Patents by Inventor Otto Rittenbach

Otto Rittenbach 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: 4499467
    Abstract: Doppler radar sets of the type including circuitry for determining and displaying sense of target motion along the radar beam. The Doppler phase shifters in the I and Q channels of pulse radars of this type are designed to operate at frequencies much higher than the Doppler baseband frequencies by selecting one of the Doppler sidebands of the radar's pulse repetition frequency, or one of the sidebands of a harmonic of such pulse repetition frequency, for application to said Doppler phase shifters. The higher operating frequency simplifies the design and construction of the Doppler phase shifters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Otto Rittenbach
  • Patent number: 4123755
    Abstract: Interference between radar systems is eliminated by using shaped pulses. In one embodiment, the pulse has a cosine shape, in another a cos.sup.2 shape and in a third embodiment a cos.sup.n shape. In yet another embodiment, a single sideband shaped pulse is employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1978
    Inventors: William Fishbein, Reinhard Olesch, Otto Rittenbach
  • Patent number: 4041488
    Abstract: A Doppler radar system in which quadrature Doppler signals are derived to eld directional information. The quadrature signals are derived by demodulating the return signals with respective odd and even harmonics of the sinusoidal signal used to frequency modulate the RF carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of the Army
    Inventors: William Fishbein, Otto Rittenbach
  • Patent number: 4010468
    Abstract: Interference between two or more radar systems operating on the same freqcy is eliminated by synchronizing the rotation of the scanning antennas. In another embodiment, each transmitter is blanked if the corresponding receiver detects an interfering signal from the other transmitter. In yet another embodiment, the transmitter pulses are not blanked but merely delayed, if a pulse is received from the interfering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1977
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: William Fishbein, Reinhard Olesch, Otto Rittenbach