United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force

USA as Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Herman Rossman

Francis W Hopwood

John J Chino

John P Muhlbaier

Sharon A Duggan

Noe E Rodriguez, Ii

Paul LePage

Robert M Rossi

James L Moser

A shoulder screw having a centrally positioned borehole concentric with respect to the longitudinal axis of the screw and a cylindrical center-tapped bolt receiver loosley positioned within the centrally positioned borehole of the shoulder screw and coupled thereto by a roll pin positioned perpendicularly with respect to the axis of said shoulder screw, the diameter of the bolt receiver being less than the diameter of the borehole, for enabling the bolt receiver to translate in a direction transverse to the axis of the shoulder screw.

Floating center tapped shoulder screw

A spring-loaded, hand-operated line replaceable module lever is disclosed for use with a plug-in type electronic module in aircraft having a construction adapted for easy installation in or removal from a mating chassis by a person on the flight line even while wearing heavy or bulky gloves. The structure includes a lever/driver blade with an enlarged pivoting thumb grip, which is spring loaded toward the open position, for grasping between thumb and forefinger when the installation cover is removed.

Spring loaded hand operated extraction/insertion line replaceable module

A positive locking mechanism is provided for securing a plug-in electronic odule in a chassis. A threaded element is provided for attaching the electronic module to the chassis and tightening of the threaded element forces a module connector into engagement with a mating connector in the chassis. A pivotal driver blade is provided for turning the threaded element and, after the connectors are mated, the driver blade is pivoted and a cam thereon actuates wedges which provide a good thermal interface between the electronic module and the chassis. The driver blade also serves as means for extracting the plug-in electronic module from the chassis.

Positive locking mechanism

A vibration noise filtering system for use in airborne radar master oscillator, RMO, systems is disclosed. Master and slave crystal oscillators are used, the slave oscillator being phase locked to the master oscillator governed by a phase locked loop, PLL, having a predetermined low frequency bandwidth. The master oscillator is structurally coupled directly to a source of vibration of the aircraft, while the slave oscillator is isolated and supported from the vibration source by a mechanical passive isolator having a resonant frequency well within the low frequency bandwidth of the PLL. The output of the slave oscillator which is the source of the RMO signal has a phase spectral density within the phase stability requirements of a typical RMO across the operating modulating frequency ranges of both air-to-ground and air-to-air radar modes.

Electromechanical vibration filter for radar master oscillators

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Randallstown, MD, United States of America

Herman Rossman