Patents by Inventor Robert Wahl

Robert Wahl 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: 8232907
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an improved radar system that produces high range resolution while using existing narrow processing bandwidths and sampling rates to achieve a low cost radar product that is particularly useful for moving targets. The present invention uses a small number of closely spaced Linear Frequency Modulated Chirps. In one embodiment typically 2, 3, 4 chirps are used. Each frequency is sampled at a rate commensurate with the narrower bandwidth, corrected for motion, Time Aligned and combined to produce a single wide-band chirp but achieved using the lower sample rate commensurate with the narrower transmitted waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Inventors: Craig Aarseth, Robert Wahl
  • Patent number: 7705770
    Abstract: An IFF interrogation system for use on an aircraft is described. The system transmits a signal from an interrogator to a transponder and from the transponder to the interrogator. The system includes a non-reciprocal IFF antenna that breaks either an uplink signal or a downlink signal at any given angle outside the main beam. The IFF transmitter transmits an Uplink ? signal and an Uplink ? signal to the IFF antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Telephonics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Wahl
  • Patent number: 7533584
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for temperature compensating a torque sensor. One apparatus includes a shaft temperature detector and a temperature compensation circuit configured to alter tensile and compression voltages representative of tensile and compression stress, respectively, due to a torque being applied to the shaft based on shaft temperature. A system includes a sensor configured to generate tensile and compression voltages representative of tensile and compression stress, respectively, due to a torque being applied to a shaft, a shaft temperature detector, and a junction box. The junction box is configured to alter the tensile and compression voltages based on shaft temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Wahl
  • Publication number: 20090120209
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for temperature compensating a torque sensor. One apparatus includes a shaft temperature detector and a temperature compensation circuit configured to alter tensile and compression voltages representative of tensile and compression stresss, respectively, due to a torque being applied to the shaft based on shaft temperature. A system includes a sensor configured to generate tensile and compression voltages representative of tensile and compression stresss, respectively, due to a torque being applied to a shaft, a shaft temperature detector, and a junction box. The junction box is configured to alter the tensile and compression voltages based on shaft temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Wahl
  • Publication number: 20070285302
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an improved radar system that produces high range resolution while using existing narrow processing bandwidths and sampling rates to achieve a low cost radar product that is particularly useful for moving targets. The present invention uses a small number of closely spaced Linear Frequency Modulated Chirps. In one embodiment typically 2, 3, 4 chirps are used. Each frequency is sampled at a rate commensurate with the narrower bandwidth, corrected for motion (Time Aligned) and combined to produce a single wide-band chirp but achieved using the lower sample rate commensurate with the narrower transmitted waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventors: Craig Aarseth, Robert Wahl
  • Publication number: 20060284759
    Abstract: An IFF interrogation system for use on an aircraft is described. The system transmits a signal from an interrogator to a transponder and from the transponder to the interrogator. The system includes a non-reciprocal IFF antenna that breaks either an uplink signal or a downlink signal at any given angle outside the main beam. The IFF transmitter transmits an Uplink ? signal and an Uplink ? signal to the IFF antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2005
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Wahl