Blackmore Sensors & Analytics, LLC

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Richard Funk

Stephen C Crouch

James Curry

Trenton Berg

Kyle Oliver

Daniel Ferguson

An apparatus is provided for using a square wave digital chirp signal for optical chirp range detection. A laser source emits an optical signal and a RF waveform generator generates an input digital chirp signal based on the square wave digital chirp signal. A frequency of the optical signal is modulated based on the input digital chirp signal. A splitter divides the optical signal into a transmit optical signal and a reference optical signal. A detector combines the reference optical signal and a return optical signal from an object. The detector generates an electrical output signal based on the combined reference optical signal and the return optical signal. A processor determines a range to the object based on a characteristic of a Fourier transform the electrical output signal. A method is also provided for using the square wave digital chirp signal for optical chirp range detection.

Method and system for using square wave digital chirp signal for optical chirped range detection

A one-piece clamp includes a unitary body having a bottom panel, end panels and top panels movably connected to the end panels and to each other. A pair of top cross-panels are end mounted on the top panels and are brought into co-planar, end-to-end orientation when the top panels are moved into end contact with the bottom panel. The body can be extrusion molded and cut to any desired length.

One-piece clamp

A measuring and dispensing closure for dispensing a measured amount of material from a container. The closure has a wedge rotatably secured between a pair of discs one of which is attached to the container and each having defined therein a dispensing slot which is offset from the other dispensing slot. The wedge has a metering chamber which is alignable with the dispensing slots in the discs for dispensing a metered amount of material from the container, and a sealing surface alignable with the dispensing slot in the disc attached to the container for effecting an essentially air-tight seal of the container. The metering chamber is divided so that less than a full charge of material can be dispensed.

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Bozeman, MT, United States of America

Richard Funk