With Automatic Lock-on Patents (Class 342/48)
  • Patent number: 6745008
    Abstract: A multi-frequency RFID remote communication system is provided that includes a plurality of RFID tags configured to receive a first signal and to return a second signal, the second signal having a first frequency component and a second frequency component, the second frequency component including data unique to each remote RFID tag. The system further includes a reader configured to transmit an interrogation signal and to receive remote signals from the tags. A first signal processor, preferably a mixer, removes an intermediate frequency component from the received signal, and a second processor, preferably a second mixer, analyzes the IF frequency component to output data that is unique to each remote tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute K1-53
    Inventors: Curtis Lee Carrender, Ronald W. Gilbert
  • Patent number: 6396434
    Abstract: Upon receiving a radar electric wave from a search radar, a radar transponder according to the present invention generates a trigger signal in response to the reception of the radar electric wave. In response to only the trigger signal, the radar transponder starts to generate sweep signals, and continues to generate sweep signals until a stop condition based on an external factor such as stop of power supply or the like is satisfied. Accordingly, the response electric wave can be received with a high probability in the search radar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takase, Kiyoo Matsuura
  • Patent number: 6114984
    Abstract: A means for identifying a particular range and Doppler shift signal in the field of view of a moving radar antenna which determines azimuth angle to this range-Doppler signal relative to the antenna by determining the phase difference between said signal as processed through two channels each fed by antennas displaced in a horizontal direction with respect to the axis of the antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald J McNiff