Raytheon Company

Carlisle Management Company, Inc.

Samuel Menasha

Frank Kendall Porter, Jr

James J Kerrigan

Robert A Eckel, Jr

A pneumatic planar probe for electrical transmission lines containing single or multiple contacts is provided for planar termination to a receiving structure. The pneumatic planar probe includes a header, a first probe body and a second probe body that are arranged as an extension of a transmission line having a center conductor and an outer conductor, the first probe body and second probe body extending the outer conductor and center conductor, respectively. The first probe body and second probe body are received in the header. The second probe body is supported in a dielectric body, the second probe body and dielectric body being concentrically slidably mounted in the first probe body. A first probe body interface at a free end of the first probe body is configured to contact a ground planar surface of the receiving structure. A second probe body interface at a free end of the second probe body is configured to contact a signal planar surface of the receiving structure. A first annular volume is pressurized to urge the first probe body interface to press against and become in pressurized contact with the ground planar surface of the receiving structure. A second annular volume is pressurized to urge the second probe body interface to press against and become in pressurized contact with the signal planar surface of the receiving structure. When the first probe body interface is in pressurized contact with the ground planar surface and the second probe body is in pressurized contact with the signal planar surface, the planar probe is in planar termination with the receiving structure.

Pneumatic planar probe

An infrared energy detection system having an infrared detector and a cooling system including a fluid coolant for cooling the infrared detector. An optical system is provided for directing infrared energy from a target to the detector though an optical system. The optical system includes a housing having a plurality of stops, each one of the stops corresponding to one of a plurality of fields of view of the optical system. A first lens is fixed within the housing. A second lens is slidably mounted within the housing and engageable by the plurality of stops. The second lens has a first resting position when engaging a first one of the stops. A fluid actuator system is provided for sliding the second lens away from the first stop to a second resting position when engaging the second stop.

Infrared energy detection system

A restraining mechanism for a gimbal in a gyroscopically-stabilized seeker in a cannon-launched projectile is shown to consist of a movable latch, so shaped and disposed that relative longitudinal motion between the gimbal and the body of such projectile is prevented during the launching phase, and a release mechanism whereby the movable latch is cleared of the gimbal after the launching phase.

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Chelmsford, MA, United States of America

Samuel Menasha