Patents by Inventor Hubert Joncour

Hubert Joncour 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: 4972194
    Abstract: In a doppler radar, in order to compensate for the speed of moving clutter, one first establishes during a burst of order (i) the phase variation .phi.r.sub.i from one period to the next and which is due to clutter in a given range cell. Then, this phase variation .phi.r.sub.i is memorized and is used during the course of each of the periods of repetition of the next burst to modify the phase of the signal received from the clutter from the same range cell in a maner as to displace its Doppler frequency towards the zero frequencies band, and band which corresponds to the rejection zone of the fixed echoes eliminating filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Bruno Carrara, Jean-Claude Guillerot, Hubert Joncour, Jacques Drevet
  • Patent number: 4573052
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for reducing the power of active jamming signals received by the sidelobes of a radar antenna. A known method includes providing a radar with a main antenna and N auxiliary antennas, each antenna being associated with a corresponding processing channel. The signals received by the N antennas are each given a weighting coefficient corresponding to jamming on that channel. The N signals are then combined to form a weighted linear combination which is subtracted from the main channel signal to provide a signal with reduced jamming. The present invention provides apparatus and method for reducing clutter signals (such as fixed echoes and thermal noise) from each of the signals received in the N channels, thus producing very accurate weighting coefficients thereby allowing jamming power to be further reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Thomson CSF
    Inventors: Jean C. Guillerot, Hubert Joncour, Gerard Auvray, Daniel Balduzzi