a heat sink. Data and power connections between the two boards are provided by a plurality of electrical cables that extend through apertures in the heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: Leonardo UK LtdInventors: Anthony KINGHORN, Paul THOMPSON, Michael DUGAN
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Publication number: 20220111312Abstract: A gas-liquid separator includes a chamber having an inlet for liquid to enter and at least one outlet for expulsion gas and/or vapour that has separated from the liquid within the chamber under gravity. For some applications the chamber will also have an outlet for the liquid. These systems can rely on the chamber remaining in a static orientation with the gas outlet arranged uppermost. Exemplary embodiments provide the chamber with multiple spaced apart outlets and an ability to sense orientation and/or acceleration of the chamber. A controller uses the output of the sensors to determine the spatial arrangement of the liquid phase and gas phase within the chamber relative to the outlets and selectively opens the multiple outlets to allow one of the liquid phase or gas phase to escape the chamber in preference to the other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2019Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: LEONARDO MW LIMITEDInventor: Anthony KINGHORN
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Publication number: 20210364623Abstract: A radar system for air volume surveillance, the radar having a transmitter and receiver with separate antennas. The receiver aperture being relatively large compared with the transmitter aperture such that the receiving beam is narrower than the transmitting beam, which itself is relatively small compared with the volume to be surveyed. Multiple receiving beams can be configured so that collectively they substantially match the angular volume of the transmitting beam; and in which the transmitter is arranged, when operating, to transmit a signal with a duty cycle greater than fifty percent.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2019Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Anthony KINGHORN, Christopher MOUNTFORD
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Publication number: 20210359770Abstract: The present disclosure relates to manufacture of an active array antenna from a combination of modular sub-arrays, nominally of equal size; each sub-array being associated with a separate receiver and/or transmitter. A solution to calibrating a modular array is the inclusion of a calibration manifold having multiple 1st ports that connect to respective sub-arrays between their passive network and their respective receiver and/or transmitter. Each of the first ports communicate with a common second port through which a signal can be introduced in order to be received at each element of each sub array, or through which a signal from any element of any sub-array can be received. This allows any element of the sub array to be calibrated at any time including during operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Leonardo UK LtdInventors: Anthony KINGHORN, Alexander ROBINSON
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Patent number: 8354973Abstract: A phased array antenna is disclosed where the transmit/receive modules are replaced by a series of separately packaged components. The components include, for example, a vector control component, a high power amplifier component, a low noise amplifier component, a transmit/receive duplexing component and ancillary supporting components. An advantage of this arrangement is that cheaper antenna arrays can be constructed without limiting the capability and/or performance of a system incorporating such an array when compared to known solutions.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2008Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Selex Galileo LtdInventors: Anthony Kinghorn, Ronald Lyon, Angus David McLachlan, Graeme Dick Morrison
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Patent number: 8138973Abstract: This invention relates to utilizing a larger number of lower power transmit/receive modules in a phased antenna array in order to utilize cheaper and simpler transmit/receive modules whilst retaining comparable power per unit area as can be achieved through using conventional high powered transmit/receive modules. The advantage of this arrangement is that cheaper antenna arrays can be constructed without limiting the capability and/or performance of a system incorporating such an array when compared to a conventional solution.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Selex Galileo LtdInventors: Anthony Kinghorn, Ronald Lyon, Angus McLachlan, Graeme Morrison
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Publication number: 20100238071Abstract: This invention relates to utilising a larger number of lower power transmit/receive modules in a phased antenna array in order to utilise cheaper and simpler transmit/receive modules whilst retaining comparable power per unit area as can be achieved through using conventional high powered transmit/receive modules. The advantage of this arrangement is that cheaper antenna arrays can be constructed without limiting the capability and/or performance of a system incorporating such an array when compared to a conventional solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2007Publication date: September 23, 2010Inventors: Anthony Kinghorn, Ronald Lyon, Angus McLachlan, Graeme Morrison
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Publication number: 20100201601Abstract: A phased array antenna is disclosed where the transmit/receive modules are replaced by a series of separately packaged components. The components include, for example, a vector control component, a high power amplifier component, a low noise amplifier component, a transmit/receive duplexing component and ancillary supporting components. An advantage of this arrangement is that cheaper antenna arrays can be constructed without limiting the capability and/or performance of a system incorporating such an array when compared to known solutions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2008Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: Selex Galileo LimitedInventors: Anthony Kinghorn, Ronald Lyon, Angus David McLachlan, Graeme Dick Morrison
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Publication number: 20070146202Abstract: This invention relates to reducing the complexity and cost of antenna arrays and is more specifically concerned with reducing the complexity of an antenna apparatus (10). It provides an antenna array (62) made up of a vertical stack of horizontal linear structures (74) each having several groups of neighbouring array antenna elements (78), the groups (74) having variable numbers of the antenna elements (78) each connected to a transmit/receive module (66). The advantage of this configuration is that less communication modules (66), such as transmit/receive modules, are required to operate the antenna array (62), reducing the weight, power consumption and cost of an antenna apparatus (10) incorporating such an antenna array (62) without significantly limiting the capability and/or performance of a system compared to a conventional solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2006Publication date: June 28, 2007Applicant: Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems LimitedInventors: Anthony Kinghorn, Robert Sinclair, John Tanner
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Publication number: 20060061505Abstract: Described herein is a method and apparatus for improving high range resolution of a radar system. The method comprises phase shifting a radar pulse to be transmitted at substantially the radar transmission frequency and phase shifting the received radar pulse at substantially the radar transmission frequency. The phase shifting is implemented using a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) (42) driven by a digital circuit (44) to provide a phase profile which is applied to radar pulse (52) produced by a radar pulse generator (54) and which is also applied to a received radar pulse (60). A master clock and synchroniser (72) provides clock signals for an analogue to digital converter (ADC) (68), the generator (54) and the digital circuit (44) so that the MMIC (42) is clocked at a frequency which is directly harmonically related to the ADC (68). This avoids spurious beat frequencies which could interfere with a wanted radar signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2003Publication date: March 23, 2006Inventor: Anthony Kinghorn