Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

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Masami Ino

Kakuichi Shiomi

Kiyomi Imamiya

Provided is a secondary surveillance radar with an improved capability of eliminating an unnecessary Mode A/C target report, which includes a transmission unit transmitting interrogations, a reception unit receiving replies, from a transponder, corresponding respectively to the interrogations, and a signal processing unit generating a Mode S target report and a Mode A/C target report from the replies. The radar also includes a combiner generating a Mode S track and a Mode A/C track respectively from the Mode S and the Mode A/C reports, and then judging whether the Mode S report and the Mode A/C report are of the same target on the basis of the Mode S and the Mode A/C tracks. When the Mode S and the Mode A/C reports are of the same target, the combiner rejects the Mode A/C report.

Secondary surveillance radar and method of analyzing replies for secondary surveillance radar

A transmitter () operates in an immediate scan after an initial acquisition or detection of an altered aircraft ID by a changed flight status, to transmit to an aircraft a sequence of interrogation signals requesting an aircraft ID transmission, a verifier () operates upon acquisition of a reply signal including an aircraft ID transmitted from a transponder on the aircraft, to store in a memory () a mode S address assigned to the aircraft and the aircraft ID in an associating manner, and upon an occurrence of a storage of aircraft IDs associated with the mode S address in the memory (), to determine whether or not the aircraft ID is correct, depending on whether or not the aircraft IDs have a match therein, and a report generator () operates upon a determination for the aircraft ID to be correct, to prepare a target report using the aircraft ID.

Mode S secondary surveillance radar

Disclosed is a Mode S radar which specifies an aircraft by transmitting interrogations to an aircraft A equipped with a Mode S transponder, and by then receiving and decoding replies corresponding to these interrogations. In the Mode S radar, detection reports on the aircraft A are generated in a manner that: for a Mode A code necessary for generating detection reports, when identicalness between the Mode A codes obtained in a plurality of scans after the initial acquisition of the aircraft A has been found to exist, the Mode A code thus found identical is adopted without carrying out a Mode A code interrogation (UF=) thereafter. Accordingly, the Mode S secondary surveillance capable of generating more highly reliable detection reports is achieved.

Mode S radar

Disclosed is a Mode S radar which specifies an aircraft by transmitting interrogations to an aircraft A equipped with a Mode S transponder, and by then receiving and decoding replies corresponding to these interrogations. In the Mode S radar, detection reports on the aircraft A are generated in a manner that: for a Mode A code necessary for generating detection reports, when identicalness between the Mode A codes obtained in a plurality of scans after the initial acquisition of the aircraft A has been found to exist, the Mode A code thus found identical is adopted without carrying out a Mode A code interrogation (UF=5) thereafter. Accordingly, the Mode S secondary surveillance capable of generating more highly reliable detection reports is achieved.

A reply is received from aircrafts for calibration in response to an interrogation of SSR stations to detect transmission timing of the interrogation of the SSR stations and directly-facing timing of antennas of the SSR stations and thus detect a position of an arbitrary aircraft based on the transmission timing and directly-facing timing and the reply from the aircraft.

Passive SSR system

An SSR reply, which is sent out from an aircraft, is received and separated into one SSR reply to one SSR station and the other SSR reply to the other SSR station, thereby generating aircraft information of the aircraft based on one of the one SSR reply and the other SSR reply.

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Tama, Japan

Masami Ino