US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Richard A Lane

Donald K Fronek

William C Pittman

Ralph H Halladay

Raymond C Bates

John C Fleischman

The millimeter-wave zoom antenna for guiding a beamrider hypervelocity missile uses varying range information derived from the flight of the missile toward the target as control signals for the beam control computer to perform electronically the zooming and the nutation of the millimeter wave guidance beam that emits from a phased array antenna so as to maintain a constant energy density at the missile receiver regardless of the actual distance of the missile from the launch platform at any given time.

Millimeter-wave zoom antenna for guilding beamrider hypervelocity missile

In the digital detector the center frequency and bandwidth of a digital fer is controlled by a microprocessor. Amplitude information for the original input signal may be preserved or a simple threshold of energy may be detected within a bandpass. The microprocessor scans a selected frequency spectrum by digitally changing the decoding data controlled by software. This detector in conjunction with a scanning algorithm permits data acquisition in addition to energy detection, data acquisition being the process of controlling an incoming signal within a bandpass by moving the center frequency and bandpass of the filter and generating a corresponding error signal as the feedback control signal.

Microprocessor controlled digital detector

A digital detector which responds to sinusoidal or square wave input sign to detect the presence of a particular frequency or band of frequencies and provide a selectable digital output indicating the presence of this frequency or band. A gated pulse generator operates in response to the input signals, providing pulses that are counted by a binary counter and sensed by a decoder which detects the presence or absence of the frequencies within the selectable bandwidth limits.

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Richard A Lane