Patents by Inventor W. Ferrel Bentley

W. Ferrel Bentley 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: 4317120
    Abstract: An automatic radio direction finding system having inputs for a circular array with a plurality of directional antennas, each being switched in sequence producing a directional pattern in azimuth. The combined RF signal is carried through the receiver as a normal AM modulated signal and the intermediate frequency output of the receiver is detected and the added modulation is recovered, filtered, and accumulated in such a manner that random signals will cancel and any repetitive signals will increase in amplitude and be stored. The vector information of this stored modulation, when decoded with respect to the phase of the original modulation, contains the actual bearing information. The signal is then averaged over several cycles and displayed on a numerical readout in degrees azimuth. The averaging techniques are employed to eliminate jitter in the last digit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1982
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Field Operations Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission
    Inventors: W. Ferrel Bentley, Arthur Luedtke, James E. Scott