US4949318A
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Hydroacoustic sonar equipment
Assignee: Kinectrics Inc
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Filing: 1989-06-01
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Granted: 1990-08-14
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Expires: 2009-06-01
Abstract
Abstract The invention relates to a hydroacoustic sonar system in which received signals are processed without extensive filtering thereby to conserve higher fourier components of the received signals and so conserve useful information of targets. This is achieved by using a wideband detector module to effect demodulation of the received signals, and so eliminating the usual intermediate frequency stage. The module comprises a wideband input amplifier, a wideband full wave detector and an active low pass filter having a cut off frequency of at least 50 kHz.
Inventors
- 👤 Paul H. Patrick
- 👤 Gerald A. Hunt
- 👤 Blair E. Sim
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-03 12:20
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01S; G01S7/00; G01S7/52; G01S7/523; G01S7/526; G01S7/529
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim
120 words
In a hydroacoustic sonar system comprising transmitter-receiver means for beaming a pulse modulated radio frequency acoustic signal towards a target and receiving an echo signal reflected from the target, and means for deriving from the received echo signal a time varied gain corrected electrical signal to be demodulated and recorded, an improved means for demodulating said electrical signal comprising an input amplifier having a bandwidth of at least 500 kHz, a full wave detector means having a bandwidth of at least 500 kHz, the detector being coupled to the output of the amplifier, and an active low pass filter coupled to the output of the detector, the low pass filer having a cut off frequency of at least 50 kHz.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
120 words
In a hydroacoustic sonar system comprising transmitter-receiver means for beaming a pulse modulated radio frequency acoustic signal towards a target and receiving an echo signal reflected from the target, and means for deriving from the received echo signal a time varied gain corrected electrical signal to be demodulated and recorded, an improved means for demodulating said electrical signal comprising an input amplifier having a bandwidth of at least 500 kHz, a full wave detector means having a bandwidth of at least 500 kHz, the detector being coupled to the output of the amplifier, and an active low pass filter coupled to the output of the detector, the low pass filer having a cut off frequency of at least 50 kHz.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
26 words
A hydroacoustic sonar system according to claim 1, wherein the input amplifier and the full wave detector each have a bandwidth of at least 1.2 MHz.
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