Patents by Inventor Ronald T. Rasi

Ronald T. Rasi 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: 3955172
    Abstract: A beam steerer for remote positioning of the listening beams of a sonar ay which includes a beam selector switch, a steering control director, an analog switch network, and a delay line. The beam selector switch provides a remote capability of steering the hydrophone array by permitting the selection of any one of a number of listening beam pairs of the array and provides an enable signal to one of the five series-parallel combinations of voltage difference operational amplifiers, steering diodes, and voltage rectifiers of the steering control director. An enable signal from the steering control director provides a low impedance path for the signal from each of the hydrophone elements of the array through one of the analog switches for each hydrophone element and high impedance path for the remaining switches of each of the switch banks of the analog switch network. The output of each of the elements is then properly delayed before the beam is formed by summing the delayed outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1976
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Ronald T. Rasi