Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Weiner

Thomas E. Weiner 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).

  • Detector for Q-switched laser radiation
    Patent number: 4276472
    Abstract: A detector for detecting radiation from a Q-switched laser. The detector prises a plurality of silicon photo-diodes (10) which develop an output signal when struck by incident radiation from the Q-switched laser. The output of the photo-diodes is connected to a pulse-width discriminator (12) and a pulse-amplitude discriminator (13). The pulse-width discriminator generates an output signal only if the amplitude of the output pulse from the photo-diodes is less than 300 nanoseconds, signifying an input pulse from a Q-switched laser. The pulse-amplitude discriminator develops an output signal only when the photo-diode is saturated, again, indicating radiation from a Q-switched laser. The presence of a signal from either the pulse-width discriminator or the pulse-amplitude discriminator indicates that the incident radiation on the photo-diode was indeed from a Q-switched laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Joseph A. Costantino, Jeffrey R. Heberley, Jerry Neimark, Thomas E. Weiner