Patents by Inventor Wm. F. Bentley

Wm. F. 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: 4263597
    Abstract: An automatic radio direction finding (ADF) system having inputs for four quadrature antennas each having a cardioid pattern. Each input is amplitude modulated in quadrature and then combined in a hybrid circuit to produce a nondirectional pattern. The combined rf signal is carried through the receiver as a normal signal and the AM detected intermediate frequency of the receiver is fed to a processor. The sum quadrature modulation is recovered, filtered, and accumulated in such a manner that random signals will cancel and any repetitive signals at the modulation frequency will increase in amplitude and be stored. The vector information of this recovered 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 in digital format in degrees of azimuth with respect to car heading. This averaging eliminates jitter in the last digit of the numerical readout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by Field Operations Bureau of FCC
    Inventors: Wm. F. Bentley, Arthur Luedtke, James E. Scott