The Ohio State University

Antaya Technologies Corporation

Rosemount Inc.

Jonathan D Young

Ross Caldecott

Manuel H Machado

Jeffrey M Setterholm

Michael T Peterson

William J Leeper

C Michael Peterson

Lee W Henderson

Curtis W Davis, Iii

Leon Peters, Jr

A grounding connector includes a base with a first crimping structure extending from the base for crimping to the cable and securing the cable relative to the base along a cable axis. A first contact member can extend from the base laterally adjacent to the first crimping structure. The first contact member can have a narrowing first cable slot for receiving the cable to engage and form electrical contact with the cable when the first crimping structure is crimped to the cable.

Grounding connector

A radar highway motor vehicle guidance apparatus for guiding a land vehicle along a roadway using a backward looking and a forward looking, lateral position sensing, monopulse tracking radar guidance apparatus which transmits radar pulses backward and forward of the vehicle. The pulses are reflected back to the vehicle by a stripe distributed along the roadway. The stripe is a frequency selective surface which generates retro-reflective grating lobes at an operating frequency of the tracking radar. Operating the radar at two frequencies allows the radar to look at regions spaced at two different distances from the front of the vehicle. Highway related information may be encoded in the frequency selective surface by variations in the shape or dimensions of the frequency selective stripe morphology in order to modulate the reflected signal with highway information which is then also detected at the radar receiver. Target discrimination is enhanced by using pseudo random codes and matching antenna polarization with stripe polarization.

Highway vehicle guidance system

A radar highway motor vehicle guidance apparatus for guiding a land vehicle along a roadway using a forward looking, lateral position sensing, monopulse tracking radar guidance apparatus which transmits radar pulses forward of the vehicle. The pulses are reflected back to the vehicle by a stripe distributed along the roadway. The stripe is a frequency selective surface which generates retro-reflective grating lobes at an operating frequency of the tracking radar. Operating the radar at two frequencies allows the radar to look at regions spaced at two different distances from the front of the vehicle. Highway related information may be encoded in the frequency selective surface by variations in the shape or dimensions of the frequency selective stripe morphology in order to modulate the reflected signal with highway information which is then also detected at the radar receiver. Target discrimination is enhanced by using pseudo random codes and matching antenna polarization with stripe polarization.

Continuously curved strut mounted sensor

Pitot air data sensor

A synchronizing, pick-off type circuit for use with underground detection systems of a variety utilizing a high voltage pulse generator generating pulses by dielectric breakdown over a gap and evidencing a sustained and discernable substantially lower voltage level for a short interval following the pulse. Pick-off is derived by tapping a transmitting coaxial cable with a 'T' connection carrying a choke inductor and a resistor, each of which is coupled to the central conductor of the coaxial cable and which are mutually connected in parallel circuit relationship.

Pulse shaper for coaxial cable system

An apparatus and method wherein an electrical impulse source transmits a radar-type signal through an antenna into the ground and is reflected by a target. The reflected signal or echo is detected by the antenna and an analog-to-digital converter converts it to a digital form which may be readily operated on, stored and recalled. A memory stores the information until recalled for comparison with a subsequent signal to give an indication of the location of metallic and non-metallic buried targets.

Underground pipe detector

An apparatus and method wherein an electrial impulse source transmits a radar-type signal through an antenna into the ground and is reflected by a target. The reflected signal or echo is detected by the antenna and an analog-to-digital converter converts it to a digital form which may be readily operated on, stored and recalled. A memory stores the information until recalled for comparison with a subsequent signal to give an indication of the location of metallic and non-metallic buried targets.

Antenna for underground pipe detector

An apparatus for detecting the presence of a buried, hidden object in the vicinity of a digging tool in order to prevent a human disaster and damage to utility lines or other buried structures. The apparatus includes an impulse generator and data processing means connected to a slot antenna formed in the tool of an earthmoving machine for radiating a burst of broad spectrum electromagnetic energy into the ground and for receiving and data processing reflected electromagnetic echoes. One antenna embodying the invention comprises a slot formed through a wall of a hydraulically driven shovel and filled with a ceramic absorber. The slot has four radially extending, orthogonally arranged loops having unclosed central portions of the loops joined end to end to form four apexes.

Underground, time domain, electromagnetic reflectometry for digging

An apparatus and method wherein an electrical impulse source transmits a radar-type signal through an antenna into the ground and is reflected by a target. The reflected signal or echo is detected by the antenna and an analog-to-digital converter converts it to a digital form which may be readily operated on, stored and recalled. A memory stores the information until recalled for comparison with a subsequent signal. A processing means compares the stored and subsequent signal to give an indication of the location of metallic and non-metallic buried targets.

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Worthington, OH, United States of America

Jonathan D Young